The years gone by, the traces left behind, and the unforgettable memories of the youth are green, ignorant and passionate. Reminiscent of the factory life on the side of the youth road, the endless reminiscences of the machine rumbling in the workshop and the sweet date beside the canteen and air-raid shelter.

Newly established emerging industry

The ancient Shuozhou had been dominated by sporadic handicraft evidence. It was not until the late 1940s and the late 1950s that the Hefei industry was ushered in.

With regard to the establishment of the Hefei Instrument Factory, there are two kinds of arguments in the relevant materials of Anhui Province and Hefei City. One is July 1957 and the other is May 1958. He asked the old workers who had retired from the Hefei Meter Factory because the time had passed more than half a century and they did not remember the exact date.

Master Wu was rather impressed by the entrance of this Huizhou Avenue. At that time, Hefei Instrument Factory was named Hefei Integrated Instrument and Meter Factory. The site was identified as No. 111 Huizhou Road. Later, Hukou was changed to a youth road, and when his son got married, the identity card became the Meiling Avenue, and now the old age card was impressively written on Huizhou Avenue.

In the early stage of the factory, it mainly produced thermal instruments, electrical instruments, diesel instrument sets, pressure gauges, and optical instruments. In 1964 it was renamed Hefei Meter Factory, which was then subordinated to the Anhui Machinery Industry Department. At that time, Anhui's industrial automation instrumentation industry was not less than a total number of manufacturers, but the products were relatively low-end, such as Tianchang County, where there were 35 meter factories specializing in the production of liquid thermometers. The instrument factories in other cities are also a single product, such as the production of temperature meters for the Feixi Instrument Factory, the display meters for the Anqing Thermal Instrument Factory, and the pressure meters for the Maanshan Instrument Factory.

Hefei Instrument Factory is the leader among them. According to the old workers' memories, in 1960, an overseas Chinese engineer returned from Indonesia and was named Huang Yuda. He has contacted Japan and West Germany's advanced instrumentation products abroad. He has designed a variety of ellipse gear flowmeters with different specifications and functions, which has brought the product to a new level. A few years later, oval gear flowmeters were exported to more than 20 countries including Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Talking about the glorious factories of the past, the old workers seem to have returned to the passionate years. Master Wu lifted a labor medal from his home and said excitedly: “The Hefei instrument factory was not allowed. The launch of China’s first artificial satellite, the first intercontinental missile, and the first experimental communication satellite was used. our products."

This is not bragging. In the "Hefei City" and other information, I really see the relevant written records.

The guy becomes old buddy

"Today's young people do not realize how hard we were in those years. How can we imagine that we, Shanghainese born in the metropolis, decided to leave their parents resolutely and left the familiar Li Nong to come to Hefei, a small county town." When Master Wu arrived in Hefei in 1943, he was still a boy of the early 20s. At that time, near the Hefei Instrument Factory, the ups and downs, the vertical and horizontal fields, and the countryside were no different.

Master Wu will never forget the moment of entering the Hefei instrument factory. There is no such thing as an imagined chimney and a densely planted building. The narrow factory area has only a few rows of simple thatched sheds and brick-built bungalows. Now we see that The large dormitory building on the west side was covered by land acquisitions. The young workers crowded in the dormitory and shuffled the bed, shuffled the faucet, lined up to the toilet, and queued up to the canteen for cooking, was an indelible imprint on that collective life.

Like many factories in Hefei City, Hefei Meter Factory has many Shanghainese who support the mainland. They not only bring advanced technology, but also bring a unique lifestyle.

In the past, Hefei people did not like to eat crabs and screws. Those young people in Shanghai got together and cleaned the fat crabs with a toothbrush, put them in a large iron pan and steamed them, simmered with ginger and vinegar, and eaten with gusto. . There are yellow mud snails soaked in rice wine. They sucked at their mouths, causing local young workers in the factory to follow suit. They couldn't suck it out and had to pick a toothpick.

Master Wu’s wife was Hefei, and she was succeeded by Master Wu with two hairy crabs. Aunt Wu said with a joke that when he was young, Master Wu did have an appealing style, unlike our Hefei locals. For example, always clean up before going out, hair with shiny wax comb shine shiny, collar and trousers are very well-stitched, the only pair of shoes to wear only on the street, but also shine bright, usually are Put it in a box with a shoe box.

In July 1981, Hefei Instrument Factory was renamed as Hefei Instrument Factory. It was the best time to benefit. The coverage of domestic application market reached 70-75%. The product was awarded Anhui Province Outstanding New Product Award and Anhui Provincial Quality Product Certificate for many times. . At that time, Master Wu had spent the best time of more than 20 years in the factory. He personally witnessed the technology transfer with the German company Pop Royette in December 1985.

Air defenses experience Sentimental

Unlike his parents, Wu Bing’s son, Wu Bing’s childhood and youth period, coincided with the reform and opening up. There are special eras of fanaticism and romance in the new era.

When I was a child, my father was often away from home and occasionally returned by a telephone call. Today, I also said that in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia will arrive next week. During the grand ceremony of Hefei Instrument Factory, he had offices in many cities across the country. At that time, Master Wu had been transferred to the Supply Section to be responsible for the installation and maintenance of instrument products.

Unforgettable in the summer of 1980, Wu Bing was playing with his classmates in the large courtyard. Suddenly, a whispered sound filled with firecrackers was heard. He quickly ran to see it. It turned out that the First Ministry of Machine Building had sent a pennant to the factory. , which reads "Frontier Units Contributing to the Full Test of Launch Vehicles". I heard that even the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission jointly sent congratulatory messages and congratulations. The group of young men cheered and felt proud of their parents' factory.

At night, everyone moved the cool bed to the basketball court on the factory floor. The grown-ups gathered and carelessly shook the Big Pu fan and chatted. The children silently counted the stars and soon entered the dream.

“Do you still remember the time when you were ready for preparation? At that time, Hefei Instrument Factory also dug tunnels everywhere.” Wu Bing took me to a building resembling a bunker and seemed to have been away from us for a very long time, and was once again in front of the black hole. The scenes awakened. Sentimental teenagers seem to have vividly remembered the scenes dating in the cave. They don't understand anything, they are the most obnoxious and happiest.

The previous summer seemed to be hotter than it is now. The sun was burning at noon. The family area of ​​the Hefei Instrument Factory was like a fire. There was no air conditioning at that time. The grown-ups used to sleep in the house at noon to take a nap. The children liked the citizens who did not have air-conditioners to hide in the air-raid shelters and enjoy "natural air-conditioning" for free.

The air-raid shelters of the instrument factory are not as spacious as the air-raid shelters in the city center. The narrow caverns meander like serpents and lead to distant lands. The timid little ones dare not go down. Most of the youngsters play hide-and-seek games. Some young workers use the air-raid shelter as a venue for dating. Many young girls and girls are talking about marriage there. Later on, people in the factory called it a hole, and when they got married, they all started to ask, you drilled a few defenses to negotiate, and it became a wedding repertoire.