Chapter 355 Mingyang’s Municipal Problems

Chen Tongda came back late, but he was still in good spirits.

When Chen Tongda saw his son coming back, he was naturally very happy. The father and son got two dishes, opened a bottle of Hei Fen, and chatted while drinking.

The situation in the city is still good now, and all projects are being carried out in an orderly manner. When Chen Tongda heard that his son Mingyu Group had completed the handover of funds and equity with Espanyol, he was shocked.

"How much money have you made in the past six months?" Chen Tongda asked his son.

"The total amount is at most several hundred million. However, some of the gains in the stock market a while ago, almost 14.5 billion yuan. Not only did I pay Letong Company 800 million and settle the matter, but there were still 500 million or 600 million yuan available. However, Yangshuo's real estate development company had to leave 200 million yuan as support. For the remaining 400 million yuan, I plan to use 100 million yuan to build the Yuanming powder production line, expand the production scale, and then 100 million yuan to build two to three large storage supermarkets in Yangshuo and Mingyang." Chen Mingluo introduced his father Chen Tongda.

"It's all big deal!" Chen Tongda felt very moved after hearing his son's words.

I remember that in the summer of the previous year, the father and son were still excited about selling white sugar and earning nearly one million yuan. As a result, the son has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, but he doesn't feel any distress. The change in the middle is really big.

"Dad, you're not bad at all. You used to be a teacher, but now you're a deputy department-level cadre." Chen Mingluo also smiled. "I think it's still very suitable to work hard for another two years and be a mayor. If it's done well, I guess you can always get into the provincial and ministerial cadre sequence before retirement, which is also a matter of smoke coming from our ancestral grave."

"Your level of thinking is too low-" Chen Tongda is the most relaxed when he is with his son. He twisted a peanut and put it into his mouth, and then said, "Actually, living a little tired now than before, but the work is fulfilling. Whenever you finish something, you will think, how many people will this thing bring employment opportunities to? How many people will it reduce the burden? How many people will it bring? How much motivation will it bring to the development of Mingyang City? Thinking about it this way, it feels very worth it."

Chen Mingluo nodded and said, "As for your father, you can continue to do this, I can't guarantee whether you can be promoted. At least the people of Mingyang City will remember you and your benefits."

As an important leading cadre in the municipal government sequence and a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Chen Tongda's main work is for the grassroots level and has the closest contact with the grassroots people. Although Chen Tongda did not require himself to be as clear as a mirror, he never accepts any gifts or preferential treatments except for ordinary social engagements, which is also one of the main reasons why he has good reputation among the people.

As the saying goes, "Public success will lead to wisdom, integrity will lead to power, and you will naturally be more confident when doing things. Chen Tongda, who is benefiting from his son's glory, does not need to worry about the source of money, naturally blocks the door to the common corruption of others and becomes a banner figure in the Mingyang officialdom.

Compared with Xiao Mingxue, Chen Tongda pays more attention to solving practical problems, so the masses have a high level of support and has a great influence among grassroots cadres. Although he has served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee recently, he has always been a low-key person. In addition, Xiao Mingxue is currently in charge of the party and government, and no one deliberately makes things difficult for him. Therefore, Chen Tongda, as the most important alliance army of Xiao Mingxue, has also saved a lot of things and can let go of specific work.

"The Provincial Party Committee Organization Department has come. Secretary Deng went to serve as deputy director of the Provincial People's Congress, Mayor Xiao served as secretary of the Mingyang Municipal Party Committee, and Huang Jinli served as mayor. I am lucky. Uncle Xiao suggested that I serve as executive vice mayor. Secretary Sang of the Provincial Party Committee expressed his support, so the matter was settled." Chen Tongda said to his son.

Chen Mingluo took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "This matter has finally been settled, and it can be said that he has an explanation for the previous work, but Dad, your work burden will be even heavier in the future."

The executive vice mayor is actually the first deputy mayor. He is generally responsible for all affairs or relatively important affairs in the city, and presides over the daily affairs of the municipal government. He performs the mayor's power during the vacancies or departure of the mayor. He is in charge of important departments and macroeconomic parts in daily division of labor, such as finance, statistics, public security, municipal construction, etc., or is in charge of industry, domestic trade, transportation, public security, justice, petitions, production safety, and government legal work.

The executive vice mayor basically has to join the municipal party committee as a standing committee member, so the level is generally closest to the mayor of the city and the secretary of the municipal party committee. However, at the formal administrative level, the administrative level of the executive vice mayor is one level lower than that of the municipal party secretary and mayor. The division of labor in the municipal party committee is to assist the mayor in presiding over the daily affairs of the municipal government and be in charge of relevant important departments.

In the promotion of officials, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor are generally promoted to serve as secretary of the municipal party committee, or transferred to a higher-level department as a leader. If the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee does not serve as mayor, he is generally promoted to deputy secretary of the municipal party committee as part-time mayor. As for the promotion of executive vice mayor, he is generally appointed as deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, or transferred to a higher-level leading cadre.

In fact, in Chen Mingluo's heart, his father Chen Tongda is a worker and is more suitable for development in the government sequence.

"The work of the municipal government is indeed quite heavy and trivial." Chen Tongda frowned when talking about his work.

"Is there any problem that is difficult to solve?" Chen Mingluo asked immediately.

As for my father's affairs, no matter how big or small, you must care about it. After all, every job may become the driving force for his rise, and he will not be careless.

"A few days ago, I went downstairs and found that the urban sludge treatment area was basically equivalent to zero." Chen Tongda said to his son.

Chen Mingluo nodded, but he didn't expect that his father had noticed this problem.

From the perspective of pollution sources, people are more accustomed to focusing on high-sewage discharge industrial and mining enterprises, construction waste and domestic sewage, etc., and the treatment of sludge and second-degree pollution seem to be ignored.

In fact, the increasing volume of domestic sludge production and serious shortage of treatment capacity, and the serious backward treatment methods have formed a very sharp contradiction. A large amount of wet sludge is transported casually, simply landfilled or piled up, resulting in many cities being surrounded by sludge.

"The current problems in urban sludge treatment are mainly concentrated in the high cost of dehydration and landfills are unwilling to deal with this aspect." Chen Tongda told his son, "A large amount of organic-rich sludge is exposed to the air, which is very easy to smell and cannot be used as fertilizer. These sludge will attract mosquitoes and flies, and pesticides will invisibly increase the possibility of second-degree pollution. As more and more sewage treatment plants are established, the production of sludge is also increasing. However, the tradition in China is to focus on water and light mud, and at the same time, it lacks sufficient funds, so urban sludge treatment is put into a dilemma."

"This question is not easy to deal with-" Chen Mingluo immediately replied after hearing this, "But this question must also be handled, and it must be handled well."

The most critical issue is that this thing belongs to the category of municipal engineering. If you let private people operate it, it will not have the channel to make money, and of course you will not have the interest in doing such things.

To put it bluntly, it is like the lack of necessary sewage discharge methods in the countryside, so people provide door-to-door services for the things in the septic tank, so naturally there is a charge. In addition to the charge, some of the feces can be directly processed and returned to the fields. This is a charge on both sides. Although it is a little harder to do, there is money to make money, so naturally someone will do it.

However, in the issue of urban sludge treatment, only government investment can solve the problem.

However, most local governments basically use various channels, such as rivers flowing through the city area, and draining the sludge and water along with each other. This situation is also quite common. Although this practice of harming neighbors is not kind, because everyone is doing this, they are used to it.

Anyway, when it comes to government governance, there are probably not many local governments willing to work hard. Everyone needs to make political achievements. Buildings should be built high, squares should be built large, cities should be built with a large population, and streets should be built with wide. These aspects are all purchased with a lot of money.

Spend money to control sludge? Who would spend that in vain?

"This problem must always be solved!" Chen Tongda said to his son, "otherwise it will directly affect the process of urbanization."

As for the situation in Mingyang, the urban sludge problem is now quite serious.

Urban sludge has high organic matter content and is prone to odor. Due to the excessive production of urban sludge, many sludge treatment sites have to pile up sludge in the open air, resulting in a odor that disturbs the public.

"In addition to the urban sludge in Mingyang, the others are basically piled up in Dongcheng District. The People's Congress deputies in Dongcheng District have repeatedly raised the odor and pollution problems of sludge treatment plants to the People's Congress, but they have not been properly resolved now." Chen Tongda said to his son, "The sludge treatment site was located in Hongshan Town, Dongcheng District. Although it is relatively remote and has a small population, they ignored that Mingyang often blew southeast winds, and the odor of sludge will spread to the entire Dongcheng District with the wind direction. The People's Congress deputies in Dongcheng District said that the odor is like the smell of dead mice. Many people feel chest tightness, dizziness and disgusting after smelling it. This is no longer just a problem that disturbs the people, but a problem that harms the people. Environmental protection projects have become pollution projects."

After hearing this, Chen Mingluo felt a little surprised, "Who decided to build the sludge treatment yard there at that time?"

"You Uncle Xiao--" Chen Tongda replied.
Chapter completed!