Mayor Chen Yi

In May 1949, the newly liberated Shanghai was still full of smoke and riddled with holes. On May 28, Chen Yi (played by Wei Qiming) took over the mess that had been ruled by the Kuomintang for several years as the mayor of the Communist Party. Everything is difficult at the beginning. As China's largest industrial city at the time, Chen Yi couldn't sleep at night as to how to manage it. He took the opportunity of attending the banquet to explain our party's policies to the capitalists, promote the business confidence of the national capital industry, quickly resume industrial production, stabilize prices, and crack down on profiteers. He also dealt with internal disciplinary violations mercilessly and seriously, and even sent his father-in-law back to his hometown to reduce the burden on the country. He took the opportunity of the Spring Festival to pay New Year's greetings at the home of worker Xu Genrong (played by Zhao Jiayan), used the incident of workers eating bean dregs to educate and influence Fu Yile (played by Zhang Fei), and adjusted the labor-management relationship. He also used vivid examples to educate the masses on class stance and class sentiments, so that the masses could understand the hard-won new China and new life...