Outline History Of The Soviet Union's Aiding Constructionof The Baotou Iron And Steel Industry Base

During the 1950s ,as building its "156 projects" ,China has imported from the Soviet Union and some other eastern European socialist countries a large number of equipments and technology, and engaged many foreign experts, which has produced Unprecedented achievements, and also has an enormous and profound influence to the socialist construction of China.However, research on the topic of Soviet's aiding construction of China's large projects is far from enough.Taking the construction of the Baotou Iron and Steel Industry Base as an example, this paper means to give a new light to the problem. The Baotou Iron and Steel Industry Base-one project of the "156" was aided technically by the Soviet Union in many aspects from the location of the plant, to the prospecting of the geology, from the collecting of the original materials to the directing of construction. Considering the given historical conditions, the importing of such a metallurgical technology relatively counts successful.