Chapter 1310: County Party Secretary Ding Has Been Sidelined!

Ma Ran held a set of organized materials and knocked on the office door.

"County Magistrate Tang, these are the presentation materials for this Friday's Agricultural Scientific Research Base meeting. Please take a look."

Tang Ye took the materials and quickly browsed through them. "Xiao Ma, although you have already revised these materials, they are still lacking. Our target audience for this presentation is a university research project team; these materials are too lacking in academic depth and will make people feel they are too superficial. Additionally, we need to produce a promotional video to give people an intuitive impression."

"Understood, I will revise the materials right away." Ma Ran was used to Tang Ye's pickiness.

It was precisely this pickiness that allowed things to be done well.

Over the next few days, Ma Ran led several people in working overtime, perfecting the details while rushing to produce the promotional video.

Friday.

Tang Ye waited at the highway exit for the motorcade arriving from the city for the inspection.

Jiang Jing stepped out of an Audi and shook hands with Tang Ye, introducing, "This is Dean Kong from the Agricultural College of Huai Province University."

Tang Ye hurriedly reached out his hand and shook hands with Dean Kong enthusiastically. "Dean Kong, it is a pleasure to meet you!"

Kong Xuedong shook Tang Ye's hand firmly and remarked with emotion, "Mayor Jiang told me you were very young, and she certainly didn't lie!"

Tang Ye smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Dean Kong. Let's head directly to the inspection site!"

Kong Xuedong nodded. "Let's go!"

This inspection was conducted for the purpose of applying for a provincial-level Agricultural Scientific Research Base.

After exiting the highway, they arrived at the inspection site about half an hour later.

The group walked a long distance with great interest.

Although there were no high-rise buildings, it was full of vitality. Green leaves, red flowers, and vast stretches of wild green plants.

Jiang Jing stood with her hands behind her back, looking down at the vast wild land at her feet, and said to Kong Xuedong with a smile, "Dean Kong, what do you think of this land?"

Kong Xuedong thought to himself, what could one tell from this?

However, he still replied with high emotional intelligence: "There is still potential to be tapped!"

In Kong Xuedong's view, the actual site selection for an Agricultural Scientific Research Base did not differ much.

The key lay in what kind of preferential policies the local government could offer.

This time, the province had introduced preferential policies for the Agricultural Scientific Research Base Project, and his team happened to meet the criteria.

Therefore, the initiative was in their hands.

Kong Xuedong had known Jiang Jing for many years; when Jiang Jing worked at the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, she often invited Kong Xuedong to attend agriculture-related meetings.

It was precisely because of this that Kong Xuedong had come to Yechuan for an inspection.

However, Kong Xuedong had his own internal scale; whether to make Yechuan the application site for this project still required comprehensive consideration of many factors.

After finishing the field inspection, they arrived at the County Government. In the large conference room, Tang Ye introduced the plan for the Agricultural Scientific Research Base to the inspection personnel.

The Agricultural Bureau had prepared the presentation materials for the meeting, but Tang Ye was not satisfied after seeing them.

It was only after Ma Ran's drastic revisions that the current final version was produced.

In addition to the text materials, Ma Ran also produced a promotional video.

Although this promotional video was slightly inferior in quality to one Tang Ye might have produced himself, at seventy percent of the potential, it was already quite impactful.

Kong Xuedong was somewhat surprised; he had not expected the Yechuan County Government to be full of hidden talent, and he had underestimated them before.

Tang Ye had a strategy for the arrangement of this trip.

He first let the inspection team see the desolate side of this land, then used the promotional video to show what it would look like after planning, creating an extreme contrast.

In this way, everyone's impression of this inspection became exceptionally deep.

Jiang Jing thought to herself that Tang Ye's ability in investment promotion was something ordinary cadres did not possess.

This required talent.

She secretly glanced at Kong Xuedong's expression.

His previously tightly furrowed brows had now suddenly relaxed.

After the presentation ended, Tang Ye looked toward Jiang Jing. "Next, I invite Mayor Jiang to come up and say a few words."

Jiang Jing walked onto the stage with a smile on her face. "I welcome Dean Kong for leading the team here for an inspection. We prepared quite hurriedly this time, and there are certainly still many flaws, but I believe the development direction we have provided is correct. The state has been promoting industry-university-research cooperation and building agricultural scientific research bases. By joining forces between the government and research teams to transform scientific research results into reality, this is not only a response to national policy but I also believe it will surely bring about good development prospects."

Subsequently, Kong Xuedong walked onto the stage and said in a sincere tone,

"Respected Mayor Jiang, County Magistrate Tang, and all leaders, after seeing your presentation materials, I feel very shocked.

Actually, before coming, I had many worries, fearing that this project would become a mere formality.

But the massive amount of energy your government has expended and the absolute sincerity you have shown have given me peace of mind.

Please rest assured, everyone; moving forward, our team will devote ourselves wholeheartedly to striving to successfully secure this project."

After Kong Xuedong stepped off the stage, Tang Ye walked to the front to provide a summary.

"Just now, Dean Kong mentioned a key word, and that is sincerity!

I hope that in our upcoming cooperation, we can place sincerity as our top priority.

By utilizing scientific research to empower us, we will strive to build this project into a high-quality endeavor and inject sufficient strength into local development."

This inspection ended in a positive atmosphere.

The City Television Station's evening news provided comprehensive publicity and reporting on this inspection.

Jiang Min happened to see the news and called out to Han Zhengyi, "Husband, come quickly and look; Mayor Jiang went to Yechuan, and Tang Ye is there too!"

Han Zhengyi sat in front of the television, finished watching the content, and remarked with emotion, "Mayor Jiang's help to Yechuan is obvious to all."

Jiang Min's focus was somewhat different; she thought to herself that Tang Ye's image was too good, and he was noticed at a glance while standing in the crowd.

When her own husband was young, although he was also very handsome, he was still somewhat lacking compared to Tang Ye.

County Party Secretary Ding Zhen also saw this news at home.

Because of this project, Tang Ye bypassed him, neither communicating with him nor reporting to him.

This feeling of being ignored was quite infuriating, yet he was helpless to do anything about it.

Because of this matter, Ding Zhen had been opposed to it from the very beginning!

If he hadn't opposed Tang Ye at the meeting back then, he might have been able to step into the spotlight himself.

Seeing Ding Zhen sitting on the sofa looking sullen, his wife sat beside him and asked softly, "Why do you look unhappy? Did something happen?"

Ding Zhen forced a smile, "It's nothing, I've just been too tired lately."

His wife massaged Ding Zhen's temples and reminded him, "Honey, since you arrived in Yechuan, I feel like you've been much busier than before. I really feel for you."

Ding Zhen was slightly taken aback, and he pondered his wife's words, which made him feel somewhat ashamed.

Ever since that Standing Committee meeting ended, it seemed as though he had completely severed contact with everyone.

For Party and mass work, go to Shi Guangrong.

For Government work, go to Tang Ye.

He had to face the fact that he had been sidelined...

However, in order not to appear awkward, he could only try hard to make himself look very busy.

Regularly going to enterprises for research and attending meetings at government agencies looked like listening to voices and understanding the public sentiment, but in reality, it was to cover up his guilty conscience and create a false impression...

His cell phone rang, and Ding Zhen answered the call, feeling somewhat surprised!

"What? Lao Gao is dead?"

The Lao Gao in Ding Zhen's mouth was County CPPCC Chairman Gao Zhangyong, who was also the former County Magistrate of Yechuan County.

Their relationship was not particularly deep, but Ding Zhen had visited him a few times.

He vaguely felt that Gao Zhangyong was a breakthrough point for him to integrate into the Yechuan circle...