Approximately spanning 60 episodes, A Lifelong Journey gathers a stellar cast, including actors Lei Jiayin and Xin Baiqing as well as actresses Song Jia and Yin Tao.

Lei plays the lead character of Zhou Bingkun, the youngest son of the Zhou family. His father was among New China's millions of workers dispatched to construct large-scale industrial bases in the country's western and central provinces.

Growing up alongside the glamorous life of his intelligent older brother and sister, who respectively become a high-ranking government official and a prestigious university's professor, Zhou Bingkun, a factory worker, has learned the value of life and bravely pursued his true love. And therein lies the challenge. The woman he is determined to spend the rest of his life with has struggled, being socially ostracized for being the widow of a "murderer".

For Liang, who was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang province－a key manufacturing base at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China－the characters of Zhou Bingkun and his father embody his affinity with factory workers.