Liu Bing, a poor rural youth, borrowed money to buy a car and delved into the freight industry to accumulate a small amount of original capital; he seized the dividends of the era from 2000 to 2015 when domestic industrialization took off and the petrochemical industry was experiencing a surge in demand. Relying on the dual advantages of Yingkou's port location and proximity to oil and gas production areas, he entered the fields of petrochemical trade, warehousing, refining, and new chemical materials across borders, founded Donghai Petrochemical, and gradually diversified its layout to build Donghai Holding Group covering energy, logistics, real estate, and rural industries. The secondary line is the official career at the grassroots level: taking root in rural governance, resolving conflicts among villagers, revitalizing village collective assets, nurturing the countryside with industry, being elected as village party secretary with the dual recognition of villagers and superior governments, and balancing the three major sectors of business operations, rural development, and government-enterprise relations. The times create the grassroots, and the original intention anchors the return journey. It explores the original sin of primitive accumulation and self-salvation of private entrepreneurs, the dilemma of power and responsibility of grassroots cadres, the survival rules of political and business relationships, the game between local sentiment and capital interests, and the binding relationship between personal destiny and the tide of the times.
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