From Deputy Mayor to the Pinnacle of Power

Zhou Zhenbang, a young official in the provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, is demoted to deputy mayor of remote, impoverished Qinglin Town after offending his superiors. When he first arrives at the grassroots level, he faces not only threadbare conditions and indifferent colleagues, but also an entrenched interest group led by Mayor Zhou Fugui. Poverty-relief funds are being diverted, education budgets are being cut, and illegal land grabs are brewing...