Chapter 3495
In order to ensure that this forum event can proceed smoothly, Shi Diwen left Hangzhou and rushed to Zhoushan ahead of several other members of the executive committee to personally supervise the preparations before the meeting.
Zhoushan is undoubtedly one of Shi Diwen's proudest achievements in power. After the Haihan Army captured the Zhoushan Islands more than 20 years ago, Shi Diwen sat here and personally built Dinghai Port, the largest port in the East China Sea. Based on this, the future Donghai Region was developed.
When the executive committee was discussing the location of the forum, Shi Diwen strongly advocated that Zhoushan host the event and successfully convinced everyone on the executive committee.
The reasons given by Shi Diwen are very sufficient. First, Zhoushan has long been the capital of Donghai Region and has complete infrastructure facilities. In the early years, it built a guesthouse to receive foreign guests, so its reception capacity is not a problem. Moreover, there are agencies from many countries on the island, making it very convenient to coordinate foreign affairs reception work.
Secondly, Zhoushan Dinghai Port is the home port and main base of the East China Sea Fleet, and the island also houses an army training base, comprehensive weapons testing site, naval ship academy, Zhoushan Shipyard and other institutions, which fits the military exchange theme of this forum. It is also very convenient to organize related visits and inspections.
Third, Haihan plans to organize a group of foreign dignitaries to visit Japan after the forum. The shortest route is from Zhoushan to Kyushu, Japan, which can save a lot of time.
Taking all factors into consideration, there is indeed no other candidate location that can compete with Zhoushan, and the relevant preparations have been taken care of by Shi Diwen, as the landowner.
However, with the lessons learned from the assassination case during the National Day event held in Hangzhou last year, Shi Diwen did not dare to be careless about safety issues and personally deployed a number of security measures.
Fortunately, the environment of Zhoushan Island is relatively closed. You need to take a boat to enter and leave the island. Controlling personnel's entry and exit and security inspection are much easier than in Hangzhou.
As the most important garrison point in the East China Sea region, Zhoushan Island has built a large number of watchtowers and watchtowers for monitoring the sea many years ago. In wartime, it can be transformed into the first line of defense to prevent enemy troops from landing.
Although as Haihan's control over the East China Sea region has strengthened, no enemy troops can attack Zhoushan anymore, and these facilities have gradually lost their practical role. However, this time the international forum event was held, the related security work made these defense and surveillance facilities more attractive. It came in handy again.
The construction locations of these facilities have been carefully calculated. Any ship sailing in the waters surrounding Zhoushan Island will basically be under the supervision of these facilities. During the event period, if anyone attempts to dock a boat at a non-designated location, it will be considered a dangerous move and will be dealt with by the garrison on the island.
People from outside the island who land on the island through designated ports need to register their identity. All foreign missions are no exception. Personnel landing on the island must correspond one-to-one with the list declared in advance.
The security measures on the island are even stricter. In addition to the patrol teams on duty 24 hours a day, there are also a large number of plainclothes security personnel deployed throughout the island. Except for the fact that there is no curfew, the level of supervision is comparable to that of wartime.
After Shi Diwen arrived in Zhoushan, he immediately summoned several of his generals to listen to their reports.
Shi Diwen's second son, Shi Chengxin, was sent to Zhoushan early in the morning to preside over the preparations for the meeting. In addition to him, there are Ji Yuanqing, the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the East China Sea Region, Jiang Zian, the administrator of Zhoushan, Duan Tiancheng, the commander of the Dinghai Naval Base, Chen Xiaoyu, the deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and others. They are almost a collection of local senior officials in charge of military and political power in Zhoushan. . For this preparatory team, this is not the first time to hold an international event in Zhoushan. However, the theme of previous events was mostly trade, and the guests were mainly foreign businessmen. However, this time the guests are almost all military and political dignitaries from various countries. It is much higher than previous activities, so preparations in all aspects must also increase accordingly.
The venue, accommodation, travel, and schedule all need to meet higher standards, which means the organizer needs to invest more manpower and funds. A considerable part of this is borne by the Donghai Region, which took the initiative to undertake the task.
Although the Donghai region is famous for its prosperity, its financial situation has always been good, but the huge expenses of holding large-scale events for two consecutive years still inevitably make Shi Diwen feel a little pained.
Although the forum activities will include arms sales to various countries, no matter how high the sales volume is, most of the revenue from such arms sales will flow directly into the pockets of military factories and shipyards, and the organizer's income will be extremely limited.
If you only focus on economic gains, then hosting such a large-scale event will be a complete loss-making business for the organizer. Of course, Shi Diwen, who has already occupied a seat on the executive committee, will definitely not be so short-sighted.
What he values more is the political achievements and international influence it will bring to him.
After listening to everyone's reports, Shi Diwen once again told them to treat this event with caution.
“Although I have said it many times before, I still want to emphasize to you again that the Zhoushan Forum is a platform to showcase our country’s national strength to other countries. We must make the participating countries realize that they can only do so under the international system built by our country. Only in this way can we have such communication opportunities.”
"You should all know how much the Executive Committee attaches importance to this event. If this event is successful and achieves the desired results, it is possible that the Zhoushan Forum will be held as a periodic event in the future. This will be very important to us. The Donghai Region will bring long-term benefits to everyone here.”
“In addition to many foreign dignitaries coming to Zhoushan this time, there are also some special guests with special invitation letters from the Executive Committee. The services provided to these guests cannot be sloppy in the slightest, and we will try our best to meet all their needs. ”
"During the forum, I hope there won't be any out-of-control incidents on the island, especially in terms of security! If someone's work goes awry, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
The "special guests" mentioned by Shi Diwen are actually people who no longer hold official positions due to retirement and other reasons.
Although they have left the officialdom, they enjoy the special treatment of being a member of the Transcendence Group for life, and have the right to participate in any public activities held by Haihan, as well as the general election of the executive committee. The votes in their hands are also of great significance to Shi Diwen.
These people came to Zhoushan specially, not because they were very interested in the forum activities, but because they received an invitation from Shi Diwen to go to Japan for inspection later.
Even if they have withdrawn from the group of rulers, these time-travelers can't hide their "interest" in Japan. Of course, their purpose is not to visit the mountains and rivers, but to witness with their own eyes the beginning of this island country's path to destruction. .