Chapter 4214

Amidst the enthusiastic applause of the students, Yu Jianyuan walked to the microphone with high spirits. He was around sixty years old, which was considered quite young among central leaders; He Lin was two or three years older than him.

His hair was dyed jet black, making him look several years younger than his actual age, and he was very energetic. Compared to how he looked on TV, there wasn't much difference.

He made a gesture, and the applause gradually subsided. Yu Jianyuan didn't use a prepared script. He scanned all the students and said in a resonant voice, "Hello everyone, I am Yu Jianyuan. Welcome to this short-term training class for newly appointed municipal party secretaries!"

The applause erupted again and only subsided after a long while.

Yu Jianyuan said, "This training class is organized by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and is a very important one. Because everyone present was newly appointed as a municipal party secretary at the end of last year or the beginning of this year, and a municipal party secretary shoulders the major responsibility for millions of people in their city, it is a very important position. Whether a municipal party secretary can perform well relates to the progress and development of our country."

"Speaking of responsibility, this is the first point I want to make today. Once you become a municipal party secretary, you must first enhance your sense of responsibility to fulfill your duties for the Party and the people!"

"With power comes responsibility. Cadres who keep their eyes fixed on power cannot become good cadres, while cadres who keep their eyes fixed on responsibility can become good cadres..."

Yu Jianyuan's speech today was thousands of words long, mainly focusing on the sense of responsibility that a municipal party secretary should possess. He emphasized following the Central Committee's spirit, developing high-quality GDP, caring for the hardships of the masses, pursuing the happiness of the people, pursuing social progress, and pursuing a good image of our Party among the people.

In addition, he focused on the work style of municipal party secretaries, hoping that the municipal party secretaries present could be upright and clean, strengthen their studies, strengthen ideological construction, and strengthen personal cultivation.

Yu Jianyuan concluded by saying that he hoped the municipal party secretaries present would cherish this learning opportunity and improve their theoretical and governing levels...

After Yu Jianyuan's speech ended, thunderous applause erupted in the small auditorium, which lasted for a long time.

After Yu Jianyuan finished speaking, he left the small auditorium. Officials at his level were truly busy with a thousand tasks every day. Being able to set aside such time to come here and give such a speech to these municipal party secretaries was already quite remarkable.

After Yu Jianyuan finished, He Lin and others spoke to the municipal party secretaries. They also delivered important speeches, which were related to the content of this training class. During this training class, they would also be teaching these students.

Su Xinghui distilled some central ideas from what they said: the Central Committee still attached great importance to the construction of the grassroots cadre team and attached great importance to the development of poverty-stricken areas, especially the development of high-quality GDP.

The municipal party secretaries present came from both poverty-stricken areas and economically developed areas. The Central Committee hoped that economically developed areas could develop and progress together with poverty-stricken areas.

What they talked about was a deepening of current central policies.

Currently, the implementation of central policies across the country was not ideal, and there was ineffective implementation in many places. This should also be the reason why the Central Party School held this short-term training class for newly appointed municipal party secretaries.

After the leaders finished their speeches, He Lin asked all the students participating in this training class to introduce themselves publicly. After the self-introductions, he asked the students to elect class cadres on the spot, including the class monitor, party branch secretary, study committee member, cultural and entertainment committee member, sports committee member, etc.

Although this training class only had three months of study time, everything still had to follow formal procedures, and class cadres had to be elected.

The method for electing class cadres was for students to sign up for the positions they wanted to run for, then give a campaign speech on the spot, followed by a vote by the students to ultimately select the person for the position.

Yan Junfeng said to Su Xinghui, "Secretary Su, why don't you sign up for the class monitor election? I'll vote for you."

Su Xinghui smiled and shook his head, "Secretary Yan, I'd better not. I'm so young, how can I convince the masses? I think it's more appropriate for you to sign up for the class monitor election."

Yan Junfeng said, "Ambition is not about age. I think you are very excellent and can sign up."

Su Xinghui shook his head, "I won't sign up. I'll sign up for sports committee member. You can vote for me then."

These municipal party secretaries wanted to compete secretly in every aspect. Who didn't want to be the class monitor? However, they also had to weigh the pros and cons because they could only sign up once. If they signed up for class monitor, they couldn't run for other class cadre positions. If they ran for class monitor and lost, they would end up with nothing.

However, to be honest, Su Xinghui didn't want to be too much in the limelight, so he wasn't very interested in the election of class cadres. He was so young—at least ten years younger than the other students—that he was already in the limelight enough. Why run for class monitor?

Being so young, if he were actually elected class monitor, he might inadvertently attract unwarranted jealousy. It wasn't necessary, and the credentials of this training class weren't that important to him.

Of course, it wouldn't be good if he didn't run for anything, as it would appear too maverick. Seeing everyone eager to try, he guessed that everyone would run for a class cadre position, so he decided to run for sports committee member. He was quite good at sports.

Seeing that Su Xinghui genuinely didn't want to run for class monitor, Yan Junfeng shook his head in regret.

Everyone began to ponder, considering which position they had a better chance of winning. After all, for these ordinary municipal party secretaries, even a class cadre position in this short-term training class was very attractive.

Being a class cadre meant having many opportunities to interact with leaders. And what level were these leaders? At least deputy-ministerial level or above, and there were even big leaders like Yu Jianyuan. It was said that even Politburo Standing Committee-level leaders might come to teach them. Being a class cadre would at least leave a deeper impression on the leaders.

Among these class cadres, the class monitor was naturally the most attractive, followed by the party branch secretary. However, the competition for these two positions was naturally the fiercest. Therefore, without any certainty, one wouldn't dare to sign up for these two positions. If they didn't win, they wouldn't have the chance to compete for other positions.

Weighing these pros and cons in just over ten minutes was a test of the students' ability and decisiveness.

Perhaps Su Xinghui was the only one who didn't care much about this class cadre election, so he felt somewhat detached, like watching a tiger fight from a mountain, and was quite content.

Ten minutes later, everyone had made up their minds. They wrote their names and the positions they were running for on slips of paper and handed them to the staff, who took them to the rostrum.

He Lin looked at these slips, had the staff count them, and then had the staff write the names of those running for class monitor on a blackboard first.

There were eight people running for class monitor, which was a relatively high ratio. Among the applicants were Zhang Chongshan, Yan Junfeng, Wu Geng, and others whom Su Xinghui was relatively familiar with, having drunk with them last night. The others were people he had only met today.

Hearing Yan Junfeng's name, Su Xinghui couldn't help but turn his head to look at him. Yan Junfeng also turned his head at the same time to look at Su Xinghui. The reason he signed up for class monitor was because Su Xinghui wasn't participating. If Su Xinghui had participated, Yan Junfeng felt Su Xinghui's chance of winning would be quite high, so he wouldn't have participated.

Since Su Xinghui wasn't participating, Yan Junfeng felt he had a chance, so he signed up for the class monitor election.

Su Xinghui was truly too dazzling among these students: a thirty-eight-year-old municipal party secretary with an outstanding resume, remarkable political achievements, a deep background, and good relationships with other students. Yan Junfeng really wasn't sure he could beat Su Xinghui.

Next, the candidates were invited to the stage to give campaign speeches. Each person had two minutes to talk about their strengths and advantages.

For these municipal party secretaries, it had been a long time since they had given such campaign speeches like students. This made them feel a bit unaccustomed, but they were all people who had seen the world, so no one had stage fright.

The candidates went on stage one by one to give their speeches. Zhang Chongshan was fourth. He emphasized that if he were elected class monitor, he would provide good service to all his classmates, ensuring they studied well and lived well during their time at the school.

The speeches of the others were also standard, talking about their resumes and what they would do if they became class monitor. The speech time was two minutes, and the preparation time was about half an hour. With the Executive Vice President of the Party School sitting behind them, their performance was quite good.

After everyone finished speaking, they entered the voting phase. All twenty-eight students had to vote, including the eight candidates. Of course, the candidates couldn't vote for themselves.