A 40-year historical review of the foundation stone of the new Chinese chemical fiber industry

Organization and leadership. From 1949 to 1972, the state invested a total of 7.325 billion yuan in the textile industry, mainly for the construction of cotton spinning industry. The total investment of 7 billion yuan in the "four chemical fibers" is mainly used in petrochemical plants.

In February 1973, the Ministry of Light Industry set up a complete set of equipment import office known as the "small textile Department", responsible for the "four chemical fiber" project of foreign negotiations, planning, infrastructure and production preparation, Vice Minister Jiao Shanmin served as director. From 1958 to 1964, Vice Minister Jiao served as the secretary in charge of industry in the Secretariat of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, during which he was familiar with Comrade Lin Hua, the pioneer of China's petrochemical industry, who was the deputy manager and chief engineer of Lanzhou Chemical Industry Company. Lin Hua proposed in 1961 that technology and equipment should be introduced to transform coal and grain chemical industry into petroleum chemical industry as soon as possible. In 1962, Premier Zhou listened to Lin Hua's report and approved the introduction of 12 sets of petrochemical chemical fiber equipment; The acrylic fiber plant with an annual capacity of 8,000 tons is one of them; As a result, Lanhua has become the first petrochemical base in China. Jiao transferred Lin Hua as deputy director of the Import Office at the beginning of 1974 and took over as director in 1975 to focus on the construction of "four chemical fibers". Lin Hua also brought 10 Lanhua technicians to provide important technical guarantees for the construction of the "four chemical fibers" with petrochemical equipment as the main body.