Reporter's Note: Strugglers' faces are the most vivid. Kailuan has witnessed the whole process of China's early industrial development history, national humiliation and struggle history, workers' movement and party building history, new China construction development history, working class's hard struggle and reform and development. Whether it is to help in the emergency of building a new China, or to face sudden disasters, persevere and work hard; Both Fang Yi and Shi Ning witnessed and recorded the hundred-year history of Kailuan from the perspective of journalists, and recorded the vivid faces of the strugglers who kept pace with the times. Listening to the stories of Fang Yi and Shi Ning's father and son and leafing through their photographs, we relive every historical detail of the changes of the times, which can be seen in production and life, as well as in their smiles and happiness. Fang Yi and Shining, father and son. In the early morning of early summer, the sun shone through the glass window, and Fang Yi (a pseudonym) at the age of 9/kloc-0 was already sitting on the sofa. As usual, the old man habitually picked up the tablet computer and began to browse the news online. As an old photographer of Kailuan Miners' Daily (now Kailuan Daily), Fang Yi has decades of news work experience. In his 90 s, he still maintains his professional sensitivity, insisting on watching the news every day and paying attention to national events and changes around him. Especially as Kailuan people, Fang Yi and his son Shi Ning took root in Kailuan, and successively photographed different stories of Kailuan, a century-old enterprise, families and ordinary individuals who lived and worked in Kailuan in different times, leaving behind the vicissitudes of Kailuan for a hundred years. I recall the time when the old man sat on the sofa and pulled Fang Yi with a mule to transport coal. Next to it is a small bookcase with a stack of yellow old newspapers, which is an "unforgettable memory" of the old man. 1 September, 9581day, the Party, Premier Zhou Enlai of president and the State Council visited Tangjiazhuang Mine in Kailuan to inspect the first water-saving coal mine in China. I took this set of photos. The old man in Fang Yi is glad that such a precious historical moment can be fixed in his own lens, and the yellow black-and-white image flows with the fiery youth of the old man. With fervent revolutionary ideals, Fang Yi joined the Tangshan Women's Federation in July 1949 and was arranged to study in Jidong Jianguo College. 1950 was assigned to the trade union in Kailuan mining area in March, and transferred to Linxi Miners' Association in April to engage in propaganda work. At that time, the underground working environment was quite simple. I remember that in the first two years of my work, the lighting tool for underground work was portable plated lamp, weighing about 4 kg. Workers bring their own dry food into the well, and they also drink groundwater with their tails pursed. Fang Yi said that the underground transportation at that time was also quite backward. From the working face to the wellhead, coal transportation is mainly pulled by mules, and each mule pulls 6 coal tankers, each with 0.44 tons. In that special production period, there was a horse number for mules to rest underground. Underground, I also took a coal tanker pulled by mules. In the first few years when Fang Yi worked in the mine, Linxi Mine, as a coal mine with ten thousand people, produced more than 2,000 tons of raw coal every day. On such important gift-giving days as May Day and November Day, with the support of workers' families, only 3,000 tons could be produced every day, but it was already amazing at that time. On May 1956 and 1, Fang Yi was transferred to Kailuan Miners Daily and became a photojournalist. The camera became his most important labor tool. In 1950s and 1960s, old cameras generally used magnesium powder lamps to fill the light, but they were only used on the well. 1956 I had a disposable flash bulb when I was working in Kailuan Miners' Newspaper, and later I got a flash, but I needed to bring a battery. Later, the flash of 170 was replaced, which was purchased only after special approval of foreign exchange. "Fang Yi said, the equipment at that time and the equipment now can't be compared at all, but it is under such conditions that he took precious photos of Chairman * * * and Premier Zhou Enlai's underground inspection. Recalling these past events, Fang Yi is very proud. Like many Kailuan people, Fang Yi's "Kyle Generation" was born and rooted in the mining area. Fang Yi's son Shi Ning spent an unrestrained childhood in his "Kailuan World". Shi Ning said that the mining area is the whole world of his childhood and all his childhood memories. When I was a child, I had no idea about Tangshan at all. Everything around me is Kailuan. The house we live in, the school we go to, the railway around us, the hospital, the cinema … all belong to Kailuan. It was not until 197 1 that Shi Ning walked out of his small world for the first time. At that time, I knew that besides Kailuan, there were cement factories, porcelain factories and steel mills. It was amazing! 1983, through rigorous examination and training, Shi Ning also became a photojournalist of Kailuan Miners Daily. After his father Fang Yi retired, Shi Ning continued to record Kailuan's efforts in transformation, development and scientific and technological innovation in the changing times. 199965438+On February 8th, when ten striking Chinese characters of Kailuan (Group) Co., Ltd. flashed behind the falling HongLing, Shi Ning quickly pressed the camera shutter to freeze this important moment. The century-old enterprise Kailuan has embarked on a new journey of modern enterprises. In the lens of Fang Yi and Shi Ning, the coal mining method in China has experienced the evolution from primitive to modern, and it also shows the hard work and unremitting efforts made by the enterprising Kailuan people to create the first comprehensive mechanized coal mining in China Coal Mine. In 2008, the transformation and development strategy of "basing on coal, extending coal and jumping out of coal" took root, and the century-old enterprise Kailuan opened another profound change. Structural adjustment and transformation and development have brought brand-new changes to Kailuan. 20 15 Kailuan's non-coal industry income accounts for 90% of the group's total income. In his spare time, I feel that Kailuan is more and more beautiful and vivid. Shi Ning likes to compare his own photos with his father's old photos. Kailuan in Shi Ning's lens is more and more vivid and rich. At present, Kailuan Group has developed into a large-scale modern enterprise group with coal production, washing and processing, coal chemical industry, modern logistics, mining engineering services, financial services, cultural tourism, equipment manufacturing, thermoelectric, construction and other industries, and its development tentacles have also extended from home to abroad. From the founding of New China to the end of 20 18, Kailuan produced a total of 670,000 tons of high-quality raw coal/kloc-0, 408 million tons of clean coal, and paid 47.665 billion yuan in profits and taxes, which made an important contribution to the development of the national economy. In 20 18, the output of raw coal in Kailuan was 279 1 10,000 tons, which was in sharp contrast with that in the early 1950s. Nowadays, great changes have taken place in the first-line production conditions underground. Shi Ning told a story that was widely circulated in Kailuan: a Kailuan miner who just rose to the well was covered in coal black and had no background color. After the miner rose to the well, he had to cross a road to go to the dressing room, only to be hit by a girl riding a bicycle. The girl really wanted to take the miner to the hospital, but the miner told the girl to go home quickly. When the girl came home, she told her father that she hit someone with her bike. Her father couldn't help laughing: "You hit me ..." "Now this kind of thing will never happen again. Shi Ning said, "Now the production conditions and working environment of underground miners have been greatly improved, and many production units are equipped with explosion-proof electric steaming boxes and drinking fountains. Workers can eat hot meals and drink hot water underground, and there is a special well-lifting passage, which can go directly to the locker room, take a bath and exercise ... "This is the happiness of modern coal miners witnessed by Shi Ning before his retirement. (Text/Yan Media Reporter Yan/Wei Yan)