In 1998, the year the reform of state-owned enterprises reached a critical stage, a wave of layoffs swept across the country.
Lin Jianjun, an apprentice who had graduated from technical secondary school and joined Jiangzhou Heavy Machinery Factory just three days ago, opens his eyes with the advanced hydraulic engineering knowledge of the next thirty years and is reborn.
In his previous life, he was one of the country's top chief hydraulic systems engineers. He devoted his life to technology, only to watch foreign capitalists hostilely take over state-owned enterprises, steal core technologies, leave his mentor unemployed and dead, cripple his brother in an accident, and drive his first love into depression until she died. Just as he was about to make a breakthrough in China's high-end hydraulic systems, overwork took its toll, and he died of a heart attack.
Reborn, he looks at the rusting factory buildings, his mentor on the verge of being laid off, and his first love, still untouched by life's hard realities, and clenches his fists.
Foreign firms think they can monopolize technology and charge extortionate prices? He repairs imported equipment worth 1.2 million yuan for just 200 yuan, delivering a face-slapping rebuke on the spot!
Competitors think they can cut corners to seize the market? With technology that leaves them in the dust, he creates high-end domestic hydraulic products and breaks the foreign monopoly!
International giants try to crush him with capital and technological restrictions? He leads China's manufacturing industry step by step, from catching up, to running neck and neck, and finally to taking the lead, restoring the backbone of Chinese industry!
In this life, he will not only make up for every regret and give his family, his beloved, and his brothers a happy ending, but also ensure that China's high-end manufacturing stands at the pinnacle of the world!
