Zhao Xuanyang was admitted to the county party committee office as the county's number one scholar. From writing speeches for leaders, coordinating meetings, handling letters and calls and other trivial matters, he realized that "power operates in the details." Because he boldly reflected the formalism of grassroots poverty alleviation in a research report, he unexpectedly won the appreciation of Li Guohua, the executive deputy county magistrate (later Bole), and angered conservatives for the first time.
