Chapter 524

January 20, Deputy Director Wang Lan presided over the evaluation and acceptance feedback meeting, with all leaders of the Nanyuan Municipal Party Committee and City Government and relevant departments attending, and Deputy Provincial Governor Lei Juan attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Wang Lan reported on the evaluation and acceptance situation. The work team stationed in Nanyuan to conduct on-site evaluation, with over 30 experts and members conducting field visits and surveys in 9 districts/counties, 75 townships, 75 villages (communities), and 1,889 members of the public. The survey results showed that public satisfaction with food safety reached as high as 95%, awareness of the creation work was 97%, and support was 99.8%. The evaluation and acceptance results showed that Nanyuan met the national standards for a food safety demonstration city.

Deputy Provincial Governor Lei Juan fully affirmed that Nanyuan's creation of a national food safety demonstration city had accumulated experience and set a benchmark for the province. Next, Nanyuan must face up to problems, consolidate and improve the achievements of the creation work. By strictly aligning with standards, making up for shortcomings and weak points in the creation work, comprehensively raising the overall level of the creation work, and enhancing the competitiveness of the demonstration city.

Lu Fan expressed sincere thanks to the Food Safety Office for its long-standing strong support to Nanyuan and to the work team for their hard work. He pointed out that food safety work is always ongoing, with only a starting point and no end. The entire city should take this evaluation and acceptance as a new starting point, earnestly implement measures and rectify problems, and strive for better results to gain recognition from the Food Safety Office.

Lu Fan demanded that all city departments at every level fully accept the opinions, suggestions, and requirements put forward by the work team. They must make up for shortcomings in the work, improve the precision of rectifications, and constantly maintain a sense of vigilance as if standing at the edge of a deep abyss or walking on thin ice, further strengthening food safety awareness, safeguarding the food safety bottom line, implementing food safety measures, so that the people can breathe fresh air, drink clean water, and eat reassuring food, thus fulfilling the promise to the masses.

When the acceptance team left, Nanyuan gave them a warm send-off, with local specialties prepared abundantly; in this regard Lu Fan could not avoid being conventional.

Su Xiao'e's 'Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd.' was officially established. Li Siwei's Tianhui Energy invested 2.5 billion yuan, becoming the largest shareholder but not participating in company operations; Su Xiao'e invested 500 million yuan, becoming the second-largest shareholder, serving as legal representative and general manager, responsible for company operations; Wu Heng invested 300 million yuan, becoming the third-largest shareholder; Ding Tongxin also joined, investing all of her personal wealth, taking a stake of 50 million yuan.

Lu Fan specially held a banquet to celebrate the several people's investment and entrepreneurship in Nanyuan.

After three rounds of drinks, Lu Fan asked, 'Xiao'e, how was the efficiency of handling procedures when the company was established? Speak frankly!'

Su Xiao'e replied, 'Brother Fan, Nanyuan's business environment needs no saying—procedures are very simple, service is very enthusiastic, and efficiency is extremely fast; frankly speaking, it's much better than that of Yingjiang!'

Li Siwei expressed agreement, saying, 'The administrative efficiency in Nanyuan is indeed high; I wasn't fully aware before, but after investing in Nanyuan this year, my subordinates have reported no instances of extortion or graft, which is very precious. I have also discussed this with friends in Nanyuan, and the overall feedback is that things are completely different from the past, the business environment has been transformed. Brother-in-law, I'm not just flattering you—you have governed Nanyuan's business environment well, and this is everyone's consensus.'

Lu Fan said, 'The business environment is the soil for market entities' survival and development; the business environment is a city's core competitiveness; without a good business environment there can be no high-quality development.'

For ordinary people living at home, the seven necessities upon opening the door are firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea. Running a business involves far more matters, from registration and registration to getting electricity connected, then to applying for loans and buying consumables; the issues involved are many more and far more complex than daily life. If services are not done well, Nanyuan cannot retain enterprises, which is the first problem development must solve. You all should also help me keep an eye out in ordinary times, report problems promptly, because the subordinates below will only report good news, not worries.

Several people nodded repeatedly, and Lu Fan laughed as he said to Ding Tongxin, 'Sister Ding, you have great boldness! You're so optimistic about the agriculture and animal husbandry company?'

Ding Tongxin revealed a charming smile and said, 'Fifty million yuan is all of my personal wealth! I trust Xiao'e, and I trust you even more! As the saying goes, 'food is heaven for the people'; this is a legitimate business that can sustain a lifetime, and working at it is solid.'

Li Siwei laughed and said, 'Xiao'e, I have basically put all of my personal wealth on you; no matter what, you must become a "grain king"!'

Su Xiao'e earnestly replied, 'Thank you, General Manager Li, for your trust; I, together with Brother Wu and Sister Ding, will be down-to-earth and diligent, managing the 'Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry' this 'family' in an orderly and thriving manner!'

Lu Fan laughed, 'Xiao'e has made great progress and speaks with substance. The company must always adhere to the business philosophy of 'building a conscientious enterprise and producing reassuring food,' strive to create a high-quality brand, strictly follow green food standards in production, actively promote green food certification for products, ensure that main products obtain national green food certificates, and sell the high-quality, healthy, green agricultural and sideline products to thousands of households.'

Next, you should step up coordination with each county and district, conducting land transfers in the manner of investment promotion, strictly observing the principles of equal consultation, voluntariness, and compensation; after land transfer, farmers' incomes must be higher than before, and we must not let farmers suffer losses.

Su Xiao'e replied, 'Brother Fan, rest assured; we both come from the countryside, I will not forget my roots, and Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry will surely be a conscientious enterprise!'

Lu Fan turned to his secretary and said, 'Haohao, regarding the investment promotion project for Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, you are responsible for coordination and providing good service to the enterprise.'

Chen Haohao promptly replied, 'Okay, Secretary!'

After discussing the main matters, everyone raised their glasses and drank freely, conversing over wine, with their words full of anticipation and longing for the future.

Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry was officially born today; it is like a sapling that has just broken through the soil—though tender, it is full of life and vigor. It will take root in Nanyuan, absorb nutrients, grow vigorously, in the future walk out of Huayuan, head toward the nation, overcome all difficulties and obstacles, become a true grain giant, establish a mighty reputation, and make a great contribution to national food security.

January 25, the 'Implementation Plan for Nanyuan City's Pilot Program for Standardized Nationwide Rural Land Rights Transfer Trading' was officially released, providing guidance for the city's rural land transfer work.

Nanyuan City is the largest in area and second in population among agricultural cities in Huayuan Province, known as the 'Central State Granary,' and is a national concentrated production area for grain, cotton, oil, and tobacco. With the tide of the times, accelerating land transfer and trusteeship is a major measure to solve agricultural and rural problems and speed up the process of agricultural modernization.

After the Municipal Party Committee and City Government issued the 'Land Transfer Plan,' on the operational level, the people of Nanyuan did not stand by or wait; they stepped forward, sought ways, provided meticulous service, and guided the orderly transfer of land management rights, presenting a scene of a hundred flowers blooming.

'Please line up, everyone gets a share!' On January 30, in a village office in Tang County, villagers welcomed the day of disbursement of land transfer rents.

On the table lay stacks of cash, along with slips recording each household's land transfer acreage and rent amounts. After villagers carefully checked them, they signed and collected in turn.

This is the first batch of land transfer rents disbursed by Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, involving 12 villager groups, with a total payout of 1.05 million yuan; a second batch will still be issued at the end of this month. Land transfer has revitalized the village's land resources, achieving 'double increase' in income for both villagers and the village collective.

Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry transferred 500 mu of land, began raising seedlings, and will gradually expand planting scale each year. The operating model is that Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry holds 80% equity, the village collective holds 20%, and the village collective cooperative takes another 10% of the profits for villager dividends. Land transfer households benefit directly from land rents, and moreover drive around 120 villagers from the surrounding area to work long-term at the base, enabling villagers to earn money right at their doorstep using their own land. Not only has it 'activated' the land, it has also 'enriched' the people.

In Xijia County, with the support of the county Party committee and county government, Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry transferred 493 mu of land, embarked on the circular agriculture path of 'chicken raising—organic fertilizer processing—planting,' and plans an annual output value of 30 million yuan.

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In less than a month's time, with the emphasis of the leading officials in each county and district, Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry sprang up everywhere, transferring 120,000 mu of land, planning to implement 115 projects, and going further and further down the road of spending money.

February 1, Nanyuan City held an entrepreneurs' commendation conference; Municipal Party Secretary Lu Fan and Mayor Su Xiang Hai led the way at the venue entrance to welcome entrepreneurs' representatives walking the red carpet and holding flowers, presenting them awards, putting into practice the philosophy of respecting business and valuing enterprise, motivating and mobilizing the city's broad entrepreneurs to vigorously promote the spirit of entrepreneurs of the new era, and helping the construction of the modernized provincial sub-central city achieve accelerated growth and high-quality development.

The atmosphere in the venue was solemn and lively, with entrepreneurs seated in the middle, while municipal leaders, county and district heads, and responsible officials of municipal functional departments sat on both sides, everywhere showing respect for entrepreneurs.

Lu Fan and Su Xiang Hai presented awards to 20 meritorious entrepreneurs and 10 recipients of the special contribution award.

Lu Fan expressed sincere thanks and high respect to the city's broad entrepreneurs, emphasizing that to build a strong sub-center, enterprises are the main force.

Lu Fan said with deep feeling: 'All along, the broad entrepreneurs have taken root in Nanyuan, started businesses there, cultivated deeply in Nanyuan, and contributed to Nanyuan; the stability of Nanyuan's overall situation, the primary credit for development achievements, and the primary credit for improvement in people's livelihood all belong to enterprises. Currently, Nanyuan is making all-out efforts to boost the economy and development, continually striving to advance in the rankings of the nation's top hundred cities. I hope the broad entrepreneurs will strengthen their sense of ownership, enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, and closely link the rise of their enterprises with the rise of Nanyuan.'

All departments at every level of Nanyuan City will always act as 'servers' for enterprise development, 'supervisors' for optimizing the environment, and 'escorts' for respecting business and valuing enterprise, working hand in hand with the broad entrepreneurs, united in heart and virtue, cooperating closely, to jointly write the splendid chapter of 'building a strong sub-center and racing toward new glory.'

After the commendation conference ended, the Municipal Party Committee and City Government held a grand banquet, entertaining the broad entrepreneurs, fully demonstrating Nanyuan's principles of valuing business, ensuring business, being close to business, warming business, and protecting business; this was also Lu Fan's original intention in specially convening this meeting.

On this beautiful night, wine fragrance filled the air, and laughter and cheer never ceased. Entrepreneurs, amidst clinking glasses, talked about a bright future.

In his speech, Lu Fan once again earnestly requested, hoping that the broad entrepreneurs would create more job positions for Nanyuan. No matter what kind of technicians the enterprises need, the government will have targeted efforts to carefully cultivate batch after batch of mature technicians for them!