Making a round of the steel shop, he gave a pep-talk to smelters waging a drive for increased production and stressed the need to thoroughly meet the technical requirements in normal operation of the electric furnace and production.

At the 6,000-ton press shop, he stressed the need to direct primary efforts to ensure the quality of iron and steel and took measures to enhance the responsibility and role of officials and technicians and thus manage all production processes, as required by technical regulations.

He also inspected the Biomedicine Institute under the Academy of Medical Science and the Bioengineering Branch of the State Academy of Sciences.