The Changqing Driller

In 1980, after the college entrance examination was reinstated, rural girl Zhao Qiuyan took the exam for three years before earning admission to Changqing Petroleum School. With a pure-hearted determination to dedicate herself to the country’s petroleum industry, she arrived at the school. Zhao Qiuyan worked hard in her studies and on the job, taking model worker Niu Linlin as her role model and striving to master her craft… Through the efforts of Zhao Qiuyan’s generation of oil workers, they developed more than 130 core technologies and patents, paving the way for the oil field’s efficient and rapid growth. Over the course of fifty years, a generation of workers pursued independent innovation and integrated innovation, developing more than sixty key technologies and over 130 sets of equipment and tools for the efficient development of oil and gas. They multiplied the output of individual tight oil and gas wells, transforming Changqing Oilfield, once an unremarkable small field in the northwest, into the largest oil field on land in China. It supplied natural gas for the Beijing Olympics, increased the nation’s strategic petroleum reserves, and reduced China’s dependence on foreign supplies…