Chapter 3337

Xu Hongmei, whom Deputy Mayor Tang spoke of, was the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. The former was the Executive Deputy Mayor, and the latter was the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee; they had always been incompatible like fire and water.

Sitting on the side, Wu Min heard Deputy Mayor Tang say this and knew that Deputy Mayor Tang and Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary Xu Hongmei were at odds. Although the party and government were divided, the government could independently exercise administrative power, but it was still under the leadership of the party committee. The second-in-command of the government and the second-in-command of the party committee would inevitably have conflicts when working together, not to mention that Deputy Mayor Tang was mainly in charge of economic work, and economic development had always been the most convincing indicator for a person's promotion. Someone once made a statistic that when being an official in China, if the GDP growth during the term of office exceeds 7%, the probability of being promoted in the next term exceeds 97%. Party-government conflicts, from the verbal battles at the Standing Committee meetings to the major movements when promoting cadres, and even slamming the table and scolding each other, were all commonplace.