1. State-owned salt industry units occupy salt industry positions: Zigong City was peacefully liberated on December 5, 1949.

On the eve of liberation, the Zigong Salt Field was at a standstill, and transportation basically came to a standstill.

At the beginning of liberation, the People's Government implemented a policy of both public and private transportation and sales of salt. Due to the original transporters' suspicion and wait-and-see attitude towards the People's Government's policy, and the frequent robbery by bandits around Zigong, especially in the early 1950s, the bandits took over the Longguan Mountain area in Fushun.

, often robbed salt ships and shot shipowners.

In March 1950, bandits in Denglu section robbed about 20,000 tons of salt at one time.

Faced with this situation, Comrade Yang Shoushan, the chief military representative of the Sichuan Kang Salt Bureau, personally went to the Sichuan South Administrative Office in Huzhou and requested that troops be sent to clear it up.

On the one hand, public salt took the lead, and the salt police force provided armed escort.

Salt police units armed with guns were dispatched one by one to transport salt trucks and wooden boats to their destinations, in order to clear up the transportation space and ensure the food needs of people in various places.

Soon the bandits were eliminated and the fate gradually returned to normal.

In May 1950, the Southern Sichuan Salt Industry Company was established. Most of the salt stored in Zigong and new products were still shipped out by the state-owned salt industry transportation and marketing department. Only a few carriers such as Dachangyu and some Guizhou carriers accepted the shipment.

Small quantities of salt are sold at designated ports.

Since 1953, because salt is an indispensable material for people's daily lives, the People's Government has implemented a unified purchase and marketing policy of unified public collection, unified distribution, and planned transportation of salt. Private traders cannot freely buy, sell, and transport salt. The transportation of salt is entirely borne by the state.

The salt transportation and marketing department dispatched shipments as planned, thus occupying the entire salt transportation and marketing position.

Raw salt is an important product related to the national economy and people's livelihood. In order to facilitate the unified arrangement of production and ensure the needs of people's food and industrial and agricultural production, the Ministry of Light Industry is responsible for planned acquisitions, unified arrangements, and on-site sales.

From January 1, 1958, raw salt was designated as a material managed by the ministry to facilitate the overall arrangement of production and marketing and the rational organization of transportation.

When allocating and transporting goods, we must follow the policy of "overall considerations and appropriate arrangements" and implement the methods stipulated by the Ministry of Light Industry: unified planning, balanced zoning, zoning and fixed points, and local and nearby supply.

Until now, the Zigong Salt Industry Branch still implements the unified plan of the Ministry of Light Industry. The transportation plan is distributed and distributed by the provincial salt bureau. The transportation of raw salt is managed and transported by state-owned enterprises according to the unified and balanced plan of the Ministry of Light Industry. This has completely changed the old China.

Sometimes we entrust transporters, sometimes we use both official and merchant transport, and sometimes we recruit merchants and accept luck, thus ensuring the needs of people's lives and industrial and agricultural production.

2. Changes in Zigongyi long-distance transportation routes and means of transportation.

Zigong salt transportation was extremely backward in old China. It was mainly water transportation and only relied on Zigong Fuxi River to transport salt.

The river is 60 kilometers long from Huojingtuo to Dengguan Gate, and 73.60 kilometers to Dengguan Lijiawan. There are many dangers. In the past, more than ten roads were twisted with stone or wood to store water and release boats.

The boat cannot be loaded in low water, so it is necessary to release the water and use multiple people to pull the fiber.

From Ziliujing to Dengguan, after passing each beach, you must move the beach to cross the col.

In order to increase production and rush transportation, the Chuankang Salt Bureau began to build ship locks in 1940, building one each at Jinziyou, Yantan and Dengguan. They were all completed in June 1942, with a cost of 3.8 million yuan.

After the locks are repaired, there will be no need to move the ship through the dangerous shoals, and the shipping volume of each ship will increase by 50%. After the locks are repaired, each ship can travel back and forth for seven days, which can reach more than 40 times a year.

In the early days of Zigong's liberation, this water transportation line was still the main one, and transportation was divided into four sections, namely the Bingdeng section, the Dengxiao section, the Shanghai-Chongqing section, and below Chongqing.

From Ziliujing to Dengguan it is a tank boat, from Dengguan to Luzhou it is a dial boat, from Huzhou it is a long boat, and from Sunzhou it is.

After that, except for the consumption of salt, the rest are run in separate lanes.

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Yong'an: It is transported to Xuyong by wooden boats from Lujing, and the salt from the edge is transported by automobile to Bijie, Anshun and other places in Guizhou.

2 .

Ren'an: Luzhou uses boats to transport Hejiang, and Renbian salt is transported to Chishui, Maotai and other places in Guizhou.

3.

Qi'an.

A certain river is transported by ship from the Jiangkou of Jiangjin, and then passes through Dongxi and Shijiaoyan, and enters Guizhou via the Sichuan-Guizhou Highway via Guizhou Songci's flood water and land transportation.

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Chongqing: transported by long ship to Chongqing, and Guizhou salt is then transported by car from Haitang River to Zunyi, Guizhou, Guiyang, Anshun, Zhenyuan and other places via the Sichuan-Guizhou Highway.

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Fuling: long boats or steamers transport Fuling, Baoji salt ships transport Pengshui, salt ships transport Sinan and along the river in Guizhou; land transportation from Jiangkou to Pochuan, Gongtan, Dejiang and other places in Guizhou 6.

The canal bank is connected to Hechuan and other places by wooden boats from the Jialing River in Chongqing.

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Wan'an will be transferred to Wanxian and other places by downstream boat.

8 .

Xiangchuan: Transfer by ship or wooden boat from Chongqing to Yichang and then to Hubei and various places in Hunan.

The salt sold in Zigong is sold on the spot according to the regulations. It is generally transported by land, by cars, cattle, horses or manpower to Fushun, Neijiang, Longchang, Rongchang, Zizhong, Ziyang, Yongchuan, Bishan, Rongxian,

Weiyuan, Huxian, Nanxi, Zigong suburbs, etc.

According to the above statistics in 1950, 149,250 tons were transported by water, 2,400 tons by steam, and 30,020 tons were sold on the spot. Water transportation accounted for more than 80% of the total transportation volume.

The total length of the section from Dengguan to Luzhou (Tuojiang River) is 105 kilometers. The five months from January to April and December every year are the dry season. The water level is low and there are many beach dangers. The loading capacity of ships is reduced day by day, usually to about 60%.

, larger ships are even more abnormal.