It is said that this award is the first selection event jointly organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Administration of Radio and Television, and its prestige is extremely high!
Jiang Xiaoman and her group arrived a few days early to wait for the provincial leaders to arrive so they could go and receive the award together—they couldn't possibly arrive later than the leaders, could they? They had to come early to wait for the leaders and also to discuss the film and television base matter.
Hongye Entertainment genuinely intends to build a film and television base in Langshan and has no intention of taking the opportunity to build villas to sell. However, Luo Feifei cannot decide whether to introduce other shareholders, but she promised Jiang Xiaoman that she would try her best to persuade the company's senior management, even if they only hold a small number of shares, as long as they can attend the shareholders' meeting.
“If the company’s senior management knew that you had won this national award for outstanding individuals, it shouldn’t be a problem for them to invest in your company,” Luo Feifei said with a smile.
Isn't that right?
Seeing familiar faces suddenly appear on the national television station, not only the executives of Hongye Entertainment, but even Jiang Xiaoman's classmates were taken aback.
In a certain street under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital, Xiao Luo, a newly recruited civil servant, was eating in the canteen. Their street had good welfare benefits. Instead of a haphazard outsourcing, the canteen had a dedicated auntie to cook. Every day at noon, there were six dishes and a soup, with ten people per table. The canteen also had air conditioning and a TV, so that grassroots cadres could catch up on the day's midday news while eating lunch.
Luo Jingyi was gnawing on a duck wing when he suddenly saw Jiang Xiaoman's face flash by in the news, which startled him so much that he almost dropped the duck wing in his mouth.
Unfortunately, the midday news is broadcast live and cannot be paused.
After finishing his meal, Luo Jingyi hurriedly locked himself in the bathroom, turned on his phone, searched for the midday news, quickly scrolled to the news article, and sure enough, he found a screenshot of Jiang Xiaoman's silly face!
"So what if he got a national award? Look how excited this kid is, he's lost all control of his expression."
Watching Jiang Xiaoman walk off the stage with a silly grin on her face, almost clumsily, Luo Jingyi resolutely refused to admit that he was really envious... When will grassroots cadres like them ever get to appear on national television?
Not to mention receiving such a national-level award, that's a meteoric rise, it's incredibly prestigious!
What exactly did Jiang Xiaoman do to receive a national-level award?
The award citation described it as follows—
After graduating from university, he gave up the superior life in the big city and resolutely returned to his hometown where he was born and raised. Starting from scratch, he led his fellow villagers to raise native bees, pick wild tea, sell mountain products through live streaming, and opened the village's first express delivery station, building a bridge for this small mountain village deep in the mountains to communicate with the outside world!
He is a popular online influencer with millions of followers, yet in an era where traffic is king, he remains true to his original aspirations and never forgets the great cause of rural revitalization in his motherland. He leverages the power of the internet to vigorously promote local specialties and actively organizes the establishment of beekeeping cooperatives, tea cooperatives, and wild mushroom planting cooperatives. To date, he has helped more than 20,000 villagers in Langshan increase their family income and solved employment problems for thousands of local people.
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Listening to the enthusiastic introduction from the TV host, Luo Jingyi almost thought that she wasn't talking about his classmate at all.
When did Xiaoman, this slippery little mudfish, become so sophisticated?
Still "staying true to our original aspirations"?
Jiang Xiaoman's original intention as a money-grubber was simply to make money, and make a lot of money.
Back when freshmen entered university, all the sophomores went off to flirt with the freshmen girls, but Jiang Xiaoman diligently took advantage of the orientation to make money off the freshmen girls... No wonder she didn't have a single scandal during her four years of university!
Luo Jingyi suddenly realized that what netizens were saying might not be true. Getting close to men not only leads to unhappiness, but could also bankrupt you, for example, if you encounter a money-grubber like Jiang Xiaoman...
Jiang Xiaoman's roommates were a little dazed after seeing the news. When other classmates and teachers heard that Jiang Xiaoman had actually won a national award, the class group chat exploded. They were all tagging Jiang Xiaoman, wanting him to film the interior of a famous national-level Great Hall of the People.
Just then, the leader on stage was giving a speech, and Jiang Xiaoman managed to take a few photos of the venue and post them in the group chat. Unexpectedly, even his counselor came online and tagged Jiang Xiaoman, saying that the school already knew about his glorious deeds and was considering putting his photo in the "Honorary Alumni" display window...
Jiang Xiaoman was sweating profusely and felt a little guilty. He was just a businessman, and he never expected that he would be on the "Honorary Alumni Wall of Normal University" in his lifetime. If his father knew about this, he would definitely be moved to tears.
Sigh, he accidentally brought glory to his ancestors, and there was nothing he could do about it.
Unexpectedly, after leaving the venue, Sun Zheyuan, the harbinger of good news, sent him a message with two pieces of good news—
The first piece of good news: the county plans to hold a "Tour Exhibition of the Deeds of Advanced Individuals in Helping Rural Revitalization". Needless to say, Jiang Xiaoman has won a national award, so she will definitely be in the first row and first place, and she will also need to prepare a speech for the tour exhibition.
The second piece of good news: The county's intangible cultural heritage center just received a notification yesterday to organize a group of local specialty product brands to participate in an international trade fair in D province. Sun Zheyuan has already registered several of Langshan Village's "signature products" for him, and he can organize the participation as soon as he gets back.
This is to promote our Chinese specialties to the international market.
This news is much more important than the first one!
Jiang Xiaoman immediately said that the speech would be left to the talented Director Sun, and as for the international trade fair...
Such a difficult and arduous task should naturally be left to these hard-working folks!
How can we get leaders to endorse and promote our products?
Looking at Jiang Xiaoman's reply, Sun Zheyuan touched his somewhat weathered face and wondered if Jiang Xiaoman was questioning his ability to sell products.
Thinking of the two bureau chiefs who were particularly popular online, Sun Zheyuan's gaze involuntarily turned to the office of Deputy Mayor Kong.
Although his own appearance isn't exactly appealing, Deputy Mayor Kong actually looks remarkably like the male lead in early patriotic Chinese films—thick eyebrows, big eyes, regular features, and an air of righteousness. If he were dressed in uniform or period costume, wow…
In the office, Deputy Mayor Kong touched his nose and sneezed twice. Forgetting all about maintaining a leader's demeanor, he hurriedly put on the thick cotton-padded coat his wife had bought for him.
Winters in the mountains are colder than in the city, with biting winds. Down jackets and the like are no match for them. This heirloom cotton-padded coat is the most comfortable to wear!
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Upon returning from receiving the award in the capital, Jiang Xiaoman didn't even have time to go home before being warmly received by provincial leaders.
The leader highly praised Jiang Xiaoman for staying true to her original aspiration and giving up a comfortable city life after graduating from university to return to her hometown to help alleviate poverty. Jiang Xiaoman was so impressed that she blushed.
After the leaders finished their meeting, reporters from the provincial TV station were already waiting outside. A press van took Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan directly to the provincial TV station's live broadcast studio.
They couldn't possibly get an award interview from the national TV station, but if they couldn't snag the first appearance of Jiang Xiaoman and his group on provincial media after winning the award, they might as well quit this industry and go grow potatoes in the mountains with Jiang Xiaoman.
After leaving the provincial radio station, the two were robbed of their newspaper by the provincial newspaper staff who were waiting downstairs at the station...
After a round of interviews in the province, the intensive interviews finally came to an end. Before they could even catch their breath, the county sent a car to pick them up.
This time, Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan have truly returned home in glory.
What gorgeous clothes are more impressive than a national award certificate?
Even the top scorers in the college entrance examination in the same year as Jiang Xiaoman didn't receive this treatment! After returning to the county town, the Party Secretary and the County Head personally received them!
Jiang Xiaoman suspected that the secretary who wrote the drafts for the Party Secretary might have attended the same document writing training class as the Governor's secretary, and even the words used to praise him were exactly the same!
However, what excited him was that, unlike the verbal encouragement from the province, the county not only gave verbal commendations but also some tangible benefits.
For example, regarding the proposed relocation of Laoshan'aozi, the county leaders made it clear that the villagers of Laoshan'aozi had sacrificed their ancestral homes for the development of Langshan, and that they would be provided with new land after the relocation, including compensation for lost farmland and forest land contracted to individual households.
Jiang Xiaoman, a major contributor, receives even better treatment. I've heard that the agricultural cooperatives in Langshan Village are now operating from scattered offices, and Jiang Xiaoman's own studio, because he was short of money initially, only has a small plot of land. His place is frequently visited by the media; if it were too small, it would damage the county's reputation.
The Party Secretary immediately summoned the relevant leader from the Planning Bureau. The office map was readily available, and the group sat together, immediately staking out a plot of land near Langshan Village for Jiang Xiaoman and his group.
"Xiaoman, you have made tremendous contributions to the rural revitalization of Langshan. The county has seen all of this, and we will never let down any fellow villager who is willing to sacrifice and dedicate themselves to the development of their hometown! You know, could your cooperatives also reorganize their resources and, ideally, relocate together? We could build a rural revitalization industrial park on the new land!"
"As you know, cooperatives operating independently definitely don't have as many opportunities as industrial parks in terms of preferential policies and government subsidies. Moreover, industrial parks also receive government subsidies for utilities like water, electricity, and gas..."
Is there even a need to consider this?
Jiang Xiaoman nodded vigorously, and the county leaders smiled with satisfaction.
They admire young entrepreneurs like Jiang Xiaoman who dare to take risks and fight hard. Being young is great; they have strong fighting spirit and vitality, and they can cause more trouble than the old folks like them.
Besides, to be honest, even the county leaders were a little hesitant about Langshan.
The mountain people there used to keep weapons at home and would fight each other at the slightest disagreement. Even the women were not to be trifled with. There are still some villages that still maintain the custom of walking marriage.
They don't care about marriage laws at all. When they're happy, they go down the mountain to seduce a handsome young man. Once they have a child, they just throw the man out... cough!
In places like this, relying on policies to manage them will not lead to proper management even in a hundred or two hundred years.
Ultimately, it takes locals like Shan Yan and Jiang Xiaoman to keep the local mountain people in check.
There's nothing we can do; the mountain people are just that protective of their own. Back in Langshan, even the county magistrate's words probably don't carry as much weight as Jiang Xiaoman's.
The county magistrate and the party secretary wouldn't make things difficult for Jiang Xiaoman and his group because of this; they still need Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan's group to manage Langshan.
To be honest, if it weren't for the policy restrictions, the county would have loved to have Shan Yan and Jiang Xiaoman, one as the village party secretary and the other as the village head, handling both government affairs and finances. After all, as long as the local area was well managed and the economy was boosted, the village official position would naturally be filled by the most capable person.
However, although the policy forbade it, the county leaders, true to their word, quickly devised a clever way to circumvent the policy—
Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan run their own company, so they can't run for village cadres, right?
Okay, let's just set up an industrial park and establish an industrial development group. In recent years, many projects with local government investment have been cut off in this way. The company's management is outsourced, and the local government sends its own cadres to supervise the projects. Isn't that the same way to develop industries that are not convenient for the government to handle?
Especially for industries involving public transportation, healthcare, education, tourism, and culture, government regulation is essential for the public to enjoy more inclusive policies. Otherwise, try replacing it with a private company and see if they would be willing to lose money to maintain a one-yuan bus fare per trip.
Jiang Xiaoman wholeheartedly supports the county's plan to establish a tourism and cultural industry park in Langshan!
Just think about the county's intangible cultural heritage industrial park. The land was provided by the government, the buildings were built with government funding, and even the water and electricity networks were laid out for you. They also gave you a ton of preferential policies, including low-interest loans. He must be out of his mind to refuse such a good deal.
Chapter 250
On the way back from the county, the money-grubber Jiang Xiaoman hugged his award certificate and trophy tightly.
He never imagined, no matter how hard he tried, that this certificate and trophy would be so valuable!
He was personally received by provincial leaders, a treatment he never dared to dream of.
This kind of treatment isn't reflected in specific preferential policies, but it allows Langshan to get all its approvals given the green light at the county and city levels... From now on, no one will dare to hold them back from approvals!
Just think about it. Even the governor received and encouraged Jiang Xiaoman. Would anyone below dare to go against the governor?
The governor's face isn't Jiang Xiaoman's face; she can't just hit you whenever she wants, tsk!
There's also the industrial park plan proposed by the county, something Jiang Xiaoman never even dreamed of.
After all, there is no precedent in their county for establishing an industrial park at the township level.
The county's decision to make an exception and allow Langshan Town to establish a cultural tourism industrial park must mean they have high hopes for their cultural tourism industry.
Otherwise, building an industrial park from planning to completion would require an investment of at least several million yuan. If word got out, other towns would be fighting tooth and nail to get their hands on one, right? This is a genuine, unadulterated achievement!
This is because land prices are cheap here, and the plot of land they fenced off doesn't require demolition costs. If it were in the city, could an industrial park be built for less than a few hundred million yuan?
Even though it can only be considered a "mini industrial park" for now, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but feel very happy.
Wow! These certificates and trophies are so valuable! I'll go back and find a carpenter to build a burglarproof glass display case to put them up!
When they returned to town, the welcome they received was even greater.
To be honest, Langshan Town has never received a national-level award since its establishment. Jiang Xiaoman bringing back such a trophy is almost as grand as the welcome party for an Olympic champion returning home in glory.
Even the town's police station deployed all its officers to maintain order.
They were afraid that the enthusiastic villagers would crowd Jiang Xiaoman, this great contributor, and make him sick.
The narrow streets of the town were teeming with people. Even the shop owners on the roadside stopped doing business and came over to watch the excitement as soon as they pulled down their shutters.
Jiang Youliang was flanked by the Party Secretary on his left and the Town Mayor on his right, surrounded by the top two leaders of Langshan Town. He dared not move, his legs were almost numb from standing, but he was secretly overjoyed.
Oh dear~ the old shaman was right back then, his Xiaoman really is their Langshan's lucky star! Even the town's secretary said that the trophy Xiaoman brought back from the capital is the first of its kind in Langshan Town! It's even more precious than the top scorer in the college entrance exam~
If this certificate and trophy weren't Jiang Xiaoman's personal property, the whole town would have immediately commissioned a carpenter to build a burglarproof glass cabinet to store it! They'd have the cleaning lady polish the glass of the display case until it gleamed every day…
After taking a group photo with the town's officials while holding the trophy and certificate, Jiang Xiaoman took the opportunity to briefly reveal the cultural tourism industrial park plan promised by the county leaders. Sure enough, the secretary and the mayor were overjoyed.