China's paint industry in the baptism of war and the Japanese struggle tenacious.

China Coatings Network
: As we all know, the Chinese civilization is bright five thousand years, the same,
of
coatings is also very long. China was one of the first countries in the world to produce and use paint. As far away as the Shang Dynasty, China has been using natural paint - large paint to coat utensils, furniture and so on. During the Han and Tang Periods, China's fine lacquer and lacquering skills were transmitted to Japan, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, India and France, Germany, Italy and other Eurasian countries.
,
paint
not equal to paint, in essence, paint is a natural product, and paint is chemical creation. Paint industry belongs to the modern industry, the modern sense of China's paint industry actually originated in 1915 (Shanghai Kailin
paint factory
), from now on has 100 years of development history. Over the past 100 years, China's modern paint industry has gone through the tortuous development course of bitterness and humiliation, germination and start-up, blow and stagnation, development and rise. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War, Creston Water Paint compiled the following articles based on public historical materials to pay tribute to China's paint industry.
After the Opium War of 1840, foreign power, under the protection of many unequal treaties imposed on China, dumped large quantities of "foreign goods" into China, making China's national industry dying, including paint.
in order to resist the aggression of the great forces and strive for national independence, Chinese people began to explore the survival of the map. The foreign affairs movement aimed at "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth" objectively stimulated the production and development of Chinese capitalism. The first anti-imperialist and anti-feudal bourgeois democratic revolution in Chinese history, the Xinhai Revolution, overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, ended the feudal monarchy that lasted more than two thousand years in China, and created a modern national democratic revolution in the full sense. The time has finally come for China's paint industry to germinate.
the summer of 1914, World War I broke out in Europe, and the world's great power was so busy with war that the import of "foreign goods" in China was temporarily reduced. In 1915, Japan proposed the overbearing "21" to China, which provoked a national boycott of Japanese goods and the promotion of national goods. In this context, some benevolent people Zhi shi long-term enthusiasm for the country was finally released, China's paint industry was born.
1915, Mr. Minnan and Mr. Zhou Yuantai of Shanghai co-founded Kailin Paint Co., Ltd. (Kailin Paint Pigment Factory), the predecessor of Kailin Paint Factory in Shanghai. At that time, the staff only more than 10 people, only a blender, a few oil pans, annual output of thick paint, lead white and other more than 30 tons. Still, it marks China's own paint industry. After the May 4th Movement in 1919, in the chinese people's resistance to foreign goods, Kailin factory's products increased sales, began to produce reconciling paint, the annual output of more than 100 tons. However, it cannot be failed to face up to the fact that we are more than a century behind the earliest Britain of the Industrial Revolution in Europe.
1916, Anhui's governor opened the first paint factory in Tianjin, known as the "Dacheng Paint Factory". This was the second chinese paint company to open
Kailin
in 1915.
In September 1916, Yu Jinqing, who worked at the British Merchants Xiangsheng Shipyard, hired technicians and two workers each to set up Zhenhua Industrial Co., Ltd. in Yongchengli, On Broadway Road, Shanghai, using handkercers, sieves, wooden sticks mixed with the original manual operation, the manufacture of double-flag original paint, shoulder-picking products sold along the street.
1918, Mr. Zhai Jinqing founded zhenhua Paint Company (now the predecessor of Zhenhua Paint Factory in Shanghai) in Shanghai, producing products such as clear oil, thick paint, magnetic paint and toning paint.
the end of World War I in 1918, imperialist paint was dumped. At the same time, in order to more easily occupy the Chinese paint market, they also directly invest in China to set up factories.
1919, Japan set up Manchuria Paint Co., Ltd. Dalian Factory (the predecessor of Dalian Paint Factory), only about 30 people, the production of thick paint, oil, zinc oxide and other products. The factory was successfully set on fire in June 1935 by the "Anti-Japanese Fire Group" headed by the patriotic Shi Lisheng, although the damage to the Japanese was small but of great historical significance.
1921, Feng Guoxuan's son Feng Shuan and others, founded the Oriental Paint Factory in Tianjin, hired Germans as technicians, after years of painstaking operation, once occupied a high share of the domestic market, products are also exported to Southeast Asia. Their self-developed cat brand magnetic paint beat the best-selling Japanese "chicken brand magnetic paint" in the Tianjin market at that time, was humorously called "kittens eat chicks", long Chinese of ambition, improve national self-confidence.
1926, Mr. Chen Guangshun and Mr. Shen Cihui jointly opened Yonggu Paint Company in Shanghai. In June of the same year, Chen Guangshun, a former painter and chemist of Xuanwei Company of the United States, returned to China to open Yonggu Paint Co., Ltd. in Shanghai with Shen Qihui and others to produce Great Wall paint.
1929, 1932, 1934, Yonghua Paint Factory, Miles Paintand Shanghai Paint Factory were established one after another, Shanghai National Industry has since emerged the prototype of the paint industry.
1929, Mr. Chen Tunfu, the founder of China's modern paint industry, founded Yongming Paint Factory. D At that time, Mr. Chen Tunfu sold his wife's jewelry and other pieces of 8000 ocean, poured money to set up Yongming paint factory, in May 1929 to produce the first batch of oil, thick paint and so on.
at that time, the mainstream of the domestic paint market was countless foreign brands, filled with all kinds of dark and chaotic, paint buckets for painters often put "accidental" copper plate and silver dollars.
And Chen Tunfu is dismissive of this, he was firm from the beginning of the "technology as the core" business philosophy, with a unique recruitment method (to candidates to design and operate a chemical experiment), to plant annual profits of 20% into worker education, 20% into product research and development resources tilted, to create quality, cost-effective products beyond foreign countries.
At the same time, after a series of innovative marketing techniques (train body advertising, painting exhibition, etc.), "Yongming paint" full of the country, sales increased significantly, at that time, the same desk in the domestic wood shop, if the use of "Yongming paint", you can increase the price of 2 silver yuan, and in short supply.
Chen Tsingfu in the competition with foreign paints, especially Japanese paint merchants is extremely tough, has given the research and development of new paint products "magnetic paint", named "crane brand" - because the Japanese magnetic paint is used at that time is "chicken brand" - meaning "must stand out!" And then the fact that "crane" really beat "chicken", with the rise of "Yongming", foreign paint in China's market is shrinking.
With excellent reputation, excellent quality and innovative marketing, "Yongming paint" has become the first brand of China's paint industry, with the United States, Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Germany and other countries more than 150 manufacturers set up business contacts, its products are exported to home and abroad, Chen Tunfu has also become the world's famous "paint king."
(In the 1930s, Yongming paint factory workers pictured)
In addition, in 1929, with the idea of "industrial salvation" Chang Xiaochuan, will close down again "Zhenzhong paint factory" to buy, named "China Paint Factory", invited A group of social famous people as directors, such as theatrical performance artist Mr. Mei Lanfang is one of the directors, but also invited the Beijing Institute of Technology Professor Zhou Weixuan to the factory for technical guidance, from then on the Chinese paint factory finally embarked on the road of rapid development, in 1936 to the peak of the development of China's largest paint factory.
However, after the July 7 incident in 1937, the Japanese invaders took a look at the then-famous paint factory, forcibly purchased it, replaced chinese executives and technical managers, and renamed it "East Asian Paint Co., Ltd." to produce paint for the Japanese army to kill Chinese people.
five years apart from the Chinese paint factory, in 1921 Feng Guoxuan's son Feng Shuan and others founded the Oriental Paint Factory, hired the Germans as technicians, after many years of painstaking operation, once occupied a high share of the domestic market, some products are also exported to Southeast Asia. Their self-developed cat brand magnetic paint beat the best-selling Japanese "chicken brand magnetic paint" in the Tianjin market at that time, was once humorously said: "The kitten ate the chicken", at that time a long Chinese of ambition, enhance national self-confidence.
In 1929, in Tianjin Xiao Wangzhuang Zhicheng Road, Xinkai River, an ordinary courtyard, and then the famous Yongming paint factory was born, its founder, is China's paint industry Taidou, the pioneer of the chemical industry, founder Mr. Chen Tunfu.
When Mr. Chen founded Yongming Paint Factory, he had only borrowed 8,000 yuan as equity and could not produce low-grade paint compared with Chinese paint factory and Oriental paint factory. However, Mr. Chen, with great ambitions, will focus on technology research and development, after 1931, one after another recruited three college graduates, expanded the laboratory, set up a library, pay attention to the training of their own technical personnel, developed a "do, learn, teach" three-word factory training, creating a very strong learning atmosphere, so that when entering the factory even words can not know the staff, and later became an expert in the production of paint.
In this way, after several years of efforts, Yongming paint factory finally developed more successful than the United States Wallis paint "Yongming paint" and later popular all-round paint, toned paint, spray paint and other high-grade paint, to 1935 more than the Oriental paint factory, in Tianjin leapt to second place.
the July 7 incident, the Japanese invaders also wanted to annex yongming paint factory, but failed. Angry, the Israeli army had to forcibly take away imported raw materials stored in the Bank of China warehouse in the name of the Israeli army, so that Yongming paint factory was forced to stop production.
1933, Japan set up Manchuria Paint Co., Ltd. fengtian factory in Shenyang, the predecessor of Shenyang Paint Factory, is now Shenyang Brand Paint Co., Ltd., mainly the production of ammonium sulfide. At that time, the chemical industry in tohoku was almost monopolized by Japan.
1935, british businessman Segu Yangye Group invested in the construction of Yongguang Paint Factory in Shanghai. 1933-1938 Japan's Kansi, Shendong, Japanese coatings and other companies in Fengtian, Tieling, Fushun set up Manchuria Paint Co., Ltd. Fengtian Factory (now the predecessor of Shenyang paint factory) and other 5 small paint factories, products are mainly thick paint, oil, and oily magnetic paint.
time, China's paint industry is innant, equipment is unusually poor, backward technology, a single product variety, can not compete with imports. Nevertheless, people of insight who are not willing to lag behind attach great importance to scientific research work, taking science and technology as the guide, and improving the competitiveness of products.
In 1931, Mr. Chen Tsingfu led the graduates recruited from the university (Liang Zhaoxiong, Wang Shaoxuan, etc.), developed a successful "Yongming paint", quality (especially water resistance) than the United States phenolic paint, one-off success, "Yongming paint" has become a brand-name products.
1931, Chongqing was born in Chongqing, the rich Chinese paint factory. Guangzhou, the city of Haikou, has a more prosperous paint industry. In 1933, Guangzhou General Ink Paint Company was founded. Founded in 1934, Dasheng paint factory was established, in addition to Zhenhua paint company, Southwest paint factory and the Anti-Japanese War period set up Guanghua ink factory.
before the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai paint industry for the "full bloom" Zhenhua factory, in 1936 the output reached 2512 tons, the highest level before liberation, the staff development to 170 people. During the Anti-Japanese War, coastal cities fell one after another, and the Shanghai paint industry was greatly damaged. In the event of 128, the Yonggujiang Bay Road plant was destroyed by Japanese artillery. After the fire of the August 13th War, Kailin paint factory was located in a war zone and was occupied by the Japanese for military barracks. Some of Zhenhua's factories and staff quarters were also destroyed by gunfire. At the end of 1937, the Japanese occupation changed its name to Japan Grease Co., Ltd., a large number of workers were demobilized, the factory was in a desperate situation.
1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full force, and Japanese imperialism attacked China's North and East China. Most paint factories, including Yongming, were taken over or destroyed by the Japanese. During this period, coastal industries were forced to move inland. In Chongqing, has set up "Jianhua", "American Hua", "Xinghua" and other paint factories. In 1940, Yuanfeng Paint Factory (the predecessor of Kunming Paint Factory) was opened in Kunming, and in 1942, a paint factory was established in Guiyang (the predecessor of Guiyang Paint Factory).
japanese war zone, Japanese imperialists forcibly imposed military control or bought (forced to buy) a number of large-scale paint factories to serve the war of aggression against China.
, because of the destruction of imperialist wars of aggression, there are still a number of production plants in different circumstances tenaciously broke ground. In coastal cities, some small paint factories were established, such as hongkang, Feida, China Weixin, Xinhua and other paint factories in Shanghai in 1939, and paint factories such as Meihua and Lingnan (now the predecessor of Guangzhou paint factories) in Guangzhou.
1941, when the Pacific War broke out, the Yongguang plant of the British merchants was under Japanese military control and operated and managed by Greater Japan Paint Co., Ltd., and production was at a semi-pause. The remaining paint factories are also facing shutdowns due to the dissolution of most of their workers, a shortage of funds and a shortage of raw materials. New Hongkang, Daming, Huayuan, Feida, Dehua, Venus and other paint factory business has stagnated.
in the years of the fall of the land, Yongming and many other factories determined not to cooperate with the Japanese, forced to be in a state of semi-discontinuation. Because the coating industry is a new and promising industry, despite the destruction of imperialist war, there are still a number of paint factories in the difficult environment tenaciously broke ground, for the development of the new China's paint industry has been actively explored, accumulated valuable experience.
the eve of liberation, years of war have dealt a heavy blow to China's paint industry, nearly paralysed paint production, and left the paint industry in old China on the brink of extinction. In 1948, there were only about 50 paint factories in China, with an annual output of less than 10,000 tons. There are only a few dozen kinds of paint products, and are low-grade varieties; This is the basis for the development of coating industry in New China.