Chuncheng is the capital of Liaobei Province and the political, economic, cultural and educational center of Northeast China, with an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers and five districts, one city and four counties, with a total population of nearly 6 million.

Spring City is also an important heavy industry city, with thousands of large-scale heavy industry enterprises above the scale in the area, making Spring City the most famous industrial city in China.

What really left a good impression on Chen Youwei was not the many heavy industry enterprises that had made great contributions to China here. In Chen Youwei's view, the greening of Spring City, which is as high as 40 percent, is the greatest value of Spring City, a city with a large population.

On the first day of working in the Chuncheng City Government, Chen Youwei went around to worship the dock as the outside world imagined, and quietly checked the local information and archives about Chuncheng in the office.

Before coming to Chuncheng, although Chen Youwei also did some work, he basically thought about how to invigorate the local economy of Chuncheng.

After checking his qualifications, Chen Youwei suddenly realized that as one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in China, the position of mayor of Chuncheng City was obviously much more powerful than the head of the provincial capital city that he understood.

The secretary of the municipal party committee, the director of the municipal people's congress, the mayor and the chairman of the CPPCC of the sub-provincial city are all at the deputy ministerial level, and the deputy position is at the department level.

The difference between sub-provincial-level cities and ordinary cities is mainly reflected in the national economic and social development planning, and the government affairs yuan and other competent departments regard sub-provincial-level cities as provincial-level planning units.

In terms of national economic and social development planning, the governments of sub-provincial governments already have the authority of provincial-level governments. Sub-provincial-level cities, together with other prefecture-level cities or prefecture-level administrative regions, are included in the direct jurisdiction of the provinces and are not listed separately, and there are currently 15 cities: Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Jinan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi'an, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen, and Shenzhen.

As the acting mayor of Chuncheng City, Chen Youwei's current level is still at the department level, but the power he exercises is the deputy ministerial authority of the head of a city at the deputy provincial level. Such a position that has made countless people's eyes hot naturally makes Chen Youwei think that if he wants to sit in this position, I am afraid that the difficulty is really not ordinary.

Chen Youwei's first day in office was the last day of the first lunar month, and the overcast clouds in the sky finally fell large snowflakes.

Looking at the silver-white world outside the window, Chen Youwei closed the thick information in his hand, lay on his back on the tall and comfortable chair, lit a cigarette and smoked it, looking at ease.

Judging from the relevant data reports of Spring City in the past year, the overall financial income of Spring City, which has thousands of enterprises above designated size, is not high, although more than sixty percent of the enterprises are above the profit line, but there are nearly 200 enterprises that have been unable to make ends meet and are close to the verge of bankruptcy, such a situation is really worrying.

More than 200 enterprises may not sound like too much, but if the nearly 100,000 workers and their families behind them are not properly handled, and hundreds of thousands of mouths waiting to be fed and waiting for food will be noisy, for a city like Spring City, which basically relies on the industrial base for development, the seriousness of the consequences can be imagined.

To know how many of the other sixty percent of seemingly profitable enterprises are really profitable, Chen Youwei definitely does not have a too optimistic view in his heart. Regarding some shortcomings in the system, Chen Youwei's opposite is very clear.

Almost half of the more than 3 million people in the urban area of Chuncheng City are inextricably linked with those large state-owned enterprises with outdated facilities and backward management, and once these state-owned enterprises that have brought countless glory to China in the past fall one after another, it will not only be a blow to Chuncheng and Liaobei Province, but also to the whole of China.

This is the reason why Hong Yangui, as the vice premier of the Government Council, is seriously concerned about the problems that exist and may occur here in Spring City.

There was a knock on the door.

Chen Youwei stretched his waist, snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, sat up straight and said loudly: "Please come in!" ”

Pushing the door into is Fei Quanguo, secretary general of the Chuncheng City Government, he is a soldier in his early fifties, and he walks with a steady pace, perhaps it is such a steady momentum that makes Chen Youwei have a good impression when he sees him.

"Secretary-General Fei is here, is there something wrong?"

Chen Youwei got up to greet him, and when he first arrived, he didn't want to leave people with the impression of being unruly and lazy.

Facing the young and excessive boss in front of him, Fei Quanguo's heart is mixed, he has worked hard for more than ten years to reach his current position after more than ten years of hard work, but the young man in front of him, who is almost twenty years younger than himself, surpasses him so easily, which makes Fei Quanguo's heart overflow with too many strange thoughts.

Zhilu Dao, this polite young man in front of him, who made his fortune in such a dazzling inland city as Yicheng in Shannan, Fei Quanguo always had an awkward feeling in his heart.

Whether it was jealousy in his heart, or any other unspeakable thoughts, Fei Quanguo stood in front of Chen Youwei with a thoughtful attitude on the surface, but the distractions in his heart came and went.

"Mayor Chen, this is the secretary and driver candidates proposed by the secretariat for you, in order not to delay your work, you can take a look if you have time." Fei Quanguo handed over a list and said in a deep voice.

Chen Youwei took a glance at the list marked with a simple resume of the secretary candidate, put it on the large desk, and said with a smile: "I know what I know, I will give you an answer as soon as possible." ”

Fei Quanguo nodded, ready to leave.

"Secretary-General Fei, if there are not many things to do, let's talk?"

Chen Youwei walked out from behind the wide desk, took out a cigarette and handed it over, and said with a smile: "I'm new to the city, and I don't know much about many places in Spring City, so I need a lot of help from the secretary general!" ”

Fei Quanguo was slightly stunned, and said with a smile on his face: "Mayor Chen is polite, it's all for work." ”

Judging from Fei Quanguo's somewhat perfunctory attitude, Chen Youwei sighed in his heart that the people who have been able to fight from thousands of troops to this position are not fuel-efficient lamps.

"I heard that before I came, the work of the city government was represented by Mayor Li?" Chen Youwei's first question made Fei Quanguo sweat on his forehead.

"Yes, last summer, the original Mayor Zhang was dismissed because he was involved in the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant nest case, and Mayor Li has been acting as the executive vice mayor for more than half a year." Fei Quanguo briefly talked about these well-known situations, and he didn't say much about other related sensitive things.

"So that's the case, I'll have a good exchange with Mayor Li when I have time......" Chen Youwei smiled faintly, his bright eyes seemed to be able to see through Fei Quanguo's thoughts, and he didn't ask any questions.

After briefly asking a few more information, Chen Youwei snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, and finally let go of Fei Quanguo, who was a little restless.

"That's it, Secretary General Fei is going to get busy," Chen Youwei picked up the list of secretaries and drivers on the desk, and said, "I'll notify you immediately when I have the result." ”

"It's so good, Mayor Chen, you're busy, I'm leaving!" Fei Quanguo secretly took a long breath and closed the door.

Sitting on the soft and comfortable chair, Chen Youwei looked thoughtfully at the sofa that Fei Quanguo was sitting on just now, and shook his head gently.

The secretary general of the municipal government is generally the mayor's confidant, but this is good, but in front of Chen Youwei, he looks like a great enemy.

Almost without thinking about it, a thought flashed in Chen Youwei's heart, no matter what the reason is, such a person must not be used!

However, Chen Youwei also knows very well that he is now only the acting mayor, and he has the power of a legitimate mayor in the handling of daily related work. But once this involves personnel issues, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for him to successfully realize his intentions.

Taking out the last cigarette from the cigarette case placed on the table and lighting it, Chen Youwei breathed a long smoke ring faintly, and subconsciously looked out the window where the snow was falling.

Thinking of the high-powered old man in the municipal party committee office building not far from the municipal government compound, Chen Youwei's confidence in his heart was even more insufficient.

Chen Youwei knew that he had been airborne from the capital and that it sounded quite mighty, and the unaware grassroots cadres might still be applauding himself for coming to the daunting Spring City in the twilight.

However, Chen Youwei is very clear that if he wants to do something in a huge city like Spring City, which has complex and tangled interests, he is simply like Don Quixote who does not know life and death by himself.

In order to rejuvenate this city, which has made significant contributions to the Chinese country in the past, Chen Youwei understands that only by finding a reliable business partner and uniting a wider range of people can he successfully realize his own ideals and blueprints.

The current Chuncheng has just experienced last year's clean government storm, and the officials in Chuncheng have a natural sense of vigilance against Chen Youwei, who was delegated from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Chen Youwei knows this well.

However, in Chen Youwei's opinion, it is likely that the real trouble for him to take charge of the economic power of Spring City and try to change this old city with rigid thinking and twilight is likely to be a very powerful old man in the secluded courtyard across the road from him.

Xia Wang, secretary of the Chuncheng City Party Committee, is 58 this year, and the Standing Committee of the Liaobei Provincial Party Committee, who will officially retire in two years, is not an ordinary strong in the eyes of ordinary people.

Even if Chen Youwei was still far away in the capital, he heard from more than one person that this hot-tempered old man dared to go toe-for-tat in the face of the state leaders who came down to inspect when he was still an ordinary department-level cadre.

Such a figure who admits death has been praised by the leader, and since then his career has been smooth sailing, and he has become the leader of the Northeast Economic Center of Spring City in less than ten years, until now.

Chen Youwei squinted lightly with a somewhat confused look, took a small sip of his cigarette, and a realization appeared in his heart.

Perhaps the first thing I should do when I come to Spring City is to have an in-depth and frank exchange with the old man.