1February, 939, Mao Zedong put forward the slogan of "Do it yourself" at the production mobilization meeting in Yan 'an, aiming at the increasingly serious economic difficulties in the base area. Then the base areas gradually launched a large-scale production movement. The slogan of "Do it yourself and have plenty of food and clothing" is the goal of overcoming economic difficulties and realizing self-sufficiency in production in all base areas. After liberation, this slogan has always been an action command of the party and the government to encourage people to help themselves in production when the economy of the whole country or a certain region is in trouble.
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According to the policy of self-help, self-sufficiency, developing production and ensuring supply put forward by the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong, the Central Military Commission issued an instruction to the whole army in February 1942, requiring all the troops of the whole army to fight, produce and learn and carry out production campaigns according to different environmental conditions. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De also put forward the policy of "reclaiming farmland". Since then, the large-scale production movement has flourished in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region and the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines.
According to the call of the Party Central Committee, the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army set out for Nanniwan and other areas south of Yan 'an in the spring of 194 1 2008, and carried out military reclamation in this overgrown and uninhabited place. After three years' efforts, the officers and men of the 359 Brigade reclaimed more than10.2 million mu of land on the barren hills, turning Nanniwan into a "southern part of northern Shaanxi" full of crops and flocks of cattle and sheep.
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