Editor's note:
On April 11, the 130th anniversary celebration meeting of China Railway Shanqiao Construction Enterprise was held in Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. During the conference, the commissioning ceremony of China's pure steel rut fork production line was held.
Born from the bridge, prosperous because of the red. Over the past 130 years, China Railway Shanqiao has witnessed and participated in the whole process of China's railway development, and has made positive contributions to the high-quality development of China's transportation industry.
The "State-owned Assets Report" published on March 1, 2024 published a report "China Railway Mountain Bridge Spanning a Hundred and Thirty Years", and today we will share the full text with you——
Text · Reporter Pan Wei "State-owned Assets Report" magazine No. 3 in 2024
From 1894 to 2024, China Railway Shanqiao Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Railway Shanqiao"), a subsidiary of China Railway Industry, has set off from Shanhaiguan for 130 years. China Railway Mountain Bridge is the pioneer of China's national industry. In the context of the Westernization Movement, in order to build the railway from Guye to Shanhaiguan, the Luanhe Iron Bridge presided over by Zhan Tianyou was completed. After the completion, under the suggestion of Li Hongzhang, more than 300 skilled workers who built the Luanhe Iron Bridge were not dismissed, and the Beiyang Railway Bureau merged these technicians into the Shanhaiguan Factory in April 1894 to form the "Shanhaiguan Bridge Factory", which is the predecessor of the current China Railway Shanqiao. In today's Shanhaiguan District, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China's first national industrial enterprise to manufacture railway bridges was born.
In 1894, the first steel bridge installed and erected by the Chinese, the Luanhe Bridge, was a practitioner of the national bridge-building team and a transportation power. For more than 100 years, as a leading enterprise in R&D and manufacturing of steel bridges and railway turnouts, China Railway Mountain Bridge has witnessed and participated in the whole process of China's steel bridge and railway construction, and has manufactured more than 3,200 steel bridges and more than 40 million sets of railway turnouts. China Railway Shanqiao is the pioneer of China's red industry and the leader of continuous innovation. The earliest party organization of the central enterprise and the first party organization in Qinhuangdao were established here; the general strike of railway workers in Jingfeng wrote a glorious page in the history of the railway workers' movement in China; in China Railway Shanqiao, the company took the lead in building an intelligent manufacturing plant for steel box girders and steel truss girders and a demonstration factory for intelligent manufacturing of turnouts, and so on. "China Railway Mountain Bridge has been able to go through a hundred years, relying on 'listening to the party and following the party'. China Railway Mountain Bridge can be stable and far-reaching, relying on the spirit of continuous innovation. Lin Junke, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Railway Mountain Bridge, told the reporter of the State-owned Assets Report.
The red gene of Xingye to serve the country
China Railway Mountain Bridge is also known as the "Red Bridge". The factory stands a statue of Wang Jinmei, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, leading people back to the revolutionary era a hundred years ago.
In October 1921, shortly after the founding of the Communist Party of China, a mysterious worker came to China's first railway steel bridge manufacturing factory with a sacred mission, sowing red fire and planting red genes in the hearts of workers. This mysterious worker, Yang Baokun, was the first CCP member to come to work in the Qinhuangdao area after the birth of the Communist Party of China. He not only set up a night school for workers in the factory to actively organize, publicize and mobilize the workers' movement, but also established the "Shanhaiguan Jingfeng Railway Workers' Club" on August 15, 1922, which became the first trade union organization in Qinhuangdao. In late August 1922, Wang Jianmei, a representative of the party, came to the factory to connect with Yang Baokun. Since then, the workers' movement here has been ablaze. In September 1922, the factory formally established the secret party group of the Communist Party of China and established the first party organization in the Qinhuangdao area, and in October, under the leadership of Wang Jianmei and Yang Baokun, the workers won a complete victory in the first general strike of the Beijing-Fengzhou Railway, writing a glorious page in the history of the Chinese workers' movement. Since then, the red gene has been deeply rooted in the blood of China Railway Shanqiao's corporate culture. After that, during the Liberation War, with the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign, Shanhai was liberated in November 1948. After two months of hard work, the factory resumed production, repairing and manufacturing railway bridges. In 1949, the factory successively repaired the steel beams of the railway bridges of Shihe, Luanhe, Yinmahe and Jinpu and Longhai lines on the Jingshan Line, which strongly supported the liberation of the People's Liberation Army of China. Entering the era of peaceful construction, China Railway Mountain Bridge continued its red blood and continued to write a century-old chapter of serving the country and strengthening the country. In 2016, China Railway Mountain Bridge erected a statue of Zhan Tianyou in front of the science and technology building in the factory area, which reminded people of Zhan Tianyou's self-reliance and self-reliance and the story of serving the country with railways and bridges. Since ancient times, the Yangtze River moat has hindered north-south traffic. In 1906, the Jinghan Railway was opened to traffic, and Zhang Zhidong was the first to put forward the idea of building the Yangtze River Bridge. In 1912, Zhan Tianyou was hired as the director of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. He actively planned to connect the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway with the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. In 1913, Zhan Tianyou took the lead in organizing forces to design the Yangtze River Bridge and conducted on-site site site surveys. However, due to war, limited financial resources and other reasons, the Yangtze River Bridge was not successfully built. It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Zhan Tianyou's dream of the Yangtze River Bridge was finally realized, and China Railway Mountain Bridge and Shenyang Bridge Factory jointly manufactured the steel girders of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge on the Beijing-Guangzhou Line.
In 1955, Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge steel girder manufacturing technology preparation In 1955, China began to build the "first bridge of the Yangtze River" - Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. At that time, faced with difficulties such as lack of equipment, technology and materials, China Railway Mountain Bridge resolutely took on the heavy burden. To this end, the factory has set up a leading group headed by the secretary of the party committee to unify ideas, gather strength, overcome difficulties, and comprehensively promote the smooth production and manufacturing of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. Under the limited technical and equipment conditions at that time, the workers of Yamabashi gave full play to their initiative and creativity to produce and manufacture "the best quality and strongest bridge in the world", which was praised by foreign experts. In 1957, China's first road-rail dual-purpose bridge, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, was completed and opened to traffic. According to relevant statistics, in the nearly 70 years of opening to traffic, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge has experienced 7 major floods and nearly 80 ship collisions. In 1961, China Railway Mountain Bridge began to participate in the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. In the context of the withdrawal of aid from the Soviet Union, China designed and built the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge on its own, which opened the history of China's use of domestic steel to manufacture extra-large bridges, and realized the transition of bridge steel from carbon structural steel to low-alloy structural steel. The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge became the second milestone in the history of bridge manufacturing in China. In 1989, the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge project, which was undertaken by China Railway Mountain Bridge, was restarted. In the case of a serious shortage of funds, the party committee of the factory gave full play to the role of "party member responsibility area" and completed the manufacture of the steel bridge in four years. The Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge has become the third milestone in the history of China's bridge manufacturing after the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge and the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Since the construction of the first Yangtze River bridge, there have been more than 100 Yangtze River bridges of various types on the Yangtze River. Feihong spans both sides of the Yangtze River, and the moat has since become a thoroughfare. Lin Junke said that over the past hundred years, the spirit of "serving the country with an inch of Dan heart" has led Shanqiao to move forward.
The innovative spirit of leading the way
From the construction of the first bridge, the Luanhe Iron Bridge, to the construction of five Yangtze River bridges, the Guanting Reservoir Bridge of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway, to the construction of the Verrazzano Strait Bridge in New York, the United States, and the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, the spiritual core that runs through it is the continuous innovation and leadership of China Railway Mountain Bridge. The Luanhe Iron Bridge is the first bridge built by the Shanqiao people. The Luanhe Iron Bridge Project was taken over by Zhan Tianyou after the failure of the construction of Japanese engineers and German engineers successively. Zhan Tianyou analyzed and studied in detail various piling methods of foreign engineers and found out the reasons for the failure. According to the geology and soil conditions of the Luanhe River bed, a more scientific construction method was adopted, and the bridge was successfully completed. Today, China has successfully built the world's tallest bridge and the longest sea-crossing bridge, with more than 1 million bridges in the country, ranking first in the world. Behind the construction of millions of bridges, the steel bridge manufacturing enterprises represented by China Railway Mountain Bridge lead the rapid development of the bridge manufacturing industry with continuous innovation. In recent years, China Railway Shanqiao has continued to closely follow the major national strategies, bravely undertake the important task of major national project construction, and continue to make breakthroughs in the construction of enterprise management and governance capacity system, the building of scientific and technological innovation capabilities and the improvement of production and manufacturing processes. Taking the production and manufacturing of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as an opportunity for transformation and upgrading, China Railway Mountain Bridge accelerates the development of enterprises to informatization, digitalization, intelligence and green. Innovation is most directly reflected in the steel bridge manufacturing technology of China Railway Mountain Bridge. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge connects Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau, setting a number of world firsts. The bridge is designed to have a service life of 120 years, which places extremely high demands on the quality of the construction. In the face of difficulties and challenges, China Railway Mountain Bridge, which won the bid for the steel structure project of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, has invested cutting-edge equipment and advanced technology. In order to meet the ultra-high requirements of production and manufacturing, China Railway Shanqiao has repeatedly tested and developed a welding robot, which not only solves the welding problem, improves the welding process level, but also reduces the number of operators and improves the production and manufacturing efficiency. Zhang Qinghe, the leader of the first welding shift of China Railway Shanqiao Bridge Branch, said: "The welding robot has reached the international advanced level of arc automatic tracking and anti-deformation ship position welding technology. "The successful construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has accelerated the pace of China Railway Mountain Bridge to the world. Since then, China Railway Mountain Bridge has participated in the manufacture of major overseas projects such as the Verrazzano Bridge in New York, the "Golden Bridge" in Sweden, the Haro Grande Bridge in Norway, the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, the key project of the "Belt and Road", the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia, and the turnout project of the Hungarian-Serbian Railway. The intelligent welding robot of China Railway Shanqiao has also become the mainstay in a series of major projects, demonstrating the strong innovation and R&D capabilities and advanced manufacturing strength of China Railway Shanqiao.
In order to welcome the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway Guanting Reservoir Bridge participated in the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway was started in 2016. Among them, the Guanting Reservoir Bridge of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway, which was built by China Railway Mountain Bridge, is one of the key control projects of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway. China Railway Mountain Bridge uses China's first "full life cycle bridge" service cloud platform to make the bridge "intelligent and informatized". During the construction process, China's first bridge product life cycle service cloud platform (referred to as IBIM system) can be logged in, which can monitor the material properties and manufacturing process parameters of the bridge in real time. China Railway Mountain Bridge has turned from "bridge manufacturing" to "bridge intelligent manufacturing". It is no exaggeration to say that there are 1,000 construction requirements for 1,000 bridges, which also tests the construction technology and promotes the progress of production and manufacturing technology. Hu Guangrui, chief engineer of China Railway Mountain Bridge, said: "There are no identical bridges, and each bridge has its own characteristics. The construction of these bridges relies on our leadership and breakthroughs in key technologies, key equipment and key processes. In order to meet the needs of bridges of different shapes, steels and spans, China Railway Mountain Bridge relies on its own national enterprise technology center and Hebei Bridge Welding Technology Innovation Center to continuously improve the construction of collaborative innovation platforms for production, education and research, and form a number of major key original technologies with independent intellectual property rights. In the past five years, China Railway Shanqiao has taken the lead in building a domestic steel box girder, steel truss girder intelligent manufacturing factory, and turnout intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory, with mature long-span heavy-duty bridge steel structure manufacturing technology advantages, with high-speed, heavy-duty turnout R & D and manufacturing and other core technical advantages.
"Technological innovation of high-speed turnout pad intelligent production line is the core competitiveness of the enterprise and the key element of the development of the enterprise. Lin Junke said. A hundred years ago, the maximum span of a single hole of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway bridge was only 30.5 meters, but now the maximum span of China's railway bridge has exceeded 1,000 meters; a hundred years ago, the speed of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway was 35 kilometers per hour, and now the speed of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway has reached 350 kilometers per hour. Over the past century, China Railway Shanqiao has built the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway line twice, promoting the leapfrog development of China's railway industry with leading innovation, and witnessing the significant improvement of China's comprehensive national strength.
Perfect for the people's feelings
For 130 years, China Railway Mountain Bridge has focused on two things: steel bridges and railway turnouts. Throughout the century-old production and manufacturing process of China Railway Shanqiao steel bridges and railway turnouts, quality has always been the core issue of traffic engineering construction. After all, the quality of railway bridge traffic engineering is related to the implementation of the national strategy of becoming a transportation power and a manufacturing power at one end, and the other end is directly involved in the safety of the lives and property of millions of passengers and passengers.
The focus of more than 100 years of focus on the turnout intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory built by China Railway Shanqiao is the best endorsement of the high standards and strict requirements of China Railway Shanqiao's product quality, and the foundation of the evergreen vitality of China Railway Shanqiao and the profound influence of the corporate brand. Behind the company's requirements for bridges and turnout products that cannot make any mistakes, is the perfect quality consciousness of China Railway Mountain Bridge and the feelings of the people who always keep the original intention. Relevant data show that objects of 0.1 to 0.2 mm are the limit of what the human eye can see. In the production and manufacturing process of railway turnouts, an error of 0.1 mm may sound like a "small" problem, but in fact it may cause hidden dangers to the manufacturing and driving safety of railway turnouts. In March 2019, on the workshop operation platform of China Railway Shanqiao Turnout Branch, the cutting gun was 0.1 mm different in size due to control problems, resulting in the scrapping of three long heart rails with a finished product value of more than 600,000 yuan. After conscientiously summing up the lessons learned, China Railway Mountain Bridge revised the internal control standard for turnout manufacturing, and compressed the rail height tolerance zone of rail parts from the original internal control of 0.5 mm to 0.3 mm, which was much higher than the domestic manufacturing standard, and the turnout manufacturing quality of China Railway Mountain Bridge reached a new level. On May 10, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when inspecting China Railway Equipment that "promote the transformation of Chinese manufacturing to Chinese creation, Chinese speed to Chinese quality, and Chinese products to Chinese brands". China Railway Mountain Bridge actively responded to and thoroughly implemented the important instructions of the "three transformations". In order to ensure and improve product quality, China Railway Shanqiao implements a three-level chief quality officer system. "The third-level quality officer is composed of the company's senior executives, the chief engineer of the subsidiary and branch, and the chief engineer of the project. Hu Guangrui, chief engineer and first-class chief quality officer of China Railway Shanqiao, said that the chief quality officer is not only the builder and manager of the large quality system such as product quality, but also the builder of quality culture and the controller of quality risks. At the 2023 China Quality (Chengdu) Conference, China Railway Shanqiao has been fully recognized and widely concerned by virtue of the three-level chief quality officer system implemented within the enterprise. In addition, after ten years of exploration and innovation, the turnout products and bridge steel structure products of China Railway Mountain Bridge have been recognized as single champion products by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. "To build a bridge, to build a monument, to benefit the people, the two undertakings of the mountain bridge, the bridge and the turnout, is to dedicate, to the party, to the people. Lin Junke said. Over the past 130 years, China Railway Shanqiao has been born from the call of saving the country and rejuvenating the country through industry, growing up in the roar of the workers' movement, moving towards glory in socialist construction and reform and opening up, and striving to promote high-quality development in the new era, new journey and new development pattern. Lin Junke said that in the future, China Railway Mountain Bridge will continue to take the Hongqiao spirit of "leading the way first and perfecting" as the ideological driving force, adhere to inheritance and transcendence, innovation and development, actively integrate into the national strategy, actively assume social responsibility, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, and contribute more to the new journey of Chinese-style modernization.
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