Back then, the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau was not yet built underground; that bank office building was its predecessor.
Of course, the sign hanging outside was for a private trading company.
That year, the cooperation between the Special Management Bureau and the state was not yet so close. It is fair to say that the upper echelons held a very ambiguous attitude toward the Bureau—they neither wanted to grant it a high administrative rank, yet they relied on its suppression of anomalies.
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