Cross the Yellow River by feeling the stones.

Author: Guo Yu Huai
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: "Cross the Yellow River by feeling the stones": The political heart journey of a deputy provincial governor. From the Provincial Party Committee compound to Zhongnanhai, from the Yellow River diversion tunnel to the World Bank, the behind-the-scenes secrets of a difficult 21st-century engineering project. It's easy to be an easygoing official, but it's hard to be a people-oriented official. A must-read handbook for civil servants. "Life is short but worries are long," the thirsty provincial situation, the China in the mountain valleys. From the county party secretary "directly promoted" to deputy provincial governor; rather lose the official hat than not bring in Yellow River water; "tears wet the clothes at the sight of mountains and rivers." In 1983, Guo Yu Huai was urgently transferred from the position of party secretary of Lishi County, Shanxi to serve as deputy provincial governor of the provincial government—this unprecedented personnel transfer in China's political arena foreshadowed an extraordinary journey. Guo Yu Huai's work is an extremely rich political record that organically combines a regional water project with the political career of a ministerial-level official, reflecting all aspects of social and folk conditions. From the Provincial Party Committee compound to the State Council, from the World Bank to the project site, it records many unknown decision-making and strategic processes. This book is a groundbreaking report literature, where the author, with 16 years of personal experience, has accumulated profound reflections on history and the era. "Life is short but worries are long"—an senior official speaks of the past with such sentiments, hoping for the future. The book includes: "This Person, This Duty—I Cannot Refuse," "In the Grand View Garden, We Cannot Let Down the Chain," "Mountains and Rivers Entering the Dream, How Deep the Emotion."