Master Mechanic of a Great Nation

Master Mechanic of a Great Nation is a long-form realistic online novel by Banbu Xifeng Banbu Sha. Serialized on Qidian Chinese Network (Yuewen Group's Realism Channel) from August 17, 2021, to its completion on May 13, 2022, it runs 1,433 chapters and roughly 2.95 million characters. The story begins in 2002: Ji Dongqing, an electromechanical student at Harbin Communications School from a rural forestry family, entered through the green channel with a student loan on his back. Under the twin pressures of financial hardship and emotional strain, he leans on solid mechanical skills and cross-disciplinary self-study, starting with fixing classmates' computers and taking on course projects, then step by step entering hands-on fields like auto repair, sheet-metal modification, and equipment remanufacturing. When others needle him—"A college graduate fixing cars with us, isn't that beneath you?"—all he thinks about is paying off the loan and gaining a foothold in the city. He puts down roots in a repair shop, taking on typical faults in domestic heavy trucks and imported construction machinery like an "industrial doctor," building a reputation through real technical problems and gradually assembling a team for on-site repairs and production-line retrofits, rising from grassroots technician to technical lead and entrepreneur. Structured as a series of unit stories, the novel places the daily life of the repair shop, the ensemble of masters and coworkers, and his tangled relationship with Liu Ying against the backdrop of China's manufacturing upgrade, using concrete technical detail to portray the situation and choices of traditional craftspeople amid an era of transformation. So much authentic mechanical knowledge appears in the book that readers have even used it to diagnose their own cars.