Beiyang reactionaries

"Why is their pig iron production and crude steel production so low?"

Duan Xun was puzzled.

Although Tsarist Russia is a relatively backward industrial country, it is also an industrial country.As early as before World War I, Tsarist Russia's pig iron output exceeded 400 million tons, and its crude steel output also exceeded 400 million tons, which was already quite powerful at that time.Who would have thought that after 20 years, the Soviet Union's pig iron output was only 500 million tons, and its crude steel output was only more than 600 million tons.

Of course, such data is not low in the world.Judging from the current situation, the United States has the highest steel output, followed by Germany and China, followed by the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union.

"Prime Minister, in fact, the Soviet Union launched several large-scale steel plant projects in the first five-year plan. It's just that many projects are still half-dead and still under construction. After some steel plant machinery and equipment were brought in, there were many assembly and production projects. problem, so the time delay is too long. That’s why their steel output can’t increase. If the steel plants they built in the First Five-Year Plan can produce according to the designed output, then the Soviet Union’s steel output will be greatly improved. In a few years Domestic crude steel output should exceed [-] million tons."

"Their steel plant project is not going well?"

"Yes."

Yan Huiqing nodded and said: "Our people have been paying attention to the Soviet steel plant project. Several steel plant projects in the first five-year plan of the Soviet Union were very large investments. Especially they cooperated with the US Steel Corporation to establish The newly established Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Complex had a design output of more than one million tons. However, due to serious funding problems when introducing machinery and equipment, it was delayed. After the machinery and equipment were in place, although Assembly started, but there was a severe shortage of technical personnel. Moreover, the domestic crisis of the U.S. Steel Company and the cooperation with us on a large project affected the Soviet project. Last year, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Complex was just put into trial operation. production, but it has been very poor so far this year.”

"kindness."

Duan Xun was very happy in his heart.

It seems that China suppressed the Soviet Union's foreign exchange and robbed the Soviet Union of talents, which was still very effective.Such an important project as the steel plant has not been completed.

Production is not going up.

Duan Xun understood this reason better than anyone else.Because many factories in China's Second Five-Year Plan have such problems now.The machinery and equipment are all installed, but because of insufficient management and insufficient technical personnel, the output cannot increase as a result.

It seems that the Soviet Union also faced such a problem.

In fact, there were serious problems in the First Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union in history.Many factories in the First Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union could not release their output due to a serious shortage of technical personnel.

It was precisely because of the disadvantages in the first five-year plan that the Soviet Union put forward the slogans "technology determines everything" and "cadres determine everything" during the second five-year plan, mainly to train technical personnel and technical cadres.After the end of the Second Five-Year Plan, the Soviet Union trained more than 400 million technical personnel and more than 400 million technical cadres.Relying on this kind of personnel training, many factories built in the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan had a large increase in output during the Second Five-Year Plan, just in time for World War II.

In the current Soviet Union, the situation of lack of talents far exceeds the situation in history.There are a lot of technical talent immigrants from Europe and the United States. China's participation in such a large number of people to carve up those talents certainly affected the situation of the Soviet Union's introduction of talents.Compared with the Soviet Union, China is more daring to spend money and gives better treatment.

Not only is the government making every effort to introduce talents, but Chinese private businessmen are also introducing more and more technical personnel.After the start of the Second Five-Year Plan, China has introduced more than 15 technical personnel and skilled workers from European and American countries, and the number will soon reach 20.And it is still constantly introducing various talents.

In order to introduce talents, China dares to spend a lot of money.

Even under the current situation of lack of foreign exchange, China would rather borrow money, or even reduce the import of machinery and equipment, and make great efforts to introduce talents.

what's the result?

The result was a severe blow to the Soviet Union.Compared with history, the Soviet Union has less than half of the introduction of technical personnel.Originally, the Soviet Union had a great shortage of technical personnel, and lost to China in the introduction of technical personnel, especially some top technical personnel.Let some of their important projects lack talents, and the project recommendation speed is very slow.

The Soviet steel industry encountered such a problem.

"Go on."

"The next step is the production of automobiles and tractors. The first five-year plan formulated by the Soviet Union had no plans for automobiles and tractors. But just in time for the world economic crisis, the Soviet Union added automobiles and tractors."

Yan Huiqing looked through the information and continued to report: "The Soviet Union produced 1932 cars in 1.4. In 1928, the Soviet Union produced about 700 cars, which is almost equivalent to none. Now the Soviet Union's car factories are all It was built in the First Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union and imported a large amount of automobile production equipment. However, it is the same as the problem of the steel factory, because of the lack of technical personnel, so the production has been unable to increase. The best plan of the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan, the first Five-Year Plan was completed At that time, the annual output of automobiles should reach 20 vehicles. Later, the additional plan of the 15th National Congress of the Soviet Union was 1.4 vehicles. For this goal, several automobile factories built in the Soviet Union were designed to produce more than [-] vehicles. It is only the output and design There is a huge discrepancy in production, with only [-] cars produced last year."

"In 1932, the Soviet Union produced 1.3 tractors. In 1928, the Soviet Union produced about 1300 tractors. The best plan for the First Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union was 5.5. Later, the additional plan of the 17th National Congress of the Soviet Union was 1200. However, the Soviet Union did not complete their goals. But the output of tractors can still be said to have developed by leaps and bounds. The problem of the Soviet tractor factory is the same as that of our country. The Soviet Union imported tractors from the United States to produce machinery and equipment, and built the largest tractor factory Stalinger Stalingrad Tractor Factory has a designed output of about [-] units. However, due to various reasons, the current output of Stalingrad Tractor Factory is only about [-] units, and the daily output is no more than three units.”

During World War II, the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, which was famous all over the world for producing a large number of tanks, is now just a newly built tractor factory.This is a major project of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan, a major project that the Soviet Central Committee attaches great importance to.

Whether it was China or the Soviet Union, the Great Depression was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Soviet Union wanted to develop industry, so collective farms were developed throughout the country, and the number of farmers was decreasing.In order to develop collective farms in the Soviet Union, agricultural mechanization was the top priority.Therefore, the Soviet Union attached great importance to the development of the tractor industry.

Therefore, under the urgent situation of foreign exchange, the Soviet Union still built such a large-scale tractor factory project as the Stalingrad Tractor Factory.For this project, the Soviet Union purchased a complete set of tractor production machinery and equipment from the United States.These machines and equipments are the same as those in China, and they are a complete set of machines and equipments completed by the cooperation of nearly a hundred factories in the United States.

Then the equipment was shipped back, reassembled in Stalingrad, and became the Stalingrad Tractor Factory.

It was the high hopes of the Soviet government.

But the situation is very bad.The Stalingrad Tractor Factory has a very high design output, with an annual design output of [-] units.However, the daily output of the factory with high hopes is only three, which is less than one-twentieth of the designed output.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union has a little foundation in the tractor industry.

In addition to the tractor factory equipment imported from Europe by the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union currently has four large tractor factories and some small tractor factories.In this way, the output of tractors in the Soviet Union exceeded [-].

"In addition to tractor factories, the Soviet Union also built many agricultural machinery factories to produce seeders and combine harvesters. However, the output is not very high, far less than the output of tractors."

"kindness."

Data reports come up one by one.

Everyone listened quietly.

Judging from the current situation, the first five-year plan formulated by the Soviet Union, although the Soviet government announced that it has been completed, many goals have not been realized.Especially the output of automobiles and tractors, as well as the output of other agricultural machinery, have not achieved the original target.Not only has it not been completed, but the gap is still very large.

"With such a production volume, how dare they declare that they have achieved the target?"

Duan Xun was funny.

The Soviet government is also funny, and they are not afraid of being ridiculed.It is so far from the goal of the five-year plan they formulated, and it is dare to say that it has been completed ahead of schedule.

"Prime Minister, the reason why the Soviet government announced the completion of the five-year plan should not be based on output. It should be based on the design output of those factories that have been completed. Although the actual output in many aspects has not reached the original target, the plan Most of the factories among them have already been built. As long as these factories complete the designed output, the output can meet the original target. The Soviet government should announce that the plan has been completed in accordance with this aspect.”

Duan Xun nodded.

It should be.If this were not the case, how could the Soviet government have the face to announce the completion of the First Five-Year Plan ahead of schedule.However, if it is not completed, it is not completed, and the progress is still very obvious.

Originally, the Soviet Union was almost blank in the automobile industry and agricultural machinery industry.But after the first five-year plan, the Soviet Union has already established a foundation in these areas, and it is a very good foundation.

Although compared with history, the number of automobile factories and tractor factories in the Soviet Union is much smaller, but they are already very powerful.Those machines and equipment have all been pulled back.

The problem now is that these factories have machinery and equipment, but the output cannot increase due to various reasons.When the output of these factories increases, the data will be very impressive.This increase in production is a matter of time.It is estimated that as long as two or three years, the output of these factories will be able to make a leap.

At that time, the data will be very beautiful.And even with the current data, the achievements of the Soviet Union are still very impressive.

"There are also statistics on power generation. In 1932, the Soviet Union's power generation was 141 billion kWh, an increase of 1928 billion kWh compared to 80. Moreover, there are many hydropower plants under construction in the Soviet Union, many of which are world-class hydropower plants. .Once these hydroelectric plants are completed, the Soviet Union's electricity production will be able to increase considerably."

The foundation of the Soviet power industry is better than that of China.As early as before World War I, the power generation capacity of the Soviet Union reached 20 billion kWh.Historically, in 1932, the power generation capacity of the Soviet Union had reached 173 billion kWh.

But at present, after China's sudden emergence, it has seriously interfered with the Soviet Union's first five-year plan.However, the Soviet government hoped that all fields of industry would develop, and the result was that the industrial data was much worse than in history.

Power generation is the most obvious.

30 billion degrees less than in history.

"The Soviet Union produced 1932 machine tools in 9800, and they increased the machine tool output by nearly 5000 during the First Five-Year Plan. There are also some industries that the Soviet government did not announce the output this time, but they are all worthy of praise. That is the first In the first five-year plan, many emerging sectors appeared in the Soviet Union to fill the gaps in their industries. This includes some heavy machinery industries, chemical synthesis industries, precision instrument industries, etc., which are the first in the Soviet Union. The Soviet government first The five-year plan has taken care of all aspects of industrial construction. Basically, no department has been left behind, and various industrial departments are very complete."

"good."

Duan Xun nodded.

For Stalin, as well as Duan Xun of the Soviet government, I still admire him very much.In particular, their industrial development direction is worthy of recognition.They are indeed very smart.