Chapter 1493 Deeper Insider of the Industry

The dusk is coming together, and the sky is getting darker.

The spring is already deep. In the evening, although there are still no summer rain and lotus on the banks of Daming Lake, there are night scenes with rays of light.

Xia Xiang and Li Dingshan sat silently. After a few minutes, Xia Xiang sighed long and stood up: "Governor Li, you have now found out the truth about Yan Province's allocation of salt and food. You know how much resistance it is. The scene at the Standing Committee just now also explained some problems. Qi Province's local power is too huge, and Qiu *** can't shake it..."

"I won't give up if I don't try." Li Dingshan clenched his fist and punched a tree next to him. His slightly gray hair was scattered in the wind, which was quite tragic.

I have known Li Dingshan for more than ten years in a blink of an eye. From the middle age of 40 to the middle-aged and middle-aged and elderly person in his 50s now, Li Dingshan has indeed grown a lot and has changed a lot. The only thing that remains unchanged is his belief and pursuit, whether it is a scholarly spirit or a plead for the people. Anyway, it is reflected in him specifically, which is a sense of ignorance and stubborn persistence.

To be honest, Xia Xiang was extremely indignant after learning the inside story of the salt industry, because salt is related to the personal health of countless people, and it is understandable to pursue profits, but just to make money and ignore the safety of the people's lives is an outrageous shameless act.

The domestic food safety issues have reached a point where you can’t eat outside without vigorously rectifying them. However, who would have thought that it is not only gutter oil, Sudan red, clenbuterol, additives and toxic rice that harm people’s health, but also salt!

Xia wanted to know that he could not persuade Li Dingshan, even if he wanted to interfere in the matter, but the conditions were not yet ripe at this time. Although he was the third-person of the provincial party committee, he had not yet established a stable foothold in Qi Province and was still an outsider. He had no available staff around him and did not even have a trustworthy confidant. What should he use to compete with the Peninsula Gang?

What's more, the salt industry involves the interests of too many people, and the reform of the salt industry has already taken place behind the competition between senior officials, and the ending is still an incomplete end.

Starting from Lu Chengliang is an entry point, but not to mention whether Lu Chengliang is reliable. Even Lu Chengliang has exposed the inside story of the industry out of justice and conscience. But the problem is that Li Dingshan believes what Lu Chengliang said, and he believes, and even Qiu Renli believes, but the upper part cannot be accepted by the central government and cannot be conveyed to the ears of the people. Maybe in the end, there will be a ending of nothing.

Be optimistic, Lu Chengliang became a victim in the end, and the matter was hidden in the dust of history and was wiped out. Be more pessimistic, Li Dingshan used too much force, touched the interests of the senior management, annoyed someone, and was finally forced to resign, and he was cut off from the officialdom from then on.

If things go big, Li Dingshan may be lighter in losing his post, and may be in prison.

As early as two years ago during the Two Sessions, the reform of the salt industry system was written into the government work report for the first time. January later, the State Council approved and forwarded the "Opinions on Deepening Economic System Reform in 2009" of the National People's Republic of China, which clearly required "formulation and issuance of a plan for the reform of the salt industry management system."

A month later, the salt industry system reform group, supervised by the State Council and composed of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, referred to as the Salt Industry Reform Group, conducted research on eight provinces and cities across the country. In November, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly formulated a preliminary plan for the salt industry system reform and solicited opinions from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the Quality Inspection Bureau, the Bureau of Industry and Commerce, the Legal Affairs Office and other relevant ministries and commissions. It seems that a massive salt industry reform is about to take place...

At the same time, the opinions from various ministries and commissions are supporting the reform of the salt industry system, abolishing franchise, moving towards marketization, etc., which can be said to be a warm response and is deeply loved by the people. The reform is also ready, and only the last east wind is needed.

This east wind is to wait for the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to jointly report the salt reform plan to the State Council!

However, after waiting for more than a year, the east wind did not blow, and the National Development and Reform Commission was silent...

What exactly happened behind it, and what force caused the salt reform promoted by the State Council to abort?

Some public news attributed the resistance to reform to those who were reformed - it is said that the China Salt Association formed a strong research team to prevent the National Development and Reform Commission from reporting reform plans. The result was really successful. The reformed people influenced the process of reform. It is said that in a country with concentrated power, there will be absurd things that subordinates do not obey the orders of superiors. Isn’t it a fantasy?

But it is indeed not a fantasy, but a living reality.

A small salt association has such huge energy? Who is the huge black hand behind the scenes?

One of the biggest and only reasons why the China Salt Association opposed the reform is that only salt franchise can ensure the elimination of iodine deficiency.

But this reason is ridiculous and untenable.

In fact, some experts have pointed out that adding iodine to salt is a huge lie. Because the volatility of iodine is high, it will evaporate quickly when heated. Unless the common people eat cold pickles every day, they can truly ensure the intake of iodine. As long as the stir-fry is heated, iodine salt is just a big soap bubble, and it is just a huge lie to maintain the specialty of the salt company.

The benefits of franchise are obvious. The annual profit of a salt company in Yan Province is nearly 1 billion yuan, not to mention other provinces with large populations.

As for salt with zinc and various additives, it is a test product that ignores the health of the people. Especially the addition of zinc can easily cause heavy metal poisoning.

To take another step back, it is not scary to add iodine or zinc. If you eat too much iodine, you can only choose to add zinc salt. But the problem is that all salt has a mysterious additive. After adding more than ten years of secretly adding it to the salt industry company, it was revealed by people with knowledge. In 2009, someone on the Internet published an article "The mysterious anti-caking agent in the market salt", which attracted media attention and reported extensively. After that, the salt industry company marked the product's additives that have been around for more than ten years - anti-caking agents.

Because salt will condense and seriously affect storage and transportation, anti-caking agents are necessary.

The reason why anti-caking agents have not been marked is actually intentional because the name of the anti-caking agent is potassium ferrocyanide. As for whether potassium ferrocyanide is toxic, it is not discussed for now. It is only said that internal personnel of the salt industry company only eat salt directly produced in the salt field, and can guess it if they do not eat salt repackaged and packaged by their own company.

You can still avoid food safety issues. At least you can cook and eat it yourself, but how can you escape safely? You have to eat salt every day, and salt is a specialty, so there is no branch in this one!

Of course, there are many inside stories about salt companies, which are broad and broad. At the national policy level, such as how to reform and how to ensure the food safety of the people, is a contest at the national level and a high-level political struggle. But specifically, the tricks and behind-the-scenes transactions of salt companies between the two major salt-producing provinces of Qi and Yan Province, if properly operated, may contribute to the still deadlocked salt reform.

But... a giant hand behind the salt directed and acted a big drama. If it was destroyed, how could he not be furious and attacked? Fortunately, at least someone would protect him, but there was no one behind Li Dingshan. Mr. Shi asked him to barely serve as the deputy governor of the Standing Committee. With Mr. Shi's last wish, he hoped that Li Dingshan would rise to the top from now on, and at least he would serve as the governor for one term to be able to live up to his fate.

But if Li Dingshan really wants to interfere in the darkness of the salt industry between Qi and Yan provinces, it will touch the interests of the senior management of the capital, and he may be dismissed from his post on the spot before his post is over.

It was indeed a dilemma. Xia Xiang wanted to persuade Li Dingshan several times, but he still couldn't say it.

In the night, under the dim light, Li Dingshan's expression was calm and indifferent, and he was determined without hesitation. Xia Xiang, who knew Li Dingshan's temper, knew that it was useless to persuade him. Some things were better than to say. Because with Li Dingshan's personality, he would rather lose his official position than to take the blame. Just like the political struggle between Shuiheng City and the mayor, he almost resigned to the provincial party committee.

"It's better to think about the long-term. Lu Chengliang knows some inside information, but now is not the time to reveal it. What I mean is that after a while, we will gain a firm foothold..." Xia Xiang tried to make his tone more tactful. His ranking was higher than Li Dingshan, but in private, he always thought that Li Dingshan was an elder.

"I understand your concerns. Xia Xiang, I can wait, but the people can't wait. Moreover, the people have been waiting for decades and have been cheated for decades. How long will it take? If one person needs to stand up, even if the price of his life is used to exchange for the safety of the people in the world, then let me be such a fool!"

Xia Xiang was speechless. After a long time, he picked up a stone and threw it at Daming Lake: "If it is beneficial to the country's life and death, how can it avoid misfortune and good fortune? It is easy to say but difficult to do. Some people just talk about it and wear it as a hat. Some people never say it, but practice it with their lives. Governor Li, you are not fighting alone."

Xia thought about it a lot. Since he couldn't persuade him to stop Li Dingshan's determination, he secretly cooperated with Li Dingshan's plan, helped him withstand the pressure from some of the senior executives from the front, and resolved the counterattack from the Qi Provincial Peninsula Gang from the side, and then waited for him to open up the situation in Qi Provincial and gain a foothold in a stable position, and then took action...

Xia Xiang was much more mature than before, and he also paid attention to the rules in everything, and was preparing to make full use of political wisdom within the rules to gradually solve the problems. However, he ignored one thing that was that compared with the gentle customs of Hunan Province, the generous folk customs of Qi Province had a side of advocating violence, and the opponent's counterattack was much earlier than he thought.

The means are also infuriating shameless!

After leaving Daming Lake, Xia Xiang and Li Dingshan had supper and were about to take a bus back to the provincial party committee’s residence. When crossing the road, the two abide by traffic rules and waited for the green light to pass through the crosswalk. Halfway through the walk, a car waiting for the red light suddenly started, whizzing Xia Xiang and Li Dingshan’s bodies, less than 20 cm away from the two!

Moreover, a threatening sentence was coldly thrown in the car window: "Outsiders, Huang Chao in Qisheng..."
Chapter completed!