Burning Years: from Labor Camp to Diesel Engine Factory

1958, Yuquan Labor Reform Brigade, Guangxi Province. Squadron leader Wu Ming resolutely took on the arduous task of replicating the 1140 horizontal gas internal combustion engine. Don't have a professional team? He selected technical talents among labor reform prisoners to form a special research group. Don't have advanced equipment? Casting by local methods, filing by hand, and even running around on a belt lathe from the Showa era. Although the drawings have been completed, implementation has been difficult. The research team has to face various technical challenges, such as dynamic balancing of cast iron flywheel, gas source stability of gas engine and optimization of ignition system... Against the background of years of burning passion, Wu Ming is bound to lead this special team and use wisdom and sweat to create Guangxi's first internal combustion engine. So far, the unknown small labor reform workshop has gradually transformed into the leading diesel engine factory in the country and even the world!