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大同，這座1600年前輝煌的古城如今正在一片新的廢墟中期待著不確定的未來。耿彥波，這位以拆建城市，發展文化著稱的市長，正準備用著非凡的手段，去實現他心目中城市發展和變革的巨大藍圖。他不僅要消除大同令人瞠目的污染，更要用古代的文明和輝煌重塑這座城市的未來。但若要實現這個宏大的藍圖，耿彥波市長面臨著艱難的抉擇，他需要拆掉10萬戶住宅，搬遷整個城市近50萬人口，並成功籌集到數倍於大同政府年收入的資金。他還需要得到政府和共產黨內其他高級官員的支持才有可能實現這一方案，而共產黨的權利平衡規則確定市委書記才是真正的權力中心，這成為耿彥波市長城市改造方案中最不可探測的因素。

Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Yanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong’s total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future.