A rich country should strengthen its army, and if you want a rich country to become rich, you must first strengthen your army. Since the Opium War, China has been repeatedly invaded and beaten by foreign powers, not because we are too poor, but because our officials are too weak and our soldiers are too weak. If China wants to avoid being beaten, it needs to have a strong leader, a strong army that dares to fight and win, and a strong national defense capability that can continuously provide strength to such a powerful army. It is too important for China that the great powers of the world dare not despise us. This is a valuable lesson that the Chinese nation has learned from being beaten for more than 100 years and at the cost of tens of millions of heads, so that a rich country must first strengthen its army.

Since the arrival of the base, the party committee and the overwhelming majority of comrades at the base have always wanted to use the advanced science and technology, information superiority, and advanced equipment in their hands to establish a relatively complete national defense industrial system in a relatively short period of time with relatively little input, so as to meet the needs of the development of the PLA from a single army to a combined army of the army, navy, and air force and the Second Artillery Corps. Efforts should be made to raise the level of China's national defense modernization.

However, for more than 100 years, China's weakness has been too deep, and its foundation is really too poor, so we have to start everything from scratch, and if we want to make the country rich and strengthen the army, we must first build up basic industries.

Therefore, when the prime minister came to inspect the base, they came up with a map of the national mineral resources division and a map of the country's highway and railway transportation, hoping to develop it immediately. In order to solve the problems of mine development and transportation as soon as possible, they used prisoners of war to exchange 2,200 excavators with buckets of more than 0.8 cubic meters, 4,200 bulldozers and 4,200 trucks from the United States and Britain. These 10,000 large construction machinery are also a very powerful modern construction force in later generations. This has undoubtedly accelerated the pace of China's capital construction.

Subsequently, they supported the development and construction of the "Dongfeng" oilfield, providing a steady stream of industrial blood for China's economic development. The petrochemical industry has been established, forming an oil-centered industrial chain, producing special plastics and chemical raw materials for aviation, aerospace and military production.

They renovated the Ansan Special Steel Plant to produce high-quality alloy steel to meet the needs of military production. The Ansan Tractor Casting Plant was established, which created conditions for the production of tanks. The seamless pipes produced at the Ansan Seamless Pipe Factory provide high-quality steel pipes for the production of guns.

In particular, the overall demolition of the secondary industry in China has accelerated the process of industrialization, and all the equipment of the Iron and Steel Company, Kobe Iron and Steel Company and Kawasaki Iron and Steel Company have been relocated to Shanghai, Ma'anshan, Tangshan, and Taiyuan as a whole, and at the same time of relocation and installation, the equipment has been modernized and put into operation by the end of 53 years. By the end of 1954, China's steel production had reached 15 million tons, surpassing France and ranking fifth in the world. The shipbuilding enterprises of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Shipyard in Yokohama, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company, and Mitsui Shipbuilding Company have also moved to Dalian, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Huludao as a whole, and have also begun to produce and dismantle more than 100,000 machine tools and equipment in the equipment manufacturing industry, which has greatly enhanced the capacity of China's manufacturing industry.

After the Second World War, many thought that the company was in ruins and that its industrial capacity had been destroyed. During World War II, most of the factories in the city were hidden underground or scattered, and there was no need for large-scale bombing by American planes, otherwise the United States would not have needed to drop atomic bombs and spend a lot of money to attract the Soviet Union to send troops. As of August 15, 1945, a month before the surrender, it still had the capacity to produce thousands of aircraft per month, which was higher than the monthly output of aircraft in 1942. What's more, it has a large scientific and technological team and an army of skilled workers, which is simply incomparable to China. At present, the bottleneck restricting China's industrial development is that there is a great shortage of scientific and technological personnel and skilled workers, and there are too many people with low scientific and technological quality. Fortunately, there are 350,000 engineers and technicians who are serving in China and skilled industrial workers to solve this urgent need. It has provided a strong impetus for China's basic industrial construction. In order to train their own skilled workers as soon as possible, each worker and technician must bring one or two Chinese apprentices. These apprentices are all demobilized soldiers, and they have a deep hatred for Yue himself. However, party organizations at all levels have given them strict education in advance. Tell them that these masters are not militarists, but the people, and that they must not be discriminated against in their actual work, and that they must also respect their masters and learn techniques from them with an open mind. Care for them in life and help them politically. After a period of running-in, the vast majority of workers from China and the two countries also got along very well. At that time, the people of any country did not have any natural hatred, and when they came into contact with each other, they would find that everyone was the same person. The so-called hatred is the result of politicians deliberately creating it to achieve their own political goals.

The apprentice learned with an open mind, the master taught seriously, and in just two years, China was equipped with a large number of qualified skilled workers who could read and work. These skilled workers were dispersed to the newly established enterprises. These masters bring new apprentices. The people of Xiaoyiben also have many advantages, their spirit of hardship and hard work is no worse than that of the Chinese, and they are very disciplined and obey orders. Good at learning.

In addition to food and shelter for these workers and engineering and technical personnel, Chinese enterprises will give them a certain amount of bonuses and some spiritual rewards every month according to their work performance, and they also attach great importance to this kind of spiritual reward.

For these 350,000 workers and engineering and technical personnel, after arriving in China, the Chinese government has also given some new policies, for the period of labor service in China, have friendly feelings towards China, and make a particularly large contribution to the work and special technical personnel, who have worked in China for more than two years and are recommended by the grassroots level of the work unit, can apply for a Chinese "green card", more than four years can apply for Chinese nationality, and receive a "Great Wall card ID card". This policy has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of our workers and engineering and technical personnel, and they have all the skills to do so. Work hard to get a "green card". After getting the green card, except for the fact that they do not have the right to vote, the rest enjoy the treatment of Chinese nationals. After becoming a Chinese citizen, relatives of the first blood relationship can be brought to China, and this craze is by no means inferior to the momentum of some Chinese in later generations to obtain green cards and eagle passports in the United States. Because they see the momentum of China's development.

There is a worker named Limu, who worked in a company in Shenyang during the puppet Manchurian period at the age of 15, can speak fluent Northeast dialect, and is proficient in all aspects of turning and milling, and the technology is also first-class, and he works quickly and well. Often praised by the workshop. In a lathe technology competition, he took out his unique skills and used copper to turn a small copper gourd. The middle of the upper and lower balls is connected with a screw buckle, and the small copper gourd can float on the water surface when placed in the water. When I encounter difficult work in my usual work, I always take the initiative to take it. Because he speaks Chinese well, he usually takes the initiative to work as a translator, and in his spare time, he also serves as a Chinese teacher for his companions. The relationship with the Chinese is very harmonious. In the past two years, he has been rated as an "advanced producer" every year. Also rewarded with a 4-tube transistor radio. In this era, a transistor radio is a big prize for a color TV in later generations. This is enough to make the envy of more than 100 people in this enterprise. And he himself is also one of the ten special technical talents, the first to be recommended by the group and approved by the political axe to get China's "green card", which makes him feel a special honor and the favor given to him by China. It also aroused his enthusiasm for work, and he continued to make some small changes to improve work efficiency and quality. Now he has changed his name to the Chinese name Li Mu, and has been appointed by the company as the deputy leader of the technical team of his workshop, responsible for the technical work of the whole workshop.

With oil, China's industrial development has been injected with blood, with steel, China's industry has built its bones, and with semiconductor technology, it has implanted a flexible brain into China's industry, but it is also necessary to install a strong and powerful heart for China's industry -- that is, the engine. The engine is the heart of a country's industry. Without this heart there would be no cars, no tanks, no planes, no ships, no trains, no tractors...... In a word, without the industrialization of this country, there would be no modern civilization of human society.

The engine is essentially an "energy converter". It converts the chemical energy contained in the fuel into heat energy through combustion, and then works through the expansion of the gas to push the piston up and down to drive the rotation of the crankshaft, thereby driving the gear rotation in the gearbox, and finally conducts this rotation to the driving wheel. Through a series of constraints, the transformation of "chemical energy into heat energy into mechanical energy of linear motion, and then from mechanical action of linear motion to mechanical energy of rotary motion" is finally completed.

In order to complete this transformation, the party committee of the base submitted a plan for the establishment of a northeast engine plant between Shenyang and Fushun when the prime minister inspected the base. The supreme leader gave instructions on the classification submitted by the party committee of the base, "This project should be stepped up," and he personally transferred the 3rd Division of the infrastructure engineering corps to participate in the battle. The State Council quickly approved the plan.

Ground was broken in May 1951, and after more than 15,000 officers and soldiers of the 5th Division of the Infrastructure Engineering Corps and more than 10,000 laborers worked day and night for more than a year, the world's largest engine production base was finally built. During the construction of the factory, the engine research institute of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology composed of the base is located here, they provide a full set of product design and plant design drawings for the Northeast Engine Factory, and more than 80% of the equipment used to manufacture aircraft, tanks, automobile engine production equipment and a complete set of process equipment from the demolition of the 30 heavy industry is installed here, and the base has sent a group of more than 200 engineers and technicians to the factory to guide the construction and production preparation of the factory, and has trained a large number of interns for the Northeast Engine Factory. It fully embodies the advantages of the base's powerful technical information and the powerful functions of computers. All parts of the country have sent outstanding cadres and skilled workers to the Northeast Engine Plant, and trained a large number of demobilized officers and soldiers; Every day, a large number of material resources are continuously transported to the construction site of the Northeast Engine Plant; More than 20,000 construction troops, represented by the 5th Division of the Infrastructure Engineering Corps and the mechanical and electrical installation team composed of the labor service, have become the main force in the construction site of the Northeast Engine Plant. The completion of the Northeast Engine Plant is the result of the hard work and sweat of the people of the whole country. The construction of the Northeast Engine Plant took only two years, and its speed and engineering quality were so good that it was called a miracle. The completion of the Northeast Engine Plant created the history of China's own engine production.

In order to build this "heart" of China, the base spent a lot of money to move half of the CNC machining center of the repair plant here, and half of the technical personnel were transferred to the Northeast Engine Factory. More than 5,000 engineering and technical personnel and skilled workers who were originally in the labor service of the engine production and design in the company were arranged to the Northeast Engine Factory and became the technical backbone, and all of these people applied for Chinese nationality five years later, applied for their Chinese surname at the Public Security Bureau, and swore in the face of the five-star red flag: "I absolutely and completely publicly sever and renounce all my allegiance and loyalty to any country or any sovereignty other than China; In the face of all enemies, foreign or domestic, I will support and defend China's constitution and laws; I will carry sincere faith and loyalty to China; I will take up arms and fight for China when the law requires it, and I will fulfill my obligations and duties. Below is my signature, confirming my vows. "When they got the Great Wall of China ID card, these people shed tears of happiness with excitement, and it was not easy for five years. For this Chinese ID card, they have paid too much hardship to become a Chinese. It's good now. Finally became the best person in the world.

The Northeast Engine Plant has more than 28,000 people and an annual engine production capacity of 1 million units. The main products are 30 series of diesel power in 6 categories, such as aircraft, vehicles, marines, construction machinery, agricultural machinery, power generation equipment, etc., light, medium and heavy diesel engines, with a power covering 55~1800 kilowatts, which is the most abundant and complete enterprise in the contemporary diesel engine industry.

With the characteristics of high power, high torque, high reliability, low fuel consumption, low emission and strong adaptability, the Northeast Engine Plant has provided supporting power for the national industrial and agricultural national defense construction. In the combustion development technology, low emission development technology, machinery development technology in this era in the international absolute leading level, undertake all the national high-tech cutting-edge research projects related to power in this period and other national scientific research projects, and presided over the formulation of national engine standards. Ten years later, it became the world's largest exporter of engines.

(To be continued)