Jiabiangou labor camp incident

Jiabiangou Farm was established in March 1954. Its administrative name is the eighth reform-through-labour detachment of Gansu Province. This used to be a reform-through-labour farm where prisoners were held. This former reform-through-labour farm, located at the edge of Badain Jaran Desert in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, held nearly 3,000 Rightists in Gansu Province from June 1957 to the end of June 1960.

Except for sandstorm weather, the limited farmland in Jiabiangou is mostly saline-alkali wasteland. Since its inception, this small farm can only accept four or five hundred reform-through-labour workers, because it can only support so many people.

When the Rightists arrived in Jiabiangou, they were greeted by fatigue, cold and hunger. Most prison guards come from all walks of life and don't know much about agricultural production in northwest China. Therefore, they have to arrange farm work that is too heavy and physically exhausted almost every day throughout the year, supplemented by production competitions, so that those timid right-wingers can work 12 hours or even 16 hours a day.