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Tight 57-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

Commander-in-Chief Lu Dahai and the majority of shipbuilders strongly demanded that the 10,000-ton cargo ship Dongfang be should be produced with all domestically produced parts. As the leader at the time, Chen Zongjie, a member of the Party Committee of the Sinotrans Bureau of the Communist Party of China, believed that the quality of domestically produced main engines and navigation instruments was not good, and ordered them to be replaced with imported goods, otherwise no trial voyage would be allowed.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

Fengxiang Zhang
总工程师

Chunying Wang
小李

Zhou Wenbin
谢师傅

Ge Chen
刘子健

Qinzhen Zhang
刘妻
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Lin Nong directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Mandarin.
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