A Brief Discussion on the Unity of Politics, Economics, and Technology in DesigningWork

Designing work forms an important front of socialist construction and is also a decisive phase in capital construction. Since the founding of the nation, China's designing work has gained tremendous achievements under the correct leadership of the party. Before the liberation, there were very few designing personnel in China, and even fewer who could undertake factory design. Today we already possess a designing engineer corps that has achieved a certain technological level and greater combative strength. This corps is capable not only of undertaking the designing of many modern large and medium-class factories and mines, such as the Ta-ch'ing Oil Fields, the train axles factory, and hydraulic pressure machines of 12,000-ton capacity, etc., but also of designing such supreme projects as atomic energy independently. Considerable experiences have also been acquired and accumulated in our designing work. One of these experiences is that designing work is the comprehensive realization of politics, economics, and technology; and a good design formula must be a unity of politics, economics, and technology. It is therefore necessary to handle correctly political, economic, and technological relationships in designing work.