That year, the front lines at Laoshan were engulfed in artillery fire, and soldiers could only use their own bodies to fill the enemy's shell craters.
The country had no counter-battery radar at all. An imported unit cost 200,000 pounds, and even then, its core components weren't available for purchase.
No one believed a recent graduate could change anything.
But in just ten days, he took domestically made radar to the top of the world: it could lock onto a target in three seconds, with an error margin of only ten meters.
The foreign currency saved paid for the bandages and medicine that kept front-line soldiers alive.
"Our country has never been inferior to anyone. If the British can build it, we can build it even better!"