Zhang Le Cheng, the accompanying director of the Municipal Government Office, felt much the same as Sun Youzhi. Thank heavens, we were finally heading back to the city.
Did anyone know what he had been through over the past few weeks?
Up before the roosters, running around all day. No time to eat, and no decent sleep!
He did not even need to step on a scale to know he had lost at least five or six pounds.
Hong Dawei, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office, also brightened at the good news. The hard days were finally over.
Looking back on the past few weeks, he hardly knew where to begin!
Running around every day, dealing with endless messes. Constantly getting scolded by the mayor-it was more than he could take!
Although he knew he would still face a reckoning once they returned to the city, as the old saying went, he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Shaohua had its own local circumstances, after all, and he was not the only one at fault. At worst, he could quit as director of the Poverty Alleviation Office!
Meanwhile, a tense, oppressive atmosphere hung over the Municipal Party Committee's conference room.
The reason was that Municipal Party Secretary Sima Yanan had stated, in utterly uncompromising terms, that Shaohua City's seventy-million-yuan landmark construction project-the Lotus Plaza and the Lotus Treasure Altar-was to be halted, along with the proposed ninety-million-yuan office building project for the Four Leading Bodies.
These two forceful orders to halt the projects alarmed the standing committee members and left them privately grumbling.
The two projects had been vigorously promoted by former Municipal Party Secretary Luo Qiufa and former mayor Sun Linghui during their respective terms.
Although it was hardly unusual for a new leader to