Passionate Years: Progress Begins with Hunting and Fishing in the Northwest

[Fiery Years] [Serving the Motherland] [Passionate Progress] [Everyday Life in a Bygone Era] [Military Reclamation] [Fishing and Hunting]

In 1957, the slogan "Vast lands, great opportunities" sparked a nationwide wave of volunteers heading to the border regions. Sixteen-year-old Li Xiangdong answered the call and boarded a special train bound for the Great Northwest...

The Gobi Desert, saxaul trees, red willows, reed-filled lakes. It was desolate...

Li Xiangdong chose to lead his team in surviving the desert. They turned swords into plowshares and poured their youth into transforming the uneven Gobi into level, fertile fields...

In those impassioned years, Li Xiangdong drew on his memories of the Northern Frontier from his previous life. Leading the young volunteers on the Gobi, he used his foresight to avoid every pitfall he could, helping turn the Great Northwest into an engine of economic growth for the Northern Frontier. In the end, Li Xiangdong became a builder of the Great Northwest, step by step...

[A completed, three-million-word classic of the era genre. Guaranteed to have a proper ending, with no abandonment.]