Several cars with Municipal Government license plates drove out of the airport. Chen Xing and Zhang Xinjun sat in the same car. In the car, Zhang Xinjun laughed and said that in the future, he should no longer call him Director Chen, but Mayor Chen. Chen Xing smiled faintly. Looking out the window at the spacious roads and green belts, he chatted with Zhang Xinjun about the construction of Nanzhou City. Nanhai Province was still not considered an economically developed province. Nanzhou City was the capital of Nanhai Province, but it was also not a sub-provincial city. The provincial capital was the political center of a province, but not all provincial capitals had the qualifications to become a sub-provincial city. Here, it must be mentioned that the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of a provincial capital city was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, but it did not mean that the provincial capital city was a sub-provincial city. It could only be said that the head of the provincial capital city was a high-ranking position.
A sub-provincial city, as the name suggested, was regarded as a provincial planning unit by the central government, and possessed the authority of a provincial government. Moreover, the heads of several groups in a sub-provincial city were all at the deputy ministerial level, and the deputy was at the department level. The departments directly under the municipal government of a sub-provincial city were at the deputy department level. For example, the director of the finance bureau of a sub-provincial city was at the deputy department level, which was half a level higher than that of a prefecture-level city. Of course, the key point here was that the level of a prefecture-level city was still at the department level, which was the same as a prefecture-level city. Although Nanzhou City was the provincial capital, it was still within the scope of a prefecture-level city. It was only a high-ranking position for the head of the Municipal Party Committee.
Back to the main topic, Nanzhou City had applied to the central government to be upgraded to a sub-provincial city two years ago, but it was not approved at a meeting of the Central Organization Commission, so the matter was left unsettled. Whether it was from the perspective of geopolitical factors or economic development, Nanzhou City's application to be upgraded to a sub-provincial city did indeed have obvious shortcomings. Moreover, the upgrading of a sub-provincial city was not completely decided by those two aspects. There were too many factors of interest involved.
Zhang Xinjun smiled and explained to Chen Xing that the city had invested a lot of money in urban greening projects in recent years. Every year, significant changes could be seen in the urban environment of Nanzhou City. This was the result of the efforts of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government.
Chen Xing listened to Zhang Xinjun and nodded from time to time. In other aspects, Chen Xing's understanding of Nanzhou City was still lacking. However, when it came to the appearance of the city, Chen Xing firmly believed what Zhang Xinjun said. The other party did not deliberately exaggerate anything. Chen Xing had come to Nanzhou once a few months ago, and the impression the city left on him was that it was clean and tidy.
The time on the road was quickly passed by Chen and Zhang Xinjun chatted with Zhang. When the car entered the Municipal Government, Chen Xing frowned. Chen, Xing, Chen, Xing, Chen, and Chen., Chen, Xing, Chen, and Xing, Chen, City, Zhang, and, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Xing, Chen, Chen, Xing, Chen, Chen, Xing, and., Xing, Chen, Xing, Zhang, and,
It seemed that the other comrades in the city were very busy with their work. Chen Xing said without rhyme or reason.
When Zhang Xinjun heard this, he was startled. He immediately understood what Chen Xing was referring to. He and Chen Xing had already arrived, but the other people in the city had not come down. Even if Chen Xing had a good temper, he must have been holding back his anger. Zhang Xinjun could only agree that the other comrades might not be able to leave.
The corner of Chen Xing's mouth twitched slightly. He was the newly appointed Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee by the province. He would also be nominated as Deputy Mayor and Acting Mayor to preside over the overall work of the Municipal Government. This person from the Municipal Government really wanted to show his power as soon as he arrived. Thinking that only Zhang Xinjun had arrived at the airport, Chen Xing understood that this scene was both unexpected and expected.
As soon as Zhang Xinjun's car entered the Municipal Government Compound, Executive Deputy Mayor Li Haocheng, who had been staying in the office, was informed. He stood in front of the office window and looked down. Li Haocheng happened to see Chen Xing get out of the car. Li Haocheng's eyes were gloomy, and he almost blacked out. He had regarded Shen Lingyue as his biggest competitor. Li Haocheng had been secretly competing with Shen Lingyue all the time. As a result, God played such a joke on him. Even if it was a repeat of a few years ago, the mayor and the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee were parachuted down from the central government.
Before this, Li Haocheng didn't even hear the slightest bit of news. His backer in the province had told him that the province would not send a cadre down, but would directly promote a cadre from Nanzhou City. Li Haocheng had great hopes. Except for Shen Lingyue, no one else was qualified to compete with him. In the competition between him and Shen Lingyue, although there was no clear winner because the province had not decided the final result, he had the advantage. Who would have thought that the result would be beyond everyone's expectations?
The mayor's throne flew too fast and too suddenly, so Li Haocheng had no time to prepare himself. Yesterday, Ge Jian-ming, the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, called him over. Today, Chen Xing arrived and asked him to pick him up at the airport. Li Haocheng agreed verbally, but in the morning, he directly put down the burden. Thinking of the Municipal Party Committee, Li Haocheng's mouth curved. Shen Lingyue was probably hiding somewhere. Under the eyes of Ge Jian-ming, Shen Lingyue couldn't be like him, swaggering around in the office. He probably went somewhere to kill time.
In fact, the mentality of the two was similar. They couldn't accept this result. If they really went to welcome Chen Xing, they would probably have to put on a smile that was uglier than crying. Maybe they couldn't even do it. Li Haocheng was still angry. Looking at Chen Xing downstairs, Li Haocheng's face was gloomy. He clenched and loosened his fists from time to time, then clenched and loosened them again. It could be imagined that Li Haocheng had an inexplicable anger and unwillingness in his heart. When he was full of hope and confidence, he was hit by such a blow. It was understandable and understandable that Li Haocheng was unwilling to accept it. However, in this hierarchical system, it was impossible for Li Haocheng to make trouble everywhere. It would be irresponsible for his political life, so he could only swallow his anger.
After standing by the window for a while, Li Haocheng's mouth curved into a faint smile. He turned around and walked out. His secretary, Jiang Jin, followed closely. Li Haocheng said as he walked, "Tell the people in the office that I've been out in the morning and didn't come to the city."
Jiang Jin nodded and took out his phone to make a call. He then followed Li Haocheng down another staircase. As the two walked down, Zhang Xinjun was also welcoming Chen Xing up the stairs. One went up the middle staircase, and the other went up the side staircase. It was obvious that Chen Xing wouldn't meet Li Haocheng.
In a certain residential building in Nanzhou City, Zhang Ruoming, who was in his early thirties, slipped out of his unit early as usual. He was an ordinary staff member in the city's statistics bureau. In the city's statistics bureau, there weren't too many civil servants, but there were definitely quite a few in the public sector. Zhang Ruoming could be considered a target of envy in the unit, but those who envied him were definitely those in the public sector. Those who racked their brains to change into the civil service, but most of them ended up in failure. The few who took the shortcuts and finally became a civil servant could be considered lucky. Things were not like before, it was no longer that easy to change into the civil service, unless one passed the examination from the very beginning and was clearly a civil servant.
In the eyes of others, Zhang Ruoming was the object of envy of many, but he knew his own difficulties. Other than the title of civil servant, his life was actually very hard. There wasn't much money in the statistics bureau, and Zhang Ruoming didn't have any money in his hands and no one to back him up. It was pure extravagant hope for him to get an official position in the bureau. He had been working in the bureau for eight or nine years, but now he was only a staff member. Apart from a title, there was nothing else. After sitting on the bench in the office for a long time, Zhang Ruoming had become a wily old fox in the bureau. It was common for him to sneak home before it was time to get off work. He would go to the market to buy some groceries, and then when he got home, he would put on a scarf and start cooking. This was almost a summary of Zhang Ruoming's life in the past few years.
Zhang Ruoming slipped away earlier than usual today. It was only 11 o 'clock when he came back from the market. Seeing that it was still early, Zhang Ruoming took a sip of water and rested on the sofa for a while. He turned on the TV and casually pressed the remote control.
After sitting for a few minutes and seeing that there was nothing to watch, Zhang Ruoming slowly got up from the sofa and expertly put on an apron, looking like a typical housewife.
At 11: 30, his wife and son, who had just entered second grade, also came back. Zhang Ruoming and his wife had a clear division of labor. One was responsible for buying groceries and cooking, while the other was responsible for picking up their son from school. By the time his wife and son arrived home, Zhang Ruoming had already cooked a few fresh dishes. The rice cooked in the rice cooker was cooked very quickly. In a short while, the family of three sat around the small dining table and began to eat. They repeated the same thing every day, but it revealed a sense of warmth.
The Nanzhou TV station was playing on the TV. It was the noon news. Zhang Ruoming didn't know what he heard, but he raised his head and glanced at the TV. He smiled at his wife and said, "Things in this world are really coincidental. Our city's newly appointed Mayor Chen has the same name as my first-year university classmate. I don't know if they're the same person.
Keep dreaming. How old are you? If your classmate can become the mayor, then shouldn't you also be a section chief? Hmph, other people are staff officers who don't have the authority to fart. You're a section chief, but you can't even fart. You've worked in the bureau for so many years, but you can't even get involved in anything big or small. " Li Qing rolled her eyes. Although she said that about her husband, Li Qing didn't really blame her husband for being incompetent. It wasn't that her husband didn't have any ability at all. It was just that his family had no power, no money, and no back door. He could only muddle along like this.
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