The TV series "Passionate Years" is a contemporary tribute drama premiered on September 23, 2019. There are 36 episodes in total, each Set 45 minutes. On September 28, 2020, the show won the 32nd China TV Drama Awards Feitian Award for Excellent TV Drama. On August 5, 2021, it won the Golden Xuan Award at the first Aolaiwu International TV Festival for the national excellent TV series in the century since the founding of the party.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "fool" physicist Wang Huaimin returned to China shortly after his wife died of dystocia , he knows nothing about life, only scientific research. In 1958, after the establishment of the Ninth Institute of the Second Ministry of Machinery, Wang Huaimin, scientists Peng Xiongfei and Huang Kaihua joined the Ninth Institute and started the development of the atomic bomb. They have withstood harsh R&D environments, natural disasters, and Sino-Soviet crises. At the same time, soldier Tao Zhigang led the army to establish an experimental base in the no man's land of Lop Nur. In 1964, the self-developed atomic bomb was successfully detonated after solving design and uranium enrichment problems. But Wang Huaimin suffered from cancer because of years of hard work and nuclear radiation. At the end of his life, Wang Huaimin finally understood the true meaning of life and married Yang Jiarong.