Chapter 94: Building Bridges and Paving Roads

Chapter 94: Building Bridges and Paving Roads

As the anti-corruption storm gradually faded, Qi Tongwei focused his work on economic development.

Almost half of the leadership team of Shuanghe Town Government have been punished, which makes them more serious in their work, and the tasks assigned by Qi Tongwei can be implemented quickly.

At the same time, after more than ten days of travel, Qi Tongwei also visited all the villages and groups and had a general understanding of the problems in Shuanghe.

It can be said that the reason for Shuanghe Town’s economic backwardness is not only the limitation of natural conditions, but more of man-made factors.

Much of the funds allocated by higher authorities were wasted by corruption and corruption by Wang Maocai and others. In the end, the funds actually used for the projects were probably less than 30%. It is no wonder that the economy could not develop.

After several days of thinking, Qi Tongwei decided to follow Li Dakang's example and build roads.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This is not just talk. Without good transportation, even if you have the best products, they will be useless if they cannot be transported.

The river channel in Shuanghe Town is so deep that what is most lacking is bridges. In some places, the straight-line distance is only a few dozen meters, but one has to take a detour of several kilometers.

If you want to completely solve the traffic problem in Shuanghe Town, you will not be able to do it without tens of millions of dollars.

Currently, the government account has a total of more than 500 million yuan, including funds returned for corruption, which is a huge difference.

Qi Tongwei thought about it for a few days and finally decided to proceed in batches to solve the problem of vehicle access first.

First of all, the rural roads between villages and governments are all paved with gravel, and the funds are mainly used to build bridges.

We have applied to the County Transportation Bureau for repairs on the highway from the township government to Dabeihu County. As for the asphalt road, we can only wait for the economy to develop.

If you want to do it, just do it, but you still have to choose good people before doing it. After this round of rectification, government officials can basically be used with confidence.

The one who is dissatisfied now is the village chief. After this round of investigation and understanding, he only likes 21 out of the 13 village groups, and the remaining 8 are either greedy or incompetent.

Qi Tongwei knew that if he wanted to get things done, he must first hire the right people.

Using the right people can achieve twice the result with half the effort, but using the wrong people will lead to waste of all efforts. For Qi Tongwei, if he wants to succeed, these eight village heads must be replaced.

At the same time, in order to prevent these people from obstructing the construction of the project, Qi Tongwei set up a special reporting mailbox. In order to gain the trust of the masses, he arranged for Zhang Jingrui to bring police officers from the police station into the village to publicize.

To be honest, the villagers have long been dissatisfied with these village tyrants. Before, they were protected by Wang Maocai and others, and they had no way to report them. Now that they heard that Qi Tongwei was going to deal with them, they all came to complain.

The most important thing is that Qi Tongwei’s anti-corruption work has won their trust.

Following the villagers’ correction, the eight village heads were quickly dealt with by the police station. Some who needed to be detained were detained, while others who needed to be prosecuted were prosecuted.

After dealing with the dirt, Qi Tongwei dispatched a village cadre to each of the eight villages.

They are required to elect a qualified village chief, preferably veterans, retired private teachers, etc., and before the election, they will be responsible for handling village affairs.

After the personnel are in place, it is time to plan the work.

The roads in Shuanghe Town are complex and must be designed by professionals. Qi Tongwei specially found his schoolmate Liu Yiyang, who works at the Yantai Municipal Transportation Bureau.

"Tongwei, wouldn't this be too wasteful?" Liu Yiyang asked hesitantly after hearing Qi Tongwei design it according to four lanes.

"Senior, I don't think so. Judging from the current development, two lanes or even one lane is enough, but we have to look at the problem from the perspective of development.

Since the reform and opening up, my country's economy has developed rapidly. Our Handong has a superior geographical location and the development speed will be even faster. The four-lane road will be in use soon.

Of course, I am not saying that we should build four lanes this time, that is not realistic, I mean to build a one-lane gravel road now, but leave room for widening." Qi Tongwei explained.

"Tongwei, you are looking at the problem from a developmental perspective. Few people do this." Liu Yiyang said admiringly.

Qi Tongwei smiled and said nothing. It was not that everyone didn't think of it, but that everyone didn't want to take responsibility.

"Senior, the design of roads and bridges is now left to you. I still have important work to do. I will ask our NPC chairman to accompany you to measure and design. What do you think?" Qi Tongwei said.

"Row."

Qi Tongwei arranged Xu Bin to follow Liu Yiyang to design the road, while he himself focused on the enterprise.

There are only two township enterprises in Shuanghe Town, one is a tea factory and the other is a fruit canning factory.

Due to a series of reasons including roads and the quality of managers, the two companies are half-dead and cannot even pay their workers’ wages. Not only can they not pay taxes and profits, they also need government funding.

To be honest, Qi Tongwei has tasted tea and canned food, and the taste is actually not bad, no worse than those big brand products. It’s just that the business operators don’t know how to manage and don’t understand marketing.

Although Qi Tongwei has memories of his past life, he has never managed a business and does not know how to develop a business. But he is not useless. Combining the economics he has learned now, he can explain some reasons.

I also know that if I want my business to develop, I must choose a good leader.

After talking with the original management, Qi Tongwei directly transferred the two people back to the government, removed them from their positions as factory directors, and publicly issued a competition notice.

To this end, he promised that as long as the enterprise developed, 10% of the profits would be used to distribute dividends to workers, of which 3% would belong to the factory director.

After the announcement was made, many people were interested and, after competition, the jobs were eventually won by workers from both factories.

This gave Qi Tongwei a deeper understanding of the abilities and qualities of the cadres, and it seems that their training needs to be strengthened.

While Qi Tongwei was busy with his business, Liu Yi Yang also completed the design. Qi Tongwei took the design to see Secretary Zhou and County Magistrate Li, and received limited support from the two.

That is the section of road from Dabeihu County to Shuanghe Town, which is funded and maintained by the Dabeihu County government. The rest of the roads can only be repaired by Shuanghe Town itself.

Qi Tongwei did not have much objection to the limited support of the two people. He knew the situation in Dabeihu County and it was already good enough to be able to help repair this section of road.

Afterwards, Qi Tongwei first presided over the Party Committee meeting, formulated a road construction plan, and appointed Xu Bin as deputy team leader to be in charge of daily affairs.

After all preparations were ready, Qi Tongwei convened a mobilization meeting.

At the mobilization meeting, he gave a speech to boost everyone's morale.

“Comrades, I have been in office for nearly a month without realizing it, and I have gained a preliminary understanding of Shuanghe Town.

Shuanghe Town's economy has been in the worst shape year after year, due to the inaction and misconduct of corrupt elements such as Li Youjun and Wang Maocai, as well as the influence of its own natural conditions and traffic conditions.

It can be said that Shuanghe’s biggest problem is transportation. I counted carefully and found that there are 38 sections in the area that require detours due to lack of bridges. That is to say, we need to build at least 38 bridges.

There are three brigades where vehicles cannot enter due to road problems, and there are countless natural villages. As a result, some cash crops in our village can only rot in the fields and have little value.

Therefore, if we want to change the backward appearance of Shuanghe, the most urgent thing at present is to build roads. I hope all Shuanghe people will take action.

The villagers don’t need to pay a penny for the road construction this time, but they need to contribute their efforts, that is, the government will pay and the people will contribute their efforts. ” Qi Tongwei said to everyone.

Upon hearing that they could build bridges and roads in the village without the people having to pay for them, the village heads were all very excited and said they would organize the villagers to actively participate in the road construction.

After the mobilization meeting, the project started immediately.