Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 708 Secretary Qi at Work

Qi Tongwei waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

“The Ministry of Water Resources and the Maritime Safety Administration should be prepared for the reception and see if they are the same people who handled the matter two years ago. As long as they are still the same people, there shouldn’t be any problem.

If there are any changes, please report to me at any time.

Don't worry about Handong. If they fail to seize the opportunity, it will be their own loss.

Tell him directly that if they drag their feet according to the schedule, we will carry out the second phase of the project ourselves, and they will handle the cross-sea bridge themselves. We will not be responsible for the additional costs.

It is not that easy to use connections. Our colleagues in the Beijing Office spent so much effort to get the approval of a few handlers and leaders in charge. Now they are dreaming about using our connections just to get their mouths shut.

When our Phase II plan was first reported, their cross-sea bridge was not included. They were asking for trouble.

I won't see them anymore, just fool around with them."

After listening to Qi Tongwei's instructions, Ye Biao understood what to do next and immediately set out to direct his subordinates to do their work.

Since it is a port, there will naturally be a port group, which has not been fully established yet. Only a deputy district chief has been sent to serve as the general manager of the port company. The chairman is called Qi Tongwei.

Qi Tongwei has been doing the part-time job himself for the past two years. He will hand over the job to professional cadres once the work here is on track. Qi Tongwei now has too many part-time jobs and sometimes he is simply too busy to handle it all.

Qi Tongwei took a car to the current office location of the port company. There was no decent building yet, just a row of containers installed on a flat ground. On another piece of land, related office buildings and other related buildings were being built, and pile drivers were making continuous noises.

"Director Wang, how long will it take to complete the renovation of the office building and other ancillary buildings?"

The deputy district mayor's name is Wang Dapeng. He is a talent selected by Qi Tongwei himself. He is very efficient in his work. He is a young cadre in his thirties. In the city of Jiangzhou, there are quite a few young cadres at the department level, and each of them is highly educated.

Unlike provinces like Handong, where the cadre team is relatively closed and mainly composed of locals, and seniority is a serious problem, the middle-level department-level cadres in Jiangzhou City are mainly highly educated, highly capable, and have registered residences from all over the country.

The container office was relatively low, and the ground made a crackling sound when walking. Wang Dapeng walked fast. After listening to Qi Tongwei's instructions, he did not greet the secretary. He just jogged a few steps, opened the safe, quickly took out a document, and handed it to Qi Tongwei.

"Ah? You can just state this progress directly, why do you need a document?"

Qi Tongwei flipped through it and saw the content. In addition to the progress reports of these buildings, there were other things.

"You are changing the renovation contractor again. Are you also changing the builders of the supporting buildings over there? What's the reason?"

Wang Dapeng nodded repeatedly and then explained the reason.

“I am very dissatisfied with the decoration effect of the first building by the decoration contractor. They basically cannot achieve the effect you proposed last time.

Moreover, they ignored our requests for rectification, thinking that they had a strong background. So I hope to replace the decoration contractor first, so that we can still do it according to our own requirements for the remaining three buildings.

They have already built one, and they just slightly modified it to do other things.”

Qi Tongwei thought about it. The decoration contractor was a state-owned enterprise, and he had connections with a leader in a certain ministry who was in charge of approvals. Anyway, there were also people in the municipal party committee who interceded for him. Qi Tongwei was only a deputy at the time, and since Sun Qi had signed the document, Qi Tongwei was too lazy to interfere.

However, in order to ensure the decoration effect he required, Qi Tongwei planned to support this matter. Moreover, the replacement of the decoration contractor could be decided by the Management Committee of the Free Trade Zone, which meant that he could make the final decision. As for the relationship behind it, it didn't matter and he could handle it.

"Okay, I agree to this."

Qi Tongwei pulled over a chair and sat down, took the pen from his secretary Lu Qiang, and the chair made a harsh sound as it was pulled against the bottom of the container, and he signed his consent directly.

"Chairman, don't we need to hold a meeting?"

Normally, a meeting should be held to pass it, but Qi Tongwei is now omnipotent and holds an important position, so these procedures can be handled simply.

"It's okay. There will be a meeting of the Party Working Committee of the Management Committee tomorrow. I can just bring it up at the meeting. We are all one family.

What about the other thing? "

Qi Tongwei was not so happy to agree to another thing, for a very simple reason. The construction company had a huge amount of work to do, involving a nine-digit sum. Although it was not the main project of the port, but only a supporting building such as an office building, it was also a large project and required approval from the Municipal Standing Committee. This was troublesome, and he still had to find out whether it was necessary. If it was indeed necessary, he would report and explain it to the secretary. Zhao Mengsheng still supported Qi Tongwei's work.

This influence comes from the positive role played by Qi Tongwei in the construction of the first phase of the main project, which cost tens of figures. This made Secretary Zhao Mengsheng, who had been keeping an eye on the project construction last year, quite trustful of Qi Tongwei's suggestions. Now the construction of the first phase of the port has been basically completed, and it is just waiting for the official announcement of the opening of the port after the leadership's inspection.

At this time, the two were discussing the construction of some office buildings and other ancillary buildings in the corners. In the overall project, it is the corners that make the decisions, and the main body of the decision falls on the management committee.

"A few days ago, I took people to see the supporting building they built. They did not follow the drawings in the construction, reduced the planning function of the building, and used shoddy materials.

I have the evidence, it’s on the last two pages of this document.”

Qi Tongwei scratched his head, realizing that this was a bad habit of government agencies, which was to start well but end badly.

This unit had a 4 to 5 percent share in the main construction project. At that time, they were very dedicated and built very quickly. The quality was also able to pass the inspection of the quality supervision team sent by the higher authorities. However, as soon as the main construction was completed, even the attention of the municipal party committee leaders began to shift, and they immediately started to make problems with the small projects in the corners.

"Then, give me a copy of the evidence and I'll take it to the secretary to show it to him, so that other leaders won't say anything pleading or saying that they will change it.

Since you have already brought people in to check, they are not fools. The leaders of their state-owned enterprises will also find someone to intercede. If something is to be done, it must be done thoroughly. There is no need for me to remind you how important this project is.

Don’t say that these are just buildings in the corners, they are also part of our world’s number one port.

There must be no flaws. We would rather offend these state-owned enterprises. As long as the word gets out, there will be many state-owned enterprises that will undertake these marginal projects."