The Experts Left and Burned the Blueprints? I’ll Build the Nation’s Next Great Weapon by Hand

In 1959, relations between China and the Soviet Union soured. Soviet experts burned all the technical blueprints overnight and withdrew.

Equipment worth tens of millions was reduced to scrap, three thousand workers faced layoffs, and Hongxing Machinery Factory was pushed to the brink.

He Changfeng had just returned from studying in Moscow when he picked up a charred fragment of a blueprint from the ground. An invisible industrial archive burst open in his mind!

Not only could he fully restore the destroyed blueprints, he could also automatically identify seventeen upgrade plans that were decades ahead of their time.

“The experts have left, but the technology hasn't. And not only has it stayed, we're going to build equipment that puts us thirty years ahead of the world!”

From hand-reproducing precision parts to ushering in the age of CNC, from a secret base deep in the mountains to the pinnacle of the nation's heavy industry.

When that roaring piece of domestically made equipment dazzled the world, the experts who had left all those years ago regretted it.