When Zheng Jianguo returned to the conference hall after settling the details with headquarters, he realized he seemed to have missed something.
Half an hour earlier, just after Zheng Jianguo left the conference hall, Huang Xiuyuan presented another cooperation proposal to the representatives from the various cities.
Pang Haoran, Zhang Guanghe, and the others had still been somewhat puzzled, but once they opened the proposal, they understood Suiren Company's intentions.
The second licensed company mentioned in the first proposal was contained within the second proposal.
According to the plan, Shandong Province, Qin Province, and Shanxi Province would jointly invest to establish the United Water Affairs Corporation, which would become the second licensed water utility company.
However, its shareholding structure adopted a different model, which Huang Xiuyuan called "privately supervised, state-run." All shares would belong to state-owned capital, but under the company's basic charter, personnel dispatched by Suiren Company would form a professional internal oversight body called the Economic Development Supervision Office.
Suiren Company would not handle specific operational matters. Instead, it would specifically audit whether corruption, illegality, regulatory violations, or similar issues existed in the water utility company's personnel, finances, operations, and other processes. Its role was to supervise the company internally.
Moreover, the Economic Development Supervision Office could investigate and punish any employee of the water utility company and nominate its management. Although the three provinces were the investors, they could not interfere with the office's work unless they had evidence proving that the Economic Development Supervision Office had broken laws or regulations.
As for why the Economic Development Supervision Office was being established, the purpose was naturally to prevent Beijing Enterprises Water Group from becoming the sole state-owned player and to create a tripartite balance in the domestic water utility sector.
The final section of the proposal stipulated