Back to the ’80S: Helping the Nation Clear Fifty Years of Progress in Ten

[The Nation] [Developing the Country Through Science and Technology] [The Rise of a Great Power] [National Fate] Returning to 1980, I Help My Country Speedrun Fifty Years of Glory in Ten Years Catching Fraudsters to Change National Fate, I Fast-Forward the Country’s Future by Fifty Years in Ten In 1980, Longguo abandoned chips and championed the strategy of “buying is better than making.” Forty years later, Longguo found itself strangled by foreign control of chip technology, spending a lifetime trying to catch up but always falling just short. Han Yi was reborn in 1980, back at this pivotal year. The rest of the world was still frantically making mistakes, hitting dead ends, and burning through money. Armed with every technological roadmap from the next 46 years, I had the whole map unlocked. Lithography machines, chip design, and manufacturing: Longguo had it all. We skipped the five years of trial and error the rest of the world went through. We built a decade of parameter optimization straight into the design. Structures the rest of the world failed to perfect time and again were optimal from the start. While everyone else was pouring money into the effort, we had knowledge of the future. Ten years later. The world’s most advanced technology was in Longguo’s hands. The global technological landscape had been utterly transformed. When Longguo cut off supplies, the whole world panicked. Longguo: “I know you’re worried, but don’t panic just yet.” [One day, I came across a story about Huang Lingyi. It moved me, and I couldn’t help wondering what might have happened if she had chosen a different path back then. On a sudden impulse, I decided to write this story. The setting is fictional, and it is not meant to represent anyone in particular. This is dedicated to those pillars of our nation who once gave their lives to building the country.]