Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 216 Coping Work

As soon as the plane landed, Li Wei called again. It seemed that the matter was indeed a bit urgent. Helplessly, Qi Tongwei could only let the other two go back with him and go straight to work.

“You two have to work hard too. I was supposed to let you rest for a few days after your business trip, but there’s a lot to do.

Let's do it on Friday, so you two can have a rest over the weekend."

Yu Xiaoming and Ye Biao had no objections and drove directly to the district government.

Li Wei was already waiting at the door of the executive office. When he saw Qi Tongwei coming, he hurried to greet him.

"What's going on? You can't explain it clearly over the phone."

After the two of them sat down, Li Wei slowly explained the situation. It turned out that there was a problem with the road construction area under his charge.

"You mean, the dump truck filling the provincial road over there collapsed a house?

Are there a few other buildings nearby that were cracked?"

Li Wei nodded hurriedly. It was a good thing that it was daytime and the residents were out and not at home, otherwise something might have happened.

Qi Tongwei also thought at this time that self-built houses are now common in Jiangbei New District. Starting this year, the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission has been in charge of Jiangbei New District, and all housing approvals must go through the municipal government, which put the brakes on.

In the past few years, approvals were given at will. Even if you built it yourself, you could spend some money to go to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau to find someone to measure it and get a certificate. This was the rural housing management in the 1990s. As for safety, standards, and quality, they were not considered by people of that era.

Qi Tongwei knew that area was also within the scope of Xiaqiao Street, but they were not residents of this village, but people from the mountainous area of ​​the former Yongqing County who migrated to Xiaqiao Town due to the construction of a reservoir. In the 1980s, in order to build a hydropower station in their mountain village, the county government relaxed its settlement policy and allowed the entire village to choose an idle area in Nanliu Town. They also wanted to choose some prime locations, but it was impossible for them to be given one, so they finally settled in a piece of farmland in Xiaqiao Town. The county handled the settlement policy for them and expedited the approval of the procedures for building farmhouses for them, so hundreds of people from the entire village settled in Xiaqiao Street.

The location they chose back then was considered remote, but the new provincial road that started this year is planned to pass directly through their village, which means that their location is better. This is why the villagers were very cooperative in the early stage. But now that such a thing has happened, if the construction of the provincial road is hindered in the next step, the trouble will fall directly on the district government.

Qi Tongwei was also a little annoyed, as the problem was the result of a combination of multiple factors.

One is that the quality of the house is really poor. The house was built in the mid-1980s, and it has been just ten years now. I heard that it is just a cover with prefabricated panels and there is no ring beam structure. In that era, it was actually just concrete and bricks stacked on top, and the foundation was not necessarily very deep. After all, farmers built their own houses, so they didn't know anything about safety structures.

This one's house was collapsed by the earthquake, and almost all the houses in the neighboring village have the same structure. Is it just treating the symptoms without addressing the root cause? If dozens of houses in the village need to be renovated, who should pay for the manpower and material resources spent in the process?

They would definitely have no objection if the dump truck company were asked to pay for the renovation costs of one or two houses, as it was obviously their fault and if they didn't want to be unable to operate tomorrow, they had to pay.

But what about the other houses? Never mind, let’s just take it one step at a time. There is no extra money now, and the government can’t always be the scapegoat.

Another factor is that the dump trucks are seriously overloaded. This is not the first time that this has happened. The entire Jiangbei New Area, especially the High-tech Zone, is basically a large construction site with all kinds of large vehicles coming in and out.

The road surface was damaged several times, but when the incident was reported to the higher authorities, no response was given. Since the Jiangbei New District is now part of the urban area, the planning and construction of roads must also be unified by the city. The city was procrastinating and the district was helpless.

Qi Tongwei vaguely remembered that last time when they caught the two desperate couple, Zhang Sen from the First Squadron of the Special Patrol Brigade could have caught them directly, but a dump truck ignored the traffic lights and rushed forward, blocking their sight and route, allowing them to escape.

This aspect also needs to be rectified in a timely manner, but considering the speed of infrastructure construction in the high-tech zone, it is not realistic to prevent people from overloading. On the one hand, we urge the construction units to speed up the progress, and on the other hand, we strictly control the overloading of their dump trucks. There are indeed some contradictions in reality.

However, this aspect has been tolerated too much. Overloaded dump trucks have begun to damage the city's infrastructure. Those are easy to deal with and the government can handle them on its own. But if they collapse private houses, the government will be sued.

"Immediately call the Transportation Bureau, Traffic Police Brigade, Planning Bureau and Land Bureau to a meeting.

It is 11:00 a.m. now, and it will be in the second meeting room on the fourth floor at 2:00 p.m.."

Li Wei asked another question.

"Why call the Transportation Bureau and the Traffic Police? Why not the construction company and the owner of the house?"

Qi Tongwei glanced at him. He usually looked quite smart, but why did he become a little dizzy when faced with an emergency? However, now that he was his important deputy, he could only appease him and not scold him.

"Let's first unify our thinking. The problem of muck trucks is already quite serious in our district. Let's ask two traffic management units to come and clarify the next step of law enforcement regulations for muck trucks.

As far as I know, they are generally seriously overloaded and are within the scope of law enforcement. It's just that the city has been pushing for construction progress, so everyone turns a blind eye.

How much road damage has been done on Shangxia Bridge by them, and we had to spend money to repair it with great reluctance. This time we must give the dump truck industry a good crackdown.

Scare them, first of all, so that they will be more courageous when overloading, and overload less, otherwise such things will happen one after another.

If you have seen them weighing the vehicles, you will know that a dump truck with a legal load and a total weight of 20 to 30 tons can often overweight by 70 to 80 tons.

When the weight reaches this level, you are absolutely not allowed to go over the bridge as it could easily collapse. Even low-standard roads will rot into rags after just two trips.

This time we caught them hard, they made money and left without any hesitation, but we still have to clean up the mess they left behind.

Although the houses built in the 1980s did not have ring beams and did not use much steel bars, they collapsed within ten years. The reason was not because they were overloaded.

Let's first unify our thoughts internally. The bosses of those dump truck companies all have informants in the law enforcement departments. After our meeting, they will get wind of the news.

By that time, if we invite the owner of that house and the owners of several other houses to come and discuss compensation, the boss of the dump truck company will be much more flexible.

They would rather pay more here than be targeted by law enforcement every day. If their dump trucks are detained for just one day, they will lose thousands of yuan, and their business reputation will also be damaged.”