Chapter 709

After a few more days of refinement, the Grassland Province Education System Reform Plan was basically matured; Lu Fan swept his pen and signed the document.

August 26, the superior inspection team arrived in Grassland and conducted an organizational inspection of He Lun Municipal Party Secretary Zhou Haoshu.

The Qingcheng Municipal Party Secretary position is vacant; the purpose of this inspection goes without saying, and everyone knows Zhou Haoshu is about to take over the provincial capital!

Luo Shiyu - Luo Shiyu

Wu Ji'an showed no abnormality, detailed reported project progress; currently only 3 households "holdout households" have not reached relocation agreement; the rest owners have fully implemented compensation. The City Government is concentrating efforts to tackle these three households; their attitude has loosened; Qingcheng City will spare no expense to complete the task assigned by the Provincial Party Committee with high quality.

Lu Fan nodded approvingly and said: "Progress is rapid; in undertaking ventures one must be decisive and vigorous, with the spirit of driving nails—leaving marks on iron, impressions on stone, advancing steadily and firmly."

As the mayor of the provincial capital, living in an era of great opportunity, one must also promote the 'nail-driving spirit' on one's own growth path—correctly positioning oneself, persisting in struggle, adhering to genuine effort and solid work, driving the nail 'accurately' and 'firmly', promoting continuous personal progress and healthy growth, becoming a strong backbone of the organization!

I am giving you ten days; in the shortest time possible, let the 'Free City' project break ground. After completing the task, you will go to He Lun City to take up office, anchor the goal of developing tourism, work earnestly and hard, think ingeniously and act swiftly, and develop that place into a nationally renowned tourist city!

Wu Ji'an replied delightedly: "Please rest assured, Secretary; I will firmly keep my faith, bear in mind your instructions, always take serving the people's welfare as my duty, place the starting point and landing point of all work in satisfying the people's needs and responding to the masses' concerns, truly find the direction of undertaking ventures and set goals right, think more of what the masses think, be more anxious about what they are anxious about, solve more of what they are troubled by, do more things that warm the masses' hearts and win their hearts, gain the masses' trust and support, and not disappoint your expectations!"

As a mayor of a prefecture-level provincial capital, there are precedents for direct promotion to secretary, but they are extremely rare; the prerequisite is that he be the chief's 'core troops', and even then it requires luck and coincidence; in most cases one must first make a detour through other cities before advancing toward the center, the process being extremely difficult, and some people spend their whole lives stuck at that crucial step.

Wu Ji'an had just declared his 'political leaning'; he had self-awareness, and in the short term it was impossible to gain Secretary Lu's full trust; being able to send him out to serve as municipal party secretary would be the ideal outcome. If he achieves results and steps in the right direction, progress of two or three years is not impossible, and he finally experiences the delight of 'leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade'!

As work was about to end, Lu Fan called Luo Shiyu and Bai Chengzhi to the office, convened a secretary's office meeting, to discuss one matter: researching personnel issues.

Lu Fan suggested that after Zhou Haoshu is promoted to Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member and Qingcheng Municipal Party Secretary, Qingcheng Mayor Wu Ji'an will serve as He Lun Municipal Party Secretary, and the Qingcheng mayoral post will be taken by Deputy Municipal Party Secretary Ban Ce.

Freedom City - Freedom City

Organizations/titles:

Municipal Party Secretary - Municipal Party Secretary

Provincial Party Committee - Provincial Party Committee

In a few words, a small-scale adjustment was thus casually decided, yet it actually concerns the futures of six or seven people!

On the morning of August 28, the Provincial Department of Education convened a video conference on autumn semester opening safety work for the provincial education system, reporting the overall situation of provincial campus safety supervision and inspection, and arranging various safety tasks for the autumn semester opening. Most importantly, it announced the Grassland Province 'Education Reform Implementation Plan'.

Deputy Provincial Governor - Deputy Provincial Governor

Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee - Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee

Provincial Party Committee Secretary-General - Provincial Party Committee Secretary-General

Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee - Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee

Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee - Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee

Municipal Party Committee - Municipal Party Committee

Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee - Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee

Executive Vice Minister of the Provincial Finance Department - Executive Vice Minister of the Provincial Finance Department

Executive Vice Minister of the Finance Department - Executive Vice Minister of the Finance Department

Provincial Education Department - Provincial Education Department

Education Department - Education Department

Nine, for students at the compulsory education stage, lunches are uniformly provided free of charge by schools; governments at all levels and education departments must spare no effort to guarantee students' places for noon rest;

Ten, a blanket ban on paid tutoring; crack down on all off-campus tutoring institutions; launch a heavy-handed offensive, severely striking paid tutoring.

Next, Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee Du Wenlong read out the "Notice on the Special Action to Severely Investigate and Handle Paid Tutoring".

Du Wenlong spoke sternly: "Starting from the opening of this semester, the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee will concentrate on carrying out a special rectification action against paid tutoring, and will resolutely investigate and handle defiant violations, effectively curbing the problems strongly reflected by the masses."

As supervision of off-campus training venues and public oversight and reporting intensify, in order to evade crackdowns by relevant departments, many institutions and individuals have shifted from offline centralized paid tutoring to online paid tutoring, adopting forms such as DingTalk live broadcasts and Tencent Meetings, providing paid online tutoring for primary and secondary school students; some people change their "mask" to evade supervision, and nanny-style tutors, home tutors, and other disguised tutoring emerge endlessly, playing the game of "having policies above, countermeasures below."

In response, the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee reiterates to the whole province: First, according to the regulations of the central, provincial, and municipal governments on governing paid tutoring, "online paid tutoring" is also a violation of paid tutoring, only the form and means differ, and like offline paid tutoring, it must be investigated case by case, punished if verified, and dealt with severely.

Second, following the Double Reduction work arrangement, using group software, meeting software, video software, etc., to carry out online illegal tutoring activities, concentrate on conducting online supervision and inspection, and through information technology means discover tutoring leads and determine tutoring evidence; the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee, together with the Education Department and other departments, will conduct investigations in accordance with laws and regulations, up to pursuing criminal liability.

Third, for organizations, individuals, and in-service teachers who do not restrain themselves, continue to engage in paid tutoring, and commit defiant violations, all will be recorded in the National Teacher Management Information System.

The ten measures announced by Du Wenlong on behalf of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Committee can be described as cutting to the quick, every clause hitting the flesh! Like a sharp sword held high, countless tutoring institutions and teachers hearing it are terrified and trembling. Such thunderous means, how could they not make those with ill intentions feel panicked and uneasy?

The municipal and county-level leaders at the sub-venues were also digesting the province's new education policy; Secretary Lu personally attended the meeting, and everyone understood that the new policy must be implemented without discount, without lowering standards, and without going through the motions.

The last item of the meeting, Secretary Lu Fan delivered an important speech!

Through the screen, one could see the leaders in the front row of each sub-venue immediately energizing themselves, sitting upright with proper posture, attentive, pen in hand ready to take notes.

Lu Fan spoke with a heavy tone: "Every morning and late at night, we can see countless children rising early and staying late, braving wind and moon as they rush to school, day after day, all for a bright future; this sight fills one with immense sorrow."

The children are not having it easy, and parents have it even harder—they have to get up earlier to prepare breakfast for their children and send them to school. After working a few hours, they must go out to earn a living, never daring to rest for a moment.

You study hard in the cold window, I endure wind and rain without hindrance. No matter what the future holds, you have made your effort, I have fulfilled my duty; I do not ask for any repayment from you later, I only hope you have no regrets about your youth—this is the mindset of the vast majority of parents.

Even though they get less than six hours of sleep, all they can do is persist, persist, persist! But have we ever considered that, with insufficient sleep, children arrive at school dazed and dull—how many students are merely going through the motions, just putting on a show? Is such persistence really necessary?

Children are innately talented in learning; their grades have little to do with tutoring classes; there are no children born stupid—it only depends on whether your child loves learning and has good study habits.

Parents must cooperate well with their children's learning, rather than constantly pressuring them; they should create a good learning environment for their children, allowing them to have a relaxed and positive learning atmosphere, so that the children become eager to learn, and their grades will naturally improve.

After our Grassland Province's new education policy is implemented, many parents will surely feel anxious, thinking their children's grades have lost their guarantee. Someone will say, "Now it's fine—children from poor families can no longer produce outstanding offspring, the path for ordinary families to move up in society is blocked, and we can't compete with the wealthy in financial resources."

What I want to say is that this is pure nonsense; instead of worrying about the wealthy hiring nanny-style tutors and angrily cutting off the poor's way out, it is better to patiently accompany our children, lead by example, and truly embody the essence of "study hard, make progress every day."