Cheng Maiqing was stunned for a moment and stammered, "Secretary Song, why did you think of appraising Maizi as an advanced person in the county? She is still young and hasn't done much. She doesn't deserve this title..."

Cheng Maixiang also nodded repeatedly. She was just preparing for her future career, but she never thought about becoming an advanced person, let alone wanting to be in the spotlight.

Especially in this era, those who are rated as advanced have to make reports constantly, wear red flowers and be pulled around the county town by cars, under the pretext of letting the people know and learn from the advanced. In Cheng Maixiang's view, this is tantamount to a parade in the streets.

When Cheng Maixiang thought of herself covered in red and decorated with ribbons, standing in the bed of a truck, and parading on the streets of the county town, with crowds of onlookers on both sides of the road, several black lines appeared on her forehead.

"Why isn't she worthy of being considered an advanced worker? I've found out everything. She founded the Shuangshui Village Garment Factory and designed the clothes. She even went to Guangshi alone and negotiated a partnership with the Guangshi Garment Factory. Now, her clothes are even sold overseas. Such enterprising young people are worthy of learning from for every one of us."

Secretary Song patted Cheng Maiqing on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Captain Cheng, since last year, the official documents sent down by the central government have repeatedly mentioned the need to increase farmers' income.

Although your sister is young, she has brought so much income to the residents of Shuangshui Village this time. Isn't she worthy of praise? I want to establish her as an exemplary figure and call on all villages to learn from her and find ways to make all villagers rich as soon as possible.

After all these years of turmoil, we have finally waited until today. The damaged economy can finally begin to recover. The people have suffered for so many years and finally have hope.

As the secretary, I was very happy and kept thinking about how to complete the tasks assigned by my superiors. After much thought, I decided to find some people and places that are doing well, learn from them, and see if I can use them and popularize them throughout the county.

A few days ago, I heard Secretary Fang mention that Shuangshui Village's income this year was astonishing. Coincidentally, Reporter Ruan had been here for an interview and was familiar with the situation, so I wanted to come and see it for myself."

Cheng Maixiang didn't expect that the news of the attractive dividends in Shuangshui Village would spread so quickly. In less than two days, it reached the ears of the county party secretary. It turned out that it was Ruan Peiling's credit. She looked up and smiled at her, and Ruan Peiling secretly stuck out her tongue.

However, Secretary Song's words made Cheng Maixiang change her mind.

In her previous life, she had a prejudice against the cadres of this era, especially the grassroots cadres, believing that most of them became cadres by relying on ideology and did not attach importance to social and economic development at all.

In fact, when she came to this era, she began to slowly change her perception. Grassroots cadres are actually very concerned about the lives of ordinary people. Precisely because they are also at the grassroots level, they have witnessed with their own eyes how ordinary people live and can better understand their voices. Later, after the policies were relaxed, many policies were quickly implemented at the grassroots level.

If the grassroots cadres were really as unreasonable as she imagined, the documents from the central government would probably not be implemented so smoothly.

From what Secretary Song just said, we can see that he is a person who wholeheartedly works for the people. He is happy about the current situation and wants to seize this rare opportunity to develop the county's economy and make people live a better life.

Cheng Maixiang admires such cadres from the bottom of her heart and is willing to lend him a helping hand so that he can realize his wish as soon as possible.

"What do you think, Comrade Xiao Cheng, are you willing to be this advanced person?" Secretary Song looked at her with a smile.

"Okay, it's rare that Secretary Song doesn't look down on me for being young and ignorant, so I naturally want to accept his kindness. However, I have a request. If you want to select advanced workers, don't name me as advanced, but the Shuangshui Village Garment Workshop as a whole. Although I founded the garment workshop, it is thanks to the hard work of all the workers in the workshop that we have such a good income this year."

Secretary Song and Secretary Fang immediately looked at Cheng Maixiang with admiration. It was really rare for a girl of seventeen or eighteen to receive such a great honor without feeling proud at all, but instead to propose that the collective be rated as advanced.

"Okay, it's settled. This year the city is selecting the top ten outstanding individuals and groups. I'll list Shuangshui Village Garment Workshop as an outstanding group in the county and report it to the city. Comrade Xiao Cheng, you should get ready. You might have to go to the city to give a report in the next few days."

"Okay, I understand, Secretary Song."

Seeing Cheng Maixiang agreed, Cheng Maiqing said nothing more. He was about to invite Secretary Song to sit down for tea when he heard him say excitedly, "I came to Shuangshui Village not only to inform you about the selection of advanced people. I want to visit the garment workshop. Comrade Cheng, what do you think?"

Cheng Maixiang smiled and said, "I'd love for Secretary Song to come and guide the work of our garment workshop. How about I take Secretary Song and Secretary Fang to the garment workshop to take a look?"

Both of them nodded in agreement, and then the five of them went to the garment workshop together.

Secretary Song was not like the cadres of this era who just took a quick look when visiting the countryside. He looked very carefully and was very curious about the garment factory. He asked about many details one by one, no matter how big or small. He was particularly interested in the area divisions and signboards made by Cheng Maixiang, pointing at the contents on them and asking questions non-stop.

Cheng Maixiang answered all the questions one by one, and her answers satisfied Secretary Song very much. In particular, the female workers were very motivated to work after learning that their wages and dividends at the end of the year would be very high. Their overall spirits brightened Secretary Song and Secretary Fang, who were used to seeing lifeless farmers.

It was not until they returned to the Shuangshui Village Brigade Headquarters that Secretary Song finally finished asking questions.

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