The slogan of catching up with the beauty of the Premier League puts forward the background.

The slogan of catching up with the beauty of the Premier League is largely related to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. 1950, volunteers entered the DPRK to fight. Mao Zedong put it this way: "The American army has more steel but less gasoline, and our army has more gasoline and less steel." That year, the steel output of the United States was 87 million tons, which was 1.42 times that of China. Most of the 665438+100000 tons of steel in China are pig iron and wrought iron made by blacksmiths. If only compared with steel output, the gap will reach an astonishing 368 times. On average, the per capita steel output in the United States is close to half a ton, which can make half a jeep. There are only seven taels in China, which is not enough to make a bayonet.

Whether there is enough steel has become the most intuitive gap between China and western developed countries. In the Battle of Shangganling, the US military threw hundreds of thousands of bombs and shells every day, cutting down the granite mountain in Shangganling by 3 meters. In order to resist this indiscriminate bombing, the volunteers actually dug air-raid shelters by taking out explosives from the enemy's duds.

The shell of the bomb is cast steel, the shell of the shell is forged steel, and the explosive is the product of a huge joint chemical equipment. The steel consumption of each large chemical plant was equivalent to the total steel output of China for more than ten years at that time. If the quality of steel is considered, there are hundreds of kinds of steel used in any modern factory, 90% of which can't be smelted even 50g in China at that time.

Throughout the history of human war, the side with more steel production is likely to win. Therefore, although the volunteers used their "qi" to resist the imperialist invasion in North China, the people in the south still realized the great crisis.

In June, the big socialist family got together in Moscow. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm of the Soviet Union for just launching the first artificial satellite, various socialist countries have formed the understanding that "socialism is rising and capital ownership is declining". Khrushchev proposed at the meeting that it would take 15 years to catch up with and surpass the United States. As an ally of the Soviet Union at that time, Mao Zedong said that "(steel production) will catch up with Britain within fifteen years". In February 65438, Liu Shaoqi announced to the whole country that China would catch up with Britain in steel and heavy industry in 15. In 1957, Mao Zedong said, "We should work hard for 50 years, build our industry and have as much steel as the United States". In this way, together with the slogan "Catch up with Britain in fifteen years", it is called "Catch up with the beauty of the Premier League".

In the next few decades, the people of China will go all out to increase steel production, without anyone's mobilization.