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Environment & Energy

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Reminds of Mao's Little Steel ("Backyard Furnaces") during the Great Leap Forward

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Sat Jul 29, 2023, 05:48 PM

Jul 2023

It was a wasteful way of small scale steel production in communes and other small entities, but mostly it produced merely pig iron and some of the steel was smelted steel from other sources (hence cannabilistic of real production).

I suspect there is a lot of patronage and rewarding with fat contracts and "enhanced" production/installation figures, etc.

(In addition to excerpt's interesting reasoning)

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Reminds of Mao's Little Steel ("Backyard Furnaces") during the Great Leap Forward Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2023 #1

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