Looking West

In March 1975, the Xinjiang Corps was abolished. After the news was announced, people's hearts were filled with uncertainty. Li Zhenxin, an educated youth in Shanghai, was among the first to pack his luggage. He has always longed to leave here and return to the prosperous Shanghai, but fate made him stay. The arrival of love, the death of his father, and the old squad leader Zhang Youfu was swept away by the flood in order to save him, and even his body was not found. These things, like nails, nailed him to this land. He began to truly feel Xinjiang, the Corps, and everything here. He no longer lives for the eyes of others, but truly for himself. Gradually, he found himself falling in love with this desolate and generous land. In December 1981, the central government decided to restore the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and rename it "Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps". By then, Li Zhenxin had become the technical backbone of the team field. His son was also born in this year and named him... Hope.