The next day, relevant documents from Jingdu were issued to the Handong Provincial Party Committee. After being signed, they were forwarded to Jingzhou. Thus, a grand and sweeping campaign officially began.
The preliminary investigation team had already completed their fact-finding research across Jingzhou, but this was not enough. Qi Tongwei’s strategy was that if they were going to do this, they had to make a splash.
His first move was to summon the head of the Organization Department, Li Yangbo, to expand the scope of the project. He established a special investigative task force, organizing teams to go deep into townships and villages to conduct a comprehensive audit of all farmer taxes and fees—including agricultural taxes, communal retentions, and fund-raising levies—to grasp the true state of the grassroots financial burden.
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