Chapter 518

Enjoying the moon, tasting tea, eating cakes, rejoicing in the Mid-Autumn, the "Three Visits to Nanyuan" Mid-Autumn Music Festival was grandly held at the Bird's Nest Stadium; the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" kicked off the performance! Hua Zai, Hua Jian, Xiao Gang, Zi Qi, Pu Shu and other powerhouse singers all appeared, their wonderful performance left the audience enthralled, cheers and applause rose and fell, waves of joy surged one after another, as if about to engulf the entire Bird's Nest Stadium.

The music festival was streamed live simultaneously on major online platforms, with cumulative viewership reaching 3.5 billion; especially when the camera "captured" Secretary Hong Tao, countless people flooded into the live stream, and the scene erupted with cheers like mountains and seas.

Another highlight of the music festival: when Hua Zai performed the classic "Bing Yu", he invited a beautiful female guest vocalist called "Nanyuan Zhihe", who had good looks, excellent temperament, and solid singing skills. Hua Zai introduced her grandly and asked everyone to follow her Douyin account "Nanyuan Zhihe"!

When Xiao Gang sang "Huang Hun", Nanyuan Zhihe appeared again as a guest vocalist.

She is a staff member of the municipal TV station, with "fair skin, beautiful looks, long legs, willow-leaf arched eyebrows, cherry lips", and is the Nanyuan City-focused "official" internet celebrity, image spokesperson, and tourism promotion ambassador; she gained a million followers overnight!

This year's National Day, the "Three Visits to Nanyuan" Mid-Autumn Music Festival was like a brilliant star, topping the hot search list; it was as if an invisible bridge had been built, tightly connecting the formerly obscure Nanyuan with the outside world. Tourists surged in like a tide, stepping into this scenic city rich in poetry and cultural history, opening a brand-new chapter of vigorous development for Nanyuan tourism.

Nanyuan will present itself to the world with a more uplifting posture, writing its own glorious chapter.

On October 3, Wang Hongtao returned to Nanling Province, but the inspection team, led by Deputy Provincial Governor Zhang Hongbing, will conduct a deeper inspection of Nanyuan.

After accompanying them for one day, Mayor Su Xiang Hai took over the accompaniment, but Lu Fan appeared at every evening banquet, engaging in deep exchanges with the leaders of Nanling Province.

After the National Day holiday ended, the Nanyuan Municipal Party Committee immediately convened an enlarged standing committee meeting to specially study the implementation opinions for further strengthening Nanyuan City's food safety work.

At the meeting, Lu Fan emphasized that Nanyuan City's food safety work had received high recognition from the Nanling inspection team; Secretary Hong Tao had put forward the "Nanyuan Model", which is of great significance to Nanyuan. We must promote all aspects of food safety work with a higher political stance, stronger sense of responsibility, and more concrete measures.

Launch the food workshop rectification and improvement action, the "Joint Double Strike" targeting online shopping platforms, community group buying, live-streaming sales, etc., selling counterfeit and substandard food; crack down at the source to safeguard agricultural product quality and safety; strengthen the management of agricultural and veterinary drug residues. At the meeting, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Wang Hong arranged Nanyuan City's ten major food safety tough actions and eight specialized tasks, from farm to table, guarding the "safety on the tip of the tongue"; Nanyuan aims to be a national "top student".

Nanyuan City's food safety improvement was in full swing; the State Food Safety Office issued a document, listing Nanyuan City in the sixth batch of recommended cities for national food safety demonstration creation, quietly adding a feather to Nanyuan's cap.

This is an effective response to Hong Tao's proposal of the "Nanyuan Model"; it is also a timely and effective response from the Food Safety Office to Secretary Hong Tao's "defining Nanyuan". The "Nanyuan Model" is a political signal, representing Secretary Hong Tao's recognition and support, and naturally should be strongly promoted.

On October 15, Nanling Province convened a special meeting to deploy the deep advancement of the food safety governance system and modernization of governance capabilities.

Hong Tao emphasized in his speech that we should learn from Nanyuan City's successful experience in food safety; the provincial market supervision system must further strengthen organizational leadership, enhance responsibility, improve work mechanisms, highlight responsibility implementation, highlight basic guarantees, highlight publicity and guidance, implement all policy measures, promote the implementation and effectiveness of key food safety work, severely crack down on food safety violations, continuously carry out the "unified inspection" action on key foods, continually improve Nanling's food safety supervision capacity and assurance level, and drive the province's food safety work to a new level.

Starting from October 16, Nanyuan City successively received work liaison letters from some provinces and cities, all coming to inspect and research food safety work; basically, they were led by Deputy Provincial Governors and leaders of that rank.

Lu Fan carefully studied these provinces and cities, clearly seeing their political leanings; this was a good opportunity to use these occasions to make some solid connections.

On October 20, the award ceremony for the top ten scenic spots of the "Green Mountains and Clear Waters·Beautiful Nanyuan" online celebrity check-in locations, jointly organized by the Nanyuan Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the Municipal Tourism Bureau, and the Nanyuan Press Media Group, was held at the Municipal Cultural Center. It further explored Nanyuan's distinctive cultural and tourism resources, effectively promoting Nanyuan's excellent cultural attractions, investment environment, and development achievements. Since the selection activity launched, it has attracted widespread attention from all sectors of society, with netizens enthusiastically voting, once again boosting Nanyuan's fame.

The tickets for Ziqi's concert "Entering Nanyuan" sold out within two minutes of going on sale, their explosive popularity truly astonishing. The author posted, unable to hide excitement, "See you in Nanyuan on November 20!"

This concert brought Nanyuan City back into the nation's view, continuously maintaining the city's heat.

After the online celebrity check-in location selection ended, Propaganda Department Head Li Mu Ci and Tourism Bureau Director Wang Chong came to report work to Municipal Party Secretary Lu Fan.

Lu Fan highly approved of this event, saying these ten spots stood out and have gained a certain reputation nationwide. Next, we must increase support, tailor measures to local conditions, invite professional planning teams, carry out work innovatively, and based on their respective characteristics, shape them into everlasting "online celebrity check-in spots" to attract more tourists to Nanyuan.

Li Mu Ci reported: "With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more grassroots individuals are gaining fame online; if positively guided, they will have a positive impact on promoting Nanyuan. We plan to hold a selection event for Nanyuan City's 'Top Ten Online Celebrity Experts'. This includes local Nanyuan internet practitioners, Douyin experts, and streamers, with priority given to those skilled in promoting our city's major tourism, health, ecology, culture, and economy."

Lu Fan nodded and said: "This idea is great; the Municipal Party Committee strongly supports it. Nanyuan needs to maintain urban heat, so we must innovatively carry out publicity work. I propose several requirements: first, the finance department should allocate funds to reward the selected 'Top Ten Online Celebrity Experts';

Second, the selection process must be fair, just, and transparent. I suggest taking the promotion of Nanyuan's tourism, culture, and agricultural and sideline products as the theme; contestants should provide high-quality videos; Nanyuan City and Douyin official will cooperate to conduct the selection event, judging by video views, likes, and comments to judge heroes.

Third, positive-energy online celebrities should endorse and represent their hometown; the Municipal Party Committee and City Government will give honors, rewards, and support policies. We will select online celebrities who are interesting, full of positive energy, and down-to-earth, sign cooperation agreements, and have them do live-stream sales for Nanyuan's specialty products. The online celebrity economy will become increasingly booming and robust; Nanyuan must quickly get on board, with the government endorsing the selected online celebrities, giving full support, and striving to cultivate a few top-tier live-stream sales hosts nationwide.

Fourth, liaise with the Commerce Bureau, improve the e-commerce base, and arrange for the selected 'Top Ten Online Celebrity Experts' to be stationed there.

Fifth, purposefully launch a few 'official' online celebrities, such as 'Nanyuan Zhihe'; the Rural Revitalization Bureau is not currently seeking an 'official live-stream sales host'? This can be combined into this event.

In short, the ultimate goal of carrying out various publicity activities is to convert them into economic benefits, to sell Nanyuan's products and increase the people's income; otherwise, all the work would be meaningless.

The Propaganda Department will take the lead, promptly draft a work plan, and submit it to the Standing Committee for review and approval.

Li Mu Ci replied: "Okay, Secretary, we will promptly formulate a work plan according to your instructions, and after the initial draft is formed, you will review it."

Lu Fan is very satisfied with this Propaganda Department head; in work, he can take initiative, think proactively, and innovate, demonstrating strong execution ability, and moreover, his work effects are significant; it can be said that Nanyuan's current achievements owe him an important contribution. For such leading cadres, Lu Fan will focus on cultivating and recommending them.

On October 22, Lu Fan received a call from Ceng Ming, learning that Si Daiqiang had been appointed as the Municipal Party Secretary of Yingjiang City, but unexpectedly without also serving as a member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, which let Lu Fan breathe a little easier.

As it was approaching noon and time to get off work, Lu Fan dialed Si Daiqiang's number, laughing as he said: "Congratulations, Secretary Si, your wish has finally been fulfilled!"

"Hey, there's nothing to congratulate about—the revolution hasn't succeeded yet, comrades still need to strive! On the contrary, I want to congratulate you: Nanyuan's development is in full swing; don't accidentally overtake me again!"

Lu Fan laughed and replied: "Secretary Si holds great power; you don't need to familiarize yourself further with Yingjiang's situation—shouldn't the next step be to adjust personnel?"

"I reckon it'll still take some time; moving on personnel now would be somewhat rash. Rest assured, I've noted down everything you've entrusted me with—I'll definitely give it my all!"

"Then I'll thank Secretary Si on their behalf for his promotion—look, you've helped so much; how should I thank you?"

"Why stand on ceremony with me? Ceng Ming, Yang Minghao, Xia Li, and Liu Jin Zhu are reliable at work, have good reputations, and moving up a step is justified."

"Alright, next time we meet, let's drink until we're done!"

After hanging up, Lu Fan fell into deep thought. Although Si Daiqiang did not concurrently serve as a Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member this time, it is likely a temporary measure; before long, the standing committee members and alternates will all be in place—this is a substantive, leapfrog promotion. What about himself? Could the Municipal Party Secretary of Nanyuan also serve as a Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member? If he were to leave Nanyuan yet be unwilling, it seems that the next time he returns to the capital, he ought to consult thoroughly with his father-in-law and Li Lao.