Steel & Oil INDUSTRIAL MEMORY ARCHIVE
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ART-AS-131
Real material from the Anshan field collection (2026), shared voluntarily and de-identified per the archive’s consent and redaction rules.
ART-AS-131 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning

Open spread of a single-child parents' certificate issued to a steelworker…

独生子女证 / 育龄夫妇独生子女证
1981-05-03 (verified 1983)

Description

Open spread of a single-child parents' certificate issued to a steelworker couple, listing father, mother and child, work unit (中型厂 / 钢板轧制) and a certificate serial number. Bears an Angang Red-Cross single-child medical-certificate stamp dated 1983.

Significance to the comparison

Everyday material evidence of working life at Angang (Anshan Iron & Steel), contributed from a family collection. Objects like this are the physical trace of the danwei world the oral histories describe.

Provenance

Field collection
Photographed in Anshan, July 2026; contributed by a participating family; personal identifiers redacted where present. Original held by the family.

Evidence media

  • Photograph of the object (web copy shown; original held privately) — personal details redacted.

Sources single-source record — corroborating source pending

  1. Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).
Cite this record

Tim Qiao, ed., “Open spread of a single-child parents' certificate issued to a steelworker…,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-131, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →