The Century Commitment

This film (drama)Also known as世纪之约，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2002Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating8.7(For reference only)。

This is a drama reflecting the heroes of the nuclear industry who participated in the construction of "Two Bombs and One Submarine." After the Cold War ended, they emerged from the deep mountains to the forefront of reform and opening up in the Special Economic Zone. Represented by Reimer, a large number of nuclear industry personnel left the northwest submarine base, bidding farewell to a past life that had long been under confidentiality and semi-militarization. They participated in the management and construction of China's first large commercial nuclear power plant and in the construction of a nuclear power plant developed in cooperation with France and twenty-four other countries. Faced with an open international stage, they confronted the challenge of how to change their mindset and achieve revolutionary transformation in order to align with international standards and complete their "second entrepreneurship," ultimately regaining glory in a long television drama. The core part of the Nanhai Nuclear Power Station is the "nuclear island," which includes the reactor. The equipment supplier and main contractor is the French company Thomas. Thomas's on-site president, Borde, had no regard for the Chinese. As the owner and manager, Reimer, motivated by a desire to uphold the dignity of the Chinese, used his intelligence to strike back at Borde's arrogance in their first confrontation, establishing the position of the Chinese company as the subcontractor for the installation of the nuclear island. However, Liang Dong's daughter, Liang Xiaoke, representing a new generation of educated women, aligned with the French perspective, believing that the Chinese could not even manage a toilet properly, hence the Chinese side was incapable of being a competent subcontractor or managing the construction of a nuclear power plant. Indeed, during the subsequent construction, the Chinese company blindly implemented the common practices such as large-scale battles, overtime work, and labor competitions, resulting in delays in auxiliary equipment, oil leaks from oil pipelines and tanks; moreover, there was a concrete incident involving leaking rebar in the civil engineering of the nuclear island. At this time, a small group of Chinese, represented by the owner’s deputy general manager Zhou Zhi, did not seriously examine their own shortcomings but instead shifted the blame onto the foreign side. Driven by a narrow sense of patriotism, they proposed to discard the foreign construction standards and use their own! The question arose: should they accommodate Zhou Zhi's approach which indulged the blind arrogance of the Chinese, protecting their outdated production and management model, or should they adopt Reimer's attitude of humbly learning from the foreign side and accepting advanced international management and construction experiences? This became a challenge for all those involved in Nanhai. In essence, it was a clash between backwardness and advanced productive forces. As the decision-maker, Nanhai Company’s chairman Liang Dong can be seen as a representative and epitome of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries. It was he and a large number of truly patriotic Chinese, who, after an exceptionally painful process of decision-making, finally recognized that under the new global circumstances, the only way for national rejuvenation was to inject scientific spirit into the iron will and national spirit of hard work reminiscent of Wang Jinxie's era. Thus, the people of Nanhai underwent thorough ideological liberation, replacing the outdated mindset of "self-reliance" with an innovative viewpoint akin to "bringing in" and began to humbly adopt the so-called "shadow tracking" method, learning from the foreign side and comprehensively embracing foreign management from top to bottom. Of course, this process was exceptionally difficult and painful, as these heroes of "Two Bombs and One Submarine" suddenly became subordinates or even clerical staff to the arrogant French, especially the China Nuclear Corporation, a long-standing banner of the nuclear industry, was suddenly reduced to merely providing labor for the French. Emotionally and practically, accepting this was immensely challenging... However, they deeply understood that for the future prosperity of their country and nation, they had to do this and endure the pain of transformation. From the current perspective that China has joined the WTO, the choice made by the people of Nanhai over a decade ago with a practical and scientific attitude was remarkably correct; because, they had, over a decade ago, already stepped onto the world's cutting edge of nuclear power technology, achieving alignment with international standards in management and production ahead of schedule! Most remarkably, when building the second nuclear power station in the Nanhai region, they began to promote the world’s advanced management and production models they had mastered to related domestic manufacturing industries, while also transforming a large number of state-owned enterprises toward international levels in their quest for localization and independence, guiding them collectively along the path of revitalizing national industry. The two nuclear power stations standing majestically by the southern coast are emblematic achievements of reform and opening up. The journey of Nanhai can be seen as a concentrated expression of the "Three Represents" ideology; and the choices and actions of the people of Nanhai can also be regarded as a fresh interpretation of patriotism in today’s WTO context.