Recaps

Dong Xuebin rebuilt Zhenshui County’s understaffed Investment Bureau, recruited Chang Juan, and pledged to secure fifty million in investment. After his usual contacts failed, Zhang Longjuan agreed to help, but the county’s booth at the city conference was placed in a poor location that Dong suspected Hua Li had arranged.

• Jiang Fangfang and Dong Xuebin acted like a reconciled couple to convince Mother Jiang, and Dong later took Jiang Fangfang’s belongings back to his apartment.
• Dong Xuebin examined the Investment Bureau’s meager resources, joined its daily work, and pressed for funding and staff despite opposition from county officials.
• Dong Xuebin secured approval to reorganize the bureau and pledged to bring in at least fifty million in investment, risking his position if he failed.
• Dong Xuebin arranged promotions and transfers for the bureau staff and persuaded Chang Juan to become its deputy director.
• Dong Xuebin assigned the staff to prepare for the City Investment Conference and called his business contacts, but none agreed to invest or attend.
• Dong Xuebin asked Zhang Longjuan to provide fifty million in investment, and she agreed to come to the conference and invest even without a return.
• Dong Xuebin’s team began setting up at the conference, where he found Zhenshui County assigned a distant, poorly equipped booth and suspected Hua Li was responsible.

Dong Xuebin endured the city’s efforts to sideline Zhenshui County, then welcomed Zhang Longjuan and her influential investor delegation. He prepared to take them to the county despite Lu Weiguo’s attempts to redirect the visit, suspecting the banquet was meant to get him drunk.

• Dong Xuebin’s team struggled to attract investors as Lu Weiguo’s interference and the city’s poor arrangements left Zhenshui County with no deals on the first day.
• Dong Xuebin booked six Presidential Suites at his own expense, gave up the county’s assigned rooms, and later offered the suites to visiting investors.
• Dong Xuebin explained Zhenshui County’s treatment to Meng Rui and told his team to keep seeking investors while preparing for the next day.
• Dong Xuebin rejected pressure to chase the incoming foreign delegation, but Zhang Longjuan arrived with the investors and greeted him as an old friend.
• Zhang Longjuan’s delegation drew the city officials’ attention, and Dong Xuebin insisted that the investors choose their own route while he arranged their visit to Zhenshui County.
• Dong Xuebin refused the other counties’ requests for introductions, organized lodging and preparations, and assigned Chang Juan to oversee the conference after his departure.
• Dong Xuebin rejected Lu Weiguo’s request to delay the county visit and told his team to prepare vehicles to take the investors there the next morning.
• Lu Weiguo toasted Dong Xuebin at the banquet, and Dong suspected the officials were trying to get him drunk so they could keep the investors in the city.

Dong Xuebin thwarted the city officials’ effort to divert investors, brought them to Zhenshui County, and led an exhausting week of inspections and negotiations. The signing conference secured 199 million yuan, and the arc ended with the county celebrating as Zhang Longjuan’s delegation prepared to leave.

• Dong Xuebin outdrank Lu Weiguo and the other officials who had tried to obstruct Zhenshui County, then gathered the investors they had left unattended and took them to the county.
• Hua Li ordered Dong Xuebin to bring the investors back, but he refused, and Meng Rui and Jiang Fangfang backed his decision to keep them in Zhenshui County.
• Dong Xuebin assigned county staff to guide the investors through inspections and negotiations, then worked through the night and agreed to rest at Jiang Fangfang’s home before the signing conference.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Fangfang began a secret relationship, and he drove her to the conference preparations after they spent the night together.
• Dong Xuebin and the county leaders opened the signing conference, where contracts steadily raised the total investment to 69 million yuan.
• Dong Xuebin signed Matt’s project agreement, and Zhang Longjuan increased her investment from 50 million to 100 million yuan, bringing the secured total to 199 million yuan.
• Jiang Fangfang announced bonuses for the staff, and Dong Xuebin asked that his share go toward improving the Investment Bureau before leaving to see off Zhang Longjuan’s delegation.

Dong Xuebin secured the 503 Experimental Base for Zhenshui County, reshuffled responsibilities to claim the project, and earned his return to Capital City. After a series of farewells, he began the drive back and reunited with his former teacher Jiang Min, ending up sharing a cabin with her during a rainstorm.

• Dong Xuebin drove Zhang Longjuan and the foreign investors to the provincial capital, passed a police breathalyzer stop, and visited Xu Yan with Zhang Longjuan before seeing the investors off.
• After announcing the Investment Bureau’s leave and rewards, Dong Xuebin asked Han Jing to help secure his rank and transfer, then arranged an inspection for the Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers seeking a site for the 503 Experimental Base.
• Dong Xuebin guided Xiao Qian and Xiao Lü to a suitable site in Clear Water Township and persuaded Jiang Fangfang to exchange his Development and Reform Bureau duties for Ci Boyang’s science and technology responsibilities.
• The Standing Committee approved the portfolio changes and Yao Cui’s appointment, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that the 503 Experimental Base would be built in Clear Water Township with Dong Xuebin coordinating it.
• Dong Xuebin took charge of the project, claimed the achievement with Han Jing, and then learned from Xie Guobang that his grassroots training was over and he would return to Capital City.
• Dong Xuebin completed his handover and said farewell to Meng Rui, Jiang Fangfang, and county colleagues before driving away from Zhenshui County.
• On the road, Dong Xuebin picked up his former university teacher Jiang Min, reminisced with her, and stopped in a town to share dinner and explore during a rainstorm.
• When nearby inns were full, Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min accepted the last cabin at a second inn and agreed to share its single bed with an extra quilt.