China is a big steel country, many old steel companies have their own unique skills, the protagonist of today's story - Baotou Steel, is the absolute "big brother" in the global rail production industry.
The predecessor of Baotou Steel Co., Ltd. (Inner Mongolia Baosteel Steel Union Co., Ltd.), which we are familiar with today, is Baotou Steel Group, which was founded in 1954.
This veteran steel enterprise is the first large-scale steel enterprise established in new China in ethnic minority areas, and it is also the only steel enterprise that premier Zhou Enlai personally cut the ribbon for its production.
Recently, the China-Laos Railway, which connects Kunming in Yunnan Province, China, and Vientiane, the capital of Laos, was completed with more than 1,000 kilometers. China's domestic design speed is 200 kilometers per hour, and the design speed in Laos is 160 kilometers, and it is planned to be opened to traffic at the end of this year. After the completion and opening of traffic, it will take only more than 3 hours from Kunming in Yunnan to Jinghong, and it is expected to achieve direct transportation and same-day access to Vientiane in Laos.
Among them, Baotou Steel, as the world's strongest rail production capacity enterprise, supplied 38,000 tons of steel rail to the China-Laos Railway for road section laying in Laos.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > the superiority of "rare earth steel"</h1>
Compared with other steel companies, the biggest and most unique advantage of Baotou Steel is the innate advantage in terms of resources. Baiyun Obo Mine owned by baosteel Group, the controlling shareholder, is a world-renowned treasure trove of resources, with proven iron ore reserves of 1.4 billion tons; rare earth folding oxide reserves of 35 million tons, ranking first in the world; fluorite reserves of 130 million tons, ranking second in the world; and niobium reserves of 6.6 million tons, ranking second in the world. Baiyun Obo Mine tailings reservoir, resource reserves of 200 million tons, rare earth fold oxide reserves of about 13.82 million tons, ranking second in the world, fluorite reserves of 43.92 million tons.
Baiyun Ober Iron Ore, also the world's largest rare earth mine, once produced 80% of the world's rare earths
Relying on the resource endowment of Baiyun Ebo Iron and Rare Earth Symbiosis, it has created the unique "rare earth steel" characteristics of Baosteel Co., Ltd., which makes the materials produced by Baosteel have good ductility, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, low temperature resistance, toughness and pull resistance, widely recognized and praised by downstream users, and the products are widely used in the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Three Gorges Project, Beijing Daxing International Airport, China-Russia East Line natural gas pipeline and other national key engineering projects, and exported to 60 countries and regions such as Europe and the United States.
At present, Baotou Steel is the largest plate production base in the central and western regions, one of the seamless pipe production bases with the most complete varieties and specifications in China, the highest level of equipment and the largest high-speed rail production base in the world, and an important high-end wire bar production base in northwest China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > worked together to build Baotou Steel</h1>
In 1927, Ding Daoheng, a member of the Sino-Swiss Northwest Scientific Expedition and a Chinese geologist, discovered for the first time the exposed iron ore body of the main peak of Baiyun Ebo while passing through Baiyun Obo. But in the poor and weak old China, mining and establishing steel enterprises in Inner Mongolia was completely impossible.
After the founding of New China, the state decided to build a large-scale national steel enterprise and industrial base in Inner Mongolia and develop and utilize the rich mineral resources of Inner Mongolia.
To build Baotou Steel into a modern steel joint venture, it will not be easy. In 1953, the central government formulated the "First Five-Year Plan", which clearly put forward Baotou Steel as one of the three major steel enterprises in China, and became a major project in the industrial construction layout of the Party Central Committee in the border minority areas during the first five-year plan.
In 1958, Baotou Steel was in a period of large-scale construction, but the construction of the No. 1 blast furnace encountered the problem of insufficient supply of equipment and construction materials.
The central government proposed to "find a way to solve difficulties for Baotou Steel", so the whole country, all regions, enterprises, departments actively took action, set off a national support for Baotou Steel boom. On average, more than 10 wagons of equipment and materials are transported from all over the country to Baogang every day, and eventually more than 80,000 entrepreneurs take root in the frontier.
At that time, the baotou steel construction site was still a desert beach, with a harsh environment and a lack of materials. However, under the inspiration of the slogan of "Baotou Steel for the Whole Country, the Whole Country for Baotou Steel", management cadres drawn from the Party and government organs such as the Central Committee and the North China Bureau, backbone technical cadres of Angang Steel, intellectuals and veterans of colleges and universities, resolutely gave up comfortable living conditions and passionately threw themselves into the construction of Baotou Steel.
Under the boom of national support, the construction of Baotou Steel is proceeding at an extraordinary speed. At 5:55 a.m. on September 26, 1959, the first furnace of molten iron flowed out of the No. 1 blast furnace of Baotou Steel, a year earlier than originally planned.
The completion and operation of Baotou Steel has effectively supported the country's economic construction and national defense construction, and Baotou Steel is not only the Baotou Steel of Baotou Steel, but also the Baotou Steel of the people of the whole country. In 1963, Dong Biwu visited Baotou Steel and wrote "Steel in the country, industrial base." The poem ", praising Baotou Steel for creating a miracle of China's industrialization construction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > the new development of old Baotou Steel</h1>
As of September this year, Baosteel Group's consolidated operating income is expected to be 94.099 billion yuan, and the total consolidated profit is expected to be 7.995 billion yuan, the best level in the same period in history. Today, Baosteel is striving to achieve revenue of 120 billion yuan and profits of more than 10 billion yuan throughout the year.
After more than 60 years of development, Baotou Steel has become the world's largest rare earth industrial base and an important steel industry base in China. In the 20 years since the listing of Baotou Steel Co., Ltd., the total assets have increased by 20 times, the scale of equity financing has reached 45.935 billion yuan, and the total market value has increased from 7.1 billion yuan to more than 88 billion yuan, with the highest exceeding 100 billion yuan during the period, becoming the largest steel listed company in western China.
Recently, the epidemic situation in Ejina is very serious, as the industrial eldest son of Inner Mongolia, Bao Gang has an unshirkable obligation, donated 5 million yuan of anti-epidemic funds for the first time, and entrusted the procurement of 600,000 yuan of anti-epidemic materials to donate to Ejina Banner, becoming the first donation enterprise in the autonomous region to supervise state-owned assets, and embodying the responsibility and responsibility of the veteran state-owned enterprises with practical actions.
Resources
"Made of Baotou Steel" flying frame in the old railway
Party History Story | "Working together to build Baotou Steel"