194 1 in the spring, facing the still cold north wind, under the slogan of "one hoe and one gun, self-sufficient production, defending the Party Central Committee", Wang Zhen led the soldiers of the 359th Brigade, with steel guns on their shoulders and shovels in their hands. Just after opening a road to Nanniwan in a thorny forest, Suide entered Nanniwan.
As soon as we arrived at Nanniwan, the 359th Brigade quickly set off an upsurge of reclamation production. They made plans for training while producing, producing during busy farming hours and training during slack farming hours. Wang Zhen put forward the slogan "Don't let anyone stand outside the production front". Everyone from brigade commander to orderly and cook should take part in productive labor.
Li Wei, the model monitor of the 359th Brigade, set a record of three acres and sixty-seven cents a day in a land reclamation competition. Later, with the improvement of production tools and production technology, a soldier named Hao Shucai appeared. He was affectionately called "angry cow" by Mao Zedong for his achievements in reclaiming four acres and three points of land a day.
After more than a year's efforts, the "Mud Bay", which used to be overgrown with weeds and swamps, has now become the "good south of the Yangtze River" in northern Shaanxi where crops and cattle and sheep flock everywhere. With abundant grains, mountains of melons and vegetables and rows of neat caves, Nanniwan presents a prosperous scene.
According to statistics, 194 1 year, 359 brigade soldiers reclaimed1.1.200 mu, producing grain1.200 mu, and realizing complete self-sufficiency in vegetables. By 1943, land reclamation had reached more than 65,438+10,000 mu, and the grain output had reached 12000 stone, thus achieving the goal of "no need for the government to give a grain of rice, an inch of cloth and a penny" and achieving complete self-sufficiency in grain and funds. By the end of 1944, the planting area of Nanniwan reached more than 260,000 mu, and 37,000 stones of grain were harvested. In this year, we paid public grain 1 mangoku to the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region.
Today, more than 60 years later, Nanniwan Town, with a population of 65,438+100000, has witnessed vigorous development of farming and aquaculture, and red tourism attracts more and more tourists. Nanniwan Town is becoming a famous historical and cultural tourism town.