On November 15, 1970 (the seventeenth day of the tenth lunar month), the "Iron Man" Wang Jinxi died.
Iron Man King Jinxi
On November 15, 1970, Wang Jinxi died of illness in Beijing at the age of 47.
Wang Jinxi, born in 1923, is a native of Yumen, Gansu. Mother He Zhanxin, father Wang Jintang. Wang Jintang, who had a son at the age of 40, was very happy to see that he was born as a boy. According to local customs, parents put the basket used by the child and the child on the scale and weigh exactly ten pounds, so they named the child "ten pounds". The name of the ten-pound baby sounds very majestic, but it is thin and small. After Shijinwa grew up, according to the family tree of the Wang family, she named Wang Jinxi, hoping that he would go to school with joy and joy, and reorganize the family business after learning skills. In the disaster-stricken old China, Wang Jinxi suffered terribly. In 1929, Yumen suffered a famine that had not been encountered in a hundred years. In order to survive, 6-year-old Wang Jinxi used a stick to lead his blind father along the street to beg.
In 1932, the warlord Ma Bufang wanted to build a wool factory, and Wang Jintang was forced to work hard. Wang Jinxi asked his father to sit on an ox cart and rushed the car to deliver the wool to Jiuquan, a hundred miles away. In order to earn money to treat his father's illness, Wang Jinxi and several poor children went to the demon mountain where tigers and wolves were infested and the climate changed was uncertain, to herd cattle for the landlords. Several acres of land in the Wang family have been occupied for a long time by the district chief in the name of borrowing. Wang Jinxi was not afraid of power and went to ask for it. Although it only took a few zhang of white soil cloth to return, it was a victory for Wang Jinxi to fight against the evil forces. In order to avoid military service, Wang Jinxi panned for gold and dug up oil. In 1938, Wang Jinxi entered the old Yumen oil mine as a child laborer, although he was young, he did the same heavy work as adults, and was often beaten and scolded by the foreman, but he was not willing to be humiliated and rose up to resist. Wang Jinxi was often punished for resisting. After the master knew, he told him the story of the camel's "strength" and told him to pay attention to the method of struggle and cultivate "endurance". Wang Jinxi's heart was full of yearning for a free life. It is this bitter experience and harsh living environment that have refined his tough, tenacious, stubborn and indomitable character.
In 1938, he entered the Yumen Oil Mine as an apprentice. After liberation, he worked as a worker in the three major teams of the exploration company of the Yumen Petroleum Administration Bureau in Gansu Province. In 1950 he became a drilling captain. He joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. In 1958, he led the drilling team to set a national record of five kilometers per month. In 1960, he led the 1205 drilling team to Daqing to participate in the Oil Battle. He successively served as the leader of the drilling team, the captain of the brigade, the deputy commander of the drilling command, and the deputy director of the Daqing Oilfield Revolutionary Committee. He was elected as a deputy to the Third National People's Congress in 1964. In 1966, he led the 1205 drilling team to fight for 11 months, breaking through the 100,000 mark, creating the highest record in the world at that time, and was known as "Iron Man". In 1969, he was elected as a member of the Ninth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In 1964, Mao Zedong invited Qian Xuesen, Wang Jinxi and other labor models to his 71st birthday party and talked with them. Before the banquet, Mao Zedong also gave each person an apple.
Mao Zedong said to Wang Jinxi: "It is very good that the oil workers work together to make a big celebration!" The oil workers worked fiercely and well. To celebrate industrial science. ”
On September 10, 2009, he was elected as one of the "100 Chinese Objects That Have Touched since the Founding of New China".
On September 25, 2019, he was selected as the "Most Beautiful Strivers".
Iron Man King Jinki Memorial Hall