It is Spring 1988.
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Their literature research leads them to a promising gold district with an ancient \'Head of the Dragon\' gold mine.
Professor Qiu sets his postgraduates, Liang and Xinhua, the task of developing a small exploration team to discover new gold deposits in the mountainous Jilin Province, near the Korean border.
The Chinese government is hungry for mineral resources in order to provide infrastructure to an awakening industrial global giant and for gold that will help fund it.
It is Spring 1988