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Qin Feng looked at Yang Yuxin, not quite understanding the meaning behind her words, or whether it was just the literal meaning.

"Then let's do it after the New Year. From now until the New Year, I really won't have any time," Qin Feng said.

"I heard that the mayor can't go home for the Spring Festival and has to be on duty, is that right?" Yang Yuxin asked with a smile.

"Who told you that? Isn't the mayor human? Doesn't the mayor go home for the New Year?" Qin Feng laughed, then continued, "It's a shift system. Members of the municipal government take turns on duty. I'm the mayor, so it's highly unlikely that I'll be on duty on New Year's Day. Usually, comrades whose homes are in the area will be arranged to be on duty."

"Oh... I was so happy for nothing. I thought I could spend the New Year with you before I left." Yang Yuxin looked disappointed.

Qin Feng looked at Yang Yuxin, paused for a moment, and then said, "However, in actual work, during core festive periods such as the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve, unexpected emergencies are very likely to occur. Therefore, the top leaders of the Party and government usually take the initiative to stay on duty. No one dares to leave at this time. If something happens and the person is not at the work site, no one can bear the responsibility."

Yang Yuxin's eyes lit up, and she asked, "You mean you're not leaving for the New Year?"

"I probably won't leave, and I wouldn't dare to leave, especially in a place like Shazhou. I won't leave during the Spring Festival. I'll most likely go home on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

"Then... let's spend the New Year together? Let's save that meal for New Year's Eve dinner?" Yang Yuxin immediately became happy.

Qin Feng remained noncommittal, but seeing Yang Yuxin's happy expression and considering that she was about to go abroad, he couldn't bear to refuse her. In the end, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's have New Year's Eve dinner together."

Qin Feng opened the door and prepared to go inside.

"There's something else," Yang Yuxin called out to Qin Feng.

"what's up?"

Yang Guoqiang asked me to ask you, what exactly do you want to do?

"What do you want to do?" Qin Feng asked back.

"There are police all around the Yang family's old house. They recently shut down several of their illegal businesses."

"Tell him not to get involved in anything related to the Public Security Bureau, and definitely not to get involved. That's my red line," Qin Feng said bluntly to Yang Yuxin.

"Understood, I will tell him everything verbatim. Goodnight."

"Good night……"

Qin Feng attended various meetings for the next two days. As the year draws to a close, there are countless meetings of all kinds, and these meetings are very important, requiring his personal attendance as mayor.

There are many other tasks ahead of him, such as several inspections. As mayor, he must complete some on-site inspections before the end of the year, and then he also needs to do stability maintenance work during the two holidays, and so on.

On the third day, Qin Feng came to the Municipal Party Committee again to attend the first meeting of the Municipal Party Committee's Finance and Economics Committee in the new year.

This meeting is very important. It serves as the core decision-making platform for the municipal party committee to lead the city's economic and financial work, and is chaired by the municipal party secretary to comprehensively coordinate the city's financial and economic work.

To put it bluntly, this is an important platform for the municipal party committee to control financial and economic work.

Everyone knows that the municipal party committee decides on the official hats (staff positions), while the municipal government controls the purse strings (money). This is the meeting where the municipal party committee can interfere with the money.

Jiang Longjun is the director of the Municipal Party Committee's Finance and Economics Commission, Qin Feng is the deputy director, and other members include Tang Zeyan, Feng Changjun, and heads of departments such as the Development and Reform Commission and the Finance Commission.

It's clear from the membership list that Qin Feng, not Jiang Longjun, actually holds the dominant position in this area, even though Jiang Longjun is nominally the director.

Even if Jiang Longjun were in a dominant position, it would be difficult for him to suppress Qin Feng in financial matters. The mayor is in charge of money, as stipulated by law. Whether it goes through the review of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee or is coordinated by the Municipal Party Committee Finance Committee, it cannot bypass Mayor Qin Feng.

Jiang Longjun was the last to enter as usual. After entering, he plopped down in his seat and, as usual, said, "Alright, let's begin the meeting."

After saying this, Jiang Longjun didn't immediately get to the meeting; instead, he first drank tea.

Everyone had to wait and watch as he finished his tea before they could officially get to the main topic.

Today's municipal party committee finance meeting is to review the government's fiscal plan for the new year, mainly focusing on funding arrangements. This plan was drafted by the municipal government and is being reviewed at today's meeting.

At the start of the meeting, Feng Changjun first reported on the financial plan prepared by the municipal government.

After Feng Changjun finished making the plan, Jiang Longjun's face darkened, and he didn't look very good.

"The investment and construction quota allocated to Nanshan New Area is only 30 million?" Jiang Longjun turned to look at Qin Feng directly. He knew that Feng Changjun was just a puppet in Qin Feng's hands, so he stared at Qin Feng and asked.

"Is your municipal government joking about this plan? What can you do with 30 million yuan in Nanshan New Area? You can't even build a road."

"Feng Changjun, tell me, who came up with this plan? And what does this 30 million mean?" Jiang Longjun directed his anger at Feng Changjun, but in reality, he was targeting Qin Feng.

Jiang Longjun was naturally angry. Everyone knew that the Nanshan New Area was a plan he proposed and his "precious treasure." Over the years, the city had focused all its construction and investment efforts on the Nanshan New Area, investing a large amount of money, all of which came from the government budget and much of it was debt.

“Secretary Jiang, to be honest, I also think that 30 million is not even a drop in the ocean for Nanshan New Area. At most, it is just a drop in the ocean. Although Nanshan New Area has been under construction for several years, if we want to complete it according to plan, the government will have to invest at least 3 to 5 billion yuan more. This is pure government investment.”

"According to the original plan, the budget was supposed to allocate 1 billion yuan to Nanshan New Area this year," Qin Feng said, not letting Feng Changjun face the pressure from Jiang Longjun.

"Then why has it become 30 million now?" Jiang Longjun stared at Qin Feng.

Although it is a deliberation, the actual amount of various expenditures each year has already been planned and arranged.

"Because some money can no longer be owed, otherwise there will be big problems if it is delayed any longer."

"First, there's the education aspect. The teachers' subsidies have been in arrears for a year and a half. You know about the previous petitions, Secretary..."

"Then there's healthcare. Here's a summary of the situation at these hospitals. You can take a look. The money the city promised to allocate to these hospitals over the past few years has been outstanding. Currently, these hospitals not only owe doctors' salaries but also electricity and internet fees, etc. They've reached the point where they can't operate normally. If this money isn't paid to them soon, something terrible will happen..."

"Furthermore, there's the issue of people's livelihood..."

Qin Feng didn't bring any documents; he verbally listed out the new expenditures for this year to Jiang Longjun, which were not included in the previous plan.

"So, the 1 billion yuan originally allocated to Nanshan New Area has all been allocated to these places?" Jiang Longjun asked Qin Feng with a dark face.