I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 585: A research meeting on the next-generation payment system for the banking system was held in Nanxin County.
This payment system, named "Smart Cloud Payment" or SCP for short, launched its alpha version last November.

Simulated real-world environment testing was conducted at Jinghai Bank. After more than half a year of repeated trials, the official version SCP1.0 was finally launched. Within the Jinghai Bank system, it is applied in multiple scenarios, including fund transfers, mobile payments, check credit services, ATMs, and POS terminals.

This is the first payment system in China based on blockchain technology. It offers transparency and security in payments, reduces fraudulent activities, and, more importantly, processes accounting data 30%-50% faster than traditional payment systems!

Its entry into commercial applications naturally attracted the attention of colleagues in the domestic banking industry.

To this end, the central bank took the lead in organizing a large team of technical experts to conduct on-site research at Jinghai Bank.

A large group of more than 30 people, including leaders from the People's Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, technical experts from the headquarters of the five major domestic banks and their respective colleagues in Jiangsu Province, as well as representatives from small and medium-sized banks in the province such as Huijing Bank, Jiangsu Provincial Bank, and Suzhou Bank, came to Nanxin County to hold an on-site observation meeting.

The arrival of so many experts and leaders from the domestic banking industry is a big event for Jinghai Bank!
When Fang Qingye received the inspection meeting notice jointly issued by the People's Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, he immediately convened a meeting of bank presidents. Chen Danlu, who was far away in Shanghai, drove back to attend the meeting that same day.

Everyone was excited and thrilled upon seeing the document's contents, but also felt some pressure.

It wasn't a technical problem—Chen Danlu, who was in charge of the work, was quite confident about that—but he was worried about the reception.

"President Fang, I suggest we hold the meeting in Shanghai. The Pudong branch can provide everything these experts and leaders want to see and know. More importantly..." Chen Danlu paused here.
“The conditions in Shanghai are much better than in Nanxin, whether it’s catering, accommodation, transportation, or even security. The pressure is much less for Jinghai Bank.”

Fang Qingye remained silent, but Zhao Wenjun, who was sitting next to him, laughed and said, "Chen Xing, what you said is true, but Fang Xing can't do that. If he really does that, not to mention others, even his second uncle will scold him."

"County Chief Fang?" Chen Danlu was taken aback.

“Yes, President Chen, this is the first time so many leaders and experts from the domestic financial system have come to Nanxin for a meeting! This meeting will be covered by media at all levels, which is equivalent to giving Nanxin free advertising. How could the county leaders let this opportunity pass by?” Deng Hui said.

"Oh," Chen Danlu suddenly realized.

Living in the US for a long time can make it easy to overlook the social customs and interpersonal relationships back home.

At this moment, Fang Qingye said, "President Chen, the issue of hosting the conference that you are worried about is actually not something we need to worry about at all. I will take this document to the county leaders, and I dare say that the county leaders will take the initiative to take over the conference without me even having to say a word. Our Jinghai Bank only needs to do the business coordination work, including explanation, demonstration, and especially answering technical questions, etc."

“No problem at all.” Chen Danlu immediately stated, “I will set up a team right away and draw on employees from various departments who are particularly familiar with the use of the SCP1.0 system to serve the delegates.”

"Alright, I'll leave this to you. Also, contact Zhiyun Technology and ask them to send some technicians to assist us," Fang Qingye instructed.

"Okay, I'll contact Mr. Xin right away."

Although it was expected that the county would take over the reception duties, the bank itself was also prepared, so Fang Qingye arranged for Zhao Wenjun to act as the leader of Jinghai Bank in this regard to cooperate.

Zhao Wenjun naturally had no objections.

"I'm going to the county government now," Fang Qingye said, standing up.

When Fang Qingye met County Chief Li, who was in charge of finance, he was shocked to hear this: What? The central bank is going to hold an observation meeting in Nanxin, and a vice-ministerial level leader is going to come?
This is such a big matter that we must report it to Secretary Lu and County Head Wang immediately. Upon hearing this news, the top two leaders of Nanxin County discussed it and realized that this wouldn't do; they also needed to report it to the city leaders.

So the report was then relayed up the chain of command to the provincial level.

The provincial, municipal, and county governments all attached great importance to this meeting, especially the Jinghai Municipal Government. In the end, it was decided that the entire meeting would be hosted by the Nanxin County Government, with Jinghai Bank providing full support.

The county head, as the top official, personally took charge to ensure the smooth running of the meeting, establishing a special task force, which was further divided into several subgroups.

Accommodation, catering, transportation, security, publicity, and even maintaining stability are also among the issues that the task force considers.

Mayor Hu from the city, and the former Party Secretary of Nanxin, were also coming to inspect the meeting preparations on behalf of the city government.

Two vice presidents of Jinghai Bank were also on the special task force.

In an instant, the entire Jinghai County was mobilized, and the sanitation department was undoubtedly the one that suffered the most and worked the hardest.

The county leaders have declared that the entire county must maintain its cleanliness during the meeting, including even the back streets and alleys. We must use this opportunity to launch a vigorous patriotic health campaign.
As a result, when Fang Qingye was attending a meeting in the county, Director Wu of the Urban Construction Bureau complained that while Jinghai Bank was holding a meeting, the workload of our sanitation workers had doubled.

"Director Wu, this isn't my fault, is it? It was arranged by the Party Secretary and the County Head." Fang Qingye said helplessly, "I originally planned to hold this meeting in Shanghai and just do some research on our Pudong branch, but the Party Secretary and the County Head disagreed! They insisted on holding it at the Jinghai Bank headquarters!"

"But speaking of which, the appearance of some places in our Nanxin County is really bad, isn't it? Putting aside everything else, just take the garbage station on Wuyi Road. Can't you move it to a different place? I have to pass by it every time I drive back to the nursery, and it stinks terribly," Fang Qingye retorted without any politeness.

Holy crap, you're blaming me for not doing my job well?!
Director Wu opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

Thinking to himself, he realized he needed to get the sanitation department to move the garbage station as soon as possible, lest the bank leaders suddenly decide to visit Fang Qingye's nursery and see the garbage station, which would be disastrous.
There really were people visiting the Four Seasons Nursery.

Among the experts and leaders who came to Nanxinkai for this observation meeting was Director Luo of the Financial Department of the People's Bank of China, whom Fang Qingye knew.

The day after Jinghai Bank received the official document, Fang Qingye received a call from Yanjing. Director Luo said that he was accompanying President Pan to a meeting in Nanxin and would like to stop by Fang Qingye's nursery.

"I heard from Yongfeng that your nursery is doing quite well, especially with all kinds of orchids," Director Luo said on the other end of the phone.

"Welcome, welcome." Fang Qingye immediately said, "Director Luo, if you like orchids, come to the nursery and pick one. I'll give you whichever one you like."

"Okay, I'll pick one then."

In recent years, Fang Qingye has given orchids as gifts to her friends the most. Anyway, they are relatively cheap now and not worth much money, so as to avoid being accused of bribery.

Besides Director Luo, there was also Zhong Huai from the Provincial Banking Regulatory Bureau, Lei Ming from the Municipal People's Bank, and President Yang from the Municipal Construction Bank. These were all old acquaintances of Fang Qingye, and it was estimated that the nursery would become quite lively in the future.

(End of this chapter)