In a conference room on the seventh floor of the office building of the provincial party committee, the standing committee members of Beihu Province in the provincial capital, the main leaders of the four major groups, cadres at or above the deputy ministerial level in the province, and some veteran cadres in the province walked in one after another.

The hustle and bustle did not stop abruptly because Zhou Shuming returned to Beihu, and when Zhou Shuming was still in the capital, he had already notified the province that an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee would be held.

In the entire building of the provincial party committee, in accordance with the principle of collective leadership, its status should theoretically be said to be "supreme."

Of course, not all of the Standing Committees are held here.

For example, the hotel where the Standing Committee was held last time was another place where the Standing Committee was held.

There are two or three more such locations. But this conference room is most often used in the province, because it is in the provincial party committee, and the participants are convenient.

Seeing Zhou Shuming walk in, everyone knew that at this meeting, all the mysteries would be revealed, and the conference room was so quiet that the sound of pins falling to the ground could be heard.

When Zhou Shuming conveyed the spirit of the general secretary, Ma Xinzhong, who was leaning over to take notes, seemed to be a little distracted and walked away for a while, but quickly controlled his attention again, and then buried his head and continued to record Zhou Shuming's speech.

And Zhan Jidong breathed a long sigh of relief, Secretary Zhou's continued stay in Beihu is undoubtedly the best news for him, no matter from which point of view.

He has a good relationship with Zhou Shuming, and this relationship has undoubtedly benefited him a lot, and Ma Xinzhong is several years older than him, if he can't enter the ranks of ministers, he will have to vacate his position at the age of sixty. When the time comes, with Zhou Shuming's support, he is very hopeful that he will move one step higher. And if Zhou Shuming left in a gloomy way at this time. No matter who the new secretary is, I'm afraid his attitude will be interesting......

Lu Zhengdong listened very carefully to Zhou Shuming's transmission of the supreme instructions, interpreted some of the spirits, thought about how to better integrate them with the reality of Beihu, and came up with specific measures.

For Zhou Shuming to stay, Lu Zhengdong maintains a normal heart, and whether Zhou Shuming goes or stays is both pros and cons for him. On the positive side, Zhou Shuming's desire to control is too strong, and it seems that everything must be under his control to rest assured, such a thing must bow down to himself, manage too widely, and stretch his hand too long, for him, the second-in-command, it is not a very pleasant thing to work with such a secretary, at least it takes a lot of energy to think about how to coordinate the relationship between each other or think of what tricks to persuade Zhou Shuming to be the number one. Otherwise, many things will be difficult to do.

And if Zhou Shuming leaves, a new secretary needs to run in. This is also a troublesome thing, and some things that have reached a basic agreement with Zhou Shuming now may not be what the new secretary wants to do.

Perhaps, it is relatively better for Zhou Shuming to stay, and Zhang Xinwen's matter may also prompt Zhou Shuming to make some changes in employing people, especially this time when he was urgently summoned, it can be regarded as a drum with a hammer, which is self-evident to stimulate Zhou Shuming, and it is bound to make Zhou Shuming reflect deeply......

Zhou Shuming did not pay attention to the expressions of these people as usual at this moment, at this time he was still immersed in the conversation with the chief secretary and the general manager, immersed in a somewhat excited feeling, originally with a tragic and majestic, perhaps called gloomy and more appropriate mood to board the plane to the capital, but the result was unexpected, so this conversation was like a shot in the arm for him, which made him glow with a long-lost enthusiasm for work.

“…… Before I left Beijing, the general manager also talked to me about it. He mainly talked about the economic development of Beihu Lake, focusing on the coordinated development of Beihu industry, the adjustment of the industrial structure, and the establishment of a modern enterprise management system. Then, he also inquired very carefully about the situation of the urban and rural co-ordination pilot projects in our province, and asked very carefully, including the raising of funds, how to select points, and so on.

Finally, the general manager also asked about the situation in the disaster area of Annan, and talked about the problem of Annan, the general manager said that Annan is only a small city in the territory of the country, but it is this inconspicuous border place, but it is one of the earliest coal-fired power production bases in the country, and has made heavy contributions to the country's economic construction. During the "First Five-Year Plan" period, among the 156 key projects of the state that laid the national industrial foundation, one energy project was arranged in Annam. From the founding of the Republic to the end of 2,000 years, Annan has exported countless resources for the country and Beihu, and now Annan is in a difficult stage, and must find a way to promote Annam's transformation and upgrading.

It just so happened that the governor of Zhengdong Province conducted an investigation and investigation of An Nan a few days ago because of the geological disaster in Annan, so he introduced the current situation of An Nan at this meeting. ”

Lu Zhengdong nodded slightly, Zhou Shuming had already informed him of some of the situation of the conversation in the provincial capital, and also asked him to prepare things in this regard and talk about this matter at the meeting.

"I won't talk about the situation that everyone knows about Annan, I will talk about the situation I have recently learned, among the 700,000 urban population of Annan, 153,000 people have been laid off and unemployed, and with the gradual reduction of resources, the laid-off workers in the mining area will increase year by year, according to the report given to me by Annan, by next year Annan laid-off workers and unemployed people will reach 180,000, basically one in every four people will be unemployed, which is a huge burden for Annan, whose resources are exhausted and economic growth is slow.

"And for those workers who have not been laid off for the time being, life is not easy."

Lu Zhengdong paused and said.

Due to the city's financial constraints, the Annan Mining Bureau began to default on the wages of its workers in 1994, the longest of which lasted for 16 months. As a result of the long-term lack of wages, nearly 200,000 Annan residents are below the minimum subsistence line, that is, more than one out of every four Fuxin residents is below the locally determined poverty line, with a monthly income of less than 156 yuan.

"Resource depletion and high unemployment have hit Annan's economy hard – another problem that Annan has had to face.

Since 1995, the average annual growth rate of the country's GDP has been less than 3 percent, despite the sustained and high-speed growth rate of the country's GDP. Ten years have passed. This figure fluctuates no more than 0.3 percent. It can also be seen from this that Annan's economic development is sluggish.

Of course, this is by no means an Annan family, and it should be said that cities with depleted domestic resources are facing such a situation.

Why did these cities get to this point?

This cannot but be worth thinking about.

Many comrades believe that since the resources have been exhausted and there is no such source, it is normal for such a result to occur in the end, and this kind of thinking cannot be said to be without a little truth, but I think that such an idea is still not comprehensive enough.

Once the resources are depleted, there is no way out for a city. It's still a matter of patterns.

Many resource cities in our country are to adopt the Soviet model of the integration of mining and city, or the integration of oil city, the reason for adopting such a model, which is related to history, but also related to reality, at that time many energy-based cities were built with the aid of the Soviet Union, or designed according to the intention of the experts of the Soviet Union, and the other point is that it was considered in the national strength at that time, because the resource-based cities were in the areas with underdeveloped transportation. If the mine is separated from the city, the cost of transportation alone will be enormous.

Although at the time it was reasonable. But in the long run, there is an irrational side, and this unreasonable danger can only be seen ten years later, when the resources are exhausted.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, nearly 90 percent of the state and provincial investment in Annan has been invested in mining, and the sum of local industry, agriculture, and education has been a little more than 10 percent. The deformed investment structure has caused a deformed economic structure, and the eggs are all put in one basket, and as soon as the resources are exhausted, I look up and look at it, and I am stunned to find that the family has no belongings all of a sudden.

I remember that there is an advertising slogan of a company, which is called because of focus, so we are professional, because of professionalism we are excellent, and enterprises focusing on a certain thing are indeed more likely to be more successful, but a city is not an enterprise after all, its scale and its functions are completely different.

Of course, why was such a model favored in the Soviet Union?

In the Soviet Union, this is easy to do, they are vast and sparsely populated, since the resources are exhausted, then do not want to, move to other places, but not in China, the country has a large population, large-scale urban population migration is impossible, everyone look at the immigrants in the Three Gorges to know that the immigrants are not much more than the population in the urban area of Annan, they are all carried out with the strength of the whole country, and the places of migration are also all over the country.

In fact, in the long run, the construction of cities and mining areas separately is a reasonable long-term behavior for sustainable development. The advantage of the construction of cities and mining areas separately is that it avoids the negative impact of environmental damage caused by mining to human life to the greatest extent, and the urban construction is far away from the mining area, it can be built and developed according to the inherent laws of the city.

Of course, this is for the newly discovered giant mining areas or oil fields in the province, for the resource-based cities in the province that have become a foregone conclusion that these resources have not been exhausted and are in the growth stage, we should learn the lessons of Annan, and the transformation should be done as soon as possible, and we should start when the resource output and profits are relatively good, and we should use more policy-based financial means to encourage urban development, and focus on encouraging the development of continuous and alternative industries with financial support.

Because at this time, these cities are relatively financially abundant, and the transformation effect is more significant.

The reason why I say this is because Annan is not the only city in our province that has established itself with resources, and these cities should not see the rapid progress now, but should think carefully about what to do in the future. ”

Lu Zhengdong's speech, the participants listened very carefully, for Lu Zhengdong's economic attainments, everyone has no doubts, the old and difficult Beihua, through Lu Zhengdong's hands, in just a few months, has seen results, the separated sideline business is in the market to eat, their own support, and the reorganization of the main business has also begun to make a profit, and the profit is not small.

What Lu Zhengdong said was completely handy, and there were many things that they had never heard of at all, and they were very vivid and concrete, so they couldn't help but listen carefully.

Of course, they are more concerned about whether Lu Zhengdong can really come up with a solution to An Nan.

"As for how to solve Annan's problem, to be honest, it was my first time to visit Annan. This has always been on my mind. has also been thinking about where An Nan should go. If you want to solve Annan's problem, there are two points that cannot be avoided, one is that you want to get Annan out of the predicament, you can't expect to achieve it overnight, and you can't do it in one battle. That requires a medium- to long-term plan.

Another point that cannot be avoided is capital, to solve a series of economic and social contradictions faced by Annan, it must be inseparable from a money word, social security, including pension and medical insurance for retired workers, unemployment insurance for laid-off workers, and minimum living security for urban residents, support for vocational training, personal entrepreneurship; Support the improvement of the ecological environment and the construction of municipal infrastructure, and support the development of continuous and alternative industries in resource-exhausted cities, so as to enhance the stamina of urban development. It doesn't require money, and it's not a one-time investment. It is necessary to invest continuously over a long period of time. In such a situation, objectively it is necessary for the province to have enough financial resources to guarantee before it dares to implement, and the financial situation of the province is also very clear to everyone, which is completely overstretched, which is also the most important reason why the province has not dared to move. The financial difficulties are objective, and the difficulties are quite large, but An Nan's problem has reached the point where it can no longer be delayed, and even if there are great difficulties, it must be solved. ”

Lu Zhengdong paused for a moment before continuing:

"How to solve the problem of funds, one is to strive for a part of the special funds from the central government, the second is to find a way to raise some funds in the province, and the third is to be based on self-reliance and tap potential.

The last point is particularly important, the internal cause is the decisive role, An Nan is now a patient in need of blood transfusion, the central government to fight for the funds, the province to raise funds, it is equivalent to blood transfusion, if the patient himself can not make blood, then such a blood transfusion is able to maintain his life, if the patient himself has hematopoietic function, then such a blood transfusion can activate the whole body function, is an important external factor to promote its health.

The relevant departments in the province should do a little research in a targeted manner, find some experts and grassroots cadres to discuss, come up with some targeted and feasible ideas, and finally form a comprehensive implementation plan......"

After Lu Zhengdong finished speaking, Zhou Shuming made a concluding speech:

"The general secretary and the general manager are so concerned about and attach importance to our Beihu, and we must also redouble our efforts to live up to the expectations of the general secretary and the premier.

Zhou Shuming mentioned that he asked the Standing Committee members and other comrades attending the meeting to make some serious preparations for this, and to report it to the Central Committee. Once approved, an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee will be convened as much as possible, and the principal leaders at the prefectural and municipal levels will be deployed to implement the measures......

After the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Zhou Shuming left Lu Zhengdong behind, and it seemed that there were some things that needed to be communicated with him alone.

“…… There is a detail that I did not dare to convey at the Standing Committee for fear of scaring the Standing Committee. When the prime minister talked to me, when he talked to me, he was very strict when it came to the issue of Annan, and you also know that the prime minister was a person with a mild temperament, but when he was strict, it was really a little scary, and the prime minister said that if the country is compared to a family and the city to a child, then Annan is the most honest child who works hard to support this family with a face full of mineral ashes -- it has no heart, no way out, until it has overdrawn itself and needs a large amount of medical expenses to get a new life. As a result, it has become a burden to the family and has been set aside, which is very inappropriate. And this situation exists in all resource-based and energy-based cities in the country where resources have been basically exhausted, and there is a city in other provinces that has caused a lot of chaos, and among other such cities, the prime minister said that according to what he learned from his last inspection and research, the situation in Annan City is one of several cities in Yanzhòng...... If something goes wrong, it's not just a matter of historical debts, it's not just a matter of dereliction of duty, it's a big problem for people like you and me......

Zhou Shuming said as he handed him a cigarette, but he didn't give him a match for a long time. Lu Zhengdong took the cigarette and didn't light it for a long time.

“…… An Nan's problem, if you want to hit the board, you should beat me, the governor, and I am in charge of the economy. ”

Lu Zhengdong also said with some solemnity.

"How long have you been in Bay Lake?"

Zhou Shuming shook his head with a wry smile, sighed softly, Lu Zhengdong also shook his head with a wry smile, although Lu Zhengdong said the truth at the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee just now, if he wanted to solve An Nan's problem, it was so easy, if it was so easy, it would not have dragged on for more than ten years, and no one dared to move after several sessions of the provincial party committee and provincial government, the meaning of Zhou Shuming's wry smile may be different from him, but at this moment, the two have a rare tacit understanding.

After a while, Lu Zhengdong asked tentatively:

“…… How many more sets of plans should I ask the relevant departments to prepare for the next Standing Committee discussion? ”

Lu Zhengdong knew very well that although Zhou Shuming was a false alarm in this conversation, it also gave him a deep sense of crisis, so no matter what Zhou Shuming's impression of him was, what Zhou Shuming was most eager for now was support from him.

Maybe the honeymoon period of the two is coming, although I don't know how long such a honeymoon period can last, but for Lu Zhengdong, before the code is removed, this is also a great thing...... (To be continued......)