<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Wen Liangxian's historical archives</h1>
In August 1938, he went to Yan'an, where he successively entered the Shaanxi Northern Public School and the Young Cadre School, and later served as the director of the Guanzhong Iron Works.
In April 1945, he left Yan'an with the troops for the front line, and then entered the northeast, where he successively served as the secretary general of the Military Industry Department of the Jichareliao Military Region and the secretary and director of the Ordnance Department of the Northeast Military Region.
In December 1948, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Iron and Steel Department of Angang Steel, and in June of the following year, he was also appointed as the director of the ironworks.
In March 1952, he was appointed as the head of the metallurgical team of the Counsellor's Office of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, in November 1954 he was appointed as the deputy manager of Angang Steel; in June 1957, he was transferred to the deputy manager of the "Anjian" company.
In 1946, Wen Liangxian, in the Military Industry Department of the Jichareliao Military Region, took a group photo with his wife Jiao Cuizhi and his eldest daughter.
On September 21, 1949, Zhou Chuandian, who graduated from the Metallurgical Department of northwestern institute of technology (later served as vice minister of metallurgy), rushed from Fuyang, Anhui Province, to report to Angang. In a humble office in the ironworks, behind a small desk sat a man no more than 40 years old, with a emaciated face and a slightly hunched back. On this day, the weather was very hot, he was still wearing a faded coarse yellow cloth military uniform, and Zhou Chuandian, who had come to report, handed him a letter of introduction.
"I am Wen Liangxian." He stood up, warmly shook hands with Zhou Chuandian, and then sat down on the stool opposite, saying: "The personnel office has already come to the phone, and now there is a shortage of manpower, and you are very welcome to come to work with us." ”
"Oh, I really can't see it, he's Director Wen." Zhou Chuandian, who sat down, muttered in his heart, and at first he thought he was a clerk in the iron factory!
A week ago, Wen Liangxian, the second deputy director of the Iron and Steel Department of Angang Steel, succeeded Wen Jin, the first deputy director of the Iron And Steel Department, as the director of the ironworks and concentrators. Although he came to the factory not long ago, people used to call this easy-going and approachable factory director the slightest sense of distance, and they used to call him "old Wen tou".
The two men met for the first time, and the conversation lasted more than an hour. Director Wen took the trouble to introduce the past and present situation of the iron works. His words also drew Zhou Chuandian's eyeballs out of the window. Through the glass windows of the office, you can see most of the ironworks in the south, a dilapidated scene; on the north side, on a row of blast furnaces, workers are nervously working on repairs.
In 1952, Wen Liangxian, then head of the Angang Group in Moscow, was in the Soviet Union.
"I only learned general metallurgical knowledge in college, and although I learned a little about ironmaking technology, I knew very little about it, and today I saw the blast furnace for the first time." Zhou Chuandian said frankly.
"Don't be afraid! As long as you are willing to study, there are already some engineers and technicians here, just like you, who have to learn from scratch, and they have only worked on small blast furnaces in Guannei at most..." Wen encouraged.
"Director Wen Liangxian is a leading cadre who attaches great importance to and is good at using young intellectuals." In the following 3 years, from trainee technician, foreman, duty chief, chief of public works section to deputy factory director, Zhou Chuandian changed 5 posts in succession, all working under the "old Wen tou", sighing: "He has a lot of the fine tradition of the old eighth road, which is very supported and loved by technical personnel and workers. ”
Less than half a year after the iron factory resumed production, under the initiative of "Old Wen Tou", a technical publication was set up in the factory. Zhou Chuandian said that this publication "may be the first professional publication of our metallurgical system." This "Ironmaking Materials" became more and more popular, and the only few iron mills in the country at that time wrote to ask for it. By the end of 1950, the Northeast Ministry of Industry had edited and published a book on these materials. This book, entitled "Compilation of Ironmaking Data", is also the first collection of professional papers published by China's metallurgical community. The iron works also hold a technical symposium every week, and "Old Wen tou" advocates technological democracy, advocates that everyone's thinking become active and speak freely, and encourages everyone to write their own opinions into materials and send them to him to see, and print them out for everyone to see. Cheng Lanbo, who was the acting director of the Angang Iron and Steel Works and deputy chief engineer of the company, recalled: "This academic democracy and excellent study style have become a huge force to promote the improvement of the professional level of technical personnel. ”
Zhou Chuandian, Zhuang Zhenxi, Liu Bingde, Zhao Yongda, Li Mark, Li Guoan, Jin Xin, Li Shoutong, Zhang Shourong, Tang Naiwu, Yang Laipeng, Meng Qinghui, Xie Zuochang, Xi Zhaoyuan, Xu Zhiliang, Wu Yuanyu, Wang Xiqing, Zeng Xinrong, Tang Shimo, Chen Huasui, Ye Xushu, Wang Zhengshan, Fu Shi... There are also Cheng Lanbo, Liu Zhen, Pan Zuohuan, who still remained in Angang... In the recovery period of the Angang Iron and Steel Factory, there was such a group of technical backbones, and they also became the first batch of well-known experts in the ironmaking industry trained in New China. Later, Zhou Chuandian once counted, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry's Iron and Steel Department and the Department of Science and Technology in charge of ironmaking production technology, the two iron and steel research institutes in charge of ironmaking technology, 6 of the country's 10 large steel companies in charge of ironmaking and the main technical leaders of ironmaking plants, all of which were cultivated by Angang Steel in the 1950s. It should be said that the "old Wen tou" who has foresight and is thirsty for talent is indispensable.
In the early summer of 1957, Wen Liangxian, then deputy manager of Angang Steel, spoke at the ironworks commendation meeting.
In 1949, on the eve of the founding of New China, Liu Shaoqi returned from a secret visit to the Soviet Union and brought back Cai Hesen, the early leader of the Communist Party of China, and Cai Bo, the son of Xiang Jianyu and his wife. Cai Bo, who graduated from the Moscow Iron and Steel Institute majoring in smelting and won the title of iron and metallurgical engineer, took the initiative to apply to work in Angang Steel after returning to China, and successively served as the deputy director of the company's production department and technical department, and from January 1951, he served as the deputy director of the ironworks. Cai Bo is young, promising, shrewd and capable, and the "old Wen Tou" is very fond of, and finally "found a talent more suitable than him to take on this heavy responsibility." And Cai Bo's personality is also very strong, especially in the simple and straightforward way of dealing with people in the world, and even often does not consider the occasion, does not distinguish between objects, and does not care about the situation. One day, "Old Wen Tou" took a watch to Cai Bo's desk to discuss a matter about labor wages, and Cai Bo unceremoniously said a few words of opposition, making "Old Wen Tou" unable to get off the stage. At that time, Zhou Chuandian and others were also present, and some people privately discussed: "Why is Cai Bo so rude, can the Soviet Union do this?" ”
However, "Old Wen Tou" did not think so, and in a conversation with Zhou Chuandian, who was about to take over as deputy director of the factory, he said: "... You can do a good job, I'm not worried. I'm worried about whether you two factory directors can do a good job of unity, the same action. Speaking of this, Zhou Chuandian suddenly remembered the scene he saw not long ago, "Old Wen Tou" then said: "Cai Bo's personality is very strong, and I have collided with it several times. There will always be controversies over work, but comrades must understand each other, obey the truth, do not be emotional, and do not make a stalemate! ”
Since the winter of 1951, Wen Liangxian has taken the initiative to give way and has visited the iron works in Taiyuan, Shijingshan and Benxi. When passing through Shenyang, he talked to the Northeast Ministry of Industry about his ideas, suggested that Cai Bo take over as the director of the factory, and said: "This comrade studied in the Soviet Union, studied very well, and interned in a Soviet factory. A few months in the ironworks showed that he was very strong in organizational leadership, young and willing to work, and I believed that he would do better than me. ”
In 1958, Wen Liangxian and Jiao Cuizhi took a group photo with the elderly and their children on the balcony of their residence.
Just in the right year, he retreated bravely and quietly handed over the responsibility of an iron factory director who accounted for 2/3 of the country's pig iron production to Cai Bo, who was only in his twenties. At that time, the feat of "old Wen Tou" was inconceivable to many people. During his three years in office, an ironmaking production of Angang Steel has undergone tremendous changes, with 3 of the original 9 dilapidated blast furnaces restored and the reconstruction of 6 large blast furnaces just beginning. Production and construction are busy, and it is also the time when he shows his skills.
Born in February 1917 in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, Wen Liangxian died of illness when he was two or three years old, leaving his mother and his sister behind. Since childhood, he grew up with his four grandfathers in the furnace of melting iron; when he was 14 years old, he did not graduate from middle school, and followed the apprenticeship of his four grandfathers, during which he participated in the anti-Japanese rescue activities. In August 1938, after being introduced by the Eighth Route Army office in Changsha, he went to Yan'an, and in December of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China and entered the Northern Shaanxi Public School to study, with Liu Yanlin, Yi Xiaoguang and other students. In 1940, he returned to Yan'an from Jincheng in the southeast of Jindong, where he studied at the Zedong Youth Cadre School, and then transferred to the industrial sector in 1942 as the director of the Guanzhong Iron Works in Shilipu.
In April 1945, Wen Liangxian left Yan'an with his troops and went to the front. When the troops crossed the blockade line, Tongpu Road, and reached the town of Shaoyuan in Jiyuan County, Henan, they heard the news of the Japanese surrender and immediately attacked Tiemen and Jiyuan. Later, on the orders of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, he went north with this unit and served as the secretary general of the Military Industry Department of the Jichareliao Military Region. On December 10, 1948, more than a month after the victory in the Liaoshen Campaign, Wen Liangxian, who had been running an arms factory in a small ravine, entered the big city of Shenyang for the first time, and everything felt too fresh, too happy, and too happy! At that time, he served as the secretary and director of the Ordnance Department of the Northeast Military Region, where He Changgong was the minister. Soon, when he learned that Angang Steel would be resumed and built, he very much thought of Angang steel to show his skills, and applied to the organization several times, but he was not approved. In those days, he could not eat well and sleep for several days, got up in the middle of the night and wrote a letter to Li Fuchun, deputy secretary of the Northeast Bureau and deputy director of the Financial and Economic Commission, and then found Gao Gang, secretary of the Northeast Bureau, asked to work in Angang, and finally got a promise. When the organization talked, he was asked for his opinion: "To work in the local area, the position is lower than it is now, is it okay?" He made it clear: "As long as I can work in Angang Steel, it is acceptable to assign me any position." ”
On March 15, 1949, Wen Liangxian came to Angang to report.
It was the morning of April 28, and he went to the company's manager's office, and the first thing the manager Li Dazhang said after meeting him was: "We met in Yan'an." And he put forward several work suggestions directly, the first of which was about the training of technicians and technicians. He felt that the recovery and development of Angang Steel, technical personnel is an important issue, from the current situation of the technical personnel of the iron and steel department, it is barely enough to open a furnace, if more furnaces are to be opened in the future, it is necessary to train more technical personnel. In June of that year, after he concurrently served as the director of the ironworks, he focused on and based his work on truly making the ironworks a melting pot and a big school.
In March 1952, Wen Liangxian officially left the ironworks and handed over the class to Cai Bo, serving as the head of the metallurgical team of the Commercial Counsellor's Office of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union. In November 1954, after finishing his work in Moscow, he returned to Angang Steel and became the deputy manager of Angang Steel. In June 1957, he was transferred to the Anjian Company, which was separated from Angang Steel, as deputy manager.
In 1971, Wen Liangxian (center) and Shen Liming (first from left) and Zhao Qian (first from right) took a group photo in front of the Anshan City Bus Battle Headquarters.
"Old Wen Tou" did not choose the wrong person, and Cai Bo did not live up to the instructions of "Old Wen Tou". Before 1958, Angang Iron and Steel Factory has always stood at the forefront of the national ironmaking industry, and many advanced management experiences and advanced technical experiences have been transmitted from here to the whole country. In the three years that Wen Liangxian was the director of the factory, angang steelmaking productivity increased by 50%. In the six years that he recommended Cai Bo as the director of the factory, the ironmaking productivity increased by 50% on the original basis.
Looking back on the life of "Old Wen Tou", since he devoted himself to the steel industry, he has a special love for steel and has never planned to leave. In 1954, when he stepped down as head of the Moscow group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to keep him, and he said nothing and insisted on steel. In 1958, he went to the Great Northwest with Zhao Beike and served as the first deputy manager of Jiugang. After the jiugang project was dismounted in 1962, he could have gone to Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Beijing, although he was still in the metallurgical system, engaged in the leadership of the department and bureau, but he left the steel company, and he insisted that he lead the team to the Beiman Steel Mill in Heilongjiang and serve as the secretary of the party committee of the factory.
In 1971, the "old Wentou" who had been fighting the northern war for more than 10 years for the motherland's steel industry returned to Anshan, and during the "Cultural Revolution", he served as the deputy director of the Anshan Municipal Revolutionary Committee and the deputy leader of the First Industrial Communication Group (i.e., Angang Steel). In 1974, Wen Liangxian died of overwork at the age of 57.
Zhong Xiangfei wrote zhichunshan Yang Weiping historical materials provided