Career is a double-edged sword, in a Chinese society that is very official-oriented, officials are always at the top of the pyramid, and power can replace anything you want.

But Su Tao is not interested in this, because his career will affect his freedom.

Vice Premier Xiao's eyes were sharp, and of course he could understand Su Tao's scruples.

Vice Premier Xiao stood up, walked to the window, sighed slightly, and said, "Decades ago, my dream was to become an agricultural scientist. At that time, I was working as a technician in the agricultural technology station, participating in the actual research of hybrid rice technology, if it was not for the turn of fate, maybe I would be the first person in the domestic hybrid rice cultivation technology Yuan expert. ”

Su Tao also stood up, walked to Vice Premier Xiao's side, and said softly: "Prime Minister, your current position is more important than Expert Yuan. ”

Vice Premier Xiao waved his hand, shook his head and said with a smile: "From the current stage, I may be more powerful, but from the perspective of the development of human history, Expert Yuan is destined to leave a name in history." Thousands of years later, everyone will forget me as a politician, but they will definitely remember Expert Yuan, who has made great contributions to mankind. If I'm not mistaken, you should be someone who wants to be like Expert Yuan. ”

Su Tao was slightly stunned, his mind was seen through by Vice Premier Xiao again, and he smiled faintly, "As a doctor, of course I want to become a saint like Hua Tuo Bian Que and Sun Simiao." ”

Vice Premier Xiao nodded and said, "But the times are different, if you want to practice medicine and become a saint, it is not enough to have the corresponding social status and power. Although you are young, you should also understand that there is a limit to what you can do individually. Nowadays, the medical problems in China are not solved by treating incurable diseases, but the treatment of diseases is the first to cure poverty, many people look down on the disease, and want to recover as soon as possible. If we want to change this trend, we must first change the living environment of the people, and then change the medical system, so as to finally achieve the goal of revitalizing traditional Chinese medicine. ”

Su Tao was slightly stunned, Vice Premier Xiao's angle was at a higher level, which made him feel suddenly enlightened.

In fact, what Vice Premier Xiao said is similar to the principle of Shanghai Medicine and the country.

Su Tao said with a teachable face: "I am very touched by your words. ”

Vice Premier Xiao smiled faintly and continued: "Life experiences often do not change according to their own ideas. Just like when I was transferred from the agricultural technology station to the school, and then slowly changed from the technical post to the administrative post, and finally from the line of education, I stepped into the State Council, not in accordance with my own established direction. And so is you! A lot of people are looking at you now, because you're young, you have potential, you can tap into it, and you can help them achieve their dreams. So your dreams are important, and other people's dreams have to be taken into account as well!"

Su Tao continued to nod and said with a smile: "I understand what you mean." ”

Vice Premier Xiao saw that Su Tao was persuaded and said with a smile: "What kind of strength you have, what kind of responsibility you should bear." After a while, there will be new tasks for you, which will definitely be challenging, and I believe that you will be able to deliver the perfect answer. ”

Su Tao hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "But Sanweitang is my ancestral business, if you give up, something is wrong!"

Vice Premier Xiao smiled faintly: "Don't worry, I will make arrangements to let you take care of both." Sometimes participating in government affairs does not mean being an official, but can be approached from other perspectives. ”

Su Tao didn't know Vice Premier Xiao's intentions, but when he saw him say this, he agreed. If you resolutely refuse to accept the instructions given by a deputy state-level cadre, it is obviously too unreasonable.

Vice Premier Xiao's arrangement for Su Tao may be similar to a "red-top businessman", in layman's terms, an official in the government, and then appear as a businessman, a person who has the roles of both a civil servant and a businessman. Of course, the attributes of the tasks assigned to Su Tao will definitely be related to medical treatment.

Vice Premier Xiao and Su Tao have finished saying what they should say, so they let Su Tao leave, and then start to receive the vice governor who has not yet met with him.

Secretary-General Xue sent Su Tao downstairs and asked with a smile: "No surprise, after half a month, there will be a new task for you." ”

The dialogue between Secretary-General Xue and Su Tao was not so metaphysical, but became very concrete and practical.

Su Tao thought about it, heard Secretary General Xue's tone, and wanted to reveal the specific content to himself, and asked with a smile: "The prime minister told me a rough idea just now, I don't know what the specific task is?"

Secretary-General Xue led Su Tao to the corner of the hall, and the two sat on the sofa and chatted.

Secretary-General Xue said in a low voice: "Mainly to promote medical reform, not long ago, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Central Planning Office, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission and other six ministries and commissions jointly formulated the "Guiding Opinions on the Deepening Reform of State-owned Enterprises in Educational and Medical Institutions", and made specific plans and paths for the divestment of thousands of state-owned enterprise hospitals across the country. In short, it is expected that in the next year, state-owned enterprises will be divested in hospitals across the country, and state-owned enterprises will become history. ”

The enterprise hospital is a medical institution run by the enterprise under the specific historical conditions of the planned economy period, which mainly provides medical services for the employees of the enterprise. Now that the reform of state-owned enterprises has deepened, these staff hospitals are also within the scope of reform.

Su Tao suddenly realized and said, "You mean, let me participate in this project?"

This is indeed a half-official, half-business task, which is directly related to policy, but in a commercial form.

Su Tao was relieved and immediately became interested in this task.

Secretary-General Xue nodded and said, "At present, the State Council has arranged for a number of medical groups to participate in the acquisition, but judging from the initial situation, the effect is not particularly good. Because most of the state-owned hospitals are messes, they were originally transferred to local governments, but local governments have not fulfilled their responsibilities in their own public hospitals, and taking them over is tantamount to falling into a bottomless pit. Even if a plan accepted by the local government is reached, after the state-owned hospital is accepted by the local government, it is more like an 'adopted child', which is not only difficult to become the target of the local government's key construction, but also may be 'abandoned'. If private capital is allowed to enter this field, it may be able to bring good results. ”

Su Tao could vaguely guess that this was a very difficult task, and it was both a challenge and an opportunity for the development of his career.

At present, Sanweitang is facing the main problems of chain development, one is talent, and the other is the venue, if it can be cut from the perspective of state-owned hospitals, it can solve the problem of the site.

Although the vast majority of state-owned hospitals are in a state of losing money and making ends meet, and there is a shortage of doctor resources, the injection of capital by Sanweitang and the adoption of a new model may have miraculous results.

When Su Tao thought of this, he not only sighed at Vice Premier Xiao's vision, but he had obviously thought through the context.

Of course, the acquisition of so many state-owned hospitals also requires huge funds, and although Sanweitang is now profitable, it is still short of funds. Su Tao quickly remembered that Ni Jingqiu had mentioned to him before that the Ni family and the Ye family were going to jointly invest in their own three billion US dollars, so a large amount of money invested in Chinese medicine education would not be used up at all, but if it was used for the merger and acquisition of state-owned hospitals, it would be completely used on the blade.

After receiving Secretary General Xue's reminder, Su Tao was secretly relieved that he did not want to step into the officialdom by himself, but indirectly cut into the medical reform, although the relationship with the officialdom was closely linked, he was still very free and would not be tied to death by the identity of an official.

What's more important is that Su Tao has Vice Premier Xiao behind him, and in the process of implementing this plan, it is equivalent to having Shang Fang's sword.

Of course, judging from Vice Premier Xiao's meeting with so many vice governors, there have been many obstacles in the process of promoting this matter. This involves a lot of interests, although most of the state-owned hospitals are losing money, but there are also some of them operating well, and now they are handed over to others, isn't it cutting meat, and state-owned enterprises will not cooperate in the first place.

In addition, some hospitals have been losing money year after year, which involves some people abusing their power for personal gain, turning state-owned assets into their own private warehouses.

Su Tao and Secretary General Xue sighed: "This time, the prime minister is going to roast me on the fire." ”

Secretary-General Xue smiled: "He treats you as a surprise soldier!"

Su Tao understood what Secretary General Xue meant, if Su Tao joined the reform of state-owned hospitals, it would be more hidden, because Sanweitang did not have any traces of state-owned assets, and after participating in the competition, he would join the bidding in the form of private capital, so that he could better understand the true side of the reform of state-owned hospitals.

Vice Premier Xiao will not have a hard requirement on how many hospitals Su Tao acquires, but he just wants to know some information from the side, of course, it is also a test for Su Tao.

After seeing Su Tao leave, Secretary-General Xue returned to the upper room, waited for half an hour, Vice Premier Xiao ended all conversations, and Vice Premier Xiao walked inside.

Vice Premier Xiao said lightly: "I just learned about it, and the medical restructuring of state-owned enterprises is difficult!"

Secretary-General Xue refilled Vice Premier Xiao's cup with hot water, closed the lid, and said in a deep voice: "There are too many chains of interests involved. Let Su Tao wade into this troubled water, will he be too demanding of him?"

Vice Premier Xiao shook his head and said: "He has the support of the Shui family, the Ni family and the Ye family, as long as he works steadily, there will definitely be no problems." There must be a new force in the medical field, otherwise it will still be a backwater. ”

Secretary-General Xue nodded, agreeing with Vice Premier Xiao's point of view, and said, "I will arrange someone to follow up on this matter." ”

"The sooner the better!" Vice Premier Xiao instructed, after all, there is only one year left before the originally set time, there is not much time left, and if the medical reform is not in place, it will affect the country's comprehensive deployment of the reform of the overall social structure.

This is also an assessment of Vice Premier Xiao's political achievements during his tenure.

At the level of Vice Premier Xiao, the sharp sword hanging over his head not only comes from the pressure of higher-level leading cadres, but more importantly, he has to be responsible for the country and society.

(End of chapter)