The Innocent Era

This film (drama)Also known as纯真的年代，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2013Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating8.3(For reference only)。

The story takes place in 1978, on the eve of the large-scale return of educated youth to the cities. Li Jiajun (played by Li Yaping), a Beijing educated youth who has been working in the Northeast for many years, escapes to Guangzhou for various reasons. He plans to seek refuge at the home of Duan Ling (played by Wang Yamei), but Duan's father, who has suffered through the Cultural Revolution, fears attracting trouble again and refuses to shelter Li Jiajun, the “problem youth,” despite his daughter's repeated pleas. By chance, Li Jiajun meets A Jing (played by Ying Cai'er) and Xian Guangwei (played by Gao Hu) among other young people. After a series of unexpected events, they gather at the "Paradise Encircled" educated youth base, where they are aimless and discuss ways to escape to Hong Kong, but repeatedly fail to succeed. Just as the nation has resumed college entrance examinations, Jiajun, leveraging his past studies, gains admission to university, while A Jing becomes one of the first individual entrepreneurs after the reform and opening-up. Xian Guangwei, determined to get rich, finally breaks through difficulties after being deceived and deceiving others, earning his first pot of gold. After graduation, despite becoming a civil servant, Li Jiajun is unwilling to lead a mediocre life and decides to start a business, unaware of the perils of the business world...