Electricity Passes Through the Coal Seam, and the Embers Glow Dimly in the Long Night

The novel is based on the forty-year development history of the Huangling Mining Area in northern Shaanxi and tells the story of how a group of ordinary people built a barren riverbank into a modern coal power base from 1986 to 2026. In 1986, a young man, Lu Chenzhou, came to the Diantou Town Power Plant. At that time, there were only seven street lights in the town, and power outages were a common occurrence. The mining area preparatory office was listed, the No. 1 Coal mine was forced to stop due to loan cuts after it started, water leakage accidents flooded wells, and small coal kilns were closed. The road to building the mine was difficult every step of the way. Wang Shoucheng withstood the pressure to hold on to the construction site, and Liu Mandun took root in the coal yard of the power plant after escaping from the collapse of the small coal kiln. In 1996, coal was finally produced from the No. 1 Coal mine, and the power supply began to improve. Entering the new century, the mining area has taken advantage of the "strategic northward shift" to develop and grow. It has jointly built the No. 2 Coal mine with Jiangsu, a waste rock power plant to turn waste into electricity, and intelligent coal mining to allow workers to bid farewell to underground mines. Lu Chenzhou succeeded Song Changgeng to guard the centralized control room, and the new generation such as Gu Huaian and Cheng Wangan took over the mission. In 2015, the Preparatory Office of the Diantou Power Plant announced the launch of the 2×660MW project, but it caught up with the country's tightening of thermal power approvals. Gu Huaian four years later After traveling to and from Beijing more than 40 times, it was finally approved in 2020. In 2023, the first phase of the project was "double-unit-double-injected" and the power was sent to Hubei through UHV lines. The second phase of the million-kilowatt unit started immediately, and the construction speed set a new record. The novel unfolds in the form of an alternating relay between three generations, using cold and restrained writing to record the winter of changing the river, the suffering of breaking the loan, the danger of flooding, and the wait for approval.