In the cold winter of 1998, the last furnace of molten steel at the "Far East Steel Works" in the northeastern town went out.
Black soil and wild waves
In the cold winter of 1998, the last furnace of molten steel at the "Far East Steel Works" in the northeastern town went out.
Zhang Weidong, an old worker, cut off his factory sign with iron pliers.
Lists of laid-off workers were plastered all over the bulletin board, and the luxury cars of the nouveau riche rolled over the snow in the factory area.
Little did he know that the moment he cut off the label, he also cut off the entire old order in the Northeast.
The storm is sweeping in from the depths of the black earth.
