Wang Chonglun

Wang Chonglun (1927–2002) was a Chinese model worker at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company (Angang).

Biography

Wang was born in 1927 in Liaoyang, Liaoning.

Wang was a Chinese model worker at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company (Angang).: 241-243  His work speed resulted in the nickname "man in front of time".: 245 

In December 1953, Wang organized the Wang Chonglun Advanced Producer School, modeled on the Stakhanovite School of the Soviet Union.: 216 

In 1960, Wang worked at Angang's Northern Machine-Repair Factory.: 243  There, Wang invented a semi-automated drilling machine that increased worker drilling speed by a factor of fourteen.: 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.: 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.

Wang died in 2002.

Cultural depictions

Wang's experiences, along with those of fellow Anshan model worker Meng Tai, are portrayed in the 2022 film Steel Will.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Wang Chonglun: A Man in Front of Time-Tianjin Equipment Research Institute". en.tsinghua-tj.org. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. ↑ 顾馨. "Retelling a historic moment shaped by 'steel will'". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2025-02-19.