Siheyuan: The prosperous era starting from being a doctor

Chapter 490 Foresight and It's Simply a Miracle

It has been more than 20 years since liberation.

The first generation of children born under the red flag in China have long since grown up, started families, and established careers.

Moreover, that baby boom lasted for several years.

They've all gradually come of age.

They not only need to work, but if they want to get married, a house is naturally essential.

But there are only so many houses in the capital.

Even the houses built after liberation couldn't keep up with the demand.

There were no commercial housing or private real estate companies in this era.

Like the families outside the moat, many of them still live in self-built houses or employee dormitories or family buildings built by their work units outside the second ring road and within the third and fourth ring roads.

Many of them are tenement buildings.

There are a dozen or twenty households living on one floor, and several households share a bathroom and kitchen.

However, institutions like Guang'anmen Hospital, which directly provide housing for their employees, and such spacious housing with independent bathrooms and kitchens, are completely unheard of.

It can be said to be unique.

Employees from other units were extremely envious of this.

Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do; their unit didn't have Wang Mengde, so they couldn't bring in foreign exchange earnings in the hundreds of millions for the country.

Even the staff of Guang'anmen Hospital themselves, besides feeling proud, also have regrets.

They felt that if they could get one of these nice houses for their children, they wouldn't have to worry about getting married in the future.

Women would definitely rush to marry into a house like this.

However, they also knew that this was a luxury.

After all, it's unheard of to be allocated such a nice house for free.

If you want more, that's just being greedy.

They never expected that Wang Mengde would think of providing welfare benefits to all employees.

At Monday's leadership meeting.

Wang Mengde sat to Dean Lu's left.

This position sends a strong signal to everyone present: the number two figure at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the future successor to the director, has been definitively decided.

Fortunately, everyone already knew, so the leaders weren't caught off guard.

As is customary, each leader reported on the work done in the previous week.

As the meeting drew to a close, Dean Lu said with a smile:

"Comrades, starting today, Comrade Wang Mengde will assist me in handling the dean's related work. I hope you will all give him your full support."

If it were an ordinary organization, he would never dare to provide such blatant support.

But Wang Mengde is the next successor to the dean, which everyone thinks is a matter of course.

Even if superiors, or even higher-ups, knew, they would at most just laugh it off.

"Dean, rest assured, we will definitely support Comrade Wang Mengde."

"Yes, I will actively cooperate with his work in the future, and I would also like to congratulate the dean on his promotion in advance."

The vice deans exchanged glances, and then each of them expressed their opinion.

no way.

It was Wang Mengde who was going to take over as dean.

This makes them lose all desire to compete.

If it were anyone else, let alone the vice presidents, even the heads of various departments would be unsettled, wondering which side to take.

After all, if a few vice presidents or a leader were parachuted in, the structure of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine would change.

The stable environment that has been established in the past will also need to be reshuffled.

Now that Wang Mengde has been chosen, everyone has given up on those thoughts.

When something is set in stone, no one will waste time.

"Alright, it should be about time by next spring. During this period, everyone should keep it a secret."

Dean Lu nodded and said:

"By the way, Comrade Wang Mengde talked to me about something a couple of days ago, and now I'll have him tell you all about it."

As he spoke, he leaned back in his chair and looked to his left.

"Dean, leaders, I've noticed recently that many employees' children have grown up and reached marriageable age."

But because they didn't have a house, many weddings were postponed again and again, and some relationships even ended.

"So I thought that our unit's slush fund has a lot of money, but it's just a cold number lying in the account."

Why not take it out and build it into family housing, then make all employees eligible to buy one or two units?

Of course, many families may not be able to come up with that much money all at once, so they can pay in installments, with a portion deducted from their monthly salary.

Wang Mengde simply explained his thoughts.

The vice presidents and heads of various departments were all very surprised by his words.

Unexpectedly, before he even became a new official, he started a fire.

This is something that is especially useful for all employees.

Let alone ordinary employees, even among them, there are quite a few who need it.

Although they are renowned practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, the government has provided them with independent housing so that they have no worries about their livelihood.

But there were too many children in the family, and after they got married, they simply couldn't all live together.

"Dean, Comrade Wang Mengde, your idea is excellent; it truly benefits all employees."

"I think installment payments are a good solution, which has helped many working families overcome their difficulties."

“I wholeheartedly agree with this. I believe all employees need a house to solve their children’s housing problem.”

More than twenty people, and every single one of them strongly agreed.

This was not only beneficial to them, but it was also the first fire lit by Wang Mengde.

Unless there are major problems, they are unlikely to object.

Moreover, once this is implemented, the employees in the unit will definitely show even greater enthusiasm for their work.

Wang Mengde's proposal was passed very smoothly at the meeting.

in the office.

Zhu Tao and Qian Dayong walked in excitedly.

"Dean Wang, is it true that the organization is going to build a large number of staff apartments and allow employees to purchase one unit?"

Seeing that there were still students present, Zhu Tao suppressed his joy and respectfully greeted Dean Wang.

His family's housing conditions were arguably among the worst in Beijing.

My father was just an ordinary worker with limited abilities. Because the family had previously supported his schooling, they had never moved houses.

Previously, the whole family lived in one cramped room.

Later, Guang'anmen Hospital built staff housing, and each employee was allocated a unit according to their years of service and rank.

Because of his low rank and years of service, he was only allocated a one-bedroom apartment.

This one-bedroom apartment alone had already excited their family for a long time.

Later, disregarding the danger, he went to Africa to provide assistance, and only then did he move to a two-bedroom apartment.

Even with a two-bedroom apartment, their housing situation remains very tight.

The main reason is that his younger brothers have all come of age.

As the eldest son in the family, and with his family supporting his schooling, he was expected to support his younger brothers, according to the prevailing social norms of the time.

Buying a house is basically out of the question.

Therefore, he helped his younger brothers rent houses.

This was only because he worked at Guang'anmen Hospital, and the neighborhood committee, out of consideration for him, let him cut in line.

Otherwise, if you want to rent a house, you'll probably have to wait a long time, and you might not even be able to get one.

Now that he heard he could buy an apartment in the staff housing complex, Zhu Tao couldn't wait to drag Qian Dayong along to inquire. "Taozi, this news is true. At the meeting, all the leaders voted to approve it."

Of course, this news has not yet been officially announced, and it is unclear whether there will be any changes in the process.

So, just keep this to yourselves. Don't discuss it with other colleagues or spread false information.

Wang Mengde put down the documents in his hand and then said with a smile.

At work.

Apart from Professor Pu, a few of his junior brothers and sisters, and his students.

Everyone else was either a colleague or a subordinate.

Only Qian Dayong and Zhu Tao could be considered friends.

Therefore, he cherishes this relationship very much.

"Great, I'll definitely buy it then."

Zhu Tao received an affirmative answer and almost jumped for joy.

Their two-bedroom apartment is shared not only with their own family, but also with their parents and a younger brother.

The key issue is that his own child is also growing up, and living together is very inconvenient.

If we could have another house, even a one-bedroom one, it would solve a lot of problems.

"We are still planning to study this matter further, and we also need to see how large a plot of land the city and district can approve."

If there's enough space and enough houses are built, maybe everyone could buy two.

Wang Mengde revealed another piece of information.

His two sons will soon be adults.

We must plan ahead.

In three or four years at most, I might need to find a partner.

It will probably be at least six or seven years before the policy is relaxed.

Zhu Tao and Qian Dayong left happily.

In the office, Wang Mengde's graduate students were equally excited.

They are not currently employees of Guang'anmen Hospital and are not eligible for housing allocation benefits at this time.

The place I live in now is just a dormitory.

However, as Wang Mengde's student, and based on my seniors, it's certain that I'll be working at Guang'anmen Hospital after graduation.

At that time, they will also be able to get their own house.

Alternatively, you can buy one more set.

Even if you've just started working and don't have much money, you can solve this problem through installment payments.

By this time, Wang Mengde had already finished reviewing the documents.

These were all sent by Dean Lu's secretary on his behalf, so that he could familiarize himself with the relevant work in advance.

These documents contain information about the current use of the slush fund at Guang'anmen Hospital.

Thanks to donations from patients abroad, as well as supplies regularly allocated by the government, our unit has no shortage of supplies.

Therefore, you basically don't need to spend money to buy it.

This leads to.

Even though in previous years, the construction of staff and family housing had been ongoing, and subsidies had been provided for the construction of the new hospital site.

But there was still a large sum of money lying in the account.

Wang Mengde, as the leader in charge of logistics and one of the vice presidents, had been known to me before.

Unexpectedly, the numbers we saw today were significantly higher than before.

Hundreds of millions of RMB is an astronomical figure in this era.

That is, Guang'anmen Hospital. If any other unit had this much money in its accounts, it would have been taken away by higher authorities long ago.

This is far more than the annual output value of most units or factories across the country.

As a set of ideas for future generations.

Wang Mengde had a resistance to having too much money in his accounts; he always wanted to spend it.

I just hadn't figured out how to spend it before.

New Year's Day is just around the corner.

Because the entire unit worked together to promote this project, the fundraising for housing construction progressed very quickly.

After careful consideration, the city and district authorities made special arrangements and approved a large plot of land for Guang'anmen Hospital.

The location is not far from the new hospital site, less than three kilometers away as the crow flies.

In later generations, it belonged to the area within the Third Ring Road.

This area can accommodate at least dozens of buildings, and if you squeeze it in, you could easily build over a hundred.

Anyway, the pace of development in this era is not very fast. Most of the areas outside the Fourth Ring Road are still farmland.

Even within the Third Ring Road, much of the area is still rural.

With the location secured, the next step was naturally to plan.

Initially, Wang Mengde planned to simply continue building according to the previous blueprints.

Who knew that the news of the construction project at Guang'anmen Hospital somehow reached the ears of those foreign patients.

It's unclear who started it, but hundreds of patients and their families actually joined together to try and contribute.

They got together, sent representatives, and found Wang Mengde.

It is suggested that instead of building six-story buildings, high-rise buildings with elevators should be constructed.

They provided the design drawings, as well as some of the related materials and machinery.

For example, elevators, building steel bars, cement, cranes, and various equipment.

Anyway, with hundreds of powerful, wealthy, and influential people, the cost, when divided equally among each individual, is not much at all.

Moreover, new foreign patients will continue to arrive every month.

They will definitely do their part.

Wang Mengde accepted their kindness without hesitation.

I saved these people's lives.

Compared to life, what is a little money?

Besides, why not take this money from them?

With the addition of foreign patients, the construction of the family housing at Guang'anmen Hospital proceeded even more rapidly.

Among these patients are many political figures or wealthy individuals from various countries.

Some are real estate moguls themselves.

The blueprints are mostly readily available.

It only requires a simple modification depending on the specific situation.

Anyway, the final floor number is the eighteenth floor.

In China today, there may be difficulties in terms of technology and equipment, but in developed Western countries, it has long been a mature technology.

All that's needed is for the equipment and building materials to arrive, and then a group of architectural engineers to come here and provide guidance.

It is believed that within two years, dozens of family dormitories for Guang'anmen Hospital will be built one after another.

and.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it has changed from a six-story walk-up building to an eighteen-story elevator building.

The workload has increased several times over.

However, many building materials and engineering equipment are provided by patients from abroad.

In the end, after calculating, the amount of money that Guang'anmen Hospital needed to spend actually became less.

This is simply a miracle.

(End of this chapter)