Chapter 129 Getting the Certificate
After entering, the leader was very enthusiastic when he saw Gao Jialin. He chatted with him for about ten minutes and arranged for Ji Jingshuo, a senior reporter who mainly reported on the economic field, to be his teacher. "Xiao Gao, you will follow Lao Ji for the time being. He is a famous reporter in our agency. I am absolutely assured that he will teach you."
"Hello, Teacher Ji. I'll trouble you in the future." Gao Jialin greeted him politely. The other party was a senior reporter with a senior professional title, equivalent to a full professor. With the bonus of being a famous reporter, when he arrived at the local place, the mayor had to give him a good reception.
"I have read your article, it is indeed well written, and what is particularly rare is that it is forward-looking. After two years of training, I think you will be able to take over my job." Ji Jingshuo was also very optimistic about Gao Jialin and planned to train him as his successor. Unfortunately, Gao Jialin was afraid that he would not be able to fulfill his wish.
When Ji Jingshuo returned to his office, he did not ask Gao Jialin about his knowledge of the reporter. Instead, he asked a question that sounded unexpected at first, but turned out to be very reasonable after thinking about it, "Jialin, how is your health? Do you exercise regularly?"
"Not bad. I won the 10,000-meter championship in the school sports meet and reached the standard of a national second-level athlete." Gao Jialin knew very well why he asked this, so he reported the most appropriate result.
In fact, he was the one who was holding back. Otherwise, with his doubled physical fitness, he would have broken the national record. Then the national track and field team would have to snatch it away. How could he still study comfortably in school?
"It's good to run fast! When you are a reporter, you need to run fast sometimes. You can rush to the news in time and keep yourself safe when something happens." Ji Jingshuo patted Gao Jialin on the shoulder and sighed. He has been in the journalist industry for so many years and has encountered many storms and dangers many times. If he was not in good health, how could he write articles here quietly? "From now on, you get up an hour earlier every day, and we will exercise together as master and apprentice, and I will teach you something useful." He didn't want Gao Jialin to get into trouble at such a young age.
Although being a journalist is glamorous, it is also accompanied by many dangers. The number of investigative journalists has since dropped to more than 100, which is enough to illustrate the problem. If Wang Wenzhi was not so famous, he would have been beaten up, so he had to have some means to save his life.
Gao Jialin did not intend to be a reporter who exposed the dark side of society, but he would not relax his study in this area. Who knows what he might encounter in the future? For example, he was originally going to interview a certain company, but something bad happened in the local area. What if people thought he was here for this? At this time, he could not explain clearly, so he could only run away first.
Ji Jingshuo has been engaged in news reporting for so many years that he is indeed quite skilled. Not only does he understand the ins and outs of all walks of life, he is also very good at observing people's expressions and spotting danger in a timely manner. He even has practiced some very tricky moves, which he taught Gao Jialin without reservation.
Gao Jialin studied very seriously. These things might save his life in the future, so he had to study hard.
I exercise first in the morning and then listen to Ji Jingshuo talk about various things. When it is time to go to work, I help him organize information, extract key points, study his past articles, and the professional rules of the journalism industry, etc.
After about half a month, Gao Jialin had basically gotten the hang of it, and he also had his first business trip to interview people. When he got on the train to Hebei, Ji Jingshuo talked about the purpose of this interview, "Do you know Ma Shengli from Shijiazhuang Paper Mill? He has just formulated a plan to contract 100 paper mills in 20 provinces. We are going there to interview him this time."
"I've read in the newspaper that now when people talk about enterprise reform, they all say there is Ma Shengli in the north and Bu Xinsheng in the south. These two are famous reform stars. I've long wanted to meet him." Gao Jialin nodded in response.
Ma Shengli was originally the business section chief of Shijiazhuang Paper Mill. The year Gao Jialin went to college, he posted a big-character poster asking to contract the paper mill, which was suffering from increasing losses. After research, the leaders decided to let him have a try. As a result, the enterprise created a profit of 1.4 million for the factory in the first year.
After a reporter from Xinhua News Agency visited the factory to check out the situation, he wrote a long report titled "Ma Shengli, a good factory director who always thinks about the interests of the country and the people." All major newspapers rushed to reprint it, and Ma Shengli became a nationally renowned reform star.
Since then, he has received many honors, including the titles of "Ma Shengli, a good factory director who always thinks about the interests of the country and the people" and "a pioneering reformer". He also received the May 1st Labor Medal twice, which was the first time in history.
When he arrived in Shijiazhuang, there were so many people who wanted to meet Ma Shengli, including leading cadres from other places who came to learn from him, corporate leaders who came to ask him to contract their factories, and reporters from various media outlets.
Even if they showed their Xinhua News Agency press credentials, they had to wait until the next day to meet Ma Shengli. After chatting for less than fifteen minutes, they had to leave. A mayor from another place came in and shook hands with Ma Shengli politely.
Ji Jingshuo did not return to Beijing, but continued to look for other people to interview, including ordinary workers in the paper mill, buyers who came to purchase goods, and leaders of foreign companies. After accumulating a large amount of material, he boarded the train back to Beijing.
On the way back, Ji Jingshuo asked, "Jialin, do you think Director Ma's big contracting plan will succeed?"
"I'm not optimistic," Gao Jialin said bluntly. "Objectively speaking, it's very difficult to build a papermaking group that spans multiple provinces across the country. It's not easy to make long-distance calls, let alone carry out daily management? Not to mention the constraints of transportation, local protectionism and other factors."
"From a subjective point of view, Director Ma was a bit overheated. He only thought about contracting more factories, but did not think about how to manage these factories. Many factories did not change after signing the contract agreements."
Gao Jialin also gave an analogy, "If it were in the military, Director Ma would definitely be a good regiment commander who could lead the entire regiment to victory, but if he were to be the commander of an army group, commanding a large army group to fight and achieve strategic goals, that would not be possible. He now wants to contract 100 paper mills, which is equivalent to expanding the regiment into an army group. I'm afraid there will be problems."
Ji Jingshuo didn't say it was right, nor did he say it was wrong. "Well, when we get back, let's each write an article based on the information we collected these days. Just treat it as a test for you."
After returning to the capital, the master and disciple completed their articles one after another. When they exchanged their articles, they found that the directions were generally similar, both reminding big contractors to be cautious, but Ji Jingshuo's article was more subtle and obscure.
"The contract system is a hot topic in the current reform. My article is to be published in the public media, so I shouldn't pour too much cold water on it. You can publish this article in the internal reference to remind the leaders." Ji Jingshuo was very satisfied with his article. "You have mastered almost all the things you should master. Next, you can try to interview on a small topic."
A few days later, Gao Jialin received his own press card, which meant he could conduct interviews independently.
The next chapter will be posted on time at 5 o'clock, and everything should be back to normal from then on.
(End of this chapter)
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