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Recently, Branch Secretary Kamu has been feeling very happy. Kamu's house has a telephone with a shiny red casing and a caller ID that flashes on and off. This is the first telephone in the village. Party Secretary Kamu has no reason to be unhappy or dissatisfied. The county implemented a telephone "every village" project. Although Pataopo was a bit remote, it had to be installed. The Kamu party secretary did not want to lag behind other villages, so he and his wife struggled for a few days to bring the three-year-old son at home to the market and sell it. The township government gave him a small subsidy before installing this telephone. The phone is wireless, and the technician said it's called a program-controlled phone. Party Secretary Kamu didn't understand it at all, but Party Secretary Kamu felt that wireless ones were better than wired ones. In the movie, Wang Cheng was carrying a wireless one.

It consists of 9 works, including short and medium-length novels and short stories published and written by the author Wu Guoen in recent years, such as "Clouds of the Past" and "Forging Knives". The content of these works is real and heavy, the conflicts are intense, the writing style is simple and unpretentious, and the language is full of tension. Some works were selected by Wang Anyi for doctoral students to study and study. The parallel perspective makes the life at the bottom of the works more humane, authentic and compassionate.

"Cultural Director" tells the story of Dongfang Changqing, an intellectual who was frustrated in the officialdom struggle and his human nature mutated in the officialdom. Dongfang Changqing is a young county magistrate. Due to disagreements with the secretary's political views, he was eliminated in the official struggle and transferred to the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference as a casualty. Momentarily decadent and depressed. After being enlightened by the eminent monk Wisdom Master, he regained his spirit and took up an unpopular position - the Municipal Culture Director. After several years of hard work and retreat, he finally moved from the edge of the political arena to the center, and was successfully elected as the deputy mayor in charge of culture, education and health in Yuan City... The novel describes the life of an official from the unpopular to the popular, from the margins to the center. It contains so much wisdom in life, so much experience in officialdom, so many romantic encounters and secrets.

When Chen Mo was acting as county magistrate, he was retaliated for insisting on revealing the inside story of a major mining disaster. He was demoted and transferred to the propaganda director of another county. After taking office, the Dengyangping landslide and the Wulong River pollution incident occurred one after another. The main leaders of the county fought openly and secretly in the resulting accountability storm, which led to the tragedy of the deputy county magistrate's unjust suicide. The balance of power was temporarily difficult to balance. In the whirlpool of various conflicts and entanglements, Chen Mo, with the ideal of serving the people's livelihood, strengthened his determination to pursue an official career. He responded calmly, strategized, and finally succeeded in making a comeback. In the power vacuum caused by the conflict between the main responsible persons, he was expected to rise from the last place on the Standing Committee to become the best candidate for county party secretary, thereby taking the first step to realize his political ambitions.

Full of ideals and ambitions, Chen Mo followed Zhang Xiao, who was promoted to the mayor of Chuxi City, as deputy director of the Chuxi Municipal Party Committee Office. In Chuxi City, which is complex and subtle, full of temptations and unspoken rules, Chen Mo grew up rapidly under the protection of Zhang Xiao. While serving as the acting county magistrate of a certain county, Chen Mo ignored the obstruction of many parties and intricate interests, fought against all opinions, and uncovered a major mining accident. The novel shows the transformation, degradation, struggle and redemption of an official who is full of ideals and upholds justice in the subtle and complex ecology of rights, and shows the conflict between the ideals and morals that the protagonist upholds and reality.