An Engineer's Life

The most popular saying these days is, "If you don't get into college, we'll be waiting for you at the construction site." And, "If you do get into college, we'll be waiting for you at the construction site four years later." The country's infrastructure projects are booming. One wave of young people after another leaves campus and heads for construction sites, while wave after wave of migrant workers leave their mountain villages and arrive at job sites. Scattered across construction sites large and small throughout the country, they use their own hands and ingenuity to build their nation and improve their families' lives...

These people are overlooked. Their deaths aren't even counted as sacrifice. No one, and no written account, has ever portrayed this ordinary crowd of men, drenched in sweat and grime. Their clothes are ragged; they are both great and insignificant. They are the backbone of construction sites across the country, using their ordinary lives to shape their motherland's magnificent landscape. They are often cheated, ignored, and surrounded by all kinds of unfair treatment. From another angle, they represent the spirit of our nation as a whole: hardworking, brave, and enduring. They are our people. They built our country with their own hands. They should not be forgotten...