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- Asking the Azure on Paper 纸上问青 [This book won an Outstanding Work Award in Qimao's Second Realist Fiction Writing Contest, and a print edition under the same title has been published.] A full-length novel about rural revitalization and grassroots governance. It follows Dou Huaiye, an online novelist who returns to her hometown after failing her graduate school entrance exam. By chance, she discovers that Ye Wenqing, the senior she has secretly loved, is an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. He gives up a high-paying j 9.2MHeat8.5MPopularity769kReaders
- Green Shuttle on the Desert Sands 漠上青梭绿 On May 5, 1993, an exceptionally fierce sandstorm struck Shacheng County in Northwest China. The people there realized their homes were about to be swallowed by the desert and turn into a second Lop Nur. Wang Tianjian refused to let his two sons, Dongzi and Goudan, keep suffering on the edge of the desert, so he took them to the city to attend school. When Dongzi grew up, he founded a business and eventually put down roots in Sidun Town, at the very front line of the battle against the sand. The 1.9MHeat1.1MPopularity160kReaders
- The Stars of the Big Dipper 北斗星辰 In ancient times, people determined the seasons based on the direction of the Big Dipper. Today, another Big Dipper has appeared above our heads, stretching across the sky as our all-seeing eye. It safeguards our national security and serves the needs of society. This is the Beidou Satellite Navigation System, developed and built entirely by our country. The novel tells the story of its arduous, magnificent construction and of how everyone involved grew along the way. Like Beidou, they shine bri 1.3MHeat1.1MPopularity107kReaders
- The Taste of Qin 秦味 [2026 China Writers Association Key Support Project for Online Literature] [2025 Shaanxi Writers Association Thematic Creation Support Project] [Signed for Simplified Chinese Publication] As a new-era online cultural professional, Qin Yao holds fast to her principles and integrity, actively promotes positive stories about changes in the city, and loves the work she does. After weathering many storms, she finally sees the rainbow and creates Qin Flavor, a branded short-video series! 1.1MHeat830kPopularity89kReaders
- Born to Chase the Sun 逐日而生 In the early years of the People's Republic of China, as the United States and other Western nations threatened the country with nuclear weapons, countless pioneers gave everything they had, pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into igniting that earth-shaking blast and bringing China to the threshold of becoming a nuclear power. Since the dawn of the new era, scientific and technological innovation has become the mainstream. The next generation has carried on the work of those who came before, 1.1MHeat498kPopularity88kReaders
- Red Across the Mountains 满山红遍 [Winner of the Sixth Greater Bay Area Cup (Shenzhen) Online Literature Competition] [Signed for simplified Chinese publication] After graduating from university, Chen Pingfan passed the village official exam and went to Longtou Village, a well-known impoverished village in northern Shaanxi, to serve as an assistant to the village Party secretary. Thanks to his efforts and the national poverty alleviation policies, Longtou Village successfully emerged from poverty and underwent a dramatic transfo 973kHeat564kPopularity81kReaders
- A Blue Voyage for a Great Nation 大国蓝途 From automation to artificial intelligence and robotics, generations of hard work finally led to the founding of Deep Blue Robotics Automation Co., Ltd. In the old era, its people were technological pillars of the new China. In the new era, they innovate together and improve people's lives. When the republic turned its attention to the riches hidden in the ocean, generation after generation set out for the deep sea without hesitation... As the tides of time rolled on, China's underwater robots ( 941kHeat803kPopularity78kReaders
- Tashi Delek 扎西德勒 There is a group of people who answered the call of the Party Central Committee with the passion of their youth. They gave up the comfortable life of big cities, never counting the hardship or expecting anything in return, and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to helping the people of Tibetan regions escape poverty and prosper. They shed tears and blood, and some even paid with their lives. Yet they have no regrets. They are the unsung heroes of this era, and also its most admirable people! This 845kHeat617kPopularity70kReaders
- Transmigrating Through the Faint Light 穿越微茫 Even a cunning hare has three burrows, yet humanity has only one place to live: Earth. In 2048, Earth's climate officially enters an irreversible warming phase, forcing humanity to accelerate its search for a way to ensure the continuation of civilization. Moving Earth to another star system would be far too difficult and would not solve the problem of a "single point of failure." The only option is to use space technology to expand humanity's reach within the limited time available, while exten 721kHeat500kPopularity60kReaders
- The Mountains and Rivers Will Never Forget 山河不会忘记 Using the careers of two generations of one family as a snapshot, the story recounts the trials and transformations that the old term "China Post and Telecommunications" underwent over the course of sixty years. It recreates the arduous development of China's communications industry and unfolds a historical panorama of the country's changing times. 688kHeat580kPopularity57kReaders
- Blind Strings 瞎弦 This work is inspired by Liangzhou Xianxiao, one of the first batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage projects. Also known as the "Liangzhou Book of Moral Instruction," Liangzhou Xianxiao is an ancient folk storytelling and singing art form mainly found in the Liangzhou region. Its songs mostly praise loyal ministers, valiant generals, and filial sons and grandsons. They uphold the values of "loyalty to the country and filial piety at home" and pursue the spiritual ideal of being b 665kHeat346kPopularity55kReaders
- Piercing the Sky 划破长空 At 5:45 a.m. on May 8, 1999, NATO used a B-2 stealth bomber to drop five bombs on our embassy in Yugoslavia. That bombing awakened a third-line military-industrial enterprise that had once straddled the line between military and civilian production. Tightening their belts, they used their meager wages to fund preliminary research on air defense missiles. They upgraded the Hongjian A air defense missile to the Hongjian AI, finally bringing an end to the third-line military industry's history of " 613kHeat562kPopularity51kReaders
- A Thousand Sails, Ten Thousand Blessings 千帆万安 When America's Starlink satellites came close to our space station several times, forcing us to carry out emergency collision-avoidance maneuvers, accelerating the construction of our own low-Earth-orbit satellite internet constellation became an urgent priority... After failing the gaokao, 90s-born youth Zhu Qianfan buckles down and becomes a satellite engineer. After gaining experience on one model after another, he finally begins taking part in Shanghai's "Ten Thousand Satellites" plan. Influ 606kHeat382kPopularity50kReaders
- Oasis of Tomorrow 明日绿洲 Qimao pen name: YiyuanLL; pen name outside Qimao: Yiyuan In 2335 by the Sha calendar, the residential districts of Shendu, once covered in greenery, are no more. Shendu is merely a microcosm of the global environment. Earth, which in the Gregorian calendar year had 90% of its surface covered by blue water, has become a desert planet with 90% of its land buried in yellow sand. Yet Earth's climate has hardly changed: the seasons remain distinct, and rainfall is plentiful. In some places, heavy sum 560kHeat397kPopularity46kReaders
- Glory to Su Chao 荣耀苏超 There are no social niceties here, only a longing for victory. In the summer of 2025, the “Su Super League” exploded in popularity. “Changzhou by the Stroke” and the “Chu-Han Contention” clashed fiercely amid the bustle of the “Breakfast Tea Derby.” A Taizhou team nobody expected to succeed tore through every prediction with an iron will, writing the most astonishing miracle in Chinese football that summer. This is a story about an underdog team, and also a love letter to everyone chasing a drea 560kHeat328kPopularity46kReaders
- Kunlong 鲲龙 The Kunpeng spreads its wings, and the flood dragon plunges into the sea. China's independently developed AG600 Kunlong, the world's largest amphibious aircraft currently in development and equipped with core technologies and intellectual property rights of our own, has made a spectacular debut. It not only fills a gap in airborne emergency rescue equipment, but also marks a major historic breakthrough for China's general aviation sector and the aviation industry as a whole. Liu Haiyang, one of 512kHeat390kPopularity42kReaders
- Vertical Takeoff 垂直起飞 In February 2021, the concept of the "low-altitude economy" was written into the national plan for the first time. With support from a range of policies on airspace, the economy, and industry, China's low-altitude economy is finally entering a golden age of rapid development... But Sun Qin, Yuan Zhiliang, and the others had already struggled for five years to reach this moment. They had once worked for well-known aircraft manufacturers and automakers, with stable incomes and social standing. But 509kHeat398kPopularity42kReaders
- The Great Nation’s Shield Tunneling Dream 大国盾构梦 Originally titled The Heavyweights of a Great Nation, also known as Pioneer One and The Great Nation's Shield Tunneling Dream. When will we put an end to the primitive method of "driving steel rods with a sledgehammer, drilling holes and then setting off explosives"? When will we be able to dig tunnels "without injuring anyone or causing any deaths"? "Seven hundred million! Half the project's budget was thrown at these two behemoths." "We're all people, so why do German workers earn 640 times ou 497kHeat1MPopularity41kReaders
- Upon the Earth 大地之上 In the 1950s, China's economic development was plagued by a severe shortage of oil. Qin Limin, who had dreamed of producing oil since childhood, met Zhuang Jie, who shared his dream of refining it. From different backgrounds and with completely opposite personalities, the two young people took up the torch passed down by their fathers. To free New China from its label as an oil-poor country, they traveled from the Yumen Oilfield in the northwest to the Chuangye Oilfield in the northeast. They we 481kHeat412kPopularity40kReaders
- The Woman on the Wheat Stalk 麦穗上的女人 Mai Sui divorced her husband after he cheated on her, before their son had even started primary school. In the early twenty-first century, a rural woman divorcing with children in tow became the talk of the neighborhood and a source of amusement for the locals. And young children were nothing but dead weight, dragging her down and inviting scorn. The gossip and rejection from relatives should have been one straw after another, enough to break anyone’s back. But no one expected Mai Sui to find a 428kHeat311kPopularity35kReaders
- Encountering the Yangtze 遇见长江 The Yangtze is long, stretching across the land of China. Along with the Yellow River, it is known as the “Mother River.” Tens of thousands of species and hundreds of millions of living creatures make their home in its vast waters, together forming a waterway that has sustained China for thousands of years. The people of Xingwang Village have lived beside the Yangtze for generations, growing up along its banks. Lao Jiang is one of them. When he was young, he could still often see “river pigs,” b 427kHeat373kPopularity35kReaders
- Vast Seas, Tiny Dust 浩海微尘 "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." Planning ahead is essential both to gaining wealth while preserving nature and to turning natural beauty into wealth. Over the next fifty years, guided by AI, human science and technology advance at a breakneck pace. But the amount of noxious gas accumulating on the Earth's surface grows sharply each year, and a steep rise in temperatures brings modern civilization close to collapse, drawing intense concern from countries around the world. 403kHeat278kPopularity33kReaders
- Shield of the Firmament 苍穹之盾 From ancient times to the present, the clash between spear and shield has always been the central theme of war. Every great power needs the sharpest spear to conquer cities and seize territory, unstoppable in its advance; it also needs the sturdiest shield to defend its cities, impregnable against attack. A group of young people ventured deep into the desert, devoting their youth and talent to the cause. At last, they forged the Divine Land's shield and raised it into the sky! 393kHeat394kPopularity32kReaders
- Guarding Mayitas 守望玛依塔斯 Mayitas in Xinjiang was once a rare blizzard disaster zone in China, with over 150 days a year of winds reaching Force 8 or higher. Known as the "Devil's Wind Zone," it was a place where more than 400,000 people of all ethnic groups in Tacheng fought a desperate, year-round battle against the wind demon. To rescue people caught in windblown snow disasters, the Mayitas rescue base was established. A special force promoting ethnic unity, made up of 20 people from seven ethnic groups, remained stat 387kHeat291kPopularity32kReaders
- The Sound of Clouds 云的声音 On June 2, 2023, a symposium on cultural inheritance and development was held. Telling China's stories well, preserving Chinese culture, and celebrating this great era through the language and logic of online literature is a historic mission and a responsibility that online authors cannot shirk. Drawing on the Gansu Province intangible cultural heritage of the Minqin Camel Carriers, this work tells the story of several generations of camel carriers, their nearly century-long devotion to their ho 373kHeat296kPopularity31kReaders
- Void Puzzle 虚空拼图 [No Cliches, No Wish Fulfillment, No Harem, Strong Point of View] The story that takes place after Transmigrate Through the Vastness. As Earth enters an irreversible warming phase and becomes unfit for human habitation, humanity launches the "Dandelion Project." It digitizes the entirety of human civilization, then compresses, encodes, and modulates it into radio signals and broadcasts them into the depths of space. The hope is that a civilization with a certain level of technological sophistica 367kHeat378kPopularity30kReaders
- Monument 丰碑 We search for the families of martyrs, trace the roots of the revolution, and raise monuments to heroes. Let us always remember those who gave their sweat and blood to rejuvenate our nation. Whether they sacrificed their lives or are still alive, they will forever stand as great, immortal monuments. 367kHeat314kPopularity30kReaders
- Jade Rises in the East 玉出东方 Yikeshan Yilixia, a young Uyghur man from a fourth-generation family of jade craftsmen, is skilled at finding jade but not at carving it. A granddaughter from a Nanjing family of Yang-style carving masters comes to Kashgar, Xinjiang, hoping to find a fine piece of jade for a carving competition. Their fates become intertwined through jade. Yikeshan Yilixia accompanies the pair back to Nanjing, where he grows from an inexperienced young man into a national-level arts and crafts master, wins the c 363kHeat239kPopularity30kReaders
- The Song of Tianma: The Life of Chen Chi 天马歌——陈炽传 Chen Chi was a renowned modern-era thinker, a key to unlocking the history of the late Qing. This heavenly steed from the banks of the Meijiang River in southern Jiangxi devoted himself to realizing his soaring dream of genius: writing books, founding societies, advocating reform, and strengthening the nation. Sadly, the skies of the late Qing gave him no chance to take flight. Free-ranging as a heavenly steed, his life was an enigma. Generations of students regarded him as a model, yet he left 356kHeat318kPopularity29kReaders
- Rise Upward 向上 You only get one shot at life, so keep striving. We missed Shenzhen and Pudong. We can't miss Xiong'an too! The first online novel to use Xiong'an as its starting point for a new rural transformation. 321kHeat293kPopularity26kReaders
- The Red Torch 红炬 In 1987, Bu Yunfeng, a young and ambitious deputy chief of the Economic Inspection Team at Liancheng's Bureau of Industry and Commerce, was assigned by the authorities to investigate the city's Boiler Factory. The loss-making factory had no value left to preserve, but given the impact on all parties and policy restrictions, the municipal government worked actively to coordinate a solution. Experts proposed merging the factory as a whole into the city's Explosion-Proof Equipment Factory. However, 319kHeat290kPopularity26kReaders
- Lucky Four-Leaf Clover 幸运四叶草 Qimao pen name: Yiyuan LL; pen name outside Qimao: Yiyuan Javier, a craftsman in his fifties from the mountainous Arequipa region of Peru, has spent over thirty years making alpaca-wool handicrafts. With sales limited, he's never been able to give his family a better life, much less help the people of Campo Village escape poverty. He deeply reveres the traditional craft he learned, yet feels helpless in the face of reality. After recovering from a serious illness, Yin Xia, a Chinese woman who o 282kHeat186kPopularity23kReaders
- Flying Over the Cihuai New River 飞翔在茨淮新河 The Cihuai New River is the largest artificial river dug after the founding of the People's Republic of China to control the Huai River. It stretches for more than a hundred kilometers, took fourteen years to complete, and required over two million labor assignments. After it opened to navigation in 1985, the Huaibei Plain was no longer plagued by floods even after heavy rain, while suffering water shortages after light rain. Yet this artificial river, which has made an enormous contribution to 281kHeat217kPopularity23kReaders
- Chasing the Sun with the East Wind 东风逐日 Just as the struggling Dongfang Group received a special order from Aerospace Institute No. 248. The project required the group's First Factory to manufacture five alloy cylinders within ten months. The cylinder material was cutting-edge and beyond the factory's previous experience, while the welding requirements were exceptionally demanding, posing a huge challenge. To fulfill the order, the group formed a task force led by Yu Dayou, director of the First Factory, and began the difficult develo 265kHeat247kPopularity22kReaders
- Our Tea Horse 我们的茶马 Qimao pen name: YiyuanLL; pen name outside Qimao: Yiyuan One is a young man from Shanghai adrift in the city after setbacks at work; the other is a young Gyarong Tibetan whose startup has failed. The two meet on Zheduo Mountain because of a stolen vehicle, then are stranded there by a sudden heavy snowfall. So they gather around a bonfire and begin telling each other their stories. 261kHeat231kPopularity21kReaders
- The Messenger Who Lights the Stars 点亮星星的使者 Qimao pen name: YiyuanLL; pen name outside Qimao: Yiyuan [This book received project support from the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation in the second half of 2023] The Boy's Story of The Messenger Who Lit the Stars A single internet connection brings together two families who have never met. Wang Dong, a veteran with a stutter, has an odd personality and lives alone, until he discovers that he has leukemia. Shen Chenxing is a first-year high school student whose parents' relationship fell 254kHeat256kPopularity21kReaders
- Peaches and Plums Still Flourish 桃李尚荣 The work makes extensive use of overflowing and transformed discourse, with an emphasis on the dynamic development of its characters. Set against the backdrop of real historical times, it uses heartfelt, moving, witty, and humorous stories to portray the career and romantic ups and downs of grassroots young teachers such as Shang Qingzhu and Rong Lihan. Through their tireless work in education across the countryside, towns, and coastal cities, it showcases the positive achievements of four decad 245kHeat260kPopularity20kReaders
- Dreamweaver of the Huai Willows 淮柳织梦人 Set against the national-level intangible cultural heritage of Huanggang willow weaving, this novel recounts the story of young people starting businesses on the banks of the Huai River over the decade from 2012 to 2022. After the male lead, Fan Changfeng, suffers heartbreak, he decides to carry on the Fan family's willow-weaving craft and revive its legacy. He turns humble willow-woven products into cultural treasures, making every exported piece of national-level intangible cultural heritage t 242kHeat200kPopularity20kReaders
- The Road to Heaven 天路 Hu Xuefeng was one of the second generation of builders of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. After graduating from university, he gave up the opportunity to study abroad and joined a bureau of China Railway. In 2000, he began preparations for the second phase of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project. When construction officially started in June 2001, Hu was appointed station master of Station One on Section One of the project. That October, he volunteered to work on the most difficult section of the railwa 222kHeat200kPopularity18kReaders
- The Returnee to the Central Plains 中原归乡人 At the heart of the story are the four rural reforms experienced by Gaoquan Village over the course of twenty years. Through changes in the village, in the hearts of its people, and in the times themselves, it offers a panoramic portrayal of the transformation of a small village rooted in historical legend. (The work was selected for the China Writers Association’s 2024 Key Support Program for Online Literature and the Henan Province 2024 Key Literary and Artistic Creation Projects.) 217kHeat229kPopularity18kReaders
- Pearl of the Sea 海上明珠 After eight years of scientific research and five years of design and construction, China broke through technological barriers and industry monopolies, building from scratch a system of more than 1,400 standards for large cruise ships. The world's largest and most complex single electromechanical product, China's first large cruise ship, the Adora Magic City, successfully began commercial service in early 2024, adding another brilliant national calling card to the Maritime Silk Road. From constr 195kHeat251kPopularity16kReaders
- Atop the Dabie Mountains 大别之巅 In Shangcheng, four county Party committee secretaries have been murdered. Jiang Jingqing, the current acting secretary, disguises himself as a feng shui master and braves a heavy snowstorm to restore the Party organization in the southern townships, verify the number of Party members, convey the spirit of the August 7 Conference, and guide the Shangcheng Uprising. But on his way back to the city, local bandits ambush him. His fate is unknown. Who leaked the news? Is there a traitor within their 151kHeat201kPopularity12kReaders
- The Critical Path 关键路径 "For decades, the skies above us have been full of foreign planes." This is the shared, deep-seated regret of generations of Chinese aviation workers facing this embarrassing reality. Born in the 80s and 90s and raised in a new era, the next generation of aviation workers, including Du Pu and Ye Ziwen, carry on the spirit of hard work and answer the call of the times, taking on the challenge of breaking the deadlock. They rise above workplace rivalries, resist outside temptations, and weather ro 130kHeat241kPopularity11kReaders
- The Fragrant Road 芬芳之路 Based on a certain border port, this novel follows its efforts to implement the country's Belt and Road Initiative, break through bottlenecks in the development of its port economy, and vigorously expand foreign trade and economic cooperation. The novel focuses on a new generation of grassroots officials, represented by Jiang Dalu, the newly appointed Party secretary of Xupin County. Highly educated, energetic, and broad-minded, they are thoughtful and dare to break with rigid thinking. When fac 125kHeat134kPopularity10kReaders
- The Way of the Mean 中和之道 Development is humanity's eternal pursuit, but what price should we pay for it? It must never be the Earth itself, for she is humanity's shared and only home. What does development require? Energy. Yet our supply lines in the traditional energy sector are somewhat fragile. Whether to protect humanity's home or to ensure our own energy security, developing new energy sources and achieving carbon neutrality are the only way forward, and have already become national strategies. Our young new-energy 115kHeat131kPopularity9.4kReaders
- Brotherhood of the Jianghu 江湖情义 Han Tang practiced his family's inherited boxing style. While heading south with his cousin-in-law to find work, he unexpectedly met the local gang boss, Ninth Master, and joined the gang. At first, Han Tang only wanted to make himself strong enough to protect his cousin-in-law. But after weathering bloodshed and turmoil along the way, he ended up facing off against Ninth Master, the very man who had made him who he was... The young fist that had once shielded his cousin-in-law's shoulders was n 33kHeat155kPopularity2.2kReaders
- The Sea's Reply 海的回批 In the late Qing dynasty, Lin Haisheng, a young man from the Fujian coast, leaves his hometown for the Nanyang to make a living and pay off his family's debts. Starting as a dock laborer, he endures debt, illness, failed business partnerships, and cross-cultural encounters. At last, he is able to support himself, but years later he discovers that his hometown is no longer the place he remembers, and the Nanyang is no longer just somewhere to stay for a while. 24kHeat9.8kPopularity1.2kReaders
- I Own a Piece of Land 我有一块地 An unambitious man born in the 1980s suddenly comes into possession of a plot of mist-covered land, and his life changes dramatically from that point on. 24kHeat4.5kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Spring Winds Turn the Willow Banks Green Again 春风又绿杨柳岸 Yang Liufang was born into a poor family in Liunan Village, Yangshi Town, Wenzhou. After graduating from junior high at fifteen, he apprenticed himself to Yang Liugen, a carpenter from the same village. Hardworking and eager to learn, he was caught up in a misunderstanding with his master and the master's wife by sheer bad luck. Afraid that beatings and gossip would hurt his family, he left for Xizhou alone. With not a penny to his name, he put Wenzhou's hardworking spirit to use. At the square 24kHeat21kPopularity1.2kReaders
- The Imprint of an Era 时代的印记 In the 1980s, Peng Sanhu, Zhu Fengshou, and others founded factories and contributed to the cause of socialism. 24kHeat41kPopularity1.3kReaders
