Reborn on the day of job selection in 1998, Li Guoming resolutely gave up the smooth road and headed towards the unknown town of Beishan.
A streetlight illuminates the undercurrent of power at the grassroots level;
A piece of material can quietly influence the layout of provincial strategies.
It took him twenty years to go from town clerk to the core of S Committee.
Along the way, there is the gentle tenderness of a confidante, the secret battle of life and death among officials, the thunderous reform and fortification, and the fire of the original intention that has never been extinguished.
This is an epic story of the growth of China's grassroots officials, and also a long scroll of the officialdom ecology under the tide of reform and opening up.
Lights can warm a corner, and they can also illuminate mountains and rivers.
