To rely on one's own efforts to achieve success or improve one's situation, without external help.
更生再次获得生命，比喻振兴起来。指不依赖外力，靠自己的力量重新振作起来，把事情办好。
闻一多《组织民众与保卫大西南》我们人民能以自力更生的方式强起来了。”
After the company lost its investors, the team decided to自力更生 and turned the business around through sheer hard work.
Learn the next connected idiom: 自力更生 (zì lì gēng shēng) → 生机勃勃 (shēng jī bó bó)
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