The celebration banquet was also held in the Linzhou Hotel, where the international conference had taken place. The event spanned three floors, with countless guests coming and going as acquainted colleagues drank and reveled together.
Chen Yuan and Jiangg Ning were at a table upstairs, surrounded entirely by the inner circle of Gao Dengfeng from headquarters. There were many people whom Chen Yuan was meeting for the first time.
The conference's conclusion brought joy to some and sorrow to others, but everyone shared the same question: why wasn't the latest list of appointments mentioned? Many people, after all, had been counting on this for a promotion.
"Director Jiang, this is Dong Zhuohua, the Vice Minister of our Department of Land and Resources. He was the one who managed last year's 201 Energy Supply Project. Incidentally, Minister Dong graduated from the same university as your father."
"Hello, Dong."
