Yonghe Road

Chapter 63 Director
The last ray of sunset light was swallowed by the sky. Zhong Ziqi finally met Wang Zian in Sheyaotang, but Wang Zian came alone and Secretary Wang Kai was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is Secretary Wang? Didn't you say that he went into the city with you to discuss something?" Zhong Ziqi asked Wang Zian.

In the afternoon, Wang Zian proposed the idea of "Tea BA" in front of President Ji Tong and Director Mei Wending at "10:30", which triggered a heated discussion. Director Mei Wending praised Wang Zian highly, and President Ji Tong took a special liking to him.

The idea of Tea BA can not only help the city's white tea industry attract capital giants like President Ji Tong, but also take into account President Ji Tong's charitable preference of focusing on sponsoring sports, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

A dialogue between officials and businessmen that had originally reached a deadlock was sparked by Wang Zian's inspiration. Both President Ji Tong and Director Mei Wending were very satisfied, especially Director Mei Wending, who felt a little grateful to Wang Zian.

The local white tea industry can achieve its current economic and social benefits thanks to Director Mei Wending’s predecessor.

Since the former director took over as the head of the city's tea industry development leading group in 2007, he has become the "think tank" and "command center" for promoting the development of the local tea industry, and has actively promoted the promotion of the white tea public brand.

Under his leadership, the local white tea brand was successfully selected for many important domestic and international exhibitions and events, such as the Shanghai World Expo and the United Nations Pavilion, greatly enhancing the brand awareness and reputation of white tea.

In addition, he also actively organized the compilation of documents related to white tea, recorded the development process and cultural connotation of the white tea industry, promoted the white tea making skills to be included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and continuously expanded the market. With his outstanding leadership and forward-looking vision, he made indelible contributions to the comprehensive development of the local white tea industry and achieved a key leap from 0 to 1.

As the successor leader, Director Mei Wending is unwilling to fall behind. He wants to surpass his predecessor, achieve greater achievements, and lead the white tea industry to greater development. Naturally, the pressure is not small.

It is said that it is difficult to conquer an empire, but it is even harder to keep it.

Director Mei Wending took over the post of director of the Municipal People's Congress in 2016 and concurrently served as executive deputy head of the Municipal Tea Industry Leading Group. He is always committed to promoting the white tea industry to a higher level.

He actively promoted the government to introduce a series of policies to support the white tea industry, established a "leading enterprise + industrial consortium + farmers + base" mechanism to link farmers and promote income growth, integrated the forces of all parties, and formed a joint force to promote the development of the white tea industry.

At the same time, we actively implemented the "One Million Village Finances and Ten Million Township Finances" campaign, gave full play to the intellectual support role of Tsinghua University's Rural Revitalization Work Station, Peking University's Ideological and Political Practice Base, and China White Tea Research Institute, organized a city-wide "full coverage of tea gardens without the use of chemical pesticides" inspection activity, paid close attention to tea quality and safety, and promoted the establishment of a city-wide white tea big data traceability platform system, which fully incorporated the picking, trading, production, and sales processes of tea leaves, ensuring that every piece of tea can be traced and verified, allowing consumers to buy with confidence.

Based on the public brand of white tea created by the previous director, he took great pains to further promote the brand building: actively participated in hosting activities such as the International Tea Culture Forum, organized local white tea seeds to be carried on the "Shenzhou 14" manned spacecraft to start a space journey, and conducted scientific experiments on suitable white tea varieties.

Director Qie Mei is also a versatile literary and artistic person. She has participated in writing white tea songs and promoted the singing of white tea songs in schools. She has started the mission of protecting the local white tea culture from an early age and has actively cultivated successors to the white tea culture.

At the same time, the director actively promoted the local white tea production technique, which, as the only representative of Chinese white tea production techniques, was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Thanks to a series of brand promotion initiatives, the number of local tea processing companies has continued to grow, from over 400 during the previous director's tenure to over 2800 today. The number of tea companies with QS certification has increased from 132 to 660. This has greatly improved the market competitiveness and product quality recognition of local white tea nationwide and globally, directly driving the total output value of tea-related products from 25 billion yuan in the past to 140 billion yuan today.

Director Mei Wending’s term of office is about to expire. Before leaving office, he still wants to contribute to the development of the white tea industry, but his creativity has reached a bottleneck.

Wang Zian's suggestion was a ray of hope for Director Mei Wending.

In the last two years of her term, a prominent figure like President Ji Tong returned to her hometown, eager to contribute to its development. Having previously worked abroad, her previous businesses were not compatible with her hometown's resources. Since her professional background in sports in her youth, giving back to her hometown through the lens of sports is something she most desires.

A former athlete and a seasoned businessman for decades, President Ji Tong's experiences have honed her resolve. She's not one to easily change for others, and no one can force her to do anything she doesn't want to do. Her unwavering strength gives her the ability to say no to anyone and never give in easily.

Wang Zian's idea of "Tea BA" takes into account Director Mei Wending's original intention of promoting local white tea culture, and is also in the field of sports that President Ji Tong is most interested in. For Director Mei Wending, it is truly a golden idea that comes at the right time, in the right place, and with the right people.

After coming out of "Shishishiba", he praised Secretary Wang Kai heavily, praising him for having a good son and praising him for the good father and good son. Secretary Wang Kai was so praised that he forgot the purpose of coming to the city. He took Director Mei Wending's hand and insisted on drinking with him.

Secretary Wang Kai is a few years older than Director Mei Wending and is his elder brother. Although Director Mei Wending holds a higher position, he and Secretary Wang Kai have grown up together in the party's mass work such as poverty alleviation and prosperity. Although they are in different positions, they have a deep revolutionary feeling.

So Director Mei Wending went to have dinner with Secretary Wang Kai, but he solemnly stated that he would pay for the bill himself.

Wang Zian had no choice but to go to the She medicine hall alone to find Zhong Ziqi. He simply told Zhong Ziqi about Secretary Wang Kai and Director Mei Wending going out for a drink, and then followed Zhong Ziqi into the She medicine hall to see the poor child.

The child was now held in Lin Yingying's arms. Her once rosy face was now visibly red and swollen. The bee sting, like the evil mark left by the gentle touch of an invisible demon, rapidly swelled, and the surrounding skin tinged slightly red, as if a flame was slowly burning beneath the skin.

At first, her face was twisted in pain, but now, having cried herself dry, she lay in her mother's arms, unable to move, not even to lift her eyelashes. Her long lashes, adorned with large tears, rested on her lower eyelids. Her small nose had turned red, and with each sob, it moved gently up and down, like a frightened little rabbit.

Lin Yingying, holding the child, sat among several patients and their families. Her eyes were swollen from crying, her hair was messy, and she looked in a state of disarray.

"What happened? How did you get bitten by a bee?" Wang Zian asked Zhong Ziqi.

Just as Zhong Ziqi was about to say something, Mr. Lan, the boss of She Medicine Hall, called them into the clinic for treatment.