"Climbing the Clouds" is an institutional life epic that records ideals being tempered into gold within rules.
Lin Fan, who graduated from a prestigious school, passed the national examination with enthusiasm and entered the provincial government. However, he first experienced the weight of "rules": official documents with a thousand words, meetings with undercurrents, and subtle and unspeakable hierarchies. The reality that he almost messed up his first mission shattered his naive ideals. When he was confused, two guides appeared: one was an old section chief who was well versed in all hidden rules and was as wise as a fool; the other was a careerist of the same period who was proficient in utilitarian calculations.
From the official pen and ink to the township soil, from the difficult ice-breaking of cross-department reform to the determined innovation of the party in power, from the abyss of the temptation of interests to the moment of collapse of faith... On this "cloud ladder", every step is a double test of rules and human nature. Lin Fan will spend twenty years learning the rules, applying them, and finally trying to write his own annotations based on the rules.
This is not only the history of one person's struggle, but also a mirror of the growth of a generation. It delicately depicts the true texture of the institutional ecology, and profoundly records how an idealist completed a complete transformation from innocence, frustration, and confusion to sobriety, responsibility, and transparency in the dialogue with the huge system. The road to the clouds is long, let's see how Lin Fan works step by step, and in the depth of the rules, he can see the heaven and the earth, see all living beings, and see himself.
