4:30 PM, Linghai Municipal Committee's small meeting room.
A committee meeting is taking place, and in the past half hour, a batch of department-level cadre appointments and dismissals was unanimously approved.
Minister Yang of the Armed Forces Department is also a committee member but doesn't have much say in cadre selection or other major decisions. Each meeting, he simply raises his hand in agreement.
Today, although he again raises his hand in agreement, his mood is completely different from before, because most of those dismissed are older local cadres, while the promoted are either military transfer officials or reserve officers. He has never felt the status of soldiers as he does today, truly feeling a sense of pride.
The first agenda item concludes, moving into the second: discussing how to welcome the triumphant returning Linghai soldiers.
