I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 117: Got up early, but arrived late
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Chinese New Year is completely over and all walks of life begin to get busy.

Today is Thursday. When it was almost time to get off work, Xia He knocked on the door and entered Fang Qingye's office.

"Xiao Fang, the General Office just received a notice from the government office that the county will hold a full-year economic work conference at 9:00 tomorrow morning. You should attend. I have something to do at home tomorrow and need to take a day off. President Su has to go to the city branch for a meeting."

"Okay." Fang Qingye agreed.

There are many meetings of various kinds, which is a common phenomenon in county-level departments. Vertical management units like banks do not belong to the sequence of government departments, and there are fewer meetings, but Xia He is still very busy.

Because many meetings clearly require that the main leaders of the unit attend!
There is a general meeting tomorrow, and no one will care if I find a deputy to take my place. But it won't work for small meetings like some expanded government executive meetings, because the county governor is watching over them.

The next morning, Fang Qingye drove to work on time as usual. Seeing that it was half past eight, he went downstairs with his briefcase containing a notebook and pen.

The unit's Passat followed Su Ming to the city early in the morning. Fang Qingye simply drove his own car there. It was only a twenty-minute drive to the government compound. The cars of the unit's leaders outside the government compound also arrived one after another, and the yard seemed very lively.

Fang Qingye found a parking space, parked the car, and just got out when he heard someone calling him.

"Xiao Ye!"

I didn't need to look back, I knew it was my second uncle Fang Jianhua just by the voice.

"Are you attending the meeting on behalf of your President Xia?" Fang Jianhua asked, holding a briefcase in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

"Yes, President Xia has something to do at home, so he's asked for leave."

The uncle and nephew talked as they walked towards the backyard, where there was a newly built auditorium. Most of the county's meetings with large numbers of people were held here.

"Director Fang!"

A middle-aged man greeted Fang Jianhua.

"Director Miao, are you having a meeting?"

"Yes, this will happen one after another." The man said and looked at Fang Qingye next to him and smiled.

"Brother, are you also in a meeting?"

"Yes, I am attending the meeting on behalf of our President Xia." Fang Qingye said with a smile.

He knew this man, Miao Hongbin, a fishing friend he met while fishing in Wujiazhuang.

"Who are you?" Miao Hongbin looked at Fang Jianhua's uncle and nephew with some confusion.

"He is my nephew, the assistant president of Dongfang Bank and the son of Fang Jianwen, the principal of Chengguan Middle School," Fang Jianhua introduced.

"Haha. No wonder."

"This is Miao Hongbin, director of the Development and Reform Bureau." Fang Jianhua introduced him to Fang Qingye again.

"Director Fang, we've known each other for a long time." Miao Hongbin said cheerfully, and then said to Fang Qingye, "President Fang, do you want to go fishing tomorrow?"

"Sure, let's go to Wujiazhuang." Fang Qingye replied with a smile.

"Okay, I'll definitely be there!"

As Miao Hongbin was speaking, someone called him again, so he greeted Fang Jianhua and started chatting with others.

"Miao Hongbin is very likely to take the next step." Seeing Miao Hongbin leave, Fang Jianhua lowered his voice and said to Fang Qingye. "What position?"

"Deputy County Magistrate."

"That's very promising," Fang Qingye said with a smile.

In those days, there was no parallel system of job ranks. Most of the county directors reached the top of the hierarchy at the level of director. When they reached the age of 55, they would either retire to the second line and go home without working, or become the chairman of the county People's Congress and CPPCC.

The heads of a few important departments can be promoted to deputy county-level leading cadres, but they usually serve as deputy positions in the county People's Congress and CPPCC.

If one can become a deputy county magistrate, it means that he is strong and has room for further advancement. It seems that Miao Hongbin is one of them.

"Xiao Ye, how did you two meet?" Fang Jianhua asked again.

"I met him by chance while fishing. His skill was so poor that he asked me to teach him. Then we got to know each other. However, I only heard him say that he was from the Development and Reform Bureau. I didn't know he was the director." Fang Qingye told the truth.

"Hey, Xiaoye, you can get to know some people with your hobbies?" He has a good relationship with Director Mei of the Municipal Bureau for drinking tea, and he has become a fishing buddy with Director Miao for fishing. "These connections are very good," Fang Jianhua joked.

What is this?
Liu Dong learned to play badminton and established a personal relationship with Minister Wang. Not only was he transferred to the Propaganda Department, but he also found a girlfriend.

Not only does his girlfriend work in the government, but her father is also the director of the Grain Bureau. If this really works out, Liu Dong will get rid of the "farmer" label on his body. If he holds an official position in the future, he will be from an upper-middle class family in the county!
However, Fang Qingye didn't tell this to his second uncle.

Fang Qingye didn't chat with his second uncle for long. There were many people who came to greet Fang Jianhua. They were all leaders of various units and knew each other. The director of the Finance Bureau was a very prominent position.

After entering the auditorium, everyone found their seats. There was a nameplate on each table with the name of the unit written on it. Fang Jianhua walked towards the podium to find his tableplate, and Fang Qingye automatically stepped back.

There is also a pattern for arranging the table cards. On the rostrum are the county-level leaders, followed by the leaders of the townships and then the government departments. The important departments are in the front, and the smaller and less important ones are in the back.

The location of the bank department where Fang Qingye works is generally behind the government departments. In addition to the banks, there are more than a dozen units such as electricity, post office, three major operators, meteorological bureau, investigation team, etc. They have a common name: Central, Provincial and Municipal Units Stationed in the South (Nanxin).

Of course, their position was not the last. There were some famous companies in the county at the back. Fang Qingye saw Vice President Luo of Kerry Real Estate sitting in the back. After seeing Fang Qingye, he smiled and nodded as a greeting.

The meeting started on time at 9 o'clock, and all the county's major leaders sat on the stage.

Although it is an economic meeting, it is not limited to government leaders. All members of the county party committee and the top leaders of the People's Congress and the government are present. Generally, the executive deputy county mayor presides over the meeting, the county mayor makes an important speech, and the secretary comes to the back to emphasize the speech.

Of course, some leaders of townships and departments also spoke. Fang Qingye saw that on the meeting agenda sent to him, Miao Hongbin and his second uncle Fang Jianhua were required to make written reports on behalf of the Development and Reform Commission and the Finance Department.

All the speeches and reports had already been neatly placed on each participant's desk in paper form. Everyone listened and watched, and some were taking notes seriously.

County Magistrate Hu was giving a report while Fang Qingye was watching carefully below.

This is the highlight of today's meeting. In addition to summarizing the achievements in various aspects of social economy made in the past year, the focus is on planning the county's economic work this year.

To some extent, it is equivalent to the 2009 Economic Development Program of South-Singapore.

There is a lot of content, a full 20 pages, covering all aspects of project investment, engineering infrastructure, urban planning, and municipal construction. Two of them caught Fang Qingye's interest.

The article proposes that we should vigorously develop the new energy vehicle industry, introduce advanced domestic automobile companies to settle in Nanxin, and build Nanxin into a national new energy vehicle production base!
Fang Qingye remembered that Nanxin had indeed done so in history.

Unfortunately, Nanxin got up early but arrived late.

(End of this chapter)