Chapter 25 Change is Quiet

Director Shi was originally a cadre in the ministry. Three years ago he was sent to the grassroots level to become the director of Xiangyang Chemical Plant.

His wife is one of the country's few experts in translating weapons materials and still works in the ministry, so the couple can only temporarily separate.

The reason why Director Shi brought his daughter Shi Yueshuang here was to let her relax in this quiet place in northern Xinjiang.

Her daughter has been among the best in school in Beijing since she was a child. She usually reads quietly at home. Due to her mother, Shi Yueshuang's foreign language skills are much better than those of her peers.

More than a year after arriving at Xiangyang Chemical Plant, one thing hit Shi Yueshuang very hard, that is, the country reopened the college entrance examination. If it were not for polio, Shi Yueshuang must be sitting in the classroom of a key university now.

Shi Yueshuang became silent, even autistic, locking herself in her room and reading all day long.

This time, the factory set up a disabled factory. Director Shi encouraged his daughter to work, of course, not for the mere thirty dollars. He just wanted his daughter to get out of the house and interact with young people more and become more cheerful.

Director Shi was very happy to see the smile on his daughter's face getting more and more day by day.

But now I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart when I hold my daughter to honor him.

"We workers have strength and are busy working every day..."

This sonorous and powerful song sings the pride of the working class in this society.

As a cadre sent from above, Factory Director Shi is keenly aware that society is slowly changing. A skilled veteran worker in a state-owned factory can't earn more than 70 yuan a month.

Over the past 20 to 30 years, tens of millions of workers in this country have been earning meager wages, with little left to support their families, but it is their hard and selfless work that has supported this country.

Foreigners call these people blue ants, which is a compliment to Chinese workers!

But now a worker in a small disabled factory affiliated with Xiangyang Chemical Factory can earn more than 70 yuan a month.

As the leader of a large state-owned factory, Director Shi felt a little uneasy.

This is how much they earned plus overtime pay, Director Shi comforted himself in his heart.

The end of the year is the busiest time for factory leaders. They have to summarize the work of the year, submit the list of ministerial-level model workers, and conduct evaluations to select factory-level model workers and outstanding labor collectives.

Wang Weidong went to the office of Deputy Factory Director Fang.

"Director Fang, the chemical factory has provided so much help to our small factory in the past few months. All employees of our disabled factory held a meeting and unanimously decided to give out fifty radios as prizes to the model workers in the factory," Wang Weidong said.

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Over the years, the factory’s rewards for model workers have been things like vests, teapots, mirrors, and kettles. The workers don’t think the rewards are cheap, because they value honor more!

Of course it would be better if there were better rewards.

Now Wang Weidong came here and offered to provide fifty radios to the factory free of charge. When Deputy Director Fang heard this, he was surprised and even more happy.

"Weidong, you are right to do this! You young people are all the children of our Xiangyang Chemical Plant, just like our elders' own children! Especially since you are all disabled young people, it is our duty to help you

You did it! But you are worthy of being the children of Xiangyang Chemical Plant. It is really rare to be so selfless!" Deputy Director Fang praised.

Wang Weidong also conducted evaluations in a small factory with only eight people. Two girls, Shi Yueshuang and Chen Jihong, were March 8th red flag bearers. Five people, including Liu Jianguo and Bao Qihang, were model workers. He was the only one who was not.

Wang Weidong was creative and bought seven large pig heads at the Fengshan County Farmers' Market to give to everyone as prizes. The Chinese New Year was coming soon and it was just in time to use it as a new year's gift. He also bought books worth dozens of yuan.

"Let's not forget to study more after work!" Wang Weidong said.

After New Year's Day, the Spring Festival will be celebrated in less than a month, but for everyone, the Spring Festival is only a three-day holiday and it passes quickly.

Shortly after the Spring Festival, Deputy Factory Director Fang brought Wang Weidong to his office.

"Weidong, there are forty or fifty disabled young people in our factory. When your factory was first established, most of them had concerns and did not sign up. Now they have figured it out and have come to me one after another and asked to join your radio factory. Look at this

What should we do?" Deputy Director Fang asked with a smile.

Almost every day these days, disabled young people and their parents come to his home to ask to enter the radio factory, and even some able-bodied unemployed young people also come to his home. This incident gives Fang Huawen a headache and makes him unbearable.

"Director Fang, you were involved when the production plan was formulated last year. The production raw materials were allocated based on the number of these people. If they are allowed to join the factory now, they will have nothing to do. Wait until October to formulate the production plan for the next year.

When planning, we will increase the production plan, and I will definitely let them enter the factory!" Wang Weidong said.

"What you said makes sense, let's do it!" Fang Huawen nodded and said.

As long as there is an explanation to those people, it doesn't matter if it's a little later.

In February, fighting suddenly broke out in the southwest, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The production tasks of Xiangyang Chemical Plant also suddenly increased, and overtime became commonplace.

Two months later, a document was issued allowing Xiangyang Chemical Plant to increase its quota of 200 regular employees. Unemployed young people happily passed on the good news. Soon, most of them changed their identities and became regular workers at Xiangyang Chemical Plant.

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Even so, Xiangyang Chemical Factory is still busy. At night, the production area is dimly lit, and the lathes in the workshop are rumbling.

Wang Weidong ordered several newspapers and magazines for the radio factory. Others were mainly concerned about war matters, while Wang Weidong was concerned about changes in national policies.

In October, the radio factory formulated a production plan for 40,000 radios, and the Xiangyang Chemical Factory gave up a 500-square-meter factory building for the radio factory's production and warehouse.

A month later, after the distribution of electronic components, more than 20 disabled young people from Xiangyang Chemical Factory entered the factory. Now the number of employees in the factory has reached more than 30.

In November, Wang Weidong finally saw an article discussing township enterprises in the country's most authoritative newspaper.

In the evening, Wang Weidong was found by his mother at home again. On the way home, Li Yufeng complained with an ugly face: "Having children means you owe debts in your previous life! There is no way, times have changed now, parents' arms are getting thinner and thinner, and children's

Your thighs are getting thicker and thicker, and your arms can't twist them! Your eldest brother has to marry that person named Xiaomei. Your dad can't help at all. I can't stand it alone. Today the whole family is discussing your eldest brother's marriage.

matter."

"My brother's marriage is his business, but I don't have the money!" Wang Weidong said angrily.

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