The Growth Story of a Hard-Core Chief Engineer

Chen Qian is the youngest chief engineer at the Provincial Transportation Investment Group.

For the high-altitude railway project, he worked until he was bald and emptied his pockets to cover costs, only to receive a suspension order from the executives: "The plan is too aggressive."

His life's work was stolen, his position was taken over, and he became a casualty of workplace power struggles.

Everyone thought he was finished. But he simply dusted himself off and headed for the unfinished dome in the south of the city, where even the construction foreman had run off.

In two and a half days, without a single blueprint, armed only with a pair of calipers and an unparalleled understanding of aerodynamics, he fitted the steel behemoth with a "pressure-release valve," turning a dead end into a bargaining chip for a comeback.

When the No. 3 main pier of the high-altitude railway collapsed with a roar in the freezing wind, and corrupt officials who had cut corners faced prison, the entire group descended into chaos.

In their desperation, they had no choice but to bow their proud heads and ask the man they had driven away to return.

Chen Qian comes back like a king, but power isn't all he wants. He wants to reshape the rules.

"Japan lost three decades because it lost the courage to generate its own momentum. Starting today, this railway will no longer be a bottomless pit. It has to be a money-printing machine!"

This is the hard-hitting story of a Chinese engineer's comeback.