All the stories start when Hua Nianping returned to Beijing from aid to Xinjiang a year ago.
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That day was Tuesday, just in time for Christmas, and it was only a few days before the arrival of the year 2010. Hua Nianping came back from the border and was waiting at home for the reassignment of work by the company headquarters, which was exactly one week.
The general office of the headquarters called Hua Nianping's home early in the morning and asked him to arrive at President Jiao's office before ten o'clock in the morning.
He found the dark gray scarf that he had worn for many years and went out immediately.
Two years ago, the headquarters had a quota for aid to Xinjiang. The development of tourism projects there required the assignment of a professional.
President Jiao personally interviewed Hua Nianping. Hua Nianping was the director of the Second Division of the Restructuring Department of the headquarters at the time, a position he had held for four years.
A supervisor in a department-level position like Hua Nianping is similar to a county-level official at the local level, but in a large company in the capital, there is no big difference from ordinary employees. Six or seven people are crowded together in an office.
, and even share a landline phone.
President Jiao mobilized Hua Nianping at that time, and after completing the Xinjiang aid project, he could be directly promoted to deputy director, implying that if he lost the opportunity, he would have to wait in line at the headquarters for at least ten years before he could get promoted to deputy director without any accidents.
At this level, Hua Nianping would already be in his forties by then.
The so-called accident is actually not an accident. It means that there are too many people and too few important positions. There are many people in the headquarters eagerly waiting for promotion, but they cannot be closed until they retire.
Hua Nianping was deeply aware of the CEO's hard work in cultivating him, and immediately expressed his obedience to the headquarters' dispatch without consulting his wife Wu Ningfang.
In Xinjiang, Hua Nianping was appointed as the deputy director of a department. He was dedicated and responsible for the research and development of tourism resource projects. He was very knowledgeable and well-received for local economic construction.
The end of his tenure will be at the end of the year 2009.
Hua Nianping lives in the faculty dormitory of the School of Economics at Peking University, located in Haidian District. Originally, he walked downstairs for 20 minutes, then took the Line 2 subway and walked two more stops. It took less than an hour to reach the headquarters office.
But Hua Nianping has been lame in his left leg since he was a child, so when he goes to work, he always chooses to transfer to the bus from the entrance of the college several times. Although it takes more time on the road, he has to walk much less distance.
Nowadays, young people are more interested in celebrating Christmas than in the New Year. However, the capital has been invaded by dust and haze these days, the visibility is very low, the air is dirty and cold. Therefore, the arrival of this Christmas is much worse than in previous years.
, the joyful expectations and mood have been greatly reduced.
Pedestrians on the road, no matter men, women, old or young, all wore scarves and masks from head to neck. Except for their two eyes left to see the road, they were all surrounded tightly. They were all dressed in strange Santa Claus costumes.
Hua Nianping lamented that just over a year after the 2008 Olympic Games, the air in Beijing has returned to the old dirty state many years ago. When the members of the National Olympic Committee voted, they certainly did not expect that the air quality today would be like this.
Unbearably depressed.
Passing by the General Assembly Hall, Hua Nianping saw that the front gate tower seemed to be hidden, and the slogan "Comprehensive Implementation of the Clean Air Action Plan" erected next to the monument opposite was looming, as if it was deliberately trying to make a joke.
During Hua Nianping's two years in the border area, he was surrounded by blue skies and a sense of peace and tranquility. He never expected that when he returned to the capital, it would immediately become dim and turbid, making him very unhappy.
He thought melancholy that the people in the capital would lose a lot of life if they breathed in this hazy air for a long time. In the past few years, there were rumors everywhere about "moving the capital". If this continues, there is no guarantee that one day the capital will no longer be the place that the people of the whole country yearn for.
Great Kyoto!
But when passing by Xinhua Gate, Hua Nianping felt that his worries were too unfounded, because after all, there was no way to escape the filthy day inside. There were high-level leaders and the citizens of the capital breathing together and sharing the same hardships. No one should complain.
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A few days ago, Hua Nianping received a deputy county magistrate from his hometown who came to the capital for treatment. Because his hair was sparse and almost zero, even though he was only in his thirties, people said he looked like a
Being too early past middle age is not conducive to career growth.
After leaving the train station, the deputy county magistrate saw all the pedestrians wearing masks, and nervously asked Hua Nianping: "Didn't you hear that SARS is in Beijing again?"
Hua Nianping replied: "It's not about SARS, it's about MH2." Then he explained the term MH2 for a long time.
The deputy county magistrate finally understood and said: "I thought it was because the car exhaust exceeded the standard."
Hua Nianping had no choice but to say: "It has something to do with it!"
The deputy county magistrate could not imagine that the air pollution in Beijing could be so serious. Xiang Hua Nianping joked that once the smog spreads all over the sky, the city will be full of sun, wind and clouds will roll in, and there will be no escape!
He also sincerely lamented: It is really difficult for the people of Kyoto!
Everyone knows how difficult it is to get medical treatment in Beijing.
Hua Nianping and the deputy county magistrate from his hometown stood in line in the cold wind for more than two hours. Finally, it was the turn of the hairless man to approach the waiting room. Unexpectedly, he glanced inside the door and left immediately.
Hua Nianping was puzzled and asked him what was going on?
The deputy county magistrate said that it seemed that his increasingly serious thinning hair could no longer be cured. Because the doctor he saw looked obviously much younger than him, or the haze was so severe that it blocked the hair follicles.
The hair on his head is even sparser than his.
Today is Hua Nianping’s second interview with President Jiao in this week.
The last time, he returned to the capital after finishing his work in the frontier and took the initiative to report at the headquarters. After waiting for more than two hours, President Jiao managed to squeeze out five minutes to meet and talk with him.
This time, the president specially arranged a time to meet with Hua Nianping, which made him excitedly predict that he must be in the company headquarters, and the position arrangement at the corresponding level had already been figured out.
Hua Nianping waited in the interview room for less than ten minutes before the secretary took him directly into the president's office.
When President Jiao saw Hua Nianping entering the room, he immediately took off his spectacles and stood up from his seat, handing over his hand from afar.
With a kind smile on his face, he kept saying: "Brother Nianping, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
President Jiao is an old man in his early sixties. He is already very friendly when called "Xiaohua" or "Nianping", but now he suddenly adds the word "brother", which Hua Nianping cannot bear.
He hurriedly dragged his left leg, which was not very agile, and stepped forward to greet him with both hands. He greeted in panic: "Hello, President! Hello, President!"
President Jiao pulled Hua Nianping and circled the table without letting go.
It wasn't until Hua Nianping was pushed into the sofa and sat down side by side that President Jiao reluctantly let him go, but he still kept saying, "Brother Nianping, I'm really sorry for you!"
Hua Nianping suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body, and he thought reflexively that President Jiao greeted him so politely and was so intimate two years ago.
That time, President Jiao led Hua Nianping around the table, and then sat side by side on the same sofa. After that, he completed the work handover and boarded a plane to the frontier within a few days.
Thinking of President Jiao saying "I'm sorry" again and again, Hua Nianping immediately had an ominous premonition.