Sail across the sea

Chapter 346 Ask the Provincial Department to Give Me an Authorization

"Minister Zheng's intention is to let me take the employees of our labor service company to smash the windows of the homes of the directors of the Economic Commissions at the county and local levels?" Gao Fan asked with a smile.

"That's also a solution." Zheng Linong replied.

After more contact with Gao Fan, Zheng Linong has become accustomed to Gao Fan's various weird words. In Zheng Linong's opinion, Gao Fan is just an 18-year-old boy who occasionally likes to tell jokes and act cute, which is not a big problem. He believes that Gao Fan is a person who knows his limits and will not keep telling jokes endlessly when he is in the spotlight.

Sure enough, Gao Fan had a serious look on his face after joking. He said, "Minister Zheng, according to our analysis just now, the ammonium-to-urine conversion is also beneficial to the local government, so the local government also has the motivation to promote this matter.

"At present, their idea is just to fight with the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Provincial Chemical Industry Department in order to gain more benefits from this matter."

"Yes." Zheng Linong nodded.

“Can the Ministry of Chemical Industry give in to them?”

“There’s not much room for compromise.”

"What about the provincial department?"

"Then you have to go back and ask your Aunt Xu." Zheng Linong said with a smile.

"Actually, there's no need to ask." Gao Fan answered his own question. "The provincial department is very poor, and Director Xu is very stingy. He will never compromise with the counties and prefectures below."

"She has no way to compromise," Zheng Linong said. "In fact, the situation in the province is the same as in our department. If we compromise with one place, other places will follow suit, and in the end, nothing will be accomplished."

"Yes." Gao Fan said, "Since we can't compromise, I think it's useless to use administrative means to put pressure on the counties, so we can only consider other methods."

"Like smashing their windows?"

"It's also a solution."

"This can only be used as a last resort." Zheng Linong said, "Gao Fan, I believe you will have other ideas."

Gao Fan said: "I can't think of any good solution right now. Another question is, what is my role in this matter?"

"What kind of position do you want?" Zheng Linong asked back, and then said, "A staff member of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Ammonium-to-Urine Reform of the Ministry of Chemical Industry. Is this position enough? Forget about being the office director. This position is held by a deputy director of the Fertilizer Industry Bureau of the Ministry."

"This identity is not enough." Gao Fan shook his head, then smiled and said, "Of course, it's good to have such an identity. Maybe it will be useful someday. This is what I think. Now the county and prefecture governments are playing games with the central government and the provincial departments. If the local governments are willing to listen to the instructions from the ministry, they would have listened to it long ago. It will be useless for me to communicate with the local government as a staff member."

Zheng Linong nodded, agreeing with Gao Fan's judgment. Gao Fan continued, "Since administrative measures are ineffective, we have to change our thinking. Now that the country has proposed streamlining administration and delegating power to develop a commodity economy, we should use economic means to solve this problem."

Zheng Linong still nodded and did not interrupt.

In fact, Zheng Linong wanted Gao Fan to participate in this matter because he was optimistic about Gao Fan's ability to solve problems through economic means. He didn't know what Gao Fan was going to do, but he had some hope in his heart.

Gao Fan said, "I think Minister Zheng wants me to do a pilot project in Maolin Province. The ministry hopes to complete the transformation of 90 small nitrogen fertilizer companies from ammonium to urine within three years. Maolin Province will do the task of four companies. The ministry can usually communicate with the Maolin Provincial Chemical Industry Department and ask the provincial department to give me authorization."

"What authorization do you want?"

"With Canghai Fertilizer Plant as the main body, we will establish a group company to undertake the work of converting ammonium into urine in Maolin Province. The investment from the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the investment that the provincial department can take out will be handed over to this group company to operate. As for how the group company can persuade the counties to cooperate, I will discuss it with my father when I go back."

"Let Canghai Fertilizer Factory do this?" Zheng Linong frowned and thought for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed and said, "Gao Fan, why do I feel like you are thinking about helping your father improve again? Other children benefit from their parents' success, but you are different. You have made progress yourself, and you are letting your father benefit from it.

"If this matter can be done well, the five ammonium-to-urine enterprises in Maolin Province will all be under the umbrella of this group company. It would be unreasonable for your father Gao Yiping not to be promoted to the deputy department level."

"In my father's words, he doesn't care about the position. He just wants to make more contributions to the country and the people." Gao Fan said with a grin.

In his previous life, Gao Fan was a scholar and had no idea about administrative ranks. In this life, he was born in a factory director's family. He often listened to Gao Yiping and Ran Yuying talking about gossip within the system, and only then did he realize how attractive administrative ranks were to grassroots cadres.

Just now, he thought of some ways to promote the ammonium-to-urine project, and realized how much credit he would get if he could accomplish this. On a whim, he thought of giving Gao Yiping the opportunity to improve his qualifications to see if his father could make further progress because of this achievement.

Of course, he wanted Gao Yiping to participate in this matter not entirely to give Gao Yiping political achievements, but because this matter involved a lot of production and operation as well as personnel disputes within the system. He himself was not good at these things, so it was more appropriate to let Gao Yiping do it.

"It's feasible." Zheng Linong didn't think it was a big deal. He was just a deputy department-level official. If Gao Yiping really had the ability to break the deadlock of ammonium-to-urine conversion and provide a successful experience for other provinces and cities, then what's wrong with promoting him one level?
What's more, such capable cadres should have been promoted and given important positions.

"My idea is this," Gao Fan said, "The Provincial Department of Chemical Industry can adopt a project bidding method to recruit capable companies across the province to complete the ammonium-to-urine conversion work. The bidding companies must sign an agreement with the provincial department and obtain authorization from the provincial department.

"Then, the company will negotiate with the relevant departments of the corresponding cities and persuade them to accept the ammonium urine conversion work. In addition to the part provided by the state and provincial departments, the remaining part of the investment in ammonium urine conversion will be raised through consultation between the company and the corresponding cities, and each party will own the equity of the converted enterprise according to the amount of investment.

"If this can be done, then Canghai Fertilizer Factory and Canghua Science and Trade can invest some funds. In this way, the burden on the county government can be reduced and the resistance will be smaller."

"So in the end, it's still you, Canghua Science and Technology, who have to pay." Zheng Linong said with a smile.

Gao Fan said seriously, "Anyway, converting ammonium into urine is a business that is sure to make money. We don't mind paying a little."

(End of this chapter)