In January 1960, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Petroleum held an enlarged meeting to prepare to speed up exploration and oil field development in the Songliao area, concentrate the power of the petroleum system, and "launch a massive general battle." On February 13 of that year, the Ministry of Petroleum submitted a "Report on the Oil Exploration Situation and Future Work Deployment Issues in the Songliao Region of Northeast China" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. On February 20, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the report, and the oil battle began. In March and April, personnel from 37 factories, mines, and colleges in the petroleum system brought their own equipment, as well as personnel from some departments of the State Council, retired PLA soldiers and demobilized officers to form a large petroleum army and entered the Songnen Plain in Northeast China to launch a petroleum battle.
From September 26, 1959, when oil came out of the Songji Mitsui well, to the end of 1963, it was a decisive period for the Daqing Oilfield to concentrate its superior forces and carry out oil battles, and to "win the big oil field at a high speed and at a high level." At that time, the country was going through a three-year period of serious difficulties, and foreign countries imposed a technological blockade on us. Faced with extremely difficult production and living conditions, the tens of thousands of oil troops, represented by the iron man Wang Jinxi, insisted on "going up if conditions exist, and going up if conditions are not available" and "would rather live 20 years shorter than fight tooth and nail." The heroic spirit of "capture the big oil field" and "pledge to throw the hat of my country's oil backwardness into the Pacific Ocean", it took only more than 3 years to win the big oil field at a high speed and a high level, which fundamentally changed China's oil industry. The face of industry.
The Daqing spirit Iron Man spirit, bred and formed in the practice of the Petroleum Conference, has become an important part of the spiritual treasure house of the Chinese nation, created the China Petroleum soul, and is the soul of China's petroleum culture.
