In 1943, the situation in Lunan, which was at the forefront of the war of resistance against Japan, was very difficult. In May, Li Zongjiu, chief of the Department of industrial and commercial administration of the CCP Binhai District, was ordered to create Huaxing iron factory in Hulu gully, Junan County, Shandong, and then was made up by general Xu Shiyou of Jiaodong military region, "the eighth military factory in Lunan", the predecessor of the Xuzhou heavy machinery factory. Workers carry forward the spirit of fear of death, two not afraid of suffering, in the daytime production self rescue, with the main force at night to steal the Japanese invaders, the main production of mines, laregrenas, grenades, shells and other military products.
At the beginning of the founding of new China, China was in the initial stage of industrialization, and heavy plants began to turn to agricultural machinery production. In 1953, in the absence of experience, equipment, and serious shortage of manpower, the whole factory workers carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit of "without conditions to create conditions." after 3 months of fighting day and night, the first working machine in Xuzhou - 35 tons of tilted punch was successfully produced. In 2 years, 77 units were produced in all parts of the country. It has helped the country's economic construction.
During the period of 15, the agricultural production climax was set off in the whole country. According to the 110 thousand double wheeled double share plough production task, the factory has carried out the labor production competition of "eight doubles the output and half the cost". More than a thousand workers eat in the factory, fight day and night, and finish the task over half a year in advance in 1956, and have been rated as one of the six advanced agricultural machinery plants in the country.
