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Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

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Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  【Character Introduction】

  Wang Rui, born in 1949, is a member of the Communist Party of China and a native of Lanling County, Shandong Province. He joined the work in 1970 and served as deputy director, director and secretary of the party committee of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, assistant to the mayor of Zaozhuang Municipal Government, member of the party group, director of the Municipal Economic and Trade Commission, secretary of the party committee, chairman of the municipal federation of trade unions, secretary of the party group, vice chairman of the Zaozhuang Municipal CPPCC Committee, deputy secretary of the party group. He has successively won the honorary titles of "National Model Worker", "Model Worker of Shandong Province", "Outstanding Communist Party Member of Shandong Province", "Excellent Entrepreneur of Shandong Province", "Top Ten Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Shandong Province", "Model Worker of Zaozhuang City" and so on.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  【Interview Background】

  In the 1970s, in response to the call for the construction of the "third line", four factories in Qingdao were "moved" to Zaozhuang, namely the first national cotton factory, the meat factory, the paper mill and the rubber factory in zaozhuang in the early days. In 1973, Wang Rui came to The Zaozhuang Branch of Qingdao Rubber Factory No. 6, and later became the deputy director and director of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. In the transitional stage from the planned economy to the market economy, the leading group of the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, with Wang Rui as the factory director, seized the opportunity, dared to be capable, and in the late 1990s, the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory became the first major profit and tax household in Zaozhuang City.

  Looking back is an unforgettable legend, and looking forward is an unquenchable belief. Wang Rui, who is fast and fast-talking, participated in the arduous entrepreneurship of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory and witnessed the brilliant moment of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. The vivid narration depicts the dream of an entrepreneur who dared to break through the reform and opening up to strengthen the industrial city. The honest words are full of the feelings of an entrepreneur who works hard with zaozhuang city to work hard and rejuvenate the country.

  After graduating from secondary school and working as a worker in a workshop, he injured his finger

  Support the construction of the "third line" and come to Zaozhuang from Qingdao

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  【Dictations】

  Wang Rui: I was born in DongquanLibao Village, Yitang Town, Lanling County (formerly Cangshan County) in the Yimeng Mountains, and my father's name was Wang Fengjiang. It was a small mountain village, very poor at that time, and my family's life was also very hard. Originally, my family did not let me go to school, but I insisted on going to school, and when I graduated from junior high school, it was just in time for the "Cultural Revolution". I originally wanted to go to high school, but the eggs I ate on the road were all boiled, but suddenly I received an order not to take the exam and continue to make a revolution. My studies and exams were postponed until 1967, when I graduated from junior high school.

  At that time, universities did not enroll students, only some secondary schools and high schools. After being recommended by the local Military Control Commission, plus the examination, I was admitted to qingdao rubber school. Later, this school was merged into Shandong Institute of Chemical Technology to become a secondary school department. I specialized in rubber, and after graduation, I was assigned to Qingdao Rubber Factory No. 6 and worked as a worker in the workshop.

  In the 1960s and 1970s, under the background of the era of "preparing for war and preparing for the people" and "digging deep holes and accumulating grain", the state launched the "third-line construction", that is, coastal enterprises migrated to many inland provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou and Sichuan. In 1970, in order to implement the spirit of Chairman Mao Zedong's instructions, respond to the call, and support the third line, Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory set up a "third-line factory" in Zaozhuang, which was directly under the management of Qingdao and not under the management of Zaozhuang City. The name of the factory is Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory Zaozhuang Branch.

  After the plant equipment is ready, technicians and workers are needed to debug and operate. I remember that in September 1973, I was seconded from Qingdao Rubber No. 6 Factory to Zaozhuang Branch to be responsible for putting into operation. In the beginning, only one product could be produced, the suction hose. Buried suction hoses are the pipes used in rural pumps. At that time, I was the squad leader in the workshop, and I did a good job, and the first hose was made by me and my comrades.

  Later, he became the duty chief and secretary of the regiment branch of the workshop, and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1975. After joining the party, I served as the secretary of the general branch of the factory and the secretary of the youth league committee. In 1976, the Tangshan earthquake, in order to prevent earthquakes and provide disaster relief, organizationally let me serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the earthquake prevention command. During the "Industrial Science Daqing" period, I also served as the director of the industrial Science Daqing Office in the factory, the deputy secretary of the party branch of the organ, and visited Daqing. In July 1977, I was appointed deputy director of zaozhuang rubber factory, and before I took office, I was sent to Guomian No. 1 Factory as the leader of the whole party working group. Half a year later, the rubber factory went to a military project, and the city transferred me back to the rubber factory to grasp production.

  Responsible for the production of the rubber factory for about a year, the competent unit Zaozhuang Municipal Chemical Industry Bureau, I and four other comrades to support the work of the Zaozhuang calcium carbide factory, help them to manage, carry out rectification, in less than half a year, the calcium carbide factory on the verge of suspension of production resumed production, turned losses into profits. Because I studied rubber, I always thought about the rubber factory in my heart, and the leaders in the bureau also understood. So I went back to the rubber factory.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  A photograph of Wang Rui when he was young

  【Historical Scene】

  No. 36 Huayang Road, Qingdao City, where Qingdao Rubber No. 6 Factory is located. Wang Rui, who is less than 20 years old, and other secondary school students assigned to the factory together, went down to the workshop to become a worker. In the workshop, Wang Rui'ai asked Aixue and soon got the likes of many teachers. Once when operating the machine, one of Wang Rui's hands was crushed by the machine, the skin on his thumb was torn off in half, the nails were also torn off, ten fingers connected to the heart, drilling the heart of the pain. The workers hurriedly sent Wang Rui to Qingdao Municipal Hospital, and after a check, the bones were not injured, but there were 13 stitches on his hand. More than a week later, Wang Rui insisted on returning to the workshop to work, his injured hands tied with bandages, and he could only help his co-workers do some light work. Because of his positive performance, in the year of working in the workshop, Wang Rui was approved to join the Chinese Communist Youth League, was elected as a member of the League branch, and was rated as an "active member of Chairman Mao's works in the whole factory".

  Zaozhuang is unrecognizable, and rubber factories are often regarded as village-run enterprises

  Go out, please come in, and finally open the sales channel

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  Wang Rui: In 1976, Zaozhuang Branch Factory was decoupled from Qingdao Rubber Factory No. 6 and renamed Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. The name of the factory is neither hung in Shandong Province nor Zaozhuang City. Maybe at that time, I thought that taking this name was atmospheric, and I suffered a big loss. At that time, when I went on a business trip, whether it was a car ride or a stay, I needed a letter of introduction. Our introduction letters are all written "Zaozhuang Rubber Factory", and when outsiders look at the words "Zaozhuang Rubber Factory", they think that you are a village-run enterprise and do not know where "Zaozhuang" is. We're actually a midsize business. So wherever we go, we have to explain that we are the hometown of the railway guerrillas, we are an enterprise in Zaozhuang City, and we are a relatively large branch of Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory. However, people did not believe it, so the name of this factory was written "Zaozhuang" instead of "Zaozhuang City", and the boss suffered a loss.

  After I became the deputy director of sales, I adopted the method of "please come in" and "go out" to publicize enterprises and products. The so-called "going out" means that I take the section chief and section staff to visit each household, take the promotional materials and product manuals, and go to the users to promote and introduce the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, explaining the origin of our predecessor, production scale, product type and so on. Most people lack understanding of our Zaozhuang rubber factory, so we must first grasp the original old customers, that is, the light company, the agricultural machinery company, and then the scope is mainly around the Shandong area, because only by grasping the Shandong area first, can we have a bowl of rice to eat first.

  Once I led a team to visit the Feicheng Mining Bureau. At that time, the traffic was very inconvenient, and Zaozhuang to Feicheng was a shuttle bus. At that time, there were no cars in the factory, so I wore rubber shoes and carried yellow school bags with my comrades. Feicheng Bus Station is more than 20 miles away from The Feicheng Mining Bureau, and as soon as we get off the bus, we walk. Unexpectedly, it was difficult to go to the Feicheng Mining Bureau, handed over the letter of introduction, the other party saw that it was Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, did not care, the bench did not let sit, not to mention pouring water. No way, we had to go back. Later, through the introduction of zaozhuang mining bureau, the second time to receive us, zaozhuang rubber factory products slowly got their recognition. Users are such a one, one, one by one, it took a lot of effort to win it. No 3 times, 5 times, 3 months, 5 months, I can't take it down at all.

  Another is to take the "please come in" and invite customers to the factory to see for themselves. Don't you believe? If you don't believe it, you come and see, because we're really good. Another is to send them invitations, and after they are invited in, they will focus on the symposium. After opening in the factory, I went to Weishan Lake to open. Weishan Lake has a good scenery, you can be there to carry out activities and contact feelings. The situation opened up slowly. In 1982, we reached an output value of 15 million yuan and a profit and tax of 3 million.

  From no work to gradually have some work, to be able to support themselves on their own, Zaozhuang Rubber Factory changed from a loss to basically no loss. In October 1983, the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee came to inspect the leading group of the factory, conducted a comprehensive investigation, and finally decided to call me the director of the factory. When Director Hong Xuezhen talked to me, I said that I would resolutely not do it, and I really did not want to do it.

  Why not dry it? I have some reasons. One was that I was the youngest, I was 33 years old at the time, and they were all in their 40s and 50s. Our team has 3 undergraduate graduates and 2 secondary school students. I was a secondary school during the Cultural Revolution and didn't learn much. The youngest, the lowest educated, and the lowest ranking, I said I couldn't take over the role of factory director, and I didn't have the ability to take on this burden. Coupled with such a large stall in the factory, it is indeed not so easy to do. At that time, there was a saying that "(the director) has one year of incense, two years of stink, and three years of getting out of the egg", a good promotion, a bad job of getting out of the egg. I said to the leader, I don't want to stink so early, I don't want to stink in my 30s.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  The old leader of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, the second from the right is Wang Rui

  In the 1980s, the rural economic reform with the household contract responsibility system as the breakthrough accelerated the transition of China's economy from a planned economy to a market economy. The lack of autonomy of state-owned enterprises urgently needs to be changed. To this end, the Zaozhuang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have selected talents "in an eclectic manner", boldly carried out the reform of the management system of state-owned enterprises, and implemented the "responsibility system of factory directors under the leadership of the party committee". In the context of the era of young cadres and knowledge, 33-year-old Wang Rui was appointed as the director of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. The factory director is responsible for the system, and the power of the factory director is relatively large. Throwing away the shackles of the old system, the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory led by Wang Rui began a "legend" in the history of Zaozhuang's industrial development.

  Driven by scientific and technological innovation, we come up with excellent products

  After five years of hard work, the output value of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory exceeded 100 million

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  Wang Rui: In November 1983, the organization appointed me as the director of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. After taking office, under the leadership of the factory party committee, I proposed two aspects of reform and innovation.

  The first is reform and innovation in science and technology. The market economy is to develop products according to the needs of the market, so you must go deep into the market and you must investigate and research.

  We learned that the Ministry of Coal wants to import a hundred sets of integrated shearers for downhole use. Faced with this rare opportunity, I will do work in all aspects to strive for imported equipment. With the strong support of the relevant departments, we imported two wire weaving machines from the United States, a K4 mixer from the United Kingdom, and a filter glue machine from Japan. After these imported equipment is used, the quality of the high-pressure steel wire braided hose we produce is very good, and the number of pulses can reach more than 200,000 times, which is at the international level. The pulse is like our heart, contracting once, beating once, reaching more than 200,000 times, the effect of anti-compression is very good, so it has been well received by users. Coupled with the fact that our production has gone up again, the market has expanded.

  In addition, the flame retardant transport belt we have developed fills the gap in the country. The original transport belt used underground in coal mines was non-flame retardant, and fires often occurred, causing casualties and huge economic losses. According to this situation, we developed the flame retardant conveyor belt earlier and fought an early battle. Just when the Ministry of Coal ordered that the underground must use flame retardant transport belts, our new products have been developed, and then they enter the market, which well meets the needs of the market.

  As we all know, the introduction of foreign equipment is very expensive, and the parts needed after the introduction are often blocked by technology. We pay attention to the preservation of raw data during equipment installation, and organize technical transformation teams to transform key components. After slow exploration, we finally developed a whole machine that can produce steel wire braided hose, which can not only be used for its own use, but also be able to mass-produce and sell to the outside world, saving a lot of foreign exchange for the country.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  Wang Rui (first from the right) has a discussion with domestic and foreign technical experts

  In terms of technological transformation, we have also successfully developed a mobile wire rope conveyor flat vulcanizing machine, which solves the problem of uneven tension of the wire rope belt in the molding process. The thing is this, our old factory, Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory, there is an old engineer named Cao Yimin, who was more than 50 years old at that time and had strong technical ability. We seconded him to work at the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory. He spent more than 20 years designing a mobile wire rope conveyor belt flat vulcanizing machine, but it has never been able to test and make in practice. When the design plan was handed over to the party committee of the factory for study, a considerable number of people opposed it, and many people had doubts. I'm a big believer in experimentation. After listening to the detailed answers of Cao Yimin's old engineer, everyone unified their opinions. As a result, the trial was a great success. After the production, the quality of the wire rope conveyor belt we produced was greatly improved, and the market opened up.

  From 1983 to 1988, the output value of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory increased from 15 million to more than 100 million, and profits and taxes increased from 3 million to 22 million. At that time, there were few enterprises in Shandong Province with an output value of more than 100 million, lunannan did not, and zaozhuang was even less. Mayor Zhu Guanxing personally went to the factory to congratulate.

  In 1989, the steel wire braided hose produced by Zaozhuang Rubber Factory was awarded the National Gold Award. I came to Beijing and received the award for the first time in the Great Hall of the People. Zaozhuang Rubber Factory became famous, and orders poured in. By the end of 1992, the whole factory achieved an output value of more than 200 million yuan, profits and taxes reached 31 million yuan, becoming the first large profit and tax household in Zaozhuang City, and the profits and taxes paid accounted for a quarter of the municipal fiscal revenue. The main leaders of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee went to the factory to investigate and guide the work, and fully affirmed the work of zaozhuang rubber factory.

  The second is reform and innovation in systems and mechanisms. With the in-depth development of reform and opening up, the planned economy has changed to a market economy, and enterprises must increase the intensity of product sales. My guiding ideology at that time was: whether you are in a technical position or a production position, as long as you have sales ability, you will be transferred to a sales position. The factory originally had a sales section with 3 section chiefs. We decided to abolish the sales department and set up a sales office, and the 8 sales directors are known as the "Eight King Kongs", corresponding to the seven areas of the country, and strengthen sales. The seven areas are: Shandong Area, Shanxi Area, Hebei Area, Henan Anhui Subei Area, Northeast Area, Northwest Area, and Southern Area. They each take responsibility for their own responsibilities, and the package is actively completed. A director in charge of sales in Hebei area learned that the demand for transport belts in Hebei Tangshan Mining Machinery Factory is very large. In order to win over this user, he "lai" "went to work" in other people's factories, doing everything, in fact, in order to increase understanding and increase feelings. Finally touched the user, won the market.

  We have also set up an after-sales service brigade and added an external economic and economic office. The Foreign Economic Affairs Office, in particular, is responsible for sales in the international market. They braved hardships and finally opened the door to the international market, with an annual export volume of 17 million yuan, and the rubber factory also became the first exporter in Zaozhuang City.

  At the same time, we have also restructured other departments and workshops. Optimize the combination of personnel, and decompose tasks into departments, workshops, and teams. Sign a letter of responsibility at all levels, everyone in the factory has a task, a monthly assessment, a year-end general assessment, the implementation of more work, less work less policy. Rewards and penalties are clear, and the solution is cashed. The enterprise has entered a period of benign development.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  "Basketball giant" Mu Tiezhu (the tallest man in the back row) visited the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory

  In order to commemorate the output value of more than 100 million, profits and taxes of more than 2,000, at the end of 1988, Zaozhuang Rubber Factory built a monument in the factory area. The design of the monument was voted on by the entire plant staff. The final option chosen was a young woman standing on the "earth" with her arms extended into the distance. The monument is named Pioneering, which means: jujube oak people go to the world. What is eye-catching is that the base of the monument is huge, and the names of all the employees of zaozhuang rubber factory are densely engraved on the stele.

  In the interview, Wang Rui talked about this grand event more than 30 years ago, and there were tears in his eyes. He said emotionally: We have engraved the names of more than 1,700 employees on the monument, and everyone feels supremely honored. Later, the monument was demolished, which was a pity.

  People-oriented, establish corporate culture

  Seek common development of enterprises and share development dividends

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  Wang Rui (first from right) at the scene of oral history collection

  Wang Rui: Before 1985, Comrade Li Deling was the secretary of the party committee of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, and he was very supportive of my work and carried out the work very smoothly. Later, Comrade Sange served as the secretary of the party committee. Comrade Sange is also a graduate of our School of Chemical Engineering, an old undergraduate, and has a literati temperament. He was crepe and I was the "big old rough" one. But we worked well together and people thought we were the "best partner". Under the leadership and guidance of Comrade Sange, according to the actual situation of society and enterprises, we have initially established a people-oriented corporate culture, that is, the enterprise spirit of "pioneering, enterprising, unity, hard work, pragmatism and high efficiency"; the six principles of "respecting people, caring for people, supporting people, loving people, understanding people, and not tidying people"; and made factory emblems, factory flags, and factory songs. Encourage the staff of the whole factory to unite as one, be positive, and bravely move forward to the world.

  In Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, while advocating the "six spirits", we focus on proposing to be "people-oriented". The idea is also simple, that is, to do a good job in all aspects of the life of employees, the enterprise must think of everyone, everything for everyone. It can be said that Zaozhuang Rubber Factory was the best enterprise for the welfare of our employees at that time, and everyone wanted to work in the rubber factory. At that time, there was a saying that "I would rather the employees of the rubber factory break their waists than call for another trick." The factory is good, there is money, everything is easy to manage, even the staff is easy to find a partner, it is really like this.

  We build houses every year, and our employees give houses as long as they get married. If the older woman is single, she will give you the mother-child dormitory. Our dormitory area is also the first in the city to supply heating, and the use of production waste heat to supply hot water to the dormitory area is not charged. A staff hospital was also built, two staff canteens were built, and a new kindergarten and primary school were built. The rubber factory is far from the city, and there are ten miles to go. In order to facilitate the commuting of employees and send students to school in the city, we bought 4 buses, including two long buses. At that time, there were two buses, and there were almost no on the market. Contact the third middle school and the fifteenth middle school, and send our students to the best third and fifteenth middle schools in Zaozhuang City. In order to increase the employment of the children of employees, after approval, we have opened a secondary school, the Chemical Technology School. The living and educational facilities are complete, which solves the worries of employees.

  As long as the employees are sick and have disasters, we will send someone to contact the hospital in our factory. If we need to use any urgently needed medicine, we will run to the hospitals across the country to buy it. At that time, a technician had cancer, a brain tumor, and it was about to die. Later, we heard a folk remedy that said it was good to take Chinese medicine, and we immediately went to buy it. If you buy medicine, you will treat it immediately. You see this person is strange, sent to the hospital is almost waiting for death, the result is that after the later treatment, he is well, after recovery and transferred back to Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory to work.

  Every year after we complete the task, on New Year's Day, we will hold a three-day conference meal to celebrate, and the staff and families of the whole factory will participate, a total of more than 2,000 people. At that time, the atmosphere was too warm and too good, and the atmosphere was really happy. On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the factory, we bought a full-body suit, tie, shirt for each employee, and also issued a watch.

  At that time, the wages and bonuses of the employees of zaozhuang rubber factory were the highest in the city. Behind this is the hard work of all our employees, and they should be rewarded.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  In 1989, Wang Rui (front row, third from left) and representatives of national labor models in Tiananmen Square

  In 1990, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala invited ten national labor models as guests at the gala. Wang Rui, who has just been elected as a national labor model, was also invited. As the New Year's bells ring, the country's leaders extend New Year's greetings. Subsequently, the camera switched to the scene of the Spring Festival Gala, and Wang Rui in the guest seat was jubilant, and the video image lasted for two or three seconds. On the night after the Spring Festival Gala, many relatives and friends called Wang Rui, especially some representatives of large customers also called to greet him. Speaking of this "highlight moment", Wang Rui still remembers it vividly, and said happily: At that time, he knew that he would show his face for our rubber factory and fight for our zaozhuang enterprises.

  The changes in Zaozhuang are getting bigger and bigger

  Full of confidence, the proposal of "industrial strong city, industrial prosperity city"

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  Wang Rui: The original Zaozhuang, so small, there is a saying that "a handful of peanuts to visit the whole city." There are very few buildings with more than three floors, and the cityscape is dirty and messy. There are also a lot of flies in the rubber factory, sweeping with a broom, sweeping a large piece. At present, Zaozhuang has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes, industrial development, urban development, and the people's living standards have also been greatly improved.

  When I went to work in the city, Zaozhuang Rubber Factory was preparing to set up a business group. Two factories in Qingdao were merged: a tire factory and a hose factory. In Zaozhuang, the iron factory was annexed, and a machinery factory was built in the development zone.

  Later, the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory was restructured and leased to private operations, which was worse than a year and closed down. In recent years, the original plant and equipment have been leased to our old factory, Qingdao Rubber Sixth Factory. I asked the people left behind in the rubber factory two days ago, and he said that there were still about 300 people working there, and they basically collapsed. The rubber factory family home, which was originally the best family home in Zaozhuang, later became a mess. Last year, I remodeled it, and I went to see it, that is, I painted the wall, paved the road, and provided heating.

  As a factory director, especially the director of a state-owned enterprise, it is very important to "strike iron and be hard by itself." If we do not set an example by example and do a good job in building a clean and honest government, it will be impossible for enterprises to do a good job. In the Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, I am not greedy for power, do not seek power, and do not have exclusive power, and everyone discusses and handles things to give full play to the collective role. My role is mainly reflected in the following three aspects:

  The first is to be responsible for formulating the overall planning and annual plan of the enterprise, and decomposing and refining these plans and plans and implementing them in all links. At the end of the year, the assessment will be carried out and the rewards and punishments will be honored.

  The second is to investigate the market, understand the market, study the market, develop the market, grasp the market, and formulate the development direction for the enterprise. I travel for more than 200 days a year, and basically every user goes through it. Often on the train for a few hours, in order to visit customers, make friends, expand the influence, visit, return to the factory and quickly come up with rectification opinions.

  The third is to serve the staff wholeheartedly and be a good logistics minister for the staff. I said to everyone at that time, you will do the work of the director of my factory; you will entrust me with your affairs, and you can only work with peace of mind. Like the separation of the two places, the child needs employment, the serious illness to find a doctor, we try our best to solve, the staff is still very satisfied.

  I have been the director of Zaozhuang Rubber Factory for more than ten years, studying while working, never resting on Sundays and holidays, running all day in the production, sales, and front line of service for employees. Leave early and return late, lead by example, work hard and complain, never consider personal gains and losses, set strict requirements on family members, and never engage in specialization. In order to meet the needs of management work, from August 1985 to June 1988, I also participated in the junior college class of the Central Party School's correspondence course of economic management at the 85th level, passed the examination, and obtained a college diploma.

  In May 1993, the municipal party committee decided to transfer me to work in the city, and successively served as the assistant to the mayor, the member of the party group of the municipal government, the director of the municipal economic and trade commission, the secretary of the party committee, the chairman of the municipal federation of trade unions, the secretary of the party group, the vice chairman of the municipal CPPCC committee, and the deputy secretary of the party group. After retiring, he served as the deputy director of the Zaozhuang Municipal Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation, and worked for 12 years, and only quit the "Customs Work Committee" last year. Under the correct leadership of successive municipal party committees and governments, I have done some things that are beneficial to society and the people for the economic development and social progress of the whole city, and I feel very pleased and happy.

  At present, Secretary Chen Ping and Mayor Zhang Hongwei have put forward the strategic principle of "strengthening the city with industry and rejuvenating the city with industry", which is very good, and I am very much in favor of it, and the people are also very supportive. Why? People often know that when they are thirsty, they know that the water is sweet. As a city, no work is not rich. At the critical juncture, the leaders of the municipal party committee and the municipal government proposed to "grasp industry and grasp large industry", which is too timely. To grasp industry now, we must first grasp some high-tech products, high-tech industries, and high-tech enterprises. Only in this way can the industrial level and grade of Zaozhuang City rise to a new level.

  Second, it is necessary to transform existing good enterprises, especially large and medium-sized enterprises. In addition to grasping investment and investment and new projects, it is also necessary to get existing enterprises up, so that they can reach the highest level of international and domestic capabilities.

  The third aspect is that private enterprises are still a big piece, half of the country, and cannot be relaxed. Private enterprises are also the pillars of Zaozhuang City, which play a huge role, and good ones must be supported. Many private enterprises are bitter, loans cannot be borrowed, and some work cannot be done. Find a way to help them.

  Zaozhuang has such good conditions, convenient transportation, rich resources and pleasant climate. We must work together to turn Zaozhuang City into a "little Shanghai." This session of the municipal party committee and municipal government clearly put forward the "industrial strong city, industrial rejuvenation city" as an important task to grasp, we resolutely support, support, hope that our Zaozhuang industry is really strong, we the people of the city will be blessed.

Wang Rui Oral History: Zaozhuang Rubber Factory Unforgettable Legend Immortal Faith

  In recognition of Wang Rui's outstanding contributions during his work in Zaozhuang Rubber Factory, party committees and governments at all levels have given Wang Rui a variety of honors. During the National Day in 1989, Wang Rui and more than 3,000 national labor models and advanced workers were commended in Beijing. When they attended the commendation meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Deng Xiaoping and other national leaders cordially received them. Years later, Wang Rui recalled the exciting aspect, and his mood was still surging. In 1992, Wang Rui, Zhang Ruimin of Qingdao, Ma Juncai of Jinan and 10 other factory directors were rated as the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs by the Shandong Provincial Government. Each person awards 100,000 yuan. At that time, the next article was also written, and the prize money was not allowed to be donated. The prize money is deposited in a bank passbook and stipulates that it can be withdrawn after one year. After Wang Rui got the money, he still gave part of the school nursery of the rubber factory, and gave a part to each member of the factory team, leaving 30,000 yuan for himself. In this regard, Wang Rui said: Honor belongs to everyone, Zaozhuang Rubber Factory can have a brilliant history, relying on the correct leadership of the municipal party committee and municipal government, relying on the hard work of the whole factory staff. Up and down, brilliant can continue.

  Collection date: September 3, 2021

  Interview location: The conference room on the third floor of the Party History Research Institute of the Zaozhuang Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China

  Gatherer: Zaozhuang Municipal Party Committee Party History Research Institute