County Head Yang was anxious.
The officials who had originally handled the investment had all been promoted and transferred elsewhere, yet this land had squandered the opportunities of both Bafang Village and Xinghua Village. It had become a persistent ache in the County Head’s heart.
He had tried to drum up investment, raising a ruckus in the city and at the provincial level, even filing formal complaints. But because the decision had been made by his predecessor—and involved nothing more than flatland in a county—few paid him any mind. Moreover, whenever he did manage to attract investors, they would eventually back away once they were confronted by the outrageous, lion-sized demands of foreign firms.
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