Day 9- Steel Mill factory, First IS class.

Hi everyone, the temperature now is 15degree, not as cold and that I could feel the heat from the brightly shone sun.
Met at the classroom block at 8.10am to collect our helmets and board the bus with the ECE group to the Steel Mill factory. The bus journey was about 30 minutes. On our way there, the assistant of the Steel Mill factory went down to help us register at the registration building and then continue our journey towards our destination. We were given a brief information of the factory outside and then proceeded inside to see the whole process of how the steel material are generated. The overall process and history of the factory are very interesting.


I've observed that the firm is divided into several parts such that the management of researching, stocks and shares are at different places along the journey.
Wuhan Steel Mill Factory is founded in 1974 with Japan. Initially, the firm was afraid that it may close down because of inefficiency and low level of resource. However, surprisingly, the firm survived for several years till today because Japan thinks that China can still maintain as a rich country and that their economy will be increasing gradually over the years. at 1978, 12December, the firm made the first roll of steel.
The process of making the steel includes burning, cutting, washing and even flattening took about 1 minute, whereby the distance of the whole process is about 1.5km, but they minimized it into 800m.

Process:
The furnace is set at a very high temperature and used to burn the metal into stainless steel. After which, it is flattened with the used of the machine, where the maximum number of time for it to flatten is 5 times but 3 times is needed only, and washed through the water pumped by the motor to enable it to be clean for rolling into a coil. A quality check is used to ensure that the metal produced are of an optimum condition. Lastly, it is then sent to the truck for delivery.

The very hot metal that just came out from the furnace.

The ready-made steel.


On the classroom level, whereby out of sudden, a pile of rubbish is found on the ground.

We had our first IS lesson today at 2pm that is taught by Grace, a local lecturer. She went through the history of China, policies, the system party congress, political system, economy of China over the years and many more. China is found in 1st October 1949. At different states in China, there are different child birth policy. The main yet common to be found in China is that each family can only have a child. A fine will be given if another child is born down. Such that in Shanghai, the more advance city, where economy and people's financial status are good, if the first child is not a male, they can have another chance of giving birth to try for a boy until a limit. She even shared with us her experience of joining the communist party in the past. The content were interesting, however, the slides were too wordy that it made us feel sleepy. Next lesson will be taught on doing business in China. I felt that it will entertain me even more because China consists of a huge population and that their economy is increasing gradually over the years, which then became one of the world powerful country with uncountable import and export rate besides US.

Reflection:
I felt that Singaporeans are actually very fortunate that we have no one-child policy or any policy that are against of having to give birth to more than one child. On the other way round, Singaporeans are given incentives when giving birth, such that it increases according to the number of child instead of like in China, they have to pay the country for another recognised identification if more than one child is given birth to. Therefore, since the population in Singapore is so much smaller, we should learn to appreciate and consider on the child planning for future.