Tales of a zhiqing unit
By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2015-10-21 07:51
Many literary works, TV series and films have been centered on the zhiqing in Beidahuang. But Zhu Weiyi is the first writer to tell the stories of the Heilongjiang Construction Regiment as an outsider. Yang Yang reports.
On Oct 10, more than 200 people in their 50s were at a lecture hall at the National Library of China, singing in chorus: "(We) enjoy the caress of spring together, and go through winds and rains together."
The group had gathered for the release of a Chinese book, Our Years in the Regiment, about the years they spent together in the Heilongjiang Construction Regiment more than 30 years ago.
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