Ten Years of the Earth: the Ups and Downs of an Architectural Family

"Ten Years of the Earth: The Ups and Downs of a Construction House" takes the ups and downs of contractor Zhang Jianguo's family as the main line, depicting the rise and fall of China's civil construction industry from 2014 to 2024. In 2014, Zhang Jianguo's career was booming, his wife Li Xiulan enjoyed a prosperous life, and his son Zhang Rui studied in a private school. However, as the golden period of the industry faded, Zhang Jianguo took on high-risk projects during blind expansion and took on huge loans to build country villas. Zhang Jianguo looked for hope after silence, and founded the "Old Masters Cooperative" with his old workers. By changing their selling points to adapt to the new era, Li Xiulan experienced the transition from a rich wife to a waiter to a supervisor, and her mood also changed accordingly. Zhang Rui worked part-time to reduce the burden on her family while studying the "people" behind high-rise buildings, not just steel and concrete, hoping that more people would pay attention to the construction workers as a group and give them the respect they deserve.