Hundred Crafts, Heavy Artifacts

Historical · Drama

They built the atomic bomb, and made Chinese people stand tall.

They built high-speed rail, and made China feel smaller.

They built chips, and gave China a "core."

They built Tianyan, Beidou, Chang'e, Jiaolong, Jiuzhang, Qilin...

They built a China that would no longer be looked down on.

This is a book about them.

24 industrial giants, 70 years of China's journey,

from "unable to make it" to "able to make it" to "able to make it well" to "able to make the world's best."

There are tears, sacrifices, failures, and despair.

But there are also breakthroughs, ecstasy, pride, and light.

The people who let you use these things may already be gone.

But what they left behind was not just products, but a belief:

Chinese people can make it, can make it well, can make the world's best.

The importance of heavy equipment does not lie in its size,

but in how many people stand behind it.