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, the latter's cadres and workers strongly opposed the decision, believing the city's attempt to "rob the rich to help the poor" could very well drag them down too!
After learning the facts, Bu Yunfeng supported the Explosion-Proof Equipment Factory's demands. He reported to the leaders of Liancheng's municipal government and got into a heated argument with the experts. He believed merging a poor factory into a rich one wouldn't solve the problem of keeping the business afloat. Instead, it could easily make the rich factory poor, creating a vicious cycle.
Deputy Mayor Ding Yichen deliberately gave him a difficult task, ordering him to take over as director of the Boiler Factory and clean up the mess!
From a guardian of the law to the head of a state-owned enterprise!
Twenty-five-year-old Bu Yunfeng never imagined his role would change so suddenly. Only on his first day in the new position did he truly understand how difficult it was to run a business.
Seizing the opportunity presented by the country's major infrastructure development drive, he decisively shifted production and launched research and development projects for excavators, cranes, heavy-duty transport trucks, and other machinery. With every effort devoted to scientific and technological breakthroughs, the dying old factory finally came back to life.
Bu Yunfeng, Song Zixuan, and other young people of a new era fought their way forward amid the surging tide of the market economy. Their ups and downs formed a precious portrait of countless ordinary people amid the changes of a great era.
After weathering thirty years of trials and tribulations, Shanhe Heavy Industries completed its global industrial base layout, known as the "Big Dipper Formation," in 2015. It officially changed its name to Shanhe Investment Group and was honored with a place on the Fortune Global 500 list.
