Chapter 515

After pondering for a while, Lu Fan dialed the phone of Si Daiqiang, the mayor of Yingjiang City, and after connecting, he laughed and said: "Mayor Si, sorry to disturb you!"

"Secretary Lu, congratulations on holding great power and enjoying the spring breeze! As soon as I open my phone, Douyin is filled with your Nanyuan, everywhere! Nanyuan's momentum this year is so fierce, can GDP break ten trillion?"

Lu Fan replied: "You think a ten-trillion GDP is common? If you're capable, let Yingjiang reach ten-trillion! Nanyuan's GDP last year was only over 450 billion; this year there is growth, but not that exaggerated."

"Come on, look at how many major projects you've implemented this year? I estimate that one-third of Huayuan Province's resources have been tilted toward Nanyuan; not breaking ten-trillion is about right."

"Never mind that, I have business with you! Is Yingjiang about to adjust personnel? Could you move Ceng Ming, Yang Minghao, Liu Jin Zhu, and Xia Li? Hopefully they can get a promotion."

Si Daiqiang asked: "Have you mentioned this to Secretary Rui Fang?"

Lu Fan laughed: "This is a private matter; I will definitely turn to you. I haven't spoken with Secretary Rui Fang lately. How is it? Is there any difficulty? Can you handle it?"

Si Daiqiang pondered and said: "I will definitely take seriously the matter you entrusted, but I can only do my best, after all, personnel matters are handled by the Municipal Party Committee."

Lu Fan asked: "Is Secretary Rui Fang about to leave? I need to congratulate you in advance—you're getting ahead of me again!"

Si Daiqiang pursed his lips and said: "It's not that easy! Even if she leaves, I would face great difficulty in succeeding as Municipal Party Secretary, after all this is Yingjiang! You know, just the 'alternate' slot—many people are eyeing it, competition is fierce, and I still lack seniority."

Lu Fan encouraged: "Yingjiang has had precedents of mayors becoming party secretaries; it's up to people! You must not slack off, seize every moment, not waste your youth! If you truly achieve your wish, you'll be able to ride dreams as horses and set sail."

Thanks for your kind words! By the way, of those four, only one can become a County Chief; the rest should be adjusted to more important posts as much as possible—who do you have in mind?

Lu Fan thought and said: "Ceng Ming or Xia Li perhaps! If possible, Yang Minghao and Liu Jin Zhu could take positions in some municipal bureau, taking a step up."

There's no way to talk to you—you've thrown another four problems at me all at once! Forget it, forget it, I'll do my best!" Si Daiqiang was helpless, but he would give his all for Lu Fan's matters.

September 1, autumn begins. In every campus of Nanyuan City, there is a scene of joyful laughter and extraordinary liveliness. What makes the children so happy? Free school uniforms are being distributed!

Boys wear blue suits, white shirts, matched with khaki trousers, plus a tie, neat and sunny; girls wear blue suits, white shirts, matched with khaki pleated skirts, plus a simple corsage, calm and restrained yet lively... The city's 2.23 million students put on the free new uniforms, staging an impromptu fashion show in their respective campuses—some calm, some lively, some goofy—showcasing the students' simple, natural, generous, lively, and positive spirit.

This year, Nanyuan spent heavily to provide free uniforms for all primary and secondary students and kindergarteners across the city, including summer and spring-autumn uniforms; Nanyuan residents no longer need to spend money buying uniforms for their children! During summer vacation, schools organized students to complete measurements and tailoring. After the school year starts, they will also distribute free sports uniforms to students.

Wearing neat uniforms, being in beautiful campuses, letting knowledge nourish the soul, letting dreams lead the future, letting responsibility shape lives! Nanyuan City's education work this year has been widely praised, with countless accolades flowing toward Municipal Party Secretary Lu Fan! Secretary Lu, through concrete actions, has illustrated what it means to love and value the cause of education, laying an exceptionally solid foundation for Nanyuan's educational development.

After the school year starts, Municipal Party Secretary Lu Fan instructs the Education Bureau and the Market Supervision Bureau, using the creation of a national food safety demonstration city as a handle, to conduct comprehensive surprise inspections of student cafeterias and citywide food safety, continuously promoting improvement of food safety governance capacity and protection level, continually enhancing the sense of gain, happiness, and security of Nanyuan residents.

After more than half a year of effort, Nanyuan City's 'creation' work has made substantive progress; the city has cumulatively invested 250 million yuan, completed upgrades of 50 agricultural product markets, built 7 intelligent supermarket-style agricultural product markets, and created a batch of five-star, four-star, three-star agricultural product markets, giving the public a completely renewed shopping environment.

The Municipal Party Committee and City Government formulated a food industry development plan and incentive/subsidy measures, expanding high-quality specialty fruit and vegetable cultivation, with facility greenhouse growth ranking first in the province.

The city launched the 'Internet + Transparent Kitchen' project, achieving a coverage rate of 98%, with 1,475 production and operation enterprises connected to the national agricultural product quality and safety traceability platform.

After the special action began, the Creation Office inspected 4,029 food production and operation entities, sampled over 50,000 batches of food, conducted rapid inspections on 428 agricultural product markets for 2.69 million batches, found 7,500 non-conforming batches, and destroyed 30,000 kg of non-conforming food. Sampling of planting and breeding links for vegetables, pork, beef, mutton, and aquatic products totaled 610,000 batches. Carried out 25 special rectifications on rural food safety, small workshops, wet rice noodles, veterinary drug residues, etc., handling 1,225 cases involving goods worth 35 million yuan, with fines and confiscations of 27 million yuan; public security organs solved 85 cases, criminally detained 196 people, arrested 59, maintaining high pressure on illegal acts, forming an effective deterrent atmosphere.

For the 625 unit canteens across the city with food safety issues, follow-up supervision, individual rectification, and closed-loop management were implemented. For the 89 canteens with serious food safety hazards, they were legally shut down.

Further smoothing the 12315 complaint and reporting channels, over half a year cumulatively rewarded reporters with 86 million yuan, forming a strong atmosphere where everyone is a food safety monitor, fully leveraging the supervisory role of canteen whistleblowers.

After relentless effort, the once rampant counterfeit and fake goods enterprises could find no foothold to survive on Nanyuan's land, and Nanyuan's food safety situation underwent a complete transformation.

Although local enterprises are effectively controlled, it is worrying that every day large quantities of counterfeit and substandard goods from elsewhere continue to flow into Nanyuan, wreaking havoc on its people. Therefore, cracking down on incoming 'non-conforming' food has become a priority for the next steps.

Following Municipal Party Secretary Lu Fan's instructions, the legal team, Public Security Bureau, and Market Supervision Bureau have fortified the food safety defense line; a mighty cross-city, cross-province anti-counterfeit operation has also been launched. Nanyuan residents must use legal means to trace the source, forming an impregnable defense line to firmly guard Nanyuan's food safety gate.

September 6, a breakfast shop owner in Wolong District purchased 400 bags of 'Angel yeast' online, but found the yeast wouldn't rise dough, so he complained to the Market Supervision Bureau. After on-site investigation, staff discovered the yeast was a counterfeit/substandard product, and the Public Security Bureau immediately filed a case.

Through investigation, the handling officers went to Anhui Province, staked out and tracked for 5 days and 4 nights, apprehending 6 suspects, seizing 3 production workshops, detaining over 200 boxes of finished seasoning products, 2 tons of semi-finished products, and seizing 5 counterfeit equipment units.

The Food and Drug Crime Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau received transferred leads from the Market Supervision Bureau, subsequently cracking two cases of cross-province production and sale of counterfeit fertilizers, destroying 2 production sites and 6 sales sites, apprehending 8 criminal suspects, with the amount involved reaching over 20 million yuan.

The Wolong District Public Security Bureau's Food and Drug Crime Detachment Brigade received a public report that someone purchased over 20 boxes of 'high-quality imitation of a certain brand's premium white liquor' via WeChat. The special task force drafted over 40 police officers to conduct a concentrated net operation, completely dismantling the gang in Shandong Province, apprehending 20 criminal suspects, and seizing 380 boxes of fake liquor on the spot.

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In just a short month, Nanyuan City displayed tremendous action and determination; the Public Security Bureau, hand in hand with the legal team, resolutely embarked on the journey, making over 40 trips to other cities and provinces to handle cases and protect rights, sweeping away multiple counterfeit production and sale dens like autumn wind sweeping leaves; the significant results attracted countless attention, 'Nanyuan anti-counterfeit' became a hot topic online, sparking widespread discussion.

On the eve of the National Day long holiday, Lu Fan unexpectedly received a call from Secretary Hong Tao.

After a few pleasantries, Secretary Hong Tao said with a smile: 'Lu Fan, Nanyuan's food safety governance has been effective and fruitful, achieving significant results. People regard food as heaven; food safety comes first. Food safety concerns the vital interests of hundreds of millions of people, and has always been a focus. However, due to various reasons, food safety problems still pose serious hidden dangers, making the common people bitterly resentful; solving this problem well is our inescapable responsibility.'

Coincidentally, I have time during the National Day holiday; I want to go to Nanyuan to see, learn from your successful experience, and see if it can be promoted in Nanling Province.

Lu Fan hurriedly said: 'Nanyuan sincerely welcomes the Secretary's visit for inspection and guidance; I will prepare carefully, summarize the 'Nanyuan experience' well, without exaggeration, without embellishment, without concealment, without avoidance, and showcase the most genuine results of Nanyuan's food safety governance.'

Okay, the Nanling inspection team will arrive on October 1; you don't need to make a big fuss or mobilize masses; the specific matters will be handled by Luo Liang in coordination with you.

Understood, we will strictly implement the Secretary's instructions; Nanyuan will certainly spare no effort to do a good job in logistical support services.

After hanging up, Lu Fan, after careful thought, dialed Tang Bing's secretary's phone and reported: 'Secretary, just now Secretary Hong Tao called me; during the National Day holiday he will lead a team to come to Nanyang to inspect food safety work.'

'What?' Secretary Tang Bing hurriedly asked: 'Which specific day?'

'Secretary Hong Tao means arriving in Nanyuan on the day of October 1.'

Tang Bing urgently said: 'Today is the 29th, there are still two days left, Lu Fan; this inspection is of great significance, you must not be careless, you must carefully prepare, arrange the inspection points, and do a good job of reception; I will arrive in Nanyuan tomorrow at noon.'