Mancang by the Yellow River is a period struggle mini-series. In 1982, Liang Mancang, a poor boy from the Yellow River flats, is unwilling to spend his life guarding alkaline land. Starting from boating and tracking boats, after a shipwreck loss, he shifts to the fruit business, sets up roadside stalls, meets benefactors, ventures south, and runs a food factory. Having endured scams, fake goods shocks, and triangle debt crises, he fights through with sheer honesty to break the deadlock, creates the "Yellow River Flats" brand, and leads the entire village to prosperity. Spanning twenty years of the reform wave, it thoroughly portrays the tenacity of ordinary people carving out a good life with their own hands.