Old photos: Breaking the Mountain for Water —— People in Linxian County, Henan Province built the artificial Tianhe Red Flag Canal in 1960s.

Linzhou (formerly Linxian) is located at the junction of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, and suffered from severe drought and water shortage in history. According to historical records, from the first year of Ming Dynasty (i.e. 1436) to the founding of New China (1949) and the spring and autumn of ***5 14, there were more than 30 natural disasters and droughts in Linxian County. Sometimes, after years of severe drought, rivers and wells dry up and crops fail. According to historical records and folklore, the drought is very serious and people eat each other. In these 5 14 years, people ate each other five times. In the early years of the Republic of China, more than 300 families in Sangerzhuang village went to Huangyaquan, 4 kilometers away, to fetch water all the year round. Due to the steep hillside, many people were killed or injured. 1February, 960, Linxian people began to build the Red Flag Canal (formerly known as the "Water Diversion Project"), which was approved by the Henan and Shanxi provinces through consultation, and then approved by the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power entrusted by the State Planning Commission. On March 6-7, 1960, Linxian Greening Committee held a plenary meeting in Pan Yang Village. At the meeting, the project was officially named "Hongqi Canal", which means to hold high the red flag. Heroes are heroic, thousands of troops and horses fight Taihang Mountain, and thousands of troops and horses fight Taihang Mountain Cave to settle the embankment, which solves many problems in the construction of Hongqi Canal. Known as "farmer soil expert" and "Yang Cheng". Hongqi Canal is a super model worker, suspended for five years. After ten years of fighting, the main canal was opened on April 5 1965. 1April, 966, three main canals were completed at the same time. 1969 The supporting construction of trunk, branch and bucket canals was completed. At this point, the irrigation system with Hongqi Canal as the main body has basically taken shape. The effective irrigation area of the irrigation area reached 540,000 mu, and the project was fully completed in July. In 1970s, the spirit of "self-reliance, hard struggle, unity and cooperation, selfless dedication" nurtured in the construction of Hongqi Canal became valuable spiritual wealth. 1974, New China attended the United Nations General Assembly, and the first film shown was the documentary Red Flag Canal. Women also hold up half the sky's iron girl trousers, and now they are the darling of the fashion world. Masons started the Red Flag Canal project from February 1960 to July 1969, when the auxiliary canal project was fully completed, which lasted nearly ten years. Project * * * leveled 1250 hill, erected 15 1 aqueduct, excavated 2 1 1 tunnel, built 12408 building, and excavated 22.25 million cubic meters of earth and stone. The total length of the main canal of Hongqi Canal is 70.6 kilometers. According to calculation, if these earth-rock barriers are built into walls with a height of 2 meters and a width of 3 meters, they can run through the north and south of the motherland, bypass Beijing and connect Guangzhou and Harbin. A main canal of Hongqi Canal meets Hero Canal, which saved the drought of/kloc-0.7 million mu of land in the south of Linxian County. Linxian county, which was dry in history, is now planted with rice.