During 1958-1960 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward" title="Great Leap Forward">Great Leap Forward</a>  era, Chinese were using backyard furnaces to produce steel, instead, useless pig iron were produced..
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1958
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