Chapter 269: Be an Official (2/2)

Meanwhile, in the systems of science, education, culture, health and sport, the administrative ranks of the staff were relatively low. For example, the president of a county or district level key middle school might manage several hundred teachers and several thousand students, but the president was actually a section-level cadre. Imagine if the president of a school was just a section-level cadre, then how could the ordinary teachers be promoted as cadres?

The sports coaches were just the same. The possibility for ordinary coaches, who didn't have the background of a famous athlete, to be promoted to an official, was just a little bit higher than zero.

After graduating from the university, Dai Li started his career as a coach. It had been years till now, but he still had no administrative rank. Dai Li also didn't consider something like being an official in his life plan. After all, the possibility for the frontline coaches to development their official careers was very low, and required not only personal efforts and capabilities, but also good luck. Only very few lucky ones among the sports coaches might obtain some harvest in the official careers.

Now, it seemed Dai Li had a stroke of luck.

Mr. Ma was a first officer, so his replacement should not be an ordinary coach without any administrative rank. People who were in management positions without administrative ranks would have difficulty in work. Moreover, for this kind of temporary transfer, no one would like to go without some ”bonus”. Otherwise, the replacement would not work hard, even if the replacement was assigned forcibly.

All training teams were more or less shorthanded, so the head coaches of the teams wouldn't accept the temporary transfer easily. After all, it was a selfish era.

The helpful and generous people, like Feng Lei (a famous soldier in the People's Liberation Army and a communist legend in China, who, after his death, was characterized as a selfless and modest person devoted to the Communist Party and the people of China) were very few.

However, a second officer was definitely a great temptation for ordinary coaches. After becoming a second officer, the coach could enjoy the treatment of a deputy section chief. Although the powers in hand were not changed, and the salary was only increased by roughly RMB 100 or 200, it could stand for the first step in one's official career.

For Dai Li, this was also a good issue to consider. He had no reason to refuse it. So he nodded immediately and expressed his interest.

”OK. I will recommend you to Head Coach Ping Wang of the table tennis team.” Weidong Chu continued to say, ”This time, a lot of people were interested in this position, among whom were many ace coaches of other teams. Therefore, Ping Wang will definitely organize a selection, so the final result will be up to your personal capabilities.”

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As Weidong Chu said, a lot of people had signed up for this position, not just the physical trainers, as there were even some technique trainers that had signed up, too. Apparently, a lot of people were unwilling to be an ordinary and nameless coach for a lifetime. Although the second officer was just in the lowest level of the bureaucratic system, it would still provide room for promotion, as well as more chances in the future cadre selection.

Thanks to the great influence of the table tennis event, a temporary replacement could be given a rank of second officer. For other sports, especially for those lesser-known sports, it was absolutely impossible, as the provincial sports bureau might just ignore the appeal for replacement.

However, the table tennis was the national sport of China, which enjoyed great popularity and attention among the public. Leaders of different levels also attached great importance to it. Especially some cadres were fans of table tennis, and therefore, a good basketball player or soccer player might be forgotten by these cadres, but a good table tennis player would definitely be remembered by them.

The same could be said of the ordinary people. Almost all middle-aged people aged 30 to 40 years old might be able to name the table tennis champions in the recent two decades. However, if they were asked to name the players of the National Football Team, who used to participate in the World Cup 2002 that was held in Japan and South Korea, most of them might have forgotten those names of those players, especially if they were not soccer fans.

This was the power of the ”national sport”!

Therefore, even it was just for showing off in front of high level management, or being remembered by the leaders, the table tennis event deserved great investment!