Yes The deputy editor-in-chief will have a long preliminary review. The deputy editor-in-chief may not have read the newspaper. After the inspection, he needs to find an external auditor, but he has not submitted it for review. At this stage, the status of the paper will not change. So it will also be rejected. Generally speaking, the thesis evaluation is three reviews and three schools. If you pass the external review, you will enter the final review of the editor-in-chief, and the probability of passing the final review is much greater.