Xiangtan Chinanews.com, April 4 (Reporter Song Yusheng) For young people who like to "play terriers" on the Internet today, the title of "eighth-grade worker" with a sense of age has become synonymous with top craftsmen. There are even online novels that write about the plot of "eighth-level fitters rubbing nuclear bombs", and there are film and television works imagining the story of eighth-level workers "rubbing aircraft carriers"...

Where are these once star-like groups of workers?

Recently, the reporter walked into Xiangtan in Hunan with the "Praise China, Into Hunan" network theme publicity delegation and felt the inheritance of the spirit of contemporary craftsmen.

"I love this job, and it's nothing to me because I treat it as fun. Someone asked me, how can a person in his seventies walk faster than a young person? I say that's a feeling. ”

As a special expert of Xianggang, 73-year-old Ai Aiguo still works in Xianggang every day. This winner of the "Order of July <>st" also had his own obsession with the eighth-grade worker.

Ai patriotic. Photo courtesy of interviewee

On the first page of the work diary, Ai Aiguo Zeng Zheng rewrote the "assessment standards for gas welders 1-8". From the most basic level 1 worker to the "most cattle" level 8 worker, Ai Aiguo copied the standards one by one. In 1984, Ai Aiguo won the title of the first model worker in his life - "Xianggang Model Worker"; Since then, he has been awarded the provincial model worker and the national model worker, and has become a "professional model worker" in the eyes of others.

For more than 50 years, Ai Aiguo has adhered to the grassroots post, overcome more than 400 welding technology difficulties, improved more than 100 processes, and participated in the welding technology research and special steel welding performance test of China's major projects for many times. The goal of "eighth-grade work" that he set when he first learned welding has long been achieved.

In March 2015, Ai Aiguo officially retired and was repeatedly hired by other companies with high salaries, and he chose to continue to work in Xianggang by re-employment by retirement. He said: "Xianggang has trained me, as long as the enterprise still needs it, I can't leave." ”

When the reporter met Ai Aiguo, he said that he was still working on new technology research and development, and "I have been constantly learning."

He told reporters that the initial achievements relied on doing more than others, working harder than others, and working longer, and with the development of the times, it was necessary to transform into an intellectual and knowledge-based worker. "It is necessary to develop an attitude of lifelong learning so as not to be abandoned by this era of rapid development." He said.

This spirit of craftsmanship does not stop at Ai's patriotic generation. In Xiangtan , the reporter also intuitively felt the craftsman spirit of the younger generation.

Peng Xiaoyan. Photo courtesy of the event

Peng Xiaoyan is the operator of the machining center of the CNC machining branch factory of Jiangnan Industrial Group, joined the work in July 2006, and has been engaged in product CNC machining in the production line. As a technical backbone, she has solved urgent, difficult and new processing tasks for key components of heavy equipment in many countries.

Since the 90s of last century, Jiangnan Industrial Group has begun to participate in the scientific research and trial production of space seat buffers. Peng Xiaoyan told reporters that the seat buffer is placed under the seat to slow down the instantaneous impulse when the spacecraft returns, so as to ensure the life safety of astronauts.

In 2018, in order to meet the technical transformation needs of Shenzhou spacecraft seat buffer, Jiangnan Industrial Group transferred the production of some difficult-to-machine parts from three-axis processing machine tools to five-axis processing machine tools. Peng Xiaoyan solved the problems of clamping, deformation, processing and measurement of multiple parts by designing fixtures, measuring tools, modifying tools, optimizing process routes, etc. In 2022, Peng Xiaoyan and his team successfully improved the accuracy of one of the buffer parts from 16 microns.

Peng Xiaoyan said that their generation of technicians pursues "micron-level craftsmanship."

This spirit of craftsmanship is reflected in the inheritance.

Liu Xinxin. Photo courtesy of the event

Liu Xinxin, who is engaged in welding work, joined Xiangdian Group in 2002. For more than <> years, he has led the team to mainly undertake the welding intelligent manufacturing research and technological innovation of a series of large-scale high-precision products such as marine engineering equipment and high-tech ships, new energy wind power generation equipment, rail transit and mining cart equipment.

He created a series of techniques such as "spiral welding operation", which are fully promoted and applied in the welding field of the company and the industry. In the welding of a key product, Liu Xinxin, as the chief welding operator of the project, explored a number of new welding operation techniques such as "special high-strength steel double synchronous deep penetration welding operation method", which reached the international leading level and created great economic value.

Liu Xinxin said that he hopes to pass on the welding torch in his hand. To this end, he set up an innovation studio to teach young welders his skills.

As a dual-teacher instructor in Xiangtan City, Liu Xinxin uses the self-created "simulation teaching method" and "1+1+1" training mode, insists on teaching welders skills on his own obligations, participates in the company's and Xiangtan Golden Blue Collar training project, and has trained 540 welders and more than 200 senior technicians, technicians and senior workers.

Times have changed, but the spirit of craftsmanship has never been far away. When "eighth-level fitter" becomes a hot meme on the Internet and "craftsman spirit" becomes a social hot word, behind this is not only the public's recognition of top craftsmen, but also reflects the conscientious work and dedication of countless ordinary people in ordinary positions.

Maintaining an original intention and doing the best job in an ordinary position is a kind of inheritance of this "craftsman spirit". (End)