"A photo of Iron Man Wang Jinxi was leaked, and the Japanese saw the opportunity to profit tens of millions from China"
With the development of the Internet, privacy leakage has become the most acute problem. And many people also specialize in collecting this privacy and obtaining intelligence from it, especially paparazzi, whose ability to gather intelligence is almost comparable to that of spies. In fact, in the history of the mainland, there are also things that leak important information because of a photo, that is, a photo of "Iron Man" Wang Jinxi.
In Chinese history, the exploitation of the Daqing oilfield is a very proud thing for Chinese. However, it was a photo in a public report that leaked a lot of key information that eventually allowed the Japanese to see the opportunity to profit from it by tens of millions.
At that time, People's Pictorial published a photo of the "iron man" Wang Jinxi. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese continued to search for oil resources in Tohoku, but in the end they were unsuccessful. However, it was this photo that revealed a major secret to the Japanese.
Japanese intelligence officers judged from Wang Jinxi's clothing that the environment he was in at that time should have been minus twenty or thirty degrees. Combined with maps of China, they deduced that Wang Jinxi was probably in the northeast, more precisely, near Harbin. In order to get a specific location, they published reports and collected opinions from the public.
In the commentary, it was pointed out that China is relatively backward, and oil field exploitation must rely on manpower rather than large machines. In addition, the location of oil field exploitation is certainly not far from the railway station. Then, someone found that Wang Jinxi mentioned the "Majia kiln" in the report, and combined these two pieces of information, they deduced that the location of the oil field exploitation should be near Daqing.
Armed with this information, they began to estimate the size and processing capacity of the Daqing field. They compared the tools held by Wang Jinxi with the height of the surrounding towers and made a series of calculations. They even calculated the output of the Daqing oil field.
According to their calculations, by 1971, the production of the Daqing oilfield should reach 1,200 tons per day. Although the production is amazing, China does not have enough equipment to support such production. It just so happened that the Japanese side saw the opportunity and produced a batch of oil refining equipment in accordance with the requirements of the Daqing oilfield. Sure enough, China did need this equipment later, and the Japanese side profited tens of millions from it.
Although Wang Jinxi's photo revealed many secrets, it was mainly because of the precision of Japan's intelligence collection that these key information were deduced. This story also reminds us once again of the importance of protecting personal privacy and strengthening cyber security awareness. In the Internet era, it is urgent to protect personal information, which is not only a matter of personal privacy, but also an important aspect of national security.
