The most beautiful youth

In the early 1960s, in order to reduce the harm of sandstorms in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the state designated the Ministry of Forestry and Hebei Province to establish a mechanical forest farm on Saihanba, a plateau desert in Chengde, to resist the southward invasion of the Hunshandake and Horqin sandy lands. The first generation of afforestationers, represented by the protagonists Feng Cheng and Qin Xuemei, a 369-person land reclamation team composed of forestry college graduates and forestry cadres and workers from 18 provinces and cities across the country, led local cadres and the masses to kick off the struggle against nature. Unexpectedly, due to poor site conditions, mechanical afforestation failed and artificial afforestation was adopted. In an environment with an average altitude of 1,500 meters and a minimum temperature of more than minus 43 degrees, for half a century, they fought the severe cold, the scorching heat, threw away their youth, and shed their blood, creating "the world's largest artificial forest sea", building a green ecological barrier in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and guarding the blue sky in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. On the desolate Saihan Dam, Feng Cheng and his partners advanced and retreated together, shared hardships, harvested friendship and love, and wrote a magnificent poem of life.