In 1978, Lin Fan was reborn as a clerk in a grassroots township in Jianghan Plain, Jianghan Province. He went through the critical period of the transformation of the people's commune into a township government, the full implementation of the household contract responsibility system, the loosening of policies in the early days of reform and opening up, the emergence of a market economy, the replacement of old and new grassroots governance, and a lack of supplies. Finally a career
