Thriving Under The Chaotic Situation, Has Created A "Rare Miracle" Today?

"From childhood, I feel particularly that the business founded by Mr. Liu Guojun is closely related to the life of the local people.

My grandmother, who lived to the age of 96, used the "six crane yarn" produced by the Dacheng factory, rubbing the thread on the deep night, rubbing the thread of zenna, and making cloth shoes to supplement the household. My family, old and young, all wore clothes made of "Dacheng blue", "Yin Dan Lin" cloth. My classmates in primary schools and middle schools, who had parents working in Dacheng company, were relatively stable in their family life.

Standing on the side of the canal, and looking at the old factory building on the brick wall, Gao Jinyong, 83 years old, has a lot of feelings.

The Dacheng one factory in his mouth is an industrial heritage located at the junction of Heping North Road and the Grande Canale. Its predecessor is the Dacron weaving weaving factory founded by Liu Guojun, a famous patriotic industrialist and modern textile giant in China in 1916. After that, it was renamed as Dacheng Textile Dyeing Company and state-run Changzhou No.1 Cotton textile mill.

As one of the existing examples of textile industry in Changzhou, Dacheng one factory has experienced different historical periods before and after liberation. It is the witness and witness of Changzhou national industry, especially the textile industry.

Thriving under the chaotic situation, once created "rare miracle".

Speaking of Dacheng one factory, we must mention patriotic industrialist Liu Guojun.

Gao Jinyong, once general manager of Dacheng Industrial Company, not only became an old friend with Liu Guojun, but also wrote more than 500 10000 words of research on Liu Guojun, and edited the "Changzhou national cotton factory".

Gao Jinyong introduced that after the first World War, because of patriotic enthusiasm, Liu Guojun advocated the "machine revolution" and "the earth yarn saving the nation" in Changzhou. In 1916, he and industrialist Jiang Panfa purchased more than 60 mu of the de An Qiao bridge outside Changzhou's south gate, built factories and jointly founded the Dacron weaving machine factory. This is also the beginning of Changzhou dynamic weaving.

In 1917, due to the internal discord of the factory, Liu Guojun withdrew capital, and in 1930, he received the Dacron Keji cotton mill (developed by dacron machine Loom factory), and founded the famous Dacheng Textile dyeing company, acting as manager.

Before and after Liu Guojun founded the Dacheng Textile dyeing company, Europe and Japan broke out an unprecedentedly serious capitalist economic crisis, temporarily reducing the dumping of Chinese industrial products, and the development of national industry has won a vast commodity market.

During this period, Liu Guojun recruited talents, introduced advanced machines, improved product quality, and attached importance to management and staff quality. By 1937, Dacheng Textile dyeing and printing company reached 5000 of Nissan's capacity, ranking first in the country.

Over the past 8 years, the Dacheng enterprise has developed from one plant to four factories, and the spindle has been developed from 10 thousand to 80 thousand. The development of funds from 500 thousand yuan to 4 million yuan has effectively promoted the development of China's textile industry, and was praised as "a rare miracle" by the economic circles at that time.

"Dacheng factory's production methods and ideas are very forward-looking, such as the first pilot production of corduroy and velvet products in China."

Gao Jinyong pointed to the factory schematic diagram of factory Zhi, told reporters that there was a water tower near the garden side of the factory. That is Dacheng one factory. In order to improve the production conditions of the staff, in the 30s of last century, it squeezed out 10 thousand yuan in spite of the shortage of funds. The new technology of Japan was used to install a set of deep well air conditioning, control the temperature and humidity of the spinning workshop, and reduce the temperature of the workshop several times, which was the only one in the domestic cotton mill at that time.

Step by step, the total labor productivity has ranked first in the same industry in the country.

"Over the years, Dacheng factory has been the largest textile mill in Changzhou. The number of workers has been around 3000 people. Even during the war of resistance against Japan, more than 1000 workers were struggling to maintain it."

Gao Jinyong said that after the founding of new China, with the rapid recovery and development of the national economy, Changzhou Dacheng company's production is booming.

In June 1954, Dacheng Textile dyeing company took the lead in public-private partnership in private enterprises in Jiangsu Province, became a socialist enterprise owned by the whole people, and the productivity was further liberated. In May 1966, the Dacheng one factory was renamed the state-run Changzhou No.1 Cotton textile mill.

In March 1979, in order to speed up the modernization of textile production, Dacheng one factory introduced 10000 scale air jet spinning equipment from Japan and put it into operation one after another.

Jet spinning can make full use of cotton waste to rove and make denim. Its introduction has made great changes in the fabric structure of the whole city.

Less than 2 years later, the total output value of the whole plant exceeded 100 million yuan, and realized a profit of 10 million yuan. The first cotton factory became one of the largest and medium-sized cotton textile enterprises in China, and became one of the important factories for foreign trade to earn foreign exchange.

Since then, the Dacheng factory has gone one step at a time, and continues to take a new step: in 1987, the total industrial output value doubled to 1978, the highest level reached 140 million yuan, and the total labor productivity once ranked first in the industry of the whole country. The product structure of the enterprise formed a pattern of co existence of pure cotton yarn, polyester cotton yarn, core spun yarn, corduroy, polyester cotton fine cloth, polyester cotton and linen and so on, and created 13 high-quality products from abroad, Ministry and province. In 1989, the first cotton factory was promoted to the state two level enterprise, the income of workers increased year by year, and the average per capita income in 1990 reached 3.7 times that of 1978.

Another important contribution of Changzhou No.1 Cotton Mill is the pportation of outstanding talents for the country since liberation.

During the period from 1950 to 1989, there were more than 112 city level model workers and advanced personages.

Gao Jinyong believes that the development process of Dacheng one factory is a microcosm of the ups and downs of Changzhou's national industry, especially the textile industry in the past century. The spirit of Changzhou's industrial people, such as hard struggle, industrial salvation, innovation and excellence, has spread far and wide.

Combining renovation, protection and adaptability to urban regeneration

More than 10 years ago, the production function of Dacheng one factory gradually declined. In order to effectively protect the modern industrial heritage and fully excavate its cultural value, in May 2010, Changzhou Sports Industry Development Co., Ltd. was commissioned by the Changzhou municipal government to repair the industrial heritage such as the old factory building, realistic Garden and Liu Guojun office building of Dacheng one factory. It was designed by the Institute of architectural design and research of Southeast University. Through renovation, protection and pformation of the existing buildings, it was integrated into the city for recycling.

Zhang Jilong, director of property investment management of Changzhou Sports Industry Development Co., Ltd., told reporters that the old factory building, realistic garden and Liu Guojun office building of Dacheng one factory are located in Dacheng one factory. The total area of repair and protection is about 6400 square meters, of which 3000 are square meters of realistic garden, Liu Guojun office building and old factory building, with 3400 square meters of room for building and related equipment.

The realistic garden is originally a garden of enterprises, pavilions, bridges and streams, which is a typical layout of Jiangnan gardens.

The old factory buildings and Liu Guojun office buildings are located at the eastern end of the old site of the factory. They are connected to the north and the south. The old brick building is used as a part of the dining hall. The office building is a two story building. It is the place where Liu Guojun works.

"These 3 buildings were first built in the 30s and 40s of last century and published by the municipal government in February 2008 as a municipal cultural relic protection unit."

The repair work was completed in November 2012. According to the historical information, the original rockery, water surface, pavilions, trees and buildings in the realistic garden were completely protected and repaired according to the original condition.

"During the repair process, we should follow the principles of protection, authenticity and recognition according to law."

It is understood that when local restoration is carried out strictly, textual research can be carried out, as far as possible, based on historical data and all kinds of relic remains.

At the same time, we must adhere to the principles of raw materials, original size and original technology, and repair and replace the added parts. We should mark the appropriate parts according to different materials, such as lettering, ink book and pattern printing.

On the basis of guaranteeing the original appearance, the corresponding texture is supplemented.

After the completion of the project, the old factory buildings and Liu Guojun office buildings were reused for investment, and the cultural activities related to the cultural life were introduced to suit the pace of modern life.