Rebirth 96: Peak of Power

Dagang Town, inside Loncin Hotel!

Zhou Cai, his wife and Zhou Pengcheng had already sat down on Wednesday. When Li Xiangchen rushed over, she said with a touch of apology on her face: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou. I just called the town leaders, Mayor Xu. He said he would come right away, but Secretary Huang said he didn’t have time at night.”

"Where are the leaders in the county?" Zhou Pengcheng asked.

"Well, I called several leaders in the county, and they all said that it would be fine to let the people in the town take care of it. Only Deputy County Magistrate Hu answered my call, and he was on his way here... "Li Xiangchen said a little embarrassed.

"I can't blame you for this. Did you say there are investors coming?" Zhou Pengcheng nodded.

This is how things are done at the grassroots level. Li Xiangchen is soft-spoken, and there is really no way to involve people in the county for many things.

"I said it, but the people in the county told me to take care of it myself." Li Xiangchen was a little angry, "But fortunately, Deputy County Magistrate Hu has time to come over."

"Wait a moment." Zhou Pengcheng said softly, but he shook his head slightly at the efficiency of Shangcheng County.

In an era centered on economic development, these people actually don’t appreciate such good things as pie-in-the-sky?

Then what can we expect them to do?

Some officials have always been waiting, relying on, and demanding, and have never thought of taking the initiative to obtain something themselves.

Nowadays, the food is basically put into their mouths, but they can't even eat it. Is there anything more irritating than this?

"These people are really hopeless." Zhou Cai said angrily.

"Brother Sancai, why are you so angry?" Zhou Pengcheng said cheerfully, "If you want to be angry, I should be angry, right?"

"Pengcheng, you don't know, these people are really just a bunch of people. Remember at the beginning of last year, I brought two friends over. They said they wanted to find a place to set up a small factory in Jiangdong. Of course, Maybe it’s not a big scale, maybe three to four million, but I contacted the people from the county’s investment promotion office and treated them to seven or eight meals, which cost me ten or twenty thousand, but finally let it go..."

The memory of these things was still fresh on Wednesday, and he felt that these people were the kind of people who did nothing at all.

"Hey, it's really difficult to do things now. Layers of cards are set up..." Li Xiangchen sighed slightly, "Although we work within the system, we are so humble that we can't say anything."

Deng Deng Deng!

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps, and two middle-aged men in their forties had already walked into the house!

"Secretary Xiao Li..."

The person who spoke was Xu Delong, the mayor of Dagang Town, and standing next to him was Hu Guanglai, the executive deputy county magistrate of Shangcheng County!

Hu Guanglai was previously the deputy director of the Dongzhou City Investment Promotion Office.

Now, less than a year after being transferred to Shangcheng County, he has become the executive deputy county magistrate.

"County Magistrate Hu and Mayor Xu, hello leaders." Li Xiangchen looked at the two people, and she nodded gently.

"Secretary Xiao Li, you called me just now and said that someone is coming to invest in us. Is it true?" Xu Delong looked at Li Xiangchen and asked quickly.

"Yes, I happened to be in the office, and I came when I received your call." Hu Guanglai also said with a smile, "Whether it is true or not, we must be active in anything that is beneficial to the development of our Shangcheng County. "

"County Magistrate Hu, you are right. I also came over after hearing this..." Xu Delong said quickly.

"County Magistrate Hu, I reported to Mayor Xu before that there is a Herun Group in Jiangzhou. Do you know?" Li Xiangchen looked at Hu Guanglai and asked.

"I know that the Herun Group is really big." Hu Guanglai said with a smile, "But I heard that you have contacted the Herun Group several times, but nothing happened after that? What? There was another news today?"

"Isn't it possible? Secretary Xiao Li. You told me clearly when you reported before that this matter is hopeless." Xu Delong also asked curiously.

"County Magistrate Hu, right?"

Just when Li Xiangchen was about to continue talking, Zhou Pengcheng had already looked at Hu Guanglai.

Hu Guanglai smiled slightly and said: "This is..."

"This is Mr. Zhou, who is also the matchmaker. He is very familiar with the people from Herun Group..." Li Xiangchen said immediately.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou, hello..." Hu Guanglai reached out his hand proactively.

Zhou Pengcheng just stood up, shook hands with Hu Guanglai gently and said: "I am from Zhoujia Village, and I should make a little contribution to Zhoujia Village. Today's dinner is organized by me, County Magistrate Hu , I hope you can call over the secretary responsible for attracting investment, the county magistrate and some key leaders of Shangcheng County..."

"Mr. Zhou, I'm afraid this won't work." Hu Guanglai frowned.

"Why? Doesn't Shangcheng County pay attention to attracting investment at all?" Zhou Pengcheng asked rhetorically.

"Mr. Zhou, you are from Zhoujia Village, so I won't hide it. Logically speaking, this kind of thing should be taken seriously, but the county's current focus is on the construction of the Hao Family Courtyard..."

"What is the Hao Family Courtyard?" Zhou Pengcheng frowned.

"Well, this time the county decided to invest 100 million to build and repair the Hao Family Courtyard, and focus on building the Hao Family Courtyard into a tourist attraction. As for some small investments, not many people in the county are interested." Hu Guanglai sighed slightly.

"Economic development is something that is beneficial to the improvement of the people, right? Where does Shangcheng County's finances come from so much money for this?" Zhou Pengcheng frowned.

"Okay, Mr. Zhou. Let's not discuss these things. I am here on behalf of the county government. In fact, my views are similar to yours. If a place wants to develop, boosting the economy is the mainstream." Hu Guanglai also said Some people can't stand those people doing so-called political achievement projects.

But there is no way, I am a person who speaks lightly!

In the entire county, he is only the executive deputy county magistrate who ranks in the middle.

"Mr. Zhou, County Magistrate Hu is the one who attaches the most importance to investment promotion in the county. And I heard that County Magistrate Hu has been out to attract investment for nearly a month. He just came back from outside yesterday." Xu Delong said immediately.

"Are there any results?" Zhou Pengcheng glanced at Hu Guanglai and asked.

Some officials are really doing things for the people, but some officials are taking advantage of their positions to attract investment, but in fact they are probably taking the opportunity to travel.

Hu Guanglai listened to Zhou Pengcheng's words and said happily: "Mr. Zhou seems to be inspecting me..."

"That's not true..." Zhou Pengcheng smiled slightly, "But I just want to hear County Magistrate Hu's thoughts..."

"In that case, let me talk about it. This time I went to eastern Zhejiang, southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong and other places. Although I was a little distracted, I also learned a lot. In half a month, I signed We have already secured a project with an investment of about 7 million, and there are still two projects under discussion. One of them should be almost completed, about 5 million. I don’t know if this result will satisfy Mr. Zhou. ?" Hu Guanglai said with a smile.

"What project?" Zhou Pengcheng asked with a smile.

"Both are machining companies. Our current employment situation in Shangcheng County is not optimistic. I estimate that these two factories can create about 300 more jobs." Hu Guanglai said directly.

"Three hundred jobs, three hundred families' livelihood." Xu Delong also sighed.

"Yes, if I can create one more job, I think it will contribute more to the development of our Shangcheng County. My personal abilities are limited, so I can only do my best!"

"well said!"

Right now!

Two more people walked in outside the door. The leader was Qin Xiangkai, and the one following him was Zhou Haiyang.

As soon as these two people heard that Zhou Pengcheng called them to Dagang Town for something important, they immediately put down their work and came over.

What he didn't expect was that as soon as Qin Xiangkai came in, he heard Hu Guanglai's impassioned speech.

He couldn't help but yelled "Okay..."