"Currently, each of the five provincial planning districts in the Northern Region has an executive director and two deputy executive directors. There's also a supervisor assigned directly from headquarters who reports to the General Director—that's you. Among these five executive directors, with the exception of the East City director who took office in recent years, the others have been in their positions for over a decade. The leadership in Inner Mongolia came from an energy agency we absorbed, and their seniority predates even Chairman Jiang's."
"That place is treacherous. Its roots run deep, and its power structures are a tangled mess. Countless supervisors have gone there only to request a transfer back within a few months. The most recent one sent from headquarters is Professor Liu. He used to be a private consultant for Chairman Jiang for a while, and he's actually lasted a year without asking for a transfer."
