浴火重生

二十世紀九十年代以前，中國的東北地區曾是新中國工業的搖籃，為建成獨立、完整的工業體系和國民經濟體系，為國家的改革開放和現代化建設作出了歷史性的重大貢獻。然而，隨着改革開放的深入，東北地區的經濟發展速度逐漸落後於東部沿海地區，有鑑於此，國家提出了東北地區等老工業基地振興戰略。

本書作者歷時一年的採訪，走遍城郭、海港、煤都、鋼城中的大型國有企業。以數個普通工人、幾家工廠、一座城市和整個時代的沉浮為命運縱線，穿越六十年的歷史時空。再現老東北工業基地如何創造諸多工業神話、奇蹟與輝煌，如何在沉寂和黯然歲月裏經歷生命劫難，*終如何找回東山再起的自信和驕傲。

Until the 1990s, Northeast China was the cradle of the new China’s industrial base that made the most historic contribution to China’s reform and opening-up program. However, as China’s modernizing reforms deepened, the Northeast’s economic development gradually began to lag behind China’s eastern seaboard. This is a story of decline and rejuvenation: after the slow disaster witnessed and endured in the lonely silence of years, the people of the Northeast ultimately once again discovered the belief and confidence that their great region would rise again from the ashes.

Preface — As the Northeast “Red Double” Fades out of Sight 7

CHAPTER 1 Tiexi: the Ruhr of China 13

1.The Ruhr: an Important Manufacturing Base in 20th

Century Germany 13

2. Father and Son in Tiexi 16

3. A Forgotten Story from the Manchukuo 26

4. Tiexi: the Eldest Son of the PRC and the Task of Industrialization 37

5. Landmark of Tiexi: the ree Chimneys 43

CHAPTER 2 Dreams and Honors 50

1. The Female Model Worker of Hao Jianxiu’s Generation 50

2. The Various “Firsts” of the PRC 59

3. Traveling Up North and Down South for the Sake

of Industrialization 63

4. Six Members of the Standing Committee of the CPC

Center in Shenyang Aircra Factory 73

5. e Strength of Workers 81

6. A Family of Steel in the Age of Passion 91

CHAPTER 3 Paradise in New Workers’ Suburb 100

1.The Clock Was Ticking in China When Paradise Was Built 100

2. An Ideal Marriage in New Workers’ Suburb 106

3. A Young Girl’s Gaze Upon the Paradise 110

CHAPTER 4 Young Death of the Eldest Son Tiexi 116

1.The First Falling Camel in the Desert 116

2.The Sad Memories that One Cannot Bear to ink of 124

3. Escape from Fate 134

4.The Professor Who Worked in Ansteel 146

CHAPTER 5 The Fall of the Paradise 151

1.The Five Yin Girls and a Sunken Ship of a State-Owned

Company 151

2. Nine Years of Romance and a Tragedy A er the Wedding 158

3.The Female Model Worker that Ran the Bookstand

in Donghu Peddlers’ Market 168

CHAPTER 6 In Front of the Gate to Purgatory 177

1. Cursed for Life 177

2. Dreaming in the Tin Cottage in the Street 185

3. A Life Like in Ashes 194

4. Homeless When the Sun Sets 202

CHAPTER 7 e Twist of Fate 211

1.The Transform of Shenyang Transformer Works 211

2. Two Generations’ Struggle and the Reputation of Longfeng Mine 221

3. A Family of Port Workers 230

CHAPTER 8 Move the East and Transform the West 239

1. A Document Dra ed at the Risk of Life during

the Time of SARS 239

2.The Merge of Tiexi and Zhangshi Development Zone 245

3. The Sale of the First Piece of Land in Old Tiexi 250

4. Past and Present of North 2nd Street 257

5. Museum of Foundry: a Historical Symbol of the Age of Steel 262

CHAPTER 9 The Tragedy of the Mining Capital 270

1. Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee in Tears

in the Shantytown 270

2. A Diffcult Reality: the Intergenerational Transmission

of Poverty 273

3. Tragedy in the Mining Capital 278

4.The Woman that Married into Modi 281

5.The Bird of Sun Rising from the Ashes 289

CHAPTER 10 Love in the Broken Ridges and Steep Cli s 297

1. Mother’s Love and the Redemption in Endless Torture 297

2. Family’s Support in Most Difficult Times 305

3. Sisterly Love that Made the Golden Flowers Bloom 315

CHAPTER 11 Bounce Back in the East Wind 328

1.The History of the Department of Northeast China Industry

and the Bureau of Northeast China 328

2. A Tailored Plan for Each Factory 334

3.The Rebuilding of the Model Workers’ Building

in a Lost Paradise 340

4. Children of Laohutai Mine’s Resettlement in Newly-Built

Apartments 349

5. Payment Slips of Fushun Coal Mining Group in the First

Decade in the New Century 355

CHAPTER 12 The Bird of Sun Sings in Northeast China 361

1. Liaoning’s New Perspective Towards the Sea 361

2.The University-Educated Supervisory Worker’s House

and Car 367

3. A Fight with Back to the Wall: Maglev and the Rebirth

of Zhongjie 374

徐劍，雲南昆明人，第二炮兵政治部文藝創作室主任，國家一級作家，乘文學的雙翼，飛翔於中國戰略導彈部隊的萬里天疆和西藏的天邊天藍，著有《歲月之河》、《大國長劍》、《鳥瞰地球》、《水患中國》、《江南草藥王》、《礪劍灞上》、《導彈旅長》、《麥克馬洪線》(待出)等作。

Xu Jian is the author of several fictional works, among them Oriental Hada, as well as essays and TV drama. He has also penned a number of works of reportage, including McMahon Line and The Oriental Express. Swords of a Rising Power won the first Lu Xun Literature Prize in 1998.