Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 376 Restructuring the Iron and Steel Industry
"Minister Gao, an explosion occurred in Jinyang Iron and Steel's No. A comprehensive assessment and maintenance has been completed." Ma Shaocheng, the director of the Iron and Steel Department, brought a bunch of reports to Gao Jianwu to report.

Under normal circumstances, there is no major incident, and these industry direct management departments are run by themselves, so there is no need to trouble Gao Jianwu.

However, the production capacity of the iron and steel industry has been released, but because the equipment cannot keep up, the current production capacity is quite extensive. At present, the overall product quality is poor, the output is low, and the cost is high. Except for a few special alloy smelting blast furnaces and Gao Jianwu provides advanced electroslag remelting smelting equipment.

The technical level of smelting basic steel products such as crude steel and pig iron is basically maintained at the 10s or even older equipment, and the gap with the world's steelmaking level has reached more than 30 years. Now the world's main blast furnaces have reached 2000 cubic meters The volume of domestic blast furnaces is limited to the technical level, and most of them are still below 500 cubic meters.

There are not many blast furnaces over 500 cubic meters.

Jinyang Iron and Steel's No. 1 blast furnace has a volume of 590 cubic meters, and it is already one of the most advanced blast furnaces in China. However, under normal circumstances, the annual output of steel is more than 3 tons, and it is unexpectedly suspended now.

Gao Jianwu really didn't want to take care of these bad things, but there was no other way. He was the biggest one in the industry, so he had to make up his mind if there were any major problems.

In order to explode production capacity, Gao Jianwu didn’t care about the quality due to limited domestic technology. At that time, all steel was scarce. Gao Jianwu asked the big and small blast furnaces to solve the problem of availability. A blast furnace of more than 100 cubic meters is considered a large steel plant. The annual output is tens of thousands of tons; many places use small blast furnaces with tens of cubic meters of old antiques.

For example, the small iron and steel in the Ping'an base area had an annual output of only a few thousand tons, and only a small blast furnace of more than 30 cubic meters.

Supported the 101 Arsenal of Gao Jianwu's first stage.

"Director Ma, I have a task for you. Through Mr. Situ in America, we will carefully investigate the advanced level of the foreign steel industry, and at the same time find out the bottom line of our family. We must carry out a major transformation of the steel industry. Now Not to mention the high energy consumption and high pollution of the technology, the output and quality are not satisfactory, and this must be greatly improved to solve the problem fundamentally." Gao Jianwu took Ma Shaocheng's report and thought carefully for a while before he gave Ma Shaocheng commanded.

He broke out several special steel production processes and world-leading refining methods such as electroslag remelting, but these have little effect on basic steelmaking.

They are all secondary processing on the basis of current steel, and the inherent deficiencies of the steel industry cannot be made up for at all.

Although there is a large-scale 500 cubic meter blast furnace formwork built by Xiaoguizi in China, on the basis of the 248 cubic meter blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant introduced in the former Qing Dynasty, there is already experience in the independent construction of a 300 cubic meter blast furnace.

But this kind of blast furnace is also usable level.

According to Gao Jianwu's understanding, the No. 248 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel currently produces about 1 tons of iron per day, and the utilization factor of the blast furnace is less than 100!

Compared with Gao Jianwu's space-time utilization coefficient of more than 2.0, it is simply heaven and earth!
Ma Shaocheng collected information very quickly. After all, Mr. Situ was already an important business tycoon in America. He had even bought a steel plant with an annual output of 30 tons and set foot in the steel industry. It was basically easy to inquire about this information.

In this era, steel is still worth investing in. Steel tycoons are frequent visitors to world-class rich clubs. Mr. Situ, who has grown up, will naturally not let this industry go, and he also bought a steel factory.

Mr. Situ’s iron and steel plant has two blast furnaces with a volume of 2 cubic meters. This is a typical large-scale old-fashioned blast furnace in America built in the early 500th century, but the daily iron production is 20 tons, the utilization coefficient is 450, and the coke ratio is 0.9 kg/ton of pig iron. About, compared with the No. 1000 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron Works built in China, the efficiency is much higher.

But this is not the advanced level in the Americas. At present, there are large-scale blast furnaces of 1000 cubic meters in the Americas. The daily iron production exceeds 1200 tons, the utilization factor reaches 1.2, and the coke ratio is about 900 kg/ton of pig iron. The annual output of one blast furnace exceeds 43 tons. .

The volume of the No. 1 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Works is half smaller, 248 cubic meters, but the daily iron production is only less than a quarter of that of Mr. Situ’s blast furnace, and the utilization factor is 0.4. Under normal circumstances, the daily output is 100 tons, and the annual output is 3. Ton!Compared with foreign advanced level, it is only a fraction of others!The coke ratio is 6 kg/ton of pig iron, and the energy consumption gap is huge.

However, this is not the bottom line. The utilization factor of those small blast furnaces is even lower, some may be around 0.3, and the coke ratio is 2500 kg/ton of pig iron!The energy consumption is so large that it cannot be compared with the foreign advanced level.

The difference in this industry is so appalling that Gao Jianwu can't stand it anymore.

After some internal research, Gao Jianwu came up with his own method.

"100 engineers from various aspects of blast furnace construction and operation management were transferred from the iron and steel industry, and sent to America to learn the experience of advanced blast furnace construction and operation management. to study in the iron and steel factory, and at the same time dig out a group of steel talents that can be used in the local area.

In addition, in terms of European steel giants, steel powerhouses such as Germany and Austria-Hungary sent teams to dig out local smelting technology and talents. Don't be afraid to spend money, these costs are small.

Our technological level in steel should at least catch up with the level in the early 20th century. This is the bottom line. On this basis, let’s see how to narrow the gap with the advanced level of the world’s steel industry. For example, the steel utilization factor breaks through the 1 mark! "After Gao Jianwu put forward his plan and request, Ma Shaocheng looked embarrassed and dared not answer for a while.

In his view, it is too difficult to double the technical debts left over from history at once.

Gao Jianwu saw Ma Shaocheng's thoughts, smiled and said to him: "There is a huge gap between us and the world's steel industry in terms of technology, but now we don't have the opportunity to catch up quickly by taking a straight line. Trial and error have been tried, and we have now avoided a lot of unnecessary corners. Although it is impossible to overtake with our foundation, after several years of catching up, there should be a chance to catch up with the average level of others.

We must believe that our ingenuity is no weaker than that of any other nation in the world. As long as the people we send out are diligent, inquisitive, and willing to work hard, it won't take long for it to be effective. "

"Although we are backward, backwardness means that we have the advantage of being a latecomer. We can save research costs and time by introducing technology and equipment from advanced countries, quickly train domestic talents, and promote technological progress from a higher starting point. We can also learn from the experience and lessons of advanced countries, avoid or avoid detours, and adopt an optimized catch-up strategy, which may shorten the time for technological evolution.”

"Not to mention, in the little days next door, their starting point was lower than ours, but they are more determined and persistent than us in terms of technical learning. Among other things, steel technology has caught up with Western countries in just a few decades. Their method is also very simple, that is, to send a large number of foreign students to study in advanced countries in Europe and the Americas, so that from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, they introduced many advanced steel technologies from abroad and realized catching up with the world. Iron and steel smelting level, so as to provide qualified steel for aircraft carriers, cannons, aircraft, tanks, etc.”

"Now that we have such conditions, more practical steel plants and a large number of personnel, we believe that the time for us to catch up is faster than them."

After some encouragement by Gao Jianwu, Ma Shaocheng finally gained some confidence.

"Yes, Minister Gao, I will go down and select a group of elite soldiers from the steel industry to realize the leapfrog development of the overall technology of the steel industry." Ma Shaocheng said.

"I want to remind you that the development of the iron and steel industry is a science with strong practicality. The candidates selected must be mainly experienced engineers on the front line. Don't choose some people who are not in tune. This is not the time to gild them. Don't worry about the language, Mr. Situ and the others will provide a group of good translators to study with them.

In addition, although we have a large number of people, we must be careful not to all appear in a steel factory at once. You all pay attention to some skills when stealing teachers. There can be no problems. During the period abroad, we must organize and record what we have learned every day to form systematic industry knowledge.

In addition, the emotional intelligence of the personnel should be relatively high, and it is easy to mingle with others. When we arrive in America, let Mr. Situ arrange some American Chinese identities. The current international relations situation does not allow us to study generously. In this regard, we must pay special attention to the selection of talents. At the same time, after being selected, certain relevant professional training must be carried out to ensure that this group of talents will be safe in learning. "

While listening, Ma Shaocheng recorded Gao Jianwu's request. After Gao Jianwu's guidance, he knew what to do.

When such a new matter came up, Gao Jianwu let Ma Shaocheng do the preparatory work. After he selected people, he took the time to go through this group of people again, and at the same time gave them some advice.

Hanyang Iron and Steel Works.

Sun Chengfang, deputy chief of No. 1 blast furnace, received the transfer order.

"What, let me prepare to salute and go on a business trip for more than half a year? Factory manager, what are you going to do? Can you not go, now that our production tasks are so heavy, I really can't leave." Sun Chengfang issued a message to the Iron and Steel Department of the Ministry of Industry The transfer made me puzzled, so I went to the factory director Wang Gentang and asked.

"The superiors will conduct a half-year intensive training for the core backbone talents of the iron and steel industry. Our factory has transferred 10 backbones to participate in the training this time, and everyone is a core member of each position.

This is an honorable task entrusted to you by the organization, and there is no room for bargaining.Immediately hand over the work and go back to prepare related matters. "Wang Gentang didn't explain too much to Sun Chengfang, and just said it to death. For these people, if you try to reason too much with them, it often doesn't make sense.

"Yes! Factory manager, my job will be handed over to Furnace Manager Chen Shiqiang and Zhou Shikun as soon as possible. Give me three days to complete the handover!" Sun Chengfang straightened his body and stood up straight.

For large corporations, the job now is still a line leadership approach.

Even though Wang Gentang was selected as the factory director, the appointment was made directly by the Ministry of Industry.

It’s just that he has served as the factory director since the old factory era, and he already has a lot of experience in managing a large steel company. function effectively.

This organizational model ensures that the Ministry of Industry has a very strong mobilization ability.

As a direct management unit, Ma Shaocheng is of course very clear about the list of core backbones of each core steel plant.

The main large iron and steel factories in the base area will transfer personnel this time, and the backbone iron and steel factories such as Hanyang Iron and Steel and Jinyang Iron and Steel will need to send more talents.

With Gao Jianwu’s reminder and request, this time Ma Shaocheng transferred basically all the deputy or substitute candidates in important production links like Sun Chengfang, although for the original factory, such transfer would double the workload of the people on duty. Because the people who changed shifts were taken away, there was a chance to take a rest in rotation, but now there is no more!

But in such an extraordinary period of development, these people actually understood very well, and did not cause any commotion over this wave of large-scale transfers of personnel.

After all, everyone knows that the superiors must have taken their overall consideration into making such an arrangement. Now everyone is very conscious. After changing from a job in 996 to a job in 007, it seems that there is nothing unacceptable to live and eat in the factory.

When these were collected and ready to be sent out, Gao Jianwu gave them a two-day short-term surprise training, explaining why they did this, how to get along with foreigners abroad, and how to learn technology.

Talents like Sun Chengfang understand that they, the front-line workers of the factory, now have the opportunity to study abroad!

Even though they went to a factory, everyone cherished such an opportunity very much. After returning one by one, they made the worst arrangements for their families, and they planned not to come back this time until they had learned all the skills!
Even if these people didn't all join the organization, there is no difference between them in terms of patriotism, especially after Gao Jianwu set them up for them to learn the world's advanced level and catch up with the ambitious goal of blast furnace utilization factor 1, they are all like It's like chicken blood!
After all, after opening their eyes, it turns out that everyone is a frog in a well, and the outsiders have made progress to an unimaginable level. Now they have the opportunity to see how they achieve these miraculous results!
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