Sun Weiming stood up, walked to the desk, pulled out a drawer, took out a thick document, then walked to Fang Zhicheng and handed him the document. "This is some information I collected before, and now I'm giving it back to you."
Fang Zhicheng did not look through the documents. He knew that they must contain all kinds of information that Hua Zhanlu had secretly investigated about him at that time. He stared at Sun Weiming carefully for a while and said, "Secretary Weiming, please rest assured that after you leave Dongtai, all work will be smoothly transferred and handed over. I believe that County Magistrate Xing and Secretary Duan will discuss some major issues with you. Dongtai can develop rapidly. As the class leader, I understand your current mood. Dongtai is where your hard work is. You are reluctant and worried, but please also let go of your power and let the people below face the challenges. They are also capable and can take corresponding responsibilities."
When Sun Weiming heard Fang Zhicheng say this, a look of relief suddenly flashed across his face, and he laughed at himself, "Your words are spot on. I was indeed a bit too strong before, wanting to take charge of everything, which made me exhausted and also made the people below me dissatisfied. Going to the Party School for further studies may be a good opportunity. Now that Dongtai's foundation has been laid, there is no need for me to do everything myself."
Fang Zhicheng didn't know whether Sun Weiming pretended to be relieved or had other plans. However, Fang Zhicheng still had some admiration for Sun Weiming. Although Dongtai had been in turmoil and endless struggles in the past two or three years, it was all within the controllable range and did not affect the foundation of Dongtai's officialdom. Without the support of the county party secretary, how could Fang Zhicheng, a director of the investment promotion bureau, make such a big change in Dongtai's business landscape
Sun Weiming is a superior, and he has his own considerations. While supporting Fang Zhicheng's work, he must put him under certain pressure and restrictions, otherwise, things will get out of control. Qian Dechen was sidelined by Fang Zhicheng, which left a deep impression on Sun Weiming. With the previous experience, Sun Weiming paid close attention to Fang Zhicheng's various actions.
After leaving Sun Weiming's office, Fang Zhicheng looked out the corridor at the setting sun in the west. He felt a little complicated. He needed to make some preparations. After Sun Weiming left Dongtai to study at the Provincial Party School, he might be the next person to be transferred. Whether it was work or personal feelings, he still needed to sort it out.
Just after get off work, Wang Chong took the initiative to come to Fang Zhicheng's office, waited for him to get off work, and then went to a dinner party together. The people at the dinner party were mainly from the Merchants Group. The place where Fang Zhicheng started out has now completely become his own position.
Li Hui, Wei Xiaoyan and others had been waiting for a long time, playing poker around the card table. When they saw Fang Zhicheng coming, they all stood up and sat down one after another.
After Fang Zhicheng sat down, he smiled and said to Li Hui, "Sister Hui, this kind of dinner party will only happen once. If others find out, they will think I am forming a clique, and if the city party committee leaders hear about it, I will be punished."
Li Hui filled Fang Zhicheng's glass with wine and said with a smile, "County Magistrate Fang, who in Dongtai doesn't know that our Merchants Group is made up of Fang's troops? There's no need to spread rumors. The municipal party committee leaders are probably very clear about this. If they wanted to punish you, they would have done it a long time ago. How could it be because of a meal?"
Fang Zhicheng waved his hand, shook his head helplessly and smiled: "Forget it, I can't argue with you." Then he took out his wallet from his briefcase and took out two or three thousand yuan, "Today's meal is my personal treat for you, this will make me feel more at ease."
Li Hui did not refuse and said to the others, "Why don't you thank Boss Fang for the treat?"
The others cheered and laughed, and the atmosphere was very lively. Perhaps because Fang Zhicheng was young, when eating with him, no one felt the kind of oppression that comes from being a superior or a subordinate. In the final analysis, Fang Zhicheng regarded these colleagues from the Merchants Group as his friends and comrades-in-arms.
Everyone in the China Merchants Group was very grateful. When the company was separated, the office environment was very poor. Fang Zhicheng solved the problem of office conditions within less than half a year of taking office. He then carried out bold reforms and established two offices and a business investment company.
Now the Investment Promotion Bureau is one of the units with the most say in Dongtai County. The treatment of its employees is more than twice as good as that of employees in other units, so many people are scrambling to get into the Investment Promotion Bureau.
The change in status enabled the core members of China Merchants Group to do their work more effectively. At the same time, they also knew that this was entirely accomplished by Fang Zhicheng, and they were full of gratitude to Fang Zhicheng.
Fang Zhicheng was also very relaxed tonight and was particularly generous when drinking. After three rounds of drinks, Fang Zhicheng felt dizzy, his eyelids began to twitch, and his limbs became uncontrollable.
Seeing that Wang Chong was still preparing to force Fang Zhicheng to drink, Li Hui quickly stopped him and said, "County Magistrate Fang can't drink much, so don't force him to drink."
Wang Chong was a little tipsy, and squinted his eyes and joked, "Director Li, this won't do. Before County Magistrate Fang came today, you told us to accompany him to eat and drink well. How can we stand on his side now?"
Li Hui waved her hands, glared at Wang Chong, and said unhappily: "Learn to stop when you have had enough. Drinking too much is harmful to your health. If something happens to you, can you bear the consequences?"
Wang Chong curled his lips and muttered, "Director Li, you are too soft-hearted. You feel sorry for County Magistrate Fang after just a few glasses of wine. Forget it, I won't urge you to drink anymore."
Li Hui blocked the wine for Fang Zhicheng, and seeing that Fang Zhicheng was very drunk, she called the driver to take him home. After finally stuffing Fang Zhicheng into the back seat of the car, Li Hui squeezed in and sat next to him, but Fang Zhicheng lost his mind and hugged her thighs as a pillow.
Li Hui's entire body, especially her thighs, was so sensitive that she was scared out of her wits and her face flushed. Fortunately, it was already night, and the driver did not see her losing control.
Chapter 0442: The County-to-City Restructuring Successfully
Li Hui finally sent Fang Zhicheng home, and helped him to bed. After carefully closing the gate, she found that she was already sweating profusely. She and Fang Zhicheng have always maintained a normal superior-subordinate relationship, but Li Hui knows that she has a good impression of this wise and sunny boy, and she admires him and is grateful for him. However, Li Hui has always suppressed her feelings in her heart, because she knows that there should be no love affair between her and Fang Zhicheng. Li Hui is a woman with a family, and Fang Zhicheng is still a young man, so how can they be entangled
Fang Zhicheng was indeed drunk, but he was not to the point of losing his mind. He was fully aware of all the tenderness Li Hui had shown him just now, but some things were destined to be hidden, otherwise he would be a beast who was not tolerated by the world.
In early October, the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department issued a personnel notice, removing Sun Weiming from his post as county party secretary and appointing him to a new position. Former deputy mayor Gao Qing was selected as a standing committee member and concurrently served as Dongtai county party secretary. Gao Qing was originally a young official promoted by Song Wendi when he was in office. He is only in his early 40s and has unlimited potential in the future.
This personnel arrangement made many people realize that although Song Wendi had left Yinzhou, his influence was still there. Even though Xiao Futing was the top leader of the municipal party committee, Song Wendi still had a certain say in personnel arrangements. Of course, this time it was also because Sun Weiming was caught off guard and the negative impact of the "most daring to tell the truth" incident was too great. Xiao Futing had only been in Yinzhou for a short time and did not dare to take the risk of guaranteeing Sun Weiming.
Moreover, Sun Weiming and Xiao Futing had no friendship. With the coordination and help of Xiao Futing, allowing Sun Weiming to study at the Party School and retain him for further use was already the best outcome.
Xiao Futing felt a little pressured. Although Song Wendi had left Yinzhou, both the personnel and the development model were too much like the Song style. As the top leader, he was completely suppressed by his predecessor, which was very unbearable.
Now in Yinzhou officialdom, the representatives of the Ye family and the Song faction, Zhang Guoxin and Qiu Hengde, have formed a group. It is still quite difficult for Xiao Futing to gain a foothold in an extremely short time. However, he has the support of Secretary Wen in the provincial party committee after all, and he is not afraid of a protracted war.
Xiao Futing is an extremely experienced municipal party secretary. He is good at striking back at the standing committee meetings. In several personnel arrangements for key positions, Xiao Futing has placed his own people.
Beiji City, where Xiao Futing was originally located, is an important city in the three northeastern provinces. Although it is not a provincial capital, it is also a sub-provincial city. Xiao Futing brought three people from there, one for each of the political, legal, economic, and administrative fields. In less than half a year, Xiao Futing had successfully placed the three people in key departments.
The power of the municipal party secretary cannot be underestimated. Although the second-in-command and the third-in-command work together, Xiao Futing's trend of governing Yinzhou remains unstoppable.
At the end of October, the State Council approved Huainan Province's application to adjust part of Yinzhou's administrative divisions, abolish Dongtai County, and establish Dongtai City, with the administrative area of the former Gaoling County as the administrative area of Gaoling City. Dongtai County was able to successfully change from a county to a city, which is also a very innovative news in the country, because as early as 1997, the country once froze the policy to avoid serious problems such as "occupying arable land" and "false urbanization (indicators not meeting standards)" in many places.
It is said that the reason why Dongtai was successfully approved as a county-level city was that Li Siyuan, the former provincial party secretary and current vice premier of the State Council, did a lot of work.
There are many benefits to abolishing counties and changing them into cities. First, the main leaders of "county-level cities" will be "high-leveled". Generally speaking, the county party secretary is at the level of a director, but the county party secretary is at the level of a deputy director. After the "county" is changed to a "city", the establishment of relevant institutions can change accordingly. Departments involved in urban construction and management functions, such as the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and the Urban Management Bureau, will have larger organizational scales to meet the needs of urban construction and management.
More importantly, after the county is abolished and the city is changed, there are several visible benefits to industry, commerce and urban construction. First of all, there will be more room for land approval. If it is changed to a city, the new construction land will be increased by at least thousands of acres, which will greatly promote investment and avoid the embarrassment of attracting enterprises but having no land to provide.
Secondly, in terms of urban infrastructure construction, "cities" also have advantages that "counties" do not have at all. After the city is changed, it will be easier to approve public projects. It is estimated that the public land in this regard can be increased by at least half, nearly 1,000 acres per year. As for other facilities such as urban sewage treatment, garbage disposal and water source construction, the upgrade and expansion of existing projects and unreported projects are easier to approve and obtain special matching funds from higher authorities.
After the approval of the county-to-city transformation was issued, the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department also issued a notice to adjust the administrative levels of some positions in Dongtai City. Most of the county party committee departments and county-level units were promoted by half a level. This news not only made the neighboring counties jealous. The county-to-city transformation was tantamount to universal celebration, and everyone shared the benefits. After being motivated, they worked extra hard.
The atmosphere in the Standing Committee, which represents the weathervane of Dongtai's officialdom, seemed a bit strange. Because the new municipal party secretary Gao Qing sat in the meeting room early and was whispering with the executive vice mayor Fang Zhicheng with a smile on his face. After Xing Jike entered the meeting room, his expression changed slightly, but it disappeared in a flash, because Fang Zhicheng was sitting in his seat, chatting with Gao Qing. When Fang Zhicheng saw Xing Jike coming, he stood up and prepared to leave, but Xing Jike put his hand on Fang Zhicheng's shoulder and joined the discussion.
After Duan Xuan entered the meeting room, his face visibly darkened and he sighed secretly, but he didn't have much to do. He originally thought that Sun Weiming's departure would bring him great benefits. The most likely development trend was that Xing Jike would take a step up and replace Sun Weiming as the municipal party secretary, and he would take advantage of the situation and become the mayor.
However, things went against his wishes. Xing Jike did not become the secretary of the municipal party committee. Instead, Gao Qing, the deputy mayor of Yinzhou who was originally in charge of industry, took on the position of secretary of the Dongtai Municipal Party Committee.
Duan Xuan can be said to be the person who most wants Xing Jike to be the municipal party secretary, because he knows Xing Jike too well. If he works with him, he can take advantage of him. But Gao Qing became the municipal party secretary, and the situation became complicated. Duan Xuan studied Gao Qing's resume and political achievements. The reason why he was promoted by Song Wendi was because he made outstanding contributions to the "New Yinzhou Plan". This is a young cadre with a great sense of the overall situation, resourceful, and extremely good at conspiracy and conspiracy.
Duan Xuan could imagine that perhaps the Song faction considered that Xing Jike could not fight against him, so they arranged such a general to be stationed at the strategic location of Dongtai.