[100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China] "The First City Created by the Communist Party of China", Yangquan, Shanxi: From "Coal City" to City of New Materials
[Explanation] Yangquan City is located in the eastern part of Shanxi Province, in the combined zone of the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain. It has always been known as the mainstay of Shanxi and Hebei and the east gate of Shanxi.
On May 2, 1947, Yangquan was liberated in the Zhengtai Campaign; on May 4, the Yangquan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Yangquan Municipal People’s Government were formally established, becoming the first people’s city in the history of the Communist Party of China, and it was hailed as the "Foundation of the Communist Party of China". The first city".
Recently, the reporter walked into Baojin Alley in the urban area of Yangquan City. Two rows of brick-wood structures are undergoing renovation. This is the former site of the Yangquan Municipal Party Committee and Government, witnessing the history of "the first city created by the Chinese Communist Party".
[Concurrent] Guo Yuzhu, Director of the Party History Research Office of Yangquan Municipal Party Committee
The transportation in Yangquan is convenient. Yangquan is the midpoint of Zhengtai Railway. When you walk out of Niangziguan, you will enter the whole country.
Second, Yangquan has a strong industrial foundation. The headquarters of Baojin Company, the largest national enterprise in the province, is located in Yangquan. The Baojin Iron Works is also located in Yangquan. The Baojin Iron Works and the Hanyang Iron Works in Hubei and the Benxi Iron Works in Liaoning are Known as the three major iron plants in the country at that time.
It can be said that Yangquan smelting, coal mining, metallurgy and other industries and industries are at the forefront of the country.
Third, our revolution here has made a huge contribution.
[Explanation] Liu Zhitian, 90 years old this year, is a retired cadre in Yangquan. He came to Yangquan when the city was founded.
[Concurrent] Liu Zhitian, a retired veteran cadre
Yangquan City is a city that was liberated relatively early in the country. After the liberation of Yangquan City, the great task of the Yangquan City Government was to support the War of Liberation. The War of Liberation in 1947 has not stopped. The city management experience of Yangquan City has been praised by the North China District. The other is Yangquan. The city joined the army twice in 1947 and 1948. In October 1947, 250 people left at one time, and 500 people left at one time in October 1948. Yangquan was small at that time, with only 20,000 people in the urban area and tens of thousands in the suburbs. , Such a small place.
Another, Yangquan's handicraft industry and iron industry are relatively developed, so after our liberation, Yangquan's military industry is relatively developed.
[Explanation] According to data, from June 1946 to October 1947, a total of 11,092 young and middle-aged men joined the army in Yangquan, which became an important base for Liberation War soldiers.
At the same time, the local state-owned Yangquan Coal Mine Company was established to resume coal and iron production, and the coal and iron were continuously transported to the liberated areas of North and East China, which strongly supported the National War of Liberation.
[Concurrent] Liu Zhitian, a retired veteran cadre
On April 24, 1949, after the liberation of Taiyuan, Yangquan was stable, and the planes did not come to bomb. After the liberation of Taiyuan, we tore off the air defense paper on the windows and the paper on the glass. The courtyard The dug air-raid trenches were filled, and there were air-raid trenches everywhere on the street, and they were all filled up, because there is no longer a war and there is no such threat.
[Explanation] The history of the Communist Party of China in Yangquan’s establishment of a city is an immortal monument in the history of Yangquan’s red culture. It is that the Communist Party of China "ends the rural encirclement of the city and opens a new stage of urban leadership to the rural areas." A successful practice of "city" has created valuable experience for the Chinese Communist Party to seize, take over, establish, and manage urban power and economic construction.
[Concurrent] Guo Yuzhu, Director of the Party History Research Office of Yangquan Municipal Party Committee
For example, in the land reform movement at that time, we here focused on cadres to go to the grassroots level, change their styles, and personally walk into the homes of poor farmers to understand the current status of the land.
The second is the reform of the household registration system here. After our establishment at that time, the Municipal Public Security Bureau conducted a comprehensive survey of the household registration system and explored a registration system for establishing a household registration system.
[Explanation] After the founding of New China, Yangquan became a well-known "Coal City" at home and abroad, and made outstanding contributions to guaranteeing the country's energy supply and the construction of the new China's industrial system.
In recent years, Yangquan, which is "prosperous in coal and trapped in coal", is facing a transformation.
In order to promote structural transformation and accelerate the conversion of new and old kinetic energy, Yangquan is building a city of new materials and a new blue ocean for gold.
On October 27, 2020, Yangquan Coal Industry Group, one of the pillar enterprises in the coal industry in Shanxi Province, was renamed Huayang New Material Technology Group as a whole.
According to the plan, Huayang New Material Technology Group will focus on the blue ocean of new materials and open a new stage of specializing in the new material industry.
[Concurrent] Jiang Xubo, Technical Supervisor, Research Institute of Aerogel Science and Technology City R&D Center, Huayang Group
We have transformed from a traditional material such as coal to a new material. You are like us from a piece of charcoal to a piece of cloth. This is our experience from an old industry to a new industry.
For example, our 7 business divisions, including new green and energy-saving building materials, new functional fiber materials, and our new graphene materials.
Our new graphene material is also, through our coal, including some graphite, based on such a raw material, we separate graphene from it, and we use graphene-based raw materials to expand our graphene functional fiber downstream, including Some of our graphene electric heating films, graphene chips and other downstream terminals are expanding.
[Explanation] Over the past 70 years, Yangquan has gradually transformed from a coal city of "one coal dominance" to a city of new materials industry.
With the pace of China’s economic transformation and upgrading, Yangquan is also undergoing a transition from the primary industry of “digging coal and burning charcoal” to “aerogel green energy-saving building materials, new functional fiber materials, new energy storage materials, graphite The process of evolution of new materials industries, new generation information technology industries, and new energy industry clusters such as “ene new materials”.
"The First City of the Communist Party of China" is building a national innovative city, a demonstration city for urban-rural integration development, a modern and fashionable high-quality city, an open hub economic carrying area, a digital economy industry leading area, and a 100 billion-level new material industry base. Promote transformation into embryonic form.
Reporter Qu Lixia reports from Yangquan, Shanxi
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]