How About The Shoes That Premier Zhou Has Been Wearing For More Than 20 Years?

As the witness of Hunan rubber factory, Ceng Yonglian, the former deputy factory director, still has Xuefeng brand and so on.

No. 355 North Shaoshan Road, Changsha, connects the busy streets of Shaw Shan Road and Shuguang Road. It is called the "Hongming center" Central Commercial Street, bustling and bustling.

More than 10 years ago, there was a roaring machine and busy production scenes.

The "Xuefeng" brand, which has been selling well both at home and abroad.

Here, it keeps coming to the market, becoming the pride of thousands of Hunan rubber factories.

The past

The prime minister spent more than 20 years still reluctant to lose.

Rubber factory formerly known as the 203 factory, is a military enterprise.

At first the army shoe military uniform was produced, and it was renamed the Hunan rubber factory only in 1958.

Entering the old residential building of Lake oak community on the side of Hongming center, the appearance of reporters made the old man Zeng Yong Lian, formerly the deputy director of Hunan rubber factory, once again opened a dusty memory in his warm reception.

Ever since he entered the factory in 1965, he has been promoted to deputy factory director in 1984 and retired in 2000. Zeng Yong Lian is a witness of Hunan rubber factory.

"Premier Zhou passed through" Xuefeng "rubber shoes for 20 years. He wore it for more than five years. He was reluctant to throw it away." at the home, "he once turned out the red rubber seal" Hunan rubber factory "and the news report" the footprints of entrepreneurs ". Before the old photographs and words, he silently counted the vicissitudes of the Hunan rubber factory over the years, and the old man could not help but tears.

In Ceng Yonglian's collection of rubber factory news report "entrepreneur footprints", there is an article in April 1955: Premier Zhou wants to go abroad to attend the Bandung Conference. The then deputy director Liu Shujing is responsible for measuring the foot type for Premier Zhou. After returning to the factory, he has to produce a pair of snow shoes for the premier.

Later, after Premier Zhou returned home, he went deep into factories and countryside. Because of his walking, his shoes were broken, and Premier Zhou sent them back to the shoemaker's hands to repair them.

When the workers asked him to redo a pair of lightweight shoes, Premier Zhou said, "thank you for your comrades' intentions. If the shoes are broken, the vamp is fine. You can wear it after repair."

By 1964, the soles worn for more than nine years were worn out.

It also opened the glue, and Premier Zhou sent people to take the shoes and use the leather surface of old shoes to match the sole.

Later, Premier Zhou was unable to wear leather shoes because of his serious illness. The pair of leather shoes, which had been worn for over 20 years, were shelved.

today

The employees' dormitory buildings have been rebuilt.

Hunan rubber factory, which was founded in 1957, has gone through a glorious course.

Ceng Yonglian old man said, Hunan rubber factory west Shaoshan Road, east to Shuguang Road, plant building covers an area of nearly 300 mu.

At that time, the streets were zigzag on the sides, which were located in the upper workshop, packing workshop, rubber mixing workshop and molding workshop, all of which were brick wood structures.

Hunan rubber factory has developed Xuefeng brand rubber shoes, tires and dozens of other products.

In 70s and 80s, during the prosperous period of the enterprise, more than 3000 workers produced 800 thousand pairs of rubber shoes in only one month, and the products were exported to various provinces and cities in the country and South Africa, Europe and other places.

The rubber factory developed to have children's schools, workers' hospitals and kindergartens, and the initial 5 million yuan of funds was increased to 200 million yuan later.

"At that time, the most popular brands were black faced shoelaces, snow top brand shoes with rubber screws, and shoes with XF's" Xuefeng "brand, priced at 8 yuan. Some people said that it was the most popular one in Changsha at that time.

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Ceng Yonglian's excitement was overflowing with words.

Due to the high cost of production and the restructuring of enterprises, the old factory site of Hunan rubber factory was auctioned in 2002, and most of the land was bought by developers.