Chapter 683

At the meeting, Lu Fan again emphasized that the provincial Party Committee should boldly use 'Li Yunlong-style' cadres, back them up, encourage them, assign them to key posts, let them stand out, and foster more pioneering and capable cadres for the grasslands.

Translation: At the meeting, Lu Fan again emphasized that the Provincial Party Committee should boldly use cadres of the "Li Yunlong" type, support and encourage them, place them in important positions, let them stand out, and cultivate more pioneering and capable cadres for the grassland to overcome difficulties.

We need to keep the quoted term "Li Yunlong-style" as "Li Yunlong-style". We'll translate as "Li Yunlong-style". Ensure we keep the quotes? The source has "Li Yunlong-style". We can translate as "Li Yunlong-style". Keep the meaning.

Thus: At the meeting, Lu Fan again emphasized that the Provincial Party Committee should boldly use Li Yunlong-style cadres, support and encourage them, place them in important positions, let them stand out, and cultivate more pioneering and capable cadres for the grassland to overcome difficulties.

Check: pioneering and capable cadres -> pioneering and capable cadres (those who can overcome difficulties). We'll translate as "pioneering and capable cadres".

Now output: 【1】 At the meeting, Lu Fan again emphasized that the Provincial Party Committee should boldly use Li Yunlong-style cadres, support and encourage them, place them in important positions, let them stand out, and cultivate more pioneering and capable cadres for the grassland to overcome difficulties.

Finally, Lu Fan required that members of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and deputy provincial-level and above leading cadres conduct grassroots research for no less than two months each year, using the 'four nos, two directs' approach—no notice, no greeting, no listening to reports, no accompaniment; go straight to the grassroots, go straight to the site—to grasp firsthand information.

We should promptly open a 'provincial leadership direct line'; each county and district should annually report one most urgent major problem needing resolution, directly submit it to the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, and county party secretaries may directly report to the Provincial Party Committee.

This year we will promote 'television inquiries' and 'online inquiries', arranging for one member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to participate each week, publicly answering questions from society and the masses.

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Having only arranged work, Lu Fan spoke for two hours, making many feel a sense of urgency and crisis, especially some people on the presidium, whose brows were tightly knit and expressions solemn.

The meeting was held via video broadcast to all prefecture-level cities and counties (districts), with attendance at the subvenues reaching 25,000 people; the meeting wielded great influence and its significance was extraordinary!

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, thanks to the meticulous planning of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Grassland Province held the concentrated groundbreaking ceremony for first-quarter key projects; 795 key projects commenced, with total investment of 610 billion yuan, up 30% year-on-year; annual investment amounted to 310 billion yuan, up 21.6% year-on-year, covering culture and tourism, urban construction, people's livelihood security, and ecological environmental protection, among others, with some major projects being those Lu Fan personally 'ran' to obtain from central ministries.

In order to strive for a 'red start' in key project construction, the 'temporary worker' Liu Xianhao led the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, from the outset of taking charge, to launch preparatory work for the province-wide key project groundbreaking activities.

Before the ceremony began, officials in charge of relevant departments gathered shoulder to shoulder around the key project exhibition wall to observe and learn, exchanging lively conversations, while the gleaming construction vehicles on one side of the venue together created a fervent atmosphere.

After the subvenues in each prefecture-level city successively reported their localities' annual and quarterly key project commencement schedules, Governor Luo Shiyu said that leading cadres at all levels must personally take charge and see things through, go to the problems, aim for results, and ensure that the key projects achieve a first-quarter commencement rate of over 50%, a half-year rate of 80%, and a three-quarter rate of 100%, firmly completing the annual target of around 20% growth in fixed-asset investment.

Lu Fan emphasized making good use of the 'major project commencement month', key project inspections, monthly scheduling reports, 'contest' formats, and other work carriers, with top-down coordination, departmental collaboration, and dedicated task forces overseeing, to ensure visible progress each month, significant results by year-end, fully sprinting to accelerate high-quality project construction, and striving to write a new chapter of catching up and surpassing in the new era.

At the ceremony, Deputy Provincial Party Committee Secretary Lu Fan issued the commencement order, officially sounding the horn for Grassland Province's launch of project-driven high-quality development!

After the launch ceremony, Lu Fan and Governor Luo Shiyu's entourage went to the construction site of the Dongtu Village tunnel, where a 14.5-meter-diameter shield machine was carrying out shield advancement; hundreds of frontline workers operated in an orderly division of labor, directing hoisting, assembling segments, and tightening bolts to form a stable tunnel lining after the shield machine's advance.

The project leader introduced that the breakthrough of the Dongtu Village tunnel would unlock the final control node of the Qingcheng to Yungu section of the passenger rail line, creating conditions for timely track laying and joint debugging and trial operation of the entire line.

The Dongtu Village tunnel is 4,600 meters long, a single-bore double-track tunnel passing under a highway and a village, with considerable construction safety risks.

This passenger rail line is Grassland Province's first newly built high-speed railway, 286.8 kilometers long with a design speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Currently, 29 of the line's 30 tunnels have been completed, and other civil works are progressing orderly according to the construction organization plan. Once completed, the line will play a crucial role in promoting regional economic development and improving travel conditions for the people of Grassland Province; at that point, the travel time from Qingcheng to Yancheng will be reduced to under three hours, allowing tourists to achieve a 'one-day tour' of Grassland Province and view its scenery on weekends.

This was obtained by Lu Fan's 'shameless persistence' and the Minister of Transport, Mo Xuan's 'pleading'; he indeed put in considerable effort, and it also allowed Grassland Province's leading cadres to witness Lu Fan's capability.

Next, Lu Fan participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the basic construction project of the Grassland University Discipline Inspection and Supervision Discipline and Major Scientific Research Platform; this too was a project Lu Fan personally 'strived for'. The project includes a newly built Scientific Innovation Center, Academic Exchange Center, Comprehensive Teaching Building, and four student dormitory buildings with supporting facilities, with a total construction area of about 90,000 square meters and a total investment of 900 million yuan.

New year, new atmosphere; renewed vigor, new deeds. Having just begun in 2027, Grassland Province saw a large batch of new projects break ground vigorously, while ongoing projects advanced steadily, presenting a bustling scene; major projects landing and being built have picked up 'acceleration', painting a 'new scroll' of high-quality development for Grassland Province.

On February 15, the medical industry anti-corruption conference later hailed by Grassland cadres and masses as a 'milestone' was solemnly convened in the Provincial Government Auditorium; Lu Fan, at this meeting, publicly declared war on the malfeasance and corrupt elements in the medical sector, sounding the charge horn of the anti-corruption struggle!

The leaders attending the meeting were Deputy Provincial Party Committee Secretary Lu Fan, Governor Luo Shiyu, Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary Du Wenlong, Organization Department Head Shang Youyang, Executive Deputy Provincial Governor Gu Yunhao, Provincial Party Committee Secretary-General Wu Xiaohua, Provincial Party Committee Publicity Department Head Wang Jianming, Deputy Provincial Governor Zhang Rongqiu, etc.; principal leaders of the Provincial Finance Department, Provincial Audit Department, Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau, Provincial Health Commission, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Department, Provincial Compilation Office, and other relevant departments participated; the principal leaders, divisional leaders, Discipline Inspection Committee secretaries, Health Commission directors, Medical Insurance Bureau directors, and Market Supervision Bureau directors of all cities, counties, and districts also attended; the turnout was considerable, with no one absent.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Provincial Medical Insurance Work Conference and Anti-Corruption Work Conference formally commenced.

Director Cheng Jingbo of the Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau and Director Wang Dong of the Provincial Health Commission conveyed the spirit of the superior meeting, summarized and reported work for 2026, and arranged and deployed current key tasks.

Next, Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary Du Wenlong arranged and deployed the province-wide concentrated rectification of corruption problems in the medical and pharmaceutical sector; he pointed out that the province must further raise its political stance, deepen ideological understanding, fully recognize the importance and urgency of carrying out the concentrated rectification of corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical sector, and genuinely strengthen political responsibility and sense of mission. It is necessary to maintain a strict tone, enhance political supervision, solidify the responsibility chain, and respond to the people's concerns through concrete actions.

Du Wenlong emphasized focusing on key investigations, strictly supervising discipline enforcement and law enforcement, insisting on investigating both bribe-taking and bribe-giving together, concentrating efforts to verify a batch of key leads, investigating and handling a batch of typical cases, punishing a batch of corrupt elements, exposing a batch of typical cases to create momentum and deterrence. He stressed accurately grasping policy strategies, comprehensively applying the 'four forms', adhering to punish before preventing, curing disease to save people, combining leniency with severity and differentiating treatment, to the greatest extent educating, reforming, and rescuing individuals; the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee encourages those who have erred to proactively disclose problems, lest they regret too late.

The final item of the meeting, and also the 'main show', was a speech by Deputy Provincial Party Committee Secretary Lu Fan.

Lu Fan said with a stern expression: 'What is the background of this round of medical anti-corruption, and how does corruption in the medical industry proliferate? Where will the heavy blows of anti-corruption be directed?'

According to incomplete statistics, at least 170 hospital presidents and party secretaries nationwide were investigated last year, a number exceeding twice that of a millennium. Most of these investigated hospital leaders who fell from grace came from county- or prefecture-level public hospitals, and there are also many from top-tier hospitals.

Therefore, the heavy blows of medical anti-corruption must be directed at hospital presidents and party secretaries, as well as grassroots pharmaceutical equipment section chiefs, finance section chiefs, procurement staff, medical personnel, and others, comprehensively and without blind spots!

When virtue lacks strength, heavy laws must supplement it; medical corruption has long existed, concerns people's livelihood, has great impact, and medical anti-corruption is imminent and cannot be delayed!

Comrades, imagine this: an ordinary family, if one member falls ill, they may very well be thrust back to the pre-liberation era overnight; I once personally witnessed a moderately well-off family whose breadwinner fell ill, and within two months their life became strained, the family facing hardship! Take our Grassland Province as an example: families unable to afford medical care are as numerous as cow hairs; the common people endure, watching their loved ones leave helplessly—how heart-wrenching!

The people's annual medical expenditures are increasing; medical insurance contributions have already exceeded 400 yuan, while government input continues to rise each year. This year, the accumulated surplus of the new rural cooperative medical scheme will turn negative, with expenditures exceeding financing by 15%, resulting in medical care becoming ever more costly for the populace—what an absurdity!

Then where did the money go? It goes without saying—it has been embezzled by a large swarm of 'woodworms' and bastards in the medical field! They feast on the people's hard-earned money with relish and tireless enthusiasm; to these greedy, shameless scoundrels, I have only one thing to say: your doom has arrived!

The medical and pharmaceutical field is the main bastion for safeguarding public health, relating to the broad masses' most concerned, most direct, and most tangible health rights. If we cannot even guarantee the most basic rights that the people cherish, what face do we have to sit here?

Cases of power-seeking rent-seeking, massive kickback collection, bribery and graft severely dilute the reform and development dividends of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, consume the people's benefits, not only constraining medical, medical insurance, and medical and pharmaceutical reform and development, but also damaging the industry's image and harming the interests of the vast majority of persons in the medical and health sector.

Corruption is humanity's public enemy; the medical and pharmaceutical industry, given that it concerns the life and health of hundreds of millions of people, sees its corrupt conduct as more intimate and harmful, thus necessitating a heavy-handed crackdown.

Under the drawn sword, we must have the resolve to 'knock over a whole boat with one pole', severely punish 'bad apples', enforce zero tolerance, full coverage, no forbidden zones, until the medical field is restored to a clear sky, thereby earning the wholehearted support of the broad masses of the people!