Earning Foreign Currency for the Nation in a Red-Hot Era

After a memory chip implantation experiment goes awry, Xu Weiguo unexpectedly time-travels back to 1956. Waking up as a Peking University student, he immediately faces expulsion for romantic involvement. Determined to avoid being sent back to his impoverished rural hometown, he decides to leverage the vast reservoir of scientific knowledge in his mind to redeem his faults. To his surprise, this sets Xu on a glorious path of scientific research. He pioneers the world's first integrated circuit chip, followed by the world's first electronic calculator, personal computer, lithium-ion battery, and high-performance solar panel. Soon, these cutting-edge high-tech products are exported globally, generating massive amounts of foreign exchange. This vital foreign currency is then channeled back home to secure grain, build fertilizer and automobile plants, and fuel the nation's industrial rise.