Prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people, good people and good people are on the third line. The third-tier regions refer to the central and western regions including 13 provinces and autonomous regions including Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Ning

Prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people, and good people are on the third line.

The third-tier region refers to the central and western regions including 13 provinces and autonomous regions including Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Henan, Hubei and Guangxi.

The first-tier areas refer to the eastern coastal and border areas, and the buffer zone between the two lines is called the second-tier area.

In the 1960s, the international situation became increasingly tense. In order to prevent the Soviet Union's nuclear blackmail and the United States' aggressive offensive in the eastern coastal areas of , under the decision of Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee in 1964, 13 provinces and autonomous regions in the central and western regions of China were Carry out a large-scale industrial relocation with war preparedness as the guiding ideology.

From 1964 to 1980, throughout the 16 years of the three five-year plans, the state invested a huge amount of 205.268 billion yuan in 13 provinces and autonomous regions in third-tier areas, accounting for 40% of the total national capital construction investment in the same period, 4 million Workers, cadres, intellectuals, People's Liberation Army officers and soldiers and tens of millions of migrant workers, under the call of the times to "prepare for war and famine for the people, and good people and good people, immediately go to the third front", packed up their backpacks, traveled through mountains and rivers, and came to the southwest of the motherland and the northwest In the deep mountains and canyons, deserts and wilderness of , people eat and sleep in the open air, carry people on their shoulders, and use their lives and blood to build more than 1,100 large and medium-sized industrial and mining enterprises, scientific research schools and colleges and universities.

Liupanshui Steel Group Co., Ltd.

has realized the distribution of productivity to the western region, laying a solid foundation for coordinated regional development.

has enabled some provinces and cities in the west to develop into emerging industrial bases with unique characteristics, such as Jinchuan, Panzhihua, etc. Steel base

Panzhihua Steel Factory old photos

Liupanshui , Weibei and other coal bases,

Today's Liupanshui

Guizhou Anshun aviation base, Hanzhong Chongqing nuclear industry base, shipbuilding base in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River,

Guizhou aluminum plant

oil and gas fields in the Central Plains area, Ordnance industry, automobile industry, such as Hubei Second Automobile Factory

Anshun Yunma Aircraft Manufacturing Factory Shandong Factory

Most of the familiar enterprises today were founded in that era.

We have also built ten new railway lines in Chengdu, Kunming, Sichuan and Guizhou, Hunan, Chongqing, Hunan and Guizhou, and Jiaozhi, more than 8,000 kilometers of railway trunk lines, and more than 25 kilometers of highways. These have created favorable conditions for the construction of the national economy.

Old photos of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway

Today’s Chengdu-Kunming Railway

Perhaps you are curious why such a huge project has not been mentioned in the history books. That is because for confidentiality reasons, it was carried out at the same time, as well as two projects in the hinterland of Xinjiang. The one-star bombing project, what a great era.

Starting from 2019, third-tier construction has appeared. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a dusty history.

During the period, many great people came to the front line to provide personal guidance. For example, the "Thirteen Building" guest house in Panzhihua accommodated national leaders such as Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, and He Long. Deng Xiaoping also visited Liupanshui, Guizhou together with Peng Dehuai.

In November 1965, Deng Xiaoping inspected the Liuzhi Dizong Coal Mine in Guizhou

Liupanshui Third Line Construction Theme Park. Statues of Deng Xiaoping and Peng Dehuai

Deng Xiaoping also personally participated in the construction of the Guanzhai Station of the Liupanshui Section of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. At the opening ceremony, the station was personally inscribed "Guanzhai Station".

Guanzhai Station Tunnel

Guanzhai Station

Guanzhai Station Park One-to-one Building

A great industrial past in a special era, worthy of commemoration and preservation! !