The inspection teams of the central ministries and commissions inspected the localities, and in addition to arranging the reception work, the local cadres naturally also arranged a reception banquet, and the banquet was set up in the guest house, and the principal leaders of the Northwest Provincial Party Committee attended the dinner, but Zhou Fan rarely saw so many cadres at and above the department and bureau level, and even the provincial and ministerial-level leaders were not a few.

Compared with Secretary Zhang's old and strong, Governor Niu is much younger, as the second-in-command of Northwest Province, Governor Niu's position is undoubtedly a little embarrassing, not to mention Secretary Zhang's words, just say that Chen Zhiyuan is undoubtedly more hopeful than Governor Niu to take over Secretary Zhang's position, in this situation, Governor Niu is obviously not good at both ends, and it is inevitable to hear that Governor Niu and the central government reacted and wanted to transfer out of Northwest Province, although it was just when Zhou Ziming was chatting at home, Zhou Fan overheard it, but when I saw Governor Niu today, Zhou Fan felt that these news were true.

Although Governor Niu is younger than Secretary Zhang, if he can't take the position of secretary of the provincial party committee this time, then wait a few more years, Governor Niu will not be young, plus Chen Zhiyuan is a few years younger than Governor Niu, in this way, Governor Niu wants to go further in his lifetime, and the difficulty in this is also conceivable, no wonder Governor Niu wants to leave Northwest Province, at least in this way, the hope is greater.

Governor Niu sat on Director Fang's side, talking to Director Fang enthusiastically, when receiving in the afternoon, Governor Niu was not there, which will be a good way to close the relationship between Director Fang, to see that the two have talked and laughed, but how much hypocrisy there is in the middle, it is unknown, after all, at the provincial and ministerial level, it is basically not so easy to see in my heart.

"Director Zhou, I salute you, this time your inspection team came to the northwest, but you have to be merciful." Director Ding of the reception office smiled and filled a cup to Zhou Fan, this Director Ding is obviously a self-cooked type, although he has only been in contact with Zhou Fan a few times, but when he says it, it seems that the two sides have a deep friendship, there is always such a type of person in the officialdom, but he is more open than ordinary people.

"Director Ding, are you shabby, am I? I just followed the leader out to run errands, and I just had a long experience, and I talked about these things. Zhou Fan smiled and had a toast with Director Ding.

"Director Zhou, don't say that, your central government is naturally a leader, and it is naturally much more effective than our local cadres to speak." Director Ding said with a smile.

Zhou Fan smiled and shook his head, in fact, he is a young minion at the official level, and the other party may not really look at it, this is just a polite remark, but Zhou Fan came out this time, and he just had a long insight, and naturally he was too lazy to think about the other party's thoughts, if something really went wrong, it was Director Fang who had the final say, Zhou Fan just listened to the opinions of the leaders, so naturally he didn't have to worry about these thoughts.

Zhou Fan smiled and exchanged a few words with the other party, and he didn't bother to entangle any more, and took turns to toast the leaders at the table with a smile, anyway, with Zhou Fan's amount of alcohol, he didn't have to be afraid of getting drunk.

Seeing Zhou Fan drinking happily, the cadres at the wine table also had some good feelings towards Zhou Fan, this little Zhou Xiaozhou also called out, Zhou Fan also shouted with this brother and that brother, the relationship between the two sides is a lot closer, it seems that it is easy to make friends on the wine table, but this is true.

After a full meal, early the next morning, the inspection team rushed to the natural gas project base in Huaining City, Northwest Province to inspect, from Xijing City, the capital of Northwest Province, to Huaining City, only two hours by car, Secretary Zhang of the Provincial Party Committee specially instructed Chen Zhiyuan to accompany the central inspection team to Huaining City, at the high-speed exit, the leaders of the Huaining Municipal Party Committee, the senior management of the natural gas company got the news early, this will be waiting for their group here.

Seeing Director Fang and his entourage get out of the car, everyone greeted them one after another, shaking hands, greeting each other, Zhou Fan and others were naturally warmly received by these people.

The Northwest Natural Gas Company is managed and arranged by the central government, and the Northwest Provincial Party Committee only has the power to suggest and summarize the project, but has no actual management authority, and it is the executive department of the central government that can really speak of it, but after all, this project was proposed by Chen Zhiyuan when he was in office, and now he has been picked by the central government, Chen Zhiyuan will inevitably be a little unconvinced, but the natural project has great influence in several provinces in the northwest, and there are many factions in the center, so he naturally does not want the Chen department to take the lead in the northwest provinces. If this balance is really broken, I don't know how many people will feel uneasy.

Declined the kindness of the leaders of Huaining City, Director Fang directly accompanied the main leaders of the natural gas company to the natural gas project base for on-the-spot inspection, although it is only the first phase of the project, but also see that the central government attaches great importance to the energy industry, the scale of the entire natural gas company is not small, covering an area of almost hundreds of acres.

Seeing that this stall was so big at the beginning, Zhou Fan couldn't help frowning, according to Zhou Fan's original meaning, it is natural to be responsible for making profits while building, only in this way can we really support the smooth completion of such a large project, but the current situation is obviously not for profit at all, relying solely on central funding to complete such a large project, I don't know how long it will take to really use the natural gas here, which undoubtedly causes a lot of waste of state-owned resources, before the completion of the project, There is no need to count on the output of natural gas at all.

Zhou Fan glanced at Director Fang slightly, Director Fang's brows were also locked at the moment, obviously Zhou Fan could see that something was wrong, Director Fang naturally couldn't see this, to continue to develop like this, whether it was the transportation of pipelines or the transportation of liquefied gas, there was no way to achieve it for the time being, and when the funds for the first phase were exhausted and the second batch of funds from the Ministry of Finance had not come down, the project could only be temporarily shelved.

The leaders of the natural gas company obviously did not notice the strangeness on Director Fang's face, and introduced the progress of the project on the side, naturally not forgetting to exaggerate the scale of the project, hoping to obtain Director Fang's approval and approval, but the other party's mind was obviously in the wrong place, which would be what Director Fang was worried about the funding of the project, not to see how big the project was and what kind of scale it would be after completion.

The following cadres obviously do not know the pressure of the Ministry of Finance, thinking that the central government co-ordinated the project, naturally do not need to worry about the pressure of funds, so the face project in the first place, this is also the habitual thinking of many state-owned enterprise leaders in the trouble, when encountering things, always like to spread the stall as big as possible.

(To be continued)