How many people participated in the construction of the Great Northern Wilderness?

Tens of thousands of demobilized officers and soldiers, educated youth and revolutionary cadres of the People's Liberation Army responded to the call of the party and the state and came to the "Great Northern Wilderness" with lofty aspirations of defending and building the frontier.

When building a field, the people who enter the field walk step by step with two legs. The vast wasteland is covered with thorns, and Tatou Dianzi and swamp are everywhere. Every time you dig a pick, you splash mud, and everyone becomes periostitis. No kitchen, cooking in the open air; If there is no well, use soaking water to filter and cook; If there are no vegetables, dig wild vegetables to eat.

Sometimes the work place is full of water, and there is no place to squat for lunch, so we have to eat while walking. When I came back from the war, mosquitoes bit my face and neck. Many state-owned farms and military reclamation farms have been established, which have produced a large amount of grain for the country, turned the inaccessible "Great Northern Wilderness" into a beautiful and rich "Great Northern Warehouse", and become the commodity grain production base with the highest degree of modernization and the highest commodity rate in China.

Location context

Great Northern Wilderness, located between 123 40' and 134 40' east longitude, spans11; From 44 10' north latitude to 50 20' north latitude, it runs through10 north latitude, with a total area of 55,300 square kilometers. Refers to the vast barren areas of Nenjiang River Basin, Heilongjiang River Basin and Sanjiang Plain [2]. Her northern part is an extraordinary Xiaoxing 'anling area. The west is Songnen Plain.

1948, the China * * * production party opened the prelude for immigrants to develop this wasteland. With the joint efforts of generations in the past 60 years, Beidahuang has three large-scale farms 1 13, more than 2,000 enterprises, 35.6 million mu of cultivated land and a population of1778,000, which are distributed in 12 cities in Nenjiang River Basin, Sanjiang Plain, Heilongjiang River Basin and Mudanjiang River Basin in Heilongjiang Province. Traditionally, today's Great Northern Wilderness has become synonymous with Heilongjiang reclamation area.