"President Lu, the situation in the county is complicated."

Zhou Yan sighed, "Director Ma is the head, but the other two deputy directors on the board support this proposal. Their reasoning sounds grand, saying the Shilipu Parcel is large and must be handed over to local enterprises with substantial backing to prevent shell companies from hoarding land and speculating. If Director Ma forcibly suppresses it, it would easily give people something to talk about."

Zhou Yan was absolutely right; the political ecology of a county town is vastly different from that of a first-tier city.

Here, often, the head does not have absolute authority.