1983: Start with a Jar of Sugar Water

[Chronology·Industry·Rebirth·Technological Flow·Shuangwen] April 18, 1983, Nantang Food Factory, syrup workshop. When Chen Yan took his hands out of the bottle sink, all the memories of the fifty-two-year-old came back. Eleven days later, this batch of 5,000 cans of sugar-watered loquats destined for provincial foreign trade will be opened one after another in warehouse No. 3. The factory suffered a loss of 30,000 yuan, and the person responsible for this was his father, Chen Shouren, a veteran technician who had worked for 22 years. He was suspended from work, had to write an examination, and was compensated 1,200 yuan. He died in the corridor of the county hospital two years later. And now he is a bottle washer, a temporary worker, earning thirty-eight and a half yuan a month. If he goes to tell him, no one will believe him. So he didn't shout. He walked into Warehouse No. 3, Picked up a can that had been sealed in early April, and pressed his thumb on the center of the lid. The lid is bulging. ——The problem came earlier and was bigger than he remembered. A can of sugar water, a clay stove, and a self-made filling line. He wants to make his father's skills clear and become a country's confidence. (No system, no space, just twenty-six years of experience in the food industry, and a laundry list of failures.)