At the end of the year, the Provincial Planning Commission and the Xizhou Municipal People's Government jointly organized the Northwest·Xizhou New Products and Premium Exhibition in Xizhou. Because it had participated in the preparations for three Xixi trade fairs, the organizing committee specially invited Liufang Industrial Group to participate in the preparations for the fair. The group company chose the best booth to participate in the exhibition on a first-come-first-served basis. This exhibition brings together more than 3,000 varieties of famous and high-quality products in 16 categories from 160 industrial and commercial enterprises in Northwest Province, including Liufang Industrial Group. Linlang's satisfying high-quality specialties provide a joy and New Year's gift to the citizens of Xizhou who are preparing to celebrate the New Year's Day in 1992.
When Yang Liufang was listening to Wang Shan and Yanhua reporting on the sales results of this exhibition at the supply and marketing cooperative, the provincial supply and marketing cooperative office called. When the other party heard that it was Yang Liufang, he said: "Mr. Yang, that's just right. No need." I asked Yanhua and the others to convey it, and President Li asked you to come to the club tomorrow with President Chengbei to study the spirit of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. You must attend the meeting, and supply and marketing system personnel are not allowed to ask for leave."
"Director Wang, can I ask about something?"
"It is the document "Decision on Further Strengthening Agriculture and Rural Work" that was conveyed. It contains requirements for many functional changes in the future reform of our supply and marketing system."
"Okay, thank you, Director Wang."
After Yang Liufang hung up the phone, he continued to listen to their report on sales results. Since it was an exhibition for the northwest province, they only exhibited office and civilian products such as office furniture and Simmons. Other merchants in the supply and marketing cooperative stores also participate in the exhibition, but they cannot be included in their turnover. Yang Liufang saw that except for VCD sales, which were still booming, there were no big surprises in other products, so he listened absentmindedly.
Looking at the clock, it was almost four o'clock, so he left the supply and marketing cooperative and went to the provincial station to pick up Beifeng from get off work. She has been quite busy recently. In addition to reporting on trade fairs, she also has to complete her studies. It turned out that with Liu Xia's help, Northwest Feng got an MBA from Zhejiang University. She studied every day and would have to go to Hangzhou to take the school's final exam after a while.
Yang Liufang also couldn't figure out what MBA was. Northwest Feng told him that it was an education model from the United States. When Yang Liufang said he was from the United States, he thought he played basketball. He said that even though you are 16cm tall, you are not at an advantage in basketball. After hearing this, Northwest Feng laughed so much that she lay on top of him and couldn't get up.
"You look like a coward, MBA is a working graduate student."
"You're just studying as a graduate student while working?" Yang Liufang understood and deliberately made trouble.
"Roughly the same."
"Then let's study how to give birth first." He said, holding Xifeng on the bed, and kissed him...
Because he had to have a meeting the next day, he sent Beifeng off to the provincial station early, and the two of them agreed that if she got off work and he hadn't finished the meeting, Beifeng would read in the lounge of the provincial station and review for the MBA exam, etc. Yang Liufang came to pick her up.
When Yang Liufang arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, the attendees had not yet arrived. He gave Director Wang of the office a cigarette to get close to him in the name of thanking him for informing him. Director Wang actually gave him a copy of the meeting materials in advance and asked him to take a look first. Yang Liufang took it and sat on the sofa in Director Wang's office, flipping through the "Decision on Further Strengthening Agriculture and Rural Work."
He skimmed over the other parts, but the part about supply and marketing cooperatives was in the section on stabilizing and improving the party's basic policies in rural areas and continuing to deepen rural reforms. He specifically pointed out: supply and marketing cooperatives and state-owned foreign trade commerce. It is the main channel for rural commodity circulation. It is necessary to speed up the pace of reform and enhance business vitality. The service system formed voluntarily by supply and marketing cooperatives, credit cooperatives, various agricultural product distribution and processing enterprises and farmers is an important part of the agricultural socialization service system. Supply and marketing cooperatives are cooperative commercial organizations owned collectively by farmers and must truly form a community of economic interests with farmers.
Yang Liufang has developed a habit of reading the People's Daily for a long time. He can always find the key points of the documents transmitted by the central government immediately. For example, in this part of the decision, there are the following keywords: "rural commodity circulation", "Accelerate the pace of reform", "enhance business vitality", "collective ownership" and "form a community of interests with farmers". This also means that all other business scopes of supply and marketing cooperatives that do not meet the above content may need to deepen reforms, and the agricultural-related parts must be developed more intensively.
At the meeting, Yang Liufang communicated his views with the heads and actual controllers of various supply and marketing cooperatives in the province, and gained everyone's approval. It was decided at the meeting that each supply and marketing cooperative should fully respond to the spirit of the document, speed up the establishment of a separate agricultural and sideline products sales center in the cooperative, and provide corresponding venues. As for Chengbei Club, because Liufang Industrial Group has rented all the premises except the warehouse and one and a half retail stores, and the lease period is three years, it can only free up the one and a half retail stores to carry out Construction of agricultural and sideline products sales center. This decision will not be implemented until later this year.
The meeting lasted a whole day, but the food in the headquarters cafeteria was still unpalatable. Yang Liufang ate a chicken drumstick at noon, and his stomach was already growling with hunger. As soon as the meeting ended, he got into his car and went to Provincial Taiwan. When he arrived at Provincial Taiwan, he picked up Beifeng and asked her to take him to the Provincial Taiwan canteen for dinner. He said that the food in the canteen of the General Supply and Marketing Cooperative was not delicious and he did not eat at noon. In the cafeteria, Beifeng watched her beloved wolfing down his food with great care. She would pass him napkins from time to time, which made her colleagues at the table envious.
Just three days after New Year's Day, there was a heavy snowfall in Xizhou City. Just in time for Sunday, people wake up from their sleep to enjoy the beautiful scene of thousands of pear trees in bloom. Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest, and everyone hopes that the first snow in 1992 will bring hope of a good harvest. Yang Liufang is still living in the suite where he has lived for a long time in the Wolong Mountain Hotel. Although he and Xibei Feng have been married for a year, after all, the two have not obtained a marriage certificate yet. They live in Xibei Feng's home. In this inland city of northwest China, people It's always not a good idea. Although Xi's father and Xi's mother didn't tell him because of their feelings, he and Beifeng couldn't be ignorant. At the same time, it is convenient for Yang Liufang to work here. He can get all kinds of news through the hotel, the "small political center" of Xizhou. It is also very convenient to go to industrial and trade companies, supply and marketing cooperatives, and leather factories. It is close to the furniture factory. It’s only a 40-kilometer journey. No matter where there is something that needs to be dealt with, even if the phone call cannot solve it, he can get there quickly by driving.
At this moment, he and Northwest Feng were lying on the window sill side by side in their pajamas, looking at the snowy scene outside the window. With childlike innocence, he went to the window glass to draw a "heart" shape, the other person's name, and write "I love you". While we were having a great time, the big brother rang. We saw that it was the supply and marketing cooperative's phone number. After receiving the call, there was the urgent and slightly excited voice of Lao Chen.
"Mr. Yang, something happened in the market!"
"Market? Which market?"
"Hey, it's the wholesale market!"
"What's wrong?"
Lao Chen gave Yang Liufang a detailed report on what happened at the wholesale market on the phone. It turned out that after a night of snow, because the wholesale market had indoor heating and the newly replaced roof was not insulated well, the snow continued to melt and slowly penetrated into the sponge interlayer inside the colored steel tiles on the roof. As the amount of water increased, More and more of them fell through the seams into the stalls of merchants, and the goods in the stalls suffered a lot. Many of them were soaked by the falling snow. Some merchants who had arrived earlier gave up and went to the market office to ask for explanations. Some of the merchants selling paper and quilts simply threw their wet goods directly on the floor and desks of the market management office. As the number of merchants in the market increased, more and more damaged goods were found. The office was quickly filled up, and wet merchandise was thrown into the office by merchants. The staff ran out holding their heads and had to endure the questioning and abuse from the merchants.
"Who the hell did they replace the roof? It hadn't been like this for so many years before the roof was replaced. The new one only lasted ten days and we suffered such a huge loss."
"Compensate!"
"Compensate!"
"Are your management staff corrupt?" The Xizhou Wholesale Market is under the management of the Provincial Federation of Supply and Marketing. In addition to the Supply and Marketing Corporation providing part of the funds, the merchants have to chip in the rest. Everyone was originally full of resentment, but this time it was finally Found an outlet to vent.
"Let's go to the General Supply and Marketing Cooperative to find their leader."
More than 1,000 merchants in the market gathered together in a chaotic mess, with some leaders shouting and walking towards the street. The market management staff were busy shouting to stop it, but the crowd did not listen to him at all. They were pushing and shoving, and several managers could not stop it at all. Seeing that the situation was not good, the manager Energy immediately reported it to President Li of the Supply and Marketing Corporation. President Li hadn't gotten up at that time. When he heard that the merchants were going to the streets, he hurriedly put on his shorts and crawled out of bed. He first called the Municipal Safety and Stability Emergency Management Office, which was staffed 24 hours a day. After understanding the situation, the Security Office immediately organized manpower to rush to the market and sent all police officers from the nearest station police station to stop merchants from taking to the streets and wait for city leaders to come forward to solve the problem. Subsequently, officers and soldiers from the Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Provincial Armed Police Fire Corps also arrived at the scene to calm the emotions of the merchants.
President Li left home after washing up. Regardless of the difficulty of walking in the heavy snow, he asked the driver to take him to the city for a meeting. Vice Mayor Yu personally presided over the meeting in the municipal government conference room. There were two phones at the meeting, one connected to the on-site phone of the Armed Police Fire Brigade and the other to the market management office. The person in charge of the fire brigade and the public security bureau clearly reported the cause of the accident on the phone. There was a problem with the roof construction of the market. The heat insulation of the material does not meet the standards, the flame retardancy does not meet the standards, and the joints are not waterproofed during installation. And in order to cut corners, many places were spliced with leftover materials, which caused the water leakage.
The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely dull. As the person directly in charge, President Li needed to give an explanation, but he was very calm at the moment because the bidding process for this project complied with the procedures stipulated by the province, and the construction unit and supervision unit were both enterprises under the direct control of the province. . The most important thing is that during the construction process, they had reported the unqualified materials to the supervision unit, but the supervision unit and the construction unit did not care about their report and did not make rectifications. In addition, the city leaders said hello that the wholesale market was in the west. The wholesale markets in prefectures and cities do not belong to any one individual in the supply and marketing cooperatives. Let the supply and marketing cooperatives worry less and just take over and manage the market.
