When the Clouds Rise over the Mountains and Rivers

This is a magnificent epic that spans twenty years and runs through the four levels of China's provinces, cities, counties and townships. It is also a realistic picture depicting the intertwining of the changes of the times and personal destiny. The story begins in Qinglin Town at the turn of the century. Lin Yuan, a college student, was admitted to the civil service with excellent results and entered a remote grassroots town with ideals. Here, he faced not only muddy roads, tight finances, and people in urgent need of poverty alleviation, but also intricate local relations, secretive officialdom rules, and a fierce collision between old and new ideas. From the scandal of "forcing the emperor" to raise money for villagers to build roads, to pushing forward the pilot planting of Chinese medicinal materials against all opinions, Lin Yuan, with his sincerity, wisdom and responsibility, took root in Qinglin Town and took the first step in his official career. Since then, his pace has never stopped. From townships to counties and cities, and then from city government to provincial offices, Lin Yuan's position is changing, the stage is changing, and the challenges he faces are constantly escalating: the complex interest game in the county, the dilemma between development and environmental protection when in charge, and the difficulties encountered in promoting reform. Heavy resistance, thunderous decisions in emergencies, and higher-level strategic confrontations about policies and ideas... This "road to success" is full of thorns, and every promotion is accompanied by the tempering of abilities, the tempering of the mind, and the torture of ideals.