Chu He’s long novel Neem Tree, which explores the rise and fall history of a state-owned enterprises from the perspective of an ordinary worker, attempts to historically transcend “reform literature” since the early 1980s. It eschews the previous reform literature which concerned only with factory leadership narrative convention, and focuses on bottom lives of the workers. The novel shows the pain of humanity and culture in the process of the reform, and creatively reproduces and constructs the local knowledge on the basis of Xiangtan. It is another successful attempt in “reform literature” since the new century.