In the World is set in the 1970s. Judging from a family named Zhou who has lived in a provincial capital city in the north for three generations, a country named Zhou called for the construction of the country, leaving only his younger brother Zhou Bingkun and his mother. Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan, a beautiful and unfortunate woman, helped each other grow from a worker to a literary and art worker through their own efforts, experienced the pain of being laid off and the challenge of "going to sea", and supported their neighbors and relatives to move forward together in ordinary years. While completing their respective life missions, the family also tells the story of the ups and downs of more than a dozen children of ordinary people in the past 50 years.

The novel On Earth is divided into three volumes, taking the life track of Zhou Bingkun, a civilian's son, as a clue, and the whole article revolves around the Spring Festival celebrations, family gatherings and major events, showing the development and changes of China society in the past 50 years.

What runs through it is not only the "glory and dream" of China's social development, but also the difficulty and complexity of the reform and opening up process.

The novel On Earth describes the great changes of China society and the ups and downs of people's life from many angles, directions and levels.

There are five people in the Zhou family. Zhou's father, a rooted older generation of construction workers, responded to the call of the state to support the construction. The eldest son responded to the call of the country and went to the countryside to be an educated youth. The eldest daughter went to the countryside of Guizhou to jump the queue in pursuit of poetic love, while the youngest son stayed in the city and became a member of the workers.

The novel depicts the ups and downs of the lives of more than a dozen ordinary children and shows the magnificent social changes in China. The novel spans 50 years, including going to the countryside, building the third line, recommending to go to college, resuming the college entrance examination, educated youth returning to the city, opening to the outside world, invigorating the economy, reforming state-owned enterprises, starting their own businesses, transforming shanty towns, and fighting corruption and promoting honesty.

It not only describes the hardships and difficulties of the protagonists' lives, but also describes the dignity and glory of their efforts with dreams.

This TV series, starring Lei Jiayin, Song Jia, New Bai Qing and Yin Tao, has a good overall picture quality and a strong sense of the times. Actors acting online, has been broadcast.