Great Power Heavy Industries: Let the Northeast Be Revitalized Again!

[Realistic themes + not entirely cool writing + hard-core industry + Northeast revitalization + period writing] 1994, Northeast old industrial base. Northern Machine Tool Factory, once the eldest son of the Republic, is now eight months in arrears with wages, its equipment is aging, and its people are distracted. The superiors have drafted a "shutdown and transfer" document. Just this winter, a young man who had just graduated from a provincial university was assigned to this dying factory. Everyone thought he was here to "go through the motions". No one knows that in the mind of this liberal arts student who seems to know nothing, there are all the answers to China's equipment manufacturing industry from catching up to surpassing it in thirty years. He knows which technical route is a dead end, which foreign businessman's quotation hides a trap, and which machine tool that was sold as scrap metal will be worth tens of millions in the future. He has no system, no powers, only a lot of unspoken future memories, and a stubborn streak of "I don't believe this factory is going to end like this." Starting from the scrap rate of a workshop, starting from the rescue of a scrapped machine tool, starting from a sum of foreign exchange that is about to be defrauded. He wants to bring this factory to life, let the machines on this black land roar again, and let the words "Made in China" be engraved on the nameplates of every production line in the world. This is a story about a small person leveraging a big era. This is an epic story of a generation of Northeastern workers who refused to accept their fate, admit defeat, or give up.