In Wuliangsuhai area of Inner Mongolia, a great battle to develop and build the frontier is going on vigorously. Fiona Fang Wuliangsuhai, hundreds of miles away, is like a crescent moon in the east of the Houtao Plain of the Yellow River. Although people began to ditch water for irrigation here from the Qing Dynasty, it was never really developed until liberation. After liberation, the state invested in the construction here, but under the interference of Liu Shaoqi's counter-revolutionary revisionist route, it still hasn't completely changed the desolate face of no one in ten miles. /kloc-in the winter of 0/968, the great leader Chairman Mao issued a great call of "educated youth going to the countryside and receiving re-education from poor middle peasants". 1in the spring of 969, a group of tried and tested PLA cadres, led by young intellectuals from Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, came here to develop the frontier of the motherland. In a short time, the soldiers gathered around Wuliangsuhai and began to March into nature. Over the past two years, this production and construction unit has comprehensively developed agriculture, industry, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery: it has reclaimed nearly 10,000 mu of land, set up several factories, planted tens of thousands of trees, caught more than 3.8 million Jin of fresh fish and harvested more than 76 million Jin of Puwei. Building a new generation in Wuliangsuhai, while transforming the objective world, while assiduously transforming the subjective world, is thriving. In the past two years, 28 people in this unit have joined the * * * Production Party, 392 people have joined the * * * Youth League, and 26 people have been promoted to company-level cadres. 1970, 1549 German soldiers were selected. After labor training, the vast number of army reclamation soldiers are enthusiastic and full of energy, determined to take root in the frontier and build the frontier. They said with great pride: they vowed to turn the northern country into an oasis, and they will definitely make the wasteland look brand-new; Sweat and sweat are sprinkled on thorns, and new frontiers are built with both hands! One of the first problems that soldiers in Wuliangsuhai have to solve is to produce food here. They clearly know that this is a major event related to whether they can stand on the frontier, take root, blossom and bear fruit. Around Wuliangsuhai, due to the long-term infiltration of the Yellow River, the land has been seriously alkalized. Army reclamation soldiers have just arrived here, and this is a large alkali beach, with no grass and no long trees. Sometimes when the "yellow hair wind" blows, it becomes dark and you can't tell the north from the south. The harsh environment and climate make people think: Can we farm here? How to take root in thought? In the middle of the night, members of the Party Committee of the army spread out a map and made a serious analysis and research on the history and present situation of this area: the tail water of Nawujia River, Changji Canal and Fu Min Canal in Wuliangsuhai, and hundreds of thousands of acres of land around it are silted soil layers. As long as the alkali damage is controlled, food will certainly grow; The water surface is equivalent to one and a half times that of Miyun Reservoir in Beijing, which is rich in aquatic products and can develop sideline business. The key is to educate the educated youth with Mao Zedong Thought and establish the idea of long-term hard struggle. Promoting the great development of production with ideological revolution. In order to find out the hydrological and soil conditions, Hao, secretary of the Party branch and company commander of Erlian Company, took a pot of water and two steamed stuffed buns, got up early and went to the alkali beach for dozens of miles, and visited a group of local residents. The poor middle herdsman told him that Wuliangsu means Hongliutan in Mongolian, which used to be fertile land. Later, the Yellow River rose and poured into this low-lying land, which became the "sea" now. A few years ago, they moved in from other places and cultivated the land. Millet and potatoes grow well. I just don't have the strength to cure alkali. If the alkali is heavy, I will move frequently. The introduction of poor middle-aged herding has added confidence to Comrade Hao. After more than half a month's investigation, he chose a place called the small circle, set up a temporary mat shed, put a big pot on it, and led a group of army reclamation soldiers to reclaim land and work hard. In the first year, the company opened 800 mu of land on the alkali beach. Try planting 200 mu of millet, with an average yield of 300 kg per mu; Eighty acres of potatoes yield 1,500 Jin per mu. The next year, they tried to grow wheat. At the beginning of April, the wheat seedlings just emerged and it rained for several days. The land was boiled and the white alkali burned the wheat seedlings to death. Despite the rescue, production was reduced during the autumn harvest, and some plots were not collected. Can you farm here? Someone wavered again. The party branch concentrated on arranging class backbones and carrying out ideological rectification. "The growth of any new thing has to go through difficulties and twists and turns. In the socialist cause, it will always be smooth sailing and easy to succeed if we go through difficulties and twists and turns and make great efforts. This idea is just an illusion. " According to Chairman Mao's instructions, everyone calmly analyzed that most of the wheat was burned to death, but some of it grew well, with thick stems, long ears and full grains. This living wheat is hope and direction. The Party branch told the educated youth with this living example that there must be a struggle process to correctly understand and transform nature. Whether the land can grow food depends on whether people have the determination to fight against the sky and the scientific attitude of repeated experiments. When many young intellectuals leave schools and cities, they have some unrealistic fantasies and lack understanding of the arduousness of developing the frontier. After a year of practice and study, they began to realize that they must turn their heroic revolutionary passion into solid revolutionary action. In order to develop and build the frontier of the motherland, they are determined to fight a long and arduous battle. Last winter and this spring, inspired by the slogan of "transforming saline-alkali wasteland and building army reclamation camp", they fought against sandstorms during the day, played lanterns at night, fought for more than 20 days and nights, dug an irrigation canal with a depth of more than half a person, a width of more than two meters and a length of 2,400 meters, and built two dams, which can not only lead yellow water out of the land, but also lead alkali into the sea. This year, the cultivated land area of Erlian Company expanded to 1500 mu, and wheat, millet, corn and soybeans were planted. Now it is growing well and a bumper harvest is in sight. Last year, the educated young women in Balian planted rice in a mud pond by the sea, and some of them produced 300 kilograms per mu. Tomatoes, cabbages, radishes, watermelons and melons also got good harvests. This year, they further expand the planting area of rice and vegetables, and are determined to build Wuliangsuhai into a "land of plenty" in the north with their own hands. While developing agriculture, the leading organs of the development of industrial production and construction troops realized from the beginning that while developing agriculture, we must develop industry, supplement agriculture with industry and promote each other, so as to quickly change the backward appearance of the local area. The industrial base here used to be very weak. Hundreds of miles away in Fiona Fang, apart from a small power plant, there is no chimney or factory building. Over the past two years, the production and construction forces have established a number of factories. Near Wuliangsuhai, there are pulp workshops and paper mills of May 7th Chemical Fiber Factory. They are all made of Puwei in Wuliangsuhai. Chemical fiber factory uses 70% reed and 30% cotton to make blended cotton cloth. High-grade paper produced by paper mills can print revolutionary treasures. They also weave fish bags and cushions with cattail leaves, pillows with cattail branches, baskets with cattail roots for the market, and some for export. Last year, some companies earned more than 300,000 yuan in sideline production, which was more than self-sufficient. Cutting Puwei is a tense battle, which requires a high degree of organization and discipline. In the first year, they had no experience in harvesting, so the team took them to the frozen sea, simply grouped them and went their separate ways. They suddenly disappeared into the reed forest, lost their unified command and gained little. Before reed cutting in the second year, the Party Committee of the army conscientiously summed up the lessons of the previous year, mobilized the masses to carry out in-depth ideological mobilization, and proposed to consciously cultivate organizational discipline in the reed cutting battle. Party Committee members went deep into the front line and held on-site meetings in succession. A company of leading cadres insisted on following the class and infiltrated ideological work into every production link. The whole company is in high spirits, making rapid progress, and the reed cutting index has risen linearly. Driven by a series of experiences, Baili Binghai has become a battlefield for training people to bear hardships and stand hard work. Teams of army reclamation soldiers braved the cold of MINUS 20 degrees and walked more than 30 miles every day without complaint. Some people cut their fingers and bleed, break the reed pipe, take out the reed film and stick it on the wound to continue fighting. Steamed bread is frozen into a hard lump, showing two white spots when chewing, which is sweeter. They regard cutting an extra bundle of reeds as an additional contribution to the revolution and an additional achievement in transforming the world outlook. Everyone grabbed the heavy burden and cut 60 million Jin in more than 30 days, which was three times higher than the previous year, creating a wealth of1200,000 yuan for the country. After two winters of reed cutting exercise, the minds of the educated youth have changed obviously. When they started cutting Pu Wei, they heard that a catty of reed cost twenty cents, so they didn't cherish it when they cut it. After two consecutive winters of labor practice, they deeply felt that reed is small, but it is not easy to harvest and transport it to make paper and weave, especially considering that reed paper can print revolutionary treasures, and their burden is really great! Feelings have changed and organizational discipline has improved. Once, fifteen soldiers dragged back more than 2,000 kilograms of reeds from the ice sea, and the ice boat suddenly fell into the ice cave. At this critical juncture, monitor Chen recited Chairman Mao's quotations: "I agree with this slogan, which is' one is not afraid of suffering, and the other is not afraid of death'", and led the soldiers to jump into the ice water and grab all the reeds to the shore. Everyone's clothes turned into ice armor, but no one complained, and happily sang a revolutionary model opera: "Resist the cold, melt the ice and snow, and there is a sunrise on my chest ..." March to the depth and breadth of production. The Party Committee of the Production and Construction Army resolutely implements Chairman Mao's policy of "taking grain as the key link and developing in an all-round way", leads the educated youth to fully develop Wuliangsuhai and constantly March to the depth and breadth of production. Here is rich in yellow river carp, the big one weighs more than ten kilograms. In the past two years, they have caught more than 3.8 million Jin of fresh fish and supplied them to various places. There are many aquatic plants here. They are used as fermented feed for grain-free sake koji and for raising pigs themselves. Now, on average, four people keep a pig. There are large grasslands here. They raised more than 24,500 cattle and sheep using natural pastures. In spring, summer and autumn, this is a water zoo, where dozens of birds and waterfowl live in the sea to feed. They hunt swans and wild birds and make expensive cooked food. Wuliangsuhai is a vast world with great achievements. Army reclamation soldiers who built Wuliangsuhai followed Chairman Mao's teaching that "human beings must constantly sum up experience, discover, invent, create and make progress" and constantly explored and transformed Wuliangsuhai. There are young army reclamation soldiers and old Yanling players from Baiyangdian in the fishing raft. They studied Chairman Mao's philosophical works. According to the characteristics of shallow water, abundant grass and deep reeds in Wuliangsuhai Lake, after many experiments, they adopted a new technology of foil fishing and changed the old method of fishing with nets. You can catch more than 1000 Jin of fish in one day when the foil rotates, up to 3000 Jin at most. Many companies form agricultural research groups to study Chairman Mao's philosophical works and conduct scientific experiments. They dug tree pits on the alkali beach, cleared the alkaline earth, transported the soil well, and planted apple trees, pear trees and poplars; They dig holes and wells and water peanuts and sunflowers with groundwater; They built kilns and burned bricks, and built rows of new houses on the wasteland. In the practice of three revolutionary struggles, the vast number of young intellectuals deeply realized that it is infinite to use Chairman Mao's philosophical thoughts to guide practice. Recently, the army reclamation company in Wuliangsuhai area is conducting the initial evaluation of the "Four Good" in the third year, comprehensively summing up experience, drawing lessons, beating arrogance and breaking the fullness, further arming itself with Chairman Mao's philosophical thoughts, and determined to make greater contributions to the revolution.