Chapter 59: Highlights

Ying Dongliu listened to Gao Liansheng, the head of the bamboo weaving professional cooperative, and the branch secretary of Zhuhua Village, and introduced the operating status of the professional cooperative.

From planting, cutting, drying, and processing coarse materials, and finally entering the weaving process, professional cooperatives have formed a very efficient division of labor and cooperation mechanism. The semi-flow production line undoubtedly greatly improves work efficiency for this hand-woven work. There are still individual maker households outside of professional cooperatives, and they are more of high-quality weavers with skills.

What surprised Ying Dongliu was that such a small bamboo weaving cooperative had a specialized sense of artistic creation and design. Although it was just a part-time job of the daughter of the head of the cooperative, having such awareness itself is a very rare progress. Compared with an economic organization that purely relies on selling primary products, it is a huge leap to achieve this step.

From environmental protection equipment projects to chain supermarkets close to ordinary people, to this distinctive bamboo weaving professional cooperative, Ying Dongliu is quite interested in the series of visits launched by Ningling City. Environmental protection equipment projects themselves represent a development trend, especially in the increasingly serious pollution in the central and western regions, this project undoubtedly has considerable market potential.

Commercial enterprises such as large chain supermarkets can not only facilitate people's lives, but also absorb a large number of low-end laborers with low cultural and skills requirements. This is naturally a highlight worthy of praise for the current government where laid-off workers are under increasing employment pressure.

Finally, this bamboo weaving professional cooperative also represents a new economic form, division of labor and cooperation, everyone does their best to prevent risks and share results. This method seems to be commendable at least at present, but whether it can be copied to the production of other specialty commodities remains to be seen.

Compared with the visits in Xijiang District, the visits in Caoji County seem a bit dull and boring. This so-called Radiant and Hunan provinces largest Chinese herbal medicine trading market is obviously a bit exaggerated. Although the scale of infrastructure has been expanded, Ying Dongliu is very doubtful whether the Chinese herbal medicine market can achieve the expected scale and benefits, but he did not raise this question.

"How do you feel like this?" Ningling is the third and last stop of the provincial non-public economic development work conference. Since Ying Dongliu proposed that the visiting point should cover three types of areas with good economic areas, general economic areas and poor economic areas, so that relevant leaders of the fourteen prefectures and cities in the province can refer to the local actual situation in a targeted manner, so that the visiting point was selected for Jianyang, Yongliang and Ningling, representing three different regions.

"Governor, in a word, the development is unbalanced. The better the better, the worse the worse, and the difference between regions is very different. Even the differences between regions are as big as the difference." Ren Weifeng leaned on the back of the soft seat of the Coaster station wagon and said lightly: "The foundation of Jianyang is not comparable to other regions. The development of the non-public economy has formed a very good atmosphere. From government departments to private grassroots, they are very enthusiastic about doing business. Moreover, from some of the problems, it can be seen that the development of the private economy in this region is very developed. For example, private lending in Jianyang is very popular, which shows the degree of economic development in this region in another aspect."

Ying Dongliu frowned slightly, as if thinking about the meaning of his deputy's words.

"The growth trend of Yongliang is very obvious. Although there is still a considerable gap with places like Jianyang and Mianzhou, it has already revealed a momentum beyond Tangjiang and Luhua. Yongliang's rapid development has a lot to do with the private economy. The chemical and building materials industries in this region have developed quite fast, and many leading industries have also emerged, such as the dye-leading industries Shuanglu Chemical, Ober Chemical, Licai Chemical in the coating industry, Conlex Chemical, Dehui Chemical in the tanning industry, and the ceramic industry's three major enterprises - Qingniao Jiancao, Weilin Jiancao, and Fenghuang Jiancao. Most of these business owners were technicians or sales personnel of several chemical and building materials companies in Yongliang. As a result, Yongliang's state-owned chemical companies have declined and collapsed one after another. However, these people who came out of state-owned enterprises rely on the accumulated connections and relationships to start businesses independently or in partnership, becoming the backbone of Yongliang's economic development. It is really touching."

Ren Weifeng also put some effort into Yongliang's economic development. Shi Jinbao, the former secretary of the Yongliang Municipal Party Committee, has been transferred to the position of Secretary of the Jianyang Municipal Party Committee. Chen Jinsong, the current secretary of the Yongliang Municipal Party Committee, was promoted from the former mayor. Chen Jinsong and Shi Jinbao cooperated very well in Yongliang's team. Yongliang's economy has developed rapidly in the past three or four years. The two are also firm supporters of Ning France's view of retreating from the private advancement.

Yongliang's economic development is growing rapidly, but social contradictions are relatively prominent. Every year, a considerable proportion of the groups from Yongliang area are among the petition groups to the provincial party committee and government. Laid-off workers and landless farmers are the main groups.

"Yongliang's economic development speed has been at the forefront in recent years, but they have not done a good job in how to maintain rapid economic growth while ensuring social stability. At the last economic work conference, I reminded some municipal leaders that economic development cannot replace everything. It is necessary to figure out what the significance of economic development is, effectively improve people's living standards, and ensure that ordinary people live and work in peace and contentment. This is the purpose of economic development." Ying Dongliu looked straight ahead and said calmly.

Ren Weifeng sighed softly in his heart, and the conflict between Ying Dongliu and Ning Fa became increasingly obvious.

Ningfa emphasized that developing the economy at this stage is the top priority in Anyuan's work. All other work must obey and serve the development of the economy. Ying Dongliu advocated that the development of the economy cannot be overemphasized, which means that the attention to other social undertakings is ignored. The government should adopt more macro-policy relaxation and support for the development of the economy, and should not guide and intervene too much at the micro level. On the contrary, the government should focus its main energy on the development of social undertakings.

Ren Weifeng believes that neither of them has any wrong views, but the understanding and timing of the focus requires adapting to the times and local conditions. However, for the two top leaders of the party and government, even if they can understand the true meaning of the other party’s views, they will probably stick to their respective views and attitudes, which makes it difficult for the people below to do.

"At this point, I think that Xijiang District of Ningling City seems to have handled it well. I think that the enterprise restructuring in Xijiang District has not only achieved the purpose of promoting the restructuring of enterprises, but also successfully used the funds obtained from the government to withdraw funds to solve the funds required for social security and reemployment training for laid-off workers." Ren Weifeng intentionally or unintentionally avoided the sensitive topics raised by the other party.

"Well, Ningling Enterprise is indeed well restructuring. Although the secretary of the Xijiang District Party Committee is young, I don't think it's confused. He doesn't just focus on the superiors, but only on the realities. He has his own judgment and practices in his work. This is rare." Ying Dongliu nodded and praised the people. "I think it's very good in the development of the non-public economy. He doesn't rush forward like other places, regardless of the actual local situation."

Ren Weifeng realized that Zhao Guodong had left a very good impression in Ying Dongliu's mind. This was rare for Ying Dongliu, who was quite strict in viewing people. This made him look at Zhao Guodong a little more respectful. It was quite rare for an ordinary member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee to receive such an evaluation from the main leaders in the province.

Of course, Zhao Guodong didn't know that his impression in Ying Dongliu's mind changed a lot during this visit, and even deepened a lot in Ren Weifeng's mind. In his opinion, he was quite satisfied with the recognition of Huang Ling and Shu Zhigao.

"Xiaolan, has the inspection of the Yuexiu River Embankment Project Water Conservancy Bureau finished?" Zhao Guodong stood on the Wujiang River embankment with a dark face.

The Jiangan embankment reinforcement project has been in operation for almost a month, but the progress is obviously lagging behind his thoughts. The dozens of people scattered on the embankment seemed so sparse and thin. If this continues, it would be a fantasy to complete it in one month.

Wei Xiaolan seemed to have also noticed Zhao Guodong's unhappiness and quickly explained: "Secretary Zhao, the Wujiang flood season is usually concentrated in August and September, and it is only May now, and two months is enough to complete the reinforcement project."

Wei Xiaolan was very puzzled by Zhao Guodong's almost paranoid attention to the flood control project of Wujiang and Yuexiu River embankment. In her opinion, Wujiang's river bank embankment project has always been a key project of the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau. The District Water Conservancy Bureau only has the responsibility of assisting and supervising and maintaining it. However, Zhao Guodong attaches extraordinary importance to the embankment of the Wujiang section. Not only did he personally inspect the Wujiang embankment project, but also two times he forced Wang Daolu, director of the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, to inspect the embankment project on the spot, which made Wang Daolu and Wei Xiaolan themselves confused. Wei Xiaolan even doubted whether Zhao Guodong was stimulated in some aspects when he was a child, which made him have a natural fear of floods.

Director Wang of the Municipal Water Resources Bureau also saw that Secretary Zhao was a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and was unable to refuse, so he barely accompanied Zhao Guodong to the embankment. However, this made Director Wang feel resentful and didn't know how many bad things he had scolded Zhao Guodong behind his back.
Chapter completed!