Around 8:30, all the companies that participated in the bidding had arrived, and people were starting to arrive one after another in the conference room.
Normally, Zhang Xingguo would always be the last to arrive at any meeting, after all, he was the Party Secretary. But for today's bidding meeting, Zhang Xingguo arrived early. He had been humiliated at several town Party Committee meetings, and he was just waiting to redeem himself at this meeting.
Zhang Xingguo arrived early, and the other town party committee members must have gone there early as well. Only Li Xiuyuan, as the person in charge of this bidding meeting, was handling some bidding matters, streamlining procedures, and arranging personnel, and did not go there.
The staff of the town's discipline inspection commission and the party representatives and supervisors of Meilin Village attended the meeting and sat in a row of seats against the wall.
Zhang Xingguo sat boldly in the middle of the conference room, looked around, and said with a smile, "Except for Comrade Xiuyuan who is still busy, everyone is here. It seems that everyone attaches great importance to this bidding meeting."
As soon as Zhang Xingguo finished speaking, Kang Yong immediately chimed in with a smile: "Secretary, under your leadership, the project in Meilin Village has successfully progressed to the second phase. Everyone is certainly paying attention and looking forward to the day when the new rural area of Meilin Village is completed."
Zhang Xingguo smiled broadly and waited for others to chime in. This was just casual conversation before the meeting started; he would start, and everyone else would follow.
Of course, while it's called casual conversation, I also wanted to gauge everyone's attitudes from their conversation.
He ran into Li Xiuyuan on his way to the conference room. Li Xiuyuan looked busy, but there was little disappointment or unease on his face. Logically speaking, Hou Peng's secrecy shouldn't have been this good.
Li Xiuyuan was completely unaware that Hou Peng had changed his stance.
If Li Xiuyuan knew that Hou Peng had changed his stance, normally his attitude would have changed to some extent. How could he just act like nothing happened? If he were Li Xiuyuan, after working so hard on the public bidding, only to have it all go to waste, he probably wouldn't have any motivation left. How could he possibly be busy organizing the bidding meeting?
This made him a little suspicious, which is why he thought of asking a question to test the waters.
After Kang Yong finished speaking, Zhang Xingguo thought that the others would immediately chime in, but he found that Hou Peng seemed a little distracted. Although he appeared to be listening attentively, his eyes were vacant and he seemed to be thinking about something.
Zhang Xingguo then looked at Ma Tao on the other side. Ma Tao was writing something in his notebook with his head down. The meeting hadn't even started yet. Was there anything that needed to be recorded?
As for Lu Zhenhai and Qi Weihua, both of them have always been calm and collected, especially Lu Zhenhai, who has always been like this. Qi Weihua is probably waiting for Hou Peng to speak up before following up. Neither of them has any doubts.
Zhang Xingguo didn't want the atmosphere to become awkward, so he coughed lightly and was about to call on Hou Peng and Ma Tao to say something when Li Xiuyuan pushed the door open and came in.
As the director of the Party and Government Office and the person in charge of this bidding meeting, Zhang Xingdong also had another task today: taking meeting minutes.
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