In the 1950s, the economic development of the newly founded People's Republic of China faced a severe shortage of oil. Qin Limin, who had dreamed of extracting oil since childhood, met Zhuang Jie, who shared his dream of refining it. Born into different circumstances and opposite in personality, the two young people inherited the mantle of their parents. Determined to shed the label of an oil-poor nation from the new China, they went from the Yumen Oilfield in the northwest to the Chuangye Oilfield in the northeast. As they grew from misunderstanding one another to falling in love, they weathered the currents of their times and overcame countless hardships, devoting their lives to fulfilling the solemn promise they had made in their youth.
Three generations of oil workers, steadfast for more than half a century: from drilling the first oil well in the new China to leading the international oil and gas industry, China's oil workers used their youth, wisdom, and passion, along with their fighting spirit of "bringing honor to the nation and fueling the motherland," to write a glorious chapter in the development of China's petroleum industry across the land of China.
