Rebirth in 1983: the Road to Serve the Country Through Industry

Lin Yang, a small factory owner in his sixties, worked hard all his life and had a happy family, but he was stuck in small-scale light industry all his life. Seeing that foreign technology monopolies were helpless, he passed away with regrets about serving the country through industry. He was reborn back to 1983, when he was twenty years old. It coincided with the beginning of the reform and opening up. With decades of memories and business experience in hand, he started from the barren slopes of Lijia'ao, where no one was optimistic. He withstood the ridicule of villagers and the difficulties of village cadres, and planted cash crops according to local conditions to earn his first pot of gold. Then they went out of the countryside, opened supermarkets in county towns to seize the commercial spotlight, and steadily accumulated capital. He took root in building factories in light industry, gradually delved into the manufacturing field, overcame difficulties and delved into core technologies, and gradually broke through into the fields of heavy industry and precision equipment. Along the way, he resolved the competition among peers and the technical blockade of foreign companies. Based on industry, he broke the overseas technology monopoly, drove the neighbors to get rich together, and wrote an epic of a generation's down-to-earth struggle to revitalize national industry.