Economic Engine: Building Car and Tractor Factories

This book covers the founding of FAW; the central government's decision to build an automobile manufacturing plant; the automobile preparatory group’s careful selection of a site; the establishment of FAW’s leadership team in Changchun; the central government’s decision to build FAW in three years; nationwide support for FAW’s construction; FAW’s grand groundbreaking ceremony; FAW’s dispatch of trainees to the Soviet Union; intellectuals’ participation in FAW’s construction; the people across the country supporting FAW’s construction; FAW workers’ enthusiasm for learning; Soviet experts’ support for FAW’s construction; FAW’s prompt correction of construction problems; FAW’s launch of production; labor competitions among FAW’s builders; the first furnace of molten iron coming out of the foundry; the completion of all civil engineering and installation work; workshops successfully meeting their schedules; the rollout of the first Jiefang-brand cars; FAW’s grand production-launch ceremony; and the production of FAW’s first passenger car, among other events.