Textile Express: Time Is Flowing, Bring You Back To Zhejiang Hemp Spinning Mill.

Time is flowing, history is ups and downs.

At the corner of the Huzhou Street north of the arch bridge, there is a small building with gray tiles and brick walls, which is the seat of Hangzhou's "eight big factories" - the Zhejiang hemp spinning mill.

In May 1949, the Hangzhou military Regulatory Commission held a forum on the heads of large and medium-sized enterprises. At the meeting, Feng Xiyan, director of the Hangzhou Office of China textile construction Limited by Share Ltd (later changed to Zhejiang hemp textile company), said that the Bank of China had a Jute Textile equipment idle in the warehouse of Shanghai textile company, and suggested that it should be pferred to Hangzhou to set up a hemp mill.

Three drawing frames

Tan Zhenlin, then Secretary of the Zhejiang provincial Party committee and director of the Hangzhou military management committee, contacted the Shanghai military Regulatory Commission and moved the machinery and equipment of the original China Ma factory to a factory.

At the same time, in the field of civil engineering, after many locations were identified, north of the arch bridge was built, and 240 mu of land was collected on the East Bank of Beijing Hangzhou the Grande Canale.

Spinning frame

In 1950 ~1953, the three phase of the project was completed successively, especially in the first phase of the project, which only took 10 months to create a miracle of plant speed.

By the end of 1953, the number of workers in Zhejiang's Hemp mill reached 4526, with an annual industrial output value of 42 million 660 thousand yuan, 23 million 590 thousand production of sack, 230 thousand tons of hemp cloth and 281 tons of hemp yarn, with a total profit of 11 million 710 thousand yuan, 4 million 520 thousand yuan of tax, and 1/4 production of gunny bags.

Working situation of yarn dyeing and dyeing in Zhejiang Ma plant workshop

The scene of spinning female workers in Zhejiang Ma plant workshop

At this time, the Zhejiang hemp textile mill has an area of hundreds of mu, and dozens of buildings. It is the largest factory in Gongshu and the largest Jute Textile base in the Far East.

Old Zhejiang Ma Ma Wharf

At that time, all the supporting facilities near the Zhejiang hemp textile mill were almost the same as a small city.

In Hangzhou, there is a popular saying: "if you want to know what socialism is, you can see the Zhejiang hemp mill."

Zhejiang hemp has good benefits, wages and living benefits are second to none in Hangzhou.

It was a very proud thing to work in the Zhejiang hemp textile mill that year. Many young people have "inherited their father's career" and become the second generation of "Zhejiang hemp".

The building in the factory area was built in 1950s, with an area of 533 thousand and 400 square meters and a building area of 270 thousand square meters.

Zhejiang Ma Ma Medical Center (at the end of 1980s)

There are only seven houses left in the initial construction period, one for office buildings, one for medical buildings and five for dormitories, with an area of 10 thousand square meters.

The buildings are facing the south, the plane is rectangular, the two story brick and wooden structure, the clear water brick wall, the four slope roof, the main entrance is located in the south elevation center, the outside type porch, the wall above the gate is carved with simple relief.

The interior is a corridor with rooms on both sides.

These buildings have better preservation quality and typical traditional industrial culture characteristics. They not only witness the development history of Zhejiang hemp.

Office building of Zhejiang Ma Ma factory (photo taken in 2017)

With the change of market and the need of urban construction, Zhejiang hemp textile mill has gradually reduced its scale and moved away from the original factory area, leaving behind some old buildings that can be traced to people, and how many of them can see the shadow of the old boss.