Chapter 2781: Unforgivable

Although Yinshan County was in the scandal and the county was busy rectifying the mines, other work had not been left behind.

During this period, Xing Guodong was very busy. In addition to focusing on the work of rectifying the mines, he was also very concerned about the reinforcement and maintenance project of dangerous buildings in schools in the towns and townships below, often running to the towns and townships below to personally check the project progress.

There was another matter that he was very concerned about at the current stage, which was the road from the county seat to Niutouyu in Funiu Township. Since that time he went to Niutouyu with Su Xinghui, he began the preparation work for road construction.

Now, the preliminary survey work and project approval work for road construction were in tense progress. It was expected that the project would be successfully approved by the end of the year. As long as the funds were in place, the road construction project could begin as early as the spring when the snow melted.

And Yu Ruizhi's subordinates also came to Yinshan County and lived here, specifically checking the terrain of Niutouyu, doing some preliminary preparation work, and preparing to formally start developing tourism here in the spring of next year.

The big moves Xing Guodong made in these works were not small, and he also united some middle-level cadres, who revolved around him every day. In the history of Yinshan County, there had never been a county magistrate who made such big moves, which made many people see hope.

The provincial committee investigation team left. They submitted their investigation report to Provincial Committee Secretary Gan Yuru. The reports of those media were basically true. Gold and silver mines everywhere in Baozhou City had different degrees of environmental pollution, which also caused a huge impact on the physical health of local common people.

In addition to this, these mines also generally had illegal phenomena such as incomplete procedures and tax evasion, making the country's precious mineral resources flow away in vain, which had a direct relationship with the lax supervision of the local government, and there were also some power-money transactions.

In fact, this provincial committee investigation team did not make great efforts to investigate the power-money transactions in this, because this incident was already widely known and attracted national attention. If it was really found that a large number of municipal leaders in Baozhou City had shares in the mines and engaged in power-money transactions, then the reputation of Baozhou City and Yanbei Province would stink for three miles.

Such a huge negative impact, even Gan Yuru was unwilling to see it happen. Therefore, in the surface investigation report of the provincial committee investigation team, the focus was only on lax supervision, and the power-money transactions were only mentioned in passing, and the number of people involved was small and the level was not high.

In the end, the provincial committee made handling opinions. Leaders of relevant departments in Baozhou City, including the Director of the Land and Resources Bureau, the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau, and the Captain of the Law Enforcement Brigade, were suspended from their duties. Some of them were also "double-regulated," and the Vice Mayor who was originally in charge of land and resources and was transferred to another place was also suspended for investigation.

Those suspended for investigation also included some leaders in charge of counties and districts and leaders of functional departments, who were direct stakeholders.

Other main leaders of Baozhou City and the counties and districts below were also named and criticized. Of course, Xin Jing and Su Xinghui were not criticized. Xin Jing had just been in charge of land and resources work and had no involvement with the mines, and Su Xinghui had just taken office in Baozhou, so the criticism could not fall on his head.

Similarly, Xing Guodong, who had just taken office in Yinshan County, was also not criticized. On the contrary, his practical spirit and the intensity of mine rectification were praised by the investigation team.

After this incident, all private mines in Baozhou City were basically suspended for rectification. And Gan Yuru spoke that after the rectification was completed, they had to invite relevant personnel from the provincial land and environmental protection departments to accept them as qualified before they could resume production. Whoever dared to start work without authorization would be held accountable.

Gan Yuru's murderous words made the cadres of Baozhou City terrified. Who dared to hit the muzzle at this time?

The mining industry in Baozhou City this time could be considered to have suffered heavy losses. Those mines with incomplete procedures basically didn't want to start work again, and the provincial tax department also sent people to check taxes. Those who evaded taxes before had to pay them back, and they had to restore and govern the environmental pollution caused before, compensate the damaged common people, and add environmental protection facilities.

Every one of these was to make them spend money. Some mine owners calculated that if they let the provincial land and environmental protection departments accept them as qualified, all the money they earned before would not be enough to invest. What was the point of doing this? Suddenly, many owners had the intention to retreat and didn't do it.

At least they had to wait until this wind passed before coming to engage in the mining industry. Now, under the pressure of the Provincial Committee Secretary, who dared to commit a crime against the wind?

Suddenly, the mines that were hot and noisy in the past were all stopped, cold and clear, looking very miserable.

It was a pity that for the pollution that had already been caused, there was no funding to restore and govern now. The owners who made money were unwilling to take out money and didn't know where they ran. Let the government take out money, but there was no money. With such an appearance of Baozhou economy, how could it be possible to take out such a huge amount of funds?

After the bustle, those media reporters all left. The heat of this matter cooled down day by day, but the common people who were poisoned by this pollution were no longer cared about.

Of course, it was not completely uncared for. Su Xinghui was very concerned about this, but for the time being, restoring and governing this pollution was not something he could do, and he was also powerless.

If it was just a funding problem, he could help solve it, but the problem was that this funding should have been paid by those mine owners and local governments. No one was willing to pay this huge amount of money, and besides, paying this money was also a thankless task, and Su Xinghui would not be so selfless.

Therefore, for the restoration and governance of the environment, it was still necessary to find ways to let those owners pay money. After the government's financial revenue increased, the government also needed to pay part of the money.

Of course, for those common people who suffered from environmental pollution, Su Xinghui still had ways to help, which was to pay money to help them improve drinking water conditions, let them drink clean drinking water, and then apply for relief for the common people who became ill due to environmental pollution, and let charitable organizations donate to them, so that they had money to treat diseases.

These all belonged to the scope of Su Xinghui's work, and the charitable foundation of Yu Ruizhi and Yu Ruoqiu, the brother and sister, was doing this. They set up a fund, and any common people who became ill due to mine pollution could apply for relief funds from their foundation with a medical diagnosis certificate.

Although due to various reasons, this incident did not achieve the most ideal effect, it had already improved much better than the previous situation, which made Su Xinghui very gratified.

The weather was getting colder and colder. Su Xinghui went to inspect the counties and districts again. This time he mainly looked at the repair situation of those dangerous school buildings, and also wanted to visit those common people living in the polluted area.

The repair situation of dangerous school buildings made Su Xinghui relatively satisfied. Some dangerous buildings were reinforced, and others were too dilapidated to be repaired, and the students inside were also transferred to other safe places. In general, most of the safety hazards were eliminated.

Occasionally, there were some places where the repair work had not been completed, and Su Xinghui also sternly instructed them to complete this work as soon as possible, and resolutely not to have any casualties.

Su Xinghui also focused on visiting those common people living in the polluted area. In these polluted areas, streams and groundwater were polluted to varying degrees. Su Xinghui ordered the health departments of various counties and districts to test the water quality. Any water source that did not meet the drinking standard should be stopped by the common people.

The health department sent a lot of manpower to publicize to the common people, let them take clean water sources, such as high mountain spring water, which would not be polluted.

Taking high mountain spring water was not very difficult. In fact, some mountain people had already used bamboo to make water pipes to lead high mountain spring water directly to their homes. This was local tap water. ===== CHAPTER 2783 =====