Chapter 2 Changes

"Jiangzhou Watch Company. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Wu Xi typed these words on Baidu, and then pressed the search button.

Twenty years ago, some large state-owned enterprises across the country have fallen into the wave of restructuring, in the process of transformation, some enterprises rose to the wind, more and more frustration became braver, and more enterprises fell to the bottom in the process of transformation, and never turned over. The focus of this issue is nostalgia and interpreting the development path of City D from different perspectives. The transformation and development of enterprises is an important part of this that cannot be ignored.

Wu Xi stared at the screen seriously: Jiangzhou Watch Company, established in 1981, commonly known as "Watch Factory", has more than 4,000 direct employees, producing "Jiangzhou" brand watches and clocks, and the original legal representative is Zhang Yizhi. The predecessor of the watch factory was a watch shop in the fifties. In 1970, the shop made the first batch of five watches in the city of D, causing a sensation in the city. In the 80s of the last century, Jiangzhou brand watches became famous for a while, realizing profits and taxes of more than 300 million yuan, and it was a famous "cash cow" for the industry of D city.

In the early 80s, the average social wage was only forty or fifty yuan, and the bonuses of the workers in the workshop of the watch factory were a few dozen yuan, and the highest one or two hundred. At that time, including the mayor, the children of leaders at all levels in the city and district, that is, the children of cadres who were known at that time, all came to the watch factory, and for a time, it was better to enter the factory than to enter the bank.

However, in the late 80s, Jiangzhou Watch Factory was faced with the competition of new products such as electronic watches, and could not turn around and let it run by inertia. In the nineties, the company's subordinate factories and associated factories began to separate, have their own operations, Jiangzhou watch factory accumulated a loss of more than 100 million, and then out of control, to 1996 to completely stop production.

Wu Xi fell into deep thought, she knew that this was once a famous manufacturer throughout the country, when she was young, I don't know how many people were proud of wearing a Jiangzhou brand watch, in that era when things were scarce and expensive, watches were the most sought-after commodities, especially the Jiangzhou brand known for its high quality, it was a good thing that everyone dreamed of. However, with the development of science and technology, watches are destined to become discarded by history, so at the end of the last century, the glory of Jiangzhou Watch Factory ended in bankruptcy.

She held her cheeks and worried, this watch factory is gone, who is she going to interview. Suddenly, the calcium carbide flashed in his head, yes, the watch factory is gone, but its family home must still be there, can you find it, are you still worried about not being able to find the interview subject?

Wu Xi secretly boasted in her heart that she was smart, she searched the Internet for the address of the family home of the watch factory, and then picked up the camera and walked out of the gate of the unit.

The family home was not easy to find, Wu Xi turned around on a remote path, and finally found an arch made of blue bricks, and a rusty door number on the door told her that she had found the right place.

Drilling through the arch, Wu Xi felt as if he had come to another world, seven or eight three-story buildings stood side by side, and the cement on the upper floors was mottled, revealing red bricks. Between the buildings is a few pedestrian paths, some of the cement slabs above the sewer pipes are warped, some are simply broken, and there is constantly silt gushing up from below, and you can also hear the flow of water. Above the building, there are clusters of intertwined wires, which act like a strange lid that separates the family courtyard from the blue sky above.

Wu Xi clicked the camera to record this dilapidated scene, and a scene suddenly appeared in her mind, where there were dozens of residential buildings in the past, which was a rare large residential area at that time. The house here is the latest and best in the city, and if you can get such a house, then you don't have to worry about marrying a daughter-in-law again. Every time it is time to commute, there are more than a dozen buses parked on the side of the road to pick up and drop off workers, which makes the citizens waiting on the side of the road envious.

But now, the Jiangzhou Watch Factory, which everyone once wanted to enter, is left with such a dilapidated dilapidated house surviving in the bustling city.

"Girl, what are you shooting here with such a thing?" An old voice floated into her ears, Wu Xi turned her head and saw a lame old lady holding a urinal, limping in her direction.

The interview subject automatically appeared, Wu Xi was overjoyed, and hurriedly greeted him, "Hello grandma, I am a reporter, I want to do an interview on the glorious history of Jiangzhou Watch Factory in the past and the reasons for its decline, I don't know if you are the original employee of the factory?" ”

"What pedicure?" The old lady pressed her ear in her direction.

"It's not a pedicure, it's a watchmaker." Wu Xi said loudly to her.

"Oh, the watch factory, my son used to be a worker in this watch factory, but what can we ordinary workers know, we know that the benefits are not as good as day by day, and in the end they are all disbanded and laid off, if you want to interview, you have to find the director of the factory, he is the founder of the factory, and he knows these things best."

"Does Director Zhang still live here?"

"No, he sold his house to save the factory, what a good man," the old lady sighed, "but after all, it still doesn't work, the electronic watch comes out, cheap and punctual, who else will use this old-fashioned watch." She shook her head and staggered in the direction of the toilet.

She also said that how much ordinary workers would know about the reasons for the decline of the watch factory, it seems that only by finding the makers of the factory policy at that time can we understand this history in detail. But how to find it, Director Zhang doesn't live here, do you want her to knock on the door door to ask if she can't do it?

Wu Xi thought while walking towards the depths of the family courtyard, in front of her is a ruin, according to the information she queried on the Internet, this should be the site of the original factory, but most of it has been demolished and rebuilt, only this small piece has been divided into the family courtyard, not reused, now it has become a garbage dump for the residents of the courtyard, perennial floating a bad smell.

"Hehe......" A burst of laughter came into Wu Xi's ears, as if she had been stabbed by a needle, her body suddenly tightened, and she reflexively turned her head back.

There wasn't even half a human shadow behind her, just a pile of broken rubble.

"It's too much." She comforted herself, desperately trying to calm down, but her legs seemed to disobey the call, and she walked quickly in the direction of the gate.

"Hehe......" There was another fluttering laugh, this time Wu Xi heard it clearly, she was just about to feel out the horns, and suddenly felt a pain in her back, and a palm-sized tile hit her impartially.