Building a Dam to Bind the Dragon: the Song of My Youth

In the winter of 1978, 16-year-old Yang Xiaodong stood on the construction site of the dam reservoir. The wind was biting and ice was everywhere. No one knew that this thin boy would step by step from an ordinary migrant worker carrying earth and sand to a demolition hand, a dump truck master, a broadcaster, and finally the construction commander of the entire dam surface in the next seven years. No one knows that after the reservoir was completed, he returned home to get married, took over as a substitute teacher, borrowed money to study in a normal school, became a regular teacher, and served as a principal for seventeen years before retiring in 2022. He has personally experienced 50 years of social change and picked up a pen to write his own story... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.