Chapter 3845

However, Qian Jianan was, after all, a person who had long experienced officialdom. The unnaturalness on his face lasted only for a moment, and then his expression immediately became very normal. He personally poured a cup of tea for Su Xinghui and said, "Xinghui, is there something?"

Su Xinghui said, "Secretary Qian, Old Peng came to see you yesterday, right?"

Qian Jianan nodded and said, "He has already seen me. I plan to convene a Standing Committee meeting in the near future to specifically discuss the problems discovered during this village-level audit."

Su Xinghui said, "Secretary Qian, I think the problem is very serious!"

Qian Jianan's expression became solemn: "Yes, I also think the problem is very serious. I really didn't expect that the corruption problem in the countryside would be so serious now."

Previously, Qian Jianan didn't believe, or rather didn't want to believe, that the corruption problem in the countryside was that serious. He just hoped for stability. But now, the facts forced him to admit that the countryside today was really different from the countryside of the past. The rural economy was developing, while the combat effectiveness of the rural grassroots party organizations was constantly decreasing.

Whose responsibility was this? Speaking of which, it wasn't Qian Jianan's responsibility, because Qian Jianan had only been in Linshan for less than a year. But if this matter exploded, whose responsibility would it be if not Qian Jianan's?

Su Xinghui was the Mayor; he only managed economic development. The rural economy was indeed developing, and infrastructure was indeed improving. But grassroots party building work should be the responsibility of Qian Jianan, the Municipal Party Secretary.

Now that the grassroots party organizations had become so lax, whose responsibility was it if not Qian Jianan's? This made him feel a bit panicked in his heart; he was afraid that Su Xinghui would use this as a pretext to make a move.

Su Xinghui said, "This assembly has concluded, and the re-election of provincial, municipal, county, township, and village levels will be held soon. Now that so many village cadres have problems, we must also prepare early and find ways to elect those qualified village cadres."

Qian Jianan said, "Do you have any good ideas?"

Su Xinghui said, "I wouldn't call them good ideas, just wanted to come and discuss with Secretary Qian. After all, Secretary Qian has been engaged in party building work for so many years."

Qian Jianan said, "Sigh, after listening to Old Peng's report yesterday, I spent almost the whole night thinking about this matter. This matter is indeed very headache-inducing!"

Su Xinghui said, "This matter is indeed very tricky, but we must still try our best to make village cadres more qualified and make grassroots party organizations more capable of exerting combat effectiveness. Otherwise, there will be big problems in the future."

Qian Jianan was indeed very headache-inducing. He naturally knew where the problems in village-level party organizations lay. The focus was on the fact that the clan forces that generally existed in villages today were too strong. Often, there were two or three major surnames in a village. During elections, representatives of these few major surnames could often get elected, which created the root of corruption.

These representatives of the major surnames naturally had to maintain the interests of their own clans, because they were originally elected by people of their own clans. How could one expect such people to maintain the interests of everyone?

Interests were often limited. If everyone had interests, that was impossible. That would only reduce everyone's interests, making everyone dissatisfied. Therefore, village cadres must also have a focus in their work. So who did they focus on? Naturally, they focused on people of their own clan.

Under these circumstances, how should they do a good job in election work?

Qian Jianan had also thought about having townships designate relevant candidates before the election, not arranging representatives of those major surnames. But this idea was also unrealistic.

Not to mention that this approach violated the Election Law—in fact, grassroots elections today were all done this way—the matter itself was also unfeasible.

Because the village-level two committees were also a level of party and government team. Village work all needed to be carried out by village cadres. The village also had many tasks to complete every year, and many tasks to arrange. If you didn't arrange people from major surnames to be candidates, how could this possibly work?

Because most of the common people in the village were people of a few major surnames. If you arranged a person from a minor surname to be the Village Party Secretary, could he convince the masses? If he couldn't convince the masses, why would people from those major surnames listen to him? By then, he might not be able to arrange any work at all.