Rebirth of Minister Qi

Having been in charge at the grassroots level for a long time, Jin Xinkai has developed his bearing and confidence. Qi Tongwei's people have already gained control of part of the power of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and he also has many people who have pledged their allegiance to him. After several years of operation, the two of them have become more powerful.

He has connections both above and below him, and he has political achievements to back him up. He has sufficient personal prestige. If he wants to reap the big peaches of the development of their two new districts, he has to be a son of the provincial party secretary to be able to fight.

“Secretary Gao, don’t worry, we two will fully support you in the municipal government.

With such a good development backed by the high-tech zone, things will definitely go smoothly in the next few years.”

Gao Yuliang was also delighted by what he said.

“I am not worried about your ability to develop the economy. What I am worried about is the uneven development of the entire city.

There are still many poor people in the vast rural areas, and poverty alleviation is the most difficult issue I face."

Qi Tongwei spoke at this time.

"Secretary Gao, poverty alleviation requires precision, and only with precision can we help the truly poor people.

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Who really needs money and who needs poverty alleviation? Instead of asking village cadres to report the households they are familiar with and then directly giving money without verification.

If we ask the townships to do the verification, it will increase the workload a lot, and if we outsource it, it will cost money.

Now we haven't established a complete database and don't understand how many people are truly in poverty, so we'd better not act rashly as it can easily backfire.

I do have a suggestion. Instead of taking large-scale actions to alleviate poverty, we should focus on developing the economy, increasing jobs, and releasing the agricultural labor force in rural areas.

Then, the city paid for the agricultural tax and the levy.”

Qi Tongwei has only one method to alleviate poverty. Now that the city's finances are becoming more affluent, he will first pay the agricultural tax on behalf of the farmers. This thing is too useless now, and not much money is collected, not even as much as the tax revenue of several large enterprises.

However, there are so many people involved, and the tax collection task alone causes so much trouble every year. This amount of money is not much in the eyes of the municipal government, but in the eyes of the farmers, it is not a small amount of money at all. Grassroots cadres sometimes act rudely and arrogantly.

“Tongwei’s suggestion is simple, but very practical.

I also feel that the current agricultural tax is a bit useless for our city’s finances.

We still don’t have enough time to build a high-standard highway, and so many conflicts occur every year.

Conflicts have occurred in several counties in the south because of the collection of agricultural taxes. The agriculture in our Dong'ou City is not developed at all, yet we still collect so much as a public tax.

The higher-ups won't cancel it because they want to coordinate the development of the entire country, but our city has its own situation. If the higher-ups are unwilling to waive the money, then it would be better for our city government to pay for it ourselves.

This amount of money can be easily saved on other expenses.”

Gao Yuliang was obviously very excited after hearing this. For example, the agricultural tax for Yongqing County this year was paid by the Jiangbei New District. The amount was not much, but the trouble caused was no less.

Even if all agricultural taxes are collected across the city, it would only be a small amount. Just as Jin Xinkai said, if we save a little in the expenditure of a certain project, the money will be squeezed out immediately.

If this matter is done well, then the first thing Gao Yuliang will do after taking office will be to carry out projects that benefit the people. These are projects that benefit the people quite naturally. Others dare not do them because they are afraid of being held accountable by their superiors. However, Gao Yuliang was parachuted in from above and is protected by his superiors. As long as he communicates well with his superiors, he does not have to worry about being held accountable by his superiors.

If ordinary cadres are timid and easily held accountable, Gao Yuliang does not need to worry at this time. He can communicate with his superiors and start doing it directly after getting their approval.

This suggestion is quite reasonable and feasible, and it is also very topical. At the very least, it concerns the vital interests of millions of farmers in Dong'ou City, and the reputation it will gain alone is enormous.

The more Gao Yuliang thought about it, the more excited he became. He was even eager to come up with a plan immediately. However, looking at Jin Qi and the others, he slowly calmed down. When he was in charge of a region in the future, there would be many important things to take over. He had to stay calm. Stay calm.

At this time, Gao Yuliang brought the topic back to the city's personnel matters.

“Just do your work with peace of mind. As long as I am still in this position, you two don’t have to worry about anything else.

Another thing is that the infrastructure approval authority of the high-tech zone has now been officially delegated to the Management Committee.

There will be no need to go to the city for approval in the future, and everything will be handled by the city departments.

Including approval authority, a large number of dozens of administrative powers will be officially delegated to the high-tech zone.

But the economic development zones also received the same treatment.”

The latter sentence was like nonsense to Jin Qi and the others. The development momentum of the Economic Development Zone was not as good as that of the High-tech Zone at that time, and the industries introduced were all messy low-end industries. The comparison between the two was like the difference between a certain mooncake brand that had just been established for a few years and whose factory was still a small rented building and the Xinmei mooncake brand that had been famous in the Hong Kong market for decades.

The Hi-Tech Zone is like Xinmei Mooncake. Its industries tend to be technology-intensive and capital-intensive. The factories are beautiful, there are very few safety and environmental risks, but the output value is frighteningly high.

The current structure of the Economic and Technological Development Zone is still a little different from the light industrial zone of Jiangbei Street. The industries are basically concentrated in low-voltage electrical appliances and light industrial products, all of which are low-end manufacturing industries that are easily replaced. Even now, with the vast national market, they have begun to involuntarily roll back their operations. They do not have a high-tech promotion committee like the high-tech zone to unify specifications and standards.

Anyway, Jin Qi and the other person never regarded the Economic Development Zone as an opponent. The municipal party committee leaders also saw very clearly that the Economic Development Zone was in such a mess. There were small fires every three days, workers got into accidents every five days, and there were huge problems with public security.

Not to mention anything else, just look at the streets in the Economic Development Zone. Wow, the green belts are full of artificial fertilizers. If you accidentally fall into the green belts, it would be so disgusting that you would want to commit suicide by jumping into the river.

The high-tech zone is different. It is relatively standardized. The green belts are regularly cleaned by dedicated personnel and the streets are beautiful. Ever since those hundred-ton dump trucks were banned from passing through the roads in the high-tech zone, the roads here have become famous for their beauty and cleanliness.

“What can the economic development zones do? It’s not that I look down on them, but they don’t have any industrial planning, no infrastructure planning, and their management is a mess.

Several departments are just sitting there doing nothing, and they are not as good as the two small industrial zones in Jiangbei Street."

However, Gao Yuliang knew that the development of the Economic Development Zone was actually better than that of most other industrial zones. But compared with the High-tech Zone, there was a huge difference and it was instantly not worth mentioning.