Beijing Xidan Shopping Mall Exterior View
Xidan There are so many shopping malls, only one is called Xidan Shopping Mall.
Thinking back then, Xidan Shopping Mall was once the existence of sweeping across the entire Xidan North Street , and it was synonymous with the entire Xidan .
htmlIn the 1930s, the newly built Houde Shopping Mall made Xidan from a "silly courtyard" become synonymous with , the "mall" in in the city of Peking at that time (in contrast, "market" refers to Dong'an Market). htmlIn the 1980s, " goes to Xidan when you go to the mall, go to Wangfujing when you go to the building, go to Dong'an when you go to the market, go to Qianmen when you go to the streets" has become a tacit understanding in people's hearts.It can be said that Xidan Shopping Mall is the big brother of Xidan Shopping Mall, accompanying generations of people to grow up.
90s Xidan exterior
90s Xidan shopping mall interior
1995 renovated in a corner of the magic toy city of Xidan shopping mall
Just the day before yesterday, Xidan shopping mall announced that it will carry out the third comprehensive transformation of since the reform and opening up . From next year, it will comprehensively upgrade the mall in three years to create high-tech, high-experience, and high-integration smart business based on
This reminds me of the most massive and difficult transformation of Xidan Shopping Mall’s history - employees jointly built Zhengqi Building . The cause of the transformation also talks about the "ice-breaking" journey between China and the United States in 1972.
Icebreaking Journey. Opportunity for Zhengqi Building
. Xidan Shopping Mall has experienced a fire in 1937. The owner of the house was built with broken walls and walls.
After the public-private joint venture in 1956 to 1962, it was simply repaired twice because of the ruthlessness.
Xidan Shopping Mall Exterior View
June 1971, after inspection and identification, due to the old house, the foundation of sinks , the wall cracks
, the brick wall crumbs , the reinforced concrete beams, slabs, and floor slabs were broken, and the large stove in the shopping mall was not used, and it was still cold , and the interior was roasted by the scorching sun in summer, making stuffy .In addition, sewer was also damaged. A spring rain caused more than 50 places to leak. In the words of the employee, " does not leave the field outside, and the legs are covered with mud when you step on the ground. "
Interior view of Xidan Shopping Mall In 1962
For the safety of customers and employees, the business area was reduced by 5,370 square meters from 7,000 square meters, leaving only less than a quarter of the business area of , and the conditions were very simple. Until 1972, an unintentional opportunity led to the transformation of Xidan Shopping Mall.
On February 21, 1972, the US leader visited China and realized the "ice-breaking" journey between China and the United States. As one of the most lively shopping malls in Beijing, it is naturally the first choice for Associated Press reporters. In the hall of nearly 2,000 square meters, the flash lights are lit up, specifically aiming at the trashed parts of , and taking pictures without stopping.
Interior of Xidan Shopping Mall In 1962
This scene was seen by the employees of Xidan Shopping Mall, blushing on their faces, holding their breath in their hearts, deeply feeling that they must be self-reliant and change their appearance, and proposed to build " Zhengqilou ".
In early 1972, the leaders of the city and district approved the rebuilding in batches considering the situation of Xidan Shopping Mall. However, the happy mouths were not closed and their brows frowned again. It turns out that according to the municipal planning, it will take to wait for a few years before can be started. Even if the work starts, you can only stop and stop and stop, and the construction period of cannot be determined. In this way, the new shopping mall building may be and will be in the future.
Everyone is thinking about three words: What to do with ?
At this time, after careful consideration, the leadership team of the mall immediately decided to build the building by .
Xidan Shopping Mall 1962
Starting from August 1972, the mall has successively selected ,300 employees of , and closed the old building in sections to renovate , and built the building while operating.The design plan was asked to be provided by the Beijing Design Institute. The municipal government allocated some funds, and the mall raised some funds on its own, and started working hard.
The employees learned that they wanted to build a building themselves, and they all signed up for to . They were approved and were very happy. The employees who were not approved at the time were still unhappy.
hone your skills. Learn and practice while building a building
self-reliance and build a building. The first problem I encountered was the technical problem .
. Those who are very skilled in shopping mall employees who are very skilled in building a building can be said to be ignorant. There are more than 320 people in who dug air raid shelters in some time ago and built brick walls with low quality requirements. So when I first hired a master, the following conversation occurred:
Despite this, more than 40 retired engineers, technicians and technical workers of various occupations from the construction department were invited. Under their guidance, the employees learned some preliminary operational knowledge after more than a month of "pre-war" training in and learned some basic operational knowledge. In the subsequent construction process, worked while learning while improving , and finally trained more than 100 skilled workers from various technical occupations.
100 years plan, quality first. is cautious. The construction site will first build an annex building with all mixed structures on the four floors of the east, and start " Pre-war Training ".
At the beginning of building, the shelf workers took the lead
Shelf workers was first led by the master.
They first buried 265 large shan stern poles in the playground of Bayi Primary School on Taipusi Street, and prepared hemp ropes. They practiced one layer a day. Whether the grades were qualified depends on the solid bonding and it was easy to dismantle. After practicing in one day, I grind my hands into . Some blood flows from , but it can't stop them from learning their skills. It was tied up for five layers and was six or seven meters high. It was removed and practiced again.
was able to build ordinary shelves while teaching and learning day and night, and finally became an indispensable team on the construction site. Heavy and dangerous jobs such as demolition of houses, lifting boilers with several tons, and removing large beams and large shavings all require to build scaffolding , and it is indispensable to wiping walls and laying bricks.
0 The "Zhengqi Building" of Xidan Shopping Mall under construction in 1972, especially the high frame . How high is the building? The shelf is higher than the building. The shelf is raised to more than 20 meters high. The shelf is shaking up by the shelf every 1.5 meters per 1.5 meters. A pine pole weighs sixty or seventy or eighty pounds, and there are thorns on it. After a day, the arms are ground red and turned into purple and blood flows out.
Whether they are sweating profusely when they do their work in winter and encounter the northwest wind, or baking all day in the scorching summer sun, they all tenaciously complete their tasks.
The foundation of building building is a tiler who builds walls and
tiler who is mainly responsible for building walls and , and is also one of the important jobs for building buildings.
Under the leadership of the old employees, the staff of the bricklayer team and the master practiced the walls with loess mud every day in six workshops. was built today and tomorrow demolished . The master teaches how to build two, four and three seven walls, how to set the corners, how to make three, seven legs, three, seven stacks, etc. The brick gaps on the built wall facing the outside are also required to look neat.
Xidan Shopping Mall employees built the "Zhengqi Building" by themselves
. The plan is to learn how to get bricks , how to make a big shovel , how to dig gray , and how to throw gray in . If you want to sprinkle a shovel of dust, you must spread it flat. Press the bricks down and place them properly. Otherwise, it will be too good and fast. Otherwise, it will be too late to start over again. The bricks cannot stick to them and the quality will not be maintained.
They practiced repeatedly all day long, their hands were burned by ashes, blisters by bricks, and their wrists were red, swollen and painful, but they obtained the good skills of building walls in .
There is a female employee building a small wall at home, which makes look angular and fast and good . The father was very surprised when he saw it. He didn't know when his daughter learned this skill. The employees of the plastering class of
will never give up
plastering , which is another job that requires continuous practice of skills.
At the beginning, wrists always don’t obey the command, and the gray paste cannot touch the wall . But the employees refused to give up and insisted on wiping on the old wall every day until late at night. The next day, he asked the master to check.In order to avoid wasting gray paste , scrape it off and use it. Hard work pays off, and finally the ash cream is cured.
When wiping the roof of the cargo yard, the technical requirements are higher.
When the staff and girls plastering cream, not only did fall down , but also drill into their eyes. They went to the infirm to rush back to their eyes and continued to do it. Sometimes a large piece of dust fell off the scaffolding before a person could even fall off the scaffolding, so he had to wear a raincoat and then wash it with water after get off work.
Plastering Source: Baidu Picture
They carefully look at how the master wiping and pressing it. After get off work, they practice over and over again, and they sweat every time. Because my hands were soaked in water and mud day and night, many people's hands were soaked in the skin, which was so painful that they kept practicing with tape.
Don’t say that the time is short and the effort is deep. The master finally praised them for their good learning and being better than the fourth and fifth level masters and being able to work alone. During the high-altitude plastering operation in
, the team members stood in a row on the high scaffolding, and at this time, who would wiping it out immediately. They were not willing to give in and rush to dress up the roof of the cargo yard to make flatter, shiny, more beautiful, and more elegant.
develops magical power. Push cement truck
to hit cement cover. The key is to push cement truck . What is needed is to pay equal importance to strength and skills.
cement truck Source: Weibo
The first cement cover is the first floor of the annex building. The construction site invited a master to guide him. The master saw the lane made of wooden boards trembling and said, "The most important thing in cement (called concrete in construction) is to push the cement truck . It must be stable and timely and uninterrupted. I think you can't supply concrete, it's not possible." Liu Yongqing, the on-site commander of the
project, asked the masters to try it first. At this time, the squad leader of Tian Shulan , who had already practiced hard work in pushing the cart, pushed the first car five or six hundred kilograms of clinker (concrete) onto the wooden road. The body didn't even make a bend, and pushed straight up and poured the material down smoothly.
The masters hurriedly asked the car behind to stop and say that this car can be seen that you can do it. It is really worthy of being built by Xidan Shopping Mall. picked the thumbs up .
was successfully completed by pressing the cover board, but the masters did not see these old, middle-aged and young cadres and staff lying on the bed and unable to move when they came home.
builds a whole building, and the jobs used are naturally more than these, and the difficulties encountered are not only there. The more difficult it is, the more careful the employees are. Do not throw away any old materials that can be used when demolished. For example, cement paper bag , "Broken paper bags can only be sold for rotten paper, less than one cent per pound, and one can be sold for 40 cents by disassembly according to the sewing." After the employees learned about it, the one-squad of cement was used on the construction site and there were no more than 4 broken bags.
In the entire project, the mall employees invested a total of 3.69 million labor days, 34,500 cubic meters of concrete, 35.4 million bricks of , 315,700 square meters of , 3900 tons of , 31.5 kilometers of ventilated pipes, 31.5 kilometers of , 321.5 kilometers of plumbing and electrician pipelines, 321.5 kilometers of , and transport more than 370,000 tons of , 4 building materials such as steel, bricks, wood, cement, sand and gravel and more than 370,000 tons of .
Two employees carrying wood Picture source: Beijing News
After 6 years of hard work, in September 1978, a five-story commercial building with a construction area of was 4 times larger than in the past was finally completed. After being appraised by relevant departments, the design standards have been fully met.
Xidan Department Store, newly built in 1978, was officially open to the public
Xidan Mall in the 1980s
This is a building that embodies all the cadres and employees of the mall to strive for reality and strive for Xidan, Beijing, and New China!
After hearing the news, Dong Biwu, who was the acting president of the country, readily wrote the store name for him: " Xidan Department Store ".
Dong Biwu's inscription
Dong Biwu's inscription
Do you remember the first time you visited Xidan shopping mall?
Acknowledgments and statements : Some pictures in this article are from the Internet, thanks to the original author here!
Reference articles: Song Xuejin, Zhao Hongbin, Wang Xiuwen, build a building by himself
When did the crossover in Beijing emerge?
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