Huhehaote

— In July 1958 a rash of machinery plants began to make their own iron and steel from small modern furnaces. For example, the Hsin-sheng Machinery Plant in Huhohaote, Inner Mongolia, began producing pig iron for its own use on July 1 from two 13 cubic meter blast furnaces and announced the intention of installing two more, each of 55 cubic meter capacity during 1958; see Nei meng ku Jih-pao (Huhohaote), July 2, 1958, p. 1 (cit., WIRCC, no. 233, p. 5).