Chapter 162: Too nervous
The mayors' coordination meeting was held in the new week.
A great deal had happened in Huangcheng that month, but Su Licheng, a deputy mayor from the provincial capital living in the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government Family Compound, was certainly one of the focal points. Over the previous week, Su Can, previously no more than the deputy mayor's harmless son, had also begun attracting attention. Quiet discussions circulated throughout the Municipal Government. Behind closed doors, quite a few families were studying just what background and connections this Su Can had.
At the latest mayors' coordination meeting, irregularities in the phase-one and phase-two construction plans for Barrier Lake's eastern shore, raised by Su Licheng, led to a dispute between Xu Changcheng and Huang Yu. Xu Changcheng's portfolio as deputy mayor included the Barrier Lake development zone project, and he intended to develop commercial holiday villas around the lake. Deputy Mayor Huang Yu, whose focus was agriculture and water affairs, felt that the eastern shore's aquaculture project had been under feasibility review for a long time and that they should vigorously develop a production base for the local specialty, silverfish.
Word of the direct confrontation at the meeting had already spread. The executive deputy mayor had reportedly spoken up for Xu Changcheng midway through. But Huang Yu had overseen agriculture for a long time and, with a breakthrough in sight, naturally refused to compromise. The argument grew heated. In the end, with the two deputy mayors each sticking to their position, Mayor Yang Wanli, who understood mediation and balancing interests, rejected both phases of the eastern shore construction plan. They would be replanned and reassessed, then opened to public tender once a conclusion was reached. That counted as a ruling.
Back in his office, Xu Changcheng