Ideal Shines in China·Footprint: The first metal national emblem was born here

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Please do not reprint without permission. If you delete the source, you must investigate. "First" is born here. What many people don't know is that the first metal national emblem of New China was also born here.

On November 2, 1948, Shenyang was liberated. In the face of the shortage of equipment and materials, Shenyang immediately launched the activities of "protecting the factory and resuming work" and "donating equipment", "calling the factory to smoke", which became the most resounding slogan of the era at that time. The cultural relics in the China Industry Museum, located in Tiexi District, Shenyang, record that extraordinary period of time, and it is this huge national emblem.

The first metal national emblem of New China was born here.

At that time, the state handed over the task of pouring the first metal national emblem to Shenyang No. 1 Machinery Factory. The melting points of copper and aluminum are very different, and workers could only stand in front of the furnace. Observing with the naked eye, there is no deoxidizer, only a wooden stick can be used to stir and deoxidize. In this case, in April 1951, this national emblem full of the sweat and wisdom of the workers was successfully cast. On May 1, 1951, it was It hangs solemnly on the tower of Tiananmen Square.

The machine tools produced here are on the 1960 version of the two-yuan banknotes

The first machine tool in New China was also born in the Shenyang No. 1 Machine Factory at that time. In the China Industrial Museum, the most exhibits are all kinds of machine tools. On the two-yuan banknotes issued in my country in 1960, the pattern printed on the front shows a worker operating a machine tool. The pattern printed on it is the first ordinary lathe independently developed by the new China. Because of its excellent performance, it was even exported to the United States for a time.

There are more than 4,000 exhibits with stories like this in the China Museum of Industry. The soul of China's industry echoes here, that is, hard work and bravery to be the first.