An image of a big white bear standing in an icy environment with its head held high.
The crystal clear glass bottle has three big 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 fragrance that overflows from the bubbling yellow liquid.
This is the unique impression that old Beijing people have on soda since 1951. It is also the only concept that old Beijing people have on the word "soda" at that time.
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 "three essence water" in the industry. They are low-end sodas that are not popular and soon disappeared.
On the contrary, "Polar Bear" emphasizes weight. Not only does the soda add freshly ground cooked orange jam and orange oil extracted from orange peels, but it also only uses 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 velvet floats up and down.
So this allowed people in the capital to 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.
On the way to escape, when he saw the "Love Das" billboard on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road, what he missed the most was actually the "Polar Bear" soda that had disappeared from the capital at that time.
And he never imagined that he would go back to the past again. Not only would he be able to drink this soda again, but he would also one day become a formal employee of this factory.
This inevitably made him feel more magical, and felt that fate was so incredible that it was impossible to see through it.
November 1, 1980, was both a Monday 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 Office.
The entry procedure was very simple, and the HR section chief was also very kind. However, Hong Yanwu and the others did not expect that according to factory regulations, new employees would have to undergo a ten-day factory training before officially starting work.
What surprised them even more was that when they followed the HR section chief to the new employee training class, they actually found two other men and one woman in this room. In other words, they entered the factory in the same period as them.
There are three more people.
Under this situation, everyone would smile kindly when they met each other. But before they could even talk to each other, 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 concern 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 in the future and do your best.
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 these words, he smiled at several young people from time to time. He looked very kind and made people feel warm. Finally, before leaving, he also asked them with concern to report to him their daily learning experience.
It should be said that this encouragement was very good and made everyone feel very excited except Hong Yanwu who knew the routine well.
As for the rest, it is completely left to the deputy section chief in charge of political work of 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, and 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
Of course it's a good thing.
After Zhao Honglin's opening remarks, he continued to engage in ideological education. In the first class, he told everyone 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 immediately 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 Light and Light Bureau", the ice making factory cooperated with seven soda factories including "Kaiyuan", "New Guangming", and "Watson's" (Shanghai moved to Beijing) in Chongwen District and dozens of cold food factories in the city.
Factory merger.
Since then, it has started to produce soda, popsicles, ice cream and other products. The annual output of artificial ice is 14,000 tons, 32,163,000 popsicles, 41,000 kilograms of ice cream, and 44,930 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 sparkled at the state banquet table.
After that, all employees in the factory continued their efforts and did not rest on their laurels. Instead, they continued to innovate to enrich product varieties and increase output at the same time.
In 1957, the number of employees in the factory reached 741, and the output value was 8.6 million yuan, making it the largest comprehensive food factory in the city at that time.
In 1958, it began to produce cans 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".
So far, "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 covers four categories: vegetables, fruits, poultry, and meat.
Canned food, plum juice, concentrated juice, and jam.
In addition to civilian use, various products of "Polar Bear" are not only supplied to state banquets and meet the needs of foreign affairs, but sometimes also make customized cans for the military and 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 have joined our factory as soon as you started working. It is a pacesetter among municipal private enterprises, 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. You can't get in here just by growing a head. You must cherish this kind of job.
Because of the excited tone of these words, they were very contagious and even more inspiring than the old director just now.
This made several young people who had not experienced anything involuntarily raise their chests. They all seemed to feel that their backs were no longer the original spine, but had steel rods inserted into them, making them straighter and straighter.
Hard.
Of all the people, only Hong Yanwu couldn't get excited.
No way, he is a seasoned guy, his skin has faded a long time ago, and it is difficult to be deceived again.
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