Instruction on the Daye Steel Plant
(February 19, 1953)

Source: Quoted in Wu Shangyin, “Mao zhuxi er ci shicha Daye gangoh
(Chairman Mao Again Inspects the Daye Steel Plant), in Mao Hubei, p, 3

The Chinese version of this inscription, written after an inspection that Mao

the Daye Steel Plant in southeastern Hubei, about 40 km. southeast of the tri
city of Wuhan, is merely a representation of the four-character slogan (or palley,
tive) “ban da ban hao,” which is very terse It represents a policy of maintaining

quality level of industrial management while at the same time expanding ti -
the enterprises in order to meet the increasing demands of socialist construction,
slogan has been popular since 1952.

Strive to expand the capacity of the plant
and do a good job of running it.