After sending her son away, Xie Wanben planned to return to An County the next day, but unexpectedly she received a call from Secretary Jiang, saying that a senior leader from the province wanted to see her.
Xie Wan had no choice but to rush to the provincial government early in the morning.
Although the senior leader only met with her for fifteen minutes, he said to her with great appreciation: "Comrade Xie, I read the materials of your pilot program on household contract responsibility system last night and was very satisfied.
Just go for it. I personally support your An County becoming a pilot county. Go back and wait. There will be an official notice soon."
With the leader's words, Xie Wan felt as if he had taken a reassurance pill.
As soon as she returned to An County, she started to work hard to promote the household contract responsibility system throughout the county and strive to complete the reform of all communes before the spring plowing season next year.
This time, even Zhong Liqin and Pang Ming did not oppose Xie Wan's reform proposals at the Standing Committee meeting.
The decision to promote the household contract responsibility system throughout the county was passed unanimously.
Just after the meeting, Xie Wan received many project transformation applications.
When the office director came to her to apply for permission to repair the county government gate and the puddle-filled road in front of it, she was still very nervous.
Unexpectedly, Xie Wan was very straightforward. He just took a look at the budget, asked who made it, and then signed it.
Jiang Dapeng took Xie Wan's signature and trotted to Pang Ming's office, saying happily, "County Magistrate Pang, County Magistrate Xie has signed. So can we go to the Finance Bureau to ask for money to repair the gate?"
After carefully asking about Xie Wan's expression and attitude, Pang Ming said to the office director, "Find out the plan that our county government had prepared to improve the housing conditions of cadres, and send it to Secretary Zhong for review first."
The office director was very excited, "County Magistrate Pang, is our county government really going to renovate the building this time?
We have had trouble several times before, but we still haven’t been able to raise enough money. If County Magistrate Xie is willing to sign this time, I think this will definitely work!"
Nowadays, everyone’s housing is allocated by the work unit.
The county government has a large number of employees and housing is extremely tight. Given the chaos in the past ten years, it was even more impossible to have the conditions to repair houses.
Even the houses where cadres such as Secretary Zhong and County Magistrate Pang live are two or three years old.
There are also some ordinary cadres who were not allocated any houses at all.
Pang Ming thought that it was unrealistic for Xie Wan to spend the millions he got, but if he could take out a few hundred thousand to improve the housing conditions of the county government officials, he felt that Xie Wan would not object.
Today, I asked the office director to go there with the application for repairing the county government gate and the road in front of it. This was just a test to see if Xie Wan had any attitude.
Pang Ming felt that he was doing good for everyone and had a clear conscience. He had no right to touch the money, and he still felt a little aggrieved.
Zhenhua's 6 million donation has arrived, and Xie Wan immediately had it transferred to the County Finance Bureau for management and included in the county's financial revenue.
On the surface, if they want to use it, everyone has to hold a meeting to discuss it, but the county finance bureau only recognizes Xie Wan as the person with the final signing authority.
Xie Wan did not keep the money in the county government account for his own reasons.
On the one hand, this proves his innocence, and on the other hand, it lets everyone know that the money is used to build An County's infrastructure.
When Zhang Tao, director of the County Transportation Bureau, walked into Xie Wan's office, he blushed a little.
When Xie Wan mentioned that he wanted to repair the road in An County, his colleagues in the Transportation Bureau kept telling jokes about it in private.
If it weren't for Xiao Li from the Highway Management Section who insisted on writing a serious budget document and submitting it, they might not even want to write the document.
They didn't expect that what they thought was a fantasy was actually accomplished by Deputy County Mayor Xie.
The project for the road from An County to Nancheng was approved earlier.
Even if the county government standing committee approved the project, the Transportation Bureau still felt that it was a pie in the sky that could be seen but not eaten.
But when Zhang Tao received a call from the County Finance Bureau today, asking them to come to Deputy County Mayor Xie for signature, and then the first installment of road construction funds could be transferred to the Transportation Bureau, he really couldn't believe his ears.
After he hung up the phone, he almost ran to several relevant departments and asked his soldiers to bring the materials and rush to the county government immediately.
When Xie Wan saw that everyone was present, he simply asked the comrades from the Transportation Bureau to sit down and have a small meeting.
Her office was spacious enough, but there were not enough stools, so she asked Xiao Fang to borrow some from the neighboring offices.
After everyone in the room sat down, they all looked at Xie Wan eagerly.
Xie Wan had reviewed the budget made by the Highway Department before and was very satisfied with it.
She asked who did it, and Zhang Tao pushed out Section Chief Li.
After Xie Wan recognized the person, he nodded and praised: “This budget is very thoughtful and detailed, and the funds are compressed to the minimum.
Chief Li, you put your heart into it."
Li Jiangmin thought, "If I knew you could get the money, I wouldn't have made the budget so tight."
They now all know that County Magistrate Xie has a large sum of money in his hands, which will be used for the county's infrastructure.
Li Jiangmin said honestly: "Xie County Magistrate, didn't you think our county was poor and had no money?
When I make a budget, don’t I just save as much as I can?
Now that the county has money, can we add some more? We can use better stone and asphalt."
Xie Wan thought for a moment and said, "I kept everyone here because I wanted to discuss with you how we can use the road construction to revitalize the county's economy as much as possible."
The comrades at the Transportation Bureau were stunned. What did this mean?
Just build the road, why do we have to be responsible for revitalizing the county’s economy?
Seeing that everyone was confused and had no idea, Xie Wan reminded them, "Look at the budget of Section Chief Li. Regarding the stone material, he proposed to quarry nearby to reduce costs.
I think this is a very good idea.
Our An County and even the entire Nancheng are all hilly terrain.
We have too many mountains.
There are too many mountains, so it is difficult to build roads. It is necessary to build winding mountain roads continuously, which is too costly.
I was thinking, could we blast down a few rocky hills that block the road along the planned route and build a stone quarry?
In the future, we in An County will not only build that one highway, but also build roads leading to various communes and villages.
The demand for stone is very large, which not only saves the cost of road construction, but also creates jobs for the county.
Can we build a brick factory with the excavated soil?
In the past, we had to buy bricks for our county from the neighboring Zi County. Now that we have our own brick factory, it is convenient for people to get bricks nearby when they want to build houses.
This matter can be led by the Transportation Bureau. Most of the profits from the stone and brick factories can be used to develop Anxian's transportation, and a small part can be kept in the Transportation Bureau to improve the welfare of employees in the bureau and its subordinate departments..."
No one thought the first half of Xie Wan's words was very novel. Blast the mountain to build a stone quarry, dig the soil to build a brick factory, and combine it with road construction was indeed an idea, but this idea also existed in other places.
But the second half of her words made everyone excited.
Zhang Tao asked excitedly: "Deputy County Magistrate Xie, after building the stone quarry and brick factory, can our Transportation Bureau really keep a portion of the profits?"
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