Chapter 3019

A few days after returning to Baozhou, the investigation results of the Discipline Inspection Commission and the Procuratorate basically came out. This bidding fraud case was also a foregone conclusion.

Zheng Wu Ping and the others indeed had the behavior of manipulating the winning bidders in the bidding, and those few bidding agency companies became accomplices in it. Those winning companies, of course, had the behavior of bribing Zheng Wu Ping and the others. These had already obtained ironclad evidence.

Zheng Wu Ping and other state public officials had already been transferred to judicial organs and entered the judicial process. Those relevant legal persons of the bidding agency companies and winning companies would also bear the responsibilities they should bear. As for their bidding deposits, naturally, they would all be confiscated.

As for the bid sections they won, they were also taken back by the municipal government and would re-conduct the bidding procedures to determine new winning bidders. This time, naturally, no one dared to test the law with their own bodies.

This thunderous strike by the Baozhou Municipal Government was expected to have a relatively positive impact on the project quality of this old city renovation, making these winning companies not dare to play any tricks on project quality. Even the bidding was managed so strictly, so the supervision intensity on project quality naturally wouldn't be small either.

If one held a fluke mentality, in case they were investigated, the loss wouldn't be ordinary.

By late July, the Provincial Government and the Education Department jointly sent an inspection team to inspect the project of merging the four schools in Baozhou to establish Baozhou University. They would first score the situation of this project. If the score met the standard, they would submit the application to the Ministry of Education and the State Council.

For this inspection team, Baozhou City, of course, attached great importance to it. Baozhou City's higher education could be said to be not bad, but there was no undergraduate university, which was an obvious weakness. If the new Baozhou University could be successfully established, then this weakness would be made up for, which was also a great improvement to Baozhou's comprehensive strength.

Speaking of which, Baozhou people still had some ambition. In history, because Baozhou was close to Jingcheng, had many mineral resources, and many state-owned enterprises, Baozhou City was once the second city in Yanbei after the provincial capital Yanzhong City, and there were even voices for it to become the provincial capital city.

However, in recent years, with the decline of state-owned enterprises, Baozhou City's economy had gone from bad to worse, and its ranking had fallen all the way to the middle. But Baozhou people were not convinced; they still wanted to reshape their past glory.

In the past year, with Su Xinghui taking office, Baozhou City's economy had already improved, and with the landing of a batch of huge investments, the prospects of Baozhou City's economy were very promising, and there was even hope to kill back into the top three in the province in the next two or three years, forming a trend of catching up with Yanzhong City.

However, even if it could catch up with Yanzhong City in the economy, in terms of comprehensive strength, there was still a relatively large gap between Baozhou and Yanzhong City.

Yanzhong City was, after all, the economic, financial, cultural, and educational center of the whole province. Especially in education, the strength of Baozhou City was quite far from Yanzhong City. Yanzhong City had several undergraduate universities, while Baozhou City had none.

To truly catch up with Yanzhong City, one must catch up in comprehensive strength in all aspects and narrow the gap with Yanzhong City. Now, this Baozhou University was the first step to narrow the gap in educational strength with Yanzhong City. The leaders of Baozhou City were all determined to win.

Therefore, from the Municipal Party Secretary Shi Fengshou and Mayor Wei Ziming downwards, several major leaders of Baozhou City all participated in the reception of the inspection team.

This also had to do with the specifications of this inspection team. The leader of the expert group was the Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government, Qian Jianan, and the deputy leader was a deputy department-level official of the Education Department named Dong Hanxiang. This specification could be considered quite high.

Although Qian Jianan was only the Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government, this position of his was a key position, belonging to the kind of person who is three ranks higher when meeting officials at the local level. How could Shi Fengshou and Wei Ziming dare to neglect him?

Shi Fengshou, Wei Ziming, Cai Jianguo, as well as Su Xinghui, Zhu Jimin, and others all welcomed the inspection team together. After finishing the welcome banquet, they arranged for them to stay at the Municipal Party Committee Guest House.

That night, Su Xinghui and Zhu Jimin chatted with Qian Jianan in his room for quite a while.

Qian Jianan was about forty years old and was also a young and promising Deputy Secretary-General in the Provincial Government. He was not old and not tall, but he was very shrewd and capable.

Su Xinghui met Zhao Yichen and the others almost every time he went to Baozhou City, so he was already very familiar with Qian Jianan and could be considered very good friends. Therefore, they didn't have too much restraint and were also talking and laughing with Qian Jianan.

Su Xinghui said, "Brother Jianan, this inspection of the new Baozhou University will depend on you."

Qian Jianan said, "As long as your preparation work is done well, there is no need to worry on my end."

Zhu Jimin said, "Then thank you, Secretary-General Qian!"

Qian Jianan waved his hand and laughed, "Why be so polite? I can also be considered an old friend of Mayor Su. Besides, this project of yours is a good project, which was originally something the province should support. What reason do we have not to support it?"

Su Xinghui knew that since Qian Jianan came to be the leader of this inspection team, it proved that there would be no problems at all and it would definitely pass smoothly.

However, the provincial inspection was only the first step. The most critical part was the subsequent acceptance expert group of the State Council. If that hurdle couldn't be passed, then everything would be wasted.

Of course, Su Xinghui himself had also conducted a bottom-line investigation on the situation of the four schools in Baozhou this time. The situation of these four schools was basically not much different from what Zhu Jimin had reported to him before. After the merger, it could fully meet the standards for establishing an undergraduate university, so Su Xinghui was still very confident.

Su Xinghui said, "Alright, we won't be polite with Secretary-General Qian anymore. After the new Baozhou University is established, we will invite Secretary-General Qian to come as a guest again."

Zhu Jimin nodded and said, "That is for sure."

Qian Jianan said, "Alright, on the day the new Baozhou University is officially established, I will definitely come as a guest."

Su Xinghui chatted with Qian Jianan for a few more sentences, then stood up to say goodbye, letting Qian Jianan rest early. Qian Jianan told him to also visit Dong Hanxiang. Su Xinghui nodded to indicate he knew. This was also a kind of respect for Dong Hanxiang. After all, he was the Deputy Director of the Provincial Education Department and belonged to one of the experts. This scoring would mainly be done by him.

After coming out of Qian Jianan's room, Su Xinghui and Zhu Jimin went to knock on Dong Hanxiang's door again. Dong Hanxiang opened the door. Seeing that it was Su Xinghui and Zhu Jimin, he nodded and smiled, "Mayor Su, President Zhu, please come in!"

Dong Hanxiang was a middle-aged man in his fifties, about the same age as Zhu Jimin. He was truly someone who had worked his way up from being a teacher. He was once the Vice President of Yanzhong Normal University, and only later entered the Provincial Education Department. He had very rich experience in teaching and had also made very high achievements in teaching theory research. He was still very prestigious in the education circle of Yanbei Province.

Dong Hanxiang, of course, also knew Zhu Jimin, and their relationship was not bad. After all, they had both been presidents before and had exchanged ideas many times, feeling a sense of mutual appreciation.