Provincial Party Committee

Chapter 35

The manuscript was ready, but Wang Yiming felt that he still had to express an attitude in his speech tomorrow, at least not without raising his head, repeating the text according to the script, like reading a news manuscript, from the beginning to the end.As long as I have memory in my brain and can express clearly, I try not to read the manuscript as much as possible.Only when you feel that you can't connect, you can take another look at yourself, and the effect will definitely be better.

The current officials have become more and more degraded, and they can't live without the manuscript.When Wang Yiming went abroad, he saw those senior leaders in the same way. It was a simple breakfast meeting. If he had breakfast with foreign leaders, he would also take out the prepared manuscripts, just like in China, and follow the script. I can't stop reading.It made those foreigners look at a loss, thinking that all Chinese leaders are like this, and they are afraid of saying a few simple words of entertainment.

This practice of being inseparable from manuscripts no matter when and where has fully exposed that some officials are busy with entertainment, have no interest in learning, have no solid theoretical foundation, cannot form their own unique views on life, are satisfied with copying what others say, and are not satisfied. Make a mistake, when a monk hits the clock one day.The speech is also chewy, empty, and what is said is the same as what is not said, and it cannot resonate with the other party. This shows that the officials themselves lack self-confidence, poor heart, and low overall quality.

Originally, expressing one's thoughts appropriately, fluently and freely, and displaying one's talent, are the qualities that every person, professional revolutionist, and official who takes politics as his life must possess. They are public figures, and this is a basic skill.Look at the leaders of the older generation, how great, how confident and charismatic they are.Whatever you want to say, you can say whatever you want, and you don’t need a manuscript. After sorting it out, it will be a very good speech.Reasonable and well-founded, with views and thoughts, clear views, and sufficient facts, the common people like to hear and read, and the prestige of the leaders has also been established.Everyone talks in the streets and alleys, and they all say that XX is a capable person.

But now, the rules are all messed up, the secretary has become the brain of the leader, and the leader has become the announcer. The secretary's writing level determines the leader's speech level.The secretary became the brain, and the leader became the tool.The leader's job is to be the secretary's mouthpiece.It is simply hard to tell who is leading a province, a city, an enterprise, or a unit.Whether the secretary is in power or the leader is in power.

Wang Yiming felt that he could no longer be such a leader. He had no charisma, charm, and confidence.Today, with the development of TV, the Internet, and the media, the exposure rate is so high. As a leader, if he lacks charisma, it is a very sad thing.For the first public appearance in Xijiang Province, you must have a well-thought-out plan, and you must not be sloppy.

Throughout the night, Wang Yiming tossed and turned, and did not sleep well.After playing cards with Mei Zhihong for several hours, my brain became excited.Secondly, this is a new place, a new environment and a new bed, and I still have to adapt.The most important thing is that in his mind, he repeatedly considered his speech, how to say it, how to divide it into layers of meaning, what tone to use, what demeanor to use, and what effect it would have after he finished speaking.

With my mind excited, I filtered out the people I met during the day one by one.Later, I really had no choice, so I counted in my head, and just like that, my mind passed the night in a daze.It is estimated that in the morning, I slept for more than an hour.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the phone rang to tell the time. Wang Yiming opened his sleepy eyes and pulled himself together. After washing up, Xiao Gong called the door and said that he was going downstairs for breakfast.A few minutes later, both Zhai Junming and Qu Liya came and said that breakfast was ready, and asked Secretary Wang to go downstairs for breakfast.

When they got downstairs, Mei Zhihong had already arrived. After exchanging pleasantries, everyone began to eat.The breakfast is also very rich, including porridge, milk, bread, eggs, and various snacks, such as steamed buns, steamed buns, flatbread, fried dough sticks, etc., taking care of everyone's taste and habits, and also fried a few special ones Qingcai, it seems that Qu Liya specially arranged it, and she really put her heart into it.Such conditions cannot be enjoyed at home.It seems that living in a hotel is also beneficial.Of course, Wang Yiming didn't need to ask about these expenses. This was the responsibility of the reception office and Xijiang Hotel. It was their bounden duty to take care of the lives of several major leaders in the province. As for where to pay for it, they had their own way.Either it was paid by the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee, or when the annual budget was made, a sum of money was given to the reception office and Xijiang Hotel in advance to entertain the various leaders. This is a customary rule.Wang Yiming wanted to pay for it himself, but no one dared to ask for it.Besides, this standard of accommodation, this standard of living, he had to pay for it himself, and he couldn't afford it.

Here in Xijiang, the salary level is definitely lower than that in Beijing.Let’s say that according to Beijing’s level, 1 yuan a month, you pay for it yourself, and you can’t afford to live in a five-star hotel, where you stay every day for many years, how much will it cost!

This is the benefit of being a great leader. In China, although the salaries of officials are not high in name, the resources they can use cannot be measured by money.Some things just don't count.No matter how much someone else spends, they can't get it back.For example, this rich breakfast is served by chefs and waiters 24 hours a day. You can arrange whatever you want, and someone below will prepare it immediately. It is more convenient than using your own home, and it is easier than using your own wife.This basically means that the state pays for you to keep chefs, waiters, drivers, and cars. Such treatment is intangible. How much do you think it will cost?Even a billionaire, he can't enjoy it to this extent.It doesn't hurt him to pay for it himself!Who would be willing to spend like this!

But officials are different. They have this condition and qualification, so they should enjoy it.He doesn't need it. The facilities and personnel are all there, and they are idle even if they are idle. These people are specially arranged to serve a few big leaders.They don't go out to the outside world, only facing a few key people.This is China's national conditions.Do we still have big leaders who manage a lot of things, just like ordinary people, just arrived in a city, found a job, and haven't bought a house yet, just find a place on the street, rent a small room, or combine urban and rural areas? Buy a few pieces of ordinary furniture in the private house of the Ministry, even if you have settled down?

He is a big leader, and there are endless resources in the whole province. These problems in life have been arranged long ago.Never look at the personal lives of leaders from the perspective of ordinary people, and you will never understand.

At eight o'clock, Xiao Gong reminded that it was time to set off.Qu Liya also came to the room and said that Zhai Junming had gone to call the member of the Mei Ministry, and everyone went downstairs together, ready to go.

Accompanied by Qu Liya and Xiao Gong, Wang Yiming went downstairs and saw several high-end cars parked outside the door.Already lined up, adjusted their heads, waiting there neatly.The drivers have already sat in the driving seats, and are waiting for the leaders to take their seats.

The first car Wang Yiming saw was a black Mercedes.The second one is an Audi.Judging from the paintwork, it is basically a new car, maybe it was just bought.Behind is a Toyota Camry, probably Zhai Junming's car.

In China, there are clear regulations on what level of official and what class of car to ride.The general provincial and ministerial cadres are Audi.The cadres at the hall level are all Toyota Camry or Buick cars.It is very common for deputy department-level cadres to sit in a Honda or Passat.As for the Mercedes-Benz sedan, no one can sit in it, which exceeds the standard, but the government department will buy a few cars to receive distinguished guests.

Needless to say, Mei Zhihong and secretary Xiao Lu got into the first Mercedes, Wang Yiming and Xiao Gong got into the second Audi, and Zhai Junming followed.Qu Liya stood at the door of the hotel, watching the three cars rushing out.Today's Provincial Party Committee Cadres Conference, qualified to participate, are all cadres above the departmental level.The secretaries and mayors of various prefectures and cities, the directors of various departments and bureaus, and the secretaries of party groups.Leading cadres at the sub-provincial level and above at home, including those who are working and retired, have been notified as long as their health permits.Deputy department-level cadres like Qu Liya are not eligible to attend the meeting.This is the officialdom, everything has strict rules, below a certain level, you are not even qualified to listen to the report.

The car got out of Xijiang Hotel, and soon turned onto Xijiang Avenue.This is a main road of the city, which is the facade of Jiangcheng City, the provincial capital. It is about 30 kilometers long from east to west. The entire road is more than 50 meters wide, with six lanes in both directions, plus green belts, sidewalks, and landscape belts, which set off the whole city very well. It has the style of a modern big city.On both sides of the avenue, there are many high-rise buildings. The buildings with novel design and luxurious decoration are like silent sculptures, telling the rapid development of the entire provincial capital in recent years.In some places, there is no big difference from the buildings in Beijing and Shanghai.

Particularly conspicuous are the office buildings of various bureaus, bureaus and banks. Each building is more luxurious than the other. They are all [-] to [-]-story buildings with glass curtain walls outside. They have strange shapes and their own characteristics. is conspicuous.

Wang Yiming looked at these buildings through the car window, but he was thinking about a question.Judging from the office conditions of provincial agencies, no matter how underdeveloped the economy is, there is not much difference in the whole country now.Although Xijiang is a backward area, the office buildings of these departments and bureaus are located in Beijing, which are completely comparable to those of the national ministries and commissions. Some buildings are even more magnificent than the office buildings of Beijing ministries and commissions in terms of design and floor space. .This shows that no matter how poor the province is, the government agencies still have a lot of funds in their hands. They go to the central government to ask for money all day long, crying about being poor, saying that there is no money for this and that for that. Office buildings and entertainment venues, there is money.Which of the current departments and bureaus does not have its own hotel and training center, which shows that each of them actually has a certain amount of mobile funds in their hands. As long as they want to do something, they will do everything possible to raise money.The sums of funds used and energy consumed by the luxury office buildings and other buildings built by party and government agencies across the country are astonishing.Wang Yiming's ministry once made a statistics and reported it to the relevant leaders of the State Council.The conclusion reached is that the office buildings built by the party and government organizations above the township level in our country are the largest in the world in terms of funds and construction area.The office area per capita of civil servants is also the first in the world.The energy consumed by the entire building is more than three times the total annual electricity consumption of the country's residents.This is just an office facility expense.Adding public funds for eating, drinking, reception and bus consumption, the operating cost of our entire administrative agency is undoubtedly the highest in the world.From this point of view, the operating expenses of our party and government agencies at all levels are unprecedented and rank first in the world.A large part of our country's national income is consumed by the staff of party and government agencies. Our government has become the most expensive government in the world.This runs counter to the goal of our many institutional reforms, to establish an efficient and frugal government.

This is a strange circle, a phenomenon that no one wants to see, but it actually happened in the reform and opening up China.The staff is downsized, then expanded; expanded again, downsized again, and the cycle repeats, more and more people, more and more expenses, general shortage of office funds, some counties and towns, and even high debts, in an economic sense, that is Already completely bankrupt.

When Wang Yiming was vice minister, he went to several places for research.In Wuhe County, a poverty-stricken county in the northwest of Xijiang Province, some villages and towns owe as much as 3000 million yuan in debt.At least seventy-eight million.The township government simply couldn't do its job.As soon as the door is opened every day, the house is filled with debtors.The head of the township and the secretary did not dare to stay in the office, and had to hide outside all day long.People who want debts can't get money, and it often happens that they drive to block the gate of the government.

Accompanied by provincial, city and county cadres, Wang Yiming held a grassroots cadre report meeting at Wuhe Hotel.At the meeting, some township and town mayors said that they hide from debts all day long, have no money, and still have to do their jobs, and some township cadres can’t get paid for a year. I got it from my hometown.Some even resigned and simply went to work in coastal areas.The deputy mayors of several towns all went out to do construction work, leading a group of people, and became contractors.The current grassroots government, especially the township level, is basically completely paralyzed.In addition to family planning work, people still arrest you, the common people still listen to you, and you can fine them, and you can make up for the daily expenses of the township government with some income. Basically, no one does other jobs, and no one listens to them.Social security in rural areas is also basically in a state of disorder.Fighting, brawling, no one cares about it, and they can't manage it.A township with tens of thousands of people, some with 10,000+ people, will be equipped with a few police forces, and it will also need to handle the transfer of household registration, and cooperate with the county bureau to detect large criminal cases.As for petty theft, I have no energy or funds to manage it.Now each police station not only has hard tasks to complete, but also income-generating tasks.Not only did the county bureau not allocate enough funds for your office, but on the contrary, they asked you to hand in a certain amount of money.Large townships have to hand over hundreds of thousands of yuan a year.There are also [-] to [-] small ones.If you don't give it to the director of the police station, don't do it.All tasks are accomplished by pressure.The people below are forced to do nothing.Now the police station is not motivated to do anything, so they are motivated to investigate gambling, because they can be fined.No one is in charge of petty theft, because without thieves, the police station will have no way to fine them, and there is another source of income missing.Even the remotest villages and towns have no one to control prostitution and whoring. Now there are beauty salons and hairdressers. What they are doing is massage and health care. In fact, everyone knows that they are trying to sell dog meat.They operate right under the nose of the police station, no one cares about them, and no one asks them. Anyone who knows the inside story knows that they have reached a tacit agreement with the police station and pay a certain protection fee on time. Everyone can live in peace and work together. get rich.

This is China, behind the flashy cities, there are decaying villages.The city is highly developed, full of traffic, bustling; high-rise buildings, bizarre.The police have one post at three steps and one sentry at five steps. The police force is sufficient, well-equipped, and the social order is good. However, the countryside has basically become anarchic, falling apart, and a mess.

Regarding these situations, Wang Yiming, as a senior cadre from a rural background, is still very sensitive.He has feelings for the countryside, but he still feels that no matter how the cities develop, if there is no modernization of the countryside and farmers are not allowed to share the huge fruits of reform and opening up, our society will not be able to achieve long-term peace and stability anyway.If the interests of farmers are not protected, their descendants will feel dissatisfied and uneasy in the face of the huge gap between urban and rural areas, and even start to fight against this society and destroy everything that exists.Now that the information is so developed, don’t think that the descendants of migrant workers will accept their helpless fate and become migratory birds between the countryside and the city, just like their parents.When they are young and middle-aged, they work in the city, live in the worst sheds, eat the worst meals, and earn the lowest wages. Their salaries are only enough to maintain their own reproduction.Every Spring Festival, they go back home, enjoy the short vacation, reunite with their women and children, and live a normal life for a few days.The head of the kang was not yet warm, and the woman's embrace was still warm. Their vacation was over again, and they had to leave home and started a new round of wandering.The city was where they made their money, but was never ready to take them in.High housing prices, high consumption, and their low incomes form a stark contrast.According to their income, even if they don't eat or drink for a lifetime, they can't save enough wealth to settle in the city.This threshold is too high, it has completely exceeded their ability and imagination.So they had to accept their fate and sell themselves to the city when they were young.When they were old, they had no choice but to leave the cruel city and return to the countryside where they were born and raised, and lived their entire lives.

Many of the descendants of migrant workers grew up in the cities and, like their parents, worked for a living. But they have witnessed the huge difference between urban and rural areas, and they are unwilling to return to the countryside.The huge inequality in reality will bring them a huge sense of frustration, and make them feel socially hostile and anti-social.The city does not accept them, and they cannot realize their ideals through normal channels, so they will take risks and bring turmoil to the city.

This is a question that Wang Yiming has been thinking about seriously.As a senior party cadre, he has been thinking about how to gradually change all of this. The construction of a harmonious society is not shouted out, but done.From now on, Xijiang Province will be my platform and my experimental field. If I can one day rule Xijiang and become the top leader as Mr. Zhao predicted, what kind of Xijiang will I bring to the people of Xijiang? Woolen cloth?This is a question that should be pondered now.Everything is foregone, and if you don't forewarn, you will fail. If fate gives you a chance, you must not be like those old fritters in the officialdom. What boring politicians do.Their corpses are vegetarians, which is disgusting.Still have to be like Wei Zhengdong reminded, to be a politician, not a politician. "If you want to benefit the country, you can't avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune." Lin Zexu can think of and do things. Is it true that a Communist Party member, a senior cadre who swears to fight for the cause of the party and the people, is not as good as the ancients? , not as good as those feudal officials? !

In the torrent of work, the car turned into the provincial party committee compound.Although no police car was used to clear the way today, because Xijiang Avenue was smooth and there was no traffic jam, it still stopped at the entrance of the Provincial Party Committee Auditorium on time at 8:20.

(End of this chapter)