More than half a century ago, a production unit that just took off its military uniform appeared in the vast land and ancient wasteland of Xinjiang. With hard-working hands, they overcame unimaginable difficulties and became self-reliant. They built bridges and roads, built water conservancy projects, reclaimed land, built dozens of rivers, built hundreds of reservoirs, built a large number of large modern state-owned farms, laid the foundation for modern industry and agriculture in Xinjiang, and built Shihezi and Wujiaqu. The history of Xinjiang for more than half a century has witnessed this brilliant scene.
Pioneering hard: the embodiment of the spirit of the Corps-creating new achievements from scratch
With a flick of a finger, more than half a century has passed and the Gobi desert has undergone earth-shaking changes. The ancient wasteland has long been covered by Mianshan Maihai; The sadness of history has long been replaced by glory and grandeur. When we went into Tarim again and again in full swing, into Xinbao Town where melons and fruits are fragrant, into Mosuo Bay in the vast sea of cotton, into Kokdala singing Night on the Grassland, into Shihezi, Alar, Tumushuke, Wujiaqu, Kuitun and Beitun, did you think that the entrepreneurs of the Corps once waved the first flag here, lit the first bonfire and pulled up the first plow for military reclamation?