The profound connotation of the Red Flag Canal spirit

Serving the people, relying on the people, daring to think and dare to do, seeking truth from facts, self-reliance, hard work, unity and cooperation, and selfless dedication are the essence of the Red Flag Canal spirit location. The following is the profound connotation of the spirit of the Red Flag Canal. I hope it will be helpful to everyone!

In the 1960s, the Lin County Party Committee led the people of the county to rearrange the rivers and mountains of Lin County under extremely difficult conditions. With great lofty sentiments, and with a hammer and a hammer, he spent ten years building an "artificial Tianhe" Red Flag Canal in the towering mountains of Taihang. The completion of the Hongqi Canal has fulfilled the Lin County people's dream of water for thousands of years and fundamentally changed the local production and living conditions. The Hongqi Canal is affectionately called the "Life Canal" and "Happiness Canal" by the people of Lin County.

The Hongqi Canal not only brings water and food to the people of Lin County, but also opens the door to a happy life. Its influence has long exceeded the project itself. The Red Flag Canal is a great reform practice carried out by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China since the founding of New China. It is an eternal spiritual coordinate during the period of socialist construction. It is a Chinese story that tells the story of the party and the people striving for survival and development, and pursuing and realizing their dreams. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal bred during the process of building the canal has not only been infiltrated in the blood of Lin County people and become a folk custom, but has also become an important part of the spirit of the Chinese Communists and the spirit of the Chinese nation, and has become an integral part of our party. and precious spiritual wealth passed down from generation to generation.

1. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal contains the mass line of doing everything for the people and relying on the people.

The construction of the Red Flag Canal itself is all for the people, relying on the people and coming from the people. , the process of going among the masses. Without the sentiment and responsibility to serve the people wholeheartedly, and without the expectations and creations of the masses, the idea of ??building the Red Flag Canal would not have been born; without the hard work spirit of party members and cadres and the broad masses, it would be impossible to build the Red Flag Canal.

The construction of the Red Flag Canal reflects the Communists’ purpose and belief in serving the people. The history of water shortage in Lin County is horrifying. Looking through the old county annals of Lin County, one can see shocking words such as drought, severe drought, drought, harvest failure, empty houses, and cannibalism. In 1954, Comrade Yang Gui was appointed as the Secretary of the Lin County Party Committee. He investigated the villages and found that the people were suffering from skin diseases, neck disease and esophageal cancer due to lack of water and food. and many other endemic diseases. Many places were so poor that the girls in the village ran away, and the girls from outside did not come in. In the end, they almost had no children or grandchildren. The government had to find a way to transfer more than 400 orphans from the children's welfare home in Wuxi to distribute them to each household. Comrade Yang Gui felt extremely sad. He asked himself: Why did the Communists do the revolution? How come the revolution was victorious but the people here were still so poor? He made up his mind at that time, no matter how difficult it was, he would The poverty and backwardness of Lin County must be changed. Comrade Yang Gui went deep into the mountainous areas many times, not only understanding the serious water shortage situation in various places, but also summing up the fresh experience created by the masses based on local conditions, and gradually formed the idea of ??splitting Taihang and "leading Zhang into the forest". At that time, there was no requirement from superiors to do this project, and the Linxian County Party Committee could have done the "Peace Official" and "Ping An Official" step by step. However, after in-depth discussion and scientific demonstration, they decided to build the Red Flag Canal. Decades later, Comrade Yang Gui once lamented to a reporter: "If we had had any selfish thoughts at that time, we would never have been able to cultivate." It's great to be a peace officer! But at that time, no one had any intention of becoming an official through this. What is the problem that the masses urgently need to solve? It is lack of water. Then build canals. ? Only by being selfless can we be fearless. The Lin County County Party Committee kept the party's purpose in mind and followed the wishes of the people to open up this thousand-mile canal.

The achievement of building the Hongqi Canal depends on the hard work and hard work of the people. In order to turn the county party committee's decision to divert the river into the forest into a conscious action by the masses, Comrade Yang Gui led a team of county party committee members to investigate and study and listen to the opinions of the masses.

When the masses heard that the project to divert the Yangtze River into the forest was to be built, they all said that the county committee’s ideas represented the aspirations of the masses, and they would rather work hard with the comrades of the county committee than be at the mercy of God! On February 10, 1960, Lin The county party committee and the county "Yin Zhang into the Forest" headquarters issued a mobilization order to the people of the county. The first day after the mobilization order was issued, which happened to be the Lantern Festival in 1960, 40,000 canal construction troops marched into Mangmang Taihang, vowing to reorganize the rivers and mountains. The construction of the Hongqi Canal lasted ten years and mobilized 300,000 migrant workers. At that time, there were 550,000 people in Lin County. Excluding the elderly and children, all those who could work were put to work. They dug holes in the mountains, built bridges in the ditches, and built an "artificial Tianhe" with a total length of 1,500 kilometers on the cliffs of the Taihang Mountains. The broad masses of the people have proved with their own practical actions that the people are the real contributors to the construction of the Red Flag Canal.

2. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal contains the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts

During the construction process of the Red Flag Canal, from conception, survey, decision-making to construction, all embodies the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts. The ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Without the dialectical unity of the two, Hongqi Canal would not be even thought of, nor could it be built.

Seek truth from facts, resist the trend of exaggeration, and reserve the most basic food supply for the construction of the Hongqi Canal. The construction of the Hongqi Canal was a decision made by the Linxian County Party Committee at the end of 1959. During the Great Leap Forward in 1958, there was a serious trend of exaggeration, and some places falsely reported output. However, the Lin County Party Committee always insisted on seeking truth from facts and did not make false or concealed reports. At the wheat production report meeting after the summer harvest in 1958, Comrade Yang Gui always insisted on Lin County's wheat yield of 114 kilograms per mu, no matter how much pressure his superiors exerted. As a result, the grain in some counties was confiscated due to the leaders' false boasts. In addition to arranging the rations for the masses, Lin County also had grain reserves for each production team. In 1960, there was a grain shortage across the country, but Lin County accumulated more than 30 million kilograms of grain reserves because the county committee dared to tell the truth in previous years. Therefore, during the most difficult three years of natural disasters, not only did Lin County not starve to death, but it also dared to wage an all-out war on the poor mountains and ridges.

Emancipate your mind and conduct in-depth investigations to find water sources. Initially, the Lin County Party Committee did not consider diverting water from the Zhang River in Shanxi. Because there are four rivers in Lin County, the county committee believed that as long as the water in the rivers was fully utilized, the water in the ground was mined, and the water in the sky was stored, the history of water shortage in Lin County could be completely ended. Therefore, many dry wells were drilled at the beginning. Since 1955, the Anti-Japanese Canal, Tianqiao Canal, Heroic Canal and three medium-sized reservoirs have been built successively. However, a severe drought in 1959 rendered these water conservancy facilities useless. Several rivers flowing through Lin County were all cut off, forcing everyone to look for water. In June 1959, Lin County sent three survey teams to go upstream along the Zhang, Qi and Xi rivers to find new water sources. The investigation found that both the Qihe River and the Xihe River are seasonal rivers, while the Zhanghe River has a maximum flow of 7,000 cubic meters per second, an annual flow of 30 cubic meters per second, and even in the dry season it is not less than 10 cubic meters per second. It was this investigation that found the Zhanghe River to be a reliable water source and laid a solid foundation for the successful construction of the Hongqi Canal.

Have the courage to take responsibility, discover problems and correct mistakes. At the beginning of the project, the Lin County County Party Committee proposed the goal of "fighting for 80 days to draw water from the Zhanghe River". It believed that it would take 80 days to organize 70,000 people and each person to build a channel 1 meter long, 8 meters wide and 4.3 meters high. Completed the construction of more than 70 kilometers of main canals. But soon after the work started, problems such as the front being too long, lack of supplies, inability to unify command, and insufficient technical strength were encountered. A month has passed, and only a few chicken coops are left on the mountain. At the critical moment, the Lin County Party Committee held a meeting in Panyang Village in a timely manner to objectively analyze the problems faced, listen to opinions extensively, and make adjustments to the construction: First, establish a long-term thinking. The originally set 80-day work period was not feasible. Realistic. The second is to concentrate on fighting the tough battle and change the construction from full line to segmented construction. It was also at this meeting that it was decided to officially name the project of diverting the Yangtze River into the forest as the "Hongqi Canal", which is the origin of the "Hongqi Canal". The major strategic adjustments made at the meeting were of decisive significance to the ultimate success of the construction of the Red Flag Canal. Therefore, the Panyang Meeting is also called the "Zunyi Meeting" in the construction of the Red Flag Canal.

Although the idea of ????working hard and getting ahead quickly reflects the people's anxiety for water, it does not conform to the law of development of things and also bears the obvious imprint of the times. However, the project leaders represented by Comrade Yang Gui were able to listen to opinions extensively, had the courage to discover problems, correct errors in a timely manner, and worked together to complete the project with quality and quantity.

3. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal contains the self-reliance and hard-working spirit of the Chinese nation.

The construction period of the Red Flag Canal was a period of extreme material scarcity and economic difficulties in our country. The people of Lin County did not wait or rely on it, but relied on their own efforts and worked hard to rearrange the rivers and mountains of Lin County. With the heroic spirit, they built a thousand-mile canal with the simplest tools.

Adhere to self-reliance, but it does not mean to be in isolation, but to wait and do not rely on it. Lin County is short of water, but the people of Lin County are not just waiting for death, but are trying to find ways to divert water from outside the county. Various difficulties were encountered during the construction of the Red Flag Canal, and funds and materials were extremely scarce. However, the people of Lin County would rather work hard than suffer hardship, and have embarked on a development path of self-reliance, diligence and thrift in building canals. There is no lime to burn, no cement to make, no explosives to make, no skills to learn by doing; in order to save money, the migrant workers raise their own rations, bring their own canal building tools, and make their own construction equipment; the pole is broken? ,? The broken handle is used as a hammer handle, and the handle of the hammer is short for cooking. The total investment in the Hongqi Canal project is 68.6564 million yuan, of which 14.94% was allocated by superiors and 85.06% was raised by the people of Lin County themselves. *** Leveled 1,250 hills, dug 211 tunnels, erected 152 aqueducts, and excavated 22.25 million cubic meters of earth and stone. If these earth and rocks are built into a long wall 2 meters wide and 3 meters high, it can connect Guangzhou and Harbin.

Persist in hard work, but not passively struggling in poverty, but proactive. During the process of building the canal, the people of Lin County not only worked hard but also worked cleverly and solved one construction problem after another. For example, during the construction of the Gudu Temple section, the most arduous part of the main canal, migrant workers initially tied ropes around their waists and hung them in the air while blasting and blasting, causing the work surface to collapse. The progress was very slow and dangerous. Later, local methods were adopted to set up air transport lines, which accelerated the progress and greatly reduced safety accidents. When building the Taoyuan Aqueduct, he invented the "simple arch method" and built a scientific aqueduct that carried flood water under the aqueduct, channel water through the aqueduct, and traffic on the aqueduct. It was written into the water conservancy textbook. County Magistrate Li Gui was responsible for logistics support. He convened relevant personnel to form a procurement team of more than 100 people. With a letter of introduction from the Lin County Party Committee in one hand and a letter of help he wrote to his former comrades in the other, he went to various parts of the country to purchase and repair canals. The required steel, cement, coal, explosives, tools, etc. ensure the normal progress of the construction.

4. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal contains the value orientation of party members and cadres taking the lead in setting an example and selfless dedication

In the process of building the canal, party organizations at all levels and the majority of party members and cadres played an exemplary role and took the lead. It has united people's hearts and formed a close relationship between the party and the masses, cadres and the masses. The masses and party members and cadres worked together to ensure the smooth progress and final success of the canal construction project.

Selfless dedication of high standards of work and low standards of life. ?High standards for work and low standards for life? This is the rule set by the canal construction project headquarters for cadres. The so-called "high standards of work" means that when cadres participate in labor, they implement the "five together and six" rules. The "five together" means eating together, living together, working together, studying together, and discussing together. ?Six determinations? That is to say, cadres are given tasks, time, quality, labor, tools, and work sections. All cadres participate in front-line work, and their tasks can only be exceeded and cannot be owed. In addition to adhering to the "five principles and six principles", there is also an unwritten rule: "Leading cadres first experiment and then set targets for the masses." ?If the county party secretary can build 5 meters a day, the standard for ordinary cadres is set at 4.5 meters, and the standard for the masses is 1 meter less than that for cadres. The workload of cadres is greater than that of the masses, but the ration standards are lower than that of the masses. The masses can only ration 8 taels a day, while cadres can only ration 6 taels.

Once, when Comrade Yang Gui fainted from hunger at the construction site, the cook secretly gave him a bowl of thick millet rice. He was very angry and said, "I will eat whatever the masses eat!" Finally, he poured the bowl of rice into the building. In the pot, stir again and again, and let everyone eat together.

"Cadres can move rocks, and the masses can move mountains." When surveying water sources, Zhou Shaoxian, secretary of the County Party Committee Secretariat, led a technical team westward along the Zhanghe River. When encountering high mountains and dangerous roads, he always walked in front regardless of obstructions. He said, who asked me to be the leader? To lead is to lead the way and be a good guide. Ma Youjin, deputy county magistrate and commander-in-chief of the project, had been building the Red Flag Canal for ten years. He had been working on the construction site for nine years. He suffered from severe rheumatism. He couldn't straighten his legs and still knelt on the ground to do the work until he was finally lifted. Off to the construction site. Volleying is the most dangerous type of work in canal construction. Ren Yangcheng, a member of the Communist Party and the team leader of the team, leads the team members to tie their waists with ropes every day and fly down cliffs and gorges to perform volley operations for everyone's safety. , eliminate dangerous stones. Ren Yangcheng not only lost four or five front teeth, broke his legs twice, but also suffered four serious injuries and almost lost his life. Many years later, I was fortunate enough to meet this old hero at the Hongqi Canal Cadre Academy. He was telling the students the story of the canal construction. A student asked him, Mr. Ren, if you were asked to build canals again, what type of work would you choose? The old man said: "You also need to remove the risk." ?The student asked again, but it is too dangerous, why do you still want to go? Mr. Ren, who was not good at words, held back for a long time, and only said one sentence: ?When I joined the party, I raised my fist!? Party members and cadres set an example for the masses. After setting a good example and benchmark, the people in Lin County said, "If cadres can move stones, the masses can move mountains; if party members and cadres can shed a drop of sweat, the sweat of the masses can flow into a river." This sentence was written with lime water on the rocks of the Taihang Mountains. It is still clearly visible today, inspiring and inspiring people.

A canal surrounds the mountains, and its spirit moves the world. More than 50 years have passed, but the Taihang Mountains are still majestic and the water of the Red Flag Canal is still flowing. From the time when one hundred thousand troops fought against Taihang and built thousands of miles of canals, to at the beginning of reform and opening up, when one hundred thousand troops left Taihang and developed the construction industry and found their way to wealth, from the 1990s when "Fu Taihang" dared to think and try to develop industry and commerce, In the new entrepreneurial journey of "Meitaihang" that has begun in the new era, the people of Linzhou have never stopped striving. The beautiful picture of Linzhou's development is gradually unfolding, and the spirit of the Hongqi Canal that originated in Linzhou will surely follow. Following the pace of the times, integrating the elements of the times, advancing with the times and moving towards the future. ;