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At 8:50 a.m., Dong hai International Conference Center's East Sea Hall was packed to the brim. Aside from the vacant seats on the main platform at the front, almost every other seat was taken, as representatives from state-owned, private, and foreign enterprises, officials, and media journalists had taken their places, all waiting for the conference to begin.
Meanwhile, Secretary Guan Yi, accompanied by the political heavyweights of Dong hai, was in the adjacent reception room, engaged in conversation with other bigwigs from the Yangtze River Delta region.
As the central figures of this conference, they would, like in many other meetings, not enter the venue until after the conference had started.
This was a symbol of their status!
"Secretary Guan, Governor Ye has arrived."
