Huaxia

Biodata

History

Huaxia’s historical settings include the Northern Song, where Xu Yun works in Su Song’s household and later builds two Po-2 airplanes for Xiao Zhao’s enthronement ceremony 105 112 177. A later instance takes Xu Yun to the nineteenth century, when he questions how his homeland has endured amid rapid Western industrial development 244.

The novel identifies the emergence of Huaxia’s first atomic bomb as a turning point in the standing of New China. Xu Yun enters an instance set during its development, after Soviet experts have withdrawn from the project 518. In that timeline, Huaxia announces long-range missile and atomic-bomb tests as measures of nuclear self-defense 762.

Science and Industry

• Domestic production — When an export restriction blocks equipment needed by Huadun Biotech, the company turns to Hanhua Machinery Group. The firms subsequently sign a three-year strategic cooperation agreement 204 205 220.
• Physics — A Huaxia research team’s dark-matter discovery brings international attention to its physics community; the discovered particle receives the name Pangu 425 446 447.
• Cultural heritage — The Yongle Encyclopedia is recovered and later becomes the subject of a mixed-reality modeling project for public exhibition 508 807.
• National defense — The navy’s reliance on Soviet-built ships highlights its limited domestic shipbuilding capacity. Later, a Huaxia command ship uses a gravity gradiometer and the Zhu Xian platform to detect three nuclear submarines 754 775.