Chapter 36 Chapter Thirty-Six

After figuring out that Zhong Mingren has some understanding of the pollution in the international industrial park, Li Dongfang is ready to solve this problem thoroughly.He handed a printed material to Qian Fanxing, "This is the first list of closed companies drawn up by me and Jiaguo and other comrades after field research. They are mainly electroplating companies. Take a look first. Is there any company missing?" Qian Fanxing looked at the list and didn't comment on the list, but asked, "It seems that the park is going to be closed?" Li Dongfang said: "I have sent relevant materials to Secretary Zhong, and Secretary Zhong may be reading it."

Qian Fanxing thought for a while: "Has Secretary Zhong's attitude changed? Have you revealed Guan Yuan's tone?" Li Dongfang frowned, and said unhappily: "Mayor Qian, Secretary Zhong has no attitude and no tone, so the park will not be closed, right? You should call a mayor's office meeting as soon as possible to deal with the issue of closing the park in stages and batches. Let’s study the funding issue of Times Avenue together, and we will issue a government order today, and let the comrades of the family and country implement it!” Qian Fanxing still made a detour: "Since the government order is issued by our government, I, the mayor, have to be cautious!"

Li Dongfang couldn't hold back any longer, and said angrily: "Comrade Qian Fanxing, I understand what you mean. The life and death of ordinary people is not worth mentioning in your eyes. You only have Secretary Zhong in your eyes, and there is no clear secretary Zhong. Attitude, even if the people in the lower reaches of the Xiajiang River drank the sewage and died, you would not blink! Now you can go, without your government order, I can still shut down these 12 electroplating companies!" Zhong Mingren's ward looked more and more like the office of the provincial party committee, and comrades who came to report on their work continued every day.

After reading the materials and investigation reports about the pollution of the Xiajiang River sent by Li Dongfang one after another, Zhong Mingren fell into an unprecedented painful introspection and self-blame.The materials in black and white are placed there, like a pile of coals burning day and night, scorching his soul, making him sweat profusely, and eating and sleeping are tasteless. In the past 15 years, due to the pollution of the International Industrial Park, there have been frequent agricultural, animal husbandry and fishery disasters in five counties and cities including Qinghu in the lower reaches of the Xiajiang River.What is especially serious is that it has caused a sudden increase in endemic diseases in Qinghu City and the three downstream counties and cities, forming several high-incidence areas for cancer, and the cancer mortality rate has also increased year by year.What kind of industrial park is this?It's like a garbage factory.

Even though He Jiaguo had made full mental preparations, he still didn't expect that closing the garden would cause such a big disturbance. The Xiajiang City People's Government issued an order that did not mention the closure of the entire park. It only clarified that 12 serious polluting enterprises, mainly electroplating enterprises, would suspend production and close. Workers in the park rioted.On the day the government order was issued, nearly 3,000 workers from 5 companies including Xingguang Electroplating Company and Jingliang International Company suddenly started the so-called "protect the factory and protect the post" activity, vowing not to evacuate the park, defending and fighting for their labor rights.Some people played Zhong Mingren's banner with ulterior motives, claiming to defend the great achievements of Secretary Zhong's reform and opening up.

After investigation and understanding, He Jiaguo discovered that the problem was more complicated: there had been rumors of the closure of the park for a period of time, many major polluters in the park had already made preparations, and the withdrawal of funds was very serious, and many companies did not even pay basic wages to workers.The most typical example is Jingliang International Company, a Sino-foreign joint venture, which owed its employees wages for nearly a year, with a total amount of nearly 10 million yuan.Workers can't get their hard-earned money, so they naturally don't want to leave the factory, which in fact creates a confrontation with the government order.The boss of Jingliang publicly told his employees that all the money he earned was paid for environmental protection fines. Now that the government wants to close the factory, the only way to get wages is to go to the government.There are also some companies that were originally very profitable, and the average monthly income of employees was thousands of yuan. Now, with an order, such a good job is gone, and the laid-off living allowance is only paid 120 yuan per month. Of course, he will compete with you.

Only then did He Jiaguo understand another reason for Li Dongfang's cautiousness: the closure of the international industrial park is indeed not a trivial matter. When a decision is related to the vital economic interests of thousands of households, the decision-maker must have a Be cautious and fearful, walking on thin ice.This time Li Dongfang should be said to be careful enough. From briefings at the general meeting to the on-site investigations of each company, almost everything is well-founded, and he has seized the opportunity of this serious pollution and dealt with it at the right time. Can't say immature.In order to deal with the aftermath of these 12 closed enterprises, more than 20 ministries, commissions and bureaus from environmental protection, public security, planning committee, and economic commission were mobilized at the same time, each performing its own duties.In such a financially difficult situation in Xiajiang, 35 million yuan was used to maintain the social security system to ensure that the first batch of about 9,000 laid-off workers can get the basic living allowance of 120 yuan per month on time.For this reason, Li Dongfang personally set up a leading group, with himself as the group leader, and three deputy group leaders, one is the mayor Qian Fanxing, the other is the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and the director of the Public Security Bureau Wang Xinmin, and the third is He Jiaguo.

With Zhong Mingren's clear attitude and severe criticism, Qian Fanxing's attitude has undergone a 180-degree turn. As long as it is a meeting in the International Industrial Park, no matter how busy he is, he will come to attend. His attitude towards handling things is worse than Li Dongfang's. decisive.Hearing that the workers of Xingguang Plating Company and Jingliang International Company resisted the government order and engaged in "protecting the factory and protecting the post", Qian Fanxing decided that they were gathering a crowd to make trouble, and asked Wang Xinmin to send police officers to maintain order in the park and detain the employees who led the disturbance.Wang Xinmin asked for Li Dongfang's opinion, but Li Dongfang disagreed, and repeatedly warned Qian Fanxing and the comrades in the leading group: don't rush, take your time.

Qian Fanxing was finally able to straighten out his position, instead of sticking to his opinion as before, he immediately changed his position and expressed his agreement. At this time, Zhao Qigong called and said that after the International Environment Day, at his suggestion, Bian Chang, a famous photographer from the Provincial Photographic Association, made an album of photographs of the pollution of the Xiajiang River, which was very convincing; Rose has also composed several popular songs with the theme of Xia Jiangmei, so she can organize them and help do some publicity work.Li Dongfang agreed.

Li Dongfang said with emotion again: "My country, objectively speaking, your former father-in-law does have a level of policy and leadership, much better than our Mayor Qian—as long as his personal affairs are not involved. Political interest, he always hits some good shots."