Baosteel Group workers jumped into the blast furnace steel suicide reason exposed

A few days ago, a video of Wang Long, an employee of Baosteel Steel Pipe Company, jumping into the blast furnace steel water to commit suicide was widely circulated on the Internet. According to the official notification of the Chinese Communist Party, the reason for Wang Long’s light death may be related to stock losses and excessive debts.

The 15-second video circulating on the Internet records the process of Wang Long’s light-heartedness. In the video, the deceased walks alone to the slag spout of the operating No. 7 converter, the walls of which are orange in color. He stood at the mouth of the furnace, probe looked in, then removed the hat on his head, walked a few steps toward the mouth of the furnace, then probe looked in, and then jumped and disappeared into the monitor. At that Time, the person who flipped the video said, “a moment and gone”.

Wang Long was born in July 1987, in July 2010 to participate in the work, is the Baosteel Steel Pipe Company steelmaking workers.

On March 30, Baosteel Steel Pipe Company issued a statement on the death of Wang Long on March 24, saying that Wang Long disappeared during the night shift on March 24. After checking the surveillance video, Wang Long at 10:54 p.m. on the 24th at the No. 7 converter fire door first threw the helmet and gloves down the slag channel, then jumped into the slag tank and died. At present, the criminal case has been ruled out, is a suicide.

Statement quoted workers reflect, Wang Long introverted personality, so far unmarried, long-term purchase of futures and stocks through the securities company, only March 24, the day of the transaction lost more than 60,000 yuan, suspected that he committed suicide with a large amount of losses, too much debt, unable to repay related.

For this tragedy, mainland netizens said, “Oh my God, jumping into steel water to commit suicide, how courageous it has to be.” “The most tragic way to commit suicide.” “Does it have anything to do with being introverted?” “Introversion and unmarried are guilty labels?” “Could it be online loans, soft violence collection?”

But some netizens questioned, “Baogang dumped this pot to ‘introvert, unmarried so far, speculation’ or the same year that the state enterprises do.” “The truth of the matter is really as Baogang declared or another hidden agenda? I hope to investigate clearly in detail!” “Should also investigate whether there is any conflict with the leadership?”

Baosteel Group was founded in 1954 and is one of the 156 key projects built by the Communist Party of China during the First Five-Year Plan. Total assets amount to more than 180 billion yuan, with 48,000 registered employees.