The Last Step of Touch Down explores China’s history of adopting foreign technologies during Mao’s regime. The “last step” refers to the moment when foreign delegations disembark from the plane and make contact with foreign soil. This symbolic moment has always been documented and is seen as a key point in the narrative structure and a visualized metaphor.

By focusing on two particular historical periods – the first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957, guided by the Soviet Union, and the technology transfer from the West to China that began after Nixon’s visit in 1972 – the work emphasizes how civil aviation and media technology, which played important roles in the subsequent globalization process, were introduced into China through diplomatic events. By weaving together facts from multiple sources, historical representations, and individual testimonies, the work argues how the ideology in technology spread and affected every stratum of China’s society in a top-down manner, resulting in the creation of new elites who employed these novel technologies, implying that China’s transformation after Mao was not political but rather technological.

降落的最後一步”，是指人從飛機上走下舷梯，踏上其他國家領土的第一步。它既作為實際意義上降落完成的最後一步，同時作為象征意義上外交關系開始的第一步。這一瞬間經常被賦予了重要的政治含義，並且總會被攝影機記錄下來。

作品《降落的最後一步》呈現了從1950年到1972年期間的一系列領導人、大使、出訪團隊從飛機上走下的影像片段，並從這一”走下”的動作延伸至當時冷戰背景下中國的政治外交和技術引進的歷史。作品涵蓋兩個中國集中接受國外技術的兩個歷史時期：從1953到1957年第一個五年計劃時期全盤接受蘇聯的對華技術援助；以及1972年尼克松訪華前後，在“聯華制蘇”背景下英美兩國對中國的技術轉移。作品側重於展現此後在全球化進程中扮演著重要角色的兩種技術一一民用航空技術和信息媒介技術被引進至中國的過程，以及這一過程對持有這些技術的中國人員所留下的痕跡。