Hidden Stars: They're the Ones Worth Following

In 1959, a top-secret project codenamed “596” began in Lop Nur. A group of people whose identities had been erased vanished into the endless sands.

Deng Jiaxian said goodbye to his pregnant wife, leaving her only the words, “It’s worth dying for”;

Yu Min buried himself in calculations, finding the key to the hydrogen bomb in the burning heart of the sun;

Guo Yonghuai destroyed the manuscripts of a lifetime and boarded a prison ship bound for home.

Their names were shrouded in mystery, their achievements left without monuments. Only the crackle of abacuses rang across the Gobi through countless long nights.

Until a clap of thunder shook the universe, and a mushroom cloud became the medal they shared.

They were a group of people who “did not exist,” forging the strongest backbone for their motherland.

They lived their lives in silence, only so the world could hear the voice of China.