Youth at the Foot of the Tianshan Mountains

It's recruitment season for the Western Development Volunteer Program again! Have you signed up for this year's program for college students? How much do you know about it? Come along and learn more, and get a feel for it through this novel. This is her story. In 2011, she answered the nation's call to “go west, go to the grassroots, go wherever the motherland needs you most,” becoming a college volunteer and serving in Xinjiang for two years. It was a choice she made in her youth, a vivid and beautiful chapter of her youth... During those years, she had her dream of the west, her friendships, and her love... It was romantic and warm, carefree and fanciful, filled with both happiness and sadness... What should youth be like? She cannot define it. On her journey, she never forgot her original purpose, kept striving, and never stopped chasing her dreams...