作者简介：

徐剑，云南昆明人，第二炮兵政治部文艺创作室主任，国家一级作家，乘文学的双翼，飞翔于中国战略导弹部队的万里天疆和西藏的天边天蓝，著有《岁月之河》、《大国长剑》、《鸟瞰地球》、《水患中国》、《江南草药王》、《砺剑灞上》、《导弹旅长》、《麦克马洪线》(待出)等作。

Xu Jian is the author of several fictional works, among them Oriental Hada, as well as essays and TV drama. He has also penned a number of works of reportage, including McMahon Line and The Oriental Express. Swords of a Rising Power won the first Lu Xun Literature Prize in 1998.

内容简介：    

    二十世纪九十年代以前，中国的东北地区曾是新中国工业的摇篮，为建成独立、完整的工业体系和国民经济体系，为国家的改革开放和现代化建设作出了历史性的重大贡献。然而，随着改革开放的深入，东北地区的经济发展速度逐渐落后于东部沿海地区，有鉴于此，国家提出了东北地区等老工业基地振兴战略。 

    本书作者历时一年的采访，走遍城郭、海港、煤都、钢城中的大型国有企业。以数个普通工人、几家工厂、一座城市和整个时代的沉浮为命运纵线，穿越六十年的历史时空。再现老东北工业基地如何创造诸多工业神话、奇迹与辉煌，如何在沉寂和黯然岁月里经历生命劫难，如何找回东山再起的自信和骄傲。 

Until the 1990s, Northeast China was the cradle of the new China’s industrial base that made the most historic contribution to China’s reform-and-open-ing-up program. However, as China’s modernizing reforms deepened, the Northeast’s economic devel-opment gradually began to lag behind China’s eastern seaboard. This is a story of decline and rejuvenation: after the slow disaster witnessed and endured in the lonely silence of years, the people of the Northeast ultimately once again discovered the belief and confidence that their great region would rise again from the ashes.

目录：

Preface — As the Northeast “Red Double” Fades out of Sight 7
CHAPTER 1 Tiexi: the Ruhr of China 13
1.The Ruhr: an Important Manufacturing Base in 20th
Century Germany 13
2. Father and Son in Tiexi 16
3. A Forgotten Story from the Manchukuo 26
4. Tiexi: the Eldest Son of the PRC and the Task of Industrialization 37
5. Landmark of Tiexi: the ree Chimneys 43
CHAPTER 2 Dreams and Honors 50
1. The Female Model Worker of Hao Jianxiu’s Generation 50
2. The Various “Firsts” of the PRC 59
3. Traveling Up North and Down South for the Sake
of Industrialization 63
4. Six Members of the Standing Committee of the CPC