Siheyuan, my new life

In the secretary's office of Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office, Zhou Xiu said to Director Wang, who was sitting across from her desk, with a serious expression, "I just received a call from my superiors. They are planning to build the first steelmaking furnace in Jiaodaokou Subdistrict as one of the pilot projects of the Beijing Mass Steelmaking Movement. When the time comes, experts and professors from the Iron and Steel Institute and technicians from the steel mill will come to provide on-site guidance."

Director Wang's face showed an excitement that was hard to conceal. She was of course aware that Jiaodaokou Street Office, as a pilot area for Beijing's Great Steel Production Movement, would be of great benefit to the leaders of the street office as long as certain results were achieved. Not to mention immediate promotion, at least a strong record of achievements would be left in their respective files. Of course, Director Wang was also very clear that the reason Jiaodaokou Street Office could become one of the pilot areas for Beijing's Great Steel Production Movement was mainly because of Secretary Zhou in front of her. Thinking about the big leaders and generals who attended Lin Yu's wedding banquet, it was enough to prove the deep background of Lin Yu. What shocked her even more was that the gentleman actually appeared at Lin Yu's wedding and served as the witness.

Director Wang suppressed his excitement and said solemnly, "Secretary, the district has chosen Jiaodaokou Subdistrict as one of the pilot projects. We will not disappoint our superiors and will definitely go all out to do a good job."

Zhou Xiu shook her head slightly: "It's not a notice from the district. I just received a call from the main leader of the city. The official document will be sent to the district soon."

After hearing what Secretary Zhou said, Director Wang was even more surprised. She never expected that the city's main leader would bypass the district government and call Secretary Zhou directly to inform him. However, when she thought of the existence of Lin Yu, it all seemed to make sense.

Director Wang suppressed his wild thoughts and said, "Secretary, since the city has entrusted such an important pilot task to our Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office, we will definitely not let the leaders down. Do you have any instructions?"

Zhou Xiu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then smiled and said, "Director Wang, the most urgent task now is to immediately start selecting a suitable site. You are more familiar with the situation of Jiaodaokou Street than I am. Do you have any suitable locations? First of all, the site must be convenient for transportation and the area cannot be too small. The main leaders of the city intend to directly build three small steelmaking furnaces under the guidance of relevant experts, and the city will centrally allocate the required materials."

Before being transferred to Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, Director Wang served as deputy director of Qianmen Sub-district Office and has considerable grassroots work experience. Although it has been less than a year since she took office as director of Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, she has already visited all the neighborhood committees and courtyards in the jurisdiction, so she is quite familiar with the situation in the vicinity.

After hearing Zhou Xiu's request, he thought for a while and then said, "Secretary, at the junction of Chunfeng Hutong and Luogou Hutong, there are two adjacent courtyard houses with two entrances. However, they were bombarded and basically destroyed. After liberation, no one came to handle the property ownership procedures. Therefore, these two courtyard houses are currently registered under the name of our Jiaodaokou Street Office. However, due to tight funds in recent years, these two houses have not been repaired. The bricks, tiles and wood that are slightly intact have been picked up and taken home by nearby residents. Now there are only some ruins. I just thought that the transportation there is more convenient. As long as we organize people to clean up the inside, it will definitely not be a problem to build three or four steelmaking furnaces."

Zhou Xiu nodded, looked at her watch, stood up and said, "Director Wang, let's go to the scene together. If the place is suitable, we must immediately organize people to clean it up."

Zhou Xiu and Director Wang, along with several staff members from the street office, came to the two courtyard houses mentioned earlier. All they saw were houses and walls that had long since collapsed. Even the original beams, doors and windows were gone. Only some broken bricks and tiles were left, as well as some withered weeds blowing in the wind.

Zhou Xiu carefully checked the surrounding environment and stepped carefully on the broken bricks and tiles. After a thorough inspection in the yard, she smiled and said to Director Wang who had been following her, "Not only is the transportation here relatively convenient, but the site is also large enough to build three steelmaking furnaces. There is also room to store coal and other materials. OK, I'll call the city to report when I get back so that we can immediately organize personnel to clean up here."

As soon as the work started in the afternoon, except for a few staff members on duty, the rest of the people from Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, led by Zhou Xiu and Director Wang, came to the ruins at the junction of Chunfeng Hutong and Luogou Hutong. At the same time, they also summoned the sanitation workers responsible for cleaning the streets. Forty or fifty people on the scene were busy and nervous.

Originally, Director Wang wanted Zhou Xiu to stay in the street office and bring people to clean up, but Zhou Xiu refused. Now seeing Zhou Xiu taking the lead and leading everyone to work together, the morale of the street office staff present became even higher.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the broken bricks and tiles and construction waste that were originally scattered on the scene were all cleaned up, and even the surrounding ruins were completely demolished. Before leaving get off work in the afternoon, these staff members of the Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, led by Secretary Zhou and Director Wang, returned to the unit with smiles on their faces, carrying their tools.

In the next few days, the city delivered all the materials needed to build the steel furnace, and the assigned experts and technicians began on-site guidance work.

The first group of people to receive guidance were young officials from the street offices and neighborhood committees. After all, young people are not only physically strong but also mentally flexible. The most important thing is that these young officials have basically received junior high school education, and among them there are several high school graduates. Nowadays, high school graduates are considered to have a high level of education.

A week later, under the on-site guidance of relevant experts and technicians, and through the joint efforts of the Jiaodaokou Street Office, the neighborhood committee and the street construction team, the first steelmaking furnace was successfully built and passed the ignition test.

After Lin Yu's private reminder, Zhou Xiu specially invited the main leaders from the city and district to participate in the completion and ignition test.

Obviously, the city and the district attached great importance to the first small-scale steel-making furnace of the city's first large-scale steel-making pilot project. Several major leaders from the city and the district were invited to participate in the completion and ignition test. When the professor from the Iron and Steel College present announced the acceptance after careful inspection, everyone present applauded excitedly.