In 1953, under the leadership of General Mu Shengzhong, Xiao Jianfei, the company commander of the PLA, Xie Yuchen, who returned from studying abroad, and He Wenbo, a former KMT少将 who later joined the PLA, came together to work arduously on the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. They made a great vow to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. However, they went through a series of natural disasters and man-made calamities, and the project was shelved. In 1973, their sons worked hard with the railway troops and built the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to Golmud. But due to worldwide problems like plateau permafrost and plateau oxygen deficiency, the 60,000 strong road-building army stopped advancing again under the Kunlun Mountain...