Li Feiping's iron and steel industry

From 65438 to 0948, Li Feiping was sent to Tangshan to take over Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant as the deputy head of Tangshan Industrial Takeover Group, the representative of Tang Gangjun and the secretary of the Working Committee, and then entered the door of the steel industry. Li Feiping, who dreamed of going to the Soviet Union for systematic study and further study after national liberation, was destined to become attached to steel. One battle after another, like a rope, tied him firmly to the steel front. Command is the horn of battle. Without hesitation or complaint, we took off our uniforms and put on work clothes, from Tangshan Iron and Steel Company to Taigang Company and then to the Ministry of Heavy Industry (the predecessor of the Ministry of Metallurgy), from tackling key problems of wheels and tires of Maanshan Iron and Steel Company to the construction of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company and then to the construction of Baosteel in Shanghai. One project after another took 40 years.

1April, 950, he was transferred from Tangshan Iron and Steel Company to Taigang as the company manager. When Li Feiping went to TISCO, there were only a few small blast furnaces, coke ovens and open hearth furnaces, a small rolling mill, a 650 mm bloom mill and a power plant. Li Feiping first held a series of discussions to understand the situation. Under his leadership, a system including production management, administrative affairs and various reports was quickly established. TISCO has also defined its own "three major projects", including the reconstruction and expansion of steelmaking, ironmaking, steel rolling and coking, the construction of electric furnace steel mills and forging steel workshops, and the construction of thin-plate factories with hot-rolled silicon steel sheets as the mainstay.

At that time, he had a meeting during the day and went to the workshop at night to learn about the situation. Every night 12 he is still in the workshop. In May, the construction of infrastructure team started. In order to strengthen the construction of the infrastructure team, he asked the Iron and Steel Bureau of the Ministry of Heavy Industry for instructions, moved the infrastructure office of the bureau to Taigang, set up a construction office, and found someone to set up a design room. From design to construction, the purpose is to expand production, transform old factories and build new ones. At that time, employees did not have dormitories, so they immediately built a number of houses to solve the accommodation problems of most employees. As a result, the reconstruction and expansion project is in full swing.

First of all, for the construction of electric furnace steelmaking plant, all the equipment was moved from Tangshan Iron and Steel Company. Secondly, the construction of thin plate, forged steel and machine repair workshops. Later, in order to improve the steelmaking capacity, a 50-ton open hearth furnace was built, the No.2 blast furnace was transformed and silos were added. As soon as steelmaking was developed, coke was not enough, so a second coke oven was built. In order to improve the quality of coke, a new coal washing plant was built, which reduced the ash content of coal. Less than two and a half years since the establishment of the infrastructure team, more than a dozen major projects, such as the "Three Major Projects" and a revised expansion project, have been completed and put into operation one after another. TISCO's steel output increased from 30,000 tons in 1950 to 90,000 tons in 1952. It may not be a big deal now, but it was not easy then. After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began, TISCO began to produce anti-tank shell steel at the request of the state.

The development of TISCO needs a large number of cadres, which is what Li Feiping said in his letter to Comrade Chen Yun. 1in the summer of 952, Comrade Chen Yun wrote back to Li Feiping, saying, "The country needs construction, and the construction needs cadres. There are two sources of cadres. One is that old enterprises cut leeks and then cut them one after another ... cadres are constantly cultivated and promoted in practice. " The letter also said, "If you don't believe that you come to Beijing, I will talk to you personally." After receiving the letter from Comrade Chen Yun, Li Feiping immediately went to the provincial party committee to meet the secretary of the provincial party committee. The provincial party committee immediately convened a meeting of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee. At the meeting, Li Feiping introduced the situation of Taigang and the letter from Comrade Chen Yun. The provincial party committee decided to transfer two or three hundred cadres from prefectures and counties to enrich TISCO. Li Feiping put these cadres in the front line, and soon they became the backbone of the factory.

1September, 952, Li Feiping was transferred to Beijing as the director of infrastructure department of iron and steel industry bureau. Later, when talking about TISCO, he said: "First of all, TISCO has carried forward the entrepreneurial spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, which is the foundation of running a good enterprise. At that time, many of the backbone of TISCO were transferred from the military industry system in Taihang District and the military industry system in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. They naturally brought the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle of the military industry system to TISCO. Second, the construction of the backbone team is very important. Infrastructure construction should be able to adapt to all kinds of changes, no matter how arduous the task is, no matter how difficult the conditions are, no matter how bad the environment is, it can lead the team to fight hard. The third is the support of the provincial party Committee and the factory party Committee. Due to the attention and support of the provincial municipal party Committee, the Ministry and the bureau also have great trust in TISCO and have never interfered with enterprises, so TISCO's work has also been done smoothly. "

From 1954 to 1964, Li Feiping served as the director of the Construction Bureau and the director of the Infrastructure Department in the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. During this period, he was responsible for establishing the first major construction team in China-China No.1 Metallurgical Construction Company. The staff were transferred from all over the country, including experienced leading cadres, senior technicians and skilled workers, all of whom were transferred by Li Feiping himself. Before liberation, China's iron and steel industry was very weak. At that time, the customs had only a few small steel mills and almost no construction teams. Under the careful organization of Li Feiping, the technical force and staff of No.1 Metallurgical Company have been concentrated and continuously developed. By the end of 1957, the total number of employees had reached more than 50,000.