Blast furnaces rise in level ground releasing red rays everywhere

高炉平地起遍地放红光
Gaolu pingdi qi biandi fang hongguang
Blast furnaces rise in level ground releasing red rays everywhere
1958, October
Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社)
54x77 cm.
BG E16/191

Small furnaces are built everywhere to increase steel production. Useful iron objects, like cutlery and tools, are melted down to steel that is usually of such low quality that nothing can be done with it.