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At a construction site in Weng’an County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, 1,850 builders are racing against time. This super-project, which is equivalent in size to 278 football fields – the 150,000-ton caustic soda production facility of Guizhou Jiangshan Wengfu New Materials – is making rapid progress day by day, striving to meet the target of mechanical completion by the end of September. As of March, the project has overcome two major hurdles: the water extraction facility was completed first, 92% of the substation construction is done, and over 80% of the water supply pipelines have been laid. At present, the workers are focusing on the critical deadline in May: more than half of the erection work for the reaction tower in the yellow phosphorus facility has been completed, while the steel structure in the chlor-alkali area is being built at a rate of several tons per day. The project leader revealed that 2,000 more workers will be assigned in April, and the \"human-machine collaboration\" in areas such as welding and pump truck operation will be comprehensively upgraded. With a total investment of over 10 billion yuan, this project is not only the largest industrial project under construction in Guizhou at present, but it also holds the key to industrial upgrading. As a rare smart park in the phosphorus chemicals industry, it will achieve full-chain production of \"three acids and two alkalis\" through technological integration, transforming traditional phosphate rocks into high-value-added products. In the future, this facility will produce 2.3 million tons of new phosphorus-based products each year, including 45 high-value items such as glyphosate and flame retardants, thereby helping to shift the local phosphorus chemical industry from selling raw materials to selling technology. Once the project is put into operation, Weng’an will emerge as the “smart hub” for the phosphorus chemical industry in the southwest region. It is estimated that the trillion-dollar-scale industrial cluster it creates can generate 50,000 jobs in related industries, enabling Guizhou to transform from a province renowned for its phosphate mines into a powerhouse in the field of new materials.