Wang Chonglun
Wang Chonglun (1927–2002) was a Chinese model worker at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company (Angang).
Biography
[edit]Wang was born in 1927 in Liaoyang, Liaoning.[1]
Wang was a Chinese model worker at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company (Angang).[2]: 241-243 His work speed resulted in the nickname "man in front of time".[1][3]: 245
In December 1953, Wang organized the Wang Chonglun Advanced Producer School, modeled on the Stakhanovite School of the Soviet Union.[2]: 216
In 1960, Wang worked at Angang's Northern Machine-Repair Factory.[2]: 243 There, Wang invented a semi-automated drilling machine that increased worker drilling speed by a factor of fourteen.[2]: 243
Wang and a group of other model workers proposed that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions launch a national technological innovation campaign, which the ACFTU did.[3]: 245
Wang became was the chairman of the Anshan Iron and Steel Trade Union, vice chairman of the ACFTU, and deputy secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee.[1]
Wang died in 2002.[1]
Cultural depictions
[edit]Wang's experiences, along with those of fellow Anshan model worker Meng Tai, are portrayed in the 2022 film Steel Will.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Wang Chonglun: A Man in Front of Time-Tianjin Equipment Research Institute". en.tsinghua-tj.org. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
- 1 2 3 4 Hirata, Koji (2024). Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism. Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China series. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-38227-4.
- 1 2 Yu, Miin-ling (2010). ""Labor Is Glorious": Model Laborers in the People's Republic of China". In Bernstein, Thomas P.; Li, Hua-Yu (eds.). China learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present. The Harvard Cold War studies book series. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-4222-6. OCLC 421148384.
- ↑ 顾馨. "Retelling a historic moment shaped by 'steel will'". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2025-02-19.