Where Are You?
This article is dedicated to the builders of the third-line enterprises.
Author: Wu Fumao
Back then, you set off from the bustling city of Shanghai, taking a green train, traveling west for two days and nights, arriving at the Yangping Pass station deep in the Qinling Mountains.
You carried heavy luggage and switched to a large truck, braving the cold wind to reach the foot of Liancheng Mountain. You got off at the Hedong shop by the Bao River, and thus began your new life… you became a “worker in the support unit”.
At the foot of Liancheng Mountain, diligence is the path.
The snow on the Bao River makes for a hard boat!
For the third-line construction, for the establishment of a precision machine tool manufacturing enterprise hidden in the mountains: the establishment, production, and growth of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory, you and your family left your hometown to settle here, dedicating decades of your life, contributing your youth and the efforts of your children.
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the third-line construction, I express my highest respect and sincere greetings to you and all builders of the third-line enterprises!
Where are you?
We are all looking for you.
We, the young intellectuals, entered the factory that year, raised pigs and chickens on the farm, and fished by the riverbank, where we met.
Building walls, a great battle.You handed me a steamed bun with a slice of pickled mustard, which I still remember.
In the anti-aircraft artillery militia company, you were both capable and active.
At the shooting range in No. 3 ditch, you hit all five shots, “With a five-foot gun, I love the armed forces more than the red makeup…” that song resonates in my heart.
Next to the single dormitory building, there was a small water channel, over three meters wide, you could jump over it with a bamboo pole, and you could ride your bicycle down the stairs.
Because of the movie “The Flower Girl”, you shed tears, and because of the movie “Shanghai Beach”, you also got into fights.
Learning from Lei Feng, doing good deeds, and returning lost items, you received praise.
During the Tangshan earthquake, you donated 200 yuan, which was your five-month salary.
With a good start, surpassing the halfway mark, you always rushed ahead of others to celebrate National Day.
With the reform and opening up, market-oriented operations, quickly selling goods, developing products, you played a significant role.At the evaluation meetings, you never mentioned yourself.
The furnace has reddened your face,
The sand has darkened your brows.
Your photo is on the honor roll, the factory’s advanced unit, the new Long March shock troops, advanced youth league branch, advanced team, and the March 8th Red Flag bearer… you are the most handsome and charming, my best memory.
You were playing the erhu, and I followed the sound; it was a piece called “Galloping Horses”. That was a moving melody. Moreover, you read every day and practiced calligraphy every day!
You led us in singing, saying that the few young men dancing looked like “stealing landmines”…
Carrying forward the Yan’an spirit, striving for greater glory!
You are a “worker in the support unit”; at critical moments, it was your timely intervention that solved major problems and completed tasks, and you even went to Beijing to bring back the plaque for the “Advanced Unit in Industrial Learning from Daqing”!
Updating concepts, reducing small accounting, suspending accounts, and overcoming difficulties together. There are contributions from managers and meticulous financial calculations. There is also the warmth of the “Han Machine Workers’ Home”, and the logistics department and the high school entrance rate of the children have been crowned for fifteen consecutive years. You set an example among them, putting fame and fortune aside.
Under the leadership of the party committee, each branch, each factory, and each overseas office transformed their functions, carried out technological innovations, expanded sales markets, and conducted multiple activities to guide the enterprise out of difficulties!
Setting the ambition to move mountains,
Dare to change the sun and moon!
Your speech at the mobilization meeting was so majestic and heroic.
The banners of “Hanjiang Machine Tool, Hanjiang Screw Rod, Hanjiang Guide Rail” hung high in various exhibition halls.Tooling fixtures, cutting tools, measuring tools, and process innovations, your small ideas solved big problems in the workshop.
Non-metallic materials also have heat treatment issues;
Complex parts can be formed in one go using lost-wax casting;
Zero contact and polishing can ensure precision;
A piece of clay core can be placed in the cavity……
You helped designers solve production problems reported on-site.
The iron is cold, the furnace is hot,
We workers have strength!
This is fully reflected in you.
Your name appeared in the news bulletin of the National Congress of the Party, and the whole factory rejoiced. You are not only a representative of the Hanjiang Factory but also a representative of all industrial workers: “Don’t look at her as a yellow-haired girl; she is an excellent representative among industrial workers”.
Developing products, recreating several small suns for the long-term development of the enterprise, ball screws, linear guide rails, and various functional components were developed during this period, and they are still an important part of the enterprise’s production and sales!
The development strategy of parallelograms, the idea of establishing a bridgehead in the southeast coastal area, and adhering to the four first-class work concepts have ensured that the market share of ball screws in the high-end supporting market remains the first in the country. The enterprise has become the chairman unit of the National Rolling Functional Components Association for multiple sessions.
According to Chairman Mao’s July 21 directive, for the long-term development of the enterprise, placing talent cultivation in an important position, sending people out for further studies, establishing the 721 University within the factory, night school classes, and various training classes have trained hundreds of talents for the factory, who have taken on key positions and become the living force of the enterprise.
The cumulative unit system for each product part is a fine tradition of the Shanghai Machine Tool Factory, which continues to be carried forward in the Hanjiang Factory. The circulation of route orders ensures the orderly progress of production and the traceability of quality issues. Multi-variety, small-batch production has become the norm.
Overcoming various difficulties in material supply and production, completing production tasks year after year and month after month has become a fine tradition of the Hanjiang Factory.
From single-board machines, thyristor speed control devices, digital display devices to CNC machine tools, you have lost quite a bit of hair, especially with the successful acceptance of self-made large precision machine tools and precision measuring instruments, your heartfelt smile is so sunny and sweet.
Under the leadership of the workers in the support unit, the retired soldiers, young intellectuals, college graduates, rotating workers, agricultural workers, and family workers gathered together with one heart and one mind, fighting for a long time to create a brilliant pearl in the Chinese machine tool industry—the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory. It has received the praise of “No tigers in Hanzhong, Han Machine is the king!”
The Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory has created many firsts, such as the factory’s ice cream, giant dragon buses, small cars, fire trucks, ambulances, small three-wheeled cars, and work clothes, which attracted people’s attention on the streets of Hanzhong in that era.
The three-meter dual-frequency laser dynamic screw measuring instrument of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory was priced at 1.25 million dollars at the Beijing Exhibition Center, limited to export, attracting the attention of national leaders.
The five-meter and ten-meter screw grinding machines and cyclone milling machines of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory have become one of the major special projects of the country.
The wheel milling machine, tongue milling machine, and fork screw rod of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory have contributed to railway construction, laying the foundation for today’s high-speed rail success.
High-speed rail needs to speed up,
Han Machine is here to serve!
The thread grinding machines, guide rail grinding machines, and worm grinding machines of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory illuminate others like a candle, burning themselves, making an indelible contribution to the development of the functional components industry. Han Machine Company has always been the vice-chairman unit of the National Grinding Machine Association.
Developing high-end CNC machine tools, robots, and key components remains a key project in the China Manufacturing 2025 development plan. It has also played an irreplaceable role in the development of the automotive parts industry, reducer industry, military industry, aerospace, and various CNC precision machinery industries.
For example: back then, we collaborated with the Beijing Machine Tool Research Institute to obtain blueprints, and we produced the first horizontal machining center by the end of 1989, which was quite early in the country.
For example:We were the first in the national functional components industry to obtain ISO9000 quality system certification.
For example:We let facts speak, obtained the quality trustworthy unit, user satisfaction products, honored contracts and kept promises, and received numerous new product awards at the national and provincial levels.
For example:……
150 crankshaft grinding machines were exported to Peru for the first time, and you shouted, “Chinese equipment, equip the world!” That was the voice of all employees, a significant contribution from the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory to the 15th National Congress of the Party. It was also a major achievement in the enterprise’s efforts to overcome difficulties!
The completion of foreign aid projects and the export of products to over forty countries often shine brightly for the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory.
Persisting in learning, winning every exam, and seizing every flag made you the first to obtain a senior title. You are a national model worker, received an audience with Chairman Mao, and your heroic character of hard work and simplicity has earned everyone heartfelt praise.Your clean and honest style is admired by all.
Focusing on product development, factory greening, renovating toilets in single dormitory buildings, cost accounting, improving cadre style, and turning losses into profits…….. has made the enterprise stand firm. You neither have a high salary nor are corrupt, yet you increased employee wages, and as a leader of the enterprise, the employees have not forgotten you!
In April 2023, Han Machine Company received the “May 1 Labor Award” from Shaanxi Province.
I also heard that you retired and returned home, now taking care of two grandsons, which is a beautiful job that makes you smile even in your sleep.
At the 19th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “Do not seek praise for good colors, only leave a clear atmosphere in the world,” ringing in our ears. Let the past be the past; selflessness can lead to fearlessness, and no complaints can lead to no regrets.In the twilight years, I only hope to invite you;you;and you to walk along the cultural corridor on both sides of the river, stroll around the ancient town of Baoguo and Huaguo Mountain, visit the splendid scenery of Xinghan, raise a glass of thin wine to you, and ask how your family is doing?Let us fulfill our wishes!
Where are you? My colleagues, my mentors, we are looking for you, missing each other!
Maybe you are across the ocean;maybe you are seeking a better job;maybe you are pursuing research and further studies;maybe you are retired at home;creating another new world, bringing another round of applause.
Maybe you have already left us too soon; your contributions and dedication will never be forgotten! Who are you?It is you, it is me, it is him, it is a group of people who drank the same river water and created the glorious history of the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory.
Where are you? Actually, we know,
You are strolling by the Huangpu River in Shanghai watching the sunrise,
You are having morning tea in Tinglin Park in Kunshan,
You are practicing Tai Chi on the ancient city wall of Xi’an,
You are hosting friends from afar on Huaguo Mountain by the Bao River in Hanzhong……
We also know you are enjoying family happiness! Playing with your grandsons on your phone, sending messages to friends. You are wishing for the enterprise to create a brilliant tomorrow.
Where are you? Actually, we know, you are still fighting and striving at your post, continuing to work hard! Working overtime!
Where are you?Actually, we know, dancing, traveling, photography, painting, writing poetry, reading, etc., are your ways of enjoying life in old age, continuing to showcase your talents and radiating your still brilliant light!
Where are you? Actually, we know, you are watching TV, paying attention to anti-corruption and poverty alleviation, cracking down on organized crime, and the trade issues between China and the United States, focusing on the gentle breeze of rejuvenating China that is gradually blowing in!
Let us jointly wish for the early realization of the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation!
Let us jointly wish for the people’s beautiful life aspirations to be realized soon!
Let us jointly wish for the health of the contributors to the third-line construction, happiness, and longevity!
Let us jointly wish for Hanjiang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. to grow and develop in the inheritance of Han Machine spirit and culture!
You are where? You are in our hearts!
(Images from the internet)
Author’s ProfileWu Fumao, a member of the Communist Party, a senior economist; former deputy factory director and deputy general manager of Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory, a member of the board of directors; former executive director and legal representative of the Hanzhong City Association of Retired Science and Technology Workers; has published articles in industry journals and newspapers multiple times.
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