Roaring Across the Horizon

After the Korean War, General Feng Shi leads an army into the Gobi Desert on a mission from the central committee. At the same time the scientist Lu Guangda returns from the United States and says goodbye to his wife. As people from the scientific institutes join the effort they have to work with scarce resources, outdated technique and frequent natural disasters, all of it aimed at one thing: building China’s first atomic bomb. Chen Guoxing’s hundred and eleven minute film was shot on location at Lop Nur in Xinjiang and opened in December 1999. One of the models for the character of Lu was Deng Jiaxian, and one of the models for Feng was Zhang Yunyu, the first commander of the test base. Li Xuejian and Li Youbin star.