The Strong Wind Sets Sail to Our Whizzing Youth

This is a collective memoir written for all those born in the 1980s, and it is also a picture of the times spanning forty years. In 1986, in the fields of Chenjia Village, five-year-old Chen Yuan clutched a glass marble and dreamed of going to the county town to see the cement road; in the Shanghai alley, Li Lei got on his father's Santana for the first time and made a wish "I want to be rich"; in the family building of Peking University, Lin Na planted the seeds of going global in the sound of her mother's stories. Three post-80s generations with different starting points are running in the wave of reform and opening up. Chen Yuan walked from the countryside to the county seat, and from the county seat to Beijing, seizing opportunities in the Internet boom; Li Lei came to Shanghai from the countryside in northern Jiangsu, and went from a car repair stall to a Taobao store to the founder of a technology company, experiencing many ups and downs in the business world; Lin Na went from the elementary school attached to Peking University to Tsinghua University, from Tsinghua University to Stanford, and finally returned to the motherland from Silicon Valley. Their fate is closely intertwined with the times - the return of Hong Kong, SARS, the Beijing Olympics, the financial crisis, the mobile Internet wave... Every torrent of the times has left its mark on them. College entrance examination, drifting to Beijing, starting a business, buying a house, raising children, mid-life crisis - this is their story, and it is also the collective memory of an entire generation. After forty years of ups and downs, they moved from the fields to the city, from youth to maturity, from having nothing to becoming the mainstay of this country. Those children running in the wind finally grew into adults who supported the times.