Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 875 Inspection of the Chinese Literature Award Organizing Committee Office Building
After more than ten years of operation, the World Chinese Literature Prize has become very mature and has become one of the three major literary awards in China, along with the Mao Dun Prize and the Lu Xun Prize.

The preparations for the 6th Chinese Literature Award began last year, and the preliminary review meeting of the reading class ended in January this year. According to the plan, the jury will hold a meeting in early May for the final review and then announce the winners of this year.

But the sudden outbreak of the epidemic disrupted the plan, forcing the final review and award ceremony to be postponed. As soon as the epidemic ended, the jury meeting was immediately prepared.

Fang Minghua now rarely participates in this literary award that he personally founded, but he will go to the final award ceremony to show his support for Bai Miao's work.

This year's Chinese Language Awards ceremony is scheduled for July 7 in Changsha. The final jury meeting is being held in Changsha these days, and it has become a hot topic in the media and on the Internet.

The current organizing committee office, as the permanent operating organization of the Chinese Literature Award, is no longer the makeshift team that Fang Minghua had temporarily put together. It now has more than 40 formal employees and has several internal departments, including the General Affairs Department, Press Secretariat, External Relations Department, Information Technology Department, and Logistics Department.

The office was also moved from the original Writers Association building to the building where the former Shengshi Group headquarters was located at the Duanlimen intersection. The Chinese Literature Award Foundation also moved in at the same time.

Bai Miao also serves as the director of the organizing committee office, and the deputy director is Wang Zi.

This morning, Fang Minghua drove to the organizing committee building and, accompanied by Wang Zi, visited various offices with great interest.

Wang Zi has turned 30 this year. She was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a gray suit, with a work badge hanging around her neck, looking smart and capable.

Fang Minghua has known Wang Zi for more than ten years. At that time, Wang Zi was still an underage girl and a tenant of the courtyard house bought by Fang Minghua. She liked literature and received guidance from Fang Minghua.

Later, he went to Gansu Province to teach for a year and a half, and finally stayed in Xijing to become a staff member of the organizing committee office.

More than ten years have passed, and Wang Zi has become a mother. As a full-time deputy director in charge of office work, she appears to be shrewd and capable.

The office building has been newly renovated and is full of modern atmosphere. There are relatively few people working today, so it seems a bit deserted.

Wang Zi introduced: "Teacher Fang, most of the employees followed Director Bai to Changsha to prepare for the award ceremony. I am responsible for the daily affairs at home."

Fang Minghua nodded.

Wang Zi’s current work focus is to be responsible for the daily operations of the organizing committee office and occasionally publish some novels and essays.

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"Teacher Fang, this is our network center, responsible for the network operation of the unit. We have also established our own website, which can publish news about the Chinese Literature Award in a timely manner."

Fang Minghua went in and took a look. There were six computers inside and two young men were looking at them intently.

"Is there any problem with financial security?" Fang Minghua asked again.

"No problem. The funds for the operation of the entire unit are sufficient." Wang Zi said with a smile: "Teacher Fang, to be honest, my salary is higher than my husband's. He envies me."

Wang Zi’s husband is a lecturer in the Chinese Department of Northwest University. They got married six years ago and now have a lovely son.

Fang Minghua smiled slightly after hearing this.

As the chairman of the Chinese Literature Award Foundation, he allocates ample funds to the organizing committee office every year. In addition to issuing prize money, most of the funds are used for the daily operations of the unit, including employee salaries.

Fang Minghua is not stingy with his employees' salaries. For example, Wang Zi's monthly salary is 5000 yuan, which is far more than the remuneration of senior white-collar workers in some companies in Xijing, and it does not include bonuses and overtime pay. In Fang Minghua's words, we are not short of money, and we give you high salaries so that you can work hard and stop worrying about food and daily necessities.

After taking a long walk around the organizing committee office on the second floor, Fang Minghua went up to the third floor. Part of this floor was still the organizing committee office, and the other half was the office of the Chinese Literature Foundation.

The Huayu Foundation has very few staff members, only 6 full-time staff members, whose main job is to manage the foundation's assets - except for the courtyard house in Yanjing, which is now rented out as a fixed asset of the foundation. The rest is in the form of cash in the bank, about 8000 million RMB.

In Fang Minghua's words, our foundation does not need donations from any person or organization, and unlike the Nobel Prize Foundation, the assets it manages need to maintain and appreciate in value and need to be invested in stocks, funds, bonds, and even real estate.

Just keep it in the bank and earn the interest. If it’s not enough in the future, I will supplement it from my personal assets.

However, starting this year, at the strong suggestion of the foundation's full-time director Liu Wenxing, a master's student in finance who graduated from the Central University of Finance and Economics, the foundation began to engage in some prudent investments in government bonds, accounting for about one-fifth of the total funds.

Now Liu Wenxing is chatting with him in the office.

Liu Wenxing is in his early thirties, wearing glasses and looking gentle and refined. He took out a document from his office drawer and handed it to Fang Minghua.

"Chairman Fang, here is your foundation's operating report and investment situation for the first half of the year. Take a look."

Fang Minghua took it, took a look at it, and put it in his briefcase.

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"Okay, I'll go back and take a look."

In fact, he didn't want to look at it at all. He didn't like to think about financial matters and left them all to his wife. Anyway, the foundation's accounts were very simple.

"Chairman Fang, I feel that our country's real estate industry will surely develop rapidly in the future. I suggest that you buy some properties in Yanjing and Shencheng. This will definitely increase the value of the foundation's assets, and you don't have to transfer funds from your personal assets."

Why not transfer the money?
I can’t spend it all.

However, looking at Liu Wenxing's eager eyes, he was probably bored staying in the foundation with a high salary. As a top student who graduated from a prestigious university, he always wanted to do something.

"Okay then." Fang Minghua agreed.

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"However, the funds invested in real estate cannot exceed one-third of the total funds, and sufficient cash flow must be guaranteed," Fang Minghua emphasized at the end.

Liu Wenxing was immediately excited after hearing this: "Okay, I plan to recruit 4-5 investment and financial management professionals to set up an investment office to be responsible for the foundation's investment projects."

Fang Minghua nodded: "Okay."

After taking a long walk around the organizing committee building, Fang Minghua drove home.

On July 7, Fang Minghua flew to Changsha to attend this year's World Chinese Language Awards ceremony.

(End of this chapter)