Chapter 435 International Friends 11

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The "Haitian Hotel" located in Heishuigou Village, Hushan Town, has long been famous, and Director Zhang and Deputy Mayor Xu Wenkai of the Party and Government Office of Hushan Town have also heard of its name, but unfortunately they have never had the opportunity to see it, especially the rumored "special service" that makes the two people itch in their hearts. However, in a hotel of this grade like "Haitian Hotel", the "special service" in it is not something that ordinary people can afford, unless you are a large sum, or it can only be consumed with public funds, but the designated hotel received by the Hushan Town Government has always been the "Longquan Restaurant", therefore, few people in the Hushan Town Government have the opportunity to come to the "Haitian Hotel" in Heishuigou Village to consume. However, if Director Zhang and these people were allowed to pay out of their own pockets to enjoy the "special services" of the "Haitian Hotel," they would not have done anything to kill them, and they were all people who lived on a dead salary, with a salary of only a few hundred yuan a month, and they had to hand it over to their wives to support their families.

Now, this rare opportunity has come, as the chief manager of the Hushan Town Government, how can Director Zhang of the Party and Government Office let go of such a good opportunity? What's more, this "Haitian Hotel" is also under the jurisdiction of the Hushan Town Government, and it should be no problem for the Hushan Town Government to sign an order, right? This is also in line with the consumption principle of some local governments nowadays.

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Half an hour later, the convoy stopped steadily in the parking lot at the entrance of the "Haitian Hotel" in Heishuigou Village, Hushan Town, where Director Zhang of the Party and Government Office of the town government had been waiting for him.

As the general manager of the town government, Director Zhang's task is to serve the guests and leaders at all levels, so that they can eat, drink and play well. Therefore, when receiving the Japanese delegation this morning, Director Zhang did not show up, but took two staff members of the party and government office to the "Haitian Hotel" in Heishuigou Village early in the morning to discuss the lunchtime banquet in advance.

Although Director Zhang and Deputy Mayor Xu Wenkai had come to the "Haitian Hotel" a few days ago to say hello, they only booked a dining hall, and the specific number of people to be invited to the banquet and the specifications of the dishes, drinks, etc. were not set.

Hospitality and banquets occupy a very important position in officialdom activities, and are also an important means of interpersonal communication in officialdom. As the local leaders of the ruling party, there are always more guests coming and going, and these leaders always have to do their best to be landlords, to welcome and receive these guests on behalf of the local people, and to strengthen the communication and contacts between regions, between superiors and subordinates, and between departments and localities through welcoming and receiving them.

Banquets and entertaining seem to be eating and drinking, but the hospitality and banquets of government departments are a kind of science, and there is a lot to be said about who to eat, where to eat, and what to eat. Unlike the common people who generally order food by the host, the host in the officialdom often does not order the food in person, but the office director in charge of the reception orders the dishes before the leader comes, and when the host and guest arrive, the cold dishes must be served, and the table must not be empty, and the "empty table" is a taboo in officialdom hospitality.

Governments at all levels in our country have set up full-time reception departments, and the administrative establishment varies from place to place, and they are either part of the general office of the party committee or the government, or they are listed separately as public institutions directly under them, and their posts are often concurrently held by the director or deputy director of the general office of the party committee, or by the secretary general or deputy secretary general of the government. For example, the reception departments of county-level governments are generally section-level units, and the leaders are "high-level and half-level"; while in Hushan Town, the reception of government departments is the responsibility of Director Zhang of the "Party and Government Office."

A few years ago, didn't the reception office of a certain city in the western region put up a slogan that "reception is productive force"? All this reflects the importance that government departments at all levels attach to reception. The importance of reception work is self-evident, it represents the face and level of the first-level government, and in exchange for more likely to be the "different benefits" in the hospitality of public funds valued by some officials. What is exchanged between the leaders is not necessarily policy information and work experience, but the personal feelings between leading cadres; when the extravagant and corrupt cups are changed, what is connected is not the bond of cooperation between localities and departments, but the chain of some private interests. Some grassroots officials believe that hospitality and banquets can help "good relations" with leaders at all levels and "carry out work," so they are regarded by many people as a lubricant for maintaining officialdom's interpersonal relations, and this seems to have become an "unspoken rule" in officialdom nowadays.

Therefore, some receptions are actually far more than the cooperation and service required for official business, and are not "reception for official business", but "reception for the sake of reception". In fact, many official reception groups do not involve much real official business, and some of them do not have much official business at all in the name of investigation, research, sightseeing, and learning from experience. Official reception has become a kind of disguise, and in fact, it has become a way and channel for some people to travel and sightseeing at public expense.

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"Official reception is a basket, and everything is loaded into it", this is a popular saying in officialdom. This sentence also exposes the problems existing in the official reception of officialdom, the reception style of governments at all levels is becoming more and more prosperous, and it is no longer a simple matter of eating and drinking, and the hospitable customs in traditional Chinese culture have been deformed and applied to official reception. Some grassroots officials feel that if they don't eat and drink, they don't pay attention to the guests, that they don't find a few people to accompany them is disrespectful to the leaders, and that they don't know how to treat people if they don't arrange scenic spots and give local products. Therefore, many local governments spend a lot of money on hospitality.

Director Zhang of the "Party and Government Office" of Hushan Town, as the general manager of the reception work of the Hushan Town Government, has been immersed in the circle of officialdom reception for many years, and has also explored a way to receive leaders and serve leaders, which has won the trust of the party and government leaders of the previous Hushan Town Government, and has also won the praise of many guests, which is also one of the reasons why Director Zhang can always sit in the position of director of the "Party and Government Office".

Of course, in addition to the trust of the leaders and the reluctance of Director Zhang to leave the position of director of the "Party and Government Office", Director Zhang himself is actually reluctant to take this position, don't look at the director of the "Party and Government Office" is just a small unit-level cadre, but you don't necessarily change it even if you give the deputy mayor Director Zhang. The reception expenses and government office expenses spent by Director Zhang every year by the Hushan Town Government range from hundreds of thousands to millions, and Director Zhang's profits from them are naturally indispensable.

"Plucking the feathers of the goose" has become a typical manifestation of corruption among a small number of grassroots cadres, and Director Zhang of the "Party and Government Office" of the Hushan Town Government, who has been in the officialdom for many years, is of course no exception.