Lovers (novella) Zhang Baotong

I'm a bad guy in my marriage, and I'm very unhappy in my career. In addition to having some writing skills, the most important thing for those who come to the district party committee office to be secretaries is to have the recommendation of the leader. Therefore, the people who can enter the district party committee office as a secretary have some background relationships.

On that day, Xiao Shen, the secretary of the district party committee office, called me and asked me to come to the district committee office immediately. I asked him what was the matter, and he said you would find out when you came here. So, I rode my bicycle to the district party committee office. Xiao Shen asked me to sit at the desk next to me, and I had something to do. After a while, the director of the district party committee office came in with some materials. I hurriedly got up from my desk and greeted Director Xi. However, Director Xi threw the materials in his arms on the table, waved at me, and said Don't get up, this is your seat. I wondered how this could be my seat. When I was confused, Director Xi handed me a copy of the "Quarterly Assessment Measures for News Reports of the Propaganda Department of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee" and said that you should take a good look at this document. I picked up the file and looked at it, and then I realized that I had been transferred to be a secretary. Because I often come here to do business, I know that this seat was originally occupied by Liu Weiqiang, and later he became the deputy director, and this seat has been vacant.

Being able to be transferred to the district party committee office as a secretary is something I can't even think of. However, when I read the assessment methods and regulations, I couldn't help frowning. The above stipulates that our district must publish at least two news items in the People's Daily, China Youth Daily, Guangming Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV and other national newspapers or media every quarter, and at least 10 news items in the newspapers and media of the province and the city. That's the job done. However, despite the fact that I went to university, I majored in English, and I really didn't know much about what journalism and reporting were. Now I'm not sure I'm going to get it in these papers.

I know how many people who love writing have written for years or even their entire lives and have never published anything in a newspaper. I've published some essays and essays in newspapers, but that's because of feelings, and whether or not they can be published in newspapers doesn't matter to me. But this errand of writing news reports has tasks and assessments, and if you can't complete the tasks, you have to be criticized and evaluated. So, I felt a lot of pressure and wasn't sure. And I never do something that I don't know if I'm sure of.

I wanted to say to Director Xi that I was afraid I would not be competent, but Director Xi had already left. At this time, Xiao Shen, who was sitting opposite, said to me that Secretary Chen and Deputy Secretary Wang had a special meeting with all the staff of the office in the morning, and they also got angry at the meeting, saying that this time they went to the city for a meeting, and the leaders of the municipal party committee specially criticized our district by name, saying that our district does not attach importance to propaganda work at all, and the news report ranks last for two consecutive years, and eats zero eggs for three consecutive quarters. Therefore, Secretary Chen asked Director Xi to find a way to change the status quo in the fastest time. Therefore, as soon as the meeting was over, Director Xi asked everyone to think about how there are people in the subordinate units of the district who can write articles well. I told him that Gao Baocheng, secretary of the Party Office of the Education Bureau, wrote the article quite well. Director Xi asked me if I had any articles about you and wanted to read them with my own eyes, so I picked up those "Xi'an Evening News" and flipped through them for a while, and found an article in the newspaper supplement last week that you wrote "Poetic Emotions". As soon as he saw it, he said that it was so well written, so he asked me to call you right away.

I asked Xiao Shen if the dignified district party committee office couldn't find anyone who could write news reports. Xiao Shen shook his head and said, if we people want to say that it is okay to write a speech for the leader and formulate a document, but it is really not good to write news for this newspaper and that newspaper and put it on the draft. You didn't see that Deputy Director Liu had been sitting in this position for two or three years, and he hadn't written any drafts, and the leaders saw that he was a little older, so they made him deputy director. After he left, three or four college students were transferred from the street office below to come here for a trial, but they all left one by one after not long. Otherwise, how could this seat remain empty?

I was a little worried and told Xiao Shen that I studied English in college and knew very little about Chinese writing. In particular, I have never been exposed to such a subject as news reporting. Xiao Shen asked me how your prose was written. I said that there was something that had been precipitated in my heart for many years, and I wanted to write it, so I tried to write three or two essays and sent them to the newspaper, and within a few days, they were published. Later, I wrote article after article, and the newspaper published article after paper. Actually, that's all something I wrote out with feelings. Xiao Shen said that prose is much more difficult to write than news reports, as long as you can write essays, writing such things as news reports must be easy.

Hearing Xiao Shen say this, I plan to give it a try, if I am really not competent, I don't need people to rush me, I will ask to leave by myself, and then return to the Party Office of the Education Bureau as a secretary. In the afternoon of the same day, I selected a typical personal deed from the pile of advanced deeds materials that Director Xi brought me, wrote a manuscript similar to a character newsletter in prose, and then sent it to a daily newspaper in the city. Two days later, the manuscript was published. It made me feel like writing a press release was easier than writing an essay. Although I don't know much about the characteristics of news reporting, I have been reading newspapers every day for many years, and I am somewhat familiar with news and reports. In the month after I was transferred to the district party committee, I published more than 20 articles in provincial and municipal newspapers and film and television media, and even published a message in China Youth Daily. Secretary Chen and Deputy Secretary Wang were very satisfied with me, and praised me when they saw me.

In order to carry out the news reporting work in an all-round way, I maintained close contact with the reporters and editors of the newspapers concerned, organized the propaganda officers of the neighborhood offices to conduct training, and gave them the quarterly evaluation methods for the news reports of the neighborhood offices. Considering that film and television news will be easier to upload, I learned photography and videography myself, and as long as there are good news events and activities, I will ask the car driver to send me to write and shoot. The leaders are very satisfied with my work and very supportive. Therefore, for several years in a row, the news reporting work in our district has exceeded the task several times, and each time it has ranked first in the city.

Every three to five years, the district party committee has to re-elect and readjust cadres. After five years of hard work, Director Xi was transferred to the street office as a secretary, and Deputy Director Liu became the director. Because I have the highest education, the strongest ability, the most outstanding grades, and the year-end assessment is at the top. However, as I expected, the position of deputy director was given to Wang Wenqiang in the next office, and his level was actually very average. But maybe he is Secretary Chen's secretary, so he has nothing to say as deputy director. It's just unconvincing.