hongqi canal, located in Linzhou city, Henan province, is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.

hongqi canal, a man-made irrigation canal (English name is Red-Flag-Canal), is located in Linzhou city, Henan province, which is at the junction of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, and suffered from severe drought and water shortage in history. The hongqi canal project started in February 196, and the supporting project of the branch canal was fully completed in July 1969, which lasted nearly ten years.

The project * * * leveled 1,25 hills, erected 151 aqueducts, dug 211 tunnels, built 12,48 buildings of various kinds, and excavated 22.25 million cubic meters of earth and stone. The total length of the main canal of Hongqi Canal is 7.6 kilometers, and the branches of the main canal are distributed in towns and villages all over the city. 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 with Harbin.

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Construction history of Hongqi Canal:

China was in a special period when Hongqi Canal was built. Do it or not? Do you work early or late? At that time, the county party Committee of Linxian County had a full discussion. Early work benefits early, and late work suffers more. In order to solve the suffering of drought, the people in the county urgently demand early work, big work and quick drying.

During the survey of Hongqi Canal, it was in winter. Engineers and technicians climbed mountains and waded in the ice and snow, gnawed dry food when they were hungry, swallowed ice and snow when they were thirsty, ran all day, and came back at night to calculate until late at night, which provided reliable basis for the county party committee's decision-making. The county party Committee analyzed its own practical difficulties and put forward to unite strength with spirit. Rencun commune undertakes the task of intercepting the head of the canal, and the headquarters sends 5 strong laborers to form a commando team to fight.

when the hongqi canal started construction, 3, migrant workers swarmed to Shanxi at once. Everyone lived in cliffs, stone temples and caves, dug earthen kilns and set up tents. When the dam at the head of the canal was closed, the young men and women of Qiancun commune jumped into the cold river and built a "human wall" to resist the rapids, thus making the closure successful. Donggang commune organized more than 7 strong laborers, tied with ropes around their waist, and drilled and fired in the air, but the foundation of the canal just collapsed on the cliff.

When the Youth Cave was dug, there was a lack of food and vegetables, and everyone endured hunger and hard work. The young people wrote heroic words on the stone wall of Taihang Mountain: "Is it bitter? Think about the Long March of 25,; Tired or not, think about the revolutionary old-timers ","For the sake of the younger generation not suffering, we have to suffer first ". With the spirit of ants gnawing at bones, it took half a year to build a 2l km channel in Shanxi, the main canal.

Another year and five months, when the national economy was in temporary difficulties, the Youth Cave was dug through at the end of July 1961, and a lot of sand and stones were needed to intercept the dam. The team members ran like flies on the narrow path, their feet were bruised and their shoulders were red and swollen, and they did not stop.

In a month, each person wears out four pairs of cloth shoes and six shoulder pads. In the last 1m project, the river rolled and roared. People shouted slogans and threw pieces of boulders, baskets of stone slag and sandbags at Longkou at the same time, but they were immediately washed away by the rapids.

A few people dropped a huge stone weighing several hundred Jin, and there was no trace. In this case, the masses were full of passion, and 124 people formed a three-way wall, hand in hand, side by side, standing in the cold river. Under the cover of the wall, huge stones were erected, sandbags were affixed, and baskets of stone slag were filled, and finally the dam was closed and the river closure was successful.

On the battlefield of building the Red Flag Canal, there emerged many heroic figures who were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, among whom 81 comrades gave their precious lives.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Hongqi Canal

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