Chapter 2884

Su Xinghui had previously instructed Wang Weisheng to strengthen the power of the grassroots cultural stations below, let the cultural stations truly play their due role, and organize municipal, county, and district theater troupes, film projection teams, and cultural centers to go to the grassroots for touring performances and screenings to enrich the cultural life at the grassroots level.

Su Xinghui also told Hu Quanyou to increase investment in power facilities in those impoverished mountain areas of Baozhou City, at least so that the power facilities in the mountain villages below could support televisions, which could also enrich the entertainment methods below.

And another measure was, of course, to establish village-level reading rooms.

When Su Xinghui worked in Menghuling, he attached great importance to reading rooms. Rural farmers were also thirsty for knowledge, and the best way to obtain knowledge was, of course, reading books. If every village built a village-level reading room, it would certainly attract many farmers to go to the reading room to read books.

This could not only change the rampant gambling culture in the villages below but also improve the cultural literacy of the villagers. In every place Su Xinghui had worked, the effect of this measure had been very good, so Su Xinghui also attached great importance to this work.

Of course, the funds required to build village-level reading rooms were also a huge figure. Even if every village could provide a venue, building a village-level reading room would still require at least facilities such as bookshelves and tables and chairs, and every village would also need at least several thousand books. Adding these things together would cost at least twenty or thirty thousand yuan.

Baozhou City had thousands of villages, which meant that building a village-level reading room in every village would require at least twenty or thirty million yuan, which was a huge figure.

Given the current level of economic development in Baozhou City, it was absolutely impossible to come up with this money all at once. Su Xinghui intended to gradually complete this plan within three years.

Wang Weisheng also said that he could produce a detailed plan within a few days, which would include the amount of funds needed for a village-level reading room, which villages in which counties and districts would be built in the first batch, which in the second, and which in the third, all of which would have a detailed explanation.

Within Su Xinghui's scope of responsibility, there was still a lot of work to be done, such as the need for rural schools below to add some teaching facilities, the need for township health centers to add some medical facilities, and the need to organize township doctors to go to medical colleges for training and further studies in a planned way to improve their professional level, etc.

These were all tasks that required money. Previously, these tasks under Su Xinghui's responsibility were not popular, and the vice mayors in charge were relatively weak, so they lagged behind in these tasks and owed too many debts. Su Xinghui prepared to gradually pay off these debts during his tenure, allowing Baozhou City's cultural, educational, and health work to reach a new level.

Of course, there was another task that was a major expense, and that was the conversion of minban teachers to public status. Just saying that if half of the minban teachers could be converted to public status, the various expenses added to them every year would exceed one hundred million, which was no wonder the Baozhou City government felt the pressure was huge.

A rough calculation showed that if one wanted to grasp all these tasks, the annual funds required would be two or three hundred million. This was still according to a relatively low standard; if it were a high standard, no amount of money would be enough.

Su Xinghui knew that this was a massive project, with a long and arduous road ahead, requiring a major development in Baozhou City's economy so that Baozhou City's various tasks could develop in a healthy and orderly manner.