The upward path in the official career is always getting narrower and narrower, and at every position, there will be countless people watching in secret.
In terms of staffing, the Daocheng Investment Promotion Office is a department-level unit. However, in order to show the importance it attaches to the investment promotion work, the city arranged for the director of the Municipal Planning Commission to concurrently serve as the director of the Investment Promotion Office.
During the planned economy period, the Planning Commission could be said to be the most important department of the government in terms of economic management. The director of the Planning Commission was usually highly appointed and was held by the deputy department level.
In this way, the Investment Promotion Office is actually considered to be highly equipped. Not only that, there are a total of six deputy directors in the Investment Promotion Office, five of which are concurrently serving as top leaders of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the Taxation Bureau and other practical departments, and there is only one deputy director.
The position is a full-time job in the Investment Promotion Office.
Based on the management authority of various government departments at that time, there was no solution to the strange organizational structure of the Investment Promotion Office.
To do a good job in attracting investment, we must do a good job in providing services to all aspects of the enterprise. If the investment office does not adopt such a configuration, there will be a lot of trouble with various departments.
Bruce Lee is the only full-time deputy director. In other words, he is the day-to-day person in charge of the Investment Promotion Office. The director of the Planning Committee comes to visit every other day. The other five deputy directors, in addition to appearing at monthly meetings, are usually on the phone.
connect.
However, their job is to safeguard the development of the Investment Promotion Office and coordinate the cooperation between their respective departments and the Investment Promotion Office. Whether I come or not does not mean much.
The internal structure of the Investment Promotion Office is very simple, with only three departments, the Business Department, the Finance Department and the Office. The Investment Promotion Office has a total staff of thirty people, and exactly half of them clock in and record attendance every day.
In addition to the seven directors, one chief, six deputy directors, who do not need to clock in, there are eight other people who will only show up when receiving wages and paying labor insurance benefits.
This is an unspoken rule in officialdom. Bruce Lee was not surprised at all, so he would not take the risk of uncovering the cover.
Meng Weijie, the chief of the business department, was the chief of the reception department of the Commerce Bureau before coming here. He originally thought that when he was transferred to the new unit, he would be promoted to deputy director and become a full-time deputy director. Who knew that Bruce Lee, who was airborne, would take the position?
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The Reception Department of the Bureau of Commerce is a lucrative department, with not much dirty money, but constant dining and drinking, and various small gifts. Meng Weijie would not have taken the initiative to change posts if it were not for the promotion of deputy director.
Now Meng Weijie is in trouble, and his original unit will definitely not go back. He is a carrot and a pit. He can go back but his position is no longer available, so why should he go back?
He took a gift in private and went to the house of the old leader who promoted him to cry, but the old leader had no choice.
Although Bruce Lee was a division-level cadre, this transfer was organized by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It sent a group of outstanding young and middle-aged cadres who understood economics and had strong abilities to the local governments to help local governments transform their thinking and accelerate the development of economic work.
The old leaders themselves will not provoke such labeled people, but will only build relationships with them. You know, after such a cadre has served for one term, as long as there are no major mistakes in the work, he will basically be promoted.
Got up.
Besides, what are Bruce Lee's own conditions? He was a retired cadre with military exploits. After returning to the local area, he became the director of the joint venture Tianhai Meat Factory.
Under his leadership, in just a few years, the Tianhai Meat Factory not only expanded its scale several times, and the profits and taxes paid increased significantly year by year, but also established a canned luncheon meat production line. One hundred percent of its products are exported to Europe and the United States, earning 200 yuan in foreign exchange from exports every year.
More than ten thousand US dollars.
Such shining achievements also enabled him to be promoted from a deputy section cadre to the current deputy director level (enjoying the benefits of a full director level).
Within two months of Bruce Lee arriving in the island city, he signed a contract to build a factory for Yuanjue Winery. Two to three million U.S. dollars in real money were invested. Now Yuanjue Winery has applied for another piece of land, with a production scale of
It will double soon.
Before the city's commendation for him was issued, he immediately negotiated with Zheng Kee Printing Company, which was still called Zheng Kee Printing Company at that time, and another more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars arrived in his account.
Bruce Lee also negotiated several other investments, so I won’t go into details one by one.
Meng Weijie joined the workforce to take over his father's position and became a salesperson in a state-owned department store. A few years later, by chance, he entered the Bureau of Commerce and became an ordinary staff member in the bureau.
He stayed at the grassroots level of the Commerce Bureau for many years and became a veteran in the officialdom. Later, the old boss heard that he was good at drinking, so he was transferred to the reception department, where he was responsible for welcoming people to and from them, and accompanying them to meals and drinks.
With Meng Weijie's qualifications, let alone competing with Bruce Lee for the position of deputy director, he is not even qualified to be the chief of the business section of the investment promotion office.
A business section chief who can only speak a few words in Russian will be blinded without an interpreter when communicating with foreign businessmen. He cannot expect to meet only Chinese businessmen throughout his life.
Bruce Lee seriously followed Shiweitian's bilingual training class and studied English and Cantonese seriously for a year.
Meng Weijie had no choice but to wait for an opportunity as the head of the Business Section of the Investment Promotion Office. However, his abilities were limited and his performance was far inferior to other people in the core.
Recently, Meng Weijie has become somewhat prominent. Bruce Lee secretly inquired and found out that Meng Weijie had contacted three Korean guests and was interested in investing in a factory in the island city.
"Korean? What kind of factory do you want to set up and how much is the investment?" Sun Dahai asked.
The current island city is basically unable to recruit real large Korean companies. Because China and South Korea have not yet established diplomatic relations, any large company must first weigh the political risks when investing in building a factory and will not easily enter a country without diplomatic relations.
Sun Dahai has no favorable impressions of Korean companies in the mainland. They take advantage of the mainland's low labor costs and mostly focus on some low-end labor-intensive industries.
In Korean domestic enterprises, the power of labor unions is abnormally strong, and bosses do not dare to offend the labor unions.
When we arrived on the mainland, there were no such restrictions, so Korean bosses went even further to squeeze workers, paying only meager wages while arbitrarily increasing labor hours and intensity.
Most of the earliest batch of self-employed people in South Korea were those who had not been successful in their development in South Korea. They came to the mainland and took advantage of the policy to apply for low-interest loans and almost free use of land to open factories.
When the policy incentives expire, which is also known as the "three exemptions and two reductions", many of them will close their factories and continue to enjoy the policy dividends in other places.
So when Sun Dahai heard that Koreans were coming to open a factory, he naturally wanted to ask his uncle.
You know, if a large number of Koreans were recruited to open factories here during Bruce Lee's tenure, and when the government wanted to collect taxes in a few years, they would take the money and withdraw, even if Bruce Lee no longer worked here, it would become a stain on him.
"Their investment is not very high. I heard that they are going to build a toy factory and two clothing factories." Bruce Lee replied.