Hearts of Iron: A Desert City from the Start

In the early 1950s, just after the founding of New China, the country is in need of reconstruction. The protagonist transmigrates to a real historical setting: the vast, desolate Gobi Desert of Xinjiang. As a member of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, he throws himself into that passionate undertaking of settling the frontier and defending the border, an era full of ideals and sacrifice.