 Chief of the general staff Yang Yuting was named Inspector-General of the Fengtian Armory, while Wang Yintai (王荫泰) was named Director of the Department of Materials of the Fengtian Armory.Along with the purchase of more FT tanks, the armory was expanded, with annual production output of around 150 artillery pieces (excluding mortars).Machine-gun output was more than 1000 annually, and the combined total of repaired/refurbished and new rifles averaged more than 60,000 annually.