Can the abandoned factory in Ningxia, originally built in the desert, usher in a second spring?

Ningxia Zhongwei is located in the central and western part of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in the transition zone from the Ningxia Plain to the Loess Plateau. This small town has rich and unique tourist attractions, including Shapotou, a national 5A-level scenic spot, Sikouzi Danxia Landform Tourist Area, Jinsha Island Style Resort, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, Tonghu Grassland, Shikong Buddhist Temple, and Tiandu Mountain Grottoes, Jiucaiping Gongbei, etc. If you have time, you can take a nice tour of the city.

There is an abandoned factory about 10 kilometers west of Zhongwei City. It may seem inconspicuous on the surface, but if you understand its history, you will definitely be impressed by it. The factory was built in 1958. At that time, it was possible to build a factory in the desert. You can imagine how difficult the conditions were at that time. In the early days, it mainly produced five-share plows and tractors. In the later third-line period, the factory began to produce military products, such as rifle accessories, grenades, etc.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Zhongwei Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Machinery Factory was the first factory in Ningxia to recruit workers from outside. At that time, many educated young people who went to the mountains and countryside were recruited here, and a large part of them were from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. people. They become employees of this factory, and many of them stay with this factory for their entire lives. They have lived here for decades and regard this as their second hometown.

But with the changes in the market economy, the factory eventually went bankrupt. When a former employee of the factory learned that the factory was going to be auctioned, he used his own resources to buy the factory. It is planned to use 9 years to build this factory into a cultural tourism town, and to revitalize the old factory. Now when you walk into this large-scale factory, the appearance still looks like it did in the past. There is an iron manhole cover made in 1967, an iron chimney erected in 1977, and various machinery previously used in the factory.

The tall and wide production workshops have also been renovated. Some have been transformed into CS bases, with wooden boards and gasoline barrels placed inside, which really gives the feeling of being in a battlefield; some have been transformed into exhibition halls, with interiors Old farm tools, machines, etc. are placed in an orderly manner; the stamping workshop built in 1958 is still in production in the factory. A factory employee leads several old guys to engage in mechanical processing here.

This factory is the memory of many people. When you walk into the factory area, you can feel the echo of history. It was so lively and crowded at that time! Promising young people from all over the country used their own hands to overcome difficulties in the poor areas of the northwest and built factories brick by brick on the Gobi desert, laying the foundation for Zhongwei Farm and Ranch's agricultural machinery industry in my country. The backbone of the manufacturing industry.

However, everything in the world is just a drop in the ocean. No matter how glorious it was in the past, once it falls into decline, it will still be ravaged until it becomes gray and abandoned. With the advent of the new era, most of these "third-tier factories" that once made indelible contributions to the motherland no longer exist. Without effective protection measures, the traces of these factories will gradually disappear.