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"Shenmu County is located in the core area of the energy and chemical industry base in northern Shaanxi. It has gone through 20 years of entrepreneurship starting from the development of the Shenfu Coalfield in 1986. In 1986, Shenmu County's regional gross product (GDP) was only 80.71 Million yuan, and its total fiscal revenue was 16.32 Million yuan, of which 4.5 Million yuan was local fiscal revenue. At that time, Shenmu was an agricultural county and a nationally designated poverty-stricken county. Twenty years later, Shenmu County GDP reached 12 billion yuan, and total fiscal revenue reached 3.2 Billion yuan, of which local fiscal revenue was 690 million yuan. Compared with the two years, GDP, total fiscal revenue, and local fiscal revenue increased by 148 times, 196 times, and 153 times respectively. The per capita disposable income of urban residents increased from 1,114 yuan in 1986 to 8,825 yuan in 2006, with an average annual growth of 17.9%.

Lijiacun is a small village with only about 20 households. In order to drive away the Japanese invaders and defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries, the villagers actively joined the army and participated in the war. They actively paid public rations for national salvation, sewed military uniforms and made military shoes, and supported the front line at all costs. Many of them also went directly to the battlefield, carried stretchers, transported military supplies and supplies, and sacrificed their precious lives for the revolution. By describing the most common production and life scenes, the novel creates a group with distinct personalities and a rich three-dimensional sense: Li Junjie, although he has a bad temper, is upright, kind, smart, capable, daring, and courageous; Wang Fugui, although selfish, loves to take advantage of small things, is lively and cute, and has high revolutionary enthusiasm; Lamei, although superstitious and loves to curse, is cheerful, pungent, smart, capable, and caring. In the novel, there are also Ma Shengsheng, Li Junying, Li Junyi, who are loyal, kind, hard-working and simple, and loyal to the revolution, as well as kind, lively, unpretentious peach blossoms, roses, lilacs, etc.