Chapter 385: with translation of chapter title

After the two exchanged casual talk, Minister Zhang Ziqiang said: "Lu Fan, you give the instructions, I'll note them down, and we'll keep in touch anytime."

Named entities: Zhang Ziqiang (person), Minister (title), Lu Fan (person)

"Alright, then I'll share my opinion!" Lu Fan opened his notebook and said: "Ningyang County Chief Chen Houji has been appointed as Party Secretary of Dinghui County; Xiuyan County Chief He Jiefeng has been transferred to become Ningyang County Chief; Guo Tongyu has been promoted to Xiuyan County Chief; Jia Dahua has been reassigned as Deputy Secretary of Ganshui County Party Committee."

Named entities: Ningyang Xian (Ningyang County), County Chief, Chen Houji (person), appointed, Dinghui Xian (Dinghui County), Xiuyan Xian (Xiuyan County), He Jiefeng (person), Guo Tongyu (person), Jia Dahua (person), Ganshui Xian (Ganshui County), Deputy Secretary

Named entities: Xiuyan County, He Jiefeng (person), Guo Tongyu (person), Jia Dahua (person), Ganshui County, Deputy Secretary

Minister Zhang Ziqiang nodded and said: "Your qualifications are fine, please continue."

Named entities: Zhang Ziqiang (person)

"Anbao County Chief Guo Shanbo has been appointed as Party Secretary of Zibei County; Ningyang County's Gao Zhihong will take over as Anbao County Chief; Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee Wu Wentong has been reassigned as Director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission; Zheng Wei has been appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee; this is making room!"

Named entities: Anbao County, County Chief, Guo Shanbo (person), Zibei County, Ningyang Xian (Ningyang County), Gao Zhihong (person), Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, Wu Wentong (person), Director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Zheng Wei (person)

"Hmm, I understand!"

"The New District Administrative Committee's Wang Xiaoping has been promoted to Standing Vice Director, full county-level; the focus is Ningyang County, Deputy County Chief Liang Xiaofeng should be given a standing position; Education Bureau's Wang Fei will go to townships as secretary, I'll coordinate with Ningyang County Party Committee; Shi Xin has been promoted to County Party Committee Standing Committee member, concurrently serving as Party Secretary of Zhouchuan Town, this is his former secretary; Deputy County Chief Gao Yanfeng should also serve on the standing committee; also, Zhenbei District's Wu Xiaojun should be promoted to District Chief, you need to find a position for the current District Chief; Deputy District Chief Xue Yang should join the standing committee team."

Named entities: New District Administrative Committee, Wang Xiaoping (person), Standing Vice Director, full county-level, Deputy County Chief, Liang Xiaofeng (person), Education Bureau, Wang Fei (person), townships, secretary, Shi Xin (person), County Party Committee Standing Committee member, Zhouchuan Town, Party Committee Secretary, Gao Yanfeng (person), standing committee, Zhenbei District, Wu Xiaojun (person), District Chief, Deputy District Chief, Xue Yang (person), standing committee team

"The effort is huge; some positions still need further adjustment to free up, Secretary Guo Zhitao also instructed two people. I will first solicit opinions from all sides, especially the City Government, then present a preliminary plan, and first let the secretary review it."

Named entities: Guo Zhitao (person), City Government

Lu Fan nodded and said: "This is exactly your senior minister's 'livelihood', but the people we just discussed cannot make mistakes!"

Named entities: Lu Fan (person), Senior Minister

"Don't worry, I still have this political awareness!"

"Better early than late, then I'll wait for good news!"

Afterwards, Minister Zhang Ziqiang took the adjustment list of 15 people, solicited opinions from all standing committee members, and the list became 21 people.

Named entities: Zhang Ziqiang (person), standing committee member

Finally, Minister Zhang Ziqiang went to the City Government to request approval of the municipal government personnel adjustment plan,

Named entities: Zhang Ziqiang (person), City Government

Mayor Zhao Tao proposed that Hongqi County Party Committee Secretary Li Can serve as Secretary-General of the Municipal Government and Director of the Government Office.

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Mayor, Hongqi County, County Party Committee Secretary, Li Can (person), Secretary-General of Municipal Government, Director of Government Office

Although there were some surprises, wondering when this Li Can got together with Zhao Tao, but Minister Zhang Ziqiang dared not raise objections, added Li Can to the personnel adjustment plan, then slipped in a few "personal items", making the list 24 people, considered a small-scale adjustment.

Named entities: Li Can (person), Zhao Tao (person), Zhang Ziqiang (person)

Lu Fan found an opportunity to specially report to the secretary the ideas behind this personnel adjustment; Li Ruifang raised no objections, including the placement of those two county party committee secretaries.

Named entities: Lu Fan (person), secretary (generic), Li Ruifang (person), County Party Committee Secretary

Because Li Ruifang's personnel adjustment this time was done for Wang Hongtao to see, she wanted to adjust ten people's positions and gave them very satisfactory arrangements; this is enough! Personnel adjustment aims to achieve goals, inevitably requiring some people's posts to be adjusted; the two county party committee secretaries promoted by Lu Fan both came from county chief positions, which is reasonable and proper!

Named entities: Li Ruifang (person), Wang Hongtao (person), County Party Committee Secretary, County Chief, Lu Fan (person)

In order to obtain a good ranking in the half-year assessment, Mayor Zhao Tao alone went to the Provincial Party Committee to seek ranking from Secretary Lu Wenhua.

Named entities: Mayor, Zhao Tao (person), Provincial Party Committee, Lu Wenhua (person)

After the meeting, Secretary Lu Wenhua eagerly asked: "Zhao Tao, has your work been going smoothly lately?"

Named entities: Lu Wenhua (person), Zhao Tao (person)

Zhao Tao's face turned red, he replied reluctantly: "Thank you, Secretary, for your concern; please rest assured, I will quickly grasp the situation, lead Yingjiang City Government to achieve new and better results!"

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Secretary, Yingjiang, City Government

Secretary Lu Wenhua said earnestly: "Well, you are the one I placed in Yingjiang despite opposition; you must achieve something! When Li Mingzhou left, he left a large batch of political resources; if you want to control the situation, you must win their support. If they are all recruited by Li Ruifang, your work will not go well, so you should first consider people, try to unite colleagues as much as possible. Zhao Tao, I have high hopes for you; I hope you do not betray my trust! Today coming to the Provincial Party Committee, what is the matter?"

Named entities: Lu Wenhua (person), Yingjiang, Li Mingzhou (person), Li Ruifang (person), Zhao Tao (person), Provincial Party Committee

Zhao Tao hurriedly said: "Secretary, the half-year assessment is coming up; although I did not participate in Yingjiang's first-half work, I am currently presiding over the City Government's work; if the ranking is too low, I fear it will dampen comrades' enthusiasm; according to our internal data, the situation is not optimistic; I hope you can help coordinate!"

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Secretary, Yingjiang, City Government

Secretary Lu Wenhua frowned and said: "Yingjiang's ranking last year was not low; why did it suddenly drop so much? Now the departments involved in the assessment in Qinchuan are all 'controlled' by Wang Hongtao, but they are solid; to get a good ranking, you must work hard yourself; I cannot conveniently greet this matter! Work must be down-to-earth; falsification does not work in Qinchuan Province!"

Named entities: Lu Wenhua (person), Yingjiang, Qinchuan, Wang Hongtao (person), Qinchuan Province

"Secretary, could you find an opportunity to adjust the leadership team of Yingjiang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government? Now the leadership team has few supporters of mine, and even the Municipal Government cannot temporarily form a unified voice."

Named entities: Secretary, Yingjiang, Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government

"Not unwilling, but Secretary Lu Wenhua also has no way; he said: 'Leading cadres must unite, be good at playing the 'unity card', to gather everyone's enthusiasm and initiative for undertaking and entrepreneurship. As a leading leader, you must act openly and honestly, have the breadth of mind of 'a prime minister's belly can hold a boat', fully exert collective wisdom and strength, while seeking common ground while reserving differences, under the principle of not violating principles, strive to be inclusive, and strive to draw the largest 'circle of unity'. Unity requires thinking with one mind and exerting effort in one direction, relying on 'many hands gather firewood', not being a 'lonely widow'."

Named entities: Lu Wenhua (person)

Zhao Tao returned to Yingjiang empty-handed, received notice from the Municipal Party Committee Office that Secretary Li Ruifang would chair a five-person group meeting; this made Zhao Tao look forward to it, at least first securing the Municipal Government Secretary-General position, without a 'chief steward', work cannot really proceed.

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Yingjiang, Municipal Party Committee Office, Li Ruifang (person), secretary, Municipal Government Secretary-General, chief steward

When Zhao Tao entered the standing committee meeting room, Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Ruifang, Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee Guo Zhitao, Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary Wu Xiaohua, Head of Municipal Organization Department Zhang Ziqiang were already chatting, Deputy Secretary-General of Municipal Party Committee Lu Fan was responsible for taking notes.

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Li Ruifang (person), Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee, Guo Zhitao (person), Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary, Wu Xiaohua (person), Head of Municipal Organization Department, Zhang Ziqiang (person), Deputy Secretary-General of Municipal Party Committee, Lu Fan (person)

Zhao Tao smiled and said: "Sorry, I'm late!"

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person)

Guo Zhitao said with a fake smile: "The Municipal Government is busy; being late a while is understandable!"

Named entities: Guo Zhitao (person), City Government

Li Ruifang said: "Everyone is present, let's start the meeting; today we have five agenda items, all current key work; we strive for consensus, time waits for no one, every second counts in sprinting toward the annual work goals. First item, institutional reform; under the leadership of Provincial Governor Wang Hongtao, the provincial institutional reform has been fully completed; Yingjiang must act early and fast, strictly implement the provincial 'Institutional Reform Plan', and implement our city's institutional reform. This work will be personally overseen by the Municipal Party Committee; I suggest the Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee Lu Fan take the lead, with the Two Offices, Organization Department, Compilation Office, Personnel Bureau, and other departments cooperating, to quickly establish a leading group and draft our city's implementation plan."

Named entities: Li Ruifang (person), institutional reform, province, Governor Wang Hongtao (person), Yingjiang, Institutional Reform Plan, Municipal Party Committee meeting, Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, Lu Fan (person), Two Offices, Organization Department, Compilation Office, Personnel Bureau

Secretary Li Ruifang said that, everyone naturally had no objections; this proposal was unanimously passed, and a major responsibility fell on Lu Fan's shoulders.

Named entities: Secretary, Lu Fan (person)

Second item, municipal-level key projects; third item, industrial land application; fourth item, national health re-review—all passed smoothly.

Named entities: municipal-level key project, industrial land application, national health re-review

When it came to the crucial fifth item, personnel adjustment, things started well; 23 appointments passed smoothly, but when it came to the final Municipal Government Secretary-General position, things suddenly turned turbulent.

Named entities: Municipal Government Secretary-General

Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee, speaking from a responsible attitude toward cadres, said: "I still have some understanding of this comrade Li Can; Hongqi County's ranking in the city has dropped year after year, from the top tier to the bottom three; as its county party committee secretary, he bears great responsibility! Reward merit, punish fault, punish mistakes, reward achievement; I originally wanted to suggest the Municipal Party Committee adjust his post, letting other county and district leaders take warning, but I didn't expect the Mayor to favor him! If Li Can serves as Municipal Government Secretary-General, I personally express doubt!"

Named entities: Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee, Li Can (person), Hongqi County, County Party Committee Secretary, Mayor, Municipal Government Secretary-General

Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary Wu Xiaohua said: "Regarding Li Can, I need to report a situation: the Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee has received many complaint letters about him, but since the county party committee secretary is a provincially managed cadre, the Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee has not investigated and verified. However, I suggest that the use of this comrade be approached with caution!"

Named entities: Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary, Wu Xiaohua (person), Li Can (person), Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee, County Party Committee Secretary, provincially managed cadre

Only see Zhao Tao's face turning green then white; Secretary Li Ruifang made a decisive statement: "Cadre selection and appointment must be extremely cautious; what kind of person you select will determine what kind of cadre style you get. In cadre appointment, we should try to select loyal, clean, and responsible cadres, and employ them. Conversely, appointing based on personal connections, profit, or cliques not only makes cadres disheartened about entrepreneurship, but may also breed falsification, deceiving superiors and subordinates, seeking official positions, and other malpractices, causing some cadres to focus on seeking office rather than doing practical work and benefiting the people. Since comrades have different opinions, Mayor, please reconsider the candidate; the Municipal Government Secretary-General should be based on your opinion!"

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person), Li Ruifang (person), Mayor, Municipal Government Secretary-General

Zhao Tao helplessly said: "Alright, it was my oversight; I will reconsider!"

Named entities: Zhao Tao (person)

On August 25, the Provincial Party Committee held a standing committee meeting; the Provincial Organization Department reported the adjustment plan for leading cadres of Yingjiang City's departments and counties; Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member and Yingjiang Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Ruifang gave supplementary remarks; Wang Hongtao expressed support; the plan naturally passed without controversy.

Named entities: August 25, Provincial Party Committee, standing committee meeting, Provincial Organization Department, Yingjiang City, departments and counties, leading cadres, adjustment plan, Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member, Yingjiang Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Li Ruifang (person), Wang Hongtao (person)

On August 26, the Provincial-Municipal Inspection Team went to various counties to conduct organizational inspections or talks on Gao Zhihong, Chen Houji, Guo Tongyu, He Jiefeng, Guo Shanbo, and Wu Xiaojun.

Named entities: August 26, Provincial-Municipal Inspection Team, Gao Zhihong (person), Chen Houji (person), Guo Tongyu (person), He Jiefeng (person), Guo Shanbo (person), Wu Xiaojun (person)

There is no such thing as groundless promotion and reuse; Chen Houji, He Jiefeng, Guo Shanbo, Guo Tongyu naturally know who worked behind the scenes; they immediately went to the Municipal Party Committee to thank Lu Fan.

Named entities: Chen Houji (person), He Jiefeng (person), Guo Shanbo (person), Guo Tongyu (person), Municipal Party Committee, Lu Fan (person)

Lu Fan did not do good deeds without leaving a trace; he encouraged them to fulfill their duties conscientiously in their new posts, be strict with themselves, take initiative, create further achievements, and asked them to express gratitude to Secretary Li Ruifang and actively lean toward the secretary.

Named entities: Lu Fan (person), new posts, Li Ruifang (person), secretary

Dahua also came to Lu Fan's office to pay a visit, but Lu Fan did not claim credit, only said he was following instructions; Dahua still expressed thanks, because his work in Ganshui needs comrades' support.

Named entities: Jia Dahua (person), Lu Fan (person), office, Ganshui

Remembering Yao Qian's younger brother, Lu Fan called Ningyang County Party Committee Secretary Yang Chuanbei; unexpectedly, Secretary Yang attached great importance, directly came to Lu Fan's office to discuss this matter, even brought a box of tea, actually to deepen feelings with Lu Fan.

Named entities: Yao Qian (person), younger brother, Lu Fan (person), Ningyang County Party Committee Secretary, Yang Chuanbei (person), Secretary Yang, Lu Fan's office

After chatting a few sentences, Yang Chuanbei said: "Secretary-General, I have two proposals; see which is more suitable. One is to transfer him to a county or district, give him a deputy director position in a major unit, then after two years transfer him to a township; the other is to directly use him in a township, first serve as acting chairperson of the People's Congress, then when a vacancy arises let him become township head."

Named entities: Yang Chuanbei (person), Secretary-General, county or district, deputy director of a major unit, township, acting chairperson of the People's Congress, township head

Lu Fan thought for a moment, decided on Yao Qian's behalf, and let their younger brother continue to strive in the township.