There are not many people in the northwest group, in addition to Director Fang, the team leader, there is also a deputy ministerial-level inspector, and the remaining are the deputy positions of several departments and bureaus, and then there are the cadres who are responsible for running errands with these leaders, Zhou Fan is impressively listed.

In fact, the brains of the heads of ministries and commissions are different from the cadres below, basically the deputy directors have their own mountains, and they generally draw their own differences, within the scope of their own responsibility, it is difficult for ordinary people to intervene in it, and it is also because of this relationship that most of the cadres accompanying Director Fang this time are also relatively close to Director Fang's department, but Zhou Fan is undoubtedly an exception.

Not to mention Zhou Fan's own background, it is still unknown whether he can be used by Director Fang, let's just say that the relationship between Zhou Fan and Xue Xing, and even Ning Guohu, basically does not belong to the category of direct lineage, in its own sense, Zhou Fan and these two direct superiors basically maintain a certain distance, so Zhou Fan naturally does not belong to Director Fang's family.

Now that Zhou Fan was named by Director Fang and asked to accompany him, in the eyes of most cadres, he was obviously wondering if there was something else in it, which made the cadres of these inspection teams have a respectful attitude towards Zhou Fan.

Everyone is almost ready, Director Fang appeared in front of everyone accompanied by the secretary, there is news from the ministry that the old director of the National Development and Reform Commission may retire at the party congress at the end of the year, Director Fang is undoubtedly the most popular candidate, everyone is just guessing, but according to the trajectory of history, Zhou Fan knows that after the old director retires, it is Director Fang who will be successfully taken over, and Director Fang will stay in the heavyweight position of director of the National Development and Reform Commission for two terms, that is, in the next ten years, Director Fang will firmly occupy the position of the leader of the heavyweight ministry of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the weight of Director Fang in the future political pattern can be imagined.

Saying hello to everyone, Director Fang was very casual, and he didn't have the high profile of senior officials in ministries and commissions, after all, the cadres accompanying him this time were also selected by Director Fang, and they were basically cadres that Director Fang valued more, so naturally there was no need to put on any shelf.

"Xiao Zhou? What's wrong? The first time I went out of Beijing, it wouldn't be homesick. Seeing Zhou Fan hanging his head, Director Fang asked with a smile, and it could be seen that Director Fang's attitude towards Zhou Fan was quite affectionate.

Zhou Fan shook his head with a smile and said: "It's just the first time to work with the director, and I am worried that I will not meet the high standards and requirements of the director, so I am inevitably a little apprehensive." ”

"What's the matter? Is this singing to me with a white face, or pouring me a fan soup, don't say it, after so many years in the ministry, this fan soup has not been poured less, you are a little worse at the level. Director Fang said with a smile, stretched out his hand and patted Zhou Fan's shoulder, Director Fang continued: "The Northwest Natural Gas Project had your opinion at the beginning, and I will take you to the Northwest to have a look this time. ”

Zhou Fan was slightly stunned, he did tell Director Fang about the natural gas project at the beginning, but after such a long time, Zhou Fan thought that Director Fang had forgotten about this matter, and he didn't expect people to mention this matter today.

"I have any good advice, it's just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, and it's good that the leader didn't criticize me for expressing my opinions indiscriminately." Zhou Fan opened his mouth and said.

"You kid, this is something in the words, are you scolding me in my heart for not humbly absorbing the opinions of the masses?" Director Fang didn't finish speaking, he laughed, although he knew that Director Fang was joking with himself, but Zhou Fan didn't answer well, he just reached out and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Okay, this time I will go to the northwest to see the progress of the natural gas project, and if you have any good suggestions at that time, I will definitely accept them with an open mind." Director Fang smiled and patted Zhou Fan's shoulder, Zhou Fan was a little embarrassed, and was about to open his mouth to explain a few words, but Director Fang smiled and got into the car at the front.

There are not many people accompanying him this time, and the entire inspection team is only equipped with a total of five cars, Director Fang and a deputy ministerial-level inspector in one car, four department and bureau level leaders, a total of two cars were arranged, and then the five or six cadres accompanying the tour were also arranged in two cars, Zhou Fan was one step behind because of the level, followed by the last car, and sat in the passenger seat.

The person in charge of driving is a middle-aged man in his forties, who looks quite mature and steady, seeing Zhou Fan looking at himself, the other party nodded at Zhou Fan with a smile, Zhou Fan is naturally not easy to take big, and he also smiled at the other party kindly.

There were a total of three people sitting in Zhou Fan's car, except for Zhou Fan, the other two were in their early forties, one was the same as Zhou Fan, he was also a chief clerk at the department level, and the other was a leader of an office at the deputy department level.

This cadre at the level of deputy director of the main department, in the eyes of outsiders, is obviously a great thing, but in the ministries, commissions, bureaus, and offices, it basically belongs to the bottom category, just like among the cadres accompanying the inspection team this time, Zhou Fan and the three are undoubtedly the lowest level.

After saying hello to the two, I learned that the cadre who was at the same level as Zhou Fan was called Manager Yang, a cadre of the Mineral Resources Management Center, and the cadre at the deputy department level was called Guo Jingtao, a deputy director of the Comprehensive Office under the Northwest Development Planning Department.

Starting from the capital, to a certain province in the northwest, the journey on the road is not close, the middle of the two nights, to the afternoon of the third day to arrive in a certain province in the northwest, the car has not yet entered the city, the leaders of the northwest province has been at the exit of the highway to meet the arrival of the inspection team.

Director Fang got out of the car with a smile and shook hands cordially with the leaders of the Northwest Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Political Axe, although Zhou Fan and the entourage did not have the opportunity to shake hands with the main leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, but the Northwest Province obviously made efforts to receive Zhou Fan and others, and did not snub Zhou Fan and others.

The person in charge of receiving Zhou Fan and others is Director Ding of the Northwest Provincial Reception Office, who is in his early fifties, has a fat head and a big meat, and always has a smile on his face when he speaks, but in Zhou Fan's opinion, there seems to be some taste of smiling in the other party's smile.

The reception office is generally a yamen with more oil and water, and if you can stay in the position of the director of the reception office, basically there is either someone behind you to take care of it, or you really have some real skills, otherwise you can't stay in this position.

The leader and Director Fang had a cordial conversation with Secretary Zhang, Secretary of the Northwest Provincial Party Committee, Secretary Zhang is over sixty years old, and at the end of the year, Secretary Zhang is very likely to retire, that person should be Secretary Zhang's successor, Zhou Fan glanced at a middle-aged man behind Secretary Zhang, the man looked like he was only in his early forties, but he was able to stand in second place in Mali, the receptionist dispatched by the Northwest Provincial Party Committee, which showed the weight of the other party in the Northwest Provincial Party Committee.

Chen Zhiyuan, this name Zhou Fan is not unfamiliar at all, only forty-three years old, the other party has been ranked as the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee of a northwest province, and as the successor of Secretary Zhang, the other party is undoubtedly a popular candidate for the next secretary of the northwest provincial party committee, if this time can be successfully taken over, the other party will become one of the provincial party secretaries of more than 20 provinces in the country at the age of forty-three, the weight of this is also conceivable, in the next ten years, the other party will enter the central sequence, obviously it is also a sure thing.

Chen Zhiyuan's spirit is vibrant, although the natural gas project was intercepted by the central government, but as the initiator of the project, Chen Zhiyuan obviously still has some gains in this matter, at least in the competition for candidates, Chen Zhiyuan's reputation has been greatly improved, coupled with Secretary Zhang's attention to Chen Zhiyuan, undoubtedly Chen Zhiyuan is full of confidence in the position of secretary of the provincial party committee.

Some details of the history of the previous life, Zhou Fan also doesn't remember very well, but this year there will be a big event in the Chen department, but Zhou Fan remembers it very clearly, that is, the old man Chen will pass away at the end of the year, and it is also for this reason that in the next few years, Chen Zhiyuan has been standing still, Zhou Fan remembers that when Zhou Ziming was the secretary of the provincial party committee of Jiangnan Province, Chen Zhiyuan is still only the secretary of the provincial party committee of Northwest Province, although he is also the secretary of the provincial party committee, but the economically backward northwest province and Jiangnan Province, which is economically ranked among the top three in the country, Obviously, there is a big difference in the amount of money in between.

As one of the main political opponents of the Zhou family, the weight of the Chen family in Zhou Fan's heart is conceivable, as one of the political opponents of his father Zhou Ziming, Chen Zhiyuan, in a sense, brought pressure, is also not small, although because of the death of the old man Chen, Chen Zhiyuan has been standing still in the next few years, but in the next ten years, in the political pattern of the central government, Chen Zhiyuan still plays a big role, and even in the incident of Zhou Ziming, Chen Zhiyuan has been playing a not very kind role, Of course, these are all things that will be a few years or even more than ten years later, not to mention that Zhou Fan is not qualified to regard Chen Zhiyuan as his political opponent, just to say that in Chen Zhiyuan's eyes, Zhou Fan is only the third generation of the insignificant Zhou family, and it is not worthy of the attention of a provincial party committee boss like Chen Zhiyuan at all.

In the early 90s, the Northwest Provincial Party Committee Guest House was still an enterprise under the Reception Office, but in the next few years, these political axe guest houses, contracted contracts, and rebuilt reconstructions, basically not much remained.

"A few leaders, if you need anything, just say hello to the waiters below, I have ordered everything here." Director Ding of the reception office said politely.

Zhou Fan and the others naturally smiled and excused themselves: "Director Ding is polite, I am already very satisfied with such conditions." ”

Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while before Director Ding said goodbye with a smile.

(To be continued)