After listening to Liu Qingyu's remarks, Chu Guocai's heart fluctuated, and he couldn't calm down for a long time, although Liu Qingyu's remarks were a bit alarmist, but he had to admit that Liu Qingyu's words were indeed prepared for danger in times of peace, and he had a sense of danger, but he clearly remembered that some time ago, the chief pointed out in his speech that enhancing the sense of danger and being prepared for danger in times of peace is a major principle that we must always adhere to in governing the party and the country, and our party must consolidate its ruling position, unite and lead the people to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ensure national security is the top priority。

Liu Qingyu's remarks are precisely in line with the spirit of the chief's speech, only by always having the heart of the people, fulfilling the responsibility of rejuvenating the party, having the courage to innovate, and never stagnating, can we continue to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and ensure that the people can enjoy the fruits of deepening reform, and among them, national security and people's security are the top priorities.

The water supply industry is definitely a strategic industry related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and no country or nation will easily open its water supply industry to a potentially hostile country to operate.

Chu Guocai, as a secretary of the provincial party committee, usually has too many things to deal with, and many of them are all big and important things, basically small things like tap water are rarely reported to his desk, but today, when he listened to Liu Qingyu's remarks, he suddenly realized that sometimes, some things that seem trivial to many officials and even ordinary people may not be trivial matters in the eyes of truly far-sighted leaders, especially this time when the water safety accident in Lanshan City made him deeply aware of this, and it seems that it is time to attach importance to this matter from a strategic perspective。

At this moment, after hearing Liu Qingyu's statement, Zhang Zhigang had to stand up, and he immediately said loudly: " Mayor Liu, I don't agree with your point of view, I don't know how the foreign water industry operates, but as far as I know, like our Lanshan City, we are not the first to hand over the waterworks to foreign companies to operate, just like the American company that now operates our Lanshan Waterworks, they also operate and manage the waterworks of dozens of cities in other provinces and cities in China, including some large cities, I would like to ask Mayor Liu, don't they think about the problems you mentioned, if everyone is like you who are afraid of wolves and tigers, should we still carry out reform and opening up? , how do we deepen reform. ”

Zhang Zhigang's remarks are still very powerful, and the evidence is quite reasonable, giving people a kind of power that cannot be denied.

However, his opponent is Liu Qingyu, an official who has a deep concern for the country and the people, an official with a long-term strategic vision far beyond ordinary people, and an official who never cares about personal gains and losses, and always looks at things from the perspective of the country and the nation.

Although Zhang Zhigang's words sound very reasonable at first glance, Zhang Zhigang understands very well in his heart that all he considers is his personal interests and gains and losses, the waterworks were sold in his hands, and at that time there was a particularly high-profile hype, the assets of the waterworks at that time were only worth 50 million, and he sold them at a high price of 200 million, which was the outstanding political achievement of him and the then mayor Zhou Junhao, which was not done by any other mayor, which was sold at a premium of 4 times, which was also an outstanding achievement made by them flaunting the banner of so-called deepening reform。

Liu Qingyu just smiled coldly with disdain, and then responded: "Comrade Zhang Zhigang, please don't compare the deepening of reform with the sale of the waterworks, they are not the same order of magnitude at all, I want to ask, is the water industry considered an industry with advanced technology, is it not, look at our Lanshan City Waterworks, I want to ask, after the United States Weili Water Industry Co., Ltd. spent 200 million yuan to buy a controlling stake in the waterworks, the waterworks changed its name, and took water. Has the equipment for treating water been changed, no, except for some façade projects, the entire waterworks have hardly changed, and even many places still maintain the appearance of the construction in the sixties of the last century, and even some office buildings and the decoration in the building have not moved at all, but since Weili Water Holdings, they have not improved the service and quality, and the water price has increased by 3 cents per year, and now, the water price in Lanshan City has been quite high. ”

"Comrade Zhang Zhigang, I want to ask you, like the situation of the Lanshan City Waterworks, has a dime to do with the deepening of reform, whether this waterworks has introduced advanced water treatment technology or equipment or what has been introduced, even if it is the introduction of equipment or technology, can't the Lanshan City Finance Department spend its own money to introduce, even if the Lanshan City financial funds are insufficient, can't these problems be solved in the form of bank loans or financing shares, why do we have to hand over the controlling stake of the entire waterworks to foreigners, and let foreigners arbitrarily raise prices。 ”

Speaking of this, Liu Qingyu looked at Chu Guocai and said: " Secretary Chu, I think that the transfer of tap water is not so much about deepening reform or introducing what so-called advanced management experience, but rather about some officials for their own so-called political achievements, and even does not rule out that some people in order to get some gray income from their hands and take a means of covering their ears and stealing the bell, they can eventually take these things as their own political achievements to advocate and publicize, but in fact, these things they have done have really handed over the lifeblood of our Chinese people to foreigners, I think, these people have not reasoned about one thing at all, that is, as an official, in the end, their own political achievements are importantTherefore, I believe that the provincial party committee should conduct an in-depth investigation into the resale of foreigners to the Lanshan City Waterworks, and take necessary measures to recover the management rights and controlling rights of the waterworks to ensure the strategic security of the lifeline of our country and the people. ”

Liu Qingyu's voice didn't fall, and he didn't wait for Chu Guocai to express his position, Zhang Zhigang couldn't hold back anymore, he knew that once Chu Guocai really implemented it according to Liu Qingyu's proposal, then he would be in danger, because although the matter of selling the waterworks to the American company was proposed by Zhou Junhao, the whole thing was almost handled by himself, and it was impossible for him to betray Zhou Junhao, so once there was a problem, then he would definitely have to take responsibility.

For his own safety, Zhang Zhigang could only fight.

Zhang Zhigang retorted loudly: "Secretary Chu, I very much disagree with Mayor Liu's opinion, I think Mayor Liu is confusing the public and playing with the concept, because first of all, we also have a policy basis for selling the waterworks to foreign-funded enterprises. Cooperation and other forms, participate in the construction of municipal public facilities, and form a diversified investment structure, so, first of all, it is completely reasonable and legal for our Lanshan City to sell the waterworks to American companies, and there is no problem at all.

Secondly, we can't deny the positive role they played in the whole reform just because there is such a water quality problem in the Lanshan City Waterworks, they still have made outstanding contributions to the economic development and people's livelihood of our Lanshan City. ”

When Chu Guocai heard Zhang Zhigang's response, he also nodded lightly and said: "Well, I also know that policy, there is no doubt about it, Liu Qingyu, what do you think about this." ”

Liu Qingyu pondered slightly, and then said slowly: "Secretary Chu, first of all, I want to clarify my attitude, I also know the policy that Comrade Zhang Zhigang said, there is no problem with the policy itself, and I strongly support it, accelerating the marketization process of the municipal public sector can deepen the reform, break some of the existing interest pattern, and fight against **, There is no doubt that it can play a huge role in reducing the burden on local governments, and the entire policy itself has been proven correct after so many years of implementation.

However, I think that the absence of problems in the policy itself does not mean that there are no problems in some places in the process of implementing the policy, and I will discuss the problems that exist in our Lanshan City, first of all, I would like to ask Comrade Zhang Zhigang, according to the provisions of China's relevant policies, what is the fundamental purpose of realizing the marketization process of the public sector, is it to increase the market price of the tap water industry, or to increase the living burden of the people, or to increase the strategic security risk of our country's water resources. ”

"Neither. Zhang Zhigang denied.

Liu Qingyu smiled and nodded: "Yes, Comrade Zhang Zhigang is right, those are not the fundamental purpose of our speeding up the process, and the document also makes it quite clear that the reason why we want to do that is to improve the service quality and efficiency of our municipal departments, so that local governments can put more energy into serving the people and reduce some burdens. ”

"That's right. Zhang Zhigang had to agree at this time, because Liu Qingyu was completely right.

At this moment, Zhang Zhigang already felt that a sense of crisis was constantly approaching him, he was already a little chilled, and there was already a little more vigilance in his eyes when he looked at Liu Qingyu.