Chapter 583 Textile City in the 1990s
After discussing the matter, everyone went home.
Fang Minghua drove back to his small courtyard in Chaoyangmen. His wife and two children were sitting in the back seat, and he heard Song Tangtang sigh quietly.
Fang Minghua laughed after hearing this and said: "What? Are you worried that my eldest sister will fail in her business? It's okay, I will give her the full answer."
"No, my eldest sister is a bit like your mother in her aggressive behavior. I think She is very suitable for business.”
"Then why are you sighing?"
"I was thinking, why are these fine textile factories like this now? Minghua, do you still remember the novel "Red Dresses Are Popular on the Street" you wrote? ?" Song Tangtang asked.
"Why don't you remember? It was in 1982, and it was later made into a movie." Fang Minghua said with a smile.
“Yes, whether it is in novels or movies, the female textile workers described in them wear the most fashionable clothes. After work, they go to the park in three or five groups with high spirits - the T stage of fashionable young women, beheading (Exhibition) skirt...how enviable!”
“But now we are facing layoffs! Some time ago, the company hired three cleaning workers, and a lot of them came, most of them were in the textile city. The laid-off female workers were all over forty years old. One eldest sister cried and said that she and her husband had both been laid off. Her son was now in the third year of high school and could study well enough to be admitted to a key university. However, he heard that universities had to charge tuition fees and the family had no money. I couldn’t take it out. I felt sad at the time.”
"Then you recruit a few more." Fang Minghua said.
“But we also have to consider the economic benefits of the company.” Song Tangtang sighed: “Later, we hired two more, including the eldest sister, and another eldest sister whose husband is sick. , waiting for a long night."
"You have done a good thing."
"But our power is limited after all. There are so many laid-off female workers." Song Tangtang sighed again.
“There may be more in the future.” Fang Minghua’s tone was very calm: “Now society is transforming, enterprises are restructuring and need to develop, and they need to reduce staff and increase efficiency. These are all unavoidable, but the national social security system has not Once it is fully established, it is a big problem to push so many people into society at once.”
"What should we do?"
"It may be better to go step by step and get through this stage. At that time, the country will be relatively wealthy and gradually establish a relatively complete social security system. But this is what the government considers We can only do our best to help as many people as we can," Fang Minghua continued:
"When the Red Army makes money from its real estate in Hainan, I want to use part of the funds to specifically help the families of laid-off workers. I haven’t thought of any solution yet. Let’s discuss it at that time.”
“Actually, the best solution is to re-employ them and get paid, which is better than assistance,” Song Tangtang said. own opinions.
“Easier said than done.” Fang Minghua sighed:
"You just said that the laid-off workers are all female workers in their early forties with low education. Apart from the textile work they were doing, what else can they do? Most of them are just cleaners, nannies, hotel and restaurant waiters, like the eldest sister. After all, there are only a few people who want to open clothing stores and restaurants.”
“Yeah.”
Couples often talk about this kind of topic, and there is no solution.
The time soon arrived on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and it was time to go to work again.
The shortlisted works for the first World Chinese Literature Award have been announced in Guangming Daily two years ago, but the final selection will not be carried out until mid-April. The members of the jury must be given enough time to read these shortlisted literary works.
By then, 13 members of the jury will gather in Xijing. After repeated discussions, they will finally select the winning works, and then a grand awards party will be held in Xijing at the end of April.
Fang Minghua has nothing specific to do recently. The weather is nice today, his wife is at work, and his uncle has taken his two children home to play. Fang Minghua is bored at home alone, so he simply gets in his car and goes wandering on the street.
Driving through Chaoyang Gate and heading east along Changle East Road, you will soon arrive at Baqiao, which is the Textile City. Along the main textile street to the southeast, this is the core of the textile city, with the fourth, fifth and sixth national cotton factories lined up.
Actually, Fang Minghua rarely comes here. What he remembers most clearly is when he wrote "Red Skirts on the Street" in 1982. Fang Minghua even went to the Sixth National Cotton Factory where his eldest sister Fang Mingmei worked. I stayed there for three days and collected stories on the spot.
Driving slowly over, Fang Minghua discovered that the street architecture had not changed much from ten years ago. There were Soviet-style buildings everywhere.
The so-called Soviet-style buildings are all multi-story old Soviet buildings built by Soviet experts in the 1950s. They are symmetrical about the central axis, with the middle high and the sides low. The main building is tall and the corridors are wide and slowly extending; followed by It has a "three-section" structure, and the "three sections" refer to the three parts of the eaves, wall body, and feet.
This is better than Tongzilou, with thick blue brick walls, warm in winter and cool in summer, simple and solemn.
Fang Minghua remembers that in the early 1980s, the architecture in this area was relatively good in Xijing, but now it seems that it has begun to lag behind.
The streets are bustling with people coming and going, perhaps because it’s almost time to go to work, but there are still a sea of bicycles.
Fang Minghua simply parked the car on the side of the road and looked at these female workers at work.
It seemed to him that there were far fewer young girls than ten years ago, and many of them were middle-aged women aged thirty-four. The textile job that was once enviable was now slowly being abandoned by young people.
The female employees riding bicycles are still chatting and laughing, but they no longer have the proud look they had ten years ago.
Their time has passed.
The future is even bleaker.
Fang Minghua watched for a while, and when there were fewer employees on the road to work, he drove back in a circle. Looking at the factory buildings on the roadside, he suddenly remembered the TV series "Flowers" he had watched before traveling to this era.
The TV series uses a lot of pen and ink to tell the story of Mr. Fan, the director of Hangzhou Huxi Knitting Factory, who bravely went to Shanghai to build a national brand, and how Ms. Wang of No. 27 on the Bund won a jeans order.
The TV series is still tender. Mr. Fan and Miss Wang succeeded in the end, and a large number of employees in their factory also made a living.
But in reality, many cotton spinning mills were eventually restructured or even closed down, but whether they were restructured or closed down, there was one result: a large number of workers were laid off.
Actually, there is also a very niche movie directed by Wang Quanan.
Speaking of Wang Quanan, before Fang Minghua came to this era, the first thing that came to mind when netizens mentioned this name was piao whore.
Secondly, there is his ex-wife Zhang Yuqi.
Finally, I may have reached the level of director.
But now, in 1992, he had just graduated from Yanjing Film Academy and was assigned to Xijing Film Studio as a director, and he was in his prime.
More than ten years later, he wrote and directed the biographical film "Tuya's Marriage" co-starring Yu Nan and Senger. The film won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival and became an instant success. Become famous.
Two years later, I collaborated with Yu Nan to make a relatively niche movie called "Textile Girl".
(End of this chapter)