On the third day after Governor Song Chaozhong and Executive Vice Governor Du Xiaolian reached an agreement on the issue of dealing with Chen Ping, a special meeting was held in the conference room of the provincial standing committee member.

This meeting is a meeting on integrity during the Spring Festival, and it is also the first plenary meeting after the establishment of the Spring Festival Integrity Office of Jiangnan Province. The meeting was chaired by Lin Zhengyue, the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, who was personally led. Lin Zhengyue first made his opening remarks: "Comrades, at the beginning of the new year and the Spring Festival is approaching, the provincial party committee and government held such a high-standard meeting to strengthen the integrity of cadres during the Spring Festival, and specially established the Spring Festival Integrity Office. The main purpose is to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the Spring Festival in a clean manner, so that party members and leading cadres across the province can strictly abide by discipline and live this Spring Festival in a clean manner."

"Comrades, we all know that during the Spring Festival, according to the traditions of our country, people need to visit each other frequently, which has become a high-profile period for treating guests and giving gifts. Whether we can adhere to the construction of integrity at this time has become the top priority of our provincial party committee and government's recent work!"

Lin Zhengyue paused at this point, and then continued: "At this time, if we do not take effective measures and increase our efforts, then as the gifts for the Spring Festival increase, our party members and cadres may have problems with their own integrity. This will undoubtedly have a great negative impact on the party committee and the government. Therefore, it is of great significance to do a good job in building integrity during the Spring Festival."

"For this reason, as early as before New Year's Day, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued a notice on doing a good job in integrity during the Spring Festival, and put forward clear requirements for the integrity and self-discipline of leading cadres during the Spring Festival. Our Spring Festival Integrity Office, jointly composed of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial Government, and Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, was established for this." Lin Zhengyue said, "Then let everyone talk about their views on office work. You can put forward any opinions or suggestions."

After Lin Zhengyue finished speaking, as the governor of Jiangnan, Song Chaozhong raised his hand naturally and said, "Let me say a few words first. I think that ensuring integrity and self-discipline during the Spring Festival is a key link in the anti-corruption and integrity work!"

After setting the tone for his speech, Song Chaozhong continued: "With the wave of reform and opening up, the Central Committee and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection have repeatedly emphasized that leading cadres must be able to withstand the test of money, power and other aspects. Comrade Lin, from a series of corruption cases that have occurred in recent years, it can be seen that corruption often starts with unhealthy trends and is easily covered up by unhealthy trends. During the Spring Festival, it is the time when unhealthy trends prevail."

"At this time, there are always some people with ulterior motives who give money and supplies to leading cadres, food and drinks under the banner of visiting, thanks or caring. At this time, if leading cadres cannot strictly control themselves, they may be corrupt, turning the power in their hands into tools for individuals and small groups to seek personal gain." Song Chaozhong said, "Many leading cadres have transformed into corrupt elements, and often gradually develop from receiving gifts during festivals to accepting bribes, and eventually embarking on the road of crime."

"Therefore, being able to control this corruption trend during the Spring Festival can effectively reduce the occurrence of corruption cases." Song Chaozhong said.

Lin Zhengyue and Song Chaozhong both said a lot, but theirs were undoubtedly the nonsense they said at the meeting in the past. Although they all sounded reasonable, if you think about it deeply, there was nothing in the words at all.

Originally, everyone thought that this meeting would be so boring, but Song Chaozhong's next words were beyond everyone's expectations.

Song Chaozhong next said: "With the supervision and arrangements of the office, just as cadres in various places in Jiangnan Province were going to welcome this honest Spring Festival with the best attitude, I received a report that Chen Ping, deputy mayor of Dongwu Luzhuang City, received various gifts of more than 100,000 yuan in the name of purchasing New Year's goods."

The entire office couldn't help but breathe after hearing this. Of course, this was not surprising that Chen Ping had collected 100,000 yuan. In fact, let alone a deputy mayor of real power, he was even a deputy mayor of real power. He could receive 100,000 yuan gifts during the Spring Festival, and there was nothing to make a fuss about.

The reason they were surprised was that this was what Song Chaozhong said publicly at this meeting.

You should know that this was at the meeting of the Office of Integrity for the Spring Festival. What was discussed was undoubtedly to prevent corruption during the Spring Festival. So at this time, Song Chaozhong openly stated that Chen Ping accepted huge amounts of New Year goods. The purpose was obviously to take advantage of the issue and do something to target Chen Ping.

At this time, Xiao Hongkun, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, spoke: "Governor Song, I have heard of the New Year's goods of Luzhuang City Chief Chen, but I don't think he has violated the rules."

"First of all, as far as I know, most of the New Year goods collected by Deputy Mayor Chen Ping are distributed by government agencies, and only 10,000 yuan, which is not as much as Governor Song said," Xiao Hongkun said. "In addition, it is also an old tradition in our country to celebrate the Spring Festival. Every household likes to buy some expensive things for their homes during the Spring Festival. So in this way, Deputy Mayor Chen Ping used his own money to buy some New Year goods and went home for the New Year, which is not a big deal!"

Faced with Xiao Hongkun's doubts, Song Chaozhong did not reply to him, but directly said to Lin Zhengyue: "Secretary Lin, Secretary Xiao's daughter is also in Luzhuang. I think that according to the principle of avoidance, all Secretary Xiao's views on this matter will be invalid."

Xiao Hongkun was stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect that Song Chaozhong would actually bring out this article. Indeed, in the party committee and government regulations, there is a principle of avoiding relatives in case handling, but everyone knows that this is just a superficial phenomenon. In fact, if something happens to someone in his family, he will not help protect him?

So now that Song Chaozhong is so arrogant and bringing out this principle is obviously not to interfere by himself, he must kill Chen Ping.

Lin Zhengyue thought for a while and nodded, "Our party does have this principle, so Secretary Xiao should not express his opinions. Don't know about others?"

As Lin Zhengyue finished speaking, the audience focused their attention on Executive Vice Governor Du Xiaolian. Du Xiaolian said: "Secretary Lin, Governor Song, and comrades, I think the integrity work during the Spring Festival is still something we need to do."

"In recent years, the Central Committee has repeatedly emphasized the need to carry forward the spirit of hard work and hard entrepreneurship, but there are always some leading cadres who oppose hard work and pioneering innovation. They rely on themselves to stand at the forefront of reform and opening up, believing that being able to earn and dare to spend is the image of a reformer. Some people think that eating and drinking or even collecting and giving away points is a small matter of life. If you don't make a big deal, you don't have to make a fuss. Such practices and ideas are obviously wrong!" Du Xiaolian said, "This practice deviates from the party's purpose and must be paid attention."

"So I think it is necessary for our provincial party committee to fundamentally stop this unhealthy trend of extravagance and waste, and to carry forward the fine style of hard work!" Du Xiaolian said, "And once from this perspective, the matter of Deputy Mayor Chen Ping of Luzhuang accepting huge amounts of New Year's goods is not a separate thing, but represents an institutional atmosphere. Our provincial party committee must stop this unhealthy trend. I think this is the reason why our Spring Festival Integrity Office was established!"
Chapter completed!