Reborn in 1980: My Dream of a Technological Superpower

In 2028, top chip CTO Lu Jianshe collapsed and died in front of a lithography machine. When he opened his eyes, he had somehow gone back to a factory in Northeast China in 1980.

He wore a blue work uniform washed nearly white, clutched a hammer with a chipped edge, and had a black cloud hanging over him: damage a mold, and he’d be fired. The whole factory called him “Honest Lump,” a soft touch everyone could push around.

Even more absurdly, the woman his family was urging him to marry was Fang Weixing, who would one day shake up the country’s semiconductor materials industry, but was now dejected because of her family’s “class background.”

Lu Jianshe: Thanks for asking. I’ve just transmigrated from the age of nanometer chips, and now I have to deal with a little problem first: “How do I machine a proper screw on an eighties-era lathe?”

While others hoarded ration coupons and engaged in speculation, he used his chip-design mindset to improve factory tooling and assemble cassette players, scraping together his first fortune through the cracks in the planned economy;

While others kept their distance from Fang Weixing because of her “class background,” he insisted on helping clear her father’s name and preparing her for the college entrance exams, while unlocking the double buff of “top student partner + technical co-founder” along the way;

Even the workshop director was baffled: How had this Honest Lump suddenly learned to read blueprints, fix machines, and talk back to me?

Lu Jianshe touched the simple circuit diagram in his pocket and sneered inwardly. Trying to bully me at work? Sorry, I brought the technology tree of the future with me.

From repairing radios to making chips, from running a small business to becoming a tech giant,

this time, he would not only give his family a better life, but also let China’s “core” light up the spring of 1980 ahead of schedule!