Deepwater Operations

The tens-billion-dollar smart port project in Ningdong New District is a deep-water area with endless horizons. Forty-five-year-old Lu Jianli has been swimming in this water for ten years with his small company. Tsinghua University, Stanford, Google, Huawei - all the auras that once kept him afloat have sunk in the tenth year since starting his business. A multi-million-dollar smart tally system subcontracting project was his last piece of driftwood. The project signing was delayed for seven months without reason, the company's capital chain was broken, and 23 employees were owed wages for half a year. Zhou Shijie, director of general contractor Fang Huajian Xinke, was procrastinating while introducing alternative companies with lower quotes, waiting to see him sink. Under the water, there are undercurrents. Sales director Lin Hong slammed the table, technical director Zhao Yihang has been with him for ten years, and single mother Li Nan ran to the construction site into the early morning. These people clearly knew that the boss was drawing a cake, but they were still willing to hold their breath and accompany him to swim deeper. There is an old engineer named Sun Guoping at the port who has been in this water for thirty years. He stood on the shore and watched Lu Jianli struggle for seven months, and finally threw a rope. The contract was signed, the money was distributed, and the company was alive. But on the first day of the project delivery period, Lu Jianli received a call: "There are still people watching your project. Someone older than Zhou Shijie." The secret of the deep water area is - you think you have stepped on the bottom, but in fact there is deeper water below.