Chapter Thirteen(1/3)
Today I am wearing a navy blue suit, my hair is neatly styled, and I try to keep myself relaxed and normal. Before entering the venue, I took the initiative to say hello to the National People’s Congress deputies, met some familiar people, and
I went up to have a chat with them.
Although this large conference hall cost the city a lot of money and was built when the city's finances were most tight, it seems that such a facility is very necessary now.
The first thing you feel after entering the venue is the majestic and solemn atmosphere here. The deputies to the National People's Congress have already taken their seats, and the leaders who are about to go to the rostrum are already waiting in the lounge behind the rostrum for the meeting to start.
After a while, the Secretary-General of the Municipal People's Congress General Office came to invite the leaders to sit on the rostrum. The city leaders in the lounge all stood up, and then entered the venue one by one according to their positions. Of course, the leaders
, Secretary Rong was at the forefront.
During the enthusiastic "Welcome March", we entered the rostrum, and the deputies to the National People's Congress below all stood up and applauded us. We also applauded and filed into our seats and sat down.
The meeting officially started, and the director of the Municipal People's Congress announced the official opening of this People's Congress.
According to the meeting arrangements of this National People's Congress, the following procedures will be carried out: listen to the work report of the Municipal People's Government; listen to and review the implementation of Shangjiang City's national economic and social development plan last year and this year's national economic and social development plan (draft
) report, review and approve the report on the implementation of last year’s national economic and social development plan and this year’s national economic and social development plan; listen to and review the report on the implementation of Shangjiang City’s fiscal budget last year and this year’s fiscal budget (draft), review and
Approving the report on the implementation of last year's municipal fiscal budget and this year's municipal fiscal budget; hearing and reviewing the work report of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee; hearing and reviewing the work report of the Municipal People's Court; hearing and reviewing the work report of the Municipal People's Procuratorate.
The last step is to elect the mayor of the Municipal People's Government.[
This National People's Congress will be held for three days. On the first day, I will give a government work report in the morning, and in the afternoon, I will discuss the report in groups.
The next day was to listen to and discuss several other reports.
On the third day, people's representatives held the election of mayor.
Giving a report also requires skills. The words must be clear and the speaking speed must be controlled. In addition, you must pause at some places to let the congress representatives applaud.
I have read this report several times, and I have marked the places where I need to stop. The Secretary-General of the Municipal Government Office also recorded the places where I made the marks, and he told me the places where I needed to applaud.
I became the leader of the group discussion group at the National People's Congress. When I give a report at the National People's Congress, when I read the report to those positions, these people will take the lead in applauding, and then other National People's Congress deputies will
They will naturally clap along.
Some people say that our country’s National People’s Congress deputies are actually applause machines and voting puppets manipulated by the Communist Party. In fact, this statement is a bit one-sided, or a bit extreme. Such an arrangement for such a meeting is just to reflect a kind of enthusiasm.
It's just an atmosphere. Such meetings are extremely political, so every detail from form to content to process is very important.
Making such a report is also a physical job. It took me nearly three hours to complete the entire report. Of course, the applause of the representatives also took up a large part of the time. The representatives cooperated very well, and the applause became more and more powerful every time.
Enthusiastic. Although I knew in my heart that the applause of the representatives was an arranged result, this atmosphere still made me a little excited.
The morning meeting temporarily arranged a speech by Secretary Rong. The content of her speech focused on the city's key tasks in the past year and the city's development prospects in the next two years. Later I noticed that all her speeches were aimed at
Regarding the performance of the municipal government, it is obvious that what she wants to convey to the deputies of the National People's Congress here is this message: Our acting mayor of Shangjiang City is a very good leading cadre. If everyone supports him, they support Shangjiang.
The future development of Jiang City.
The deputies' meals were arranged in a hotel, which was of a high standard. Secretary Rong led people from the municipal party committee to toast each table of deputies, and I also took the leaders from the government to toast them one by one.
In fact, this is not just for formality, but to send a message to the representatives: I hope they will act in accordance with the organization's intentions and never create extraneous matters.
In the afternoon, there was a group discussion on the government work report I gave. I was assigned to the delegation of the cultural, educational and health system. I knew the intention of the Municipal People's Congress in this arrangement, because this delegation had the most representatives to the National People's Congress.
This is true everywhere. Ninety percent of local fiscal expenditures are on education, education and health, because these two systems have the largest number of people eating from the fiscal system.
In fact, the group discussions of the National People's Congress are not just to discuss the government work report, but to further improve the work of the representatives, so as to ensure that there will be no problems with the final agenda of this meeting. Therefore, the National People's Congress
The real core intention is actually the election, and everyone knows this.
Of course I was the speaker during the group discussion, because the group leader arranged it this way. The leader of this group was Director Sun of the Municipal Health Bureau. He said at the beginning, “We have made great achievements in culture, education and health in Shangjiang City in the past two years.
It has made great progress, and Mayor Feng has put a lot of effort into it. Today, Mayor Feng also spent a lot of space talking about such issues in his government work report, and also expressed his views on the future of Shangjiang City’s cultural, educational and health services.
The development depicts a bright future. We believe that under the leadership of the current Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, this beautiful blueprint will be realized. Mayor Feng, many of our National People's Congress representatives would like to know more about the next step of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.
What kind of reforms will be carried out in our city's cultural, educational and health work? Can you talk to our National People's Congress representatives here?"
Of course I knew very well that this was to allow me to show off more of myself in front of the representatives. In the final analysis, it was to make everyone favor me more.[
I smiled and said: "At present, the focus of our medical and health work is to strengthen the construction of hardware, and at the same time continue to work hard on software. Hardware construction means having enough wards and advanced instruments and equipment, and software construction means training our medical technicians.
.We have mentioned this slogan for many years, but it has always remained in words, but now we have begun to do it in a real and down-to-earth manner. There is also the most critical issue, which is to improve the quality of medical services.
Reduce the cost of medical treatment. In the future, our municipal government will make great efforts in this area. Furthermore, while we are doing all this well, we must also find ways to continuously increase the income level of medical staff. In fact, this has nothing to do with improving the quality of medical services.
Reducing patient treatment costs is not a contradiction, on the contrary, it is a necessity and necessity. The key to the problem is whether we have such a concept. The key is how we do it. On the one hand, we reduce internal operating costs by improving service quality.
In order to reduce the cost of medical treatment for patients, on the other hand, after we have such a foundation, we will attract more patients to come to our hospitals for treatment, and the income of our medical staff will naturally increase. In addition, in the future we will also
We should focus on developing some specialized medical technical services while meeting the needs of citizens for the diagnosis and treatment of general diseases. Our Shangjiang City has a very good geographical advantage. As long as our medical technical strength and the quality of medical services are improved, the provincial capital and the
Patients from around the provincial capital will come to us for treatment, which can form a virtuous circle for our medical industry. At that time, we in Shangjiang City were in trouble."
At this point, the delegates applauded warmly. I smiled and continued: "As for the work on culture and education, we must first solve two problems: First, universal education must be further strengthened. This is not only a national policy, but also a national policy.
It involves the future of our next generation of children. Therefore, no matter how difficult the government’s finances are, it must do a good job in this aspect. Second, solve the bottleneck problem of students’ difficulty in going to high school. We have already started to do this.
, and the results will be seen soon. In fact, what we really need to do is not just these two aspects, but to allow our next generation to receive high-quality educational services. I see our cadres and masses spending a lot of money for the sake of their children.
It feels bad to spend so much money to send children to schools in provincial capitals. In the final analysis, this means that our city government has not done its job well! Therefore, we must find ways to provide good education and make our people here
Both primary and secondary schools should become famous schools without charging students too much. Of course, if we want to run a good education, in addition to promoting the dedication of educators, we should also increase everyone's income. In fact, this issue has something to do with me.
The same as the health work mentioned earlier, in the final analysis it is to form a virtuous cycle. In short, regarding the future situation of our education and health work in Shangjiang City, I can summarize it in one sentence: There is no best, only the best.
will be better!"
The delegates applauded warmly again.
I felt that their applause this time was more from the heart. My words were very practical and inspiring. Among them, I talked about the issue of treatment of employees, which is indeed very important. Now it is no longer
We are no longer in an age where we only talk about giving without asking for anything. With the development of society and the continuous improvement of living standards, people's life pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more needs. However, low income is incompatible with these needs.
This creates a great conflict with pressure, and therefore the income issue has become the most concerned issue for many people.
However, it is impossible for me to talk about specific things on such an occasion. On the one hand, I am talking about the problem from the perspective of the whole city. On the other hand, there are leaders in charge below who are thinking about solving such problems. But I completely believe that,
All of my previous ideas can be solved and achieved in the future.
Then I continued: "I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about the reform of Shangjiang City. Everyone should have felt the tremendous changes in Shangjiang City in the past two years. Through vigorous reform, we have made
The state-owned enterprises have regained their vitality. The cars we jointly produced with Japan have been put on the market and are currently selling very well in the national market. Our urban construction is also vigorously advancing, and now there are construction sites everywhere in the city. At the end of this year
By that time, everyone will be able to see the new image of our city that is beginning to take shape. These are the results of our vigorous reform, and we are creating the future of Shangjiang City. Of course, we cannot but see that we are reforming
There have also been many problems in the process, such as so many people being laid off, the government’s investment in recent years has been huge, and fiscal deficits have increased while improving, etc. We cannot avoid these problems.
We have to face it, but we can solve these problems. For example, the problem of laid-off workers, I have talked about this problem on many occasions, and we have now solved the re-employment problem of a large number of people. In the future, we will still
We will continue to find ways to increase employment channels, provide funds, and policy support to allow them to start their own businesses. There are also other problems that our city government has the confidence and determination to solve. Of course, if we want to solve these problems, we must get everyone
The strong support of the National People's Congress deputies must be supported by the strong support of the people of Shangjiang City. Here, what I want to communicate with you is how we can further reform, rather than talking too much about the problems that have already occurred or will be in the future.
The reason for this problem is very simple: as long as we do things seriously, many problems will inevitably arise. What is our job? It is to solve problems. Therefore, we should put the problems aside for the time being.
We should think more about reform issues. Take the work we are currently doing in culture, education and health. I think our current thinking is still a bit conservative, and the steps we have taken are still too small. The reason for this is
In the end, it is just one word: fear. What are we afraid of? Afraid of failure, afraid that the black hat on our heads will be gone after failure, afraid that we will be ridiculed by others after failure, afraid that failure will bring huge losses to the country. Is this what everyone thinks?
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They all laugh.
I added: "In fact, such fear itself shows that our thinking is wrong. Why do we say this? First, why do we first think of failure instead of success? It is very simple. In the final analysis, it is because we have no self-confidence.
Second, if we study carefully before doing these things and evaluate the likelihood of success and what problems may arise, then we should have the confidence to carry out what we want to do bravely. Remember our industrial park
When it was first established, the municipal party committee gave me the land and the power to choose people independently, but nothing else. I didn't really have any confidence at that time, but later we boldly did it.
It also succeeded. This is very illustrative of the problem. Third, as I said before, failure is not terrible, we can start all over again. Our reform is a undertaking that has never been done by predecessors. We can only explore experience while doing it.
Although it is dangerous to cross the river by feeling for the stones, since we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, we will certainly not casually plunge ourselves into an extremely dangerous situation. Our purpose is to cross the river, not to cross the river.
Drowned in the river. Is that so?"
Everyone laughs.
I also smiled and said: "I'm sorry, everyone. Today I'm asking all representatives to express their opinions and views on our government work report. Please talk more. I just said a few words, so I think it's just a suggestion."
Then, under the auspices of Director Sun, representatives of the National People’s Congress began to speak continuously. I listened carefully and took notes carefully. This attitude is very necessary, and I also found that some of the representatives of the National People’s Congress had the same ideas.
Very good.
One of the National People’s Congress representatives said in his speech, “Currently there are many problems in education in our country, and these problems are also very prominent in the actual education work in Shangjiang City. In recent years, with the
While education has created huge wealth for society, it has also caused many social problems. Education has been and is still undergoing criticism from all sides, and the spearhead is directed at "education industrialization". The issue of education industrialization has played a role in the past.
The positive role cannot be underestimated. First, the industrialization of education has effectively alleviated the serious shortage of national financial investment in education; second, the industrialization of education has effectively stimulated domestic demand in the context of economic downturn; third, in the 'only
While the traditional concept of "high reading" and society's evaluation standards for talents remain unchanged, the industrialization of education has greatly improved the education level of the people and correspondingly reduced the social pressure on young people of the right age. However, the industrialization of education has also brought about
Huge negative impact. For example, high tuition fees discourage children from low-income families, resulting in inequality of educational opportunities. Many psychological problems among students have brought management crises to schools. In addition, the industrialization of education has also brought about a decline in teaching quality.
, the decline of teachers' professional ethics and other issues. At present, our high school education is pursuing short-term effects for the sake of enrollment rate and fundamentally failing to form an education system. The loss of China's excellent traditional culture is accelerating. Research by foreign experts shows that many people have obstacles in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
It is also quite common among our students that they cannot communicate with others, cannot write articles, and do not understand the specific meaning between the lines. In addition, in the construction of teaching staff, we only focus on the teacher structure and not on the personality quality of teachers; for the appointment of teachers,
The basic conditions are 'Support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, love the socialist motherland, consciously implement the party's line, principles, and policies; abide by disciplines and laws, abide by school rules and regulations; be a role model, teach and educate others; care for and care for students, and have good professional ethics'
The requirements are in vain. Pre-service training and teacher qualification examinations are often just a formality, which makes the ideological ethics and professional ethics of the current teaching team deeply questioned... Therefore, I hope that we in Shangjiang City will improve the education reform in the future.
To be continued...