Chapter 1297 Great Development

Ten kilometers south of the heavy industrial zone of Jinling County, the terrain is flat and open.

It used to be a forest, but later all the trees were cut down and the land was turned over to grow crops. Now, the fertile land is gone, and a huge building has been built instead, with smoking chimneys, boilers, huge factories, and a bunch of buildings.

Today, it's very lively here.

All the people in charge of the county came, and villagers from nearby also gathered around to watch the fun. Some were playing drums, some were dancing, some were setting off firecrackers, there were reporters interviewing, and photographers recording.

This is an auspicious day for the completion and networking of the thermal power plant, and all the people in the county who have the final say have come to participate in the networking ceremony.

"Now that the electricity problem has been solved, the development of our county has also embarked on a fast track." Secretary Xu and Wang Yan stood aside smoking, looking at the lively scene, and sighed with a smile.

He asked uncertainly, "Can it really increase production capacity and increase the number of employees?"

"Leader, why are you still not confident at this time?" Wang Yan said with a smile, "The factory building has been built, and the transformation, upgrading and installation of production equipment have all been completed. Isn't it just that there is not enough electricity, so we can't start all the work?

The list of employees has been drawn up long ago, and the simple board houses have been built. After the networking ceremony is over, we will directly send a notice to let the selected people go to the city. Then the old employees will lead the work. After one month, the output of each of our factories will at least double.

The county-wide construction is about to begin, leader. I have already asked people to start producing street lamps. By the end of the year, our county will have lights at night. Not to mention that the whole county will have electricity, the county employees will definitely be able to use electric lights. By then, we will also be able to hold some activities at night to enrich everyone's life. "

"There's no rush for street lights. Let's start production first. Once production is up, we'll have everything. As for agricultural mechanization, you need to ensure that it's done well and speed up the process. People are eager to learn, so the sooner we solve it, the easier it will be."

Wang Yan responded and then raised a question: "Leader, we don't have enough manpower in the county."

"Not enough? There are nearly 60,000 people in the county town now, and you haven't dealt with all the people in the city yet."

"It will all be solved by the end of the year. The factory will expand its scale and is expected to absorb more than 30,000 people within half a year. That means by the middle of next year, we will have 100,000 employees in the factory. According to the last statistics, the population of our county is more than 260,000, an increase of 20,000 in three years. The increase will require elderly care, and women may have to stay at home, which will consume part of the labor force.

At the same time, we have 100,000 workers engaged in production. These 100,000 people are already the majority of the county's labor force. The rest are mostly the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and pregnant women. But someone still needs to cultivate the land, someone needs to do the county's public construction, and someone needs to build employee housing. What should we do?"

Secretary Xu was silent for a moment. He had never thought about this problem before. Now that Wang Yan said this, he understood that the county’s labor force was indeed unable to support larger-scale production and construction.

The main reason was that no one had expected Jinling to develop so fast, and he, as a leader, was also dazzled. It was only then that he realized that in just three years, Jinling had developed to what it is today.

"It's so fast..." After a long moment, he sighed with a smile, "I never thought this day would come. I just regret that we have too many people and we can't take care of them. But in just three years, our county has 260,000 people, and we have reached the point where there is no one available."

He let out a long breath and looked at Wang Yan, "Do you want me to go to the city to coordinate and ask for some support?"

"Coordination is coordination, not support." Wang Yan said, "We are helping the poor brothers around us, providing a way for the people around us to make money, and letting the advanced lead the backward, so that everyone can live a good life.

The three counties around us have long been jealous of our good life, haven't they? Many girls have married to us to enjoy the good life.

Just like we use the labor force in our rural areas now, we pay them some money, but it must be lower than the wages of people working in our county. In this way, we give them the public construction and staff housing in the county, and we draw out the manpower, some of them go to factories, and some of them farm.

Of course, we can’t withdraw all of it at once. It will be a gradual process. However, after expanding production and increasing profits, we can expand the production of staff housing. The county’s rest homes and other public facilities can also add some manpower to speed up the construction.”

"Okay, tomorrow I'll go meet with the leaders of several surrounding counties first, and then go to the city." Secretary Xu asked, "There's another question. We've hired so many people from other places to work. What if they don't want to leave? Our household registration is linked to welfare..."

"We must not allow people to relocate their household registration easily. How can we afford such huge welfare expenditures? The construction in the county must not stop, it will only increase.

However, this issue is before us and we must consider it carefully... So, leader, let's study a standard for settling down.

It is definitely not possible for anyone to settle down in Jinling and enjoy our welfare. What would the people of our county think? They worked so hard to get what they want, and now they let others come and eat and drink for free?

So we need to have such a standard. For example, if someone has particularly important abilities and is a talent we urgently need, or has made special contributions to Jinling, they can join directly. Others must meet certain academic qualifications, majors, and have worked for Jinling for a certain number of years and made a certain number of contributions before they can join.

The standards must be set high. First, to screen talents, and second, to give our people an explanation and let them know who are the people enjoying their benefits.

Speaking of this, leaders, we must not slacken our efforts in building the ideological consciousness of our workers. When people become wealthy, their minds become lax. We must not allow good comrades in the collective to become bad elements in the collective.

On the other hand, with the increase in the number of migrant workers, the situation in the county will become more complicated, with problems of social security and stability, pornography, gambling and drugs, which will be a challenge for our public security system. "

Secretary Xu nodded and said, "Now the county is the factory, and the factory is the county. Let's assign your security department to the county public security bureau. It will be much more convenient to unify the management. Let's prepare for a rainy day and build up the police service in the county first. Don't let the police make trouble when the time comes. If we force them to do something, we will be in a passive position."

"Leaders are far-sighted. No problem. We will push forward when we get back."

Wang Yan did not refuse and directly agreed to this matter. Secretary Xu said the truth. The factory's security department is actually not very useful now. At present, the factory's inspection and patrol teams, the supervision and reporting mechanism of employee regulations, and the resolute crackdown on administrative styles within the factory are still playing a role.

After the rectification campaign within the factory, a large number of senior leaders stepped down, and a bunch of junior leaders left the factory. They all did hard and tiring work on the construction sites, and the employees were already a little scared.

Although corruption is inevitable, fear prevents these people from doing big things.

On the other hand, the supervision and reporting mechanism within the factory constantly cultivates the workers' sense of ownership and constantly repeats the idea that every tree and blade of grass in the factory belongs to everyone and no one is allowed to destroy it. The workers are very enthusiastic and active in supervising the leadership.

We must not allow "not snitching" to become a tacit agreement. If you snitch, people will say it has nothing to do with you. This is all shameless, malicious, and distorted sophistry. We must not let employees have this kind of thinking...

With the whole people owning the factory and supervising it, and with constant self-examination and self-improvement, the atmosphere in the factory will not be bad, and neither will the future of the people of Jinling...

So now, if there are people in the factory who steal things, who take advantage of their position to embezzle, or who take more than they deserve, there is always someone to expose them, and a good atmosphere has been created in the factory.

Naturally, the security department is no longer needed, so they can be transferred to the public security department to maintain the overall public security of the county. This is a perfect match for their profession and people can be put to good use...

Secretary Xu nodded, sighed, and asked, "I remember your brother-in-law is supposed to graduate next year, right? He's not coming back?"

"The child is ambitious. He said he didn't want to be associated with me, and the chemical industry in our county is not developing very well. He wanted to work in a big factory."

Seeing Wang Yan raising his eyebrows at him, Secretary Xu reacted and said with a smile, "Jinzhou Chemical?"

"That's right. I told you to say hello, but he refused to do so. He insisted that his grades were the best and he didn't believe anyone could compete with him."

"Should I say hello then?"

"Not yet. It's better if he can get in. If he can't get in, you can still have time to talk later."

"Okay, feel free to contact me. I can't say anything else, but I guarantee there won't be any problems with this matter."

Secretary Xu made a promise and then walked aside, allowing the reporters to interview and take photos...

The thermal power plant has been completed, but the hydropower plant will not be completed until next year due to construction period. As mentioned before, Jinling has solved the electricity problem and the entire county has started larger-scale construction.

Textile machinery began to launch more machines, shoe and clothing factories began to add more clothing styles, chemical fiber projects were separated from chemical industry and became independent chemical fiber factories, which also began to produce various raw materials on a large scale. Textile factories added more production lines to produce various blended materials, and because of the differences in materials, they remained ahead of other shoe and clothing factories across the country that followed suit.

The textile production chain is running at full speed, operating in all directions. As long as it can make money, they will make it. The salesmen of textile factories are running around the country like crazy to promote their products.

Agricultural machinery factories also began to manufacture agricultural machinery on a larger scale and put it into the rural areas below. Rural laborers moved to the city in large numbers and filled various factories in the county.

Steel, copper and aluminum, meat, canned food, chemicals, cement, concrete, prepared food, farms, plantations... a large number of factories have all begun to expand and increase production capacity.

The industrial development in Jinling County is a full industrial chain model. Today, Jinling can make most of the products by itself. Machine tools are also being upgraded slowly, instead of importing all high-end ones like other regions.

Jinling has only a few things to offer. Wang Yan has worked day and night for three years and has laid a solid foundation. From materials to manufacturing, all aspects have been improved. Secretary Xu, as planned, communicated with the leaders of the three surrounding counties, discussed with the city, and then transferred 3,000 people from each of the three counties to Jinling.

This is the additional labor force, some of which will be used to build houses and some of which will be used for public construction.

It is necessary to speed up the construction of the county town because after the thermal power plant is built, the speed at which farmers move to the city will accelerate, and the problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation must be solved as soon as possible.

Of course, there are too many people and it cannot be solved in a short time, but we must ensure a certain digestion speed.

Similarly, people from other counties also have to farm, and they only work half of the year. So these 9,000 people are just the beginning, and there will be another 90,000 in the future.

The development and construction of the city is the blood and tears of the farmers. The achievements of the socialist Jinling County are also difficult to escape this point. It is impossible to rely entirely on the people of Jinling. And it is impossible for outsiders to come in to work and contribute to the development of Jinling and get the same pay as the people of Jinling. And this is the difference in household registration...

But no matter what, the whole Jinling became more enthusiastic in a very short time. Slogans about struggle, socialism, and safe production were hung everywhere.

Every day, thousands of trains go in and out of the county, delivering raw materials or taking away goods produced in Jinling. The railway station has a stronger freight capacity, so naturally more goods are transported in and out, and it is very busy.

Even though it was a bit cold because it was winter, it did not affect people's fighting spirit at all...

The advanced nature of socialism and the key role of the collective were fully reflected at this time. Resources were concentrated, goals were unified, everyone was highly obedient, and everyone worked together.

Whatever you want to do, as long as all the conditions are met, there is nothing you can't do.

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Even if the conditions are not met, there is still the fighting spirit of "creating conditions and going ahead"...

Because of this new boom, Jinling's products began to diversify and become more refined, with higher quality and increased output. At this year's Canton Fair, Jinling's turnover also made a leap forward compared to last year, doubling directly to more than 30 million US dollars.

All kinds of clothes, shoes and hats, all kinds of textile machinery, even steel and other alloy materials, and even small agricultural machinery produced in Jinling were sold in batches...

For a moment, everything is flourishing and full of vitality.

By the time all of this was rolled out, everyone was carrying out production operations in an orderly manner and producing various things steadily, it was already the end of the year.

The New Year atmosphere in Jinling has also risen, and it is no less lively than in big cities. Of course, it is not because of the larger population or the larger city, but because the consumption places are more concentrated.

The whole city, the province, and even the whole country all knew that the people of Jinling were rich and had high spending power, and that the local government was very lenient towards vendors. During the busy New Year, people from all over the country would bring all kinds of things here to sell.

Last year, the county allocated a street for small vendors to set up stalls, and the market was planned at that time. After more than a year, a row of steel-framed shed-style buildings has been added to the west of the city.

It not only provides shelter from the wind and rain, but also centralizes the management of small vendors, and it is also easy to carry out demolition operations. Except for the buildings that have been built and the industrial areas that have been marked out, all other buildings are prepared for demolition in the future.

Although it is simple, it is still a centralized place. After the county solved the electricity problem, the first road to be electrified was the road from here to the county government, in order to facilitate nighttime trading.

This is mainly because most factories operate in three shifts, so workers have different work and rest schedules, but they all have the same consumption and entertainment needs. Therefore, all kinds of theaters, mahjong halls, bathhouses, cinemas, libraries, Xinhua Bookstores, state-owned stores, state-owned restaurants, supply and marketing cooperatives, etc. in the county are open 24 hours a day.

Now that electricity is available, safety is improved with the addition of lighting. Coupled with day and night patrols by the police, safety is guaranteed to the greatest extent possible.

Reform and opening up are accompanied by evil spirits, especially since Jinling is famous for its wealth, the problem is still quite serious. Even though Jinling has very strict population control and everyone entering and leaving Jinling must register as an outsider, the scope of a county is so large that people coming from all directions cannot be controlled.

Therefore, in Jinling County, the loss of things, even children, and other things like arson are common occurrences, making management very difficult.

To this end, Wang Yan has begun to study surveillance. This technology appeared a few years ago and has not yet become popular. China will not install surveillance on a large scale until 2000.

Therefore, this move can not only improve the safety of the county, but also be a profitable business in the future...

There are three large steel-structured buildings, one for selling daily necessities, one for selling food, and one for selling other miscellaneous items.

It can now be said that all the people in the county have escaped poverty. Almost every family has young people between the ages of 16 and 25. Regardless of age, whether they are married or have children, these young people have all moved to the city.

One person's salary is enough to support a family, and their family members in the countryside also participate in the distribution, so they can be said to have enough food and clothing.

Grain and oil were still rationed and still required coupons, but people could afford to buy non-staple food on a daily basis. They couldn’t buy it every day, but they could always have a meal every ten days or half a month.

When the Chinese New Year comes, of course the spending power is even higher.

The market was packed with people. The merchants who came to do business filled up the three markets, and the two sides of the road outside were also filled with goods. It was not far from the entrance of the county government.

Wang Yan stood with his hands behind his back, squeezed into the crowd, and enjoyed the excitement.

He is not a person who likes noise, but if this noise is created by him, then of course the feeling will be different...

The things sold here are varied, including firecrackers, couplets, red paper, yellow paper, candy, tea, soft drinks, clothes, shoes and hats, as well as various small commodities, chickens, ducks, geese and various eggs, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs, fish, shrimps and seafood, many of which are freshly slaughtered.

There are also various snack stalls, selling mutton soup, pancakes, wontons, buns, etc., which makes the New Year scene really lively.

These things meet the needs of Jinling people very well and fill the blank market in Jinling.

They have already had the desire to open their own store and have reported it to the county more than once. The county also had some ideas before. But the county and the factory have not yet made up their minds about this matter.

Firstly, there is no conclusion yet, and secondly, this involves the choice of the people of Jinling themselves.

If outsiders come to open a shop, they will definitely make money, but what about the people in the factory? What should they do if they want to open a shop? How to calculate the money? Will they provide benefits? All these are problems.

After a period of discussion, last month, the county party committee and the factory workers' meeting voted to not allow outsiders to open shops, and all shops would be operated by the factory. However, a market would be set aside for outsiders to supply what the county did not have.

However, the county currently does not have the extra energy to run these businesses. It is enough to have some entertainment venues, restaurants, and places to buy daily necessities. If you want to have more, you have to operate it slowly later. This is not necessary at present. But you can consider it later, after all, it can also provide many jobs...

After enjoying the fun in the market, Wang Yan strolled back to the factory.

As soon as I arrived at the factory gate, I saw a young man squatting there from a distance.

"Hello, director."

"Yang Xun, that's too far. Didn't I tell you to call me brother-in-law?"

"Hello, brother-in-law." Yang Xun scratched his head and laughed embarrassedly.

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Well... a little bit..."

Wang Yan stopped, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one for himself, and gave one to Yang Xun, who waved his hand to refuse.

"Tell me about it." Wang Yan raised his head towards him.

"I...I don't want to work in the factory anymore..."

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