Qingxi County is a large agricultural county under Yizhou City. Its economy ranks in the middle and its industrial base is weak. However, it has high-quality mountain and valley resources. It focuses on traditional rice and tea cultivation. However, due to aging varieties and narrow sales, most villages are still in a state of "more than enough food and clothing, but not enough wealth." The core scene focuses on the most remote Liuxi Township in Qingxi County - 50 kilometers away from the county seat and under the jurisdiction of 8 administrative villages. Liuxi River flows through the township, and 60% of the township is mountainous. It is a famous township in the county with "many petitions, weak industry, and difficulty in retaining people". It is also the starting point of the male protagonist Li Qingjie's career.
Focusing on the grassroots officialdom at the township level (township party committee, township government), the hierarchy is gradually advanced from "clerk → section member → deputy township chief → township chief" without jump promotion. The core of the officialdom line is the "detailed game of policy implementation": it must not only respond to the assessment indicators of superiors (Qingxi County Party Committee, County Government) (such as rural revitalization progress, petition settlement rate, industrial investment tasks), but also coordinate intra-township relations (differences in opinions among party committees, exclusion of senior cadres, village party secretaries' overt and covert violations), and also deal with people's livelihood conflicts (land disputes, subsistence allowance applications, infrastructure repairs), emphasizing The realistic positioning of "grassroots cadres are not 'officials' but 'people who do things'" does not have the sense of satisfaction of "one word", but more "step by step" growth.
