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- 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
- The Acrobat Girl 杂技少女 This is a story of emotional entanglements between an adoptive father and daughter who are unrelated by blood, and between a mother and daughter. It unfolds in two places: the developed coastal city of Zhedong in the east, and the underdeveloped Quanglin County in northern Anhui, in central-eastern China. The heroine, Zhang Haining, depends on her adoptive father. After growing up and learning the truth about her birth, she travels a thousand miles to find her mother, but her search fails. Her m 421kHeat270kPopularity35kReaders
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Beneath the Firmament: The Silent Watcher 苍穹之下：无声的守望者 In 2011, ordinary college student Sun Lin steps through the doors of Jiangcheng Beifeng Aviation, thinking he's landed a secure job for life. Administrative busywork? Technical errands? He becomes an inconspicuous "watcher" of a vital national project. This isn't a spy thriller. It's the real, silent battlefield of China's defense industry! Administrative procedures, subcontracting agreements, network ports... danger lurks everywhere. From a green rookie to a key informant for national security, 146kHeat183kPopularity12kReaders
- The Burning Ferry 燃烧渡轮 How can you be sure the person beside you in bed is truly the one you love? A hero who's good on the outside and ruthless within, a heroine who hunts down criminals, a fraud ring, manipulation, disputes over the spoils, murder, and a fugitive on the run... Who ended up with the stolen money? A fraud ring runs a conveyor-belt operation, targeting older single women for marriage scams. After draining their savings, the con artists disappear. When Xu Huihui's fiancé vanishes without a trace just th 24kHeat16kPopularity1.2kReaders
- The Chongzuo Watcher 崇左守望者 The white-headed langur is a black monkey with a little cap of white fur on its head. It can nimbly navigate steep cliffs. These karst spirits are a nationally protected first-class wild animal and a primate species unique to China. In the 1980s and 1990s, driven by poverty, villagers had no choice but to keep clearing land for crops and going into the mountains to cut firewood. This shrank the langurs' habitat. On top of that, rampant illegal hunting caused the population of white-headed langur 23kHeat12kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Love at Its Best Is Being There 爱到最美是陪伴 [Cool, sophisticated older woman meets a warm-hearted puppy-like younger man, an inspiring little guide to starting a business through puppy-love devotion] If not for Nan Yu's blunt wake-up call, Chen Luotong would never have understood her aging mother's loneliness and helplessness. If not for Nan Yu's quiet companionship, Chen Luotong would never have known that someone could love her so deeply. If not for Nan Yu's steadfast encouragement, Chen Luotong would never have let go of her accomplish 23kHeat28kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Dragon Blade 龙刃 Political turmoil grips African nation A, with rival factions clashing in secret and international terrorist organizations constantly infiltrating the country. The construction of the Alti section of the Via Railway, a major Chinese-funded project, faces a serious threat. After a bloody terrorist attack, at the invitation of nation A, China decides to form a special operations team to join a counterterrorism coalition and protect Chinese assets. Retired special forces officer Qin Tian is invited 23kHeat6.4kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Searching for My Roots 寻根 The story opens with Huang Zhenbang, an overseas Chinese man from Indonesia, returning to Xinzheng City in Henan with his family’s ancestral village map and a jade pendant to seek his roots and pay respects to his ancestors. After making offerings at Huangdong Village, a conversation with his nephew, Huang Tianliang, inspires him and elevates his feelings, bringing about a shift in perspective from honoring his own family’s ancestors to honoring the ancestors of his people. As the story unfolds, 23kHeat11kPopularity1.1kReaders
- An Era of Great Change 峥嵘时代 In the early years of reform and opening up, Lin Xiaohui and her soldier husband each had their own dreams and worked hard to pursue them. But then her husband died in battle. Heartbroken, she did not give up on life or her dreams. Instead, she threw herself even more wholeheartedly into starting a business. Kind, resilient, clever, capable, and good with people, she kept moving forward one step at a time. She started with a street stall, opened a clothing shop, built a factory, started a compan 22kHeat46kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Operation Nibiru 尼比鲁行动 In the 1970s, archaeologist Zecharia Sitchin discovered a stone star map among the ruins of a Sumerian civilization dating back 6,000 years. It marked twelve celestial bodies, including a planet never before observed, known as "Nibiru." For many years, the astronomical community has been divided and embroiled in debate over the planet Nibiru. Perhaps it is merely a guardian of civilization born from myth. Perhaps it is just one ordinary planet among countless harbingers of disaster. Or perhaps i 22kHeat12kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Flickers of Starlight 星火点点 Shen Yue, a recent graduate working as a teacher in a rural school, and Tao Hui, a village official tasked with poverty alleviation, lead the villagers of a beautiful and fertile yet isolated and underdeveloped mountain village onto the road to prosperity and out of educational poverty. Together, they write the story of their youth. They are sparks of a new generation, carrying on the mission of pioneers through the generations and creating a history of their own in a new era. 22kHeat15kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Snowtown Sanatorium 雪镇疗养院 A new female manager at a sanatorium, determined to fight her way up in a male-dominated workplace; a hospice care worker who has just earned her certification; a novelist whose inspiration has dried up and who takes a job as a server; a small-time streamer who lives off her parents, loses money, and tries to exploit the elderly; and a tenacious young police officer investigating the poaching of Northeast tigers... They all meet at Snowtown Sanatorium, where they heal one another through their c 22kHeat4kPopularity1.2kReaders
- The Bay Horse and the Five-Pointed Maple 海骝马与五角枫 The land of Horqin in the 1980s welcomed the spring breeze of the household responsibility system and reform and opening up. Hu Sile, a poor young herder, and her companions relied on these two winds of change to fulfill their simple wish of having enough to eat. Going from hunger to a moderately prosperous life, escaping poverty is not the finish line, but the starting point of a new life. 22kHeat21kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Bamboo Sea 竹海 The story is set at a forest farm in the Daba Mountains near Wanyuan City, Sichuan. Li Jiapo was once a vast sea of bamboo, but it was completely logged in the 1970s. In the 1980s, a small open-pit sulfur mine was discovered there. Chemical pollution, followed by a cement factory quarrying stone, turned the area into a barren, man-made wasteland. The ecosystem was devastated, forcing a local hunter to return to farming. By the end of the 1990s, the old hunter had answered the reforestation initi 22kHeat14kPopularity1.3kReaders
- The Jiang Hai Alliance 疆海盟 In 2021, the Eighth National Conference on Pairing Assistance to Xinjiang was held. In response to its directives, Shanghai organized grassroots courts to select personnel for legal support work in Xinjiang. Li Xianming, a member of the Party leadership group at Shanghai's First Intermediate People's Court, answered the call and headed to Xinjiang. Wang Meng, a newly appointed judge, was selected by a twist of fate to spend a year providing support in Shache County, Kashgar Prefecture, an area S 22kHeat8.8kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Interwoven Memories 交错的记忆 In the late 1980s, a massive explosion at the Chunjiang Chemical Plant claimed many lives in a sea of flames and left a group of children orphaned. Having lost their parents, these children faced the darkest time of their lives. Confused and rebellious, they could see no direction ahead. Then a girl named Xu Xiaoning entered their lives, comforting their lonely souls and lighting their way forward. But one hot afternoon, someone put Xu Xiaoning on a red motorcycle, and she vanished without a tra 22kHeat4.2kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Years of Kiln Fires 窑火岁月 In the 1980s, the construction industry developed rapidly. Shihezi Ring Kiln Factory, a subsidiary of the Shihezi Construction and Installation Company, grew quickly with the times, and the lives of parents and children went down different paths as a result. By the late 1990s, energy conservation, emissions reduction, and cost control had led the construction industry to use hollow bricks on a large scale. The ring kilns that fired red bricks fell into decline and went from state-run to privatel 22kHeat11kPopularity1.1kReaders
- The Second Earth 第二个地球 What will become of humanity if, a thousand years from now, Earth's resources are depleted and it is no longer fit for humans to live on? In 3021, China's Milky Way Strike Team boarded the Hongmeng and set off on a space expedition to find a second Earth. They traveled through a black hole and leaped across the timeline, arriving at a planet never before discovered. They named it China Star. They believed this China Star was the second Earth they had been searching for. 21kHeat118kPopularity1.1kReaders
- White Tower Criminal Case Files 白塔刑事档案 A collection of criminal cases that took place over the years in a small northern city, compiled from archived records. As Police Captain Liu Limin tracks down the perpetrators, he unravels layer upon layer of secrets, revealing the truths about human nature hidden behind each case. 21kHeat13kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Unable to Let Go 无法释怀 A woman is murdered in the street. Before she dies, she writes down three characters: "Chen Xuelin." It seems as if the killer is right in front of them, but the police discover that the message the victim left behind appears to point to a university professor who died many years ago. Their investigation reveals that Chen Xuelin was a respected man in life. For reasons unknown, he was murdered by one of his own students. As the investigation deepens, police captain Li Zhong realizes that her dea 21kHeat9.1kPopularity980Readers
- Recovery Is Right Here at Xiaotangshan 康复就在小汤山 Lu Miaomiao works long hours hunched over her desk as a writer, with a highly irregular diet and sleep schedule. One day, she suddenly develops a serious health problem. Introduced by a friend, she spends time recovering at Xiaotangshan Hospital, where she forms friendships with the medical staff and other patients and learns about their inner lives. They encourage and comfort one another, overcome the arduous rehabilitation process, and welcome a miracle in life! 21kHeat11kPopularity1.1kReaders
- The Code of Lacquer Art 漆艺的密码 The Yun and Lin families, masters of traditional lacquer art in Chengdu, have passed down their craft through four generations over 200 years. The two families have always lived and worked in harmony, using their lacquerware to spur the development of the entire ancient town. Yun Shuiyi and Lin Yizhe, childhood friends who love each other, seem destined to marry. But just when everyone expects them to wed without a hitch, the two families become bitter enemies in the span of a single week. Deter 21kHeat11kPopularity1kReaders
- Years Like the Bright Moon 岁如皎月 In the mid-to-late 1990s, Liu Ye and Tang Hongmei, who had been laid off from factory jobs, became friends with Fan Lihua, who had taken unpaid leave from her public-sector job. This is the story of three women struggling to make their way amid the tides of reform. They started by setting up street stalls to make a living on their own, then rented shops and began searching for a direction to grow their businesses. At every turn, they faced danger and hardship, yet fought their way through. A chi 21kHeat8.1kPopularity1kReaders
- The Arithmetic of Love 爱的加减法 In the not-too-distant future, technology has advanced to the brink of being able to control the flow of time. But out of ethical concerns and fear of the unknown, time travel technology is strictly restricted and exists only in top-secret projects at a handful of research institutions. Then an accidental experiment malfunction sends genius teenager Li Xin transmigrating twenty-one years into the past, to the time when his parents were still young. His 35-year-old father suddenly loses his job, 20kHeat12kPopularity1.1kReaders
- The Lamp by the Long River 长河之灯 Zhu Duyi, a young PhD in literature, has yet to meet someone she likes. When her parents pressure her to marry, she tells them she wants to remain single. Her mother slaps her, and Duyi goes to hide at her best friend Xinhuo's home. Duyi's father, Zhu Hu, visits Xinhuo's father, Dunhuang, hoping Xinhuo can persuade Duyi to change her mind. But Xinhuo supports Duyi, saying she regrets rushing into marriage just because her parents told her to. Dunhuang and Zhu Hu are both worried about their daug 20kHeat5.5kPopularity996Readers
- Splendor on the Sea 海上繁华 Young Lu Hang witnesses the changing fortunes of the world's busiest port, one step at a time, starting as a broker, moving into recycling, and then entering the shipping and logistics business! 20kHeat16kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Ultra-High Voltage: A Global Leader 特高压独步全球 In 1976, Dilizar and Ayihan in Xinjiang are bitterly at odds over irrigation and house construction. Their feud spreads to the younger generation. Alia, who grew up with Song Xiangshang, no longer lets him ride her big white horse to school and makes things difficult for him at every turn. Later, amid the wave of educated youth returning to their hometowns, Alia follows her father back to the city and begins living like a city girl. She also becomes the person Song Xiangshang pursues. Song Jiang 20kHeat9.8kPopularity1.1kReaders
- A Springtime as Beautiful as Brocade 春乡似锦 Chang Sijin dreams of becoming a game concept artist, but unexpectedly inherits Yixin Textile Mill, founded by her parents. Lacking experience in the ways of the world, she faces a major challenge as soon as she enters the textile industry: a competitor poaches the mill’s female workers, bringing its production line to a standstill! Desperate, Chang Sijin decides to call her parents for help, only to learn that her father has been admitted to the ICU after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. To sav 20kHeat12kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Moonlight Over the New River 月照新河 Once upon a time, people dreamed of breaking through the Jiudian Gorge and leveling Huajialing. But all that grand ambition eventually vanished like smoke. A hundred thousand soldiers dug and blasted, yet they could not even scratch the surface of nature. The mountains remained mountains, and the cliffs remained cliffs. Once upon a time, the mountains were bare as a monk’s head, and the gullies had no flowing water. Nine years out of ten brought drought, and every year people lived in worry. The 20kHeat8.9kPopularity904Readers
- Hello, Prosthetist 你好，义肢师 Wan Qiumin is a female prosthetics technician with a naturally sensitive constitution, but she is passionate, adventurous, and full of life. Chi Jian is a male prosthetics technician who is quiet, prefers to hide in a corner, and rarely smiles, yet is conscientious and responsible in everything he does. From learning the job under each other's guidance to discovering each other's strengths, they gradually become reliant on one another and open up to each other's inner worlds. They heal and comfo 20kHeat13kPopularity1.2kReaders
- The Road Lies Beneath Our Feet 路就在脚下 Reform and opening up was a sweeping transformation of the times. It not only established a modern socialist market economy, but also completely liberated people's minds. In this sweeping change, from top to bottom and inside out, ordinary people like Lu Yuan and Li Hongwei faced unprecedented upheaval. They paid a heavy price and endured countless setbacks and blows, but they never gave up. Once they made it through, sunshine and a broad road awaited them. This novel focuses on the ordinary peo 20kHeat54kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Spring Sunshine 春晖 How many people does it take to help a little “golden bean” grow into an adult who can take responsibility for themselves? What changes have taken place among children, parents, and schools under education reform? What challenges are they facing? Temporary homeroom teacher Ye Luochu is living through this transformation firsthand. See how she finds a way to “make peace” with her “little troublemakers.” Everyone experiences being a child, a teacher, and a parent for the first time. As we help one 20kHeat26kPopularity901Readers
- Spring Blossoms in the Borderlands 春华疆遇 In the land of Xinjiang, two wounded souls quietly became entwined in the tapestry of fate. An accidental encounter was like finding a clear spring in the desert, giving two wandering souls a place to belong. A brilliant culture and warmhearted people. On this magical land of Xinjiang, they shine with the brightest radiance. 20kHeat12kPopularity978Readers
- A Teacher's Charm in the Countryside 师韵乡隅 Against the social reality of rural education’s decline and educational resources shifting from the countryside to the cities, countless rural primary schools have shut down. Using a small subject to shed light on a major issue, this story explores the efforts and hardships of rural teachers amid this shift in educational resources. It also shows how these changes affect people’s lives, especially those of students and their parents, and the positive significance they can bring. 20kHeat12kPopularity950Readers
- The First Pot of Gold 第一桶金 A rural electrician with only a middle school education was swept up in the surging tide of a great era. At forty, he went to the city for work and seized his one and only opportunity, becoming the manager of a small company. After several years of hard work, he finally transformed himself, becoming a business magnate and making his first fortune in this legendary rags-to-riches tale. 20kHeat11kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Lin Yushou 林域守 The Greater Khingan Mountains stretch across Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, their vast, unbroken forests providing a home to countless wild animals and birds, as well as many precious and rare species. These mountains are not only a habitat for wildlife, but also home to the people who work for our country. The environment of forest districts makes protecting the woods a lonely and isolated job. In 2016, Lin Ye, who had studied agriculture at Northeast Forestry University, failed his civil ser 20kHeat39kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Time Swallows the Boy 时光淹没少年 In the long river of time, some stories shine like brilliant stars. The story I am about to tell is one that truly happened. Every detail of the past, every moment and every step along the way, is etched into my heart and remains forever in my memory. Go back to 2013. I was still a boy, barely past childhood, and I had not even finished middle school. While most people my age were studying carefree at school and enjoying their youth, I made a bold decision: despite being underage, I resolutely s 20kHeat11kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Tales from a Trainee Police Officer 实习民警那些事儿 Zhu Meng graduated from the police academy and had dreamed since childhood of becoming a police officer who serves the people. After being assigned to intern at the Chengxi Police Station, she witnessed the wide range of people and cases faced by a community police officer. Elderly people swindled in all sorts of ways, women abused by their partners who were afraid to make a choice, teenagers bullied because of online rumors, and bizarre cases of marriage fraud that left victims with neither mon 20kHeat7.9kPopularity1.2kReaders
- Kapok, Kapok 木棉，木棉 Sixteen-year-old Cheng Mumian was like a kapok flower blooming in Guangdong. She should have had a vibrant, passionate youth ahead of her, but her life came to an abrupt end. Lawyer Yu Shuting, hired by the family, reopened the investigation and visited everyone connected to the case, one by one. Cheng Mumian was maliciously slandered and ostracized by her peers, and every attempt to ask the outside world for help hit a wall. The perpetrators evaded responsibility under their families' protectio 19kHeat12kPopularity1.2kReaders
- The Western Sun 西部骄阳 They are a group of young people in the prime of life, with hearts like the rising sun and a passion that burns like fire. At the most beautiful time of their youth, after graduating from university, they give up the comfortable lives and career opportunities offered by big cities and choose to join the National College Student Volunteer Service Program for the West. They willingly serve on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, more than 3,500 meters above sea level, where the climate is harsh. Like countl 19kHeat13kPopularity1kReaders
- Black Cold Wave 黑色寒潮 After a class reunion, Cheng Yiying is kidnapped. Her abductor is Gao Qiu, the person everyone talked about most at the reunion. Gao Qiu killed someone six months ago, but escaped criminal punishment because he suffered from intermittent mental illness. He was confined to a psychiatric hospital with extremely tight security, but after an accident, he escaped. Gao Qiu is not only mentally ill and a murderer, he is also Cheng Yiying's ex-boyfriend. Gao Qiu doesn't believe he killed anyone. He kidn 19kHeat13kPopularity1.1kReaders
- The Spring Equinox 春分时节 After tasting every herb in the mountains as a sent-down youth, Li Mu was expelled from university for speculation and profiteering after returning to the city. Riding the wave of reform and opening up, he became one of Jichun's first licensed private business owners. After enduring betrayal by family and torment in love, Li Mu built Sanbao Pharmaceuticals into a success, then retired at the top of his game. He returned to his hometown with his beloved, invested in the black soil that had raised 19kHeat41kPopularity1.3kReaders
- Hydrogen-Powered and Ready to Go 氢装上阵 A brilliant female engineering PhD and a major figure in hydrogen energy technology join forces with their research team and their network in the hydrogen energy industry to overcome technical barriers in hydrogen fuel cells. As they struggle to build their business, the seeds of love quietly take root. Their romance and entrepreneurial journey become a celebrated story in Shanghai's industry circles. Passionate and driven, they work for ten years, chasing their dreams in Lingang toward 2025. Th 19kHeat21kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Spring Breeze Is Never Too Late 春风不晚 May every Du Miao find her Zhan Sichen. A sweeping realist romance rooted in China's era of poverty alleviation through education. Told in three stages: support for education, reunion, and redemption, it portrays the journey of pure love breaking free from the cocoon of class differences. 19kHeat8.4kPopularity972Readers
- The Transdimensional Prisoner 超维囚徒 When Lu Qijiu meets a madman who tells him not to trust anyone in the world, the wheels of fate begin to turn. His childhood sweetheart turns out to be a bionic android, and their mutual affection was nothing more than a tool for learning. This world is one enormous cage, and humans are merely test subjects used by androids to study human emotions. Can those lost memories be recovered? Can humanity defeat AI? And whose prisoners are we? 19kHeat9.4kPopularity1.1kReaders
- Hello, Panda Hotel 哈啰，熊猫饭店 The kitchen is a man's world by default; Britain is universally known as a culinary wasteland. Qin Jiao, a talented but underappreciated young chef, heads to Britain with nothing but her kitchen knife, only to find that both she and her beloved Sichuan cuisine sit at the bottom of the food chain. "Chinese food" made for Western tastes is everywhere, and she's had enough. "It's time to teach the British what authentic Sichuan food tastes like!" The young Chinese-British doctor Arthur Fu considers 19kHeat16kPopularity1.1kReaders
