Jing Cha Ri Ji

In the booming inner Mongolian city of Ordos, Hao Wanzhong quits his job to join the police force. His single-minded dedication, bordering on obsession, results in a meteoric rise from beat cop to district police chief. Against a backdrop of majestic winter landscapes, affluent new cities and remote industrial districts, society is changing: peasants are drawn by the lures of the city; migrant workers build towns they won’t inhabit; relationships between men and women, poor and rich, are evolving and social conflicts are brewing.

In the presence of Ning Ying.