Telegram to Anshan Workers and Staff
(December 25, 1953)

: RMRB (Dec. 26, 1953), I. Other Chinese Text: Shuxin, p. 474;
\wy#, I (Jan. 28, 1954), 137. Available English Translation: NCNA, Daily
Bulletin, 954 (Dec. 31, 1953), 3,

All workers and staff of Anshan Iron and Steel Company’

Comrades:

I received your letter of December 21, 1953.

The construction projects of the Anshan Seamless Tubing Mill, the Anshan
Heavy Rolling Mill, and the Anshan No. 7 Blast Furnace have been
completed ahead of schedule, and they have begun production. All of these
are great events in our country’s development of heavy industry in 1953.
I convey warm congratulations and deep gratitude to all the workers and staff
who were engaged in these three construction projects, all the workers and
staff of the Anshan Iron and Steel Company, and all the comrades of the
Soviet Union who assisted in Anshan's construction. The people of our country are now united as one in a struggle to realize the socialist industrialization
of our country. Your heroic labor is a major contribution to this goal. I hope
you will continue your endeavor, learn from the advanced experience of the
Soviet Union, make full use of your wisdom and strength, and strive for even
greater achievements,

(Signed and dated)

Note

440 | MAO ZEDONG

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1. See the Dec. 14, 1952, source note.