Team Bonding Hike: Laughs and Grit by Huangniupu Reservoir

At Lechang Yuhuang Science and Technology Park, we don’t just churn out set screws, machine screws, and shoulder screws—we’re a bunch of folks who’ve got each other’s backs, through late nights fixing production lines and big wins on tough orders. So when we tossed around the idea of a team hike at Huangniupu Reservoir, we all knew it’d be nothing like those stuffy office meetings. This was gonna be a day of messing up, laughing till our cheeks hurt, and actually getting to know each other beyond “how’s the screw batch coming?”

9 a.m.: The Six-Seater Bikes

Our little adventure had an unspoken rule right off the bat: Six-seater bikes are basically chaos on wheels. We split into two teams. Mine had Lao Wang—he’s been with the screw factory since day one, grease under his nails and a story for every machine—and Xiao Li, our new intern who still gets lost finding the break room. The other team was led by Manager Zhang, who kept bragging he “raced bikes in college” (turns out, college was 20 years ago). Five minutes in, our chain popped, Lao Wang’s work boot got wedged in the pedal, and Xiao Li was too busy gawking at the reservoir to notice we’d drifted off the path. Manager Zhang’s crew zoomed past, yelling “Need a push?!” But karma’s quick—their bike hit a bump, and their water bottles went flying like confetti. We doubled over laughing; it was messy, but man, it beat sitting at our desks.

By the time we dumped the bikes and hit the trail, our shirts were soaked through—but no one grumbled. Huangniupu Reservoir’s trails are exactly what you need after staring at fastener specs all week: tall pines that smell like fresh rain, water so calm it mirrors the sky, and a tiny stream that begged us to dip our feet in. Lao Wang started telling stories about the early days—back when we only made basic fasteners, and he’d fix the machine at 2 a.m. with nothing but a wrench and a thermos of tea. Xiao Li’s eyes went wide; she had no clue we used to pack set screws by hand before we got the new assembly line. That’s the thing about hiking—you don’t talk about deadlines. You talk about the messy, human stuff that makes you feel like a team, not just coworkers.

Noon: Photo Ops at the Famous “Fu” Stone & Casual Feast

You can’t go to Huangniupu without stopping at the big red “Fu” (blessing) stone—it’s basically the reservoir’s signature photo spot. We herded together for a group shot, and Manager Zhang kept scolding us to “look professional” (he kept saying it was for the website). Right as the camera clicked, Jim—he’s from our partner company, total class clown—jumped behind Manager Zhang and crossed his eyes. We tried 17 times before we got a photo that wasn’t ruined by his nonsense, and we laughed so hard our sides ached. Lao Wang clapped Jim on the back and said, “Hope this ‘blessing’ gets us that big fastener order we’ve been chasing.” Xiao Li piped up, “We already nailed the last hard one!” Everyone cheered—there’s something pretty great about celebrating work wins next to a giant lucky stone.

We found a spot under a huge banyan tree to eat—boxed meals, plus some local pork ribs that smelled so good Jim kept trying to steal Xiao Li’s. Speaking of Xiao Li, she still shared her mango with him even after the photobomb fiasco. Manager Zhang snuck an extra rice ball when he thought no one was looking (we all saw, but we didn’t say a word). Someone dug out a portable speaker and cranked up old Chinese pop songs—you know the ones, the kind everyone sings off-key. For an hour, we weren’t the “screw factory crew.” We were just people eating too much, singing badly, and not checking our phones once. It was perfect.

Evening: Dinner, Drinks, and “Remember When…?”

By 6 p.m., we were starving—hiking those gentle slopes (Master Li swore he was the fastest, but we all knew he cut through the shortcut near the pavilion) worked up an appetite. We headed to this little family restaurant by the reservoir—plastic tables, a chef yelling orders from the kitchen, and the kind of food that tastes like home. We ordered way too much: braised pork, stir-fried bok choy, and a case of cold beer. Once the food came, the stories started pouring out faster than the drinks.

Lisa is in charge of the quality inspection of our fasteners. She mentioned that once she worked until 10 p.m. to urgently inspect a batch of machine screws. "I was so angry that I wanted to throw them into the trash can," she said. "But Old Wang showed up from the cafeteria with a bowl of hot dry noodles and said, 'Let's figure it out together.'" Mike from the warehouse admitted that he had once sent an extra 500 shoulder studs to a customer. As a result, this customer was deeply impressed by us, sent us a thank-you card and placed a large new order. Manager Zhang raised his beer and said, "That's why we are good at what we do." "We messed it up. We'll solve it. We won't let the other party struggle alone." Everyone clinked their glasses, and even those who didn't drink raised their soda cans.

Why This Hike Mattered

People ask, “Why would a screw factory waste time on a hike?” Easy. Tomorrow, when Lisa’s checking set screws, she’ll remember laughing at Jim’s stupid photobomb. When Lao Wang’s fixing the machine, he’ll think of Xiao Li’s excitement about our old stories. When we’re buried under a tight deadline, we won’t see just coworkers—we’ll see the people who struggled with bikes, shared mangoes, and sang off-key with us under that banyan tree. That’s the stuff that makes us work better.

We make fasteners that hold buildings and machines together—but the real important thing is the team that makes those fasteners. Huangniupu’s beauty—its green trails, calm water, that goofy “Fu” stone—gave us a chance to breathe and remember why we do this. Lechang Yuhuang Science and Technology Park isn’t just advanced machines and good screws. It’s Lao Wang’s late-night noodles, Jim’s silly jokes, Xiao Li’s enthusiasm, and all the little ways we look out for each other.
Monday morning, back at the factory, Jim taped our “Fu” stone photo to the break room fridge. He wrote on it: “Next hike: NO six-seater bikes.” We all laughed when we saw it, then got back to work—making set screws, machine screws, shoulder screws, and the kind of team where coming to work feels less like a job and more like hanging out with people you trust.
If you need high-quality fasteners—made by people who care about getting it right, and who have each other’s backs—Lechang Yuhuang Science and Technology Park is your crew. We don’t just make screws; we build something that lasts, both in your projects and in our team.

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