Chapter 139: Distinguished Guests

On Monday, Deputy Township Head Deng Qingwen invited two large wholesalers from the city to Baishu Bay for inspection.

Township Party Committee Secretary Lu Fan accompanied them throughout the whole process, showing great enthusiasm.

Lu Fan personally led the wholesalers to visit the greenhouses in the township and introduced them in detail to the development of greenhouses in Baishu Bay, as well as the rich vegetable resources, high-quality planting environment, and the township government's strong support for agriculture.

Along the way, Lu Fan had in-depth exchanges with the wholesalers, answered their concerns, and shared the future vision planning of Baishu Bay Township's greenhouses. Next year, the whole township will develop to more than 1,500 greenhouses, which will definitely be the most concentrated high-quality vegetable planting base in the city.

Coming to the fields, seeing the green vegetables in the greenhouses, the wholesalers showed satisfied smiles.

Lu Fan and Deng Qingwen invited the wholesalers to walk into the vegetable greenhouses, personally check the growth of vegetables, and communicate with the vegetable farmers.

The vegetable farmers enthusiastically introduced the vegetables they planted and shared their planting experience and insights.

During the inspection process, Lu Fan and Deng Qingwen communicated in depth with the wholesalers to understand their needs and opinions.

After a circle, the wholesalers gave a high evaluation of the quality of vegetables in Baishu Bay Township and expressed their willingness to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Baishu Bay Township, believing that with the joint efforts of both sides, the vegetable industry in Baishu Bay Township will usher in a better development prospect.

The wholesalers were handled, and the next step was to do the ideological work of the vegetable farmers. Only by letting everyone twist into a rope can they jointly resist market risks.

To this end, the township government specifically convened the secretaries and directors of each village to implement this work.

In order to enhance the confidence of the vegetable farmers, Lu Fan mobilized Hou Kun, the largest vegetable farmer in the township, to establish the Baishu Bay Vegetable Planting Cooperative and gather all the vegetable farmers in the township to hold a meeting.

At the meeting, Lu Fan introduced the benefits of establishing a vegetable planting cooperative to the villagers in detail.

He stated that the cooperative will unify the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, and other agricultural materials to reduce everyone's planting costs; unify the sale of vegetables to increase prices and protect everyone's interests. If the vegetables in Baishu Bay are sold at a lower price than other places, everyone can point to his nose and scold his mother!

The villagers can distinguish between good people and bad people. Just as the people in the township said, Secretary Lu is a good official who does practical things!

So the vegetable farmers listened to Lu Fan's words and expressed their support one after another, willing to join the cooperative, and all looked forward to achieving the goal of getting rich through the cooperative model.

Baishu Bay Township is adjacent to Jingcheng County, Yinzhou City, and the exchanges are very close. Baishu Bay has vigorously developed vegetable greenhouses this year, and the "neighbors" have heard about it, so vegetable wholesalers from Jingcheng County also came to the door.

After an inspection, they were very satisfied with the quality and scale of the vegetables. What they valued more was the confidence of the vegetable farmers. Everyone firmly believed that under the leadership of the township government, they could make money, and many vegetable farmers expressed that they would build greenhouses next year when the money arrived.

In a market economy environment, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp. Small-scale operators are often at a disadvantage and are easily slaughtered by "big households."

However, when the industry reaches a certain scale, the situation may reverse.

If the scale of Baishu Bay's greenhouses reaches 1,500 or more, it must not be underestimated and will have a say in the market.

Lu Fan is ambitious and wants to build Baishu Bay into a huge vegetable planting base. If the merchants see a thousand greenhouses arranged neatly, like a green ocean, showing a spectacular scene, who wouldn't look at it highly?

Having obtained satisfactory results, the vegetable merchants from Jingcheng County pulled the cooperative manager Hou Kun to visit the Township Party Committee Secretary Lu Fan at the township government.

Based on the idea of not putting eggs in one basket, Lu Fan warmly received the guests. Although he didn't say it clearly, everyone knew it well. The township government naturally has to consider the interests of the masses, which is also in line with market laws. Whoever offers a higher price, the vegetables will naturally be sold to whom.

After the guests left, Lu Fan expressed his earnest expectations for Hou Kun, saying: "Hou Kun, you now shoulder the hope of the vegetable farmers in the whole township."

Hou Kun nodded firmly: "I understand, Secretary Lu, I will definitely work hard."

Lu Fan said earnestly: "Doing business requires being smooth and comparing prices among three families. The scale of our Ningyang greenhouses is very large. You must not only deal with wholesalers but also communicate, cooperate, exchange, and compete with other townships. You must understand market conditions more, master price dynamics, and sell the township's vegetables at a good price."

Hou Kun listened carefully and made up his mind that he must not live up to the high hopes of Secretary Lu and the fellow villagers!

A few days later, County Economic Development Bureau Director Liu Guannan brought a group of people to Baishu Bay Township Government, and Lu Fan warmly received them.

Liu Guannan introduced the identities of the guests to Lu Fan, and Lu Fan couldn't help but be surprised because these people were actually technical personnel for oil and gas exploration of Qinchuan Petroleum Group. Their purpose here was to survey the oil and gas reserves of Baishu Bay Township, and this was not their first time here; they had already determined that Baishu Bay had oil and gas.

Lu Fan's heart surged with excitement. He knew that oil might be a major development opportunity for Baishu Bay Township. If there were really rich oil and gas resources here, it would bring huge economic benefits and employment opportunities to the local area.

Lu Fan immediately had in-depth exchanges with the exploration personnel, learned about their work plans and needs, and expressed that he would fully support their work and provide necessary assistance to ensure the smooth progress of the survey work.

As a major oil county, Ningyang's oil resource distribution is not uniform. Currently, only four or five townships have carried out oil development, and these townships have become rich due to oil and have become enviable wealthy places.

Lu Fan sincerely hoped that Baishu Bay contained rich oil and gas resources. If it could be fully developed and utilized, the local common people would benefit infinitely.

Considering the importance of this work, Lu Fan decided to entrust the task of coordinating Qinchuan Petroleum exploration personnel to NPC Chairman Meng Qingchi, and specifically urged Meng Qingchi to fully cooperate with the exploration personnel's work to ensure the smooth progress of the exploration work.

At the same time, Lu Fan also reminded Meng Qingchi to pay attention to the interests and needs of local residents to ensure that the exploration process would not cause any impact on the interests of the masses.

According to the experience of other townships, exploration activities may bring certain changes to the lives and environment of local residents. If not handled properly, it is easy to trigger social contradictions and unstable factors.

In mid-September, the Provincial Department of Agriculture working group came to Baishu Bay to conduct the final audit and acceptance of the slaughtering license of the Livestock Product Distribution Co., Ltd., still accompanied by Deputy Director of the Municipal Agriculture Bureau Luo Yuzhe.

Although it was an enterprise matter, Lu Fan still represented the township government in warm reception.

That night, Su Xiaoyi set up a grand banquet to solemnly receive the acceptance group and presented an "envelope" to avoid any twists and turns in the acceptance work.

After drinking, the lonely Deputy Director Luo Yuzhe went to KTV with Xiaoyi to learn to sing and had a great time.

The acceptance work the next day was particularly smooth. The working group carefully reviewed every detail, checked whether the slaughterhouse's facilities and equipment met the standards, whether the sanitary conditions met the standards, and whether the slaughtering operation was standardized. They gave a high evaluation of the enterprise's various facilities and management systems and stated that they would handle relevant certificates immediately after returning.

Just a few days later, a review team from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce arrived in Baishu Bay. This time they came to conduct preliminary review work on the registration of the "Baishu Bay Dijiao Mutton" geographical indication certification trademark. The provincial and municipal industrial and commercial bureaus also participated, and County Party Committee Secretary Gao Yuanfei accompanied them throughout the whole process to show his high attention to this matter.

Usually, whenever a ministerial leader comes to Ningyang, Secretary Gao Yuanfei will personally come forward to accompany them. Because in his eyes, this is an excellent opportunity for him to expand his contacts and expand his relationship network. This proactive attitude made Gao Yuanfei like a fish in water on the political stage and gradually accumulated rich political capital.

Secretary Gao participated, so the reception task fell on the reception office, and Baishu Bay happened to save money.

When accompanying the inspection, Gao Yuanfei verbally praised Lu Fan, saying: "This geographical indication certification is very important. We ignored the importance of the brand in the past. The creation of the brand not only improves the popularity of Ningyang's livestock products, enhances the value of livestock products, but also increases the economic income of breeders and increases the market demand for the livestock industry. Therefore, no matter what, we must get the certification!"

Lu Fan took the opportunity to say: "Secretary, we will go all out in our work, but the certification work from the city to the province, and then to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, costs a lot. Relying on the township, we definitely can't afford it. Our NPC Chairman Meng Qingchi has been paying for the work, and the funds have not yet been settled!"

"Don't cry poor, go find the County Head, this kind of big thing will be supported."

"Secretary, Meng Qingchi is indeed very attentive. It can be said that the certification work was promoted by him single-handedly. He has gone to the province, city, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce no less than 50 times in these few months!"

"You think it's so easy to be promoted to Township Head? Let's talk about this later!"

The ministerial working group had a good method, worked seriously and carefully, and conducted a detailed inspection of the historical origin, production environment, and production methods of "Baishu Bay Dijiao Mutton."

Lu Fan introduced the unique geographical environment and rich material resources of Baishu Bay Township to the review team, emphasizing the regional characteristics and brand value of "Baishu Bay Dijiao Mutton."

After three days of understanding and consulting materials, the review team experts gave a high evaluation of the quality and taste of the mutton, believing that "Baishu Bay Dijiao Mutton" had high market potential.

After the review team left, Lu Fan found County Head Hu Chengwei and reported the progress of the certification work and the funding difficulties faced.

The County Head expressed recognition of Lu Fan's work, promised to do his best to support the geographical indication certification work, and specifically approved 1 million yuan in special funds, solving the funding problem.

"Baishu Bay Dijiao Mutton" is about to obtain the national geographical indication certification trademark registration. This news made Baishu Bay stand tall in the whole county. Just this one item will add 10 points to the year-end assessment, and this year's target responsibility assessment will be at least third.

The gratifying changes in the township this year, cadres and masses personally participated in it, and county leaders could also see it. Lu Fan's reputation gradually improved, just like Wang Hongtao, age can be ignored only when achievements are made. ===== CHAPTER 140 =====