Chapter 1065: The Zhang family’s Dragon Rise

Gu Xiaomei also felt a little strange when she received a call from the Municipal Government Office. Last night, the Provincial People's Hospital made a spoiler suicide. Early this morning, the provincial government urgently notified all cities to raise the living security subsidy standards for laid-off workers. Even if they knew that there was a necessary connection between the two, they felt that such efficiency was too weird in China. Moreover, Zhang Zhixing's son seemed to have an indescribable relationship with this matter.

The connection between the municipal government and the civil affairs department is precisely the responsibility of Gu Xiaomei, the deputy secretary-general of the government. Although he would return to Xinwu tomorrow according to the schedule, such a big thing suddenly happened, Gu Xiaomei certainly could not wait until tomorrow to leave. After Chen Ning finished the inspection, everyone found a restaurant in Xuefu Lane to have dinner, and then took a bus to Xinwu.

After Zhang Zhixing became mayor, one of the first things he did was to raise the living security subsidy standard for laid-off workers to 110 yuan. He always had to set aside some distance from Jianye, otherwise it would make Jianye ugly. Xinwu's price level is much lower than that of Jianye. With this standard living security subsidy, plus medical care and children's education subsidies, laid-off workers can barely maintain the most basic living standards.

During the years when Zhang Zhixing became the deputy mayor of Xinwu, he has done some practical things, especially the rise of Xinwu's liquor industry and tourism industry, which has directly opened up two extremely important sources of wealth for local fiscal revenue. In addition to the direct beneficiaries of these two industries, Xinwu's people who eat financial food also benefit directly. At least the arrears of wages are gone, and there are much less cases of forced donations in big and small matters than before. Therefore, Zhang Zhixing has risen rapidly to serve as mayor, and local grassroots cadres are supported by them.

This is the case these days. Whoever you benefit will support you.

However, the political achievements made by Zhang Ke as deputy mayor were still quite limited in Xinwu City. Some general policies to benefit people after serving as mayor have promoted, which allowed Zhang Zhixing to gain widespread support in Xinwu.

In the first half of the year, Xinwu and 999, local fiscal revenue reached 500 million, and the per capita level was medium among the thirteen prefecture-level cities in Donghai Province. However, the living security standards for laid-off workers were calculated according to the price level, which was actually higher than those between Jianye and Huishan.

Huishan's economic development has always been the best in the province. In the past two or three years, Jianye City's economic development has opened up a new pattern. Local fiscal revenue has increased significantly on the original basis, and there is a tendency to catch up with Huishan. There are economic foundations for significantly improving the living security standards for laid-off workers, but the situation in Xinwu is different.

In addition to the rapid rise of liquor industry and tourism in Xinwu City, the foundation of other industries is still weak. The population of 300,000 cities has almost 300,000 laid-off workers in the past two years. Fortunately, the rise of liquor industry and tourism industry has created a large number of jobs, otherwise the laid-off people in Xinwu will still be surging.

In addition to the 30,000 laid-off workers in Xinwu city, Xinwu has almost 20,000 laid-off workers in the five counties under its jurisdiction. Xinwu county has a worse financial situation. This time, the living security standards for laid-off workers have been raised, and the city still needs to subsidize the county.

This time, according to the highest standards stipulated by the provincial government, the living security subsidy for laid-off workers in Xinwu will be increased to 165 yuan per month. In addition to the increase in other relief standards, Gu Xiaomei made a rough estimate in her mind that the municipal government will spend about 40 million yuan per year.

The estimated local fiscal revenue of Xinwu this year can exceed one billion, which is already a pretty good achievement. One billion seems to be a lot, but this one billion cake was divided up to various departments as early as the end of last year when the expenditure budget was prepared. The municipal government can flexibly grasp less than one hundred million yuan. In the second half of this year, due to the increase in the subsidy standard for laid-off workers, at least 20 million will be spent.

The city government wants to do something very complicated, and it has to take out an additional 20 million at once, which is really a bit difficult.

Gu Xiaomei returned to the municipal government before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. As the municipal government called various political departments to hold meetings to discuss the issue of raising the subsidy standards for laid-off workers.

It is useless to just convene the civil affairs department, and the civil affairs department cannot add 20 million out of thin air. 20 million is still required to solve the problem of 20 million.

Gu Xiaomei urgently took the record book and went to the conference room to attend the meeting. As she expected, the meeting scene was indeed full of complaints.

Zhang Zhixing sat at the conference table and made a decision: "It is better for the municipal government to be tighter than for laid-off workers to live tighter. 143 yuan, everyone will discuss and discuss, but it will not be too hungry for people. If there is more than twenty-two yuan, it is impossible to make laid-off workers eat a few meals a month, which is not a luxury, right? Besides, the municipal government is tighter, and I am not forcing you to take out money from your pockets. Why do everyone have a bitter face?"

When Zhang Zhixing said this, everyone could only smile, but they were not in a hurry to express their opinions.

"I'll start with it," Zhang Zhixing continued, "The mayor's office expenses are deducted by 20%, and the amount of each department is deducted. You can accept it yourself. No matter what the mandatory standard is to determine the ruling, I will first make up the money I can make up and how much is lacking. I will go out to beg for alms. - I still want to remind everyone that the key is to do a good job in economic development and help laid-off workers re-employed, labor market and labor export work. This year, it is necessary to achieve results. It takes two to three years to resolve 30,000 laid-off workers, and no one has to sit here and beg for grief..."

Gu Xiaomei felt nervous when she heard that the mayor's office expenses were deducted by 20%, but she thought that it would be a blessing to have such a mayor of 300,000 in Xinwu and 3 million people in the suburbs. Unfortunately, such a mayor is already rare in China. If you want to say that there is anything that is dissatisfied or worthy of being tainted, that is, Zhang Zhixing's son is a bit too distorted. If Zhang Ke's deeds spread, it will seriously affect Zhang Zhixing's good reputation.

Everyone is confident in Zhang Zhixing's ability to develop the economy. He thought in his heart that he would tighten for the time being, and he would be able to relax after a while. He would be whispered and complained. If it was useless, there was no need to continue crying poorly. Everyone smiled and reported 5%, and I would report 6% of the self-payment funds.

Gu Xiaomei knew that everyone would recognize it after reporting. As soon as the meeting minutes were released, as soon as everyone signed the letter, the municipal government would just notify the Finance Bureau to deduct money. The contribution to tightening office funds was still limited, and the gap of 20 million could not be filled. However, 20 million was not an astronomical figure. As long as everyone was willing to solve it, it could still be solved.

After the meeting, Gu Xiaomei found out the situation and contacted the Civil Affairs Bureau to formulate detailed rules for raising the subsidy standards. Zhang Zhixing also asked his secretary Cheng Yudong to focus on this, hoping to draft the details as soon as possible. The subsidy for laid-off workers is usually distributed on the 8th of each month. If you do your work faster, you can benefit laid-off workers this month.

Cheng Yudong joked in Gu Xiaomei's office: "When will Xinwu be like Haizhou? Haizhou has nearly one million residents, and the total number of laid-off workers is no more than 10,000. We are worried about this. Haizhou Mayor Song Peiming called the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau and asked the Civil Affairs Bureau to take care of it and solve the problem... Alas, looking at this, I have to work overtime again tonight."

Gu Xiaomei smiled and said, "If you don't have a good level, can Tang Xueqian go to Jiangnan Province to become the executive vice governor? Don't complain, if you endure it, the hard days will soon pass."

Since 1994, the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have actively adjusted the industrial structure with Haizhou Holdings as the main force. Emerging industries such as electronics and papermaking have been developed for a long time, especially the development of Haizhou's electronics industry has even made the outside world jealous. In addition, Shanghai's urban development has created a large number of employment opportunities. The laid-off workers generated by the industrial structure adjustment have almost quickly digested them internally. There are less than 10,000 laid-off workers, some of whom have just been laid off and have not had time to arrange, and some are people with poor reemployment skills or who have not yet reached the retirement age but have lost their ability to work. However, the social insurance system is not sound and can only be included in the laid-off workers for statistics for the time being.

Although the proportion of laid-off workers to the total urban population in China is very secretive, as a middle-level cadre in the system and a middle-level cadre in the municipal government that interfaces with civil affairs, Gu Xiaomei still knows that the actual unemployment rates in many cities in China are above 10%. Economically developed cities such as Jianye and Huishan are controlled at around 4-5%, which is already a very good achievement, but Haizhou City can control them at around 1%. Such political achievements are absolutely dazzling when the current industrial adjustment and laid-off workers are plaguing local and central governments. Even if there is no other background, it is simply unreasonable to not increase in Haizhou officials.

Fortunately, Xinwu City is supported by two emerging industries: liquor and tourism, otherwise the situation will be even worse. Even if we were in the meeting today, everyone complained, but they were still optimistic.

In the current situation, the liquor industry has entered a stable period, but the tourism industry still has great development potential, and the employment population that the tourism and related service industries can accommodate is quite large.

"Mayor Zhang should also organize everyone to study and learn advanced experiences in Haizhou," Cheng Yudong said with a smile, "After all, Haizhou is also the place where Mayor Zhang can rise."

"You are trying to take the opportunity to go to Haizhou to catch the autumn wind..." Zhang Zhixing pushed open the door and came in. Hearing Cheng Yudong joking with Gu Xiaomei in the office, he also jokingly interjected, asking Gu Xiaomei about the communication with the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Gu Xiaomei briefly reported the situation, and Zhang Zhixing left after understanding the situation.

Cheng Yudong asked Gu Xiaomei: "After getting together, there is still a gap of four or five million. Mayor Zhang also said that he went out to beg for alms. Do you think he should go to the Century Kumho Hotel to beg for alms?"
Chapter completed!