Tianqu No. 1 Cotton Textile Factory is a large state-owned enterprise built in the 1950s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Tianqu No. 1 Cotton Textile Factory was truly prosperous for nearly 20 years. At its peak, the factory had more than 6,000 employees, and its production capacity and profits ranked second in the national textile industry.
At that time, because of the high profits, the welfare benefits of the National Cotton Mill were good enough to make most of the people in Tianqu City jealous. The factory built dormitories for employees, had its own hospital, kindergarten, primary school, middle school and technical school for employees, and the canteen inside and outside the factory provided delicious and cheap food to employees and their families every day. This was absolutely unique in Tianqu City in the 1980s and 1990s.
At that time, most of the people in Tianqu City were envious when they mentioned the National Cotton Mill. Even when the Huaneng Power Plant built a plant in Tianqu, no one chose to go to the power plant but to the National Cotton Mill. As a result, these people regretted it later.
Yang Jing's aunt is one of these people.
Yang Jing's aunt graduated from high school in 1988. With her academic performance, she had no chance of getting into university, let alone a chance of success, so she went to work right after graduation.
At that time, because Tianqu City had particularly convenient railway transportation, the Beijing-Shanghai Line and the Shide Line intersected in Tianqu City. Therefore, the later famous listed company Huaneng International planned to take advantage of Tianqu City’s convenient transportation conditions and build a large thermal power plant in the west of Tianqu City near the border between Shandong Province and Hebei Province.
If this project were put on now, I'm afraid that before the project even started, all kinds of connections would have occupied all the positions of employees in the new factory. But at that time, even though the power plant was almost built, it was difficult to recruit all the workers.
Why? It was because at that time there was a No. 1 Cotton Mill in Tianqu City, and the first choice for those of appropriate age and recent graduates was the National Cotton Mill rather than the thermal power plant.
In the words of people of that era, what was the purpose of going to such a factory? To look at the boiler? That was a place for uneducated people.
If Yang Jing's aunt had gone to the power plant at that time, she would not even have to take an exam and could have directly entered and become a power plant worker. However, because the whole family worked at the National Cotton Mill at that time, and the salary of the National Cotton Mill was indeed the best in the entire Tianqu City, the aunt ended up going to the National Cotton Mill.
Then, when the Huaneng Power Plant was built, the benefits were simply off the charts, and the employees of the Huaneng Power Plant became the most envied group of people by the people of Tianqu City. However, due to the influence of the international environment and the fact that the successors of the cotton mill always tried to take things for themselves, the once glorious National Cotton Mill began to gradually decline.
Those who had the opportunity to work at the power plant at that time but did not go and chose the National Cotton Mill will regret it for the rest of their lives.
Yang Jing's aunt is one of these people.
Yang Jing's maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were not from Tianqu City. His ancestral grandfather was from the capital, and his ancestral grandmother was from the neighboring Hebei Province. Later, Hengshui in Hebei Province once had a nationally famous Dengzhuang Commune, and his grandmother's hometown was Dengzhuang Commune......
My grandfather was a soldier. He joined the army in 1954 and served in the 26th Army Hospital in Tianqu City. After retiring, my grandfather did not return to his hometown. The capital at that time was not like the capital today. In addition, it was the time of the three-year natural disaster. My grandfather took the initiative to stay in Tianqu City to help the country build the first cotton textile factory in Tianqu City.
Although my grandmother was not a soldier, she was a descendant of a martyr. Her father died when Tianqu City was liberated, so she stayed in Tianqu City after graduating from high school. When the cotton mill was built, she also participated in the construction of the factory.
The old couple came here when the National Cotton Mill was built. They met and fell in love here, and eventually formed a family and had four children. Yang Jing's mother is the second child, with an older sister, a younger sister and a younger brother.
At that time, except for Yang Jing's uncle who did not work in the National Cotton Mill because of his young age, the other six members of Yang Jing's grandfather's family all worked in the National Cotton Mill. Even Yang Jing's uncle-in-law was an employee of the factory. It can be said that the whole family were textile workers.
Yang Jing was born in the National Cotton Mill Hospital. He was born there, attended kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school, and did not leave the National Cotton Mill until high school. It is no exaggeration to say that the National Cotton Mill occupies an unsurpassed position in Yang Jing's childhood and youth memories.
When Yang Jing was a child, the National Cotton Mill was still performing at its best, so he had a very good childhood there.
When his family moved out of the National Cotton Mill after he entered high school, the mill began to decline. By the time Yang Jing went to college, the once glorious Tianqu No. 1 Cotton Mill could not even pay its workers' wages. The factory, which once employed more than 6,000 people, now had less than 1,500 people left.
Even when Yang Jing was studying in the UK, he talked to his mother on the phone about this factory, and the mother and son sighed for a while on the phone. In the past two years, the National Cotton Factory has not even made enough money to pay for the workers' insurance, and the factory is about to close down.
But the factory was in trouble, and those old employees who had made great contributions to the factory's prosperity could not leave the factory. Their homes were in the factory's dormitory area, and they could not go anywhere.
Yang Jing's grandparents are typical representatives of this group of old employees.
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