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Backyard furnace

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In China, backyard furnaces (土法炼钢) were large and small blast furnaces used by the people of China during the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). These were constructed in the fields and backyards of communes to further the Great Leap Forward's aims of making China the top steel producer in the world. However, most furnaces were capable of producing only unusable pig iron.

Backyard furnace - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chinese blast furnaces Workers tend backyard furnaces (1958) Backyard furnace Traditional Chinese 土法煉鋼 Simplified Chinese 土法炼钢 Literal meaning primitive steelmaking Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin tǔfǎ liàngāng In China, backyard furnaces ( 土法炼钢 ) were large and small blast furnaces used by the people of China during the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These were constructed in the fields and backyards of communes to further the Great Leap Forward's aims of mak

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