Dr Zhang

The protagonist of the film Dr Zhang often appears in various media After being forced to drop out of school during the Cultural Revolution in 1966 he studied by himself in a factory in Chongqing for 17 years and attended the Foreign Language Department of Sichuan University in Chengdu for 17 years in order to realize his childhood dream of going to Russia as a translator During this period he struggled to make a living by cleaning the university cafeteria and lived in a hut with limestone under the stands of the school playground In 2002 the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture began to select some Russianspeaking students in the Sichuan University Foreign Languages Department to go to Russia to do translations in the form of labor export Dr Zhang who is almost 50 years old began to contact the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture after hearing the news