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An image of a big white bear standing in an icy environment with its head held high.
The crystal clear glass bottle has the three characters "Polar Bear" protruding from it.
The most refreshing thing is the vapor that hits your nose as soon as you open the bottle, and the orange scent that overflows from the yellow liquid that bubbles up.
This is the unique impression of soda drinks that old Beijing residents have had since 1951. It was also the only concept that old Beijing residents had of the word "soda".
In fact, in the 1980s, in addition to "Polar Bear", Beijing also had "Glacier Soda" produced in Beicheng and "Tiantan Soda" in Chongwen District.
However, these two mostly use flavors and pigments, and are commonly known as "sanjing water" in the industry. They are low-end sodas that are not popular and soon disappeared.
On the contrary, "Polar Bear" values quality over weight. Freshly ground cooked orange jam and orange oil extracted from orange peels are added to the soda. And it only relies on inert gas carbon dioxide to inhibit bacteria, without any additives.
In fact, you can tell what's special about it just by its appearance, because the juice in the bottle is turbid, and after slight shaking, the orange berries float up and down.
So this made people in the capital form an inherent concept, "'Polar Bear' is the real thing."
It is precisely because of this long-standing recognition that even after the reform and opening up, the cold food and cold drinks of "Polar Bear Food Factory" have steadily dominated the Beijing market.
Hong Yanwu still clearly remembers the snowy night he traveled through.
While driving to escape, when he saw the "Love Das" billboard on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road, what he missed most was actually the "Polar Bear" soda that had disappeared from the capital at that time.
And he never thought that he would go back to the past again. Not only can he drink this soda again, but he will also one day become a formal employee of this factory.
This inevitably made him feel more magical. He felt that fate was so incredible that it was impossible to see through it.
November 1, 1980, was both a Saturday and the day when Hong Yanwu, Chen Liquan and Shui Qing officially reported.
They arrived at the "Polar Bear Food Factory" on Anlelin Road at eight o'clock in the morning on time, and successfully found the Human Resources Department office.
The entry procedure is very simple, and the HR section manager is also very kind. It's just that Hong Yanwu and the others didn't expect it. According to factory regulations, new employees must undergo ten days of factory training before officially starting work.
What surprised them even more was that when they followed the personnel chief to the new employee training class, they actually found two other men and one woman in this room. This means that there are three other people who entered the factory in the same period as them.
In this case, everyone will smile kindly when they meet each other. But before they had a chance to strike up a conversation, the person responsible for training them came in.
The training class is run by the Labor and Management Department, but as usual, the senior director of the factory office must first speak with care and encouragement.
"You six young people are the fresh blood of our factory and the future of our factory. On behalf of all the employees of the factory, I welcome you to join this big family. I hope you will always cherish this big group and do your best in the future. We can do our best to contribute to our factory. In this way, we can make this factory better together, and everyone’s life will become better..."
When the old director said this, he smiled at several young people from time to time. He looked very kind and made people feel warm. When he finally left, he asked them with concern to write down their daily learning experience and report to him.
It should be said that this encouragement was very good, and everyone except Hong Yanwu, who knew the routine very well, felt very excited.
As for the remaining matters, it is completely left to the deputy section chief in charge of political work in the Labor and Management Department.
This man's name is Zhao Honglin. He is in his early thirties, fair and fair, and wears glasses. He is quite thin, but he talks quite happily.
To put it bluntly, he looks a bit like an intellectual, but his temperament is a bit like a technical cadre. Anyway, he is not a worker at first glance, but he is definitely not a big cadre. He is too straightforward and does not have the charisma of a big cadre.
However, Hong Yanwu has a good impression of such cadres. Because most of these people are pragmatic, say whatever they want, and don't like to scheme. Moreover, it can be seen from his words and deeds that the employment atmosphere in the factory is relatively positive. This is certainly a good thing.
After Zhao Honglin’s opening remarks, he still engaged in ideological education. In the first class, I will tell you about the history of the factory.
According to him, the "Polar Bear Food Factory" was originally called "North China Ice Factory" in the old society.
When it was just completed in 1937, it coincided with the "Marco Bridge Incident" and was directly occupied by the Japanese. It was not until after liberation that the factory truly returned to the hands of the people.
In 1956, under the leadership of the city's "First Lighting Bureau", the ice making factory cooperated with seven soda fountains in Chongwen District, including "Kaiyuan", "New Guangming", "Watson's" (Shanghai moved to Beijing) and several other soda fountains in the city. Ten cold food factories merged.
From then on, it began to produce soda drinks, popsicles, ice cream and other products. The annual output was 14,000 tons of artificial ice, 32.163 million popsicles, 41,000 kilograms of ice cream, and 449,300 dozen sodas.
As soon as these products were launched, they were recognized by national leaders and affirmed by many foreign heads of state. They exuded amazing charm and shone brightly on the state banquet table.
After that, all employees in the factory continued their efforts and did not rest on their laurels. Instead, we continue to innovate to enrich product varieties and increase production at the same time.
In 1957, the number of employees in the factory reached 741, with an output value of 8.6 million yuan, making it the largest comprehensive food factory in the city at that time.
In 1958, canned food production began again, with the number of employees increasing to 1,782 and an output value of 31.91 million yuan. In the same year, it was officially renamed "Beijing Polar Bear Food Factory".
To date, "Polar Bear" has more than 2,000 formal employees. In terms of production, in addition to the well-known artificial ice, soda, popsicles, and ice cream, "Polar Bear" also includes canned vegetables, fruits, poultry, and meat, as well as sour plum soup, concentrated juice, and jam.
In addition to civilian use, the products of "Polar Bear" not only supply state banquets and meet the needs of foreign affairs, but sometimes also make customized cans for military supplies.
In short, what Zhao Honglin wanted to express with his proud tone actually meant the same thing.
Look at you, how lucky you are to join our factory as soon as you start working. It is a pacesetter among city-owned enterprises and the largest factory in the food industry, and its profits are so good.
You know, the "polar bear" is not a bear, it is a dragon. This place is not something you can get in just by growing a head. You must cherish this kind of work.
Because of the excited tone, these words are very contagious and even more inspiring than the old director just now.
This made several young people who had not experienced anything involuntarily puff up their chests. They all seemed to feel that their backs were no longer the original spine, but had steel rods inserted into them. Straight and twice as hard.
Of all the people, Hong Yanwu was the only one who couldn't get excited.
No way, he is a seasoned guy, his skin has faded a long time ago, it is difficult to be deceived again.