乡亲: fellow countryman (from the same village), local people, villager, the folks back home...
办事: to handle (affairs), to work...
就座: to take a seat...
豁达: optimistic, sanguine, generous, magnanimous, open-minded...
官僚: bureaucrat, bureaucracy, bureaucratic...
差距: disparity, gap...
重大: great, important, major, significant...
主席: chairperson, premier, chairman...
照常: as usual...
瓶子: bottle...