Wang Xun Historical Archives
- In 1933, he was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Nantong University and obtained a bachelor's degree.
- In 1937, he joined the Communist Party and went to Shanxi to participate in the "Minxian". After that, he went to Yan'an, where he studied at the Yan'an Central Party School and the Marxist-Leninist College, and participated in the preparation of the Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences.
- Since 1939, he has successively served as an engineer, deputy director and director of Yan'an Chemical Factory, Textile Factory, Match Factory and Ceramic Factory, and chief of the Production Section of the Military Industry Bureau of the General Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission.
- In 1948, under the arrangement of the Northeast Bureau, he went to Angang Steel and served as the deputy director of Anshan Iron and Steel Factory and the deputy manager of Anshan Iron and Steel Company.
- Since 1955, he has successively served as the vice president of the Black Metallurgical Design Institute of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, the deputy director and director of the Design Department of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, and the deputy director of the Capital Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.
- Since 1976, he has successively served as the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, the president of the Planning Institute of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and the secretary of the Party Committee.
Comrades Gao Gang and Fuchun (secret):
By telegram from the Chairman, Enlai decided to leave Beijing for Moscow on the 9th to negotiate and sign the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance and the agreements on trade and loans. In addition to Ye Jizhuang of the Ministry of Trade, Chairman Mao mentioned whether Comrade Fuchun was going, and we thought it was very necessary, and hoped that Fuchun would bring two or three comrades in charge of industry with Anshan, Xiaofeng, and Fushun. What do you think? If agreed, it is ready and telegraphed by name, age, place of origin, and position.
At 8 o'clock on January 4, 1950, a telegram from the CPC Central Committee was sent to the Northeast Bureau, making work arrangements for Gao Gang and Li Fuchun, and asking a group of cadres to accompany Premier Zhou on a visit to the Soviet Union. The Northeast Bureau immediately selected cadres in Angang, Xiaofengman and other enterprises, and Wang Xun, who was the deputy manager of Angang Steel Company at the time, was selected by Li Fuchun. Also on the list are Lü Dong (Vice Minister of Northeast Industry), Zhang Huadong (Vice Minister of Foreign Trade), Chai Shufan (Director of the Planning Department of northeast Industry), and others.
In 1948, Hao Xiying and Wang Xun of Anshan Iron and Steel Factory took a group photo with comrades on the roof of the Great White Building of Anshan Steel. Wang Xun on the left and Hao Xiying on the right.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, the economy of the whole country was in decline, and everything was in ruins waiting to be rebuilt, and it was in urgent need of the support and help of the Soviet Union. On December 16, 1949, Mao Zedong visited the Soviet Union first and exchanged views with Stalin on various issues. On January 22, 1950, Zhou Enlai led a delegation of 18 people to the Soviet Union to begin formal negotiations, and finally signed the "Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance" and other treaties and agreements. Accordingly, the Soviet Union agreed to transfer all rights and property of China's Changchun Railway free of charge, withdraw Soviet troops from Lushunkou, and lend 300 million US dollars to the Chinese government.
The signing of the "Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance" broke the isolation policy of European and American countries toward New China, increased the strength of the socialist camp, played a huge role in China's economic construction and military aspects, and was one of the great achievements in the diplomatic history of New China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In March of the same year, China and the Soviet Union signed the "Agreement on the Soviet Union Giving Technical Assistance to the People's Republic of China in the Restoration and Transformation of the Anshan Iron and Steel Company", which was undoubtedly another news that made the people of Anshan Steel excited.
As a member of the delegation, Wang Xun personally experienced this important historical event. In the following years, as a member of the national "First Five-Year Plan" delegation, he accompanied the party and state leaders to the Soviet Union many times, and in repeated consultations and negotiations, he won the greatest interests for the country, and also laid the foundation for the landing of some of the 156 projects aided by the Soviet Union in the future in Angang. In his view, China, a country that has just emerged from the war, is full of unlimited hopes and possibilities.
In 1948, Wang Xun took a photo while working in Angang Steel.
Wang Xun was born in 1915 in rural Baoshan County, Shanghai. Because of his intelligence from an early age, his parents insisted on providing him with education. In 1933, Wang Xun, who graduated from high school, was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Nantong University in Jiangsu Province. During this period, under the influence of progressive ideas, he actively threw himself into the wave of anti-Japanese salvation and participated in the vigorous "12.9" anti-Japanese salvation movement.
In 1937, after graduating from university, Wang Xun embarked on the revolutionary road with the heart of saving the country and the people, and went to Yuncheng, Shanxi To join the anti-Japanese national liberation vanguard, and served as the propaganda director of the local "Minxian" organization. In September of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China, and then went to Yan'an under the arrangement of his superiors, was arranged to work in the Construction Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and then entered the Yan'an Central Party School and the Marxist-Leninist College to study, and participated in the preparation for the establishment of the Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression led by the Chinese Communists entered the most difficult stage, and the barbaric attack of the Japanese invading army and the strict blockade of the Kuomintang caused Yan'an and other anti-Japanese base areas to encounter great economic difficulties and serious shortage of basic living materials. Wang Xun was entrusted with a heavy responsibility as one of the few chemical engineering college students. Since 1939, he has successively served as an engineer, deputy director and director of Yan'an Chemical Factory, Textile Factory, Match Factory, ceramic factory, and chief of the production section of the Military Industry Bureau of the General Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission.
In 1950, Wang Xun took a photo with Zhou Enlai during an inspection tour of the Soviet Union.
At that time, the chemical plant in Yan'an had only a few adobe houses and almost no chemicals and test equipment available. As the director of the factory, Wang Xun braved the difficulties and led the comrades to collect various animal oils and sesame oils, purified sodium carbonate from soil alkali to make caustic soda, soaped it with a large pot, and made soap; used the charcoal ash at the bottom of the pot and a certain proportion of kerosene to make ink; and made tooth powder with bamboo charcoal. These necessities of life are still easy to solve, but it is difficult to produce military materials. Taking the production of yellow phosphorus as an example, at that time, Yan'an had almost no electricity and could not be produced by the electric heat method. After several considerations, Wang Xun still decided to try it out with the soil method. He used local clay to make a high-temperature, corrosion-resistant ceramic distillation kettle, collected various aggregates and burned them into ash to obtain calcium phosphate, which was finally distilled and decomposed to obtain yellow phosphorus after several experiments. This move provided an important raw material for military and civilian production in Yan'an.
"Hard-working, persistent, technically refined, not conservative, patient to teach others to learn technology." This was the evaluation given to Wang Xun by the leaders at that time. During the seven or eight years of industrial production and construction in Yan'an, Wang Xun relied on this momentum to produce military and civilian industrial products using rudimentary equipment, and made important contributions to breaking the enemy's economic blockade of the border areas. In 1944, Wang Xun was awarded the title of model worker by the General Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission.
In the autumn of 1946, with the development of the situation and the needs of work, Wang Xun was sent to work in the northeast, and successively served as an engineer of the Harbin Industrial and Mining Department and the director of the planning office of the Northeast Financial and Economic Commission.
On February 19, 1948, Anshan was completely liberated. In early March, Wang Xun was sent to Angang by his superiors. On April 4, Anshan Iron and Steel Factory was established, with Hao Xiying as the factory director and Wang Xun as the deputy director. On December 26, the Northeast Administrative Committee approved the establishment of Anshan Iron and Steel Company, with Li Dazhang as the first manager and Hao Xiying and Wang Xun as the deputy managers.
In 1952, Wang Xun took a group photo with comrades of angang design system. Zhang Zixiong on the right in the back row, Li Li on the left, Wang Xun on the left, Zhao Xiangming on the right, and Wang Jindong on the right.
In the early months of the liberation of Anshan, the Kuomintang troops were still entrenched on the north bank of the Liao River, facing our army across the river. In order to prevent the further expansion of angang losses, the Anshan Municipal Party Committee and Anshan Iron and Steel decided to rush to evacuate the important equipment and materials in the factory. In two months, more than 1,900 wagons of equipment and materials were transferred, totaling more than 55,000 tons. After the establishment of Anshan Iron and Steel Company, in the face of the extreme shortage of equipment and equipment, a vigorous donation of equipment campaign was launched in Anshan, and more than 10,000 residents in the city donated 1,123 kinds of various types of equipment, a total of more than 210,000 pieces, which had a huge effect on the subsequent resumption of production of Anshan Steel.
Previously, in the 22 months that the Kuomintang took over Angang Steel, although a plan to resume work was formulated, the progress was extremely slow. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, Angang Steel has shown another scene of vitality. On July 9, 1949, Angang Steel held a groundbreaking ceremony, and it was a miracle that it could resume work so quickly under the severe situation at that time. However, even if production is resumed, the production capacity of Angang Steel is still very low, far from enough to support the construction of the motherland in the future, and Wang Xun feels that there is a long way to go.
In January 1950, Wang Xun accompanied a delegation led by Zhou Enlai and Li Fuchun to the Soviet Union to negotiate and sign a number of agreements. According to the agreement, the Soviet Union provided the design and equipment and sent experts to Angang Steel to support the construction. In 1952, as the early stage of the "First Five-Year Plan", the construction project represented by the "three major projects" of Angang Steel kicked off, and the construction task of the main project was completed in only 1 year and 4 months. On December 26, 1953, the "three major projects" were completed and put into operation.
In 1978, the Australian delegation of the Ministry of Metallurgy took a group photo during the inspection. The seventh on the right is Wang Xun, the eighth yin yuhua on the right, and Gao Yang on the right.
In the past few years, one miracle after another in the history of industrial construction has been staged in Angang Steel, and as one of the main leaders of Angang Steel, Wang Xun believes that all this is the result of closely relying on the party and the masses. In the years from 1950 to 1955, he spent several months working in the Soviet Union almost every year, working with the Soviet side on design and equipment delivery. In his spare time, he would visit some metallurgical factories and design institutes in the Soviet Union to study and work. Wang Xun was fluent in English, Japanese and Russian, knowledgeable, and in close contact with Soviet experts because he was in charge of design work. He took advantage of this advantage to humbly consult and taught himself courses in Soviet metallurgical colleges and universities such as mining, sintering, coking, smelting, and steel rolling. Every time he went to the Soviet Union, he always tried to get the relevant departments of the Soviet Union to provide more technical information such as drawings, specifications, manuals, etc., which were undoubtedly "treasures" in China and played a great role in improving the professional level of industrial designers.
Over the years of hard study, coupled with the full practice and experience of the "three major projects" in Angang Steel, Wang Xun has made great progress in metallurgy and gradually become an expert in the industry, laying a solid foundation for him to show his fists on the metallurgical industry front in the future.
After the "three major projects", Angang Steel was divided into three and became the three equal units of Angang Steel, Anjian and Anshan Ferrous Metallurgical Design Institute under the Ministry of Heavy Industry. Wang Xun served as the vice president of the Anshan Ferrous Metallurgical Design Institute of the Ministry of Heavy Industry. In 1956, he was transferred to the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, and successively served as the deputy director and director of the Design Department, and the deputy director of the Capital Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. From that year until 1976, Wang Xun was in charge of the design, survey and capital construction of the metallurgical industry for 20 years. Under his leadership, Beijing, Chongqing, Baotou, Wuhan, Ma'anshan and other places have successively established steel design institutes, making the mainland metallurgical industry design team continue to grow. During this period, Wang Xun was successively hired as a part-time professor of Beijing Iron and Steel Institute, a member of the metallurgical group of the State Science and Technology Commission, a vice chairman, standing director and honorary member of the China Metal Society, and a chairman of the Metallurgical Technology and Economics Association.
In 1983, Wang Xun took a photo in Beijing.
During the design work of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, Wang Xun presided over and participated in the site selection and design scheme review of many metallurgical enterprises, and promoted the general design of metallurgical plants. From overall planning, organizational design to the promotion and application according to local conditions, he must be hands-on and do his best. The product scheme of Wuhan Iron and Steel Rolling Mill, the construction of the continuous casting workshop of Angang Third Steelmaking Plant, and the general layout of the second steelmaking of this steel are all classic cases that play a guiding and reference role in future industrial construction. In the 1960s, he organized the metallurgical design unit to compile the design task book of 9 major equipment such as extra thick plate rolling mill and aluminum processing equipment, and cooperated with the machinery industry department to successfully develop and manufacture. This is of great significance for promoting the localization of metallurgical equipment and improving the equipment level of China's metallurgical enterprises. At the same time, under his leadership, the Design Department organized some technical personnel of various design institutes to spend three years before and after, systematically compiling and publishing a set of design manuals and reference materials for mining, mineral processing, sintering, coking, refractory, ironmaking, steelmaking, steel rolling, etc., which later became the most authoritative tool book in related industries.
Since 1976, Wang Xun has been transferred to the post of deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, president of the Planning Institute of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and secretary of the party committee, during which he presided over the preparation of the "Sixth Five-Year" and "Seventh Five-Year Plan" development plans for China's steel industry, and participated in leading the formulation of medium- and long-term plans and industry technology policies. In 1983, on the instructions of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, the technical policy and equipment policy for the steel industry were jointly organized with the Department of Science and Technology. In 1984, under the leadership of the China Metal Society, he presided over the compilation of the book "China Research Materials in 2000", which was an early start in industry to predict economic problems at the end of the last century. His views and insights have attracted the great attention of many departments of the state, and have had a far-reaching impact on the structural adjustment and development of the national metallurgical industry. In 1984, Wang Xun left for retirement.
Since the Yan'an period, Wang Xun has struggled on the industrial front. For decades, he has personally experienced the development of Angang Steel from scratch, and under his pen, he has bred the prototype of the new Chinese metallurgical industry, worthy of being the pioneer of the republic's metallurgical cause. He was humble and did not say much, always believing that China's achievements today were all due to the party and the people, and that he had only done a little work that should be done in that particular environment.
In 1997, Wang Xun died of illness in Beijing.
Wang Shuai wrote an article by Zhi Chunshan Yang Weiping Historical materials provided