Reborn in 1976, teach him how to be an official

"Even now, the county finances still owe 500,000 to 600,000 yuan in foreign debt."

“Investment in education is far from enough.”

“Not to mention education in the mountainous areas.”

"You all know that I've always attached great importance to education. After Chuzhou's fiscal revenue increased, I suggested to my father that we build new schools throughout the region... In Zhuang'an, I can't wait that long."

"If we wait until Zhuang'an's economy develops and becomes financially self-sufficient before increasing investment in education, it will take at least two or three years, and then the opportunity will be gone."

"So, I plan to launch a donation project to draw the attention of the entire society to the education issues in impoverished mountainous areas. Um... actually, the most important thing is that I want overseas Chinese to donate to our education."

"At this stage, as we implement reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese still don't fully understand our policies and have concerns. However, many of them actually miss their homeland and want to contribute to its development and growth."

"So, I decided to give them a chance to serve the country."

"Purely donating money to run a school is different from investing in a factory. It doesn't involve too many policy issues, so they will have much fewer concerns. It can also be considered a way to test the waters."

"I believe that as long as we do a good job of publicity, this charitable project of donating money to run schools should be able to be accomplished."

"I've even thought of a name for this project..."

Do you need to ask?

You must have thought it through!

It must be called "Project Hope"!

Despite being fully prepared mentally, the poverty in the Zhuang'an mountainous area still shocked Xin Yuanjia and Xu Wenxin, the educated youth who had gone to the countryside to work.

Liu Hongyi did not go on an incognito visit. On the one hand, it was completely unnecessary, and on the other hand, it was also for their own safety.

Before the mid-90s, there had been no large-scale, coordinated effort to confiscate firearms from civilians. This was especially true in border provinces like Zhennan, currently a war zone, where the scale of private gun possession was significant.

No matter where the mountains are, the people there are relatively tough.

So when Secretary Liu went to the countryside this time, the county party committee first sent a notice to Qingqiao District, asking them to prepare for his reception. They also sent notices to the two neighboring districts of Qingqiao, saying that Secretary Liu might visit them and asking them to be prepared.

To ensure their safety, Wei Yinghong, Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission and Director of the Public Security Bureau, personally brought a car and several fully armed public security personnel to accompany the inspection.

Also serves as a translator.

Although Secretary Liu has a high talent for languages, he has not yet completely learned the Zhuang'an dialect after four months in Zhuang'an. He has no problem listening, but he is still a little short of speaking.

Communication is a two-way process. It won’t work if Secretary Liu only understands what the members mean, but the members don’t understand Secretary Liu’s instructions.

We arrived in Qingqiao District in the evening and conducted an inspection at the Qingqiao Town Joint School the next morning.

The situation is not bad.

After all, it is a joint school in the town, and its conditions are considered the best schools within the surrounding thousands of square kilometers.

Although the children generally wore old clothes and some of them even had patches on their clothes, at least their faces looked healthy, without the pale look that could be seen on most people's faces a few years ago.

However, the school buildings, offices, playground facilities, etc. are still very old.

One of the two basketball hoops on the court had been broken. The teachers and students of the joint school had creatively surrounded the hoops with red bricks, "planting" the top half of the hoops directly inside the bricks, barely keeping it usable.

Accompanied by Chen Jiefang, Secretary of the Qingqiao District Party Committee, Liu Hongyi and others had in-depth exchanges with the leaders, teachers and students of the affiliated schools, learned about the specific situation, and took many photos.

Xin Yuanjia, Xu Wenxin, Ai Xiaoyu and others discovered that Liu Hongyi was particularly "fond of" little girls with big eyes and round faces, and he always "posed for photos" of these children himself.