Dazhai production brigade in Xiyang county, Shanxi province is located in Taihang Mountain area, with harsh natural conditions and barren land. Since 1953, under the leadership of the Party branch, Dazhai people have vigorously carried out farmland capital construction, turned deep ditches into fertile fields, and turned sloping fields into horizontal terraces, achieving a bumper harvest of grain and creating miracles. 1964 12. In the government work report of the First Session of the Third National People's Congress, Zhou Enlai summarized the spirit of Dazhai as "the principle of putting politics first and thinking first, the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, and the * * * style of patriotism and love for the collective", calling for "agricultural Dazhai", and the movement was launched throughout the country. Dazhai experience has played a positive role in the promotion of the whole country. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Dazhai movement of agricultural science was influenced by the "Left" wrong thought, which had some negative effects on agricultural production. In the early 1980s, it was suspended with the reform of rural economic system. [2]

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Learn from the Agricultural Dazhai

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Learn from the Agricultural Dazhai

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brief introduction

Agricultural Dazhai was a movement initiated by China in 1960s according to the instruction of Mao Zedong 1963, which was "learn from Daqing in industry, learn from Dazhai in agriculture, and learn from the People's Liberation Army all over the country". The "Red Flag Canal" originated from the "Agricultural Dazhai", which once became an important landmark on the political map of China.

Dazhai is a brigade of Dazhai Commune in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province. This used to be a poor mountain village. After the agricultural cooperation, members cut mountains and slopes and built terraces, and the grain yield per mu increased by 7 times. 1964 February 10, People's Daily published the communication report "The Road to Dazhai" by Xinhua News Agency reporters, introducing their advanced deeds. He also published an editorial "A Good Example of Building Mountainous Areas with Revolutionary Spirit", calling on the people of the whole country, especially the agricultural front, to learn from the revolutionary spirit of Dazhai people. Since then, the "Agricultural Dazhai" movement has sprung up in rural areas all over the country, and Dazhai has become a shining example of China's agricultural front. The slogan of "learning from agriculture" spread to the end of 1970s, and was also used by extreme "Left" thoughts. [ 1]