1957, rural collectivization was further upgraded. Baoan County Committee passed the "Several Provisions on Restricting the Development of Rural Capitalism" to restrict the private plots and sideline income of members, and the sideline income should not exceed 30% of the total annual household income; Farmers outside the society are not allowed to open up wasteland or abandon agriculture for business, "in order to completely plug the loopholes of capitalism"; The "male full labor force" has to complete 260 working days a year; If farmers have gold and silver jewelry in their homes, they must declare it to the government and then take it as state-owned
Border fence
By 1959, there was a serious famine in Guangdong. According to one data, the total grain output of the province in that year was only 65.438+07.758 billion Jin, which was 654.38+05.7 1% lower than 654.38+0958. 1960 is still a year of production reduction, and farmers actually lost 610.25 billion Jin of grain, which is equivalent to their eight-month rations. An escaped prisoner told Bing'an Chen that there was basically no meat or oil in the food at that time, and even few vegetables. In order to alleviate hunger, he once ate banana residue, straw, papaya peel, sweet potato vine and even Guanyin soil. At that time, the average income of a farmer in Baoan was about 70 cents a day, while that of a farmer in Hong Kong was 70 Hong Kong dollars, a difference of nearly 100 times. A local folk song sang, "It is better to work hard for a year than to send a letter to Hong Kong to ask relatives to remit money." .
Political coercion is also one of the main reasons for fleeing Hong Kong.
Ma Sicong, a famous musician, is the most typical representative. Ma Sicong, then president of the Central Conservatory of Music, was humiliated after the Cultural Revolution began in 196. 1967, he ventured to perform in Shenzhen and fled to Hong Kong by boat. On the second day of his arrival in Hong Kong, newspapers and radio stations in Hong Kong reported the news, which set off a wave of fleeing from Hong Kong in 10, with intellectuals and educated youth as the main body.
Bing'an Chen once interviewed a militia captain, and the reason why he fled Hongkong sounds ridiculous today.
The militia leader found a balloon floating from Taiwan Province province in the mountains. There is a lot of food and a white vest in the basket under the balloon. This kind of balloon was often found in Guangdong when the two sides of the strait were in a hostile state. The educated youth handed in the meal, but he couldn't bear the white vest, so he secretly stayed. A few days later, he took part in a basketball game in a white vest. Onlookers found that after the white vest was soaked with sweat, the words "counterattack against the mainland" appeared on the back. As a result, this farmer who had been "rooted" was labeled as a "special agent of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek" and was forced by Yan to flee to Hong Kong.
In order to cope with the increasingly severe wave of fleeing from Hong Kong, the local government also thought of such a way. There is a village called Xikeng in Wu Tong Mountain, a fugitive port. Bao 'an County is determined to "fight to the death" here and build Xikeng Village into "Anti-smuggling Hongqi Village".