The package deal between Rongcheng and Suiren Company had just been signed, and Suiren Company once again became a hot topic. This was the second city whose operations had been contracted to Suiren Company.
Moreover, Rongcheng was a major city in the southwest, with a permanent population of 12.21 million. Securing its sanitation, water, and gas services meant gaining an extremely formidable market.
Rongcheng's current annual water demand stood at around 650 million cubic meters this year, and its compound annual growth rate was very high. It was expected to reach 1.2 billion cubic meters per year within a decade.
As for the gas market, based on an annual per capita LPG consumption of 47.75 kilograms, Rongcheng's population of 12.21 million would consume roughly 580,000 tons of LPG each year.
The potential Rongcheng could bring was roughly three to five times that of Shanmei and Hui City combined.
Lin Baijie had only just returned to the Shanmei headquarters from Hui City, and before his seat had even cooled, he hurried off to Rongcheng in Shu Province again to arrange the relevant work there.
At the same time.
After receiving the news, Shandong Province, Pengcheng, and other places all reacted differently.
Meanwhile, among the world's three major water companies that had been hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, Gallic Suez Company and British Thames Company had announced their withdrawal from the Huaguo market. Only Gallic Veolia Company was still gritting its teeth and holding on.
In fact, among the dozen or so projects Veolia had invested in within Huaguo, quite a few had been acquired at high premiums, leaving their profitability in a worrying state.
For Veolia's projects in Huaguo to turn a profit, there were only two options: either the authorities raised subsidy rates, or retail water prices increased.
However,