Jiao Yulu in Luo Mine

In the second batch of national industrial heritage Luoyang Mining Machinery Factory (referred to as "Luo Mine"), on the sidewalk on the west side of Jiao Yulu Avenue, there is a display of the country's first 2.5-meter-diameter twin-drum winch manufactured by Jiao Yulu 63 years ago. machine. The sun rises and the moon sets, the cold and the heat go, it stands there quietly, telling people about an unforgettable time.
First to Luo Mine
In 1953, the country began to implement the first five-year plan. At that time, six of the 156 key projects aided by the Soviet Union were set up in Luoyang, including Luoyang Mining Machinery Factory. In June of the same year, 31-year-old Jiao Yulu responded to the call of the party and came to the Luo Mine under construction with passion and the ideal of realizing socialist industrialization. As soon as he completed the registration procedures, he eagerly told the comrades in charge of personnel work that his body was very strong and could withstand wrestling. Please assign work as soon as possible.
The factory was built in Jianxi, dozens of miles away from the old city. At that time, the construction tasks such as collecting data, building roads and bridges, and building factories were very heavy. Everyone was determined to draw "the most beautiful picture" on "a blank sheet of paper". However, some comrades who had just transferred from the agricultural front to the industrial front did not adapt to it for a while and felt afraid of difficulties. Jiao Yulu made up a paragraph to encourage everyone, don't be afraid, do work, learn culture, ants can chew big bones, we meet a mountain also move it!"
The factory proposed that it was urgent to build a road from the station to the factory. Jiao Yulu took the initiative to undertake this urgent task. The factory only gave him half a year. After receiving the task, Jiao Yulu and the workers slept on the road construction site. Due to the small number of temporary sheds, Jiao Yulu was busy running around the construction site during the day and leaving the sheds for the workers to live in at night. He proposed that the cadres sleep in the open air and took the lead in moving the bedding to the wild. He also said wittily, where can I find such a big house and such a big bed!
In the summer of 1954, the water of Jianhe River soared. When the surging flood endangered the wooden bridge temporarily built by the workers on the Jianhe River, Jiao Yulu was the first to jump into the swift flood. After fighting, he finally saved the wooden bridge. Jiao Yulu's legs were injured and blood flowed, but he ignored himself and was busy delivering food to the workers. Everyone was very motivated and finally completed the task in just over three months. Watching cars full of materials speeding by, everyone was very happy, and Jiao Yulu was looking forward to new tasks.
study hard
In August 1954, in order to cultivate technical backbones, Luo Mine selected Jiao Yulu and other five people to study at Harbin Institute of Technology. Just as they finally passed the examination after hard work and were ready to meet the undergraduate classes in the university, Luo Mine was put into production ahead of schedule and urgently needed management cadres. The organization decided to let them stop their studies and transfer to Dalian Crane Factory for internship.
In March 1955, after Jiao Yulu came to Dalian Crane Factory, he was assigned to the second metalworking workshop as deputy director of the internship. As soon as he arrived in Dalian, he couldn't wait to ask the old comrades in the crane factory how long it would take to learn how to manage the business in the factory. After getting the answer that it would take one or two years to get started, Jiao Yulu knew that he could not afford to wait, nor could Luo Mine. He began to race against time to learn as he worked. During working hours, he learned professional skills from workers and planning from planners. During the off-duty hours, he worked hard to study books such as "Basic Knowledge of Factory Management. After half a year's hard study, Jiao Yulu not only mastered the knowledge that others need a year or two to master, but also accurately worked out the workshop production plan. Everyone praised him as "the best workshop director".
In addition to his busy work, Jiao Yulu was diligent in thinking and writing. He not only published articles such as "some experiences on the working methods of the section chief" in the factory newspaper, but also summed up "ten working experiences" for the grass-roots cadres in the workshop: first, we should rely on the masses; second, we should carry forward democracy; third, we should constantly sum up work; fourth, we should learn politics; fifth, we should use activists to do work; sixth, care about the lives of the masses; seventh, we must rely on the leadership of the party; eighth, we must do a good job in unity; ninth, we must study the party's policies; tenth, we must take the initiative to report work to superiors.
At the end of the internship, Dalian Crane Factory offered to keep Jiao Yulu, but he did not accept it because Luo Mine needed him more.
make contributions
In December 1956, Jiao Yulu ended his internship in Dalian and returned to Luo Mine. He was appointed as the director of a metalworking workshop by the party committee of the factory. He devoted himself to the construction of Luo Mine day and night. He led everyone to charge forward and face the difficulties. He was as tireless as an iron man. His colleagues saw that his eyes were red and his whole face was yellow and thin. They advised him to pay attention to his body. Jiao Yulu said with a consistent optimistic attitude: "It's okay. It's better to be thin and it's convenient to work."
In the spring of 1958, the party Committee of the factory decided that the workshop where Jiao Yulu is located should undertake the task of trial-producing the first 2.5-meter diameter double-barrel winch in new China. the winch is mainly used for lifting and translating materials in mines, docks and water conservancy facilities. In order to shorten the construction period, Jiao Yulu adopted the method of "dissecting sparrows" and disassembled all the thousands of parts on the entire Soviet machine, one by one.
During that time, Jiao Yulu took the factory as his home and lived in the workshop. In the evening, he used the long bench nailed into the packing board of the workshop as a bed, covered it with cotton-padded clothes and narrowed it for a while. At four or five o'clock, he started a new day's work. On one occasion, the whole casting gear of the hoist could not pass the process. He stayed beside the hobbing machine for two days and two nights, carefully calculating the clamping method, hobbing cycle, number of knives and auxiliary time, and studying and improving the process together with the workers. Due to long-term overwork, he suffered from severe stomach problems and hepatitis. Sometimes he couldn't even stretch his waist when he was in pain. He couldn't carry it anymore. He took a piece of soda and used chopsticks against the liver to relieve it. Everyone felt sorry for him and advised him to go back and rest for a while, but Jiao Yulu refused.
In this way, under the leadership of Jiao Yulu, a metalworking workshop overcame many difficulties such as incomplete equipment, scarce raw materials and parts, and successfully completed the development task in just over two months, which not only filled a gap in the history of mining machinery production in China, but also alleviated the urgent need for mining and upgrading ore and coal operations in China.
This winch weighs 108 tons alone. In August of the same year, it was assigned to the Yima Guanyintang Coal Mine in Henan Province, which doubled the lifting capacity of the mine. This machine with a rated service life of 20 years has been in service for 49 years, showing good safety and performance. Until 2015, in order to better inherit and carry forward the spirit of Jiao Yulu, CITIC Heavy Industries (Luoyang Mining Machinery Factory later turned into CITIC Heavy Industries Machinery Co., Ltd.) welcomed this winch, which witnessed the national industrial development process and condensed Jiao Yulu's painstaking efforts, and placed it in the factory area.
In January 1959, Jiao Yulu was appointed as the chief of the production scheduling section by the factory party committee due to his outstanding performance. In May, he was elected as a member of the factory party committee. In 1962, he resolutely obeyed the organizational arrangements and returned to the agricultural front. From then on, he bid farewell to nine years of industrial years and began another new journey in his life.
 

Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News