A Lifetime of Striving

Originally from Zhejiang, I was born in Yichang during wartime, went to school in Wuhan after its liberation, and welcomed the People's Liberation Army in Chongqing. I finished primary school, middle school, and university in Beijing. Inspired by the spirit of Lei Feng, I was assigned to work at the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company in the northwest. I volunteered to help build up the company at the remote Jingtieshan Mine, came within a step of joining the Party, then changed careers and entered university education. During the reform and opening-up period, I went to Guangdong to start over, and passed three major tests. In the new century, I returned to the university lectern. I joined the Party at seventy, retired at seventy-two, and never stopped writing.