Chapter 2209

Premier Nan arrived in Hongzhou, where he convened a meeting of all the leaders of Jiangyou Province. He deployed the spirit of the Party Central Committee, calling on the entire province of Jiangyou to unite as one, to do a good job in post-disaster reconstruction, and to properly manage the rivers and develop the economy, ensuring that both production and disaster relief were carried out without neglect.

At the meeting, Premier Nan also proposed an important task: returning farmland to lakes. More accurately, it involved several mutually reinforcing tasks: leveling embankments to facilitate flood discharge, returning farmland to lakes, and relocating residents to build new towns.

Specifically, all residents living below a certain height relative to the standard water level of Yanglan Lake must move from their current residences to newly planned areas to establish new villages and towns, and their current residential land will be returned to Yanglan Lake.

Premier Nan explained this work very concretely and thoroughly at the meeting, even detailing how much national subsidy each household could receive and the housing standards for the relocated towns; it was very meticulous.

Premier Nan's words did not shock the leaders of Jiangyou Province, because Premier Nan had already proposed these tasks in other provinces a few days ago, and had also discussed the details very specifically, which had already been broadcast on the News Simulcast. Now, everyone knew about returning farmland to lakes and relocating residents to build towns.

Regarding this work, everyone had nothing to say. Premier Nan stated very sternly at the meeting that the regulations for this work were mandatory, no bargaining was allowed, and it must be completed according to the standards within five years; the sooner it was completed, the better.

Did this work harm local interests? Of course it did. For example, some counties and cities that had originally reclaimed large areas of land from the lake would now see a significant reduction in their land area. Moreover, some villages and towns would even have to be relocated in their entirety, requiring the abolition of their administrative status, which left many cadres with nowhere to be assigned.