The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1000: Spring Festival at the Turn of the Century

The Spring Festival in 1999 was on February 2, which was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

This year, Panshan Group started its holiday on February 2, the 13th day of the th lunar month, because that day happened to be a Saturday.

Including Saturday and Sunday, Panshan Group will be on holiday until February 2, the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, for a total of 24 days.

Except for some companies and people on duty during the Spring Festival, most people are on holiday.

The Spring Festival is a very important day for every Chinese person, because for most Chinese people, New Year’s Day is not the New Year, but the Spring Festival is.

The relevant departments will adjust holidays, make up for shifts, and then make up a seven-day Spring Festival holiday. Panshan Group is different. It can formulate its own holiday regulations, and the holiday time will only be more but not less than the regulations.

Moreover, those who work or are on duty during holidays will receive triple salary and can also take compensatory leave after the holidays.

Liu Tao did not take a vacation because he was appointed director this year and needed to attend a group party and wish some old comrades a happy new year.

It took Liu Tao more than ten years to complete this step.

Even though he just got the title of director and his rank remained unchanged, Liu Tao was still mainly in Panshan Group, running the huge Panshan Group. But this step made a world of difference.

The Spring Festival in 1999 was particularly lively, especially in Beijing.

With the completion of the first phase of the protection project of Beijing Siheyuan by Beijing Siheyuan Development Company, Beijing citizens have a good place to go, which is to visit these renovated Siheyuans and feel their charm.

In addition, on the eve of this year's Spring Festival, an ancient street in Beijing composed entirely of courtyard houses was officially opened!

This ancient street does not have any high-rise buildings, and is entirely made up of courtyard houses.

Some of these courtyard houses are used as private restaurants, while others are brand clothing stores, brand jewelry stores, brand cosmetics stores, and so on.

The rent of a siheyuan is not cheap. Those who can rent a siheyuan are definitely not ordinary merchants, many of them are big brands.

This ancient street has also become a new destination for Beijing citizens.

The flow of people here may not be comparable to Wangfujing, but this is definitely a place where you can make a fortune every day.

At one place, Liu Tao was holding a telescope, looking at this ancient street, watching the flow of people, and feeling the prosperity. Today was already the fifth day of the New Year, but there were still many people on the ancient street.

"Good, well done!" Liu Tao said to Lin Zhenye.

Compared to when he first took on the important task of general manager of Beijing Siheyuan Development Company, Lin Zhenye now has a lot more white hair, and it is obvious that he has put in a lot of effort in these years.

"Director, with your words, no matter how much hardship my colleagues and I have to endure, it's all worth it!" said Lin Zhenye.

The Beijing Siheyuan Development Company was built from scratch, and then strictly followed the planning and design regulations, and then went into construction, facing many difficulties during this period.

There are even some young men who want to take advantage of the situation and get some pocket money to spend.

Here in the capital, this is the most challenging place!

Here, especially in the city of Sijiu, if you throw a stone at random, you might hit a section-level cadre. Junior cadres are nothing here. He was fine, at most he was spitted at by some young masters, but the employees under him had been beaten by young masters.

Lin Zhenye did not go to Liu Tao to complain. He knew that this kind of thing had to be solved by him. If he had to go to the leader for everything, what was the use of having a subordinate like him?

The hard work over the years has successfully allowed Lin Zhenye to take a step forward before the Spring Festival. This step may seem like just one step, but in fact it makes a world of difference.

Although he is only in charge of the Beijing Siheyuan Development Company in Beijing City, and it seems that what he does is still the same, in fact, his voice is completely different.

Even some young masters did not dare to act unruly in front of him.

"You are now at a critical moment in the second phase of the project. You must not take it lightly and must complete it on time with quality and quantity guaranteed. Even if the second phase of the project is completed, you still have the third phase to do." Liu Tao patted Lin Zhenye on the shoulder.

Last year, the Panshan Group’s disciplinary inspection team, the Beijing disciplinary inspection team, the National disciplinary inspection team, etc. formed a joint investigation team to investigate Lin Zhenye. Fortunately, Lin Zhenye had no problems and could withstand the investigation.

Therefore, the organization department had an organizational talk with Lin Zhenye before New Year's Day.

Then there was the appointment of Lin Zhenye before the Spring Festival.

In the past seven years, Lin Zhenye's work has been outstanding and his achievements are obvious.

If we don’t promote this kind of cadres, who should we promote?
Clearly distinguishing rewards and punishments is what Liu Tao has been working hard to do.

Although Lin Zhenye is not directly affiliated with Panshan Group, he is under the dual jurisdiction of Panshan Group and Beijing City. However, Panshan Group is the major shareholder and has more say. However, Liu Tao is not unaware of Lin Zhenye. Every time he returns to Beijing, he will learn about Beijing Siheyuan Development Company.

Every year, I learn about the difficulties faced by courtyard house development companies in Beijing and attend relevant meetings in Beijing.

Thanks to the efforts of the Beijing Siheyuan Development Company, Beijing has retained its characteristics while carrying out modern urbanization, allowing many of the flavors of the old capital to remain.

The leaders above have inspected the Beijing Siheyuan Development Company many times and visited various Siheyuans, and spoke highly of the Beijing Siheyuan Development Company.

Also because the Beijing Siheyuan Development Company has made the greatest efforts to protect the Siheyuan, Beijing has become a national ancient architecture research center, and hundreds of papers are produced every year.

The ancient architecture studies of Beijing universities such as Peking University are among the best in the country.

The protection of the siheyuan has also triggered a nationwide campaign to protect ancient buildings, resulting in more ancient buildings being preserved.

For example, in Shanxi Province, there is an ancient tower with a pure wooden structure that is more than 900 years old. It has survived earthquakes and bombardments and is still standing. Originally, the plan to demolish this centuries-old building was to build a road, but the plan was urgently stopped.

There is also an old building in Shandong Province that was to be demolished because a highway was going to pass through it, thus reducing investment. However, the Ancient Architecture Research Institute urgently stopped the matter, and the matter was reported to Beijing. Finally, the relevant departments sent a letter to Shandong Province, and the old building was preserved.

In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the protection of ancient buildings. The systems of national-level ancient building protection units, provincial-level ancient building protection units, municipal-level ancient building protection units, county-level ancient building protection units, and town-level ancient building protection units have been established. Different ancient buildings are classified into different levels, and then the protection scope is delineated. Any changes within the protection scope must be approved by the higher level.

In terms of the protection of ancient buildings, the state and governments at all levels also allocate more and more funds every year for the protection of these ancient buildings.

This can be regarded as a chain reaction brought about by the Siheyuan protection project, which has made more people pay attention to the protection of traditional culture and traditional buildings, rather than blindly denying or demolishing and rebuilding them.

(End of this chapter)