This was Chairman Mao's personal call to rural construction workers in 1960s, when Dazhai Village was truly "the first village in China".

But before that, people in Dazhai Village depended on the weather and often went hungry.

Under the leadership of Chen Yonggui and Guo Fenglian, two Party branch secretaries of Dazhai Village, Dazhai Village has undergone earth-shaking changes before it became the China Village named and praised by Chairman Mao.

The development of Dazhai village has been bumpy, with glory and trough. Today, under the leadership of "Iron Girl" Guo Fenglian, Dazhai Village has a new scene!

Dazhai Village is located in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain and built on Hutou Mountain. It belonged to Dazhai Commune in Xiyang County in the people's commune movement in 1960s.

At the beginning of the People's Republic of China, it was a poor and backward mountain village, and the land cultivated by farmers was divided into potholes. There is only 700 mu of land, but it is divided into more than 4700 pieces. People call this situation "seven ditches, eight beams and one slope".

The location of these lands is very good! Some are far away from cliffs, and some are on the edge of vertical and horizontal ravines. It takes a lot of effort for people to do a job in the farmland. Obviously, such land will not have a good harvest, and the grain output is notoriously low. The annual grain harvest of 700 mu of land is less than 200 Jin, which makes local farmers miserable.

1953 Dazhai village cadres responded to the call of the CPC Central Committee and began to implement agricultural collectivization in the whole village. Chen Yonggui took over as secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village and led the people of Dazhai Village to slowly change the bad situation here.

Chen Yonggui is a farmer to the core. For generations, he has been a farmer with his back to the loess. He clearly knows that the terrain of Dazhai village is not suitable for growing crops. Therefore, before increasing grain output, we must first solve the land problem.

When Chen Yonggui became a village cadre, the first thing he did was "Yu Gong smashed the mountain". He called on the local people to pick up their hoes and pickaxes and take the lead in developing the land in the mountains.

People in Dazhai village even dig up the land bit by bit with their own hands, except for limited hoes and hammers. Many things have happened, and the hard work of the people in Dazhai Village has finally paid off.

People in Dazhai village have been fighting for ten years in a row on the bumpy land. They built terraces, and the previously scattered land now looks neat.

Moreover, Chen Yonggui and local workers have worked hard to dig a diversion canal, which can divert water to irrigate the land and solve the local drought problem. From then on, Dazhai village no longer has to rely on the weather to eat!

By 1963, the grain yield per mu in Dazhai village soared from less than 200 kg in that year to more than 700 kg. In the late 1950s, during the once-in-a-century famine in Central China and North China, Dazhai Village even had surplus grain for the country, which was the result of their ten years' efforts.

Just as the people in Dazhai village cheered for today's achievements, a catastrophic flood once again gave them a blow.

Dazhai village is located in the loess plateau, and the rainfall on weekdays is pitiful, basically ten years and nine droughts. Because of this, Chen Yonggui deliberately diverted canals for irrigation. However, if there is heavy rain, it is easy to cause flash floods and cause fatal blows to farmland.

Before Chen Yonggui, while managing the land, it also brought people to repair and dig the local gullies. During this period, there were several flash floods, which were near misses and did not cause them much damage.

However, the flood in 1963 is obviously different from before.

This summer, the grain in the farmland of Dazhai Village is growing well. The villagers feel that this year is another bumper harvest year. I wonder if the harvest of farmland will break the previous record.

In August, a once-in-a-century rainstorm came to Dazhai Village. It rained continuously for a week, and the ravine in Dazhai Village was full of muddy rain, which soon overflowed.

The mountain torrents roared all the way and rushed to the terraced fields that the people in Dazhai Village had worked so hard to repair. The land that people worked so hard to improve in Dazhai Village was vulnerable to the flood, and more than half of it was destroyed. Some villagers' houses were only in ruins under the impact of floods.

Nearly 200 houses in the village were destroyed in the flood, leaving only 17 houses for people to live in. People in Dazhai village can't help crying.

In the face of God's teasing, Chen Yonggui did not give up easily. He picked up the tools at the first time and personally participated in the work of rebuilding his home. He tried to make a smiling face and advised the villagers: it's okay. None of us died in this flood. As long as we are here, our home is still there. It won't be long before we are the Dazhai village again!

He also led the local people to carry hoes, almost exactly the same as when he led the villagers to transform their fields ten years ago.

The road to rebuilding home is extremely difficult. They only have simple tools left, but they need to "pull their teeth out of the tiger's mouth" and chisel out the stones they need together from Hutou Mountain.

Jia, the former secretary of Dazhai Village, personally took the villagers into the mountains. They smashed two strong hammers and a dozen iron bars, and finally succeeded in obtaining stones for building houses.

The next spring, it took people in Dazhai village more than half a year to restore the village to its original appearance. At this time, Dazhai village was completely new and unrecognizable after the flood.

The spirit of hard struggle in Dazhai Village won high praise from the CPC Central Committee. Chairman Mao personally gave instructions on it: industry should learn from Daqing, agriculture should learn from Dazhai, and the whole country should learn from the People's Liberation Army.

At that time, the development of rural agriculture in China reached a bottleneck period, and the grain output declined instead of increasing, which worried the national leaders.

Only Dazhai village stands out, and the grain output has increased rapidly for ten years in a row, and it can even feed the people in several surrounding villages.

At that time, Dazhai Village was a well-known "star village" in China. Tens of millions of people came to visit the planting pattern in Dazhai Village, including some foreign friends.

The leaders of the CPC Central Committee also came to Dazhai Village to learn from the scriptures, so that all rural areas in the country could learn from Dazhai Village. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dazhai Village influenced villages of all sizes in China with its unique charm.

Later, the secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village went to the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League because of his outstanding performance. Before he left, he handed the important task of developing Dazhai Village to 26-year-old Guo Fenglian. Soon, Dazhai Village ushered in the second development climax under the leadership of Guo Fenglian.

Guo Fenglian, from Xiyang, Jinzhong, Shanxi, 1947. She lived in Dazhai Village with her grandmother since childhood.

When she began to understand, it was the time when Chen Yonggui led the villagers to carry out a comprehensive transformation of the village. She witnessed that Dazhai Village in Into the Wasteland is getting better and better under the labor of villagers' calloused hands.

Guo Fenglian Jr. was moved. She also enthusiastically participated in the farmland transformation activities in Dazhai Village and actively participated in the local rural construction team.

Although Guo Fenglian is a woman, she didn't lose to men when she started doing things. Decisive and concise, he became Chen Yonggui's right-hand man at a young age and was often entrusted with important tasks.

Guo Fenglian was still very young when Dazhai village was hit by floods. She watched the villagers' efforts go to waste in a flood, and Guo Fenglian, who has always been strong and brave, blushed. Without saying a word, she picked up her hoe and followed in Chen Yonggui's footsteps, starting the task of rebuilding her homeland.

At that time, there was a division of labor in the village, and Guo Fenglian was elected as the captain of the "Iron Girl Team", leading the female soldiers in the village to Shan Ye every day until sunset, and then slowly returning to the village.

1963 is particularly cold in winter, and goose feather-like snow keeps falling. The female soldiers in Dazhai, led by Guo Fenglian, shuttled through the mountains to collect firewood and grass against the cold north wind.

All the men in Dazhai village were infected by this group of indomitable girls, and they were very busy in the severe winter. In this way, the villagers encouraged each other and helped each other, which restored Dazhai Village to a new look.

After taking over as secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village, Guo Fenglian unswervingly followed the old road of Chen Yonggui, and took a series of new measures on this basis.

Drawing lessons from the experience of Shandong farmers in planting trees in cracks in stones, we began to plant saplings on Hutou Mountain while transforming farmland, and took the lead in starting the national greening work.

They cut mountains, dig earth and carry water, not afraid of hardships. Step by step, they turned the bare Hutou Mountain into a new look with trees.

In those years when Guo Fenglian served as secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village, the CPC Central Committee always mentioned her name every time it held a national rural conference. With the support and encouragement of the CPC Central Committee, Guo Fenglian is more determined to build Dazhai Village into a national model. In the following years, the grain output of Dazhai Village once again ushered in a breakthrough.

1978 is a turning point in Dazhai village, and the grain output of Dazhai village is still growing steadily this year. However, at the rural construction conference held by the CPC Central Committee, some comrades put forward different opinions on the "Agricultural Dazhai". Because for many years, many rural areas have been shouting "learn from Dazhai village", but they often become superficial and have not really changed the status quo of rural construction.

What makes Guo Fenglian even more shocked is that Dazhai Village, which has always been a national model village, has fallen behind the times!

This year, eight farmers in Xiaogang Village/KLOC-0 in Fengyang County, Anhui Province desperately signed the household contract responsibility system agreement, and the direction of rural construction in China changed from then on. Xiaogang Village in Anhui Province has become a legend in rural areas of China, and has influenced thousands of rural areas in China in the following decades, replacing Dazhai Village's previous position in rural areas of China.

Guo Fenglian, secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village, gradually fell into confusion. It took the villagers in Guo Fenglian and Dazhai Village 20 years of hard work to turn the originally barren Dazhai Village into this.

She doesn't know why the road of rural construction and development that they have explored for 20 years has not been advocated in the whole country. On the contrary, the family contract system in Xiaogang Village has swept the country in a short time.

Guo Fenglian was puzzled. She is used to the traditional commune model led by Chairman Mao, which is extremely difficult to adjust in a short time.

In the early 1980s, Guo Fenglian was transferred from Dazhai Village to Jinzhong Fruit Research Institute.

After Guo Fenglian left, the present situation of Dazhai Village has not changed. In the past days, Dazhai village has always been a model of agricultural development. The past honor is not easy to forget, but now it has become a stumbling block on their development road.

The newly appointed party branch secretary is still locked in the previous development model, which can't keep up with the trend of reform and development, and Dazhai Village is gradually falling behind and can't keep up with the pace of most rural reforms in the country. The leaders of the provincial party Committee have visited many times and transferred cadres to no avail, and people are helpless under such circumstances.

199 1 year, Guo Fenglian, a former "iron girl" in Dazhai Village, returned to this memorable village as the secretary of the Party branch after eleven years.

During his working abroad, Guo Fenglian has been to many places, seen other rural development models and listened to Comrade Deng Xiaoping's experience summary of agricultural reform. She is confident to get out of the previous development ideas and lead the villagers in Dazhai Village to restore their former glory.

Guo Fenglian arranged for the cadres of Dazhai Village to go to the developed rural areas of China for field trips and learn from their experience. Of course, we should not study blindly. We should thoroughly implement the thought of "seeking truth from facts" of Chairman Mao and Comrade Deng Xiaoping, and combine the actual situation of Dazhai Village.

Due to the special topography of Dazhai village, if we want to seek reform and development, we must break through the single agricultural planting mode and seek breakthroughs in other aspects. Guo Fenglian led the villagers to set up enterprises relying on Dazhai Village, and started a long road of transformation.

Guo Fenglian just put forward an outline of her thoughts. She has no money and no experience. Everything starts from scratch. The transition from agriculture to enterprise is very difficult, but Guo Fenglian, the "iron girl", has not given up. She groped for reform and led the villagers in Dazhai village to start a business.

In order to learn the development model of advanced enterprises, Guo Fenglian and Song Liying went to an advanced city like Shanghai to learn from their experience, and they saw many novel things in Shanghai metropolis. The first time I saw a karaoke machine for entertainment, the first time I tasted the coffee that white-collar workers always have at work, and the first time I saw rows of high-rise buildings. ...

Guo Fenglian was deeply moved. She has no dream of building Dazhai village into a metropolis like Shanghai. She just wants to turn Dazhai village into a "million-yuan village" as soon as possible, so that every household can live a well-off life.

Under the directive reform of Guo Fenglian, Dazhai Village set up a clothing factory, a liquor factory and even its own economic development company.

Guo Fenglian is not only a rural cadre, but also an enterprise leader. She recruited talents all over the country, looking for opportunities, and even invited stars to speak for the brand of Dazhai Village.

In just a few years, Dazhai Village has taken on a new look. Factories and enterprises in the village have mushroomed, and the villagers have gradually tasted the sweetness of transformation.

After entering the 2 1 century, the economic development of Dazhai village has once again fallen into a bottleneck period. As the secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai Village and the chairman of Dazhai Group, Guo Fenglian has only junior high school education, but her years of experience have made her deeply understand the importance of science and technology to social development.

Guo Fenglian began to introduce technology and talents to Dazhai Village, establish cooperative relations with scientific and technological enterprises, and establish high-tech industrial parks in the village.

At the same time, Guo Fenglian also closed a large number of labor-intensive factories, because she found that although these factories can solve the employment problems of many people, they will do great harm to the surrounding environment and are not conducive to sustainable development. In the long run, it is not suitable for long-term construction.

Guo Fenglian thought that long-term pain was better than short-term pain, so he simply closed all these factories at once. Although this will cause some villagers to lose their jobs and attract criticism from villagers, Guo Fenglian decided to resolutely close the factory.

Guo Fenglian and Song Liying discussed and decided to follow the trend of the times and develop tourism in Dazhai Village. They think Dazhai Village can develop red tourism. Many unrepaired earth caves in the village are now in use, and after transformation, they have become characteristic homestays with unique peasant flavor.

In addition, at the suggestion of Guo Fenglian, illiterate Song Liying began to read and write. She personally signed and lettered the souvenirs of Dazhai Village, and communicated with tourists coming and going in souvenir shops on time every day, forming a unique scenery of Dazhai Village.

Today, Dazhai Village has a complete range of industries, with more than 30 enterprises and factories.

Today, this small village with a permanent population of only a few hundred people has an annual output value of over 100 million. Guo Fenglian recalled his great ambition in Shanghai and was deeply moved.

Today, Guo Fenglian has reached retirement age, but Guo Fenglian still insists on his post. She thinks she can do more for Dazhai Village, and she wants to lead the people of Dazhai Village to the road of * * * prosperity in her lifetime.

The spirit of "hard work and self-reliance" is the principle that Guo Fenglian has always adhered to. Since she became the captain of Iron Girl, wearing a straw hat and carrying a hoe on her shoulder, the spirit of Dazhai has deeply influenced her. Now Guo Fenglian is the chairman of Dazhai Group, and she still adheres to this principle.

At that time, young Guo Fenglian took over the banner of building Dazhai Village from Chen Yonggui and led the people of Dazhai Village to take off for the first time.

When the construction and development of Dazhai Village lagged behind this era, it was Tie Nv who led the villagers in Dazhai Village to conform to the trend of reform and started rural transformation and second entrepreneurship.

Today, Dazhai Village has become a business-led village, affecting the surrounding villages. Guo Fenglian himself spared no effort to take the lead in helping poor and backward villages.

After several twists and turns, Dazhai village has realized the development and transformation from village-run small workshops to specialization and branding. However, Lao Guo Manfenglian has now discovered new problems in Dazhai Village.

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards in Dazhai village, many young people have lost their passion and are unwilling to fight for reform again, preferring to live on their own land.

Guo Fenglian didn't expect the people's living standards to improve, but their ideological consciousness needs to be improved.

Now the focus of Guo Fenglian's work is to implement the spirit of Da Zhai-"hard work and self-reliance" to these young people who pursue "small wealth means security". I believe that under the leadership of Guo Fenglian, the spirit of Dazhai can be passed down forever and the development of Dazhai will never stop!