The ignition of the first blast furnace at the Kaohsiung mill points to a bright future for the nation's steel industry, and also marks the Republic of China's shift from a country of light industry to one of heavy industrialization.
在國際間要看一國有無煉鋼工業，首先得看有無煉鐵高爐，中鋼的高爐點火，不僅點亮了我國鋼鐵工業的輝煌前程，也使我國越過了輕工業級限，步入重工業的領域。