General Wang Zhen's life story

General Wang Zhen's second and third incident in Junchuan

Junchuan Farm was established under the personal command and care of General Wang Zhen.

General Wang Zhen visited Junchuan Farm twice in 1959 and 1962, and the workers regarded General Wang Zhen as a member of the farm, affectionately calling him "our old king's head"

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General Wang Zhen often wears a half-worn yellow tweed military uniform and an ordinary blue coat, with a thin smile on his face. He is approachable and approachable. Workers are willing to approach him and chat with him.

At first, when I heard that General Wang Zhen was going to stay, some comrades in the canteen were worried: "What kind of food does a minister, General Samsung, have to eat?" At that time, the material conditions were poor and Junchuan was far from the city, so it was impossible to buy delicacies. In order to express the wishes of farm workers, the chefs in the canteen still tried their best to arrange recipes and prepare chicken, fish, meat and eggs. Unexpectedly, General Wang Zhen's secretary, Xiao Wang, specially asked Zhang, the administrator in charge of life, to say, "Don't ask for more rice, two dishes, one tofu and one cabbage."

"how can this work?"

"Two food ministers are too many. If you want more, you should not only return them. I have to be scolded. "

At dinner, Master Lao Dong and Assistant Xu were very sorry. Knowing that Comrade Wang Zhen loves dog meat, he specially served a plate. The minister didn't refuse, but turned around and told the secretary that in addition to the food expenses, he would pay for the dog meat.

In the early 196s, before the guest house was built on the farm, Minister Wang Zhen slept in the dormitory like a worker. When he woke up in the morning, he happily said to the comrade who was washing his face, "It's really tiring, thank you very much, I haven't slept on the kang for many years."

Minister Wang is strict with himself and is very concerned about the masses. He personally visited the workers in the hut where they lived, and had a heart-to-heart talk with them, asking how life was and whether the house was leaking. He told Captain J that we should pay more attention to the masses and let the workers live better and better.

A kind of "experimental field"

General Wang Zhen inspected Junchuan and encouraged the workers to build the Great Northern Wilderness into a "Great Northern Warehouse".

In order to improve the standard operation level, increase crop yield and popularize the application of new high-yield technical measures, General Wang Zhen established the soybean experimental field. This land is located in No.8, north of Xujia Restaurant, which is called "high-standard, high-quality" production and training place by the staff of the first team. General Wang Zhen personally reviewed the technical measures, whether it was management or harvest, and the whole process from spring sowing to autumn harvest strictly required intensive cultivation; A large-scale harvest was achieved in Bainian experimental field, with a yield of 41 Jin per mu, which promoted the scientific farming work to a new level.

Take the "Queqiao"

In the 196s, when General Wang Zhen visited Junchuan and talked with the reclamation team members, he asked the reclamation team members what difficulties they had in their lives. The reclamation team members said to General Wang Zhen, "The living conditions in the Great Northern Wilderness are difficult, but we feel very fulfilled. Is the lack of a big girl, it is male to catch a mouse. "This sentence was originally a joke but was remembered by General Wang Zhen. He said that he must help the reclamation team solve their personal problems and make them all start a family.

After General Wang Zhen returned to Beijing, he began to mobilize young women from cities to build the border areas in the Great Northern Wilderness. More than 2 young women from Harbin alone came to settle in Junchuan Farm

Since then, the history of more men than women in Junchuan Farm has ended.

General Wang Zhen proposed to develop the Great Northern Wilderness

"Great Northern Wilderness" refers to a large area of land in Mishan, Hulin, Raohe and Baoqing counties in the northeast corner of China's territory, which has always been regarded as a vast wasteland. Rulers of all dynasties have issued "reclamation orders" here to attract refugees to reclaim landless wasteland. However, the results are not great. The Great Northern Wilderness is still sparsely populated, villages are hard to find, and people are rare. It was not until the birth of New China that this chernozem, which local villagers called "chopsticks can germinate when inserted", woke up and sprouted full of vitality. In the spring of 1958, 1, demobilized officers and men of the People's Liberation Army marched into the Great Northern Wilderness and settled the border. They have built the wasteland that was full of hazel weeds and wild animals into an important commodity grain base in the country.

General Directs General Planning

The development of the Great Northern Wilderness began in July 1953, when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, the volunteers began to withdraw to the motherland in stages, the first five-year plan was announced and implemented, and the country entered a period of peaceful construction. Among them, General Wang Zhen, then commander of the Railway Corps and Minister of Land Reclamation, played an important role. He was the first person who proposed to develop the Great Northern Wilderness.

At the end of May, 1954, General Wang Zhen went to Heilongjiang to inspect the 855 troops of the Railway Corps (that is, the fifth division of the Railway Corps) and inspected some wasteland in Suihua, Jiamu and other places. In the autumn of the same year, General Wang Zhen inspected the Tangyuan Farm of the Fifth Division HQ, and checked the vegetables such as cabbage, tomato and eggplant produced by soldiers. A grand plan for the development and construction of the Great Northern Wilderness has sprouted. At the meeting of cadres at or above the company level convened by the division headquarters, Wang Zhen pointed out: "We should run army farms, shoulder the burden for the country, and solve the problem that the troops eat vegetables and meat. After your transition, some comrades will run state-owned farms, so we must be prepared now." Under the direction of General Wang Zhen, Yu Youqing, deputy commander of the Fifth Division, led more than 8 officers and men of the demobilization brigade and hundreds of reform-through-labour prisoners who participated in railway construction to enter the Tiger Forest to set up a site. On New Year's Day, 1955, the first state-owned military reclamation farm named after the name of the Railway Corps-85 Farm was established in Xilin Xigang, Hulin. In that year, the 85 farm reclaimed 25, mu, sowed 25, mu, built simple roads and built straw houses that could accommodate more than 1, people.

On August 14th, 1955, General Wang Zhen submitted a report on "Developing the Great Northern Wilderness" to the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, proposing to use 1 million yuan of the project fee earned by the railway corps in 1955-1957 to invest in the development of wasteland in Mishan, Hulin and Raohe. It is planned to reclaim 1 million mu of wasteland by 196 and increase grain by 3 billion Jin. In addition to supplying about 2, producers, their families and livestock with food, they can also hand in 2.5 billion Jin of commercial grain. Wang Zhen's report was praised by Marshal Peng Dehuai and General Huang Kecheng, then Chief of Staff, and the Central Committee quickly approved Wang Zhen's report. In the spring of 1956, Mishan Railway Corps Reclamation Bureau was established. Then, Huang Zhenrong, the acting teacher of the Third Division of the Railway Corps, led his officers and men to enter the Nanhenglinzi area of Baoqing County to form the 852 farm. Luo Peixing, deputy commander of the fourth division in Zhankou, Guangdong Province, and others set up the 854 farm in Yingchun. The Eighth Five-Year Farm was set up by Sun Peijun of the Ninth Division ... Wang Zhen also transferred a group of cadres who knew business technology from Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and state-owned local farms to strengthen the management of military reclamation farms. And put forward the "five sides" policy of "land reclamation, production, construction, accumulation and expansion". By the end of 1957, a large number of military reclamation farms with the prefix "eight" had begun to take shape, which laid a solid foundation for further developing the Great Northern Wilderness and expanding military reclamation farms.

the first five-year plan for China's national economic construction was successfully completed in p>1958, and the second five-year plan has just started. According to the domestic and international situation at that time, the Central Committee decided to reduce a number of troops. On January 24, the Central Military Commission issued the instruction of "Mobilizing 1, demobilized officers and men to participate in production and construction"; On February 24, the cadre department of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army issued the Notice on Specific Matters Concerning the Transfer of Retired Cadres to State Farms for Production and Construction.

according to the arrangement of the central authorities, since March this year, demobilized officers and men from various services and arms of the People's Liberation Army, including government units, field armies, military academies, logistics units and military hospitals, have come to Beidahuang from all over the country (except Tibet and Xinjiang), including seven reserve divisions, four reserve hospitals and two veterinary hospitals. Pre-division I and pre-division VII are two organizational divisions, and even weapons are brought. In fact, the total number of staff is more than 81,. This was the news that was called "1, demobilized officers and soldiers went on an expedition to the Great Northern Wilderness".

among these officers and men, there are old Red Army soldiers who have experienced the 25,-mile Long March, national fighting heroes, and heroes who made meritorious deeds in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. If there is Hao Xinyou, the deputy instructor of Huang Jiguang Company, there is Wu Pinqing, the battalion chief of staff who personally commanded Qiu Shaoyun Company to capture the 391 highland; Zuo Shangxi, who insisted on tunnel struggle for fourteen days and nights in Shangganling campaign, won the second class merit. In addition, there are a large number of military engineers and technicians, theoretical and military teachers, etc. Regardless of personal fame and fortune, they sang "Give a red heart to the party, and the hero will be disarmed and go to the battlefield". They still marched into the Great Northern Wilderness like singing the battle song of defending the country and killing the enemy across the river.

According to Wang Guilin, then director of the secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Ding Jisong, assistant of the political department of Harbin Military Industry, the atmosphere was very warm at that time. A series of military cars drove into Mishan Station one after another. Mishan, a small town with only more than 1, people, was boiling, and every family was crowded with rooms. In the streets and alleys, people come and go, all of them are officers and men in yellow uniforms. On April 13th, a 1,-person meeting was held in Mishan Station Square to welcome the demobilized officers and men of the People's Liberation Army to March into the Great Northern Wilderness. On both sides of the rostrum of the conference, there are two striking slogans: "Mihu Bao Rao Qian Li Wo Ye turned into fertile land; The hero at the foot of Wandashan built his country and his homeland ",and the horizontal approval is" hard work ". This was written by General Wang Zhen himself. Wang Zhen wore Samsung general epaulettes and made a mobilization speech. The officers and men attending the meeting witnessed the elegant demeanour of the old general who had gone through many battles from Nanniwan to the Great Northern Wilderness, and the cheers were like thunder.

fighting on black soil

the starting point of farm life is very difficult. Due to the relocation, relocation and expansion, most of the branches and company houses have no room, and there is no acre of land. They are all wasteland, where tigers and bears haunt and foxes and rabbits make their homes. Everyone put down their backpacks and began to mow the grass, cut down tree strips, and choose a high ridge to support the shack. This kind of shack is extremely simple, and it can block the wind and rain by tying several herringbone shelves with straw ropes, then tying cross arms and covering them with Leymus chinensis. Then spread thick grass inside and spread out the backpack, which is the place to stay. Some of the dependents of the army are also several families sharing a "nest" with a cloth tent hanging in the middle, which is the dividing line between the two families.

In some areas, eating is also a problem. According to the regulations of the Military Commission, the rations of demobilized officers and soldiers in the first year are supplied by local authorities, and the supply standards are also in accordance with military standards. However, due to the remoteness of the area and inconvenient transportation, the food supplied could not be delivered for a while. As a result, some farms had to organize manpower to carry rations from the national treasury hundreds of miles away. Some farms temporarily fill their hunger with raw grain and cook rice and wheat because they have no food processing equipment. Food and shelter are like this, and other daily necessities are extremely scarce. Matches, soap, lamps and candles, and even toilet paper can't be bought. The working environment is a vast wasteland, full of thorns, Tatou Dianzi and marshes all over. The difficulty is really unbearable.

However, the officers and men did not bow before the difficulties, but they were building while producing. Officers and men from the air force, artillery, tanks and other special forces took the lead in driving tractors and reclaimed a large number of wasteland. The officers and men used the most primitive methods to scramble for seeds. In the first year, more than one million mu of soybeans were planted, and 1 million tons of soybeans were harvested after autumn. In addition to large-scale land reclamation, land preparation and housing construction, more than 4, demobilized officers and men also participated in the construction of Yunshan Reservoir in the Eighth Five-Year Plan Farm, repaired the 114-kilometer Mihu Railway, accepted and completed the arduous and glorious tasks of selecting and cutting more than 1, meters of high-quality timber, supporting the "Top Ten Buildings" in the capital and the construction of Dalian Shipyard.

These demobilized officers and men from the heroic People's Liberation Army have maintained and carried forward the glorious tradition of the People's Army, overcome all kinds of difficulties and wrote a magnificent chapter in their decades of life of stationing wasteland and guarding the border. Now the Great Northern Wilderness is no longer desolate, many farms have built densely populated small towns, and the Great Northern Wilderness has become a great northern warehouse. Some of the officers and men who started the business in those days broke down from overwork, and some gave their precious lives. Most of them had gray temples and full houses of children and grandchildren, and spent nearly half a century in the Spring and Autumn Period in the Great Northern Wilderness. Although the pioneering era with burning passion has passed, the spirit of the Great Northern Wilderness, which was initiated by them, will be passed down from generation to generation and will always inspire us to fight for building a Socialism with Chinese characteristics.