This drama uses different narrative styles to tell the wonderful stories in the lives of 8 meritorious characters. The three stages of Yu Min's youth, youth and middle age, when he devoted himself to the cause of national defense and security, tells the story of Yu Min's life. Shen Jilan: The story focuses on the story of Shen Jilan advocating equal pay for equal work for men and women and being elected as a deputy to the first National People's Congress. Sun Jiadong: The failure of Sun Jiadong's numerous experiments shows his Chinese scientist's spirit of never giving up in exploration. Li Yannian: It tells the story of his great achievements on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Zhang Fuqing: It tells the story of Zhang Fuqing, as a fighting hero, who took root in the grassroots after changing jobs. Yuan Longping: Developed in the form of a dream, it tells the story of Yuan Longping's unremitting struggle for the food and clothing of the motherland and the people of the world, and finally created hybrid rice. Huang Xuhua: Huang Xuhua's nuclear submarine's diving limit brought a new turning point to the whole plot, and once again reflected the difficult process of our country's independent research and development of nuclear submarines. Tu Youyou: won the Nobel Prize, and also answered some of people's doubts about it, and developed a new antimalarial drug, artemisinin.