What routes did Xixiang Highway pass during the Anti-Japanese War?

1, "stilwell road North Line"-Xixiang Highway (Xixiang Highway starts from Xichang City, Sichuan Province and ends at xia zhuang, Xiangyun County, Yunnan Province, with a total length of 548.7 kilometers, 260 kilometers in Sichuan and 289.4 kilometers in Yunnan. The existing Xichang-Chengdu highway runs from Xichang to the west along Anning Valley, passing Dechang, Huili and Panzhihua, and enters Yunnan Province. In Yunnan, the highway runs through Yongren, Dayao, Yao 'an and Xiangyun counties, jumps out of Xiazhuang Village and enters Bayi, Yunnan, where it joins the main line "stilwell road". )

Nowadays, people inside and outside the province are familiar with the Stilwell Road which runs through Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and enters Myanmar through the western Yunnan Canyon. It is this international corridor that was built by the people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in the years of war. During the most difficult period in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it undertook the transportation of aid materials from overseas Chinese and the anti-fascist international community, and made great contributions to the Chinese nation's final victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After the founding of New China, the Guikun-Kunwan Highway, which was built on the basis of "stilwell road", took on the glorious mission of consolidating the frontier of national defense construction with a brand-new look. In the decades before the completion and opening to traffic of Liansheng Expressway, it has always been a "golden channel" for the mainland to contact the frontier. However, few people still remember that the "Stilwell Road North Line", that is, the "Xixiang Highway", was built at the same time as the Anti-Japanese War Avenue running through Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.

3. This line was also advocated and urged by Stilwell, the American general who helped China in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The whole line winds over mountains and valleys, crosses dozens of high mountains with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and crosses rivers with rapids such as Anning River, Jinsha River and Yupao River. The banks of Jinsha River are still typical debris flow prone areas, and the route gap is large. The elevation difference between Lazha village on the riverside and the corridor on the other side of the river is nearly1500m, and the project is very arduous. However, the anti-Japanese battlefields in various places are in urgent need of aid to China, and this road must be built as soon as possible to ensure that western aid to China is continuously transported to various battlefields through Sichuan. So, just like the Stilwell Road, the main line, the construction of the northern line also adopts the way of "unified survey, local expropriation, subsection construction and county and township contracting", and the responsibility goes to the county and township. Take Xiangyun County, Yunnan Province as an example. 194 1 year 1 month, under the command of the county magistrate, the "Xixiang Highway Recruitment Office in Xiangyun County" was established, which instructed every three households to send a laborer, * * * recruited more than 0/000 migrant workers, brought their own food, vegetables and road tools, and marched to the construction site in a mighty way. The recruited people of all ethnic groups, with deep hatred for the Japanese invaders, actively participated in the tense and orderly project construction. Each township in the county is also contracted by stages, and each township under its jurisdiction 13 has a construction team leader. Like migrant workers, they fought day and night in the rain in cloaks. After more than three months of intense construction, xia zhuang Street to the junction of Dacang and Bagan (Bagan was under the jurisdiction of Yao 'an at that time) 13 km was completed and delivered for acceptance. Other counties and townships in Sichuan and Yunnan along the line also repaired their own contract sections in the first half of 194 1 2008, and the Xixiang highway was fully connected. In less than half a year, more than 1000 kilometers of highway was built between dangerous mountains and bad waters, which is a miracle and also conveys the national spirit of China people to unite as one, share common enemy and defend their country.

After the completion of Xixiang Highway, it was immediately put into special transportation of anti-Japanese war materials. A large number of aid materials to China get on the bus after passing through the trunk line "Stilwell Road" and "Hump Route", hover over towering mountains, cross rolling rivers, gallop thousands of miles, arrive in Xichang in an endless stream, and then pass through the highway from Xichang to Chengdu, and are sent to various anti-Japanese battlefields continuously. The two "Stilwell Roads" echoed at a distance, with rolling traffic and high morale, which accelerated the victory of China people War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the failure of Japanese imperialism.

While Xixiang Highway and the trunk line "stilwell road" played a great role in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of the Chinese nation, crazy Japanese imperialism flagrantly launched the Pacific War. In just a few months, it successively occupied the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar, and set foot on Yunnan, which has always been the rear area of anti-Japanese war, and the anti-Japanese war broke out in western Yunnan. 1942, Longling in Tengchong, located on the west bank of Lancang River, fell one after another, and the anti-Japanese battlefield in western Yunnan was in an emergency. In order to prevent Japanese imperialism from crossing the Lancang River, they used the convenient traffic conditions of the Stilwell Road to March into Chinese mainland. Under the command of Chongqing, the capital of the Anti-Japanese War, people of all ethnic groups in four counties in Yunnan dug this road one by one, and tens of thousands of migrant workers dispatched it and destroyed it in just a few days. Xixiang Highway, which has made great contributions to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, is also called "stilwell road Northern Line". Since then, the historical mission of transporting anti-Japanese war materials has been terminated, and it was not reopened until the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

It was not until the founding of New China that this "road to success", once covered with dense forests and weeds, revived and became the road to building a new socialist China. Except for the section from Shimen River in Xiangyun to Yanzigou in Yao 'an, other sections have been rebuilt and opened to traffic. A section of Anning Valley in Xichang has now become the Panxi (Panzhihua-Xichang) Expressway of Huili 100 kilometers, and has become a county-level highway connecting more than a dozen towns and villages in Huili with Panzhihua City. Yanzigou-yaoan section is a county-level highway in the Yi village of Yupaojiang River Valley, with a distance of more than 0/00 km from yaoan to Panzhihua/KLOC. It was widened and built into an inter-provincial highway connecting Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in the 1960s. The section from xia zhuang Street to Shimen River in Pucong, the destination, was originally used as the engineering road for the construction of Pucong Reservoir as Xiangyun, which supported the construction of Pucong Reservoir for more than 20 years. Now it is the passenger and cargo transportation road in ethnic mountain villages such as Dacang, Jindan and Yunlichang. Over the past 70 years, in these sections and radiation areas, it has been difficult to find traces of bonfires used as transportation channels for anti-Japanese war materials during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, and there is a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere and laughter in peacetime everywhere. Only from Shimen River in Xiangyun to Yanzigou in Yao 'an, this land lies quietly in the lush forests on both sides of Yubao River, silently witnessing the blood and fire of the people in central Yunnan during the Anti-Japanese War and remembering another great event in this land.