XINING Nick Young Youth Jersey , Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Fifty years on, Du Xueyou still hears the deafening sound of China's first nuclear bomb in a remote northwestern desert on Oct 16, 1964. He was there. He helped create it.
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The story begins with the film "Gold-Silver Sands," or "Jinyintan" in Chinese. The film depicted the lives of herdsmen living on the grasslands of the same name in a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province. It became a hit when it was released in 1954.
Despite obvious critical and market success, it was withdrawn from theaters soon after a short public appearance, with no specific reasons given.
Du didn't get to see the film, but a mysterious trip four years later would connect him to its disappearance from cinemas.
Early in the winter of 1958 Kevin Durant Youth Jersey , Du, 23, then a hoist technician with a mining machinery factory in Luoyang in central China's Henan Province, left his pregnant wife for a mission unknown. He was on a train heading west with several dozens of his colleagues. None of them knew what the exact destination was.
"All I knew was to go to the front," Du told Xinhua.
After almost a whole day on the train, they were transferred to trucks, which carried them to a barren grassland over another two days. The place Stephen Curry Youth Jersey , which is known by locals as Jinyintan, covers an area of more than 1,100 sq km and features plains surrounded by mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
In the summer of that year, Jinyintan was selected as the location of China's first nuclear testing base, a Chinese counterpart to Oak Ridge, the U.S. "Atomic City" established in 1942.
Du was told they would build a factory there, and he knew its name later -- Factory 221. But again Klay Thompson Youth Jersey , he didn't know what the factory would produce.
"We were told not to pry, but we guessed it must be something big, and it had something to do with national defense because '221' is more like a military code name. We were all excited," Du recalled.
However, the "big project" had to start from zero. Du recalled he spent the first night on Jinyintan in a self-made tent and it was snowing all night.
"We put on all the clothes we had, but found we all became Santa Clauses the next morning as our faces were all frosty," Du said.