Who is the main figure in reclaiming the Great Northern Wilderness?

Demobilized officers and soldiers, educated youth and revolutionary cadres of the People's Liberation Army. From 1958, the Great Northern Wilderness entered a period of large-scale development. 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. They crawl on the ice, sleep in the snow, drain swamps and reclaim wasteland. In the early days of the Great Northern Wilderness, their job was to reclaim wasteland.

In the 1950s and 1970s, demobilized soldiers, peasants and educated youth were organized for large-scale reclamation. When the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps was established, a large number of state-owned farms were created. From the battlefield to the wasteland, there were seven divisions of railway soldiers led by General Wang Zhen 1956, and demobilized officers and men of various arms and services100000 1958.

1959 has 60,000 frontier youths in Qilu, 1966 has demobilized officers and soldiers in shenyang military area command 1 10,000; There are 1968 3,000 active servicemen who formed the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, and 800,000 urban educated youths who came to the Great Northern Wilderness from all over the country. There are also tens of thousands of scientific and technological personnel, college graduates and builders from all over the country who came to the Great Northern Wilderness after the reform and opening up.

Extended data

From "Great Northern Wilderness" to China Granary, Heilongjiang Reclamation Area produces more than 700 billion Jin of grain in 7 1 year and sells more than 600 billion Jin of commercial grain to the country, which is the "ballast stone" and "national team" to ensure national food security.

After several generations of continuous struggle, Heilongjiang Reclamation Area has developed into an important national commodity grain base and strategic grain reserve base with the largest cultivated land area, the highest degree of modernization and the strongest comprehensive production capacity in China. The grain produced in the reclamation area can feed 654.38+0.2 billion people a year.

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