Improve skills, strive for even greater thrift!

提高技术,争取更大的节约!
Tigao jishu, zhengqu gengdade jieyue!
Improve skills, strive for even greater thrift!
1956, August
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
53x77 cm.
PC-1956-010

A textile worker and a supervisor in a spinning mill, weighing cotton on a scale. The worker's apron reads 郝建秀工作者 - Hao Jianxiu Worker. Hao Jianxiu was a young female worker who improved working methods in her cotton mill to improve productivity and reduce waste, rose to fame and became a National Model Worker. Her "Hao Jianxiu Work Method" was promoted throughout China.