Chapter 701 Demolition Generation
Half a month after returning to Yanjing, Lin Weimin has resumed his previous work and life rhythm.
It's almost the end of the year, and there's not much progress in the Chinese Literature Society. There are endless meetings and paperwork all day long. Lin Weimin and Lao Cheng and Lao Zhou are blaming each other, embodying the word "old-fashioned" to the fullest.
"What do you want me to do at this office meeting? Go find Lao Cheng! Go find Lao Cheng!"
"The president has gone to a meeting at the department."
"Where's Lao Zhou?"
"Secretary Zhou has asked for sick leave, saying he has high blood pressure."
"This old fox is more active than anyone else in grabbing credit."
Lin Weimin complained mercilessly, not treating the young man in front of him as an outsider at all.
"I know. Go ahead and get busy."
Without embarrassing the young man for a few seconds, Chief Editor Lin very tactfully agreed to attend the meeting.
The level of the Guowen Society is not low. Logically, there should be many people who work hard to become leaders, but the reality is that in recent years, there are very few leaders who have truly reached high positions.
The main reason is that it is too salty.
Not only is his mentality lame, but his actions are also like that.
It won't move unless you poke it, and it won't move even if you poke it.
What's worse is that there are people like Lin Weimin, who won't move when led, and even moves backwards when hit.
He went to the office for a meeting. Director Song was the chairperson of the meeting. After the meeting, Lin Weimin went to greet the leader. When the leader saw him, his face became serious, his nose was not a nose, his eyes were not eyes, and it was obvious that he did not like him.
Why are leaders so narrow-minded?
Two days later, New Year's Day was approaching, and the Chinese Literature Society held a summary meeting before the holiday.
At the meeting, Old Cheng looked beaming with pride.
Even though he was reluctant to attend the meeting at the higher-level unit, that was because he was not the one speaking on the stage.
They are holding a meeting on their own small piece of land and are extremely excited.
"Comrades, 1993 was an extraordinary year for our Guowen Press, a year of great development.
In this year's book publishing and distribution work, we have discovered and launched a large number of works that are widely popular among readers.
Not to mention the Buhu Tiger series, "Spirited Away", "The Last Hun", "Bali Love and Hatred" and so on, each of them is a bestseller with sales of over one million or even tens of millions of copies, laying a solid foundation for our book distribution work this year.
Thanks to these excellent works, our book circulation this year hit a record high of more than 38 million copies. The circulation of publications has maintained a steady upward trend despite the continued sluggish market, reaching more than 32 million copies.
The total circulation of books and periodicals exceeded 70 million copies, which not only set a new record in our history, but also surpassed most of our peers and reached the leading level in the industry. "
Lin Weimin felt that this "colleague" most likely referred to the People's Social Socialite next door.
Colleagues are enemies, let alone enemies living in the same building.
Cheng Zaochun just mentioned the "tens of millions of copies bestseller". It took less than 11 months from the time Spirited Away was released in January to the end of November when its sales officially exceeded 10 million copies. This also set a record for the fastest sales of 10 million copies in the history of China's publishing industry.
The total circulation of books and periodicals of Guowen Publishing House this year exceeded 70 million copies, with sales of 360 million yuan and actual revenue reaching 258 million yuan.
In addition to Guowen Press, the independently operated Tongwen Press also achieved historic success this year.
This year, Tongwen Publishing House has made great efforts in many sub-sectors of popular literature, and its sales have been steadily increasing, with book sales reaching more than 29 million copies.
After five months of development, the sales of "Hongdou" magazine have exceeded 2 million copies per issue. Combined with the stable sales of "Jiuzhou Heroes", Tongwen Press's publication sales this year have reached more than 54 million copies.
Sales volume was 315 million yuan, and actual revenue was 174 million yuan.
Including the income of Tongwen Publishing House, Guowen Publishing House's revenue this year reached 432 million yuan, an increase of more than 35% over last year.
As a publishing house in a traditional industry, it is truly terrifying to achieve such results.
Today, Guowen Publishing House has become a giant in the domestic publishing industry.
After the summary meeting, Cheng Zaochun was still feeling unsatisfied and pulled Lin Weimin aside.
"The statistics from the agency came out just two days ago. This year, the total number of copies printed by our country's publishing industry reached 5.934 billion, a decrease of about 300 million copies from last year.
The print runs of major publishing houses have also declined, but our Guowen Publishing House has stood out, with a significant increase in print runs for three consecutive years.
What is even more impressive is our share of the total pricing amount. The national total is only 13.674 billion, and we alone account for 675 million, accounting for five percentage points.
A full five percentage points!"
When Cheng Zaochun said this, the wrinkles on his face could no longer be hidden, and he stretched out a palm and waved it in front of Lin Weimin's eyes.
Lin Weimin was blocked by Cheng Zaochun. He asked helplessly, "Are you okay?"
"You want to leave early again?"
Cheng Zaochun saw through Lin Weimin's thoughts at a glance.
Lin Weimin said: "That's right!"
Cheng Zaochun: …
No one carries themselves on their backs anymore!
Cheng Zaochun blocked Lin Weimin and called Lao Zhou. The three giants of the Guowen Society gathered again and held a small meeting.
"After the big meeting, you have a small meeting. You haven't had enough meetings this month, right?" Lin Weimin complained.
"You know nothing. Hold a big meeting to handle small matters, and hold a small meeting to handle big matters."
As soon as Lao Cheng finished speaking, Lao Zhou's eyes immediately lit up.
"What's the big deal?"
“Build a house!”
Old Cheng only said three words, but they seemed to have magical power, even Lin Weimin was attracted to him.
"Building a family building?" Old Zhou asked again uncertainly.
In recent years, raising funds to build houses has become a trend.
Cheng Zaochun nodded and said, "Yes, we will build a family housing complex."
"Is there enough money?" Lao Zhou asked another key question.
"No problem. There are only a few hundred people in our community. I asked someone and they said 10,000 or 20,000 yuan is enough. We will build houses together and the money will be paid by the community first. Then the houses will be divided according to everyone's contribution and how much money they paid."
Lao Cheng came prepared and had even figured out how much money would need to be spent and how to divide the house.
"You didn't count the land, did you?" Lin Weimin asked.
"Does the land cost money?" asked Lao Cheng.
"Why not? Our Chinese Literature Society has no land."
"Can't I just apply to the higher-ups?"
"There's no land up there either. We still have to coordinate. We'll definitely have to spend money to buy it. It's just a matter of how much."
After Lin Weimin finished speaking, Cheng Zaochun pondered for a while, "The land price shouldn't be expensive now, right?"
The reason why Lao Cheng asked this question is that the real estate market in Hainan has skyrocketed this year, and real estate prices across the country have dropped accordingly.
"You're talking about JZ building a house, but you don't even know about this?" Lin Weimin said sarcastically.
"Let's get down to business, let's get down to business." Old Cheng coughed and changed the subject.
"If you buy land through formal channels, the most expensive residential land is 7,000 yuan."
"One acre?"
"Just give it to you for free? Yiping!"
Lao Cheng and Lao Zhou both gasped. 7,000 yuan per square meter, even if they pawned their pants at the Guowen Society, it wouldn't be enough to buy the land.
Although the Guowen Publishing House has made a lot of money in the past two years, the bulk of the profits have to be turned over every year, leaving only a few cents for themselves to live on, and it was very tight. It took Old Cheng two years of saving before he dared to do this.
"Isn't the price of public housing for sale this year only four or five hundred yuan per square meter?" asked Lao Zhou.
"Commercial housing is still 2,000 yuan per square meter, why don't you say anything? Besides, 7,000 yuan is for the best locations in Yanjing, such as Xidan North Street, Xisi South Street, Xisi North Street, Di'anmen West Street... basically all in the inner city." Lin Weimin said.
Lao Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How much is it near the Third Ring Road?"
"About 2,000 to 3,000 per square meter."
Old Cheng bared his teeth and said, "That's not cheap!"
"You can't calculate it that way. If you get the land, you can build higher. If you build two six-story residential buildings, the construction area will have to be close to 10,000 square meters, which is enough to accommodate all the employees of our National Literature Society. How much land can we use? If we build the buildings side by side, we won't even be able to use 3,000 square meters."
Lao Cheng calculated silently in his mind, "It's still too expensive."
"I'll scratch you to death!"
"You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run a household."
Lin Weimin has become immune to Lao Cheng's verbal attacks.
At this time, Lao Zhou asked: "Weimin, how do you know so much about the land price?"
Old Cheng also looked at Lin Weimin curiously. Yes, who would care about such things? How do you know it so clearly?
"Well, two of my houses were demolished in Xicheng this year." Lin Weimin said hesitantly.
Zhou and Cheng became even more curious when they heard this and asked, "It was demolished? How much did you pay?"
The word "demolition" is still a new word for the people of Yanjing. Although demolition has been going on since the 1950s and 1960s, real market-oriented demolition only appeared in the early 1990s.
"It's not much money. The two courtyard houses and the residential land together cover an area of more than 800 square meters. I only paid more than 80,000 yuan in total."
Old Cheng touched his chin and said, "That's not much!"
Old Zhou asked, "I heard that the house was not returned to him?"
"Give it to me, one level on top of another."
"What do you mean?" Old Cheng asked stupidly and naively.
Old Zhou's expression was full of resentment and envy. "That is to say, this kid not only got more than 80,000 yuan, but also got more than 800 square meters of real estate, a residential building."
Old Cheng stared at Lin Weimin, feeling angry at being teased, but more of envy and jealousy.
"Can you live in a house of more than 800 square meters?"
Lin Weimin spread his hands and said, "Yeah, I'm worried too! Isn't it rented out?"
Lao Cheng: ...
Lao Zhou: ...
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about JZ building a house." After suffering a blow, Lao Zhou recovered quickly.
Old Cheng was not good at this. While he was talking about JZ's house building, all he was thinking about was Lin Weimin's 800-square-meter property.
The land in Yanjing City is too expensive. If you really want to buy it, it will be a considerable expense.
The three of them discussed for a long time, and Lin Weimin finally came up with an idea. The Guowen Society could cooperate with units that had land to build houses.
The idea of letting the other party provide the land and the Guowen Society provide the construction funds was unanimously approved by Lao Cheng and Lao Zhou.
The general direction has been determined, but this is not the end of the matter.
Building houses in JZ is a matter of great importance. The commune needs to mobilize funds and the employees also have to pay.
It is easy to deal with the comrades on duty, but the key is the retired comrades. There are many elders in the Guowen Society, and they are highly respected. They have to explain the situation to these old men and women to avoid misunderstandings.
When it comes to the ability to deal with old men and women, Lin Weimin in the Guowen Society is second to none.
Therefore, he was honored to take on this task.
The task of finding land fell on Cheng Zaochun, after all, he was the president.
As for Lao Zhou, just like his position in the society, all he has to do is talk.
(End of this chapter)
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