From forging iron and casting pots to producing auto parts: the inheritance and leap of Shonan¡¯s ¡°Precision Casting Town¡±
Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, April 15, Title: From the casting pot to the production of auto parts: the inheritance and leap of the "investment casting town" in southern Hunan
Xinhua News Agency reporter
"Home has the iron Lang, not worry about the wife; The home has a blacksmith, the pot will not be empty." Yinghua Village villager Zhou Huabing's day begins with the forging sound of "ding ding Dong dong". The 49-year-old blacksmith, swinging his hammer, kept hammering the red-hot three-fingered harrow, as if he had an unstoppable force.
Tangcun Town, Jiahe County, Chenzhou City, to which Yinghua Village belongs, is located among the hills to the south of Hunan. Tangcun Town forging industry originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has a long history and is well known as "the town of forging" and "the town of precision casting".
"Blacksmithing to good health, eat hard, diligent, in order to adhere to." Relying on the craft passed down by his family, Zhou Huabing has been engaged in blacksmithing for more than 30 years. "Most of the village is based on family work, and some have gone to Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places." "Said Zhou.
Like Zhou Huabing, Huang Jisheng, the inheritor of kitchen knife forging skills in Jiahe County, has been blacksmithing with his father for more than 30 years. He and his apprentices now make more than 300,000 knives a year and sell them all over China.
"It takes more than 3,000 hammers to make a good knife. When I was working with iron, the sweat from my body kept flowing down, my clothes were wet and dry and wet, and my whole body was like drawing a map." With both hands, Huang Jisheng held up the cause left by his ancestors, and became the veritable "king of knives" in the town.
Walk into Tangcun town "blacksmithing street", you can see the gray workshop, the fire is red, sweating iron workers are beating hoes, firewood knives, harrows, tongs and other farm tools. For thousands of years, Tangcun people with a hammer, "ring" reputation of the great river north and south, sparks splashed also hammer out a dazzling industry business card.
With the updating and iteration of the industry, the wave of mechanization is rolling in, inheriting the craft of iron casting pot for thousands of years, ushering in the leap of multi-form development. "From the traditional farm tools, knives, to the current production of injection molding machines, auto parts, through the advantage of the platform to build, improve the infrastructure supporting, Jiahe forging industry ushered in great changes." Li Zongxiang, deputy director of Jiahe County Development and Reform Bureau, said.
Reporter saw in a casting plant in Jiahe Economic Development Zone, Hunan province, steel through melting, casting, modeling, sand treatment, polishing and other processes, and finally made into standard small objects, packaging out of the warehouse. "We use the order-type production, mainly supply Ford, Wuling, Fast and other car companies." "Said Huang Xiaohui, head of the company's equipment department.
"Forging is an extremely hard industry, front-line workers should be able to tolerate high temperature and noise." Lei Yanfa, head of Jiahe Seiko Forging and Casting Co., LTD., who settled in Tangcun Town, told reporters that it is because of its long historical heritage that Jiahe forging industry can thrive so far and show its vigorous vitality.
Reporter learned that through the transformation and upgrading in recent years, Jiahe has formed a number of large-scale, professional casting and forging enterprises with high quality and complete varieties. In addition to auto parts, it can also produce CNC machine tools, hydraulic pumps, overpass pull rings and slings and other products.
Jiahe County Party secretary Guo Xin said that to "Jiangnan capital of precision casting" to control the development of the entire Jiahe County, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, green development, and drive the high-quality economic and social development. (Reporter: Star, Liu Wangmin, Chen Sihan)