The Wind Rises 1977: the Thirty-Year Counterattack of Educated Youth

Everyone said that studying was no longer useful, and the only way out for educated youth was to use connections to recruit workers and return to the city. It was not until 1977 that the college entrance examination was restarted. Lu Zheng, an educated youth, seized the opportunity and studied hard for several months under a kerosene lamp, and finally lost his reputation. Watching his classmates rush to college, he did not sink. When the reform and opening up broke the ice, he returned to the city and struggled to gain a foothold in the city. With no memory of the future, he only relies on his hard-working ability and long-term vision to find business opportunities in the cracks of the times. In the 1980s, he set up stalls to accumulate capital, and in the 1990s, he built factories and started business. Thirty years have passed, and those who held the iron rice bowl at that time were in trouble, but this educated youth who failed to pass the exam has already taken advantage of the times to counterattack and support his hometown. The watershed in the fate of a generation began in the windy summer of 1977.