On October 20, the seminar on Ji Hongjian's long reportage "Made in a Big Country" jointly sponsored by the China Reportage Society, China Writers Magazine, Hunan Writers Association, the Propaganda Department of the Changsha Municipal CPC Committee, the Hunan People's Publishing House, and the Changsha Federation of Literary and Art Circles was held in Beijing.
"Made in a Big Country" is a long reportage written by the famous writer Ji Hongjian, first published by "Chinese Writers" and published by Hunan People's Publishing House. This work focuses on Hunan, and in the fusion of history and reality, the panoramic description reflects the reality and experience results of how Hunan in the inland area solved problems, broke through innovation, seized opportunities, built the world's advanced manufacturing highland, and built an industrial power province in the historical process of "Made in China".
"Made in a big country"
Ji Hongjian / by
Hunan People's Publishing House
July 2023
It is understood that the author Ji Hongjian in more than two years of interviews and creation time, research and visit more than 10 manufacturing enterprises and scientific research institutes, to the front line to listen to the stories and mental journeys of more than 100 industrial people, firmly determined that the manufacturing industry, which in the eyes of outsiders "has a threshold, there is a distance" theme does not relax, with popular words expression, high-quality content presentation, to create this panoramic reflection of a century of industrial development of the new industrial theme work.
Experts and scholars attending the meeting believe that "Made in a Big Country" has a broad vision and a grand pattern, and its extraordinary impact lies in the profound social thinking of "the relationship between workers and China's manufacturing upgrading and transformation", condensing the experience of Hunan manufacturing development, praising the spirit of laborers and the Chinese working class, and showing the era style of China's advanced manufacturing industry and the spirit of "Made in China" through the stories of the characters in the book, which is a masterpiece that accurately grasps the pulse of the times and responds to social concerns in a timely manner. In particular, the work also extends its tentacles to the foreign affairs movement and industrial salvation in the late Qing and early Minming periods, and reveals the reasons why China has become strong from prosperity to strength in the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and enters the critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through the comparison of history and reality, so that the works are not only major in theme and unique in subject matter, but also rich in content and profound in content.
Writer Ji Hongjian
Ji Hongjian is a native of Wangcheng, Hunan Province, and a winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award, vice president of the China Reportage Society and chairman of the Changsha Writers Association, and is the author of more than 20 long reportage such as "Country Country is the Truth", "The Great War "Epidemic", "Colorful Porcelain Sail Shadow", etc., and has published more than 2 million words of long, medium and short reportage in journals such as "People's Literature", "Chinese Writers", "Contemporary", "Qiushi" and so on.