When watching news, we will find that when broadcasting "31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities" on TV, we usually bring a " Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps ". So what exactly does the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps do, and why can it be ranked alongside provincial administrative region ? How many production and construction corps are there in my country?
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Production Management Department of the Xinjiang Military Region merged with the 22nd Corps unit of the First Field Army to form the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which is affiliated with the Xinjiang Military Region . This is the first production and construction corps established in my country after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The main task is to settle and guard the border, and to carry out production and construction and develop the economy while defending the security of the border. Therefore, when the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was established, it had dual responsibilities.
When the Xinjiang Corps was first established, the headquarters was Shihezi City . This is the first city developed and constructed by the Xinjiang Corps. It has a high status within the Corps. The only 211 of the Xinjiang Corps is located in Shihezi City, which is Shihezi University . It is worth noting that Shihezi University is not the 211 of the autonomous region, but the 211 of the corps. The 211 belonging to the autonomous region is Xinjiang University , so there are 2 211s in Xinjiang, but one belongs to the autonomous region and the other belongs to the Xinjiang Corps.
Later, the Xinjiang Corps moved from Shihezi to Urumqi, which is naturally a story. When the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was established, it was a military unit established in the military. However, in the late 1950s, it left the military sequence and everyone in the Xinjiang Corps moved collectively and took off their military uniforms and became residents. Although they are no longer soldiers, their bloodlines have been flowing in the bodies of the Corps, including their descendants.
Since the 1960s, according to the needs of the situation, my country has successively formed several production and construction corps, plus the Xinjiang Corps. At that time, there were 13 production and construction corpses in the country, and these corpses were basically set up in border and coastal provinces. Including Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Yunnan and other provinces. Most of these production and construction corps are named after their provinces and are affiliated to military region , such as the Anhui Production and Construction Corps, affiliated to Nanjing Military Region . Yunnan Production and Construction Corps is affiliated to Kunming Military Region.
In addition, there are also Lanzhou Military Region Production and Construction Corps and Guangzhou Military Region Production and Construction Corps . These two corpses are not named after provinces, but are named after the military region. Regardless of the name, the basic tasks of these 13 corps are similar. On the one hand, they carry out economic construction and on the other hand, they protect the border and coastline. In the late 1970s, all 13 production and construction in the country were abolished and handed over to local departments for management.
However, considering Xinjiang's unique position, in the early 1980s, the country went down to restore the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, becoming the only production and construction Corps that was restored and retained. Therefore, our country now has and only one production and construction corps, that is, the Xinjiang Corps.
According to relevant regulations, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is a deputy ministerial-level administrative unit with provincial social management authority. It is included in a planned organization (equivalent to a planned city in the mainland) and is managed by the central government and the autonomous region. Although it is located in Xinjiang, the Corps is not a subordinate unit of the autonomous region. It manages internal social affairs on its own within the scope permitted by law and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.
The two main leaders of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps are the commander of the Corps and the political commissar of the Corps. The commander of the Corps is the vice chairman of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and the political commissar of the Corps is the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Although both of them are at the deputy ministerial level, they are usually highly qualified as ministerial level, and the commander of the Corps and the political commissar of the Corps are both ranked among the Central Committee members.
Xinjiang Corps implements a special " division and city integration " system. The Corps has more than 10 county-level cities under its jurisdiction, corresponding to the division to which the Corps is the division commander, and the municipal party secretary is the political commissar of the division.The towns further downward correspond to the League, where the township mayor is the League leader, and the township party secretary is the League political commissar.
Although the Xinjiang Corps has commander, division commander, regiment commander, political commissar and other "military" positions, none of these people are officers, nor do they have military ranks, but party and government cadres. In terms of management system, the Xinjiang Corps is a very pure local management system, but there are military positions such as regiment commanders, division commanders, commanders, and political commissars, but it is completely different from the management of the army. Because it can be seen from the "integration of division and city" system that the division commanders of the Xinjiang Corps are actually administrative positions, not military positions, they are party and government cadres, not military cadres. There is no mayor or secretary in any city in our country, but a military cadre.
With the efforts of the Xinjiang Corps, the border areas have developed rapidly, presenting a prosperous and beautiful scene. Today, the Corps has become an indispensable existence in Xinjiang. The economic and social development and other affairs in the border areas are almost always promoted by the Xinjiang Corps. At the same time, they did not forget their duty to guard the border, and while producing and building, they still insisted on guarding our country's border line.
