Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 231: Frustrated District Chief Zhao

"Comrades, after several months of deployment, we have basically completed the construction of evacuation points in low-lying villages, most of which are in village committees and elderly activity centers.

The relief quilts and emergency food should be stored inside, as well as the necessary life jackets and regular medicines. You should check again when you go back.

All township mayors and street office directors should pay great attention to this and randomly select a few evacuation points to check the material supply situation after returning.

In addition, you need to collect a number of residents living in low-lying areas of each village.

We must be clear about which groups of people are the focus and which areas are the focus.”

Qi Tongwei coughed twice at this time and knocked on the microphone to indicate that he wanted to speak. The subordinates below, who were originally a little drowsy after Li Wei's speech, were suddenly awakened and looked towards the podium.

"Comrades, today is Saturday and we should have a day off. I am also very sleepy, but there are still so many things to do.

Everyone, please work harder.

District Chief Li just mentioned the number of villagers in the low-lying areas. You should go back and make a basic list to find out exactly how many people there are.

If the river water flows back, how many residents will be affected? This job is no joke. When a typhoon comes, we must first evacuate these people.

Everyone must submit their names to the Disaster Prevention Office before next Wednesday. No room for negotiation.

District Chief Li continued.

Li Wei continued to chant.

“Most of the eleven houses on the beach have completed the signing, and the remaining four are still discussing the decoration standards. Leaders of several relevant departments, please pay attention to the time.

If we can’t agree on the demolition before the rainy season arrives, the risks will become greater and greater.”

At this time Qi Tongwei interrupted again.

“People from the Urban Management Bureau have arrived, and the rectification orders have been issued. Don’t treat them as waste paper. When the time comes, report them to the court and request compulsory enforcement.

What are the decoration standards? Why give them so much money? I will give them an ultimatum when the time comes. You can communicate again in the afternoon and convey the instructions of the district government.

We have also done our best to use courtesy before force, and we should be tough when necessary."

Li Wei moved on to the next topic.

“The city is evaluating the feasibility of the flood embankment construction plan reported by Jiangbei Subdistrict, and your relevant departments should pay more attention to it.

According to past practice, it will take several months to complete the project. Construction can begin in winter when the flood season ends.

Pay attention to the timing.

The last thing is the work at the geological disaster site. The relevant streets, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, and Land and Resources Bureau should complete the signing as soon as possible.

We will try to move the people out next week. There are only seven families in total. The general manager just mentioned it to me. You, the deputy section-level leaders, should all be responsible for one family and negotiate the terms.

The district government will advance the money first, and then compensate according to the first-level demolition standard.”

This first-level demolition standard is set by the municipal government. Generally, only the core areas of a few urban districts can receive so much compensation. The remote areas of Jiangbei New District are generally subject to the second-level demolition standard. Therefore, the compensation amount has been increased here to advance the work. However, since this was said at the meeting, it must have been approved at the team meeting. Jin Xinkai still has strict control over the issue of paying money.

“Well, apart from the flood control embankment issue, which still has time to go through the procedures, the other tasks are already very rushed. We must clearly identify the responsible persons and the time nodes, and we cannot drag it out any longer.

I ask you to report the progress twice a week to District Chief Li, and report directly to the Disaster Reduction Office, and the people in the Disaster Reduction Office will do a good job of supervision.

If anyone is irresponsible in their work and delays progress, please ask the Discipline Inspection Commission to intervene.”

In the end, it was Qi Tongwei who spoke harshly. Since the district chief was not there, he had to make the final decision.

After the meeting, before Qi Tongwei was about to leave with his thermos cup, something happened again. His subordinates asked him to sign a note and asked for money.

"Why did you spend so much? The reception fee is more than 50,000. Did you take kickbacks?"

Qi Tongwei immediately stared at the exaggerated numbers on the note, but he guessed that his subordinates would not dare to take the kickback, that is, there must be another hidden reason, when receiving inspections from higher-level departments, there would sometimes be some, you know, invisible expenses, especially in some aspects of entertainment in Jiangbei New District.

"Director, how dare I? The leaders of the Provincial Family Planning Office came here this time, and it was District Chief Zhao who led the reception team. I was just running errands."

District Chief Zhao is the deputy district chief in charge of family planning. He usually keeps a low profile and is in charge of family planning, agriculture and forestry.

Jiangbei New District is an urban area, needless to say there are almost no farmers working in the fields. Everyone wants to harden their own private fields, pour cement on them, build a shed and start small workshop production. The agricultural output is really too low. Anyway, the farmland in the entire Jiangbei New District is decreasing year by year, and the output is also decreasing year by year. It has never been a unit that is taken seriously.

Another task that District Chief Zhao is in charge of is family planning. Logically, family planning should be the most strictly enforced national policy in rural areas. However, there is one thing that neither Qi Tongwei nor Jin Xinkai likes about this policy.

Unlike some areas, which use family planning and fines for having more children than allowed as an important channel for giving bonuses to officials, Qi Tongwei's principle is that our district will do its best to complete whatever tasks the superiors require, but there is not much reward for completion. The fines also go into the district's financial account instead of being distributed to officials as bonuses. However, it is easy to take the blame for doing something wrong.

As a result, the cadres of the street offices and townships lost their enthusiasm and initiative in family planning work. In the past, they were like wolves and tigers because they would fine 20,000 yuan for each child who had an extra child, and directly give out a bonus of 4,000 yuan, which was almost 20% of the fines and confiscations as bonuses. In addition, their superiors paid attention to it and set performance targets. As a result, everyone naturally went to people's homes to steal pigs and sheep for their own selfish interests.

Qi Tongwei and Jin Xinkai almost defeated the enthusiasm of the cadres in Jiangbei New District to do family planning work with just this one trick. That is, the powers and responsibilities are not clearly defined. If you do a good job, it is what you should do, and the money collected from the fines is public money. If you create conflicts among the masses, you have to solve them yourself. If something goes wrong, the district will not hesitate to push the cadres who made mistakes out for punishment to appease the anger of the people.

First, there is no need to go against the policies of superiors, and second, there is no need to give others something to talk about.

This is called "there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom."

If the actual top two leaders in the district government have this attitude towards family planning work, then the cadres throughout the district will feel it. The sense of smell of grassroots cadres is definitely much more sensitive than that of ordinary people.

However, this situation also made District Chief Zhao feel very frustrated.

She actually has quite a lot of experience. She was appointed as deputy district mayor at the same time as Qi Tongwei. That is, she was transferred from the municipal government when Jiangbei New District was just established.