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In 1879, the first Qiaoming Match Factory founded by Chinese people appeared in Foshan County, Guangdong.

During the First World War, Western imperialism was busy with the war, and the number of goods imported into China, including matches, was greatly reduced. In addition, with the outbreak of the May 4th Movement, the Chinese people rose up to boycott Japanese products and advocated domestic products. , there was an upsurge in setting up match factories across the country. In just a few years, the number of match factories nationwide increased to more than 100.

In November 1920, Shanghai's "Match King" Liu Hongsheng founded "Hongsheng Match Company".

After more than half a year of experimental research, factory technicians used high-strength adhesive to solve the problem of match heads falling off due to moisture; they also purchased a phosphorus grinding machine to improve the quality of the red phosphorus surface. The improved Hongsheng match has a large head, quick fire, white flame, and durable phosphorus surface. Since then, they have made many improvements in production technology, large and small, and the quality of matches has been continuously improved. Hongsheng has become a well-known brand product. It has not only become a hot commodity in China, but also entered the Nanyang market for a time. The factory's profits are also increasing year by year.

In July 1935, Liu Hongsheng first invited the domestic match manufacturing industry to set up a joint office, and then reached an agreement with the American Match Company in this name, established the Central China Match Production and Marketing Management Committee, and formulated corresponding regulations. Measures for restrictions on the production and sale of matches. Finally, Liu Hongsheng negotiated with the Japanese Match Industry Association in China in the name of the chief representative of the China Match Industry Federation. Japanese businessmen were forced to join the All-China Match Production and Marketing Association due to the concerted actions of the Chinese Business Federation and the Central China Management Committee.

Hou Debang, who studied abroad, brought the drawings designed in the United States. Together with the engineering and technical personnel, he tested various machines. After adjustments and improvements, he finally revealed the secret of the Solvay alkali production method. A series of technical problems in large-scale alkali production have been solved. In 1926, the quality of the Red Triangle brand soda ash produced by the Wynn Soda Factory exceeded that of the British Benemann Company's acetic soda. In the autumn of this year, at the International Exposition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the United States, Red Triangle brand soda ash won the gold medal, which not only made the Chinese proud and proud, but also opened up a vast international market.

In 1906, Zhou Xuexi planned to establish the "Qixin Cement Company". Because of the good quality of the products, sales are very smooth. Qixin cement was quickly used in major construction projects across the country, including the Huaihe River Railway Bridge and the Yellow River Bridge on the Tianjin-Puzhou Railway, the Luohe River Iron Bridge on the Beijing-Hankow Railway, the Weishui River Iron Bridge on the Beining Railway, as well as in Qingdao, Yantai, Xiamen, Dams and wharves in Weihai and other places were all made of Continental cement produced by Qixin; famous buildings at that time such as Beijing Library, Fu Jen Catholic University, Yenching University, Continental Bank, Bank of Communications, Hebei Stadium, Shanghai General Post Office, etc. , are also built with Continental cement. After decades of ups and downs, most of these buildings are still intact, standing side by side with modern high-rise buildings.

Foreign businessmen, especially Japanese businessmen, launched a desperate competition with Qixin Company in order to compete for the Chinese cement market. Japanese businessmen took advantage of the fact that Japanese cement had high output, good quality, and was closest to China, so they shipped large quantities of cement to China for dumping. In order to squeeze out Qixin Company, they made a desperate effort to lower prices. The selling price of their cement in Japan is 2.97 taels of silver per bag, and the freight to China is 2.5 taels of silver per bag, but they sell it at 3 taels of silver per bag, which means that every bag sold costs The loss is 2.47 taels of silver. This is a war without swords, blood, and shouts. Qixin Company also took timely measures to reduce the original selling price of 2.25 taels of silver per barrel to 1.55 taels of silver, and the price of bagged cement from 1 tael of silver per bag to 0.7 taels of silver. Because Zhou Xuexi attaches great importance to the updating and improvement of production equipment, Qixin Company's cement production has continued to improve in output and quality, and costs have continued to decrease, and has won many medals and certificates at international competitions, expositions and domestic exhibitions, so Japanese businessmen That kind of suicidal dumping ultimately shoots itself in the foot. Qixin Company has monopolized China's cement market for 14 years, accounting for more than 92% of the country's total cement sales.

The success of Qixin Company has brought glory to China's troubled national industry, and also won precious honors for the Chinese people in the world.

The following about foreign paint:

In May 1929, Tianjin Yongming Paint Factory started work amidst the sound of firecrackers. After more than three years of hard work and hundreds of tests, Chen Tiaofu finally got his wish and developed a new formula for paint that is both high-quality and low-priced. Chen Tiaofu named the new product "Yongming Paint". It became the first famous brand product in the Chinese paint industry. It won a certificate from the Ministry of Industry that year. It was not only popular in China, but also in the United States, Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, etc. More than 150 manufacturers in China have established business relationships with Sun Life. Yongming Company has become a famous brand enterprise that impresses its peers across the country.

Chen Tiaofu never relaxed his research work for a day. In 1945, he developed an alkyd resin paint, which was the first generation of synthetic resin paints in my country. This kind of paint was successfully put into production at the restored Yongming Paint Factory, and Chen Tiaofu named it "Sanbao Paint". This is another famous brand product in the Chinese paint industry that surpasses the West.

In addition, there are Chinese shipping king Lu Zuofu, not to mention others. The last thing I want to say is that China used to be poor, but not white. Moreover, we had industrial products that were comparable to those of Japan and the United States. These comparisons should be made horizontally, not vertically. Nowadays, we Cantonese people still call soap "sulfanine". Regardless of whether it is alkali or alkali, it is always called sulfanine. It is just a matter of habit.

Mawei Shipyard was built on December 23, 1866. It was the first machine shipyard produced by my country’s Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. Shen Baozhen, then Prime Minister and Shipping Minister, worked hard to overcome resistance and reform the old system. Boldly introduced European advanced shipbuilding technology, equipment and engineering technicians, hired French Japanese and Italians as shipping supervisors, and appointed foreigners to teach shipbuilding and machine building skills. In 1869, my country's first thousand-ton ship was built; in 1871, my country's first steam engine was born; in 1882, my country's largest tonnage iron-ribbed wooden hull warship was built; in 1889, my country's first steel-shell net A warship. From the establishment of the factory to 1907, Mawei Shipbuilding went through a process from learning from foreigners to build wooden-hulled steam warships to dismissing foreign technicians in 1875 and designing and building ships on its own, realizing the independent construction of wooden-hulled-iron-wood composite-steel ships. With the qualitative change of ships, the company produced more than 40 large and small ships, becoming the largest shipyard with the most ships in my country at that time, and the largest shipbuilding base in the Far East at that time. After the Revolution of 1911, Mawei Shipping Bureau was changed to Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, and the Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering Office was established. After more than a year of hard work, young Chinese scientific and technical personnel such as Bayama Zao, Wang Zhu, and Zeng Yijing, who graduated from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, successfully manufactured China's first "Type A-1" aircraft in August 1919. "Biplane seaplane (in 1910, France's Faber successfully solved the problem of taking off and landing seaplanes and made the world's first seaplane.). Since then, he has built two-seat trainers, coastal patrol aircraft, and torpedo bombers. Waiting for 17 aircraft, and training our own pilots. This makes Fuzhou Shipping not only the birthplace of ships, but also the cradle of China's aviation industry.

Hanyang Arsenal

(This article only quotes information about light weapons. Hanyang Arsenal also produces other large and small artillery and shells, so they are omitted.)

September 1890 On August 6, Zhang Zhidong found the factory site at the foot of Dabie Mountain. It was 600 feet long and 100 feet wide. It was pillowed by mountains in the south, Han Dynasty in the north, the river in the west, and across from the provincial capital. However, it is necessary to build a 9-foot foundation and raise the embankment to prevent flooding. That is to say, an iron factory, a gun factory and an artillery factory were set up locally... Small-scale production began in August 1895. After winter reconstruction was completed, production began to imitate the 1888-style Mauser rifle produced in Germany (it should be Commission Rifle, and has nothing to do with Mauser). ), because it is an imitation of the German M1888, it is designated as the Type 88. Its full name is the 7.92 cm Type 88 Mauser rifle. Use round slugs. At the same time, bullets are produced, with a monthly production capacity of 130,000 bullets.

Germany customized Type 88 Commission rifle and made in Hanyang

Production started in 1896.

In the first year, 1,300 rifles were produced.

In 1901, 2,500 rifles and 316 carbines were produced. Lifting the gun 53 shots. Xu Jianyin successfully trial-produced cotton smokeless gunpowder.

On September 26, 1904, Zhang Zhidong petitioned the Hubei Gun Factory to be renamed the Hubei Ordnance Factory. At that time, 50 rifles could be produced per day. 12,000 bullets.

In 1904, Hubei Gun Factory improved the Type 88 rifle. The differences between the improved Type 88 rifle and the German M1888 rifle are: the German M1888 rifle has a sleeve outside the barrel, commonly known as the old sleeve. ,

Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle

In 1907, the Ministry of War issued an order to all provinces to purchase firearms from the Hubei Arsenal. Except for special needs, you should not purchase from overseas. You should always purchase from the Hanyang factory and pay on schedule. 9,000 rifles were produced that year

On September 8, 1916, the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War trial-released a new rifle manufactured by Hanyang Arsenal Director Liu Qingen (the first person to invent a domestic semi-automatic rifle) in Nanyuan , called a self-loading gun.

Mao said that China could only manufacture 10,000-ton wheels "after liberation". Is this true?

Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard accepted orders from the United States from 1918 to 1919 and built four 10,000-ton cargo ships of the same type, all of which were fully covered deck and steam engine type cargo ships. They were named "MANDARIN", "CELESTIAL", "ORIENTAL" and "CATHEY" respectively. The ship is 135 meters long, 16.7 meters wide, 11.6 meters deep, and has a displacement of 14,750 tons. Among them, the first "Guanfu" was launched on June 3, 1920. The four ships were inspected and accepted by the U.S. Department of Transportation. They were solid and well-equipped. The U.S. government was very satisfied with their construction quality.

China’s first heavy-duty diesel engine: 1924, 5 specifications of low-speed heavy-duty diesel engines, Shanghai Xinyan Machinery Factory.

China’s first car: 1929, 65 horsepower, load capacity 1.8 tons, Shenyang Liaoning Mortar Factory.

China’s first universal milling machine: 1918, Shanghai Wangyueji Machinery Factory.

The first aircraft put into use in China: 1919, Type A No. 1 seaplane, Aircraft Engineering Department of Mawei Shipbuilding Bureau. By 1930, the Aircraft Engineering Office of Mawei Shipbuilding Bureau had produced seven types of aircraft, including trainer aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, coastal patrol aircraft, and torpedo bombers.

China’s first 10,000-ton ship: 1920, with a displacement of 14,750 tons and a speed of 10.5 miles per hour. It was an ocean-going transport ship ordered by the United States. Since then, three more ships have been produced.

China’s first aircraft: 1912, Guangzhou Yantang Guangdong Aircraft Company (the plane crashed after taking off for the first time, and the test flight was unsuccessful).

China’s first diesel engine: 1913, ball-burning 40-horsepower diesel engine, Guangzhou Xiehe Machinery Factory.

China’s first lathe manufacturer: 1915, Shanghai Rongchangtai Machinery Factory.

China’s first professional aircraft manufacturer: 1918, Aircraft Engineering Department of Mawei Shipbuilding Bureau.

China’s first steam engine for a 10,000-ton wheel: 1918, 3430 and 3668 horsepower steam engines, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China’s first cotton gin: 1887, Shanghai Zhang Wanxiang Fuji Iron Works.

China’s first folio offset printing press: 1900, Shanghai Cao Xingchang Machinery Factory.

China’s first silk reeling machine: 1900, Shanghai Yongchang Machinery Factory.

China’s first combined oil rolling equipment: 1905, Hanyang Zhouhengshun Machinery Factory.

China’s first large warship: 1906, Ningshao, displacement 3074 tons, 3000 horsepower, Fuzhou Shipping Bureau.

China’s first water pump: 1907, 15 horsepower, Hanyang Zhou Hengshun Machinery Factory.

China's first winch: 1907, 60 horsepower, Hanyang Zhouhengshun Machinery Factory

China's first steam hammer: 1868, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China’s first planer: 1868, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China’s first gear milling machine: 1870, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China's first high-horsepower warship: 1872, Hai'an, displacement 2800 tons, 1800 horsepower, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China’s first simple steam locomotive: 1881, rebuilt with a steam boiler, Kaiping Mining Bureau Engineering Office.

China’s first standard steam locomotive: 1882, China Rocket, Kaiping Mining Bureau Engineering Office.

China’s first steam engine: 1862, Anqing Ordnance Institute.

China’s first steamship: 1865, Huanghu, Anqing Ordnance Station.

China’s first lathe: 1867, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

China’s first modern warship: Tianji, 1868, with a displacement of 600 tons, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

I remember when I was in school, my geography teacher said that old China “didn’t have a drop of oil.” It was Li Siguang who ended China’s oil-poor history in New China.

The exploration of oil in Yanchang Province in modern times began In the 22nd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1896 AD), the Yanchang Oilfield was the mother of China's petroleum industry. In October of the 30th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1904), Shaanxi Governor Cao Hongxun reported to the imperial court and allocated 8,100 taels of silver as capital for reclamation. Yanchang Oil Factory was established and magistrate Hong Yin was appointed as the general office. The quality of the oil was tested in Wuhan and the ingredients were very good. Drilling started on April 25, the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), and the first oil well was drilled outside the west gate of Yanchang County, with an initial daily output of 1.5 tons. This is the first oil well on land in China and is known as the Laoyi Well in history. The successful drilling of this well marked the beginning of China's industrial oil exploitation. It opened a new page in the history of China's oil development and ended the oil-free history of mainland China.

Dushanzi is one of the birthplaces of China's petroleum industry. It was once known as China's three earliest oil deposits, together with Yumen in Gansu and Yanchang in Shaanxi.

In 1935, there was the "Chinese Sugar Cane" The original Shunde Sugar Factory, known as the "Father of Sugar", was put into operation and became China's first mechanized sugar cane sugar factory. This oldest and largest sugar cane sugar factory in China later developed into the current Shuntang Group

Xue Guangsen was born in Longjiang, Shunde in the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1865). At the age of 17, he went to Hong Kong to work in a shipyard and learned excellent mechanical skills. Xue took the opportunity to overhaul the machinery of the British oil tanker "Qinglong" anchored in the Pearl River. He managed to completely disassemble the diesel engine on the ship, draw drawings, and measure the data. After repeated trials and improvements, he successfully developed China's first domestically produced diesel engine in 1915. Diesel engines were soon put into mass production, which aroused the surprise of people in the foreign industry.

In 1898, at the end of the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century, the first American "NEWOME" sewing machine was imported into China; in 1910, American Singer sewing machines were imported in large quantities from Shanghai, Guangzhou and other ports, and soon Monopolizing the sewing machine market in these areas.

In 1928, Ji Guozhen, a resident of Longhua, Shanghai, tried to change this situation. He once predicted: "One day, every daughter in a family will have a sewing machine as a dowry when she gets married!" So he opened Sheng Sheng. The American Sewing Machine Factory (named "Shengmei" to outperform the United States and "Singer") successfully trial-produced China's first domestic household sewing machine, creating the starting point of China's household sewing machine industry.

Scientific and technological achievements represented by two bombs and one satellite, Yuan Longping’s experimental hybrid rice, etc.