Chapter 2011

Some time ago, Su Xinghui recruited Nie Xin and Duan Qi, and promoted Yu Xun, Li Zhongwen, and others. This didn't bother Yuan Yifu. With just these few people, they couldn't make big waves. Most of the cadres in Chongjin County still listened to him, Yuan Yifu.

But now Su Xinghui's proposal made Yuan Yifu vigilant. He was selecting a group of cadres. How many was this group? If too many were selected, and everyone knew it was Su Xinghui's suggestion, and it was to go to Shangjun County for a visit and inspection—this was Su Xinghui's hometown—these cadres would naturally lean toward Su Xinghui. This was a force that could not be underestimated.

With such vigilance, Yuan Yifu was naturally somewhat reluctant. He was thinking nervously about how to raise objections.

Su Xinghui was not in a hurry either. He drank tea slowly and didn't look at Yuan Yifu.

This attitude of his gave Yuan Yifu even greater pressure, making Yuan Yifu unable to sit still. He asked with a smile: "County Magistrate, how many cadres are you preparing to select?"

Su Xinghui said: "At least thirty or forty. It's meaningless if it's too few. I've been running around the county during this period and have seen many cadres. I feel that the cadres in Chongjin County are not incapable, but their vision is not broad enough, and their ideological concepts are still somewhat outdated. If they go to economically developed places to visit and inspect, it will be beneficial to their future growth."

Yuan Yifu felt unhappy in his heart. Didn't Su Xinghui's saying this mean that he, the County Party Secretary, was incompetent? Cultivating the cadre echelon is one of the main tasks of the County Party Secretary. He said: "County Magistrate, will selecting so many affect work?"

Su Xinghui said: "This won't. Going to visit and inspect, the time won't be too long. I think letting them go for about a week is enough. These few days won't affect work."

Yuan Yifu said: "Thirty or forty people, going to Shangjun County for a week of visit and inspection, the cost must be quite high, right?"

Su Xinghui laughed: "Secretary, don't worry about this. I have already communicated with Secretary Chen Hongfu and County Magistrate Li Shanlin of Shangjun County. They took the initiative to propose that the food and lodging expenses for our county's cadres to visit and inspect will be covered by them."

Yuan Yifu thought to himself, Shangjun County is really worthy of being Su Xinghui's base camp. This handwriting is really not small. Thirty or forty people, a week's food and lodging expenses, is not a small amount. They actually said they would cover it.

Yuan Yifu had no reason to oppose it anymore. He nodded and said: "I agree with your idea in principle, but it still has to be discussed at the meeting."

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "That is of course."

Yuan Yifu had no reason to oppose this kind of thing, and other standing committee members naturally had no reason to oppose it either. Standing in line at the Standing Committee meeting cannot be unprincipled. For things like this that have a hundred benefits and no harm to Chongjin County, opposing it without a reasonable reason would pay a considerable price. No one would do such a stupid thing.

At the Standing Committee meeting, it was also determined who would lead the team. Nie Xin undertook this important task. Originally, Su Xinghui wanted to invite Yuan Yifu to lead the team, but Yuan Yifu was not interested in this and pushed it off by saying he had something to do. So Nie Xin served as the head of the cadre inspection group.

For Nie Xin, this was also a good opportunity. He is now Su Xinghui's confidant. Leading the inspection group to Su Xinghui's hometown, Shangjun County, for inspection can further establish his position in Chongjin County.

The next day, the Chongjin County Organization Department determined the final list of the inspection group of 41 people in total. Both Su Xinghui and Yuan Yifu looked at this list, and they both nodded in agreement. People like Yu Xun, Li Zhongwen, Lu Yecheng, Jiang Zhiqing, Ma Chaoran, and Zhao Siqi were all selected for this list.

Of course, besides reflecting Su Xinghui's will, this list also included some of Yuan Yifu's confidants. This was Yuan Yifu's act of mixing in sand. Su Xinghui didn't oppose it either. As long as these young cadres he favored were all selected for the inspection group, it was enough. He didn't expect all of them to lean toward him.

After the inspection group was established, the Chongjin County Party Committee held a meeting for them in the auditorium. Su Xinghui, Yuan Yifu, and other relevant leaders all attended this meeting. They also spoke separately, encouraging these cadres to seriously inspect in Shangjun County, learn from the development experience of economically developed areas, and return to better invest in the construction of Chongjin County.

In early December, the inspection group set off. Led by Standing Committee Deputy County Magistrate Nie Xin, they boarded a specially rented bus and drove toward Shangjun County for a one-week visit and inspection.

This cadre inspection group is the spark for the construction of Chongjin County's cadre echelon. Su Xinghui hopes that after they return from the inspection in Shangjun County, they can effectively change the somewhat stale atmosphere in Chongjin County's officialdom and blow a new wind into the dead Chongjin County officialdom.

Chongjin County's inspection group went to Shangjun County, while Hudong Province's expert group came to Chongjin County. This expert group was formed by the Hudong Provincial Health Department at the request of Wan Yangbo, selecting experts with the most experience in schistosomiasis prevention and control from the whole province. Before coming, they had already contacted the Jiangyou Provincial Health Department and were specifically coming to provide counterpart support to Chongjin County.

Ke Zhifang also received Su Xinghui's report. He also attached great importance to this matter. He instructed Chongjin County to warmly receive the Hudong Province expert group and let all lake area counties in the province send backbone personnel to Chongjin County to learn from the Hudong Province expert group.

Jiangyou Province is a province with a very serious schistosomiasis epidemic. Due to the underdeveloped economy, many new drugs and equipment cannot be purchased. Compared with Hudong Province, there is a great lack of prevention and control technology and experience. This time, Hudong Province sent an expert group over, which is a very good opportunity for Jiangyou Province.

If these backbone personnel can improve their technology, they can serve as sparks after returning, to improve the overall level of schistosomiasis prevention and control in the whole province.

Ke Zhifang, as Provincial Governor, naturally also attaches great importance to schistosomiasis prevention and control. This disease is too prevalent in the lake area of Jiangyou Province, and the impact and economic losses caused to Jiangyou Province are also very large. Ke Zhifang also made up his mind to curb the prevalence of schistosomiasis.

For this reason, Ke Zhifang also specially allocated funds for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in the whole province. To prevent and control schistosomiasis, besides the technical level of prevention and control personnel, the most important thing is naturally money. Many advanced equipment and advanced drugs all need money to buy.

Hou Guangbi remitted one million to Chongjin County's fiscal special account. He also called Su Xinghui to say that if this money was not enough, he could call him at any time, and he would remit more.

In this way, Chongjin County's fiscal special account for schistosomiasis prevention and control, plus the one million donated by Yu Ruizhi and his sister, the one million donated by Hou Guangbi, the one million allocated by the county government, and the hundreds of thousands allocated directly to each county by the provincial government, had more than three million in funds. These three million-plus in funds will play a huge role.

During this period, several hospitals in Chongjin County have already admitted more than 200 late-stage schistosomiasis patients. The county government gave instructions that these schistosomiasis patients are all treated for free, including some complications caused by schistosomiasis, all for free.

In the past, the state also treated schistosomiasis for free, but some liver and kidney damage and other complications caused during the treatment of schistosomiasis could not be treated for free. However, treating these complications is very expensive. Therefore, many patients fell into poverty due to illness.

This time, Chongjin County's free treatment includes all complications, which is a huge gospel for these late-stage schistosomiasis patients in Chongjin County.

After the experts of the expert group arrived in Chongjin County, they immediately devoted themselves to intense work. They taught local schistosomiasis prevention and control personnel to kill oncomelania snails, and publicized some common knowledge about schistosomiasis prevention and control to the common people in the local lake area, such as not letting people come into contact with epidemic water in epidemic areas, doing a good job in feces management, and so on.

In the hospital, these highly skilled experts taught local medical staff how to use advanced equipment and advanced drugs. With these advanced prevention and control technologies, the schistosomiasis epidemic in Chongjin County will definitely be controlled in the short term.