Chapter 55: Movement
On the day of Su Can's final exams, the administrative headquarters of Darong Construction Group held a meeting on personnel appointments and dismissals. Company leaders who were in town, headquarters staff, and Party and administrative heads from branch companies and nearby units attended.
A tense, forbidding atmosphere hung over the company, inside and out. More than a thousand people at the Head Office, not counting their families, were waiting for the final outcome of this personnel decision-making meeting.
Beyond those thousand people at the core of the Head Office were branch companies, holding companies, and companies in which the group held stakes, scattered across prefecture-level cities and counties, throughout the province, and even in other provinces and overseas. Tens of thousands of people were watching the reshuffling of power at the core in Rongcheng.
This was also the most critical step in determining how many people would ultimately come out ahead, and which faction within the company would reap the greatest benefits.
Although this was not a government agency, and ordinary people had never imagined they could enter the turbulent world of officialdom, the so-called world of rivalries existed within every circle, large or small.
The configuration of this particular world was distinctive, but it shaped the lives of many people, and the fortunes of many families waiting anxiously for news.
The meeting hall was packed. On the dais for the meeting on leadership appointments and adjustments sat the company's decision-makers, the trade union chairman, and members of the Party committee. The differing expressions of the various leaders were just visible.
Below them sat a dense crowd of middle-ranking officials of every kind: department heads, deputy heads, directors, division chiefs, and section chiefs. All watched, trying to glean something from the faces of those seated on the