According to the data in the novel Courtyard of the Provincial Party Committee, the prototype of Xijiang Province from Wang Yiming in the original work is Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the prototype of Linhai City is Beihai City.

Provincial Party Committee Courtyard is a work of urban officialdom type, which tells the story of a farmer's son with no background who was assigned to the general office of Qingjiang Provincial Party Committee as a secretary after graduating from Wang Yiming University in the early 1980s. From then on, a series of lucky stories began to befall him.