Chapter 700

Under Lu Fan's vigorous promotion, various localities and units began to concentrate on resolving prominent problems such as inaction, misconduct, government dereliction of duty and loss of credibility, power abuse and obstruction, suboptimal procedures, and insufficient capacity; highlights emerged frequently, and they quickly achieved phased results.

Because anyone with clear eyes can see that Secretary Lu is about to be confirmed in office, whoever dares to fool him at this critical 'juncture' will find him daring to play with their official hat!

Therefore, the work promoted by Secretary Lu must be carried out without discount, without conditions, with full effort to ensure thorough implementation.

The Way may be near, but if you do not go, you will not arrive. Throughout the province, one after another 'hard-on-hard' approach, item after item of 'solid' measures continually 'shine onto the stage'; all levels and departments, with the spirit of leaving marks on stone and traces on iron, work solidly and push forward deeply, so that the era's answer sheet on optimizing the business environment is written in solid strokes.

The provincial government benchmarks against domestic advanced practices, promoting 'small front-end, large back-end, fewer approvals, more services'. It advances process reengineering, compresses time limits, enables online handling, and makes society public. Matters at the municipal and county levels, originally 96,459 items, have been merged and integrated into 9,371 items, reducing procedures by 36,171 and preconditions by 38,654, and are being publicly released in tiers and batches as 'one-time handling, online handling, immediate handling, nearby handling' matters.

The provincial Discipline Inspection Committee broadened reporting channels, publishing the committee's and local complaint supervision hotlines in media at all levels; for problems strongly reflected by enterprises and the public with concrete leads, it conducts direct investigation and swift handling, and for verified problems it imposes strict accountability, public exposure, and zero tolerance. It has successively exposed 12 batches of typical cases such as unsmooth government services at window units, and altogether held 6,843 people accountable across the regions.

The provincial Party Committee Inspection Office and the provincial Government Inspection Office established nine special undercover inspection teams, while each municipal and county established 682 such teams; they adopted methods such as undercover visits to service halls, on-site inspections, simulated handling, and interviewing the public, concentrating on investigating typical cases, discovering 301 problem leads and closing 172 cases; municipal and county levels together discovered 5,166 problem leads and closed 4,812 cases.

The time limit for general real estate registration business has been compressed to within ten working days, processing 155 ten-thousand households of historical legacy real estate certificates, and 'basically solving enforcement difficulties' has seen 31.1 ten-thousand enforcement cases concluded……

Now, looking across the province, the good atmosphere in which 'work style environment has no trivial matters' and 'optimizing the business environment is everyone's responsibility' is gradually opening up, and everyone is forming the concept of the business environment.

The grasslands, with the vigor of gnawing hard bones with steel teeth, forge ironclad laws to shape environmental rule of law and safeguard the long voyage, continuously exerting effort in addressing both symptoms and root causes, and clearing 'thorns' in the process of exploration and innovation. Optimizing the business environment is like a train whistling as it advances; once accelerated, it rushes forward with full force, never relenting or stopping. The broad cadres and masses are striding toward the development goal of comprehensive and all-round revitalization, united as one and forging ahead.

June 20, as the pages of time keep turning, the proposition of development changes day by day; the Grassland Provincial People's Congress is in tense preparation, and Li Siwei, chairman of Heavenly Radiance Energy Group Company, leads a delegation of over 100 people to the grassland, where Deputy Secretary Lu Fan personally receives them and accompanies them throughout.

Originally thought to be an ordinary business inspection, but unexpectedly, after only three days of inspection, Heavenly Radiance Energy signed an investment intention letter worth 100 billion with the Grassland Provincial Government, planning to build the world's largest single-plant scale olefins project.

According to reports, the project is designed to produce annually 1330 ten-thousand tons of methanol, 500 ten-thousand tons of olefins, 300 ten-thousand tons of polyethylene, and 300 ten-thousand tons of polypropylene. Upon full completion and reaching capacity, Heavenly Radiance Energy will have an annual production capacity of 2000 ten-thousand tons of methanol, 850 ten-thousand tons of olefins, 430 ten-thousand tons of polyethylene, and 430 ten-thousand tons of polypropylene, making an important contribution to further safeguarding national energy security.

Heavenly Radiance Energy has always been committed to building a sci-tech green intelligent manufacturing enterprise of 'technological innovation, technical leadership, industry leadership, world-class', and this project will create the global 'five biggest' and national 'three biggest' industry records.

After the agreement was signed, it immediately caused a widespread stir throughout the province. As everyone knows, big projects drive big development and attract big investment; a project of the hundred-billion-yuan level has immediate effects on the province's industrial structure adjustment, economic growth, tax revenue increase, employment growth, and fixed-asset investment, and its influence and role are undoubtedly extremely profound and significant.

The project's implementation boosted Lu Fan's prestige once again, laying a more solid foundation for the upcoming People's Congress.

As the saying goes, good things come in pairs; on June 23, the leader of the domestic supermarket industry, Chao Xi Lai, led a team to inspect the grassland, and this news was even more shocking than Tianhui Energy's hundred-billion investment, because it heralded that 'Pang Xi Lai' would soon step out of Huayuan Province.

In a moment, the entire province's populace was hotly discussing, 'Good news! Good news! Pang Xi Lai is expected to land in the grassland!' The grassland people awaited with anticipation, necks craned.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Lu Fan appeared in the public eye, accompanying Chao Xi Lai's inspection throughout.

The inspection team did not rest, sequentially visiting Qingcheng City, Yike City, and Jiuyuan City, conducting a thorough on-site visit and inspection regarding the landing of Pang Xi Lai's supermarket in the grassland.

During the inspection process, Lu Fan, representing the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, made a solemn pledge, stating that he would grant Pang Xi Lai the greatest investment promotion preferential policies, sparing no effort to support and promote Pang Xi Lai taking root, sprouting, blooming, and bearing fruit in the grassland.

June 24, Su Xiaoyi, chairman of the renowned Wanhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry enterprise of Huayuan Province, led a team to the grassland, accompanied by Governor Luo Shiyu and Deputy Provincial Governor Zhao Ziren for the inspection.

Su Xiaoyi had already covertly inspected the grassland's animal husbandry development situation at the beginning of the year; this time he came with sincerity pouring forth, having planned five projects in four prefecture-level cities, essentially committing all of his resources.

June 25, another heavyweight piece of news arrived: industry giant Longteng Pharmaceuticals came to the grassland for inspection, and Deputy Provincial Governor Zhang Rongqiu, entrusted by Lu Fan, accompanied the Longteng Pharmaceuticals delegation throughout.

Although Chairman Wang Honghai did not come in person, Longteng Pharmaceuticals was full of sincerity, coming without any pretense, with only professional teams, directly docking the Mongolian medicine and Mongolian drug project.

June 26 morning, another shocking piece of news spread across the entire province: the national pride—Longteng Technology inspection team arrived in the grassland to inspect the hydrogen-powered heavy truck project. It is reported that the first phase will invest over 200 hundred million yuan, and the second phase will reach as high as 500 hundred million yuan, directly filling the zero blank in this industry in the grassland.

The super-large projects of several renowned enterprises arriving in succession will surely bring earth-shaking changes to the grassland, promote vigorous economic development, and provide tens of thousands of job positions.

Good news spread like a spring breeze, swiftly reaching every inch of the grassland's land, prompting the grassland populace to hurriedly spread the word, invigorating the cadres and masses, and immersing the whole province in reverie over a future better life.

June 26 afternoon, the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee received notice that Deputy Minister of the Organization Department Wang ZhaoWen would personally go to the grassland to announce the relevant appointments and guide the congress.

After the news spread, the province's leading cadres were all in heated discussion, the personnel adjustments in the grassland were about to be settled, and a new political pattern was about to form.

Regarding Lu Fan's 'straight promotion', everyone considered it already uncontroversial, especially given the concentrated investment promotion 'whirlwind' of this period, which added fuel to the fire of his tenure.

Anyone with clear eyes knows well that these big projects were pulled in by Secretary Lu relying on his own 'influence'. Without a clear stance from superiors, Secretary Lu could not possibly 'expend all his resources' to develop the grassland's economy.

The focus of everyone's discussion is who will fill Secretary Lu's vacancy—will it be Executive Deputy Provincial Governor Gu Yunhao? And how will other leaders be adjusted?

Various versions were rampant, passed around by everyone as if miraculous, seeming already a settled matter. Even many of the parties involved looked bewildered, not knowing they would be adjusted.

The asymmetry and uncertainty of information made the grassland's political situation increasingly bewildering and inviting speculation.

But as the main person in charge, Lu Fan has already received solid news; this time, accompanying Minister Wang ZhaoWen are Bai Chengzhi and Huang Shouxiang, one a deputy secretary, the other a deputy provincial governor.

The provincial Party Committee's recommended candidates Zhao Ziren, Zhang Rongqiu, and Wei Dongsheng all received superior support, which made Lu Fan very pleased. Thus, he could fully grasp the situation, and next step he could wield a broad axe to carry out work, develop the economy, and realize his ambitions.

At noon twelve, Lu Fan went to the airport to meet the Yingjiang Wang ZhaoWen entourage; Organization Department Head Shang Youyang and Provincial Party Committee Secretary Wu Xiaohua accompanied.

While waiting at the airport, Lu Fan said to Shang Youyang: 'The principal leaders of Yike City, Jiuyuan City, Yun Gu City, and Qiu Ling City should quickly select suitable candidates; I think those several mayors are quite good.'

'Okay, Secretary, the Organization Department will quickly produce a plan.' Upon hearing this, Shang Youyang roughly guessed that these four municipal Party Committee secretaries would be adjusted or promoted.

Lu Fan nodded and said: 'There are also some positions in provincial direct departments that have reached retirement age and need to be planned for immediately. I think Finance Department Head Sun Guoren is more suitable for audit work; in employing people, we must make the most of their talents, make the most of their expertise, and make the most of their abilities. The position of Finance Department Head is relatively important; you should seek the opinion of Governor Shiyu. The Natural Resources Department's Liu Qingyun has strong principles, high organizational discipline awareness, and strong organizational coordination ability, making him a good candidate. The Executive Deputy Department Head Yu Weihong has outstanding business capabilities and can be employed…'

Shang Youyang understood clearly in his chest that these are all objects that must be promoted and heavily used.

Twelve thirty, the plane landed steadily on the runway, slid a distance, and slowly came to a stop on the apron.

Seeing the entourage disembark from the plane, Lu Fan went up to meet them, warmly shaking Wang ZhaoWen's hand and saying with a beaming smile: 'Welcome, Minister, to guide work in the grassland!'

Wang ZhaoWen laughed and said: 'Congratulations, it is an honor to participate in your important moment!'

Lu Fan replied: 'What we should thank is the organization's cultivation and trust!'

After the greetings, everyone got into the car; the Coaster headed straight to the hotel, and lunch had already been prepared.