As the 20th century is drawing to a close and the new millennium is approaching, Qiaotou Town People's Government has launched a series of activities to review the century, aiming at summing up experience, drawing lessons and making persistent efforts. Editing "The Age of Fire" is one of the contents of this activity. Comrades of the Party and Government Office compiled the relevant materials of the 1970s into a book, which is a summary of the historical stage and a rich property. I appreciate the practice of DangZhengBan.

In the early 1970s, Qiaotou Commune (formerly known as Qiaotou Town) set off a climax of farmland capital construction and set a good example.

In full swing. At that time, He Shan Brigade was a model of agricultural reclamation, Yang Gonglang Production Team was a model of soil and fertilizer construction, and Shishuikou Brigade was a model of dry land construction. The commune Party Committee conducted a pilot project of land leveling and soil improvement in Youzhuying (local name) production team on the hillside of He Shan Brigade. More than 400 people in the whole team fought for 40 days, leveled all 720 mu of paddy fields, and excavated the general drainage channel 1 km, irrigation channel 17 and drainage channel 18. Road 13 was also built. After leveling, the rice field is flat and the specifications are consistent (2.2 mu), which is called "grid field". The success of "Youzhuying" in returning farmland to soil greatly inspired the cadres and masses of He Shan Brigade to dig ditches to eliminate cold and return farmland to soil. After three hard struggles in winter and spring, the whole brigade invested 6.5438+0.2 million workers and moved more than 500,000 cubic meters of earthwork, which separated the drainage and irrigation of more than 4,000 mu of farmland, leveled the land, and the roads were flat and straight, extending in all directions. Realized land gardens, irrigation and drainage systems, transport vehicles and boats, roadside riverbanks and fruit forests.

At that time, Li, secretary of the commune Party Committee, took the cadres of the commune farmland capital construction team and brigade to camp in the "Niulanjing" (local name) on the hillside. On both sides of the hut, there is a big banner of "living in a thatched shed and looking forward to Beijing and sleeping for the people", and the sign of "Qiaotou Commune Farmland Capital Construction Command" is hung at the door to lead the whole society's farmland capital construction. After three major battles of land exchange in winter and spring and rectification of mountains and rivers, 20,000 mu of the 23,000 mu paddy field in the whole society has been cultivated rapidly and irrigated freely, and 6,543,800+0.2 million mu of dry sloping land has been ridged, of which 6,000 mu has been irrigated, and the dry sloping land has become irrigated land; Leveling 2000 mu of dry land, the "three-run land" (running fertilizer, water and soil) has become the "three-protect land" (keeping fertilizer, water and soil). At the same time, 320 tractor roads and 500 bridges and culverts 12 will be built, so that 96 production teams of Commune12 Brigade can access cars.

At that time, the capital construction of farmland was strongly supported by the cadres, government functionaries and primary and secondary school students of the whole commune, who made great contributions to the capital construction of farmland in the whole society. Up to now, people in that era still remember that history vividly.

1973 10, the leading comrades of Guangdong provincial party Committee came to Qiaotou, fully affirming the practices and experiences of farmland capital construction in Qiaotou commune. Later, Nanfang Daily, Huiyang Daily, Dongguan Express and other newspapers reported the deeds of Qiaotou Commune in grasping major events, improving the construction of leading bodies and farmland capital construction for several days. Qiaotou Commune is very famous in the whole province, and people from all over the province come to visit Qiaotou in an endless stream. Qiaotou has become a hot spot in the province: visiting Pingtian in the mountains to improve the soil; Interview with Yang Gonglang to raise pigs and accumulate fertilizer; Visit the construction of dry sloping land in Shishuikou. The experience of Qiaotou has contributed to the capital construction of farmland in the whole province. Qiaotou Commune was rated as the advanced unit of "Agricultural Dazhai" in the whole province and county, and many people from other counties, provinces and other places came to visit Qiaotou. Signs of "going to the bridge" have been inserted on the main roads in the province. This is a proud day for Qiaotou farmers and the first golden age of Qiaotou agriculture.

With the passage of time, the arduous, large-scale and high-standard farmland capital construction in the past has become history, but what happened in the 1970s left an indelible impression on the hearts of a generation, leaving a glorious page in Qiaotou's entrepreneurial history. The capital construction of farmland in 1970s laid a solid foundation for the reform and opening up since 1980s. Thanks to the secretary and a group of commune party committees and revolutionary committees for their special contributions to Qiaotou. Thanks to all previous Party committees and governments for their unremitting efforts and selfless dedication to the development and prosperity of Qiaotou.

In the early 1970s, I was a middle school student, studying in Qiaotou Middle School, living in the compound of the commune, and taking part in hard work with the teachers and classmates in the bridge. When I saw the newspaper clippings and pictures I had read again, I felt very cordial. Although those materials are full of the brand of that era, the spirit of seeking truth from facts and hard work should be carried forward.

Thanks to the comrades in the archives of the town government for insisting on collecting newspaper clippings and photos for decades, leaving precious historical archives for the people at Qiaotou. It is hoped that all villages and units will do a good job in archival work, do a good job in sorting out, archiving and utilizing data, and make archival work reach a new level.

The purpose of editing and publishing "The Age of Fire" is to save a document and let people at Qiaotou remember the special story of this special era. "Historical experience is worth noting". It is very meaningful to summarize history in stages, which can not only sum up experiences and lessons, but also boost morale. We published this book for this purpose. (Mo Hou Liang)