The history of Anshan Iron and Steel Company Seamless Steel Pipe Factory

The Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904. After Russia was defeated and the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, Japan seized the South Manchuria Railway between Changchun and Dalian and the Luda Leased Land originally controlled by Russia.

In 1906, in order to strengthen its political and economic aggression against Northeast China, Japan established the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. (referred to as Manchuria Railway) in Dalian as the base camp for its economic invasion of Northeast China.

In August 1909, the Manchurian Railway sent people to conduct illegal and secret prospecting in the Anshan area, and successively investigated Tieshi Mountain, Xi'an Mountain, Dong Anshan, Dagushan, Cherry Orchard, Guanmen Mountain, and Xiaolingzi. There are more than ten iron mines including Dashiqiao Magnesite Mine, Gongchangling Mine, etc., and resources such as Dashiqiao Magnesite Mine and Yantai Clay Mine were discovered. It was discovered that Anshan area is a treasure land for mining and building factories to smelt steel.

So Manchurian Railway President Yujiro Nakamura proposed a plan to plunder the steel resources in the Anshan area. The traitor Yu Chonghan and the Japanese Yasuke Kamada came forward to form a Sino-Japanese joint revitalization iron ore company.

In July 1916, the General Administration of China-Japan Joint Revitalization Iron Ore Co., Ltd. was established in Fengtian with a capital of 140,000 yen. In nominal terms, China and Japan invested half and half, but in fact, the full initial capital was provided by Manchuria Railway. The Mining Administration was established in Qianshan and moved to Anshan two years later. In 1917, it obtained the mining rights of eight mining areas including Dagushan, Cherry Orchard, Dong'anshan, Xi'anshan, Wangjiabaozi, Duandianshan, Guanmenshan, Xiaolingzi and Tieshishan. Its total area reaches 14,578 acres. In 1921, it obtained the mining rights of three mining areas including Baijiapuzi, Yidan Mountain and Xinguanshan Mountain. From 1926 to 1933 alone, the production volume was 4.8 million tons. The General Administration operated until 1940 when it was dissolved and merged into the Showa Steel Works.

In 1916, Manchuria Railway started to build the Anshan Iron and Steel Works while setting up a company. In 1916, the Japanese government approved the establishment of Anshan Iron Works. On April 3, 1917, the "Jizhen Festival" was held to start construction of the blast furnace. On May 15, 1918, "Anshan Iron Works" was formally established. Ikutaro Hatta was appointed as the director of Anshan Iron Works. Most of the factory construction projects were completed by the end of the year. In March 1919, the coking plant began producing coke. On April 29, the No. 1 blast furnace was ignited, marking the official start of production of Anshan Iron and Steel Works. After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Japan occupied the entire Northeast. In 1933, the Japanese government, with the support of the Military Ministry, relocated the Showa Steel Works originally planned to be built in North Korea to Anshan. Manchuria Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. fully funded the construction of steel plants and rolling products based on the existing foundation of the Anshan Iron Works. factory and became a steel conglomerate. Anshan Showa Steel Co., Ltd. is a Japanese legal person, a subsidiary company of Mantetsu Steel Co., Ltd., and its president is Takuo Ohdo. Before the establishment of Showa Steel Works, it signed an agreement with Manchuria Steel to continue to employ all the staff of the former Anshan Steel Works, thus merging Anshan Steel Works. On June 4, 1936, Jinxing Company leased the mining rights of 11 mining areas including Dagushan to Showa Steel for direct mining. On July 1, 1937, Showa Steel took over the property rights and debts of Shinko Co., Ltd. On December 7, 1940, Showa Steel completed the ore transfer procedures and completely merged with Zhenxing Iron Ore Co., Ltd., forming a continuous production operation system of mining, ore dressing, ironmaking, and steel rolling.

With the expansion of Japan's armaments, Anshan Iron and Steel's production scale has developed by leaps and bounds. By 1941, it had the annual production capacity of 2.5 million tons of iron, 1.3 million tons of steel ingots, and 750,000 tons of steel. Its steel production capacity accounts for 28.4% of the total production capacity controlled by Japan, second only to Yawata Steel Works in Kyushu (today's Nippon Steel). At that time, another steel production enterprise in Manchukuo, Benxihu Coal and Steel Co., Ltd. (affiliated to Japan's Okura Zaibatsu), was only one-third the size of the Showa Steel Works.

By 1943, Showa Steel Works reached its highest production capacity, producing 1.3 million tons of iron, 843,000 tons of steel, and 495,000 tons of steel products. According to the "Anshan Chronicle Ansteel Volume": "From 1935 to 1945, Showa Steel Works and Manchuria Steel Co., Ltd. Anshan Factory produced a total of 9.056 million tons of pig iron, 5.474 million tons of steel, and 3.278 million tons of steel products. After the Japanese invaders unconditionally surrendered on August 15, 1945, the Soviet army arrived in Anshan on August 26. From late September to early November 1945, in just over 40 days, the Soviet Red Army detained tens of thousands of Japanese. The prisoners of war dismantled and transported more than 70,000 tons of Angang's mechanical equipment and other materials. Especially after some key equipment was stolen, the entire industrial production capacity dropped to zero, and the damage was extremely serious.

In addition, after the Soviet army evacuated Anshan, social order was chaotic. Some residents took the opportunity to disassemble and take away some of Anshan Iron and Steel's transportation belts, balls, grease, small motors, wires, etc., which also caused some losses.

The Kuomintang Resources Committee’s investigation report pointed out that the intact parts of Anshan Iron and Steel’s original equipment were mostly demolished and moved to steel factories in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk and other places in the Soviet Union. The whereabouts of some defective equipment that was damaged during demolition are unknown and may have been recycled or scrapped.

After the Soviet Red Army retreated in 1948, during the 22 months of Kuomintang rule, Anshan Iron and Steel General Administration only produced 9,500 tons of steel. By the time it was taken over by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it was riddled with holes. It was all desolate. During this period, the city was severely damaged. Anshan Iron and Steel was dilapidated and desolate, the streets were depressed and disorderly, water, electricity, and gas were cut off, workers lost their jobs, residents fled, and there was only a population of 90,000 left in the built-up area. On February 19, 1948, Anshan was liberated, and Anshan and Anshan Iron and Steel were truly returned to the hands of the people.

On November 2, 1948, the People's Liberation Army captured Shenyang and the entire Northeast was declared liberated. On December 26, 1948, the Northeast Administrative Committee approved the establishment of Anshan Iron and Steel Company and announced the cancellation of Anshan Iron and Steel Plant. In April of the following year, Anshan Iron and Steel resumed production with the efforts of Shao Xianghua and other experts. On July 9, Anshan Iron and Steel Company held a groundbreaking ceremony and carried out large-scale technical transformation and capital construction. After the establishment of Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., it established an organization: 4 offices, 9 departments, and 29 factories and mines. (i.e.: Secretariat, Planning Department, Personnel Department, Management Department, Ironmaking Department, Transportation Department, Coking, Chemical Industry, Ironmaking, Ore Processing, Steelmaking, Refractory, Steel Rolling, Medium-sized, Steel Pipes, Thin Plate, Oxygen, Power Generation, Water Supply, Gas, Manufacturing Plant No. 1, Manufacturing Plant No. 2, nail making, steel rope, machine repair, electrical repair, assembly, manufacturing and Gongchangling Mine, Xiaofangshen Mine, Cherry Garden Mine, Shuangmiaozi Mine, etc. are set up here. Staff hospitals, industrial schools, etc. The company has 10,512 employees, including 486 staff, 418 technicians, and 9,608 workers.) In order to resume production as soon as possible, Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. brought back more than 140 protected workers from Shenyang, Dandong and other places. Technical personnel shall be appointed according to their ability. An expert group was set up to draft a plan to repair Anshan Iron and Steel. And do a good job in the work of the remaining Japanese technical personnel, and give full play to the technical expertise of these people, so that by the end of 1949, Anshan Iron and Steel's production capacity reached 510,000 tons of ore, 200,000 tons of pig iron and steel, 500,000 tons of steel billets, and 300,000 tons of steel. ton. In order to solve the problem of equipment shortage, Anshan City launched a city-wide people's equipment donation activity. In less than two months, 210,000 pieces of 1,123 types of equipment were donated. From December 1948 to January 1949, 4,255 Anshan Iron and Steel employees donated 62,400 pieces of equipment, thus solving Anshan Iron and Steel's urgent need for repair equipment. Then activities such as production merit competitions were launched to speed up the restoration progress. Some factories resumed operations in March and April 1949. The first furnace of steel was smelted on April 5. On May 1, the central government sent He Long to attend the resumption ceremony of the steelmaking plant. In June, the first furnace of molten iron was smelted. Production will basically resume at the end of the year. In 1950, more than 500 cadres at or above the county level were transferred from all over the country to support Anshan Iron and Steel, and more than 500 engineering, technical and management personnel with high cultural quality and professional and technical knowledge were recruited from Central and South China. During this period, we insisted on production while repairing, and tried every means, including mobilizing the remaining steel industry equipment from the Kuomintang era to Anshan Iron and Steel from Daye, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, etc., and spending foreign exchange to purchase important components and equipment from Switzerland and Sweden through Hong Kong. Only then did it resume production. On March 27, 1950, China and the Soviet Union signed the "Agreement on Technical Assistance between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China on the Restoration and Reconstruction of Anshan Iron and Steel Company". On March 19, 1952, the Party Group of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Government Affairs Council submitted a report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the development policy, speed and distribution of the national steel industry. It recommended: 1. Concentrate national efforts, especially technical personnel, to restore Anshan Iron and Steel first. and remodeling, striving for speedy completion. 2. Determine Daye as the second steel base to be constructed during the first five-year plan. 3. The design work of Daye was entrusted to the Soviet Union. 4. Officially notify the Soviet Union that during the "First Five-Year Plan" period, Benxi will only restore the two blast furnaces, two rows of coke ovens and corresponding mines, mineral processing and other projects that have not yet been started. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China gave its approval on May 6. On May 4, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision to "concentrate national efforts and build Anshan Iron and Steel first." On July 14, the seamless steel pipe factory, one of Anshan Iron and Steel's three major projects, started construction.

Soviet experts provided technical guidance and provided equipment support (purchased by China using Soviet loans, mostly refurbished second-hand equipment seized from Silesia and replaced by the Soviet Union). On March 19, 1953, the No. 8 blast furnace of Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., which was restored entirely by its own strength, started construction.

By 1952, all the remaining equipment in Anshan Iron and Steel was restored to production. Steelmaking, coke ovens, mines, open hearths, blast furnaces, mineral processing and other factories and mines have been produced. The total state investment during this period reached 232 million yuan. The total number of employees during this period was 67,600, including 1,629 engineering and technical personnel.

At the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan in 1953, the state concentrated its efforts on the construction of Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Expand the production scale of Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., build a large-scale state-owned joint production enterprise, and complete the transformation, reconstruction and expansion of 48 major projects on the basis of the original production scale; reach the production of 2.5 million tons of iron, 3.2 million tons of steel, and 2.5 million tons of steel products. During the First Five-Year Plan period, 37 key projects were implemented. These include three major projects: large-scale steel rolling, seamless steel pipes, and iron-making blast furnaces. By 1957, the First Five-Year Plan was completed, and Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. had been fully transformed and expanded its production capacity to exceed the original planned targets. During this period, Wang Chonglun appeared, known as "the man ahead of time." In 1957, the output of pig iron reached 3.361 million tons, steel 2.9107 million tons, and steel products 1.9239 million tons. The state invested 1.759 billion yuan and turned in profits of 2.24 billion yuan. For this reason, Anshan Iron and Steel has become China's largest steel base and is known as the steel capital of the motherland.

Anshan Iron and Steel Company was established. During the First Five-Year Plan period (the end of 1953), three major projects including Anshan Iron and Steel Company's large-scale steel rolling mill were completed and put into operation. The Northeast Industrial Base centered on Anshan Iron and Steel Company was formed. In July of the following year Construction started on the ruins on the 9th, production was quickly resumed, and large-scale technical transformation and capital construction were carried out. It now covers a total area of ??176 square kilometers, including 129.19 square kilometers of industrial land. The group company owns 6 large-scale iron mines, 4 mineral processing plants, 1 iron-making plant, 2 steel-making plants, 13 steel rolling mills and auxiliary facilities such as coking, refractory, machinery, power, transportation, construction, and comprehensive utilization. units, as well as scientific research and design units such as technology centers, design institutes, and automation companies. The comprehensive capacity of pig iron, steel and steel products is more than 10 million tons.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Anshan Iron and Steel has made great contributions to the country’s economic construction. From 1949 to 2004, Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. produced 321 million tons of steel, 316 million tons of pig iron, and 222 million tons of steel products. It paid 83.5 billion yuan in profits and taxes, equivalent to 15.4 times the state’s investment in Anshan Iron and Steel during the same period, and sent more than 50,000 technical talents to the national metallurgical industry. Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. is currently able to produce more than 700 varieties and more than 25,000 specifications of steel products. It has fully passed the IS09002 quality system certification, marine steel has passed the certification of 9 classification societies, and the oil pipe has passed the API certification. In the process of transforming traditional industries with high and new technologies, Anshan Iron and Steel adopts new environmentally friendly processes and new technologies, implements sustainable development strategies, and strengthens environmental governance. A blue sky appears above the factory area. An industrial sewage treatment plant with a daily treatment capacity of 220,000 tons has been built, which can recycle 168,000 tons of recycled water every day. We have strengthened the ecological restoration and management of mine rock drainage sites and tailings dams. Currently, we have completed the mine reclamation area of ??155 hectares and planted 600,000 trees. The green area of ??the factory area reaches 34.2%. The main body of steel has passed the ISO14000 environmental management system certification and the OSHMS occupational safety and health management system certification, and the production of steel products is reliably guaranteed to be organized in accordance with international and international advanced standards.

Since 1995, Anshan Iron and Steel has continuously deepened enterprise reform in accordance with the requirements of "reform, reorganization, transformation and strengthening enterprise management", formed a parent-subsidiary institutional framework, and initially established a modern enterprise system. Continuously exploring various forms of public ownership, Ansteel Group New Steel Co., Ltd. was established; Angang New Steel Rolling Co., Ltd. was established, and its stocks are listed in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Continuously carry out large-scale technological transformation, and have found a new path for technological transformation of old enterprises with "high starting point, low investment, fast output and high efficiency". The main technical equipment and production technology have reached the international advanced level, forming a hot-rolled plate, Complete product series from cold-rolled plates to galvanized plates, color-coated plates, and cold-rolled silicon steel. Anshan Iron and Steel has become one of the few domestic steel companies capable of producing passenger car panels and the world's largest supplier of container steel plates.

Building a high-quality base and creating a world brand is the firm business philosophy and unremitting pursuit of Ansteel people formed in the tempering of the market economy. By 2006, a 16 million-ton high-quality steel plate base will be formed with automobile sheets, home appliance sheets, container sheets, pipeline steel, cold-rolled silicon steel, etc. as the leading products; by 2010, Anshan Iron and Steel's overall scale will reach more than 20 million tons of steel. Become a world-class steel company and enter the world's top 500 companies.

The company ranked 31st in the 2006 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises jointly released by the China Enterprise Confederation and the China Entrepreneurs Association, and ranked 40th in the 2007 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises. eight.