Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 164 The surprise of the department leaders: Someone actually wrote a song?

Two o'clock in the afternoon
Ministry of Light Industry

In Minister Jiang's office, Minister Jiang was processing documents. He had gone to a meeting in Gyeonggi Province this morning and then returned to his office.

What he needs to do now is to develop a framework for promoting the development of light industry enterprises.

This is the focus of our work this year.

Regarding the development plans of many light industrial enterprises, the Planning Department has already compiled a feasible plan.

The next step is to hold a meeting to discuss whether it should be approved.

Recently, many factory directors from subordinate light industry enterprises have been coming to the ministry to lobby, and Minister Jiang is well aware of this.

However, many things cannot be accomplished overnight; they require balancing multiple factors.

Profitable companies will definitely increase their investment and production.

As for companies that don't make money, it depends on their R&D efforts for new projects and their export performance.

If that doesn't work, then we definitely can't make any further investments.

And this project may have to be cut.

The country needs money everywhere, and it's impossible for the government to invest in useless projects.

At this time, many subordinate enterprises submitted numerous planning reports.

After some screening, only about twenty projects remained, some of which had been approved by higher authorities.

This put Minister Jiang in a somewhat difficult position.

After all, the ministry only has so much money at its disposal; if every department needs it, it's as if no department has any.

We still need to settle this score gradually.

When Minister Jiang thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh.

After all, these things can't be resolved in a short time.

So Minister Jiang continued to review the documents.

As Minister Jiang flipped through a document, his brows began to furrow.

Because Minister Jiang saw two musical scores at that moment.

The sheet music that Minister Jiang was seeing was the one that Secretary Sun had put in at noon.

At this moment, Minister Jiang suddenly remembered that a few days ago, the Publicity and Publication Department should have issued a notice soliciting songs nationwide.

That song must be one of the songs submitted for selection.

Minister Jiang never expected that someone from the light industry system would participate in this song solicitation activity; usually, no one would participate.

As is customary, the ministry would simply require its subordinate units to issue a notice and that would be the end of it.

Then basically no one participated.

At this moment, Minister Jiang wanted to see who had participated in the recruitment.

Minister Jiang then turned to the first page of the report.

When Minister Jiang saw the name, he couldn't help but show a strange look in his eyes.

Minister Jiang saw that the homepage listed Li Feng's name as the owner of Wuxing Ceramics Factory.

He knew a little about Li Feng, because Minister Jiang knew that Master Deng had such an apprentice, and that he had previously cooperated with Master Deng on some projects.

So Minister Jiang remembered Li Feng's name, but Minister Jiang had never met Li Feng.

Minister Jiang was surprised to learn that Master Deng's apprentice could actually write songs.

Minister Jiang is not familiar with the song.

But when he first saw the lyrics, Minister Jiang thought they were pretty good.

So Minister Jiang turned to the page with the lyrics.

At that moment, Minister Jiang was reading Li Feng's "I Dedicate Oil to My Motherland".

After Minister Jiang turned to this page, he began to read it slowly.

The beautiful rivers and mountains are like a painting

The construction of the motherland is like a galloping horse.

How glorious it is for me to be an oil worker!
Wearing an aluminum helmet to travel the world

Snowflakes from the Tianshan Mountains overhead

Facing the Gobi Desert sandstorms

Welcoming the sunrise on the banks of the Jialing River

Sending off the sunset at the foot of Kunlun Mountain

Fearless

Let wind, snow, thunder, and lightning rage on me, I will dedicate my oil to my motherland.

Wherever there is oil, that's my home.
Red flags flutter in the sunset glow.

Heroes spur their whips on their warhorses

How glorious it is for me to be an oil worker!
Wearing an aluminum helmet to travel the world

Vertical well frame on the vast grassland

Drill a well deep in the clouds

Crude oil from underground sees the light of day

Oil flowers bloom in the motherland

Fearless

Ambitious to look to the world

I dedicate oil to my motherland.

The oil is flowing in, and my heart is filled with joy.
After Minister Jiang finished reading the lyrics, he felt that Li Feng's lyrics were very well written and fit the theme melody perfectly.

For activities like this song solicitation, the most important thing is to fit the theme and the instructions from higher authorities.

Therefore, this song meets the above requirements.

Because Minister Jiang knew through some channels that this was Mr. Li's request, he would be stricter in his oversight.

After all, the song will eventually be sent to Mr. Li.

After thinking about this, Minister Jiang turned his attention to the second song.

The second song is "We Workers Have Strength".

The lyrics also align with the superiors' intentions.

In other words, both songs written by Li Feng are among the best in the department.

of course!

This is from the department's perspective.

In previous solicitation campaigns, the department only sent five songs to the publicity department.

But they were all shot down.

This may be due to the theme of the song and some other special factors.

When Minister Jiang thought of this, he prepared to send the two songs to the Publicity and Distribution Department.

After all, there's no use in getting these two songs.

Since this was an event launched by the publicity department to solicit songs, I was just cooperating.

So Minister Jiang called Secretary Sun and asked Secretary Sun to send someone to deliver the two songs to the Publicity and Distribution Department.

Secretary Sun responded and left.

After Secretary Sun left, he began preparing to process the documents.

While Secretary Sun was processing the documents, he suddenly remembered the development report about the ceramics factory that Director Wei had given him last time.

Minister Jiang then took out the development plan written by Factory Director Wei from the file box behind him.

After Minister Jiang finished reading Director Wei's development plan, he couldn't help but sigh.

Factory Director Wei has indeed aged, because his report only requested increased production and more manpower.

The ministry has already reached several conclusions regarding the training of ceramic professionals.

It means establishing a ceramics school to specifically train people in the field of ceramics.

This way, the talent demand can also be met.

However, Director Wei's report focused more on requesting the ministry to allocate funds to increase the number of workers in the factory, upgrade equipment, and seek better prices in foreign trade.

These matters definitely need to be discussed in a meeting.

However, according to the current plan, after Xiao Zheng from the Chemical Industry takes over the Five Star Ceramics Factory, based on the ideas he discussed with me last time...

This report contradicts his opinion.

Xiao Zheng proposed the concept of automation to himself, which means maintaining the current number of people and increasing production by increasing machine capacity.

So Minister Jiang was thinking about whether or not to bring Director Wei's report to the meeting.

After all, this was completely different from what I expected.

However, generally speaking, reports like this are to be discussed at a meeting. After thinking about it, Minister Jiang decided to keep Director Wei's report to himself.

Regarding the future development of the ceramics factory, we'll wait until Xiao Zheng takes office before discussing it further.

After careful consideration, Minister Jiang made this decision.

(End of this chapter)