刘燕，这位北京石油管理学院的工会副主席，曾在内蒙古锡林郭勒生活过五年，大草原的苍穹沃野，北国的风霜雪雨，磨砺了她的意志，铸就了她豪放、真诚、纯朴的性格。那五年短暂而难忘的知青生活，使她同草原牧民结下了不解之缘。二十八年后的1996年，中国石油天然气总公司选派 Liu Yan, the vice chairman of trade union of Beijing Institute of Petroleum Management, once lived in Xilinguole, Inner Mongolia for five years. The prairie’s fertile field and the northern winds and frosts sharpened her will and created her bold, sincere and simple character. The five-year brief and unforgettable career of educated youth made her inextricably linked with grassland herdsmen. Twenty-eight years later in 1996, China National Petroleum Corporation selected