A child of the steel city who left for the south (1980s generation)

问您大概是哪一代人？

QRoughly which generation are you?

答1980 年代

A1980s

问您和鞍钢/相关单位的关系？

QWhat is your relationship to Ansteel / a related work unit?

答父/母曾在

AMy father/mother worked there

问您小时候主要在哪里成长？

QWhere did you mainly grow up as a child?

答鞍山市区

AAnshan city proper

问您现在大概生活在哪里？

QRoughly where do you live now?

答国内其他省市

AElsewhere in China

问您现在从事哪一类工作/学习？

QWhat kind of work/study do you currently do?

答互联网/信息技术

AInternet / information technology

问您对九十年代那段变化的记忆，主要来自？

QYour memory of the changes in the 1990s mainly comes from?

答我当时年纪小，主要是听家里长辈讲的

AI was young then; mostly heard about it from elders at home

问小时候，家里长辈常提鞍钢/单位吗？

QAs a child, did the elders at home often mention Ansteel / the work unit?

答经常

AOften

问先用您自己的词：长辈提到单位时是什么感觉？

QIn your own words: how did elders feel when mentioning the work unit?

答【勾选】骄傲、辛苦、稳定　【手写】父亲一辈子一线炼钢，提起年轻时建厂、增产就满脸自豪；但说到倒班高温、九十年代下岗风波，又满是心酸，对老班组、老厂区一直很怀念。

A[checked] Pride; hardship; stability [handwritten] My father spent his life in front-line steelmaking. Mention the plant-building and production drives of his youth and his face fills with pride; mention the shift work, the furnace heat, and the layoff storms of the nineties and it fills with ache. He has never stopped missing the old team and the old plant district.

问鞍钢/单位对家庭生活影响大吗？

QDid Ansteel / the work unit have a big influence on family life?

答很大

AVery large

问主要体现在哪些方面？

QMainly in what respects?

答【勾选】住房、子女教育、医疗、邻里、家庭收入、父母工作时间、身份感/荣誉感、退休福利　【手写】全家住单位分的平房，我读鞍钢子弟小学、职工幼儿园，看病去厂医院；父母工资、分粮票、过年福利全部依靠厂里，左右邻居全是工友，从小就被灌输鞍钢工人的荣誉感。

A[checked] Housing; children's education; medical care; neighbors; family income; parents' working hours; sense of identity and honor; retirement benefits [handwritten] The whole family lived in a unit-assigned bungalow; I went to the Angang workers'-children primary school and the staff kindergarten, and to the plant hospital when ill. Wages, grain coupons, and New Year benefits all came from the plant; the neighbors on both sides were workmates; the honor of being an Angang worker was poured into me from childhood.

问小时候您觉得父母的单位更像什么？

QAs a child, what did your parents' work unit feel more like to you?

答大家庭、保障

AA big family; security

问有没有一个具体的小事，让您小时候感到「单位」就在你们家生活里？（一次分房、一次厂庆、食堂、澡堂、生病去厂医院…）

QIs there one small concrete incident that made you feel as a child that the 'work unit' was right there in your family life? (a housing allocation, a factory anniversary, the canteen, the bathhouse, going to the factory hospital when sick...)

答每到夏天厂里发降温汽水、西瓜，父亲下班拎一大袋回来分给邻居；生病不用去外面医院，直接去厂区职工诊所，挂号开药都便宜方便。

AEvery summer the plant issued cooling soda and watermelons; my father would carry a big bagful home after work and share it with the neighbors. When we fell ill we did not need an outside hospital — straight to the plant staff clinic, where registration and medicine were cheap and easy.

问那段时间，您家有没有明显变化？

QDuring that period, did your family undergo obvious change?

答明显

AClear changes

问主要是哪些方面？

QMainly in what respects?

答【勾选】父母岗位、收入压力、家庭气氛、对未来稳定的担心　【手写】父亲所在一线车间大幅裁员，身边很多叔叔阿姨下岗，家里收入锐减，那段时间父母经常半夜发愁，家里氛围压抑，总担心以后生活没有保障。

A[checked] Parents' posts; income pressure; family atmosphere; worry about future stability [handwritten] My father's front-line shop cut staff deeply; many of the uncles and aunts around us were laid off. Household income fell sharply. In that stretch my parents often sat up worrying past midnight; the mood at home was heavy, always afraid the future had no floor under it.

问长辈当时的工作状态？

QWhat was the elders' work situation at the time?

答待岗/下岗

AWaiting for work / laid off

问家里会讨论「以后孩子要不要留在鞍山」吗？

QDid your family discuss whether the children should stay in Anshan in the future?

答经常

AOften

问如果讨论过，长辈是什么态度？先选，再讲一件具体的事或一句他们说过的话。

QIf discussed, what was the elders' attitude? Choose, then give a specific thing or something they said.

答【勾选】去外地、别走父母老路、尊重我自己选　【手写】父亲总跟我说"别守着钢厂，外面机会多，不用像我们干一辈子苦力"，但也说实在不行回鞍山也有家里兜底，最终让我自己决定出路。

A[checked] Go elsewhere; don't walk your parents' old road; respected my own choice [handwritten] My father always told me, "Don't keep to the steelworks — there are more chances outside; you needn't do a lifetime of hard labor like us." But he also said that if it really failed out there, Anshan and the family would catch me. In the end he let me decide my own way.

问您是否曾离开鞍山学习/工作/生活？

QHave you ever left Anshan to study/work/live?

答是，后来离开了

AYes — and I stayed away

问若离开，大概在什么时候？

QIf you left, roughly when?

答上大学

AFor university

问离开鞍山的主要原因？

QThe main reason for leaving Anshan?

答【勾选】上学、工作机会、收入、专业本地难就业、看看外面、同龄人都走　【手写】大学专业是计算机，鞍山本地互联网行业极少，薪资偏低；身边同学大多考完大学就去往南方，父母也支持我出去闯一闯，多看看外面世界。

A[checked] Study; job opportunities; income; hard to find local work in my field; to see the world; peers were all leaving [handwritten] My degree was computer science, and Anshan had almost no internet industry and low pay. Most of my classmates headed south straight after the exams, and my parents backed me going out to try my luck and see more of the world.

问若您留在/回到鞍山，主要原因？

QIf you stayed in / returned to Anshan, the main reason?

答（本人长期在外，无需填写）

A(I have long lived away — not applicable.)

问带我回到您决定走 / 决定留 / 决定回来的那个时刻：当时在想什么？是什么让您拍板？

QTake me back to the moment you decided to leave / stay / return: what were you thinking? What made you decide?

答填报志愿时下定决心往南方城市报考，当时想着鞍山工业岗位单一，不想重复父辈辛苦的体力工作，南方新兴行业多、发展空间更大，就算初期辛苦也愿意出去尝试。

AWhen filling in my university choices I set my mind on southern cities. Anshan's jobs were all one kind of industry, and I did not want to repeat my father's generation's hard physical work. The south had new industries and more room to grow — even if the first years were hard, I wanted to go and try.

问如果您离开了：当时去了哪类地方？

QIf you left: what kind of place did you go to at the time?

答一线城市（北上广深）

AA first-tier city (Beijing / Shanghai / Guangzhou / Shenzhen)

问落脚在哪类行业？（大概即可）

QWhat kind of industry did you settle into? (approximate is fine)

答互联网软件开发、线上产品运营相关行业。

AInternet software development and online product operations.

问现在比在鞍山，过得怎样？

QCompared with life in Anshan, how are you doing now?

答更好

ABetter

问这次离开是？

QThis leaving was?

答长期定居

ASettled long-term

问您身边同龄人，离开的多还是留下的多？

QAmong your peers, did more leave or more stay?

答离开多

AMore left

问您觉得年轻人离开鞍山，最主要因为什么？

QWhy do you think young people leave Anshan, most of all?

答【勾选】工作机会、收入、行业选择少、城市发展空间、对传统工业岗位没兴趣　【手写】传统重工业岗位强度大、薪资涨幅慢，新兴互联网、文创、高端服务业稀缺，年轻人想要更高收入、多元职业选择，自然会去往大城市。

A[checked] Job opportunities; income; few industries to choose from; room for the city to grow; no interest in traditional industrial posts [handwritten] Traditional heavy-industry posts are punishing and wages climb slowly, while the new internet, creative, and high-end service industries are scarce at home. Young people wanting higher income and more kinds of careers naturally go to the big cities.

问您想过以后回鞍山长期生活吗？

QHave you thought of returning to live in Anshan long-term?

答想过，可能回

AI have thought about it; I might come back

问要让更多年轻人愿意留/回鞍山，您觉得最重要的是什么？

QTo make more young people willing to stay in / return to Anshan, what do you think matters most?

答【勾选】工作机会、工资、适合年轻人的城市生活、新产业　【手写】引进数字经济、智能制造等新兴产业，提高年轻人薪资待遇，完善商圈、文旅、休闲配套，打造年轻化城市氛围，才能留住青年人才。

A[checked] Job opportunities; wages; a city life suited to the young; new industries [handwritten] Bring in new industries like the digital economy and smart manufacturing, raise young people's pay, fill out the shopping, culture, and leisure life, and build a younger city atmosphere — that is what would keep young talent.

问父母那一代从鞍钢/单位生活中，传给您最多的是什么？

QFrom their Ansteel / work-unit life, what did your parents' generation pass on to you most?

答【勾选】吃苦耐劳、守纪律、重视稳定、对风险更敏感、别只靠一个单位　【手写】做事踏实能吃苦、遵守规则；经历过九十年代动荡，从不建议我一辈子绑定单一工作，凡事留后路，面对风险懂得谨慎规划。

A[checked] Endurance of hardship; discipline; valuing stability; sharper about risk; don't depend on one unit alone [handwritten] Work steadily, endure, follow the rules. Having been through the turbulence of the nineties, they never advised me to bind my life to a single job — always leave a way out, and plan carefully against risk.

问父母教过您具体的工作技术吗？

QDid your parents teach you specific work skills?

答主要讲故事不教技术

AMostly told stories rather than teaching technique

问若讲过，通常是哪类（不必讲参数或内部流程）？

QIf they did tell you, usually what kind (no need for parameters or internal process)?

答【勾选】安全经验、工厂纪律、质量意识　【手写】经常讲车间安全规范，做事不能马虎，生产质量容不得半点敷衍，做人做事都要有底线。

A[checked] Safety experience; factory discipline; quality-mindedness [handwritten] He often talked about shop-floor safety rules: no carelessness in work, no cutting corners on production quality, and a bottom line in how you act and how you work.

问父母的工作经历，对您的职业选择有影响吗？

QDid your parents' work experience influence your career choice?

答很大

AA great deal

问更接近哪一种？

QWhich is closer (to your inclination)?

答想离开传统工业、更重视可转移技能

AWanted to leave traditional industry; value transferable skills more

问您有没有因为父母的经历，刻意避开或刻意选择某个职业/行业？讲讲。

QDid your parents' experience make you deliberately avoid or choose a career/industry? Tell me.

答【勾选】有　【手写】刻意避开钢铁、制造等传统体力工业行业，优先选择数字化、线上服务类行业，不想从事高强度、环境艰苦的一线工作。

A[checked] Yes [handwritten] I deliberately avoided steel, manufacturing, and the other physical industries, and chose digital and online service fields first. I did not want high-intensity front-line work in harsh conditions.

问父母那一代最希望您得到什么？

QWhat did your parents' generation most hope you would gain?

答【勾选】更高收入、更自由的选择、不那么辛苦　【手写】不用靠体力谋生，拥有更多职业选择权，不用一辈子困在单一厂区，收入稳定、工作轻松一点。

A[checked] Higher income; freer choices; less hardship [handwritten] Not to live by physical labor; to have more say over my career; not to be shut a lifetime inside a single plant; steady income, somewhat easier work.

问您升学/找工作/离开或回鞍山时，父母的老同事或单位关系帮过忙吗？

QWhen you went to school / looked for work / left or returned to Anshan, did your parents' old colleagues or work-unit connections help?

答一点

AA little

问若帮过，主要哪方面？

QIf they helped, mainly in what way?

答【勾选】消息、生活建议　【手写】高考填报志愿前，父亲老工友家里有在外读书的孩子，给我分享外地城市、大学专业的相关信息，提供一些生活参考。

A[checked] Information; advice about living [handwritten] Before I filled in my college choices, an old workmate of my father's — whose child was studying away — shared what he knew of other cities and university majors, and some pointers about life there.

问家里现在还和父母以前的同事、邻居、师傅、徒弟联系吗？

QDoes your family still keep in touch with your parents' former colleagues, neighbors, masters, and apprentices?

答偶尔

AOccasionally

问您觉得这种老单位关系，对子女这一代还有影响吗？

QDo you think this kind of old work-unit tie still influences the children's generation?

答一点

AA little

问以前的单位社区，和现在的普通城市社区有什么不同？（邻里、互助、熟人社会、孩子成长环境…）

QHow was the old work-unit community different from an ordinary city neighborhood today? (neighbors, mutual aid, acquaintance society, children's environment...)

答老鞍钢家属院全是共事多年的工友，邻里互相帮扶，谁家困难全小区搭把手；孩子结伴玩耍，大人互相照看；现在商品房邻里互不相识，没有集体归属感，缺少熟人互助氛围。

AThe old Angang family courtyards were all workmates of many years. Neighbors carried each other — if one family struggled, the whole block lent a hand; the children played in packs and the grown-ups watched them together. In today's commercial housing the neighbors do not know each other. There is no collective belonging, none of that familiar mutual help.

问听到「鞍钢」「钢城」，您第一反应是什么？

QHearing 'Ansteel' / 'Steel City', what is your first reaction?

答【勾选】怀念、辛苦、亲切　【手写】是我的童年故土，藏着父母大半辈子的汗水，既有温暖回忆，也清楚父辈承受的辛劳。

A[checked] Nostalgia; hardship; closeness [handwritten] It is the ground of my childhood, holding most of a lifetime of my parents' sweat. Warm memories — and a clear knowledge of what their generation carried.

问您去过鞍钢博物馆、孟泰纪念馆或类似场所吗？

QHave you been to the Ansteel Museum, the Meng Tai Memorial Hall, or similar places?

答去过

ABeen there

问这些地方对年轻人有用吗？

QAre these places useful for young people?

答一点用、主要是纪念意义

ASome use; mainly commemorative

问您觉得哪些记忆最容易消失？

QWhich memories do you think are most likely to disappear?

答【勾选】老邻里关系、单位生活方式、工人身份感　【手写】厂区全包式集体生活、家属院邻里互助模式正在慢慢消失，年轻一代很难体会当年一厂一家人的氛围。

A[checked] Old neighborly ties; the unit way of life; the worker's sense of identity [handwritten] The plant's all-inclusive collective life and the courtyards' pattern of mutual help are slowly disappearing. It is hard for the young generation to feel what "one plant, one family" was.

问若做一个「鞍山老工业记忆」资料库，您觉得最该保存什么？

QIf an 'Anshan old-industry memory' archive were built, what do you think should most be preserved?

答【勾选】普通工人的故事、家属和子女的故事、老照片和物件、离开鞍山的人怎么想　【手写】除了工人生产记录，一定要留存职工家属、子女视角的口述，还有外出年轻人对钢城的复杂情感，完整记录工业城市代际变迁。

A[checked] Ordinary workers' stories; family members' and children's stories; old photos and objects; what those who left Anshan think [handwritten] Beyond production records, preserve the oral accounts of workers' families and children, and the tangled feelings of the young who left — record the industrial city's generational change whole.

问您家是否保存过和鞍钢/单位有关的物件？（可多选）

QHas your family kept any objects related to Ansteel / the work unit? (multiple choice)

答没有

ANothing kept

问您会给孩子或晚辈讲鞍钢/鞍山的故事吗？

QDo you tell your children or younger relatives stories of Ansteel / Anshan?

答偶尔

AOccasionally

问讲这些时，您更想传达什么？

QWhen telling these, what do you most want to convey?

答【勾选】家族经历、城市历史、父母那代的不容易、不要忘记家乡　【手写】告诉后辈鞍山工业发展历史，理解祖辈父辈当年的艰苦付出，同时告诉他们时代不同，拥有更多选择，不必局限于传统重工业。

A[checked] Family experience; the city's history; how hard it was for the parents' generation; don't forget home [handwritten] Tell the next generation the history of Anshan's industry, and make them understand what the grandparents and parents gave. And tell them the times are different — they have more choices, and need not be bound to heavy industry.

问您希望下一代以后留在鞍山吗？

QDo you hope the next generation will stay in Anshan?

答看他们自己

AUp to them

问您希望下一代进入制造/工程/钢铁/能源相关行业吗？

QDo you hope the next generation enters manufacturing/engineering/steel/energy-related industries?

答看他们兴趣

ADepends on their interests

问「稳定工作」在您这一代和父母那一代之间，含义变了吗？

QHas the meaning of a 'stable job' changed between your generation and your parents' generation?

答【勾选】变化很大　【手写】父母眼里稳定＝一辈子在国营工厂，单位包揽全部生活；我们这代稳定是掌握可迁移技能，无论在哪都能立足，不绑定单一企业、单一城市。

A[checked] Changed greatly [handwritten] To my parents, stability meant a lifetime in a state factory, with the unit carrying your whole life. To my generation it means transferable skills — able to stand anywhere, bound to no single company or city.

问「离开家乡」在您这代人眼里是？

QIn the eyes of your generation, what is 'leaving one's hometown'?

答【勾选】复杂，不能简单说　【手写】离开不是嫌弃家乡，是为了更多发展机会；心里牵挂故土，但客观上本地产业难以支撑年轻人发展，是现实下的折中选择。

A[checked] Complicated — cannot be put simply [handwritten] Leaving is not scorning home; it is for more chances to grow. The heart stays tied to the old ground, but in plain fact the local industries cannot carry a young career. It is a compromise with reality.

问用一个词形容父母那代和鞍钢的关系，您会用哪个？为什么？

QIn one word, how would you describe the relationship between your parents' generation and Ansteel? Why?

答羁绊。鞍钢承载他们青春、生计、全部人际关系，一辈子依附厂区，哪怕经历下岗阵痛，依旧对钢厂有割舍不掉的情感牵绊。

AJiban — a bond that cannot be cut. Angang held their youth, their livelihood, all their human ties. Their lives leaned on the plant, and even through the pain of the layoffs, the feeling for the steelworks could not be severed.

问用一个词形容您自己和鞍山的关系，您会用哪个？为什么？

QIn one word, how would you describe your own relationship with Anshan? Why?

答故土。鞍山是成长故乡，有亲人与童年回忆，但职业发展空间有限，只能在外定居，情感归乡、生活远行。

AGutu — native ground. Anshan is where I grew up, with family and childhood memory; but with limited room for a career, I could only settle away. My feelings go home; my life travels far.

问您觉得外地人或年轻人最容易误解鞍山什么？

QWhat do you think outsiders or young people most easily misunderstand about Anshan?

答很多人只觉得鞍山只有老旧重工业，环境差、发展落后，不知道这里完整的集体职工生活历史，也看不到城市正在转型发展。

AMany people think Anshan is only old heavy industry — bad environment, left behind. They do not know the complete history of collective worker life here, and they do not see the city already changing.

问您觉得我们这代人做研究时，应该怎样更尊重地理解您父母那一代？

QHow do you think our generation, when doing research, should understand your parents' generation more respectfully?

答不要只用时代变革视角评判他们，多倾听普通人真实生活感受，理解他们当年依赖工厂生存的无奈与坚守，兼顾辛苦与荣光。

ADo not judge them only through the lens of historical change. Listen more to how ordinary people actually lived. Understand both the helplessness and the steadfastness of lives that depended on the factory — the hardship together with the glory.

问有没有哪个问题您希望我不要记录、不要引用，或引用前必须再问您？

QIs there any question you'd like me not to record, not to quote, or to ask you again before quoting?

答没有

ANothing

问整理好后，您想先看一遍再决定是否公开吗？

QAfter it's compiled, would you like to review it first before deciding whether to make it public?

答想看

AI would like to see it first

问以后若需要补充访谈，您是否愿意通过介绍人再联系？

QIf a follow-up interview is needed later, would you be willing to be contacted again through the introducer?

答可以

AYes

问您是否愿意日后接受一次更深入的访谈？如果您的父母长辈方便，是否也愿意引荐他们一起参与？

QWould you be willing to take part in a more in-depth interview later? And if your parents/elders are available, would you introduce them to take part too?

答愿意

AWilling