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History is a grand proposition, and for those who haven't experienced it, it's the best topic to talk about after tea; for those who have experienced it, it's like a giant wheel that has run over the lives of countless people ......

In 1964, Comrade Mao Zedong said at the Central Working Conference: we are not the chief of staff of imperialism, do not know when it is going to war. We put the third line of steel, national defense, machinery, chemical, petroleum, railroad bases are up, then, fighting a war will not be afraid.

So, a 13 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, lasted 16 years, *** about 1200 involving steel, power plants, chemical, transportation, energy, nuclear industry, aircraft manufacturing plants, warships and submarines, and other defense projects of the three lines of the construction of a rousing start.

Danhe, the river located in the Taihang Mountains, ushered in a mysterious project - 480 project, it is a power plant ......

Lian Yonghe, male, 85 years old, retired former deputy chief engineer of Liaodong Thermal Power Plant, served as deputy commander-in-chief of the construction command of the 480 Project, deputy plant manager.

"Dan X power plant, also known as the 480 project, was part of the three-line construction at the time, was built in response to the call of Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee." Lian Yonghe said about the origin of the construction of the 4XX power plant, immediately mentioned Chairman Mao, mentioned the three-line construction, solved many of our mysteries.

"The international situation at that time, very unfavorable to us, the United States supported Taiwan, ready to counterattack the mainland; the Soviet Union to engage in revisionism, the Sino-Soviet border equipped with more than a hundred divisions, are mechanized forces, ready to attack us. .... Therefore, we have to engage in the three-front construction, to be able to break the American Empire Soviet revisionist schemes." Speaking of the third line of construction, Lian Yonghe spoke at great length, as if he had gone back to that era of fighting.

"At that time, the construction of the 480 project technicians from all over the country, from all walks of life, the Central Committee of the Party called, we responded positively, Beijing, Shanghai, the eastern provinces have. What do we do have, there are design institutes, power plants, there are fresh graduates, some are the PLA, the requirements are only one root red, obey the organization." Lian Yonghe paused for a moment.

"I was actually not qualified to work on the 480 project at that time because of historical reasons. My father used to work at Liaodong Power Plant before liberation and served as the technical head. The composition of our family was just not good, and although I graduated from Tongji University, I was still not qualified."

"At that time, didn't they all write blood letters, that is, writing volunteers in blood. In fact, many people used red ink. But, I just literally pricked my finger with a needle to write the volunteer letter, and wrote several pages."

"My father was very supportive at the time, he was rehabilitating, that is, cleaning the factory every day. He told me that I should be sincere to the Party and not have second thoughts about it. Only where the Party needs it most can you make a career and break through."

Ten fingers connected to the heart, listening to me feel pain. However, Lian Yonghe said these things as if he was talking about someone else's business.

"After that, I went!" Lian Yonghe became excited.

"I had a teacher at the Ministry of Electricity who saw my name and listed me. It was a big political risk to take, and I thank my teacher for what he told me later."

"Of course this is one aspect of the reason, there is another reason is the shortage of talent, the country's third-line projects thousands, that is, to ensure the normal operation of the original unit, but also to ensure that the construction of the third-line projects located in the sky and the north and south of the country to move forward quickly, where there is a shortage of talent."

"480 this project is still very good. The choice of site is very good, next to a river, ready to build a reservoir. Jiao Nan City is also an important coal base. This is better."

"At that time, the organization made me a technician. As soon as I came in, I realized the problem. I told the commanding officer at the time that there was a problem with the design of the drawings."

"He didn't believe me at the time, thinking that I had only been here for a few days and said that there was a problem with the design of the drawings. Very surprised, said that the drawings at that time were designed by the Capital Design Institute, there will be no problem. Criticized me and asked me to pay attention."

"But I still insist. Factory leaders and comrades, are very surprised. Like I did, at that time, it was criminalizable, as if it was called opposing some kind of construction to come, I can't remember exactly."

"I said that at that time is based on - coal is not the same!" Lian Yonghe arched his eyebrows.

"Why do you say that? At that time, our country was engaged in large-scale power plants, using the technology of the Soviets, using the Soviet-aided projects as a template for designing our power plants, and a lot of it was copied from other people's drawings."

"The power plant was built in the northeast using coal from the Daxinganling. Now it's built in the Taihang Mountains, using coal from the Taihang Mountains. Can this be the same? At that time, the whole country was in a frenzy to fight for speed and progress, who cared to design for local conditions."

" For thermal power plants, coal is again the most critical factor. The composition of coal is not the same, the combustion value is not the same, the heat of combustion per unit mass is not the same. Design of the unit will be completely different." Speaking of his specialty, Lian Yonghe is very confident.

"There are ten consecutive days, the organization has been giving me a talk, want me to admit my mistakes, write a check. Said I hold what intention, why do you want to destroy the construction of the project."

"In fact, at that time I was under a lot of pressure. Thinking why did I make such a big trouble." Lian Yonghe frowned tightly, showing a complicated expression, the air seemed to freeze.

"I am very grateful to the commanding officer at that time. Although he was angry, however, he did not ignore my opinion. Because I have a high degree of education, Tongji University graduates, belong to the highest level of knowledge in the factory. Then, a meeting was held, in the middle of which we discussed a few times and could not come to a conclusion. In the end, the factory leaders still agreed with my opinion, and the commanding officer, also under great pressure, made a report to the higher authorities, explaining the situation. After studying the situation, the higher authorities agreed with my opinion, and the local coal was assayed."

"Later, the results of the assay came out. True coal is different, Taihang Mountain coal combustion value is high, more than ten percent higher than the original drawings designed. In accordance with this result, the design of the combustion furnace and cooling tower was re-modified. This one alone has avoided a large amount of capital and material losses for the factory." Lian Yonghe spoke with excitement.

"Because of this, I served as deputy commander-in-chief, but also to thank the then commander-in-chief broad-minded, regardless of former suspicions, in the end, the old revolution." Speaking of the former commander-in-chief, Lian Yonghe is full of admiration.

Postscript: Lian Yonghe, later in the end of the 480 project construction, and then work a few years later, because the elderly family health, had to leave the power plant, return home to Liaodong, Northeast, in Liaodong Power Plant as deputy chief engineer, until retirement.

Liu Xinmin, male, 62 years old, now living in Fujian Huirong City, the Department of Danhe 480 power plant retired employees, retired before the Danhe power plant logistics services director.

In time for the National Day in 1973, the 480 project construction was completed, 2 100,000 kilowatts of units, the year of grid-connected power generation, annual power generation of 1.25 billion degrees, reaching one-sixth of the power generation in Henan Province at that time.

"My name is Liu Xinmin, born in 1957, my father gave me the name Xinmin, which means to make a new era of people."

"In fact, my father is Henan Jiyuan people. 1949, after the Huaihai Campaign, the People's Liberation Army million of troops across the Yangtze River, in order to adapt to the situation of the war of liberation, the organization decided to select a large number of cadres with the army to go south to take over the new liberated areas. At that time, the Taihang and Taiyue military districts were ordered to select more than 4,000 cadres to form the Yangtze River Detachment of the People's Liberation Army, which went south to take over six areas in Fujian, including Fu'an and Minhou. My father, because of his good political condition, experience and ability, was selected and transferred to Huirong County, Fujian, and after that, served as the president of the county court."

"In 1975, I graduated from high school at the age of 18, and originally wanted to go to the army. However, my father gave me that now are engaged in third-line construction, the working class status is high, so I was placed in the 480 project. There is another reason my father did not say, but, I know, he may want me to return to work in my hometown in Henan."

"At that time, the plant was a new one, with a majority of young people, and I was assigned to the thermoelectric workshop. It was hard work, but, everyone worked with great enthusiasm, and I was quickly integrated into the work."

"At that time, the power plant welfare is also good, our plant is a large plant conditions are even better. Our plant is built in the mountains, summer is very cool, winter heating, very comfortable. We were all assigned a dormitory, off-duty canteen to eat as much as possible, but also soak in the bath, soak after the bath can also go to the movies. Life at that time was colorful, not at all worse than the conditions in the city." Liu Xinmin spoke, his eyes lit up, as if he had returned to the time of his youth.

"After three or four years of work, it was reform and opening up, and I was a little older, so I started to prepare for a relationship. The situation in the factory has changed, said change, in fact, and outside compared to, we have not changed much, after all, we are a large state-owned factory, or more closed. It's just that it feels like some of the tight supplies are starting to become more plentiful."

"At that time, a lesbian named Li Huanying in the factory through the relationship, bought a TV set. At night, we went to her place to watch TV. As a result, once, it saw a basketball game, and was instantly hooked." Said here, Liu Xinmin paused for a moment.

"Later, the factory also built a basketball court, we had a conflict. ....."

"Basketball hoops and stuff, mainly welded by the gang of grandsons in the mechanic shop. After the basketball court was built, the gang of grandsons occupied the basketball court. Not let us play, threatening that the basketball hoop is the mechanic shop, only they can play first."

"We were reluctant, at that time, no one let anyone. Later, there was a conflict."

"Mechanic workshop this bunch of grandchildren high wages, good benefits, but also do not need to work night shifts, but also rest Sunday. Live in the dormitory is also large, location is good. They also take advantage of the convenience of work, from time to time to steal things from the factory, welding a furniture, tools and so on. Originally look at them is not good."

"On engaging in heart eyes, we may not be as good as them. However, on fighting they are no match." Liu Xinmin said this surprisingly couldn't hide his excitement.

"We got the scheduling list for work a week in advance, and put a dozen or so of the stronger young men on the middle shift. On the day of our appointment, a little after two in the afternoon, a dozen of us got off the shift together, showered, and went back to the dormitory for a little rest."

"More than four and a half, we people gathered, we went together to the living area across the dining building of the small restaurant to eat a meal, but also drank wine. Just waiting for this bunch of grandsons in the mechanic shop to take the bait, have to cure them."

"A moment to spy on the news came, the mechanic workshop this gang of grandsons really came again, is playing basketball. We then hooted and hollered a dozen people a piece to go. Deliberately said they hit the basketball on us, let them publicly admit to admit their mistakes, lying on the ground to learn dog barking, otherwise, let out of the basketball court. They are not convinced. Then, it was the first move. We took a look, good guy they had the guts to do it. The big guys went on together. This bunch of grandson fighting really can not, a few rounds on the ground, there are a few also injured. "Liu Xinmin spoke, from time to time laughed out loud, is the happiest time of his life.

"This is quite a big deal. The leadership of the factory was very angry, and the defense section went to arrest people, saying that they wanted to fire us. At that time, young, we are not afraid of many people. Just say it is the machine shop people first hand, if you dare to dismiss, we all quit together. The power plant is like a big machine, thermal power workshop all of a sudden left a small half of the people, production directly stopped." Saying this, Liu Xinmin is still very tough tone.

"Later, a deputy director of the plant called Lian Yonghe to deal with this matter. Said that the thermoelectric workshop is the core workshop of 480, and it contributes the most to the power plant. However, those of us who disregarded the big picture, reckless, failed the expectations of the 480 project builders, severely criticized us, and we felt bad at hearing that we had failed to live up to the importance of the plant leadership. Of course, fighting can not be lightly forgiven, especially in public group fights, all warnings to write a check, there are two workers because of the heavier hand, demerit points, stay in the file, affecting their whole life. And let the guild and the defense section of the people, the workers amateur life, can not appear again similar incidents." Speaking here, Liu Xinmin's tone slowed down, as if he felt a little regret.

"After that, the guild managed the use of the basketball court in a unified way, and several workshops took turns to use it. We have a lot of people in the workshop and formed a team - called the Brotherhood Cavalry Company. I, tall, more like sports, practiced for a period of time, basketball played better and better, the better you play, the more you like, even to fall in love can not care." Liu Xinmin said happily.

"Later, our 'brother cavalry company' in the factory basketball competition, but also won the championship. I also became a star figure in the factory. Later, in order to encourage me, the factory arranged for me to learn to drive and become a driver. I was one of the earliest batch of drivers in the factory and went into the factory's fleet."

Postscript: Liu Xinmin has been driving in the factory fleet, and later, after age, arranged to go to the factory canteen to do a period of time in logistics, around 2000, the factory is not good, it is a sick retirement, is considered to be retired, and returned to his hometown in Fujian.

Liu Xiaojing, female, 58 years old, now living in Jiao Nan City, X neighborhood, in the neighborhood of the roadside selling vegetables, the Department of Danhe 4XX power plant laid-off workers.

"I entered the plant in 1982, when I just graduated from the City Normal School. Was assigned to the 4XX power plant as a teacher. Although the place was remote, however, it was considered to have found an official job. The family was just very satisfied."

"When we arrived at the plant, we encountered a lot of things. These things affected me a lot." Saying this, Liu Xiaojing seemed to be talking about things that happened a long time ago, her expression was very bland.

"This kind of industrial and mining enterprises? most of the factory are men. There are fewer female comrades in the factory, and they are usually divided into departments such as the factory office, the measuring room, the laboratory, and so on. We are teacher-training graduates? surely just go to the factory's children's school as teachers."

"We female teachers because of the characteristics of the work, almost like the stars, chasing us especially. A random female teacher, chasing men not to say a reinforced company, but also a reinforced platoon."

"Under these glamorous appearance, we also have our own troubles. First, the work is not good, always criticized by the leadership. The students in the class are all the children of the factory, which is particularly difficult to manage. These children seem to have been spoiled at home since they were young, and they are not moving, but they have the attitude that they will take over from adults in the future, and you can't do anything about them. This is sort of our work troubles!"

"There is a bigger problem. I found the factory side is very unfair, everything is divided into grades. Especially the dormitory housing allocation, is even more unfair. Everyone's dormitory new and old size, there are many articles and doorways. Factory leaders live in the back of the newly built building, house area, four rooms, two halls, location is also high, good lighting. Middle-level cadres can share a large house, at least two rooms, three rooms. What about the general workers, they can only live in the dormitory, two or three people crowded in a one-room room."

"Lesbians are even more unfair, they can only live in dormitories. If you don't get married, you won't even be eligible for a house share. As for what kind of house to share if you get married, it totally depends on what level the object you marry is and whether it has any relationship." Liu Xiaojing said these things decades ago, still very angry look.

"Yi Learning, a college student who was assigned a few years earlier than me, married the son of the director of the factory office, and moved to a big house in the back. And then my classmate Xiaohua, who married the factory technician Xiaolin, had a hell of a time. Because she lived with another family in a two-room apartment, she was angry and quarreled over the use of the kitchen and the bathroom from time to time. There was no place to stay when relatives came to visit. Until finally, Xiaolin joined the party, at least a separate one-room house."

"There is also Li Huanying, because of good volleyball, by the factory director's son, but then she married Jia Wentian, a worker in the thermoelectric workshop, and has been living in the front of the damp old family building. Also and others *** living in a two-room house, a few years also did not implement a separate house." As soon as it comes to the division of the house, Liu Xiaojing seems to be unable to stop.

"I have my own ideas, I fancy that house by the factory kindergarten. The location of that house is very good, there is no big tree in front of it, full of sunshine, the house has an air corridor on the second floor, which leads directly to the main road of the living area, and it is not more than ten meters forward to the catering department, which is convenient for working and eating. On the side is the store. Turn left out of the door, not far from the movie theater, basketball court. In the future, when you get married and have a child, you don't have to send the child, downstairs is the kindergarten."

"At that time, there were several men chasing me. There is one called Liu Xinmin, his hometown is Fujian, I heard that his father is still a county leader, but also a thermoelectric workshop, basketball is good, long and handsome. At first, in order to chase me, and the mechanic workshop people fought. However, I do not agree, because he lives in the house is the back of the cramped dormitory, the level and can not, the future will certainly not be divided into separate houses."

"Feelings of this, I do not say he can not know the reason for a lifetime. He was just going to work every day, and after work he was playing basketball, drinking, and getting drunk to make trouble." For her life before marriage, Liu Xiaojing said this much.

"Later, I got a boyfriend named Li Sen, his father is a small supervisor of the canteen in the production area, and the leaders have a good relationship and can talk. I and Li Sen good news, spread out everyone knows, all think Li Sen can not match me, no matter the looks, the work is not good. In fact, only I know because the house, Li Sen live in the house is exactly what I want that house." About marriage also do not know Liu Xiaojing said is the feelings or the house.

"The next year, that is, 1985, we got married. Can not say feelings, anyway, life is that way, three meals a day, firewood, rice, oil and salt. Anyway, I have never suffered from being under the same roof as others. Now my daughter is also working in Hangzhou, and it is time to buy a house, the days are also tight!"

"To say that there is no house to live in the bitter, then later laid off the day is bitter! After entering the nineties, the factory's efficiency began to become not so good, and constantly have to lay off people. The policy at that time, but also to enterprises to streamline personnel, improve efficiency, and seek their own way out, that is, to arrange for some people to be laid off."

"At the beginning of 1995, there was a rumor in the factory that the children's school was going to be closed, and in the fall, the school was really closed, and I was laid off."

"At that time, our family bought a house in Jiao Nan City. The child was exactly ten years old, so we brought the child to the city to go to school."

"At that time, the father-in-law has retired, the husband because in the thermoelectric workshop, temporarily not laid off, but the benefits are not working, a lot of bonuses are gone. Prices have been rising, and the family's days became tense all of a sudden." When saying these words, Liu Xiaojing is very calm, there is no emotional change.

"When I was just laid off, I just felt empty. Ten years of life was broken, every day to work, off work, eat and sleep. Basically, you never left the power plant. Suddenly, you're not here anymore, don't belong here, this place doesn't need you."

"That year, there was a skit in the Spring Festival gala. It said, 'We workers should think for the country, who will be laid off if I am not laid off.' Listening to it on New Year's Eve, I can't tell you how hard it was. I didn't have a good Spring Festival that year." Liu Xiaojing said these tone is not so heavy.

"There is also the fact that I found that people have changed, including your relatives have changed their attitude towards you. Suddenly, it feels like my husband has also become very strange, very stingy, not willing to give me money. In the past, when I was in the factory, I didn't care, each received his own salary and spent his own money, but now once I was laid off and had no income, my husband often didn't give me any money. This has led to a lot of conflicts."

"Then later, there was a divorce. I took my daughter to live in Jiao Nan City. The days were not easy."

Postscript: after Liu Xiaojing was laid off in 1995, she has not been re-employed, relying on working for people in the city, doing a little business, and raising her daughter on her own. ......

V. New Life - Parental Love

Liu Anning, male, 47 years old. Now is a driver in the office of the new large power plant.

"I am a child of the power plant, my father's name is Liu Hongbing, and my mother's name is Yi Learning, she a college student." Liu Anning said about his mother, specifically emphasized.

"Let me think back to my mother, I think her life was a tragedy, emotionally speaking, because I can feel her unhappiness."

"In 1977, Comrade Deng Xiaoping had just resumed his work, and one of the first things he did was to reinstate the college entrance exams. My mother went to college in '78, the first group of college students after the restoration of the college entrance examination, and she was very good."

"After she graduated, she was assigned to the power plant. After arriving at the power plant, it was directly arranged into the factory office, that is, the factory office. Without going through grassroots exercise, she directly entered the plant office. This can be said to be an unprecedented first. At that time, very enviable, can also be said to be the importance of the plant leadership."

"How can I describe my mother? She loved to read and looked very bookish. She was very warm and unguarded."

"At that time, my grandfather was the director of the factory office, so he introduced my father to her, my father's diploma is not high, is a junior high school graduate, at that time, already participated in the work of a few years. Soon after, they got married. The second year of marriage, I was born."

"I don't know how much affection my father and mother had, but they just got married. This type of marriage was very common at the time."

"My childhood was colorful and happy. My mother was very good to me. She bought me a lot of comic books, she would tell me stories, she would take me to the movies, she would take me to buy good snacks."

"But after a few years, my father and mother became very quarrelsome. It started over petty things. Maybe it was just about doing housework or something." Liu An Ning became much slower in her voice, and her mood became low.

"I'm older, and now I understand a lot of truth. Between husband and wife, we have to understand each other, otherwise, it is really too easy to have conflicts and quarrels."

"And then later, they argued even more, my father would smash things, he would drop bowls and stuff, and then he would hit my mother. My mother, then, would hug me and cry softly." As Liu Anning said this, her eyes slowly moistened, and then she choked.

"And because of that, I turned gray in elementary school. ....."

"My father was not well educated, and when he got off work he smoked, drank and played cards. My mother read, and my father would scold her for being a nerd."

"Slowly, my mother stopped reading. And stopped reading to me. I hated my father so much."

"I even wanted them to divorce. Then I followed my mother back to her home. My mother's hometown was in Jiangsu, and I went back to Jiangsu together when I was a child, to a small mountain village located in Lianyungang City, which was bordered by a river with a stone-arch bridge over it. That place was beautiful."

"But they did not divorce. A divorce in those days would have gotten a bad reputation. My mother she was a college student and she was very conscious of her reputation."

"She said she couldn't get a divorce for my sake. It caused me to become very troubled and feel that I caused my mother's unhappiness. I felt sorry for my mother."

"I stopped going to school after high school and it was just too painful. I didn't want to stay in that home. My grandfather at the time arranged for me to be an apprentice in the mechanic shop, saying that in the future the pay would be good and the work would not be tiring."

"I just didn't go! I went and learned to drive and became a driver. It was the kind of truck that hauled coal to the factory. I felt I was able to drive far from home."

"Around the turn of the new century, the state, in an effort to reduce pollution, called for 'pressing down and up,' which meant shutting down small power plants and building big ones. Our power plant was then shut down. I was then transferred to the factory office to drive a small car, and followed the leadership of the factory to run the new power plant project."

"At that time, traveling all the time. Either to the province, or to Beijing. Ran for several years, finally, the project was finally approved. The leadership of the factory, mindful of the fact that I have been running around hard all these years, promoted me to the position of deputy director of the logistics department."

In 2018, the 4*600,000-kilowatt generating unit of the 4XX Project Relocation Project was put into operation and generated electricity, becoming the largest thermal power plant in Asia.

Postscript: Liu Anning did not go back to driving trucks after the completion of the new power plant project, but continued to stay in the factory office to drive a small car. He later, never married ......

Six, the future - holographic body phone

Li Want, female, 38 years old. Currently living in Hangzhou City, she is a staff member of the X-Cat e-commerce enterprise.

"I studied aesthetics in college, and in graduate school I studied advertising and media. After that, I stayed in Hangzhou and applied to the e-commerce company, and I've been working for four years, and now I earn 300,000 dollars a year."

"My husband is my college classmate, and we got married when we were in our third year of study. Husband works as a management in a training organization in Hangzhou."

"The big city has the good things about the big city, but everything has to be worked and fought for by yourself."

"Every day, I go out early and come back late, and in the past two years, the price of housing in Hangzhou has gone up again. It feels like a lot of pressure. Fortunately, in 2026, we saved more than two million dollars, just enough for a down payment, and finally bought a house."

"On the matter of buying a house, my mother was very supportive and encouraged me to definitely buy a house."

"My mother's name is Liu Xiaojing, a laid-off worker, she has been relying on selling vegetables and working part-time to pay for me to finish college."

"My mother is my favorite person! I've been trying to pick her up and bring her to Hangzhou, and she doesn't want to come, saying that she's surrounded by familiar people and doesn't want to be in a strange place again."

"In fact, I know she is distressed about money. Hangzhou prices are very expensive, a steamed bun more than three dollars, she came even steamed buns do not want to eat."

"Last year bought her the latest holographic body phone. She did not use it, saying it was too costly for traffic, and a call would cost tens of dollars."

"Instead of making a holographic phone call, why don't you take a trip on the high speed train to .......?"

VII. History and people

History , that's how it changes everyone ......

If there was no third-line construction, Lian Yonghe would not have left the Northeast;

If there was no reform and opening up, Liu Xinmin would not have gone to play basketball;

If there was no wave of layoffs, Liu Xiaojing would not have gone to Jiao'nan City to encounter hard work;

If there was no resumption of the college entrance exams, Liu Anning probably would not have even appeared in the world;

If there was no Information Age, Li Want might not have settled in Hangzhou;

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All of the above stories are purely fictional and are the words of a novelist! # History #