(Transition chapter)
The top floor of a newly renovated six-story office building.
This is a large office formed by connecting two offices.
The office, which was over 50 square meters, was filled with smoke. The trash can was filled with boxes of Fengshou cigarettes, with one or two boxes of Qingzhou cigarettes mixed in.
Several middle-aged cadres in Zhongshan suits were smoking silently with their heads down, and from time to time they glanced towards the figure standing with his back to them in the window.
The man in the figure was not tall, but he stood very straight, and the gray hair on his temples could be faintly seen.
A cigarette almost burned out between his fingers, but he still didn't move.
When a flickering wisp of cigarette ash fell against his fingers, he suddenly realized what was happening and put out the cigarette butt on the windowsill.
Tang Jianan, 58 years old, was from Qingzhou, Shandong Province.
He was the director of the Laicheng Mining Bureau at the time and concurrently served as the first secretary of the bureau's executive committee.
Don't underestimate Director Tang. Although he is only a department-level cadre, the bureau's leadership was directly under the provincial government half a year ago.
For example, the former director who retired five years ago was at the deputy bureau level at the time.
Tang Jianan has been working as director for six years. Last year, there was news that he would be transferred back to the province for another promotion.
But when the document came out half a year ago, Tang Jianan's heart immediately sank to the bottom.
The capital issued an instruction to split and restructure the mining bureaus responsible for the operation of major gold mines in various places, and to separate the gold mining business into a gold company.
With Tang Jianan's level and vision, he could naturally see that this was a big move by the higher-ups for the sake of reform and opening up.
The Laicheng area has been one of the largest gold producing areas in the country since ancient times.
Under their Laicheng Mining Bureau, the most important mine besides those old gold mines is the Zhaoyuan Gold Mine discovered in 1967.
Less than two years after the gold mine was officially built, the Laiyang Mining Bureau was directly transformed into a key provincial enterprise.
Even their Mining Bureau is an enterprise that the capital pays special attention to.
Even after the Zhaoyuan gold mine officially started production in 1981, the provincially-managed leader of the Mining Bureau was a vice-provincial leader.
However, as soon as the restructuring document was issued, the gold mine, the most important business of the Laicheng Mining Bureau, was separated out to form a gold company. This meant that the Laicheng Mining Bureau, which was previously highly valued by both the capital and the province, immediately went from being a popular institution to a small and transparent entity that no one cared about.
From direct provincial management to municipal co-management, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it won’t be long before the Laicheng Mining Bureau will be directly managed by the city.
And the independent gold company will still be the popular one that everyone is paying attention to.
This huge sense of disappointment filled the hearts of everyone in the Mining Bureau.
Especially for cadres like Tang Jianan who should be under provincial management, their future prospects are much worse.
In fact, Tang Jianan also thought about simply giving up being the director and going directly to the gold company to be the head...
But who knew that the province believed that the overall work of the Mining Bureau still needed him, and the appointment of the general manager of the gold company was directly assigned by the capital - the higher-ups directly transferred an old miner from the Northeast to serve as the executive deputy director of the Mining Bureau and the second secretary of the Party Committee.
Tang Jianan was naturally dissatisfied, so in the past six months, he tried to delay the progress of the reform as much as possible.
The Mining Bureau has a large department. In addition to the Executive Deputy Director Huang Jianmin who was newly transferred from the Northeast, there are nine other deputy directors, each in charge of a different department.
Most of the deputy directors would listen to Director Tang's instructions.
Relying on his many years of experience in the bureau, Tang Jianan repeatedly delayed the reform progress proposed by Huang Jianmin.
Huang Jianmin was no pushover either. In January, he sent a report directly to the department in Beijing.
The department did not directly reprimand Tang Jianan and his gang, but instead transferred two of the five deputy directors who supported Tang Jianan, and transferred two more from other places to fill the positions of deputy directors.
Excluding a few deputy directors who had always been neutral, the number of people supporting Tang Jianan and Huang Jianmin at the meeting became exactly the same.
However, under the influence of Tang Jianan's negative attitude, the reform work promoted by Huang Jianmin had little effect. Except for the gold mining system, other people under him did not cooperate much.
So just as March began, Director Tang received a criticism from within the provincial system!
The source of the smoke smell in the office was this criticism notice.
What made Tang Jianan even more worried was that the capital actually sent a researcher to the bureau to conduct research.
Although the researcher does not have the same right as the inspector to directly intervene in the management of the bureau's affairs, the visitor, although not an imperial envoy, is a real military supervisor.
This shows how much importance the higher authorities attach to this reform.
Although Tang Jianan's back was straight, his heart was gloomy.
The situation is such that he cannot continue to be negative.
At this time, a rough voice, mixed with great impatience, finally broke the solemn atmosphere in the room.
"Mr. Huang has half the number of votes as us at the meeting, but Director Tang still holds the veto power."
The person speaking was Tan Jingjun, deputy director of the Mining Bureau, who is in charge of public security, safety and mine security.
"If we can't come to an agreement, then we'll have to part ways. We can't let the gold company take away all the wealth our Mining Bureau has accumulated!"
Tan Jingjun was originally a staunch supporter of Tang Jianan and one of the people who had the greatest objections to this reform.
What's more, the security work he was responsible for had nothing to do with the separated gold company.
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