The Final Ending

At a meeting of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Rui Mingshan, former director of the Yuanyuan Feng Factory, said he was not responsible for the enterprise shutting down production and would submit the appeal materials he had prepared. In 1965, Rui Mingshan was in high school. After classes were suspended, he became an announcer at the radio station, having studied broadcasting under a mentor. In the spring of 1968, he went to Chun Tang Village for rural labor, where he met Zhao Yingyun, a village girl. After Zhao took the initiative to approach him, she became his wife. Together with another educated youth, Jin Zhiyong, he repaired a steam tractor, then went to work driving tractors at the tractor station. In order to get the locals to recommend him for university and to marry Zhao Yingyun, he brought his wife and children to the city after their eldest son, Lin Hua, was born in 1974. In 1975, he graduated and returned to work at the motor factory. In 1978, after his second son, Haihua, was born, he went to Shanghai for graduate studies. During summer vacation in 1979, he took his wife and children back to the village. After receiving his master's degree in 1981, he returned and joined the design office of Factory 313. In 1982, he was named an advanced worker, and his wife and children's household registration was transferred to the city. In 1983, he traveled with a delegation to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. In 1987, he became deputy chief engineer, and in 1993, deputy factory director and chief engineer. In 1993, most of the factory was turned into a joint venture, and Rui Mingshan became director of the remaining military production division. After production halted, he worked hard to partially resume it. A few months later, his superiors informed him that two former leaders had taken bribes and bore primary responsibility for the shutdown. Rui Mingshan was transferred to work at a design institute.