What is the spirit of the canal head?

The spirit of the canal head refers to the spirit of self-reliance, hard work, courage to endure hardships, unity and hard work, pragmatic innovation and selfless dedication.

The headwork of the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project was officially started on1October 26th 1969 and put into operation on August 6th 1974. The whole project was completed on August 6th 1976, which lasted for 8 years. With the help of the whole county,100000 migrant workers live in the wind and sleep, overcoming all kinds of difficulties and obstacles under the conditions of poor mechanical equipment, poor construction conditions and extremely poor life.

The investment is 65.438+0.3 billion yuan, more than 700 tons of wire rope are broken, and 67 million cubic meters of earth and stone are excavated. The 4.4-kilometer approach canal, the headwater sluice, the 8-kilometer main canal for diverting water from Dan and the Xiawa hub have been built one after another, laying a solid foundation for the completion of the Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transfer. During the construction of Taocha Project, more than 2,280 people were disabled in Dengzhou, and 1, 4 1 gave their precious lives.

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The people of Dengzhou not only built the head of Taocha Canal, but also accepted more than 60,000 immigrants from the reservoir area since 1970s. Especially in the relocation of migrants in the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, dengzhou city has dedicated tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, built 29 immigrant communities, and accepted 69 17 households with 30,008 people, accounting for nearly15 of the total number of migrants in Henan Province.

In order to protect the ecological environment of the water source, Dengzhou has also made great efforts to eliminate backward production capacity, and closed, shut down, merged, relocated and transferred more than 80 polluting enterprises/KLOC-0, completely eliminating pollution discharge. In order to protect the quality of water sources in the reservoir area, dengzhou city has abandoned the 1 1 construction project, resulting in the loss of industrial output value of 1 more than one hundred million yuan and the loss of tax revenue of more than 200 million yuan.

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