In the meeting room of the Ministry of Education, Deputy Minister Li Huaiyuan met with the visiting CEO of Taiming Group, Zhang Weiyuan. Jiang Zhijun, the Director of the General Office, and Chen Xing, the Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education, attended the meeting.
Li Huaiyuan introduced to Zhang Weiyuan, the CEO of Taiming Group, the great achievements of education since the reform and opening up of the mainland. Li Huaiyuan emphasized that the rapid development of education in the mainland was due to the country's high attention and investment in education. In recent years, the government had increased the investment in basic education facilities and increased the salaries and benefits of front-line education workers, so that teachers could live with more dignity and teach with peace of mind.
At the same time, Li Huaiyuan also emphasized that the development of education in the mainland also benefited from the support of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas. The CEO of Taiming Group, Mr. Zhang Xingzhi, had donated five years ago to establish the "Ten Thousand People, Thousand Schools" project, which aimed to help the poor areas of the mainland strengthen basic education facilities so that more poor students could afford to go to school and have a good learning environment. He had made outstanding contributions to the education of the mainland. Li Huaiyuan expressed his sincere gratitude to Mr. Zhang Xingzhi and Taiming Group on behalf of the Ministry.
While Li Huaiyuan and Zhang Weiyuan were talking, Chen Xing, who was sitting next to Director Jiang Zhijun, was looking at the introduction of the "Ten Thousand People, Thousand Schools" project. This project was established five years ago with Zhang Xingzhi's one billion donation. Zhang Xingzhi was now 90 years old and no longer concerned himself with the specifics of the project. His son, Zhang Weiyuan, had inherited his philanthropy.
Zhang Weiyuan had led the team of Taiming Group to the mainland. Apart from business investigation, he had also been entrusted by his old father to pay attention to the implementation of the "Ten Thousand People, Thousand Schools" project. At this moment, Zhang Weiyuan had also expressed that Taiming Group would further invest funds to support the "Ten Thousand People, Thousand Schools" project to ensure that the project would play a better role, so that more poor children could have a comfortable learning environment.
The meeting lasted for an hour. At noon, the Ministry hosted a banquet for Zhang Weiyuan and his team at the hotel. Jiang Zhijun, Chen Xing, and the others also attended the banquet. At the banquet table, Luo Xiaoyan, the female vice president of the Taiming Group, was undoubtedly the most eye-catching. She raised her glass frequently and toasted with each other. She was like a woman born to socialize. Every word and action of hers was eye-catching. Her limelight overshadowed Zhang Weiyuan, the president. Zhang Weiyuan seemed to be used to this.
Chen Xing was forced to drink a glass of white wine by the other party. In the end, he stopped drinking on the grounds that he had to work in the afternoon. Otherwise, he would have been asked to drink two glasses. Chen Xing had to give Luo Xiaoyan a thumbs-up for her alcohol tolerance. The men at the table probably all thought the same. Deputy Minister Li Huaiyuan even said with a smile that women were not inferior to men.
After the lunch banquet, Chen Xing rested in his office for half an hour. In the afternoon, Lin Yupei, the deputy director of the office, sent a document to Chen Xing's office. Director Chen.
This is a table of data on the poor students in each province that you asked for last time.
You are quite efficient. Chen Xing heard this and took the document with a smile. The deadline he gave was half a month. Now, less than ten days have passed. The document will be sent to the education departments of each province and the data will be collected. It seems to be just a document from the Ministry, but in fact, it is a lot of work. The education departments of the provinces, cities, districts (counties) will not be able to carry out the specific implementation, but it is not easy to count the poor students in each place, unless they randomly report a false data.
If I didn't give the education department a sense of urgency, some of them would like to procrastinate. So this time, I asked the office to draft a document to notify them that they had to report the data within ten days. I also added the word 'important' at the end of the document, so it was relatively fast. Lin Yupei responded to Chen Xing with a smile. The key is that this is something that Director Chen asked me to do. If I don't do it quickly, I am afraid that Director Chen will criticize me.
It seems that in Director Lin's mind, I am such a strict person. Chen Xing glanced at Lin Yupei and said with a smile.
Director Chen's image in my mind has always been very high. Lin Yupei twisted her perky butt and walked two steps to the edge of the desk. She wanted to show off her sex appeal, but when she saw that Chen Xing directly lowered his head to read the document and did not even look at her, she pouted angrily. She was really defeated in front of Chen Xing.
Chen Xing looked at the data seriously. The data of the poor students reported by each province might not be very accurate. After all, some remote mountainous areas could not be set foot in at all. It was normal for some local education departments to fill in the estimated data to save trouble. If they really had to go to every place to register and collect the data, it would be a huge project. It might not even be completed in a few months. Chen Xing did not expect the data to be so accurate. But no matter what, it was directly collected from each province, so it was still very useful for reference.
Skimming through several forms, Chen Xing couldn't help but feel very satisfied with Lin Yupei's ability. At that time, he only gave some general instructions, but Lin Yupei's form was very detailed. The form was divided into a general form and several appendices. It not only counted the poor high school students, but also counted the college students. It also counted the number of students who dropped out of junior high school to work because their families were particularly poor. The form was also divided into urban areas and rural areas. The degree of poverty of the students' families was divided into ordinary and extremely poor. Taking college students as an example, there were about 3 million students in ordinary colleges and universities in the country with financial difficulties, which accounted for nearly 20% of the total students. The proportion of extremely poor students was about 10%, and the total number was about 2 million.
Looking at the very detailed statistics, Chen Xing frowned. This was only the data reported. It did not include the poor students who were not included in the statistics. How many poor students were there in the whole country?
In short, it was not a small number. Lin Yupei was stunned by Chen Xing's question. She could only answer as such. She had never thought about this question. Even though she worked in the highest department in charge of the national education, Lin Yupei had never thought about how many students couldn't go to school, how many students were still sitting in broken classrooms, and how many students were still attending classes in the teaching buildings without windshields in winter, and how many students didn't even have enough to eat and were emaciated from hunger. Lin Yupei, who had been living a comfortable life, had never thought about these things.
Although Lin Yupei had followed the leaders of the Ministry to inspect the teaching conditions in the remote mountainous areas, the real situation was unbearable, especially when she saw that the students didn't even have a new set of clothes and were wearing tattered and patched clothes. Lin Yupei's heart was touched, but she thought that those things were not something she should worry about. Even the leaders didn't worry about it, so why should she, a small cadre, worry about it? Lin Yupei didn't really care about it. She was thinking about how to get a higher position. Chen Danying, the deputy director of the department, was the target that Lin Yupei had always wanted to surpass. They were both women, and Chen Danying was only two or three years older than her. Chen Danying was now a deputy director, while Lin Yupei was only a deputy director, and she had gotten this position because of her relationship with Wang Rongyan.
They had been shouting about making education bigger and stronger, and becoming a powerful country in education. Every year, they spent hundreds of billions of public funds on food, drinks, and travel, but they couldn't bear to invest more money in education. How could they talk about becoming a powerful country in education? After reading the form carefully, Chen Xing was so angry that he almost slammed the table. His anger came without warning.
Lin Yupei was obviously frightened by Chen Xing's anger. She was stunned for a while, and then carefully looked at Chen Xing. "Director Chen, you have to be careful with what you say. If it gets out, I'm afraid that some people will be dissatisfied.
I'm telling the truth. If anyone is dissatisfied, they can come and dismiss me. " After several years of experience in the officialdom, Chen Xing had a certain degree of shrewdness and scheming. In order to achieve his own goals, Chen Xing would even use some unconventional means. In essence, Chen Xing was not necessarily a good official, but it was undeniable that Chen Xing was still a courageous official who really wanted to do something practical and had a conscience.
"Director Chen, if you have any anger, you can continue to vent it. I didn't hear anything." Lin Yupei smiled bitterly. She couldn't understand why Chen Xing's reaction suddenly became so big. She had never seen Chen Xing get angry before, but today, he was so angry when talking about this poor student.
Chen Xing took a deep look at Lin Yupei. He knew that what he said today was a little impulsive. If these words were spread out, in the eyes of the leaders, they would only think that he was immature, and even dissatisfied. If someone wanted to make an issue of his words, they could also accuse him of insinuating that the leaders of the department were incompetent. As for eating and drinking with public funds, which department didn't have public funds? Undoubtedly, what Chen Xing said just now could easily be used as a pretext to attack him. At this moment, there was only Lin Yupei in the office. If these words were spread out in the future, it could only be from Lin Yupei's mouth. At this time, Lin Yupei was expressing her attitude.
Chen Xing's sudden anger made Lin Yupei much more obedient at once. Originally, she still wanted to tease him, but now she was quiet. She said, "Director Chen, if you want to set up a student-aid program, I'm afraid that the funds of our department alone are not enough. Let alone how much funds the department can approve, even if there is, I'm afraid that it won't be much. You have to find other ways.
Of course, we can't only rely on the financial funds of the department, which will only be a drop in the bucket. We also have to raise funds from the society, call on more entrepreneurs to participate, and cooperate with some charity organizations. " Chen Xing shook his head, sighed, and said, "In fact, we still have to rely on the support of the country and local governments at all levels. As long as we reduce unnecessary public funds every year, who knows how many students can afford to go to school."
"This is not something we can decide. There are so many documents in the central government, but they can't control the food and drink with public funds. Individuals like us can't play any role." Lin Yupei shrugged. At this time, she couldn't tell what she felt about Chen Xing. When Chen Xing said that he wanted to do this more than ten days ago, Lin Yupei thought that Chen Xing just wanted to make an image project to gain some reputation and achievements for promotion. Now, Chen Xing's performance was beyond her expectation. Lin Yupei could see that Chen Xing was different from other officials in the department. He really wanted to do something.
"Let's not talk about this. It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to train people. Education is a long-term thing, and it can't be changed overnight. As the department in charge, we should do our best to let more children go to school, so that we can live up to our position." Chen Xing looked at Lin Yupei and said.
In the evening, when Chen Xing walked to the gate after work, a Mercedes-Benz drove over and stopped in front of Chen Xing in time. Chen Xing took a look at Xue Dabao in the driver's seat, opened the door with a smile, and got in the car.
"It's my honor to be picked up by Mr. Xue in person." Chen Xing said with a smile.
Tsk, Chen Xing, don't make fun of me. It's my honor that a commoner like me can have a meal with a high-ranking leader like you. Xue Dabao smiled and shook his head. He called Chen Xing in the afternoon and asked him to have dinner together. Knowing that such an old classmate had become a big official, Xue Dabao naturally wanted to maintain a good relationship with him.
"I'm not even a middle-level cadre. How can I be a big leader? Are you mocking me?" Chen Xing laughed as he scolded Xue Dabao. He was used to speaking without thinking when talking to Xue Dabao. Chen Xing also liked this way of getting along. Between friends, there should be less scheming and more sincerity. Due to Xue Dabao's righteous actions that night, Chen Xing acknowledged this old classmate of his.
While talking and laughing with Xue Dabao, Chen Xing's cell phone rang. He picked up the number and found it was Chen Zhongwei. Chen Xing picked it up.
"Director Chen, Zhang Feng will come to gamble again tonight. He has owed millions of usury and has no money to pay it back. I guess he will come tonight to write an IOU again. Director Chen, when are you going to deal with him?" Chen Zhongwei said.
"Okay, I'll go tonight. You can have fun with him first. I'll call you when I arrive." Chen Xing hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Chen Xing hung up the phone. Xue Dabao asked curiously, "Chen Xing, what's up?"
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