Chapter 149: On-site Assembly (7)
After Qi Tianxiang's speech ended, Zhou Tong then presided over the meeting and announced that he would invite Vice Governor Wang Xiangdong to deliver a speech, and the venue immediately burst into warm applause.
Wang Xiangdong, like Qi Tianxiang, stood up and waved to the audience, and then slowly sat down, waiting for the applause to gradually subside before starting to speak.
Different from Qi Tianxiang's speech style and characteristics, Wang Xiangdong's black and red square face was full of seriousness and coldness, and the expression in his eyes was also like his face, projecting fierceness and fierceness, which seemed to be like his character.
At the beginning of Wang Xiangdong's speech, he did not make any polite appearance, nor did he talk about any theoretical issues, but directly pointed at the chaos of law enforcement and the 'three chaos' on highways with strong social repercussions; he not only pointed out the serious incidents that occurred in several prefectures and cities, but also unceremoniously named and criticized the newly emerged problems such as setting up waiting points, covert law enforcement, and even deliberately making things difficult.
For these obvious problems, Wang Xiangdong not only knows it, even if it is some twists and turns, don't try to hide it from his eyes. With years of leadership experience in the transportation industry, he is well versed in the laws and characteristics of the transportation industry.
Wang Xiangdong, who was born in a family of workers in Hezhong City, entered the Municipal Highway Bureau after graduating from middle school and became a road maintenance worker.
After several years of career as a road maintenance worker, Wang Xiangdong, who was down-to-earth and hardworking, ushered in the first turning point in his life, not only became a production activist, but also was sent to the provincial traffic management school, became a glorious worker, peasant and soldier college student, and then graduated as a technician of the Municipal Transportation Bureau. Attaching importance to giving play to the role of intellectuals, when cadres were "four modernizations," they were integrated into the leading group of the municipal bureau and entered the ranks of cadres at the department level. When the technical cadres were economical and mastered the skills of macro-management, they became the deputy mayor in charge of transportation in Hezhong City as a typical intellectual. In the era of large transportation in Hehai Province, Hezhong City took the lead in investing funds to improve traffic conditions, and used expressways to drive the innovative model of county and township highway construction, which was consistent with the development ideas of the provincial party committee and the provincial government at that time, and won the appreciation of the main leaders of the provincial party committee, and was soon promoted to the director of the provincial transportation department.
As the main implementation department of the province's large-scale transportation construction, as the director of Wang Xiangdong, devoted himself to the construction of high-speed, with the completion of the high-speed network throughout the province and the production of benefits, Wang Xiangdong also finally completed the leap from the provincial management to the central management cadres, and became a typical example of obtaining a vice-provincial position with hard work.
Opportunities and hard work have created Wang Xiangdong's career, which is something that Wang Xiangdong knows and deeply understands. A child who grew up in an ordinary worker's family, an ordinary road maintenance worker, can step by step to the high position of vice governor, without the patronage of several opportunities can not be done in any way, and the patronage of opportunities, without their own serious and down-to-earth work and real life, it is even more unimaginable. Therefore, in his mind, doing things and being a person are inseparable, and the acquisition of opportunities is also based on these, and there is no shortcut.
With the change of age and energy, Wang Xiangdong often feels a little powerless, especially the habit of doing it himself, often disturbed by his own emotions and body, and gradually losing so much enthusiasm for his beloved traffic work. I also feel guilty all the time, but I don't have much more to do, and I don't really want to make changes.
When the news of Qi Tianxiang's blockade in Laizhou reached his ears, the first feeling was incredible, followed by annoyance and anger, and at the same time a little embarrassment. The three chaos on the highway has been going on for a long time, and it has been rectified countless times over the years, but it has been a resurgence after a while, and there is no way to completely reverse it.
The reason for this is the shortage of transportation funds and the lack of management and maintenance costs. There is no sufficient expenditure in the province, after the cancellation of provincial highway tolls, there is no source of financial support for the grassroots, the enthusiasm of the prefecture and city is insufficient but the funds are limited, and the banks and investment institutions are not interested in this kind of thankless and people's projects without any return on investment, but the province still has such a task every year to reflect the political achievements of paying attention to people's livelihood and supporting agriculture. What the provincial departments and the prefectural and municipal transportation departments can do is to do everything possible to raise funds, highway tolls, national highway tolls, traffic surcharges, and financial transfer payments, in addition to ensuring operation and people, they have invested in the construction of highways connecting counties, townships and villages, but they still cannot make ends meet, and the loopholes are getting bigger and bigger.
In the face of such an embarrassing situation, knowing that the three chaotic highways harm others and themselves, although they have repeatedly emphasized that they are all thundering and raining, they still adopt the strategy of turning a blind eye, after all, they can solve part of the construction funds, ensure the implementation of the overall work of the provincial government, and ensure the operation of grassroots units, which is the most critical problem.
Although Wang Xiangdong also knows that a big reason for making ends meet comes from the bloated organization and the superfluous staff, the real solution to the problem, in addition to open source, throttling is the only feasible way. I also conducted research, but after some research, I was surprised that the number of people who rely on roads to survive has reached an incomprehensible number.
In recent years, with the restructuring and transformation of state-owned enterprises and the implementation of de-administrative measures, many power departments have set their sights on highways, and a large number of related households and related persons, and even the children of leading cadres, have put on traffic uniforms, and the further they go to the grassroots level, the more serious this phenomenon becomes. In just one county bureau, there are hundreds of people receiving transportation salaries, and at one checkpoint, there are dozens of financially supported personnel.
Problems are found, but changes are powerless, huge numbers, bloated groups, any change will bring huge shocks, but also will produce unpredictable resistance. Thinking that he would retire in a few years, Wang Xiangdong really found it difficult to make up his mind.
After Qi Tianxiang's incident, Wang Xiangdong also saw some hope in anger, that is, to use Qi Tianxiang's power to promote the start of this work, and he could also fundamentally solve the stubborn problems of bloated institutions and headaches such as highway chaos without taking too much infamy, and give himself a satisfactory end.
This is Wang Xiangdong's reluctance to show people's thoughts, and of course he hopes to achieve satisfactory results.