Chapter 1844

Su Xinghui nodded: "Fine, we understand."

The preparatory work for the bus company then began in full swing. Personnel were being transferred, sites were being sought, and the purchase of buses had also been negotiated with the Jiangcheng Bus Factory. Ten large buses had already been ordered. Of course, to make them suitable for urban bus operation, some necessary modifications were needed, which could just be delivered to Changshan County before National Day.

In June, the county government office building was completed and put into use. The four major bodies—the County Party Committee, the County Government, the County People's Congress, and the County CPPCC—as well as various county-level departments, were all to move into the new office building.

This building was twelve stories high and located in the new district, not far from the hotel of the Hou family group. This building was built by the Hongtu Real Estate Development Company, and the construction costs were exchanged for a piece of land used to develop commercial housing.

This building was designed quite grandly. The building body was arc-shaped, facing south, nearly a hundred meters wide from east to west, with its two wings spread out, just like two open wings, or like a giant preparing to embrace the city of Changshan.

In front of the office building was a huge square, with a total area of nearly 20,000 square meters. There was a huge fountain pool in the square, and the square was surrounded by flower beds filled with all kinds of flowers. Benches could also be seen everywhere in the square for people to rest.

On the west side of the office building was the main road of Changshan County, which had eight lanes and connected to the Changyu Highway. On the south side of the office building, across a wide city road, was a park. This park was built against a small hill, with a pond at the foot of the hill. With green hills and clear water, and winding paths, the scenery was very good.

The square in front of the county government office building was named People's Square, and the park opposite was named People's Park. Both were open to all the people of the county. The common people could play here to their heart's content, and there were benches everywhere to rest when they were tired, providing a very good leisure place for the people of Changshan.

The first floor of the county government office building was a large hall. This was the Administrative Service Hall of Changshan County, which was the department that Su Xinghui had suggested to Gu Shanmin and Lu Zhenghong to pilot. Although Changshan County did not become a pilot unit, taking advantage of the opportunity of building the new office building, Su Xinghui still built this Administrative Service Hall.

The Administrative Service Hall was partitioned into many counters, and various functional departments of the county sent staff to work here. Anyone handling a certain procedure could come to this Administrative Service Hall to handle it.

Nowadays, handling a procedure often involved many processes and required stamps from many functional departments, which was really too complicated. For example, developing a project or investing in an enterprise could easily require going to several functional departments, getting dozens or even hundreds of stamps, and it was not uncommon to run around for a month or two.

If it was a large investment, it was easier to talk about; the county government could handle special cases specially, letting functional departments simplify procedures as much as possible. However, sometimes, some people opening shops had to go through many procedures to get a business license, and it couldn't be done in a month or two. It was impossible to handle every single one as a special case.

Let's calculate how many procedures it took to open a shop and get a business license. First, you had to run to the Quality Supervision Bureau to get an organization code certificate, which took at least one to two weeks. Then, to get a business license, you had to provide various proofs, photocopies of ID cards, rental contracts for business premises, and if it was in the food industry, health certificates, etc. Then you had to wait another one or two weeks before it was possible to get a business license.

Then you had to go to the tax department to handle tax registration, including national tax and local tax...

In short, to open a small shop, you had to run to five or six departments and spend at least one or two months to get it done. Getting it done was considered good; if you encountered someone who made things difficult, it would be very hard to get it done.

Because it was impossible to handle everything as a special case, it was very necessary to have an Administrative Service Hall. Here, staff from all functional departments worked together; whatever stamps were needed, you could find the person, so there was no need to run around, which saved a lot of time.

On the wall of the Administrative Service Hall, it was also posted that each procedure must be completed within a certain number of working days. If it was not completed after the deadline, you could call a complaint hotline to complain. The number for the complaint hotline was also posted on the wall.

It was not easy for staff from various units working in the Administrative Service Hall to be lazy or arrive late and leave early. So many people were watching, and there was a complaint hotline to call. Even the county leaders were upstairs. If a county leader happened to come down to take a look and saw that a unit's staff was not at their post, they would be in trouble.

And the behavior of "eating, taking, carding, and demanding" would certainly be much less. With so many pairs of eyes watching, would these staff members dare to accept things from others? Would they dare to card others without reason? According to the things posted on the wall, even if these staff members didn't have a smiling face, they could be complained about.

Therefore, opening the Administrative Service Hall here was also a promotion for the labor discipline and service attitude of these units.

Su Xinghui believed that this Administrative Service Hall would greatly improve the efficiency of Changshan County, and this kind of efficiency was a manifestation of Changshan County's investment environment.

The investment environment was not only reflected in those hardware aspects, but also in these software aspects. The service awareness of government staff was the most important thing.

This Administrative Service Hall was also personally managed by Su Xinghui. How the Administrative Service Hall was decorated and how it was arranged, he participated in personally. To improve efficiency, he even spent a great price to realize networked office work for the Administrative Service Hall.

In 1997, many government agencies had computers, but most of these computers were used to play games. Games like Minesweeper and Solitaire were very popular. The functions truly used for office work were not much, at most typing documents.

Su Xinghui pulled a dedicated line for the county government office building, letting all computers in the Administrative Service Hall connect to the Internet, and asked Hanhai Technology, which was Hou Wenchang's company, to develop a set of systems and databases for the Administrative Service Hall, letting data and information between various functional departments be networked. To what step a procedure had been handled, it could be checked in the database, which could greatly improve office efficiency.

Su Xinghui let all functional departments send the youngest people with the highest education in their units to work in the Administrative Service Hall, letting this become an image window of Changshan County. At the same time, their work attitude was the most serious, and their ability to accept things was the strongest.

Su Xinghui let Hou Wenchang send people to train the staff of the Administrative Service Hall, letting them be able to skillfully use this set of systems to handle business for people coming to handle business, which could further improve work efficiency.

The Administrative Service Hall was the first to be put into use in the county government office building. On the day it was put into use, many people came here to visit. They were all amazed. This was really a rare thing, a fresh thing not seen for decades, so many masters of agencies were gathered together to work.

After the Administrative Service Hall was put into use, the four major bodies of Changshan County and other county-level departments also moved into the county government office building. Su Xinghui's office was arranged on the tenth floor. This was an office of more than twenty square meters, and it was not very luxurious in decoration. This was Su Xinghui's suggestion. He thought that the office decoration should not be too luxurious, just looking beautiful and generous was enough. This suggestion also received the support of most county leaders.

Of course, in the new office building, various conditions were much better than in the old office building, especially the offices of ordinary staff, where conditions were improved a lot. And now various county-level departments were working in the same office building, which made contact much more convenient, which was also able to improve work efficiency.

However, one thing that was not very good was that the County Party Committee Propaganda Department also moved into the new office building, and Lu Xiaoya also had to come here to work. But this was too far from their home, and Lu Xiaoya's belly was already quite big now, so commuting to and from work was not so convenient. Su Xinghui could only drive that Mercedes-Benz car to take her to and from work every day. The shock absorption performance of this Mercedes-Benz car was still quite good, basically able to ensure Lu Xiaoya's safety. Even so, Su Xinghui still drove cautiously.