Preface: In 1975, the Fourth National People's Congress was held in Beijing, and a rural woman was invited to attend. The women felt very honored to be appreciated by Premier Zhou, but she rejected Premier Zhou's kindness and said: "I thank Premier Zhou for his care for me, but t

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was appreciated by Premier Zhou, and the woman felt very honored, but she rejected Premier Zhou's kindness and said, "I thank Premier Zhou for his care for me, but the water control task assigned to me by Chairman Mao has not been completed. Wait a little longer! The people in my hometown need me!"

Who is this rural woman? Why can she be appreciated by Premier Zhou?

"female hero" next to Jingjiang

were issued immediately, the military and civilians across the country focused on this project, and the people on both sides of the Jingjiang River were full of expectations for this tug-of-war between nature and manpower.

After countless days and nights of construction, the engineering team announced the completion in just 75 days, which was half a month ahead of the scheduled plan. All of this is attributed to the hardworking 100,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers, and a recognized "female hero" in Jingjiang.

The "female hero" of Jingjiang is named Xin Zhiying. He was born in Mijitai Town, Shinsongzi County, Hubei Province in 1933. Like thousands of Chinese farmers, her family conditions are not good, but she has a patriotic and loving heart. Living on the Jingjiang River for many years, Xin Zhiying is very clear about the concept of floods.

Since ancient times, it is said that "The Yangtze River is 3, 100 miles away, and the people on both sides of the river will suffer from floods during the flood season every year. The people on both sides of the river will suffer from floods, and the people will suffer from miserable pain. They had wanted to move out of here and find another place, but in China, where is their place to live, and how could they easily give up the place where they have lived for generations. After the news of the construction of Jingjiang flood diversion project spread, Xin Zhiying, who lives in Mijitai Town, signed up immediately. At this time, Xin Zhiying was 19 years old and was a women's committee member in the town. She excitedly informed her relatives and friends of the good news and went door to door to promote: "Chairman Mao is going to lead us to control water!"

Xin Zhiying on the construction site

Under the leadership of Xin Zhiying, the young ladies of the women's committee members signed up to provide advice and manpower for the project.

Xin Zhiying led the young sisters to carry out stone transportation and gravel operations according to the strength of the labor force. Based on the traditional gravel, she also integrated some new methods. The "Hard Flip-Over Stone Crushing Method" was invented by Xin Zhiying. Put the angle of the polygonal large stone facing down and the plane facing up, just like the shape of a kite. If you hit the top hard, the large stone will instantly turn into pieces. Methods like

greatly improve the efficiency of gravel, which is dozens of times that of ordinary gravel methods. Previously, the average gravel was 0.2 cubic meters per person per day. After using this method, the average daily increase of each person was about 1 cubic meters, and Xin Zhiying even hit 1.38 cubic meters.

The reason why Comrade Xin Zhiying has such high efficiency is entirely due to her personal will and patriotic feelings. Xin Zhiying's record caused a big sensation at the Huangshantou construction site. Rao Mintai, the county magistrate of Songzi County and the commander of migrant workers, personally issued a document to "adopt and promote Comrade Xin Zhiying's method."

In order to increase enthusiasm, the commander-in-chief Tang Tianji carried out the Red May labor competition. 83 mutual aid groups suddenly appeared on the construction site. For the sake of honor, everyone accelerated the process of the gravel task and completed 16,420 square meters two days ahead of schedule.

At the celebration meeting a few days later, 10 workers each held a large red-bottomed letter, lined up in a row with words: "Our province completes the quarrying task"! Xin Zhiying deserves his true reputation and receives a big red pennant.After the celebration meeting of

, most people returned home, while Xin Zhiying continued to participate in the task of blocking rivers and blocking dams. Xin Zhiying was not only hard-working, but also thoughtful, and made considerable contributions to flood control and water control. Due to her excellent performance, the command center gave her a banner of the "blocking hero" and two oxen and a set of farm tools.

Riding a scalper, Xin Zhiying walked on the streets of the town, and the masses shouted her name loudly and applauded her. Xin Zhiying's belief in serving the people became stronger. From then on, Xin Zhiying became more and more famous, and her deeds will be spread throughout the world.

Commander-in-chief of Jingjiang Flood Diversion held a heroic and model representative meeting at Shashi People's Theater. Xin Zhiying rode the scalper who awarded her to the meeting at the celebration party. At the meeting, more than 200 model units and more than 12,000 heroes and models were commended, including 20 special model workers, and Xin Zhiying was one of them. Commander-in-chief of

invited Xin Zhiying as a farmer hero and model sitting on the rostrum of the conference with the leaders to jointly present awards to the model workers and heroes. After the meeting, Xin Zhiying was appointed as the deputy mayor of Shuanglong Township.

"The new society is here, both men and women are the same!"

In September 1952, Xin Zhiying was attending a land reform review meeting in the county, and suddenly he ran to the conference alone and said that something urgent was announced. At the conference of more than 1,000 people, a notice about Xin Zhiying was read out loud: In view of Comrade Xin Zhiying's outstanding performance, the central government decided to invite Comrade Xin Zhiying to Beijing to attend the celebration of the third anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

When she heard this news, Xin Zhiying's first reaction was that she could meet Chairman Mao, which would be the most glorious thing in her life. More than a thousand people at the conference were instantly excited. Xin Zhiying's invitation was not only a personal honor, but also a glory for the villagers.

matters were urgent, and the leader asked Xin Zhiying to go home on the spot to prepare. At this time, the time for the ceremony was not far from the ceremony, and it would take several days to go to Beijing. In order not to affect attendance, Xin Zhiying must set out the next day.

The next morning, Xin Zhiying prepared her luggage and was about to set off. As soon as she left, the "dongdong" drum sounded in the county town. It was a farewell team formed by the county leaders for Xin Zhiying. Before leaving, the county magistrate took out a brand new notebook and wrote on it with a tap fountain pen: Stay glorious and carry forward glory!

The county magistrate gave the notebook to Xin Zhiying. The notebook was a very precious item at that time, let alone the county magistrate gave it to him personally. Xin Zhiying was very excited.

Xin Zhiying (Chinese)

There were 10 representatives of Jingjiang flood diversion heroic model workers who went to Beijing with Xin Zhiying. They were arranged in the guesthouse of the Ministry of Water Resources. On the afternoon of the first day of arriving in Beijing, the heroes and models received a notice to not go out, and sent each person a bag of clothes and a large envelope. The clothes package contained a brand new set of blue Zhongshan and a set of sanitary clothes to prepare for the ceremony.

large envelope contains an invitation the size of a book. After careful observation, Chairman Mao’s name was also printed with gold-edged characters. Chairman Mao invited them to attend the National Day reception . The golden font emits a dazzling light, and everyone is excited, looking forward to the evening reception.

On the evening, Minister of Water Resources Fu Zuoyi led the heroes and models into the brightly lit and glorious and solemn Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall. Fu Zuoyi arranged them in front of the meeting and said, "You are Chairman Mao's guests, so you must arrange them in front."

Chairman

An hour, the song "Oriental Red " sounded in the hall. Chairman Mao, Liu Shaoqi and other national leaders walked into the hall one after another, waved to everyone in the conference hall, and then sat in a seat not far from Xin Zhiying. Xin Zhiying was very nervous, sweating in her palms, holding her hands together and rubbing them constantly.

After a while, Fu Zuoyi came to Xin Zhiying and said, "You will join this lesbian later and drink with the chairman on our table." Another lesbian looked about the same age as Xin Zhiying. Faced with this sudden and very honorable task, both of them seemed at a loss. After

, under the leadership of Fu Zuoyi, the two came to Chairman Mao and raised their glasses high: "I wish Chairman Mao good health and prosperity in the motherland." Chairman Mao stood up and raised his glasses and said, "Thank you." Looking at the young man with short hair in front of him, Chairman Mao asked Fu Zuoyi: "Is this young comrade a boy or a girl."

Master Mao Xi

Fu Zuoyi replied, "She is a girl, she toast the Chairman on behalf of the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project." Chairman Mao looked at Xin Zhiying with a smile and said kindly, "Okay, okay. In a new society, both men and women are the same. It is good to cure the water in his hometown and do things for the people!"

Chairman Mao's words kept echoing in Xin Zhiying's mind and could not dissipate for a long time. She decided to repay her hometown for her nurturing grace for her life.

In the nearly 20 years following, Xin Zhiying used his sincere heart to make great contributions and countless efforts to control the water in his hometown. She stayed at her post for countless days and nights, working hard, and even fainted on the construction site afterwards.

In 1970, a heavy rain fell in Songzi. Overnight, the entire Datong Hall was trapped in a "pool". Tens of thousands of acres of fertile land were ruthlessly washed away by heavy rain. The road from Songzi County to Shashi was flooded, traffic was paralyzed, and people could not eat. Xin Zhiying was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

Xin Zhiying

Unexpectedly, the people who finally broke free from the flood encountered a severe drought that was rare in a century the second year. The people of Songzi County, who have experienced two disasters, are in great pain, and the annual distribution of people in the district is only more than 50 yuan.

Faced with this situation, Xin Zhiying also made efforts. Farmland water conservancy construction had been implemented in the early years, but these can only prevent small natural disasters . Just like such a major disaster, farmland water conservancy construction is not enough to fundamentally solve the problem.

If you want to eradicate the problem, you must make up your mind to build several large power drainage stations in the entire district, filter the water from the river and water it in the fields.

Xin Zhiying told the county party secretary his thoughts. The secretary thought that although Xin Zhiying's idea was very good, it was not a simple matter to realize it. The most difficult step was the funding issue. He said to Xin Zhiying: "Your idea is very good, the same as the county party committee's idea. However, it has been affected by the disaster in the past two years and the finances have been severely impacted. Where can I raise such a large amount of expenses?"

"We can apply in the province." Xin Zhiying said. The secretary shook his head after hearing this. He said, "Now the whole country is encouraging self-reliance. The county has supported a lot of our technical equipment. How can we be embarrassed to save money at this time?"

In fact, the secretary is actually talking about the facts, but Xin Zhiying is unwilling to give up and still plans to give it up. She said, "I'll leave the money to me, I'll go to the province to ask for it." Xin Zhiying set off immediately and arrived at the home of Vice Governor Xia Shihou in the evening.

Xia Shihou was very surprised and asked Xin Zhiying about his purpose. Xin Zhiying reported the situation in the county straight away. Xia Shihou said, "In the past two years, I only heard from the county that I needed equipment and technology, but I didn't say I wanted money. How much do you need?" "1 million!" Xin Zhiying had already calculated carefully on the road, so he said it without hesitation.

After thinking for a long time, Xia Shihou said to Xin Zhiying: "I can allocate funds to the county, but it needs to be allocated several times and a detailed plan must be made before I can approve it."

Xia Shihou

Everyone did not expect that Xin Zhiying applied for the funds very smoothly, and it was still a huge sum of 1 million yuan. This is a huge good thing. With this funding, the county's projects will be very easy to carry out. The counties and districts immediately launched the planning of the electric pump station construction project.

In order to carry out the project as soon as possible, Xin Zhiying personally worked hard on the front line of the project day and night. At this time, Xin Zhiying was suffering from a serious gynecological disease. She ignored her life's advice and insisted on running on the construction site. Until 1971, Xin Zhiying finally couldn't stand it and suddenly fell on the construction site with heavy bleeding.

Only then did people realize that this weak woman who was busy continuously was very ill. After the doctor's rescue, Xin Zhiying finally escaped from danger and woke up from a coma. Xin Zhiying's uterus was removed. The doctor told her to rest in bed for at least half a year, but Xin Zhiying was worried about the project and only rested for 10 days before running on the construction site again.

Xia Shihou was moved by her spirit and held her hand and said, "You are still the momentum of building the Jingjiang flood gate back then. I thank you for the people!"

"The people in my hometown need me"