Sloping balance

Author: Ding Li
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: From a boss to a leading figure in boss literature, Shenzhen writer Ding Li, following works such as Limit Up, Limit Down and The Women Who Made the Boss, has now launched a new long reflecting the lives of state-owned enterprise bosses in the economic special zone. Maximizing profits and ensuring the preservation and appreciation of state assets are the unshirkable responsibilities of every SOE boss. In the coastal city of Lingang, a frontier city of China's reform and opening-up, most bosses are quitters who entered the field mid-career. Clad in ideals, they struggle in the allure of money, beauty, and the dazzling nightlife, with their conscience facing unprecedented tests. Chief of the petrochemical group, Cheng Siyong, exhaustedly manages and plans, only to see over 2 billion assets vanish into thin air and the company burdened with debts as high as tens of billions of yuan. After the scandal broke, he resigned in disgrace, receiving only a reprimand; whereas Wang Tianrong, the energy group boss who built his empire from scratch and turned a loss-making business into a tax revenue generator of billions for the state, though he confessed voluntarily after the incident, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The pursuit of fairness and justice is the relentless goal of human law. In the market economy, SOE bosses with different starting points and vastly different contributions receive vastly different outcomes. Is this outcome fair? Are there systemic loopholes hidden behind our laws and regulations? With sharp insight, Shenzhen writer Ding Li objectively presents the realities of society to the readers. Under the shadow of the tilted scales, the truth and falsehood force us to deeply reflect.