Behind each certificate, there is a story
快网 News (Reporter Wu Xiao Text/Photo) 60 years ago, after 18-year-old Li Chaoqing from Runan County, Henan Province got off the bus that had been bumpy for a week and saw the endless Gobi Desert. He was feeling like a girl crying with her head next to her, a little desperate.
60 years later, he and countless military reclamation personnel used their hard sweat and wisdom to build corps in Xinjiang. Now, he lives a comfortable life and enjoys the fruits of his hard work.
"Just got off the car, the girl cried with her head and cried with her head"
To this day, Li Chaoqing still can't forget the scene when he first arrived at the 127th Regiment. "The endless Gobi Desert, just got off the car, three or five girls cried with her head and cried with her head and cried with her head."
One day in June 1956, Li Chaoqing, who had not graduated from junior high school, responded to the call of the country to support the construction of the border. "At that time, my family didn't let me come, so I secretly signed up. Later, we gathered in the county town of Runan and had a meal at the gate of No. 1 Middle School. It was raining heavily. I walked from Runan to Zhumadian , and stayed in Zhumadian for one night and watched a scene."
When it came, Li Chaoqing, 78 years old this year, still remembered it fresh.
The next day, Li Chaoqing took the train to the northwest. After the train arrived at , Gansu Zhangye , they took another week of car to Urumqi, and then arrived at the 127th Regiment.
"At that time, there were no buildings in Urumqi. After we arrived at the 127th Regiment, we saw the endless Gobi Desert. Three or five girls hugged their heads and cried bitterly after seeing it."
"There is no water to eat in winter, so use a pot to turn the snow into water"
At that time, the difficult environment was far more than the Gobi Deserts that Li Chaoqing saw.
"On the first night we arrived, we lived in a soil nest, and we had to work quickly the next day." Li Chaoqing recalled that the main job I just came here was to clear the land, cut off the ground (a type of vegetation) and then build fields. "The land at that time was divided into pieces, with 500 acres of land each." The saxaul willow cut off by
had to be carried out from the land. "At that time, I was only 1.4 meters tall, and I was relatively weak. I picked up the small ones and carried them, and blood bubbles were grinding on my shoulders."
In the early stage of the land reclamation, there was no infrastructure construction, and draught in winter became a problem. Li Chaoqing said, "At that time, we beat the ice and put it in the pot with the snow to turn it into water, then filter out the soil in the water, and finally store the clean water."
Because the place where we lived was very simple, it was a house built with adobe, and the warmth effect was very poor. In winter, it was a low temperature of several dozen degrees below zero. "Every morning, a layer of frost would be formed on the hair and eyebrows."
However, even under such arduous conditions, Li Chaoqing was full of hope and like countless young people in the border areas, he cultivated this land with hard work and sweat.
family members are all received from Xinjiang. Now they are happy in their old age
As time goes by, life on the border has gradually improved. In 1958 and 1959, all Li Chaoqing's immediate relatives came to Xinjiang.
Because Li Chaoqing was a well-educated person at that time, he later worked as a cultural instructor. Later, he served as a statistician, chief officer, accountant, deputy section chief of agricultural machinery company, and other positions until he retired in 1998.
It is worth mentioning that most young people at that time had their marriages arranged by their parents. Li Chaoqing's current lover was brought by his father from his hometown in 1958. They had never met each other before. Since they got married in 1960, they have been living happily together.
Now Li Chaoqing's three children have achieved success in their careers. He is very satisfied with his current life and does not regret coming to Xinjiang from Henan. He will also miss the hardships he has suffered in the past 60 years.
According to him, there were more than 700 people from Zhumadian Runan County to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and now there are more than 20 people in the 127th Regiment. This year marks the 60th anniversary of their support for the border. In June, he brought more than 20 Henan-born elderly people from the border who were still healthy to visit the Xinjiang Corps Military Reclamation Museum located in Shihezi . Many elderly people burst into tears after seeing the old photos of that year.
60 years ago, the 127th regiment had only a few simple houses and an endless reed lake. Today, it is a new type of town. If this is a myth, it is also a myth created by people, a myth created by many military reclamation people, and a myth created by many young people in Henan.
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