
Symphony of Steel: the Republic Movement of an Early Returned Engineer
by Li Ruihua
About This Novel
This book is the memoirs of Mr. Li Ruihua, the founder of the steel structure industry in the Republic. Mr. Li Ruihua was born in a middle-class family in Shanghai in the 1920s. He studied at the Department of Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and then went to the University of Toronto to obtain a master's degree in engineering, majoring in steel structure design; he returned to China in 1952. Because of the war to resist U. S. Aggression and aid Korea, we had to take a detour through Europe and Asia, and it took more than a month to reach Shanghai. He serves as deputy chief engineer at East China Industrial Design Institute. In 1954, Li Ruihua was transferred to the Beijing Industrial Architecture Design Institute, and later to the Design Office of the General Administration of Metal Structure of the Ministry of Construction as chief engineer, responsible for key military and civilian projects among the 156 major projects in the country's first five-year plan. Under his leadership, thousands of structural design projects were undertaken. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were more than 1,000 tower and mast structures alone, such as transmission towers and television towers, laying the foundation for the great development of my country's radio and television industry.
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