HAHA a close circle of friends?
You are telling us!!!
I was told that one of the manager's friend has been given a kind of managing position even before he arrived. After a while he was flight standard department manager, and then flight department manager. A week later he was "selected" to be trained on the citation in the US, even though the aircraft has not even arrived in china. This guy has not flown more than 30 hours with a chinese student in one year!