The two leaders stopped their game of ping-pong and fell into deep thought.
Mayor Liu seemed to have a deep understanding of this issue, and after a long pause, he said slowly,
"The transformation of shantytowns... is indeed a tough nut to crack."
Upon hearing this, a wry smile crossed Fang Huai's face.
"Mayor Liu, we in the firefighting service are all too aware of that.
Frankly speaking, the reason I took notice of this issue was that the first police dispatch I led after becoming a commander was to a shantytown.
Continuous factories and homes, narrow and broken roads, outdated management, and hardly any trace of firefighting facilities to be found; it could be said that aside from its liveliness, it had nothing going for it.
At that time, we spent over half an hour just trying to make room for the vehicles to get in, barely managing to squeeze the special vehicles through."
And I even did some investigation of the surroundings.
