On summer and autumn nights, in order to prevent mosquito bites, officers and men smeared themselves with mud and painted their eyes with inflammation, revealing only two eyes; In the cold weather on March 9, tents are often buried by snowstorms, and the feet frozen in the big shoes of army reclamation soldiers often have to be warmed by the fireside for a while before they can be pulled out. When irrigating wasteland, officers and men have to surround it with a crossbar to prevent it from being swallowed up by underground hidden holes ... For decades, officers and men of military reclamation have turned the desert that has been sleeping for thousands of years into an oasis with diligent hands, established more than 20 reclamation areas and 39 large-scale military reclamation farms, built 8 irrigation canals and a large number of large and medium-sized reservoirs in Xinjiang, and built 65,438+such as "August 1" iron and steel plant and "July 1" cotton mill. With the spirit of "special efforts, special patience, special fighting and special dedication", they realized their ideal of life on the Gobi Desert and created a miracle that attracted worldwide attention.
Today, we relive the glorious history of the officers and men of the army reclamation, all of which are shocking and make us think a lot. The value of life lies in dedication, which is also the fundamental life criterion of our revolutionary soldiers. However, under the new historical conditions, under the influence of money worship, hedonism and individualism, some officers and men can't stand the test of bitterness, gain and loss, honor and disgrace, and their life ideals, value orientations and personal pursuits deviate. Some comrades attach too much importance to personal gains and losses, think too much, and play their own "small abacus" all day to distract themselves from personal gains and losses; Some people are not serious about their work, their work standards are not high, and their awareness of striving for Excellence is not strong. These comrades should compare themselves with those soldiers who don't seek fame and fortune and selfless dedication, learn from their noble sentiments of settling down in the Gobi desert with harsh environment and difficult conditions, take the officers and men in the army reclamation as a mirror, firmly establish a correct outlook on life and values, establish a scientific social ideal, noble ideology and morality, a correct professional concept and a healthy interest in life, consciously resist the influence and erosion of all kinds of decadent and negative things, and truly put individuals.