Checking in to the north of the northwest is one of the purposes of our Northern Xinjiang Ring Road
The outpost, which used to be accessible, is now fenced off by high barbed wire and equipped with surveillance, and people only need to reach the door about 10 meters to sound a loud warning sound
Continue with a visit to the exhibition Part 3: Life Garrison in the Disputed Zone, which introduces the Ita incident, the stationing in the disputed area, and the various difficulties faced by the 185th Regiment under the difficult conditions at that time
The area along the Alabek River basin has been part of Chinese territory since the Western Han Dynasty, and in 1864 China and Russia demarcated the border, forming the "Four Mountains and Six Rivers" dispute point on the western border
In 1962, border residents crossed the border in Yili and Tacheng areas of Xinjiang
The XPCC quickly established a 30-kilometer-deep border regimental belt along the more than 2,000-kilometer-long border of Xinjiang, including Yili, Tacheng, Altay, Hami and Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. This has played an irreplaceable and important role in stabilizing Xinjiang and safeguarding national border security. The strategic situation of the country's northwestern frontier defense has been improved. Every house in the company is a sentry post, and every worker is a sentry. They do not wear military uniforms, do not receive military salaries, and never change jobs, and become eternal life monuments
In 1962, the 185th regiment came to this stormy sandstorm, In the desolate wilderness, they lived in a nest, wore homespun clothes, ate wild vegetables, died of high temperatures, mosquitoes bitten people, and the heavy snow froze to death, no matter how bad the environment was, they did not block the way of the 185th Regiment's advance, and the endless road to the grassland was stepped out by themselves; the fields were opened by them with their industrious hands; on the hot land of the wasteland, they used their blood to deduce moving stories one after another, walked out of the footprints that had never been stepped on with brave wisdom, and opened up pieces of fertile fields with the spirit of daring to endure hardships, and decorated the earth with a piece of green。 They cultivated the wasteland, watered the wasteland with hard sweat, and made the seeds bear fruitful results.
Then there is the fourth part of the exhibition: a group of exhibition photos of fighting floods and defending the land, uniting as one, introducing the scene of the 185 regiments fighting the flood and defending the land
Here, China and Kazakhstan are bounded by the Arakbek River. In 1988, a catastrophic flood broke the dam in the Sandek section and discharged it into the mainland. If the boundary river is allowed to be diverted, 55.5 square kilometers of land east of the boundary river and west of the natural ditch will be lost in accordance with international practice. At that time, the XPCC organized militia to fight for many days in a row, and finally blocked the breach of the embankment and saved 55.5 square kilometers of the country