From Nanjing, Harry and Ting Ping Hou travelled to Wuhan, where Harry had five days of lovely metallurgical discussions, and visits to major steel industry around Wuhan.
 The Young Teachers Room, occupied by Ting Ping |
 Harry enjoyed some cucumber flavoured crisps |
 We also had a one-day conference on a variety of topics associated with emerging steels |
 Guess who |
 While people were being assembled for a group photograph, Harry was able to take this first. |
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 Ting Ping gave an amazing talk on the influence of magnetic fields on transformations in steels, not just the major phases, but including precipitates. |
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 A truly breathtaking ballet and acrobatics involving deep diving where the stage turned into water. |
 At the first steel plant of Chinese origin at Wuhan. This is the famous statement made by Chairman Mao, that food and steel solve so much. |
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 The energy control centre of the steel plant |
 This is the energy-efficient electric arc furnace that operates with three carbon electrodes |
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 Sintered iron ore pellets. Powdered ore does not allow the free passage of reducing-gas through the blast furnace. |
 Limestones |
 Sintered iron ore pellets |
 Reinforcement bars ("Rebars") |
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 Professor Wu Kaiming in the middle. |
 On the way home, we paid homage to the two ordinary sisters, who married high-ranking officials many centuries ago, and brought peace to the region. |
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