115: Chapter 115 Meeting with the Municipal Party Secretary

Generally, in this kind of situation, it would certainly be Secretary Xue Hongtao who comes out to report.

However, the situation in Mishui Township was developed single-handedly by Sun Ning.

Moreover, Secretary Xue Hongtao was not the type to steal credit, and he placed high hopes on Sun Ning.

Therefore, he spoke up directly: "Secretary Zheng, the development of Mishui Township was led by Township Head Sun, so Township Head Sun is more familiar with the situation."

At this point, being overly modest was not Sun Ning's style.

He adjusted his expression: "Secretary Zheng, regarding the situation in Mishui Township published in the Heyang Daily, it is true and contains no exaggerations."

Then, Sun Ning began to talk incessantly about the situation in Mishui Township.

Of course, due to time constraints, he only selected some key points to report.

The general content included Mishui Township's educational achievements, town construction, investment attraction work, Party building work, and special tourism projects.

And every time he reached specific data, Sun Ning always used words like "estimated" or "approximately."

There was no other way!

When reporting work to the Municipal Party Committee Secretary, you can't just talk about vague things, right?

You have to state those figures, don't you?

But it is only mid-year now, and various data have not been tallied yet.

So Sun Ning could only use words like "estimated" or "approximately."

Sun Ning spoke, and Zheng Zhanzhong listened, listening very carefully and occasionally making notes in his notebook.

When Sun Ning finished, Zheng Zhanzhong said with some disbelief in his tone: "Are you saying that the per capita disposable income in Mishui Township is expected to reach 12,000 yuan?"

"And the minimum wage for workers in the several factories in Mishui Township can reach 800 yuan?"

It was no wonder Zheng Zhanzhong was surprised, and even a bit skeptical.

Last year, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in the entire Zhongzhou City (including counties and districts) was less than 12,000.

Even with some growth this year, it would only be an increase of less than 10 percent.

Now Sun Ning was bragging, bluntly stating that the per capita disposable income in Mishui Township was expected to reach 12,000.

And the minimum wage for workers could also reach 800 yuan.

Were those enterprises doing charity?

Seeing that Zheng Zhanzhong was somewhat skeptical, Secretary Xue Hongtao quickly spoke up: "Party Secretary, it is mainly because the wages offered by those few Deep Blue enterprises are relatively high."

The fact that Deep Blue Company offered relatively high wages was decided by Sun Ning.

In his previous life, there were two relatively famous enterprises in Heyang Province.

One was the people-oriented Pang Dong Lai, and the other was the Heyang Mine that would frequently distribute money to employees.

Sun Ning believed that even if Deep Blue could not become such an enterprise, it should not be stingy when it came to employees.

To put it plainly, how much were employees' wages worth?

If an enterprise can only create profit by squeezing employees' wages, then it might as well close down.

Furthermore, he didn't care about this small amount of money.

The money earned by letting Shang Rou take a trip to the United States was much faster than industry.

The reason for letting Deep Blue lay out its industrial layout was, to put it plainly, for his own political achievements and to increase income for the common people.

Of course, there was also the factor of thinking about Shang Rou's future.

When Deep Blue's employees number in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, then Shang Rou would no longer be an ordinary businessperson.

That might involve the lives of hundreds of thousands of families and millions of people.

At that time, Shang Rou would no longer be just a simple Hong Kong businessperson.

At the very least, she would have a seat at the Two Sessions.

Furthermore, Sun Ning deeply understood that only industry could revitalize the nation.

Sun Ning certainly hoped that the motherland would get better and better.

Zheng Zhanzhong temporarily accepted this explanation: "Then I will wait and see."

"Your idea of a service-oriented government in Mishui Township is very interesting. Why do you keep emphasizing that the public should be able to complete procedures in one trip?"

Here it comes!

Sun Ning thought to himself.

What followed was what the leaders were most concerned about.

However, facing this question, Sun Ning felt it necessary to be a bit cautious.

He needed to think clearly about how to answer.

He really wanted to say that in some local governments, officials had ugly faces and things were hard to get done.

And the smaller the place, the harder it was to get things done.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you want to get an ID card, you can't get it done without running back and forth two or three times.

You want to get a business license?

You had better first see if any of your relatives have people in the system.

It was not like those years after he was reborn.

Regardless of how things were done in other aspects.

At the very least, it was not that difficult for the common people to go to the Government Service Hall or the Citizen Service Center to handle affairs.

Those staff members were relatively much kinder.

This was Sun Ning's original intention.

He wanted to change the governing style of Mishui Township; he could not let some bad practices affect the development of Mishui Township.

But he could not say these things.

At the very least, he could not say them on this occasion.

It was his first day meeting Zheng Zhanzhong, and he would act like a cynical young person.

That would leave the leader with an impression of being immature.

Did the leader not know the current situation?

The leader knew better than anyone.

The leaders who could reach Zheng Zhanzhong's position, which one of them was not a shrewd person who had fought their way up?

Did they not want to change?

The leaders also wanted to very much.

But the country's thousands-of-years-old, deeply rooted official-centered ideology was hard to change.

They were also beneficiaries, and they could not offend the people below too severely.

Furthermore, the leader asked you questions because he wanted to hear how you solved problems, not to hear you 'snitch.'

Therefore, Sun Ning organized his thoughts and said in a clear voice: "Party Secretary, at a high-level management forum in China and Europe the year before last, leaders spoke about our government transitioning from functions to capabilities."

"Last year, the Shanghai government work report mentioned the idea of striving to build a service-oriented government."

"I thought that Shanghai is the bridgehead of our country's economy, and we in the interior should learn from their management experience."

"Therefore, I wanted to try out service-oriented government measures in the investment attraction work of Mishui Township, which can also be considered an exploration."

"In my communication with those small merchants, I discovered that the procedures they need to handle to open a store are simply too many."

"If you have to run one trip for one department, then a series of them might take ten days or half a month."

"I think it wastes too much of the merchants' time, and it is not very good for the government's reputation."

"Therefore, I coordinated various departments to gather together to work on-site."

Speaking to this point, Sun Ning thought for a moment again.

He felt that he had almost described the model of the Citizen Service Center or the Government Service Hall of later generations.

If he didn't strike while the iron was hot and say it now, what if Zheng Zhanzhong talked about Sun Ning's ideas when speaking with someone else later?

Then he wouldn't even be able to get the first hot bite of this credit.

"Party Secretary, through the matter of the Mishui Township commercial street, I have initially had an idea."

"That is to concentrate all the business units under the government departments in one office location."

"So that when the public handles affairs, they can get it done in one stop."

"I have even thought of the name; it will be called the Citizen Service Center or the Government Service Hall."

"I think this will be a major innovation in our government's exploration of a service-oriented government."

After Sun Ning finished speaking, Zheng Zhanzhong's eyes brightened a bit.

Actually, there was one more thing Sun Ning didn't say, which was about this October.

At the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee, it was emphasized that a service-oriented government should be built to strengthen social management and public service functions.