The National Development and Reform Commission, Wang Zhenbin’s office.

"Xiao Feng, we are under a lot of pressure now."

Wang Zhenbin sat behind the desk and said to Feng Xiaochen with a sad face.

The industrialization publicity initiated by equipment companies is in full swing. In addition, in order to offset the impact of the global financial crisis on China, the National Development and Reform Commission launched the largest infrastructure investment in history. There are thousands of key projects launched in the country at the same time, with an unprecedented number of investments reaching tens of trillions of yuan. A wave of rapid development has formed across the country. The scale of construction has increased, and there are many unexpected things. Wang Zhenbin can be said to be trembling every day, fearing that something will go wrong.

But the more you are afraid of something wrong, the faster the mistake comes. Two days ago, a major accident occurred at a thermal power plant construction site in a place called Ruishan in Nanjiang Province. 25 construction workers were killed, which shocked the central government. Such a big thing happened, and the National Development and Reform Commission was the first to bear the brunt of this. Since the construction of thermal power plants involves major equipment, this matter was also involved with the equipment company. Wang Zhenbin invited Feng Xiaochen to discuss this.

"The preliminary investigation results have been released. The main reason is that the construction team lacks experience in construction projects such as construction, and errors have occurred in the construction organization, which has led to the occurrence of accidents. Looking deeper, it is that our construction scale has expanded too quickly in the past two years and the construction power is insufficient. In order to undertake more business, some construction companies have recruited a large number of new workers and technicians. These newcomers have not experienced on-site training and do not know how to deal with emergencies, thus forming potential accidents, even if such major accidents occur." Wang Zhenbin introduced to Feng Xiaochen.

"This is a painful lesson."

Feng Xiaochen was also very upset. After all, 25 lives were involved, which was something that could not be compensated by anything. The equipment of Ruishan Power Plant was provided by Longshan Motor Factory. It was a 1 million kilowatt ultra-supercritical thermal power unit newly developed by Longshan Motor Factory on the basis of the original 600,000 kilowatt units. The technical level reached the forefront of the world. When Ruishan Power Plant started construction, Feng Xiaochen also attended the groundbreaking ceremony at the invitation of Longshan Motor Factory, but he did not expect such a serious accident to occur.

"It is indeed a very painful lesson." Wang Zhenbin said, "We have issued a notice to the construction units of major projects, asking them to carefully inspect the production safety situation, especially to strengthen inspections and guidance for construction teams with a high proportion of new employees, eliminate safety hazards, and avoid similar accidents."

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said, "This is right. We must learn from our mistakes and learn from each other. Some time ago, the stall we opened was too big. The carrots were fast and we would not wash the mud. It is inevitable that various safety hazards would appear."

"So, according to your opinion, should we shrink the scale of construction?" Wang Zhenbin asked.

Feng Xiaochen shook his head: "There is no need for this? Accidents are accidents, constructions are construction. If an accident occurs, we must shrink the scale of construction, so we will never think about development. If an accident occurs, we will learn from a lesson. Some construction units are not experienced enough. We strengthen some guidance and allow them to increase their experience in construction practice. This is the right way. Looking rationally, there are no accidents in construction. There have been casualties in construction projects all over the world, and I have never heard of any country not doing construction because of this."

Wang Zhenbin sneered: "But now our Development and Reform Commission is under such pressure. Several departments sent us letters asking us to reduce the scale of infrastructure, and some projects under construction must be suspended for inspection and confirm that there are no safety hazards before production can be resumed."

"This is what is said that one person gets sick, the whole family will take medicine?" Feng Xiaochen said lightly. As an official who coordinates the construction of major equipment, he is very familiar with such things. When an accident occurs, the superior unit immediately requires all places to suspend work inspections, regardless of whether these places have been innocent. To put it bluntly, accidents will affect these superior units, and the losses caused by the suspension of work do not need to be borne by the superior unit. On one side, there are risks, but on the other side, there is no cost. How can the superior choose?

"Actually, we can't blame these departments, they are under a lot of pressure." Wang Zhenbin was quite considerate of others. He said: "I don't know if you have noticed it. As soon as the accident at Ruishan Power Plant occurred, the people on the Internet became active again and criticized our construction projects. Especially Gao Lei, he posted more than a dozen articles in a row. I remember the title of an article was written like this: China's economic express, please slow down and wait for your people."

"I'm from the sun!" Feng Xiaochen swears. He was originally a gentleman, but because of his years of contact with the grassroots, he has become a little grassroots habits and will swear if he is not careful. A few days ago, he was hosting a meeting, but he didn't pay much attention to the news online. He really didn't see the article Wang Zhenbin said.

"Wait for the people, it's a shame that Gao Lei can think of it." Feng Xiaochen cursed and said with a smile. In his impression, Gao Lei was a scholar after all, and he was not very good at learning, at least he was not very good at this kind of online sensation. However, this time Gao Lei returned to China, his style changed a lot, and there was a slight tendency toward Internet celebrities. It was reasonable to say such words.

Wang Zhenbin said: "I heard from Zhang Heping of the security department that Gao Lei has a team behind him, who is specifically responsible for packaging Gao Lei. The article I just said should be from Gao Lei's team, just named him by his name. However, this article has a very great influence and has been forwarded hundreds of thousands of times on the Internet, which is well-known."

"Some departments you mentioned are under pressure from these public opinion, so they require the National Development and Reform Commission to reduce the scale of infrastructure?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

"Isn't that?" Wang Zhenbin sighed, "Now everyone is concerned about online political affairs. Gao Lei and others have carried the banner of 'justice' and have won the support of a considerable number of netizens, which puts a lot of pressure on the relevant departments. If the relevant departments do not make any statement, it will be difficult to calm the public's anger."

Feng Xiaochen said: "I heard that the relevant responsible persons have been detained? How to deal with it? The law will make a decision as long as we don't take it a step back. What exposed the problem of the lack of responsibility of the construction unit leaders. For those construction units that do not have such problems, why should they stop work?"

"The same is true of the opinions of the leaders of the NDRC." ​​Wang Zhenbin said with a serious expression, "The leader said that the cause of the accident must be investigated carefully, and the relevant responsible persons must deal with it seriously. However, we cannot give up on food because of the choke. We must correct the problem areas, and we cannot accompany the places without problems. The noise of a few people on the Internet cannot affect our decision-making. If we listen to the cypress singing, will we not grow crops yet?"

"The leader is wise!" Feng Xiaochen praised his forehead.

Wang Zhenbin said: "Don't be busy with being wise. The leader said that the masses have questions about our work, so we must have the courage to answer positively and eliminate the doubts of the masses. The leader also said that the equipment company had carried out industrialization publicity some time ago, and it did a very good job, so..."

"Don't the director ask me to answer the questions of the masses, right?" Feng Xiaochen asked with some uncertainty.

Wang Zhenbin smiled and said, "That's true. Gao Lei is the one who is most popular on the Internet now, and you are his old opponent. The leader said that you have experience in dealing with Gao Lei, so you should ask you to talk to the media."

"No problem." Feng Xiaochen nodded. He knew that such a big casualty accident had just happened, and the emotions of netizens were very unstable. As long as someone stirred up, everyone would become very angry. Gao Lei and the others used this emotion to fan the flames and drive the rhythm. In the face of such public opinion, officials who stood up to explain must bear the anger of netizens and end up in a dusty result.

However, if everyone cherishes their feathers and is unwilling to say a fair word, or even caters to Gao Lei and others to attack the country's construction in order to win the favor of netizens, then all the pressure will be added to those who are really doing things. In the long run, no one will be willing to do things.

After confirming that he would answer the public's doubts directly, Feng Xiaochen also made some preparations. He also visited Meng Fanze and Luo Xiangfei's homes separately, and held a long talk with the two old leaders who had always cared about him. Afterwards, he and Wang Zhenbin came to the studio of Zhongshi.

"Dear viewers, welcome to the face-to-face program of the officials. The topic we are going to talk about today is an unfortunate incident that just happened at the construction site of Ruishan Power Plant in Nanjiang Province. I believe everyone is actively paying attention these days. Today, the person who came to our studio is Director Wang Zhenbin of the National Development and Reform Commission and Mr. Feng Xiaochen, General Manager of the National Equipment Industry Company. Director Wang is the leader in charge of major project investment, and General Feng is the leader in charge of national major equipment research and development.

It is understood that the Ruishan Power Plant project is a major project that the country started construction during the 11th Five-Year Plant. The two 1 million kilowatt thermal power units to be used by Ruishan Power Plant were developed by dozens of national equipment backbone enterprises such as Longshan Electric Plant after more than ten years of research and development. The information submitted by the Equipment Industry Company shows that this type of thermal power unit manufactured by Longshan Electric Plant has an internationally leading technical level, energy consumption, pollution and other levels, which are better than similar products in Western countries. So, we would like to ask Mr. Feng to explain to us first why such a technology that reaches the internationally leading level will cause such a large personal casualty accident during the construction period."

When the host said this, he made a graceful gesture to Feng Xiaochen, indicating that Feng Xiaochen could speak.
Chapter completed!