The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong the economy was in recession the government constantly implemented futile policies the SARS outbreak and on July 1st 500000 people went on strike opposing the adoption of Article 23 of the Basic Law It was against this political atmosphere that YIN ZhaoJian gave up his social worker job a 10 year long and steady career and joined the political circle and participated in the district councilor election which he had no idea about