Born in a farming and reading family in the countryside of central Hebei Province, Zhou Bingru originally planned to bury his head in books and live a stable life.
The calm was suddenly broken by an order: "Find uranium for the atomic bomb", which set the direction for the rest of his life.
Traveling west to the Gobi wilderness and east to the mountains of Liaodong, a group of geological prospectors traveled anonymously across the desert ridges and Gobi.
There is no vigorous declaration, only footsteps across the mountains and rivers. A dusty past in the mining area, a generation of geologists' hot years of home and country.
Purpose: To record the perseverance of ordinary geologists for their home and country and the destiny of the times