Chapter 170: First Day in Office (Change of Position) Yan Jiuru looked around...
Chapter 170 First Day in Office (Change of Position)
Regarding the appointment of new cadres, the organization has its own set of procedures, and you can't just run there alone with your file materials.
On the first working day after the National Day in 1986, Yan Jiuru, carrying a transfer order, came to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation with his former leaders, Director Wu of the 107th Institute and Director Liang of the Personnel Department, accompanied by Minister Wang of the Organization Department.
Minister Huang of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, three deputy ministers in Yancheng, as well as about thirty to forty core department-level and division-level cadres and confidential secretaries attended the announcement of Yan Jiuru's appointment and a simple welcome party.
Yan Jiuru made a brief speech amid the applause of the crowd, and signed the handover list with the former director on the spot in the presence of several leaders.
The former Director Feng of the Foreign-Invested Enterprises Management Department is old and is retiring this year.
This department was also newly established two years ago.
Everything started from scratch, there was no precedent, and everyone was working by trial and error, so it was hard to say whether it was good or bad.
The director position is equipped with three secretaries, namely a confidential secretary, a business secretary and a daily administrative secretary, in addition to a special car and driver.
Director Feng’s retirement ceremony has already been held, and it’s time for Yan Jiuru to take over.
But he didn't expect the person who came would be such a young cadre, already at the bureau level?!
Not only Director Feng was surprised, but in fact, everyone present except Minister Huang was also surprised.
The entire process of Yan Jiuru's transfer, from organizational approval of the candidate to issuance of the transfer order, was too short.
There is no time for everyone to ask.
Even the best-informed know little.
He graduated from Yanjing University and just received a master's degree from the University of California this year. He previously served as the director of several factories under the 107th Institute.
The most important thing is that he has strong scientific research capabilities and countless international and domestic patents.
However, they soon witnessed another powerful ability of the new director Yan Jiuru: a photographic memory!
**
There were only a few handover lists between the old and new directors, but there were several piles of materials corresponding to the lists.
Yan Jiuru glanced over the list and flipped through the piles of materials.
Soon, he pulled out two sheets from the third pile and handed them to Director Feng, saying, "Is there a mix-up?"
The original list contained information on eighteen foreign companies that have expressed interest in or are negotiating with foreign investors since the beginning of this year. Each company has an exclusive file bag for its corresponding information.
The two file bags Yan Jiuru pulled out did not contain any corporate information on the list.
Yan Jiuru didn't care what it was specifically about.
Director Feng is about to retire, so these materials are definitely not compiled by him.
Almost everyone's eyes turned to the confidential secretary Yang Shuyu!
Yang Shuyu broke out in a cold sweat.
He stared at the two documents and couldn't even defend himself.
Because the confidential secretary is responsible for this, no matter what the reason for such omission, it is his responsibility.
And he had clearly checked them one by one carefully before the meeting!
He could only shake his head slightly at Director Feng and said, "I checked it before the meeting."
But it's too late to say anything now.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, both Yan Jiuru and Director Feng looked unhappy.
It was Minister Wang of the Organization Department who signaled to Secretary Yang: "Go and look for it quickly to see if it's fallen there." He also signaled Director Liang and another deputy minister to go with him.
Because of this little incident, the atmosphere of Yan Jiuru's welcome party also became cold.
Finally, Director Liang who worked at Institute 107 was more perceptive and found the two documents in the pile of files that were ready to be returned in Secretary Yang's filing cabinet.
If this document is sent back as a rejection, the investment applications of these two companies will be in vain.
Whoever did it, it was a really good move.
***
Yan Jiuru looked around and said with a faint smile: "I didn't expect that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers here."
"But it doesn't matter. The organization sent me here because I'm the best at capturing dragons and tigers, skinning and pulling out their tendons!"
After verifying the materials again, Director Feng shook hands with everyone and said goodbye, then left with his enamel pot and reading glasses.
Yan Jiuru and others sent them to the door outside the building.
He shook Director Feng's hand and said, "If there's anything I don't understand, I still need your help. Please don't think I'm annoying."
This means that the tea is still hot even when the guest leaves.
Director Feng smiled apologetically and said, "You're welcome anytime. I'm sorry to have troubled you today."
He is a retired man and would only make good friends and would never do anything fancy during the handover, but he still showed up, and he felt a little uneasy about it.
"Haha, it's okay, otherwise I wouldn't have known there were capable people here."
***
The office space of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation was converted from a former official residence. The main building is four stories high, and part of it has a five-story attic. In addition, there are some supporting rooms such as the boiler room, as well as the original greenery, some rockery and flowing water, and a small garden.
This is also a face-saving measure for foreign businessmen to come and do business, otherwise the garden would definitely not be preserved.
The first floor houses the canteen, administration, logistics, security and other auxiliary departments.
This is very similar to Institute 107, and most government agencies have a similar structure.
The office on the second floor is used for daily reception and daily work of some department staff, as well as the archives room. The third floor has the offices of Minister Huang and two other deputy ministers, as well as the confidential room and other departments.
This type of building does not have elevators, so older ministers and others choose to work on the third floor.
The Foreign Investment Enterprises Management Department where Yan Jiuru works is on the fourth floor. The director's office and the offices of two other deputy directors and two deputy ministers in the ministry are also on this floor.
In addition, there are departments under each department.
The fifth floor is where the confidential department is located.
After Yan Jiuru returned to the third floor, Director Liang and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation's Personnel Department went through the necessary procedures.
Although his file was apparently "clean", and it was only verified and registered here but still returned to Institute 107, and did not exist in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, this was something the other party's personnel had not expected.
However, since the Organization Minister has confirmed this, the Human Resources Department has also become much more cautious. Everyone understands this situation and they definitely cannot ask or say too many questions.
"This property in Comrade Yan Jiuru's file..."
The Director of Personnel had to ask clearly.
Otherwise, if the personnel materials are received but the files are not managed here, it will be troublesome if there is any dispute in the future.
Nowadays, the vast majority of cadres are relatively "poor". Except for a few with unusual family backgrounds, most of them start by living in the unit dormitory and then slowly work their way up to living in a staff housing building or something like that.
I either ride a bicycle to work, or better companies have commuter cars. Apart from my salary, my daily life basically depends on the company's welfare benefits.
Yan Jiuru's file is very strange.
Not to mention that relevant rules and regulations require that leading cadres can only have one actual residence. Excess private housing must either be cleared out, left vacant and locked, or rented out by the property management department, etc.
Just looking at the personal property listed in his file, there are four properties in his family. Although he only has one courtyard house under his name, aren’t the properties under the names of his grandfather, his father, and his wife also his?
And look at the deposit amount. Oh my god, he counted it silently several times but couldn't count the zeros. How much money is there? This is rich enough to rival a country, right?
Can this country allow this?
The Director of Personnel handed the file to Minister Huang.
He has no say in this matter.
Minister Huang raised an eyebrow after reading it, exchanged a glance with Minister Wang, and handed it back to the Director of Personnel. "Follow the confidentiality requirements. From today on, no one is allowed to access Yan Bureau's information, including me."
"Yes!" The director of the personnel department immediately realized something, nodded, and personally handled the registration of Yan Jiuru's file.
However, Yan Jiuru flicked the document in his hand lightly, feeling very uncomfortable about what the director of personnel said that he could only keep one house.
It's been several years since the reform and opening up, and you're still doing this?
Whether you are a cadre or a staff member, who can feel balanced when seeing others with full pockets and enjoying a good life while you yourself are penniless and working hard?
No wonder a bribe of tens of thousands of yuan can buy off a ministerial-level official. Has he never seen too much money?
Regardless of whether high salaries can produce honest cadres, there are definitely drawbacks to simply emphasizing poverty.
Faced with the temptations of money, beauty, feasting and revelry, can you overcome them with just your willpower and character?
Haha, Yan Jiuru felt that this was not a test, it was more like digging a hole.
It depends on who takes the first step and falls.
Those who fall down are naturally not innocent either. They deserve it because they couldn't resist the temptation.
However, if everyone has these things themselves, then at least the cost of tempting them to make mistakes will be much higher.
Of course, it is obvious that the higher-ups have new assessments of the entry of foreign investors and the market economy situation after reform and opening up, otherwise they would not have assigned Yan Jiuru, an alternative, to the Foreign Investment Administration.
Minister Wang saw that the file was registered, and then he took out a red-headed document and handed it to Minister Huang, saying: "While Director Yan is working here, work benefits and other benefits will be paid as usual, but housing is not required.
There are other arrangements for car allocation, and the driver's personnel can just transfer it over."
Finally, Minister Wang asked Yan Jiuru, "You have three secretaries: a confidential secretary, a business secretary who also serves as a translator, and a daily administrative secretary. Do you think you should recruit new ones or keep the original ones?"
Yan Jiuru was not polite either. The secretary was considered a "close minister" and he had to choose someone he trusted.
"I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the place, so let's start over."
***
The morning of my first day in office was basically spent in various procedures.
At noon, I had lunch with Minister Huang in the cafeteria and talked about work.
Minister Huang gave him ten days to come up with a new work plan.
In the afternoon, Yan Jiuru asked several secretaries from his secretariat to help tidy up the office.
He never compromised himself and did not use any of the antique office equipment left by Director Feng. He returned them all to the logistics department.
He activated a cleaning talisman while no one was paying attention and cleaned the office.
But I didn’t expect that under the effect of the cleaning talisman, a nest of mice ran out of the house!
The two big ones, along with a group of at least seven or eight smaller ones, squeaked as they went into the office of Deputy Minister Li next door.
Everyone was stunned by what they saw.
Yan Jiuru had no choice, after all, it was the rat that escaped from his place, so he had to capture it himself and hand it over to the logistics security.
The logistics director said humiliatedly, "This... We'll do a full building cleanup someday. We eliminate the four pests every year, so how come there's still a rat that slipped through the net?"
***
After cleaning the room, Yan Jiuru still asked the logistics department to separate the room into two rooms, one inside and one outside.
His director's office has a net area of about 70 square meters. In addition to a small reception area on the left side of the entrance, he asked to separate another area as his own lounge.
Now that he had a telephone on his desk that could make direct international calls, he made a list and asked the logistics department to equip him with the necessary computers, printers, copiers and other modern office equipment.
Moreover, from now on, his three secretaries must be equipped with a computer and printer, and a typewriter each!
If you don't know how to use it, you must learn it.
The people in the logistics and secretariat looked at each other in bewilderment. Their entire office building of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation only shared one computer and copier and other equipment, not to mention a printer.
Even the secretarial department, where five or six secretaries were crowded together, did not have a dedicated typewriter, let alone a computer or printer.
The director of logistics was in a very difficult situation.
Yan Jiuru insisted: "If you don't have it, go apply for it. If you don't know where to buy it, I'll tell you." After saying that, he quickly wrote down the address for the other party and said, "You can definitely buy it if you go find her."
The director of logistics took the note and list to Minister Huang: "This, this is too..."
Minister Huang thought of the tens of billions of yuan in deposits and twitched his lips. "Let's write the application form. Director Yan is right. We are the management department for foreign investors and we can't fall behind."
Director Huang thought for a moment and said, "We'll also assign some secretarial staff. You guys should study the details. Those who can't type should quickly get training and learn..."
***
Director Yan brought fresh and hot topics to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation on his first day at work.
As a result, before everyone had finished their morning work, it was their turn to deal with something that was more personally relevant.
"Director Yan is requesting a computer and typewriter for the secretarial department?"
"It's not a typewriter, it's a printer. There's also a typewriter. Minister Huang said that in the future, those who can't type or use a computer will receive training and learn."
What do you like most about working in a government agency?
In addition to housing distribution and welfare benefits, there is of course training and learning.
So, when they heard the news, many people started to make small calculations in their minds and didn't care about Director Cricket Yan's request for a computer and office modifications.
Nothing is more important than your own business.
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