Heilongjiang province daqing city soldier's dependents Medal 1953

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This was the first year of the First Five-Year Plan, China's first seamless tube was made in Anshan, the capital of steel. Here, the first fine-quality seamless steel tube emerges from a punch. It showed that, from then on, China can make any kind of seamless tube for the use of industrial construction.

Haizhou Coal Mine in Fuxin, completed in only two years, was the largest open cut coal mine with machine production in China, producing 8 million tons a year and providing a large amount of fine-quality coal to various parts of the country. It was still under construction while producing coal. Here is a corner of the mine, with a new coal loading machine in operation.

After two years of negotiation, the Korean truce agreement was signed on the afternoon of July 27. Army General Nan Ri (right), chief representative of the Chinese delegation, and chief representative of the US counterpart (left) sign the truce and the provisional supplementary agreement.

On March 8, International Women's Day, the first batch of women pilots trained by New China held a ceremony in the capital to celebrate their first flight. Their skillful flight performance won the praise of 7,000 women from various circles. Here is the first batch of aircrew women, including pilots, navigators, correspondents and mechanics.