"Minister Gao, the explosion in the No. 1 blast furnace of Jinyang Iron and Steel is the fifth serious blast furnace accident in the steel industry in recent years. It has seriously affected the normal development of the steel industry. For our overloaded blast furnaces, it is now necessary to have a comprehensive assessment and maintenance." Ma Shaocheng, the director of the Iron and Steel Department, found Gao Jianwu with a pile of reports to report.

Under normal circumstances, there is nothing major wrong, and these industrial direct management departments are all run by themselves, so there is no need to trouble Gao Jianwu.

However, the steel industry, the production capacity is released, but because the equipment can not keep up, the current production capacity is quite extensive, at present, the overall product quality is poor, the output is low, the cost is high, except for a few special alloy smelting blast furnaces and Gao Jianwu to provide technology for electroslag remelting smelting equipment.

The technical level of smelting of basic steel products such as crude steel and pig iron is basically maintained in the 10 years or even more ancient equipment, and the gap between the world's steelmaking level has reached more than 30 years, and now the world's main blast furnaces have reached a volume of 2,000 cubic meters, and the domestic blast furnaces are limited to the technical level, most of which are still below 500 cubic meters.

There are not many blast furnaces of more than 500 cubic meters.

Jinyang Iron and Steel No. 1 blast furnace has a capacity of 590 cubic meters, which is now one of the most advanced blast furnaces in China, but under normal circumstances, the annual output of more than 30,000 tons of steel is not expected to be hung now.

Gao Jianwu really doesn't want to care about these bad things, but there is no way, whoever makes him the biggest one in the industry, if there is any big problem, he must still have to make up his mind.

In order to explode production capacity before, due to limited domestic technology, Gao Jianwu didn't care about any quality, at that time, any steel was scarce, Gao Jianwu wanted to solve the problem of whether there was or not, let the large and small blast furnaces work together, and the blast furnace of more than 100 cubic meters is a large steel plant, with an annual output of tens of thousands of tons; In many places, small blast furnaces of tens of cubic meters of antique grade are used.

For example, the small steel in the Ping'an base area had an annual output of only a few thousand tons, and it was a small blast furnace of more than 30 cubic meters.

The 101 Arsenal of the first phase of Gao Jianwu was propped up.

"Director Ma, I will give you a task, through Mr. Situ in the Americas, to carefully investigate the advanced level of the foreign steel industry, and at the same time to find out our family background. We have to carry out a major transformation of the steel industry, not to mention the high energy consumption and pollution of the current technology, the output and quality are not satisfactory, and this must be greatly improved to solve the problem fundamentally." Gao Jianwu took Ma Shaocheng's report and thought carefully for a while before instructing Ma Shaocheng.

He has developed several world-leading refining methods such as special steel production processes and electroslag remelting, but these have little effect on basic steelmaking.

All of them are secondary processing on the basis of the current steel, and the congenital deficiencies of the steel industry cannot be made up for at all.

Now, although there is a large 500 cubic meter blast furnace template built by a little devil in China, on the basis of the 248 cubic meter blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant introduced by the former Qing Dynasty, there is already an independent construction experience of 300 cubic meters of blast furnace.

But this kind of blast furnace is also a usable level.

According to Gao Jianwu's understanding, Hanyang Iron and Steel now has a No. 1 blast furnace of 248 cubic meters, and the daily output of iron seems to be about 100 tons, and the utilization coefficient of the blast furnace is less than 0.5!

Compared with Gao Jianwu's time and space utilization coefficient of more than 2.0, it is simply heaven and earth!

Ma Shaocheng gathered information quickly, after all, Mr. Situ is already a pivotal business elder in the Americas, and has even purchased a steel plant with an annual output of 300,000 tons to get involved in the steel industry.

In this era, steel is still worth investing in the industry, and steel tycoons are frequent visitors to the world-class rich club, and Mr. Situ, who has grown up, will naturally not let go of this industry and has also bought a steel mill.

Mr. Situ's steel plant has two blast furnaces with a capacity of 500 cubic meters, which are typical of the large old blast furnaces built in the Americas at the beginning of the 20th century, but the daily iron production capacity is 450 tons, the utilization coefficient is 0.9, and the coke ratio is about 1000 kg/ton of pig iron, which is much more efficient than the No. 1 blast furnace of the Hanyang Iron Works in China.

But that's not yet

It is the advanced level of the Americas, and there are already 1,000 cubic meters of large-scale blast furnaces in the Americas, with a daily output of more than 1,200 tons of iron, a utilization coefficient of 1.2, a coke ratio of about 900 kg/ton of pig iron, and an annual output of more than 430,000 tons of blast furnaces.

The volume of the No. 1 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is half smaller, 248 cubic meters, but the daily iron output is only less than a quarter of Mr. Situ's blast furnace, and the utilization coefficient is 0.4, with a daily output of 100 tons under normal circumstances, and an annual output of 36,000 tons! Compared with the advanced level of foreign countries, it is only a fraction of others! The coke ratio is 2000 kg/ton pig iron, and the energy consumption gap is huge.

However, this is not the bottom line, the utilization coefficient of those small blast furnaces is even lower, maybe some are about 0.3, and the coke ratio is 2500 kg/ton pig iron! The energy consumption is so large that it cannot be viewed together with the advanced level of foreign countries.

The difference in this industry is so appalling, Gao Jianwu really can't bear it.

After some internal investigation, Gao Jianwu came up with his own method.

"100 engineers from the steel industry were sent to the Americas to learn the experience of advanced blast furnace construction and operation management. At the same time, a group of steel talents can be used in the local area.

In addition, in terms of Europa's steel powers, German three, Austria-Hungary and other steel powers sent teams to tap local smelting technology and talents, and do not be afraid to spend money, these costs are small.

Our technical level in steel should at least catch up with the level of the early 20th century, this is the bottom line, on this basis, let's see how to narrow the gap with the advanced level of the world's steel industry, such as the steel utilization coefficient to break through the 1 mark!" After Gao Jianwu put forward his plan and requirements, Ma Shaocheng looked embarrassed and didn't dare to answer for a while.

In his opinion, it is too difficult to multiply the technical debts left over from history all at once.

Gao Jianwu saw Ma Shaocheng's thoughts, smiled and said to him: "There is a huge gap between us and the world's steel industry technology, but now we are not without the opportunity to catch up quickly.

We must believe that our ingenuity is not weaker than that of any other nation in the world, and that as long as these people we send out are diligent in their studies and willing to study hard, it will not be long before they will be effective."

"Although we are backward, but backwardness also means that there is a late-mover advantage, we can introduce advanced countries technology and equipment can save scientific research costs and time, quickly cultivate domestic talents, and promote technological progress at a higher level, latecomers can also learn from the experience of advanced countries, avoid or take fewer detours, and adopt an optimized catch-up strategy, so that it is possible to shorten the time for technological evolution."

"Not to mention anything else, the little day next door, they were lower than us at the beginning, but they were more resolute and durable than us in terms of technical learning, not to mention anything else, steel technology has caught up with the technical level of the West in just a few decades, and their method is also very simple, that is, to send a large number of students to Europa and advanced countries in the Americas to study and study, so that in the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, many advanced steel technologies were introduced from abroad to achieve the world's steel smelting level after digestion and absorption, so that they could be used for aircraft carriers, Artillery, aircraft, tanks, etc. are supplied with qualified steel."

"Now that we have the conditions, more hands-on steel mills and a lot of people, we believe that the time for us to catch up is faster than theirs."

After some encouragement by Gao Jianwu, Ma Shaocheng finally had some confidence.

"Yes, Minister Gao, I will go down to select a group of elite soldiers in the steel industry to achieve the overall technological leapfrog development of the steel industry." Ma Shaocheng said.

"I want to remind you that the development of the steel industry is a very practical science, and the candidates selected must be mainly experienced engineers in the first line, don't choose some people who are not in tune to come out, this is not the time to gild them, don't worry about the language, Mr. Situ They will be equipped with a group of good translators to follow

Learn with them.

In addition, although we have a large number of people, but we should pay attention not to all appear in a steel plant at once, stealing teachers you all pay attention to some skills, you have to secretly, the selection of candidates you have to consider in many aspects, knowledge and culture must be had, at least there can be no problems with writing and reading, during the period abroad, every day to learn to sort out and record, the formation of systematic industry knowledge.

In addition, the emotional intelligence of the personnel should also be relatively high, easy to mingle with others, to the Americas, let Mr. Situ arrange some American Chinese identity, the current international relations situation, do not allow us to be generous to learn, this aspect should be especially noted, when selecting talents, we should also take into account, at the same time, after the selection, but also carry out a certain amount of relevant professional training, to ensure that this group of talents appear to learn foolproof."

Ma Shaocheng listened while recording Gao Jianwu's request, and after Gao Jianwu's guidance, he also knew what to do.

came up with such a new thing, Gao Jianwu let go and let Ma Shaocheng do the preliminary preparations, and after he selected the people, he took the time to go through this group of people, and at the same time made some adjustments to them.

...

Hanyang Iron & Steel Plant.

Sun Chengfang, deputy head of the No. 1 blast furnace, received the order.

"What, let me prepare to salute and travel for more than half a year? Director, what is this for? Can you not go, now that our production tasks are so heavy, I really can't leave." Sun Chengfang was puzzled by the order issued by the Iron and Steel Department of the Ministry of Industry, and found Wang Gentang, the director of the factory, and asked.

"The superiors want to conduct a round of intensive training for the core backbone talents of the steel industry for half a year, and our factory will send 10 backbones to participate in the training, and everyone is the core personnel in each position.

[In view of the general environment,

This is an honorable task given to you by the Order, and there is no room for bargaining. I'll hand over the work right away and go back to prepare for the relevant matters." Wang Gentang didn't explain too much to Sun Chengfang, and directly said it to death. For these people, if you have to reason with them too much, it often doesn't make sense.

"Yes! Factory director, the work on my side will be handed over to Chen Shiqiang and Zhou Shikun as soon as possible, and I will be able to do a good job in three days!" Sun Chengfang straightened up, stood up straight and said.

For large enterprises, the job is still line leadership.

Even if Wang Gentang is the selected factory director, the appointment is directly appointed by the Ministry of Industry.

It's just that he has served as the director of the old factory since the old factory era, and he has a lot of experience in managing a large steel company.

This organizational model ensures that the Ministry of Industry has a very strong ability to mobilize.

As a direct management unit, Ma Shaocheng is of course very clear about the list of core backbones of each core steel plant.

The main large iron and steel plants in the base area will have to transfer personnel this time, and the backbone steel plants such as Hanyang Iron and Steel and Jinyang Iron and Steel will have to produce more talents.

With Gao Jianwu's tips and requirements, this time Ma Shaocheng is basically a deputy or substitute candidate for an important production link like Sun Chengfang, although for the original factory, such a transfer will double the workload of the people on duty, because the shift change was taken away, and there was originally a rotation and rest opportunity, but now there is no more!

But in such an extraordinary period of development, these people actually understand very well, and they have not caused any commotion about this wave of personnel transfer.

After all, everyone knows that the superiors must have taken the overall consideration of the superiors in this arrangement, and now everyone's consciousness is also very high, from the work of 996 to the post-007, there seems to be nothing unacceptable in the factory for food and housing.

When these were gathered and ready to be sent out, Gao Jianwu gave them a two-day short-term surprise training, explaining why they did this, how to get along with foreigners abroad, and how to learn technology.

Sun Chengfang and these people understand that they are now the front-line personnel of the factory

With the opportunity to study abroad!

Even if they went to the factory, but for such an opportunity, everyone cherished it very much, and after going back one by one, they made the worst arrangements for the family, and they were not going to come back this time if they were not ready to learn the skills of the whole body!

Even if these people didn't all join the organization, but in terms of patriotism, there was no difference between them, especially after Gao Jianwu set them the grand goal of learning to become the world's advanced level and catching up with the blast furnace utilization coefficient of 1, they were like chicken blood one by one!

After all, after opening their eyes, it turns out that everyone is a frog at the bottom of the well, and the people outside have progressed to an unimaginable level, and they now have the opportunity to see how exactly they achieved these miraculous results!