Pan Jianping's Memoirs of Tiejian No. 10:
Memorabilia of the Eighth Company of the Third Regiment of the Railway Construction Corps (3-3)
To commemorate the 54th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanxi Railway Construction Corps and the construction of the Beijing-Yuan Railway on the third line
The 8th Company of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Shanxi Railway Construction Corps
Pan Jianping
In 1970~1971, the commander of the railway corps when we built the Jingyuan Railway was Major General Liu Xianquan (awarded the title in 1955), and he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the director of the Office of the Central Military Commission.
(5) April ~ June 1971
Thursday, April 1, 1971
April should be the season of spring flowers and plants, but it snowed heavily in Lingqiu. Starting today, the Eighth Company began to cooperate with the machinery of the Railway Soldiers and Machinery Company to build earthworks and roadbeds between the two bridges of the "Dadaodi Bridge" and the "Tanghe Bridge".
Friday, April 2, 1971
A spring snow is half a foot thick, and you can't go to work. According to the arrangement of the party committee of the regiment and the party branch of the company on "the whole regiment should carry out in-depth rectification and the campaign of "anti-arrogance and complacency", the soldiers of the railway construction began the activity of "opposing arrogance and breaking the complacency" in addition to intense labor, and the activities of laying out the facts and stressing the line, first of all, "putting the facts"! The female soldiers of the 14th squad of the fourth platoon today posted the first big-character poster of the whole company, "Duosi," exposing several problems in the company: "The huge company organization (which has caused the burden of the squad and platoon soldiers to complete the per capita earthwork of the whole company is becoming heavier and heavier), irrational rules and regulations, the phenomena and root causes of non-observance of discipline and the destruction of unity," and so on. One stone stirs up a thousand waves! In addition to Company Commander Zhang, who was not on a business trip, Instructor Chen, Deputy Company Commander Guo, and Deputy Company Commander Du gathered in 14 classes together. Word. reasonableness of reporting"; The soldiers of the 14th class read aloud Chairman Mao's quotations: "Big. Word. The newspaper is an extremely useful new weapon, which can be used in cities, villages, factories, cooperatives, shops, institutions, schools, troops, streets, in short, wherever there are masses; It's been used universally and should be used forever. Word. The newspaper has broken through the dreary air of 'ten thousand horses'." "Duo Si" is actually the second big article of Class 14. Word. newspapers, and they were posted after many revisions and deletions of many "sharp language"; Their first article, "Where is the Eight Companies?" and the third article "Exposing and Covering, Creating and Protecting" were all taken away by Instructor Chen, and they were resolutely not allowed to be posted.
The comrades-in-arms of the 14th squad of the fourth platoon of the Eighth Company took a group photo with Deputy Company Commander Du
Saturday, April 3, 1971
After the snow, the clouds open and the sun rises, the sky is high and the clouds are clear! The snow on the construction site was too thick to be constructed, so the whole company helped the Dazuo Brigade to work: to clear the snow on the river beach, dig pits and plant trees.
The "anti-arrogance and fullness" campaign continued, with Class 8 taking the lead, Class 5 and Class 16 successively posting a large. Word. newspaper, expressing firm support for the 14th class of the "first Zhang Revolution of the Great. Word. Newspaper"! Before dinner, the whole company held a meeting, first of all, Deputy Company Commander Du conveyed a notice from the railway soldiers: "When the Seventh Division built a bridgehead slope protection, due to insufficient compactness, the bridge erecting machine overturned, 3 people were sacrificed and 8 people were injured". Then, Instructor Chen spoke, saying that he had gone to the regiment headquarters in the morning to ask for instructions, "Don't post any more. Word. Newspaper"!
Sunday, April 4, 1971
Due to the large . Word. The × instructor characterized it as "not wanting the party's leadership, having no organizational concept, engaging in 'tandem', and engaging in mass organizations" and sorted out the black materials, and also said, "I went to Lingqiu County to buy a broom, and I am going to your class to clean up", which caused great pressure on the 14th class. Ren Jinyun, the leader of the 14th squad, and Pan Jianping, the leader of the 8th squad, were included in the blacklist of "counter-revolutionaries" and were ready to report to the Youth League headquarters, only to wait for the party branch secretary to come back and sign. Everyone is looking forward to the party branch secretary Zhang Lian Commander coming back soon, even if he is not allowed to write big. Word. report, but also distinguish between right and wrong, and figure out the problem! It was the party committee of the regiment and the party branch of the company that called on everyone to launch a campaign to "oppose arrogance and destroy complacency" and expose and criticize the problems existing in leaders at all levels.
On May 11, 2017, the comrades-in-arms of the 8th squad of the second platoon of the 8th Company took a photo
Monday, April 5, 1971
Today, the first and fourth rows cooperate with the machinery to connect the construction at the bridgehead, and the second and third rows brush the slope on the completed roadbed. When brushing the slope, everyone felt that something was wrong: why were the arches and shoulders brushed off by more than 90 centimeters? When everyone was exhausted and the work task was almost completed in the afternoon, the technician of the regiment headquarters came and said that the measurement data was wrong! It turned out that the leveling figures given by the railway soldiers surveying class were not added with the "pre-added settlement" and "crown height", and Lian Li did not know, so he drove piles according to the leveling figures, and worked hard for a day, causing the entire roadbed to be dozens of centimeters lower than the design. Everyone looked at each other, crying and laughing: not only did they work for a day, but they also had to re-soil and tamp the roadbed more than ten meters high, and then brush out new road arches, shoulders and slopes!
Tuesday, April 6, 1971
Today, the whole regiment stopped work, and the nine companies went to Lingqiu Airport en masse to visit the domestically produced MiG-17 jet tactical fighter and listen to the explanation given by the air force airport leader. After that, they went to the station of the 3rd Regiment and 6th Company near the airport and visited their neat houses and clean indoor and outdoor environments, especially the conditions of having both electric lights and running water, which made the companies envious.
In the afternoon, the whole regiment braved the wind and sand in the sky to hold a "pledge meeting to grasp the revolution and promote production" at the station of the sixth company. As of March 28, in addition to the eight companies cooperating with the mechanical construction, the remaining eight companies had completed a total of 34,110 cubic meters of earthwork, accounting for 82.9 percent of the total task (41,131 cubic meters) in March, with an average of 1.53 cubic meters per working day; in addition, 20,230 cubic meters of mechanical construction had been completed, and the production team had supported 15,500 cubic meters; a total of 22.6 percent of the total earthwork had been completed in March.
Then, Deputy Head Ma made the following work arrangements for April: 1. Political ideology: (1) Continue to conscientiously do a good job in the line struggle education centered on the "anti-arrogance and complacency" movement; (2) Continue to conscientiously hold lectures on the study and application of Chairman Mao's works; (3) Under the glorious guidance of the "Two Resolutions", continue to carry out the "Four Good" campaigns in depth; (4) Conscientiously do a good job in the work of building the Communist Youth League as a whole, and focus on continuing to rectify it ideologically. 2. Construction tasks: In April, in addition to the eight companies cooperating with the railway machinery company to complete the earthwork of 23,000 cubic meters at the bridgehead, the remaining eight companies need to complete a total of 64,530 cubic meters, with an average of 2 cubic meters per person per day; In addition, the production team supported 6,000 cubic meters, and the machinery completed 43,000 cubic meters, and the total earthwork task of the whole group in April was 114,200 cubic meters.
It seems that the "April War" is about to begin.
In the evening, the No. 40 Jiefang brand truck of Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory came to Lingqiu to transport materials, and the company commander Zhang Yuhao, who everyone was looking forward to, also came back with the car.
Wednesday, April 7, 1971
In order to cooperate with the work of the Railway Corps Machinery Company, the Eighth Company has adjusted its working hours from today: The first and second platoons are morning shifts, with work from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and "reading every day" from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Politics study from 4:30 to 5:30. The third and fourth platoons "read every day" and study politics in the morning, and went to work from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
In the evening, the whole company held a meeting, and first learned the heroic deeds of Tenzin, a good son of the Tibetan people and an outstanding Communist Party member. Company Commander Zhang then made a speech, stressing the need to strengthen organizational discipline and further do a good job in the campaign to "oppose arrogance and break complacency." Regarding the "big-character poster incident," Company Commander Zhang said: "It is completely correct to give advice to the company and superiors. Word. It's not impossible to post, but you can choose a better method; Some people can't think about it, they have emotions, it shouldn't be, they have to think about it, they have to understand the fighters! The fighters' intentions must be good!" Company Commander Zhang's words untied the knot in the hearts of many soldiers and received warm applause from the soldiers. As for the blacklist of "counter-revolutionaries", this is the end of the incident.
Thursday, April 8, 1971
The wind and sand on the construction site are too big, and I barely worked for half a day in the morning, and I couldn't construct it in the afternoon.
Friday, April 9, 1971
Today, the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team of the 8718 Unit (Fourth Division) of the People's Liberation Army Railway Corps went to the "Great Road" to visit the 8740 Unit (14th Division) Mechanical Company, and invited our Eighth Company to participate, performing the 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th scenes of "Red Lantern" and the 3rd scene of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", which is very exciting! In particular, interspersed with a small program seems to be aimed at our company, the content is: a big . Word. In the end, after "anti-arrogance and fullness" and "breaking the protection and creation", those comrades finally raised their awareness and posted a big post. Word. Report. The show was actually choreographed to coincide with an important article published by Jiefangjun Bao on April 3 about "Anti-Arrogance and Manfulness."
Sunday, April 11, 1971
Although it was a Sunday today, the whole company did not rest, making up for the delay in the construction period of the "Pledge Meeting to Grasp the Revolution and Promote Production" held by the whole regiment last Tuesday (6th).
Notification from superiors: In order to hurry up and ensure that the "July 1st" Jingyuan Line is fully opened to traffic, from now on, the railway construction will mainly assault the "main line", and the auxiliary lines in stations and other places will be temporarily suspended; Brush slope is also only brush the arch and shoulder, and then lay the track, all the slopes of the roadbed are not brushed first, and then complete after the opening of traffic.
Monday, April 12, 1971
The party branch of the company conveyed the instructions of the superiors: From this week, we will use our spare time to conduct a comprehensive appraisal of the work and political performance of each railway construction soldier in the past year, and the method is to first "talk about it" by myself, and then go through the appraisal of the party branches of the squad, platoon, and company.
In the evening, a meeting of the commanders and fighters of the whole company was held, and first of all, Deputy Company Commander Du summarized the construction work of the previous section; Instructor Chen then arranges for political study and personal appraisal. In the end, Company Commander Zhang announced: "All 11 female soldiers working in the PLA Railway Corps Explosives Factory will be withdrawn, and all the soldiers of the 8th squad will be led by Pan Jianping, the leader of the 8th squad, to take over the work of the explosives factory tomorrow."
Tuesday, April 13, 1971
In the morning, the soldiers of the 8th squad carried Chairman Mao's quotation cards and arrived at the explosives factory in a neat line. Due to some "deep-seated" and unspeakable reasons, a certain leader of the explosives factory resolutely refused to allow the eighth shift to be replaced, did not allow him to enter the explosives factory, and even closed the explosives factory and stopped production. Company Commander Zhang Yuhao instructed: Resist, persevere, and don't retreat! The soldiers of the 8th squad collectively studied Chairman Mao's quotations outside the explosives factory in the morning; In the afternoon, he was ordered to temporarily withdraw to help the cooking team repair the vegetable patch, fertilize and plant vegetables.
After a day of labor, after dinner, at the invitation of the Railway Soldier Processing Company, the whole company went to the "Great Avenue" to watch the color film "Red Women's Army". The soldier of the screening team said: The film has not yet been officially released nationwide, and it was transferred in advance by the Beijing Military Region in order to take care of the troops and new recruits who participated in the construction of the Beijing-Yuan Line. The beautiful music and dancing in the film amazed everyone, and the most important thing is that the thoughts, behaviors, and minds of the heroes left a deep impression on the soldiers: Hong Changqing and Wu Qionghua, two great revolutionary fighters, will always be an example for us to learn!
Thursday, April 15, 1971
Due to the persistence of the leaders of the 8th Company and the spirit of the soldiers of the 8th squad (every morning they went to the explosives factory in a neat line to go to the explosives factory under the banner of Chairman Mao's quotations and sang revolutionary songs, and collectively studied Chairman Mao's works outside the gate), the leaders of the explosives factory formally apologized to Pan Jianping, the leader of the 8th squad, and the soldiers opened the gate, and the 8th squad officially began to produce explosives to supply the urgent needs of the front construction site. The work here is very hard, and you have to endure sweating, fumigation, coughing, and breathlessness in the harsh environment of blazing fires, gunsmoke, high temperature transpiration, and pungent odors all day long! Whenever the trucks of the People's Liberation Army Automobile Company brought in raw materials and coal, they had to carry them to the warehouse on their shoulders bag by bag, basket by basket, and the explosives produced had to be carried onto the cars one by one, and transported by railway soldiers or civilian workers to the surrounding railway construction sites! This kind of transportation can be as little as two or three tons a day, and sometimes as many as six or seven tons.
On September 13, 2016, some comrades-in-arms of Class 8
Return to Dazuo Village, where the company was stationed next to the Tang River Bridge
Saturday, April 17, 1971
Recently, the "well-informed news" has been coming, saying that the task of the Railway Construction Corps is about to be completed, and the Railway Construction Corps will be disbanded and assigned work to the Railway Construction soldiers in Taiyuan!
Sunday, April 18, 1971
After dinner, Company Commander Zhang conveyed the spirit of the regimental party committee: The central authorities had sent a confidential document to the Shanxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and the provincial revolutionary committee had already forwarded it to the three regiments of the railway construction in Taiyuan City, Hexi District, and Hexi District, saying that the three regiments would expand their establishment by 2,000 people, and that they would soon be implemented, and that they would come to the Jingyuan line. Everyone felt very strange: A few months ago, 5 or 6,000 people from the 1st Division, 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment had just been transferred out of the Jingyuan Line and returned to Taiyuan City. It seems that the goal of the opening of the "July 1st" of the Jingyuan Line is very clear and the pressure is also very great!
I heard that the Seventh Company conveyed 5 orders, including: If the leave exceeds one month, the name will be removed; those who have always been naughty and mischievous, re-education through labor; Those who are old, weak, sick and disabled and unable to work shall be mobilized back; It is necessary to transfer "five good soldiers" and backbone cadres from various companies to the new company to serve as squad and platoon cadres, and so on.
Sunday, April 25, 1971
More than 2,000 people from the nine companies of the newly formed three regiments are about to come, and the work of transferring the backbone forces of the old companies to the new company to serve as squad and platoon cadres has also been launched. No one wants to leave their old company and go to the recruit company.
Monday, April 26, 1971
Before dinner, the instructor announced: The lecture on the use of Chairman Mao's works will be held at the regiment headquarters on the 27th ~ 29th, and the party branch of the eighth company selected a total of 17 representatives: a row of Wu Changqiu, Xiang Yaoxian, Zhang Dianwei; second row: Zhen Weixu, Zhang Jianhua, Pan Jianping; three rows of Sheng Zhixun and Ge Maochang; four rows of Zuo Lianhua, Gao Guiying, Cui Xiuying, Luo Xiufang, Gu Jinfang, Wei Cuiying; cooking class Wang Huaizhuan, Cui Baoying; The company instructor led the team.
In the evening, the whole company went to the People's Liberation Army Railway Corps Automobile Company to watch the movie "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", which was screened by the 2909 unit of the Air Force. It seems that this movie has been watched at least twice in half a year, and everyone still seems to be unsatisfied.
Tuesday, April 27, 1971
"The Third Regiment of the First Division of the Railway Construction Division and the Lecture on the Use of Chairman Mao's Writings" was held in the morning in Tangzhili Village, where the regiment headquarters is located, and the specific meeting was held in the Sanlian Club, and a total of 107 representatives of the whole regiment attended the meeting; Except for the representatives of the 1st and 5th companies who lived in Tang Zhili because they were too far away, the rest of the companies returned to the company station after the meeting every day. The conference was first opened by Zhang Sanmi, deputy political commissar of the Third Regiment, and then made an important report by Zhang Wenkui. In the afternoon, there were 7 people, including Instructor Chen of the Fifth Company, Deputy Company Commander Zhang Chenglian of the Third Company, Ning Lirong, Commander of the Fifth Platoon of the Seventh Company, Zuo Lianhua, Deputy Platoon Commander of the Fourth Platoon of the Eighth Company, Liu Shuhuan, the "Swineherd" of the Second Company Cooking Team, Cao Xiaoli, the custodian of the tools of the Third Company, and Li Chunyu, the hygienist of the Fourth Company. During the meeting, all the delegates ate in the canteen of the Youth League headquarters, and the food expenses were increased by 0.2 yuan (0.72 yuan per day), and the fine grain in the grain was increased from 30% to 50% as rewards.
Wednesday, April 28, 1971
Today, the "Third Regiment Lectures on the Study and Application of Chairman Mao's Writings" will continue to be held, and 17 representatives (whose names are recorded on the spot, and the characters or pronunciations may be incorrect) will "give lectures": Mao Shumin, platoon commander of the Sixth Company, Niu Runai, deputy company commander of the Fifth Company, Xiang Yaoxian, a soldier of the Eighth Company, Wu Baocheng, a quality officer of the First Company, Chen Liqin, a soldier of the Seventh Company, Wei Cuiying, a soldier of the Eighth Company, Guo Baoshan of the Second Company, Shi Lanjun, the platoon commander of the Fifth Company, Zhao Yulan of the Political Work Group of the Youth League Headquarters, Wang Huaishui, the leader of the cooking squad of the Eighth Company, Yue Zhen, the commander of the third platoon of the Third Company, Xu Guirong of the Fourth Company, and Chen Guangxi, the deputy platoon commander of the second platoon of the Seventh Company. Miao Peixin, the 12th squad leader of the 2nd Company, the 3rd Platoon Changshi Xinsheng of the 2nd Company, Qu Yumei, the 9th squad leader of the 1st Company, and Pan Jianping, the 8th squad leader of the 8th Company.
Thursday, April 29, 1971
The summary report in the afternoon was originally scheduled to be made by political commissar Zhang Wenkui, but suddenly political commissar Zhang Wenkui, head of the regiment Bai Baifu, deputy head of the regiment Ma Xiying, and deputy head of the regiment Ji Fenglin received an urgent notice and all went to the "Shanxi Railway Construction Headquarters" in Datong for a meeting, leaving only deputy political commissar Zhang Sanmi. After Deputy Political Commissar Zhang made a summary report, he distributed a red book of "Chairman Mao's Five Philosophical Works" and a portrait of Chairman Mao to all the delegates, and the "lecture meeting" was successfully concluded. It's just that all the regiment leaders were suddenly called to an emergency meeting, and I don't know what big things are going to happen.
Saturday, May 1, 1971
In the morning, the commanders and fighters of the regiment held a meeting to "celebrate the International Labor Day" in Tangzhili Village, the regiment headquarters, and after the meeting, a theatrical performance was held in which nine companies and the propaganda team of the regiment headquarters participated.
Monday, May 3, 1971
From today, the new schedule will be implemented: get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, "read every day" from 6:30 to 7:30, and start work at 8~12 o'clock; Work at 2:30~6:30 p.m., life meeting at 8:30~9:30, lights out at 9:30.
Tuesday, May 4, 1971
At noon, Company Commander Zhang held a meeting of the company's squad leader and above, and the main points of the speech: (1) Summarize the work in April: the whole company completed the earthwork (including the task of cooperating with the railway soldier machinery company) 44,000 cubic meters, 708 cubic meters of excavation, and 2,210 square meters of brush slope, and the task in May is to brush the slope and lay the bottom slag, and the stone is 350 cubic meters, and the bridgehead slope protection of the bridge should be built; (2) The 2,100 recruits newly recruited by the Third Regiment in Taiyuan City will soon come to Lingqiu, and the task is to lay bottom slag and masonry slope protection on the roadbed in the direction of Beijing, so that the construction area of the Third Regiment will be increased from the current 30 li to 80 li; (3) It is no longer possible for the original Beijing-Yuan Line to be opened to traffic on July 1, so let us prepare for the war in September and October before we can complete the task and return to Taiyuan; The Jingyuan Line is now mainly the Yuncailing Tunnel to the Pingxingguan Tunnel, this section of the project is too large to be completed on schedule, and this section also happens to be the construction section of our three regiments, and it is also the reason why we were transferred from Fanzhi to Lingqiu; In addition, Lingqiu Railway Station will be built into a secondary station, with a locomotive depot, and only the main line will have 10 rails; (4) After the arrival of new recruits, there was a large shortage of cadres and technical personnel, and the companies recruited from the southern and northern urban districts only had regular positions, while the companies recruited from Hexi District did not even have regular positions; In addition, there is a shortage of quality personnel, statisticians, technicians, etc., so each of the nine old companies may have to transfer 4~8 cadres to support the new company.
Wednesday, May 5, 1971
At noon, the party branch of the company announced that three comrades-in-arms would be dispatched to support the newly built 17th company, they were: Ren Jinshan, deputy platoon commander of the first platoon, Zhen Weixu, leader of the second platoon, and Zhang Xide, squad leader of the 10th platoon of the third platoon, who served as deputy company commander, technician and custodian respectively. In the evening, each platoon will hold a farewell party, and tomorrow morning will leave for work.
Thursday, May 6, 1971
In the morning, Company Commander Zhang, Deputy Company Commander Du, and many soldiers sent three comrades-in-arms, Ren Jinshan, Zhen Weixu, and Zhang Xide, to leave the Eighth Company to work in the newly built Seventeenth Company. Day and night, in the wind and rain, crawling and rolling for more than a year, everyone was reluctant to give up, teary eyes, and the notebook given to the comrades-in-arms wrote: "The Yangtze River is rippling, and the revolutionary soldiers are heart-to-heart; Although the separation is heartbreaking today, the love of seeing each other in the coming day will be stronger; The mountains and rivers are deep in friendship, and the sun is warm and the moon is bright; In the past, the blood of youth was sprinkled, and the Ming Dynasty celebrated the railway! ”
Saturday, May 8, 1971
In the evening, the whole company went to the Railway Corps Machinery Company to watch the theatrical performances performed by the Propaganda Team of Unit 8740 to learn the first-class meritorious heroes of the Railway Corps, Comrades Sun Mingchao and Deng Zhigao. Returning to the company, Company Commander Zhang made a speech, summed up the recent political study, praised the consciousness of Class 13 to continue studying for half an hour after the lights went out every night, Class 8's study method of integrating theory with practice, and Class 16 Zheng Lanfen's spirit of hard study, and called on everyone to study.
Monday, May 10, 1971
Today is the first anniversary of the construction of the war-ready railway on the Jingyuan Line, and the party branch of the company has decided to hold a construction competition at the construction site to "fight for one hour to see who is the best." That is, the platoon is used as a unit to forcibly work for an hour to see which platoon completes the most tasks and is the best. On the construction site, Company Commander Zhang convened a meeting of the squad leaders to explain the meaning and requirements, Deputy Company Commander Du arranged the tasks and assessment indicators, and then gave an order, and the competition began: but under the scorching sun, many soldiers stripped off their arms, threw off their shoes, shuttled back and forth, sweating like rain, and the construction site showed a spectacular scene of working fast and leaping! The results of the struggle were brilliant: 42 people in the first platoon filled 224 earth, 5.4 cubic meters per capita, and 28 people in the second platoon (8 shifts worked in the explosives factory) brushed the slope of 20 meters, 148 square meters, 266 cubic meters, and 5.3 square meters/9.5 cubic meters per capita; 35 people in three rows, 28 meters, 306 square meters, 452 cubic meters, 8.7 square meters/12.9 cubic meters per capita; There are 52 people in four rows, 12 meters of brush slope, 388 square meters, 109 cubic meters, 7.5 square meters/2.1 cubic meters per capita, and 36 meters of roadbed; All of the above indicators broke the previous high record. At the end of the competition, the commanders and fighters of the whole company lined up on the 14-meter-high original platform tail (i.e., the original flat side) of the Tanghe Bridge at the 14-hole Jingyuan Railway, facing Beijing City and facing the red sun, and held a grand meeting of "The Eighth Company of Railway Construction Warmly Celebrates the First Anniversary of Participating in the Construction Battle of the Beijing-Yuan Line"! Company Commander Zhang first made a report on "Bravely Advancing Along the "May Seven" Avenue Guided by Chairman Mao"; Then, Deputy Company Commander Du made a "Summary Report on the Work of the Eighth Company on the Jingyuan Line in the Past Year". The conference ended with the majestic slogan and the song of "the sea sails by the helmsman"!
In the afternoon, 160 people braved the heat wave to the river beach 5 miles away, fought for 3 hours, dug 381 meters and 1050 cubic meters for the Dazuo brigade, and completed 6.56 cubic meters per capita, which was praised by the party branch, the revolutionary committee and the poor middle peasants of Dazuo Village! Due to everyone's excessive fatigue, the originally scheduled "Eighth Company of Railway Construction Warmly Celebrates the First Anniversary of Participating in the Construction Battle of the Jingyuan Line" was canceled.
Saturday, May 15, 1971
Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the publication of the "May 16 Circular," and after dinner, all classes of the company have a unified special study and discussion.
Sunday, May 16, 1971
After working overtime overnight, at breakfast, the poster "Happy Road" of the Eighth Company has been replaced with a new layout of "Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the May 16 Notice". When the company was in line at breakfast, Company Commander Zhang announced that "all the soldiers of the company can go to Lingqiu City at will today, as long as they ask the platoon commander for leave, and they do not need to be approved by the company commander." The reason is that the recruits are coming soon, and the veterans are not allowed to enter the city in the next two weeks, leaving the opportunity for the recruits. In addition, the regiment headquarters decided that the 18 new and old companies of the regiment will hold a pilot project and an on-site meeting for stone slope protection at the bridgehead construction site of the Tang River Bridge in the eighth company, and they will go all out to make preparations starting tomorrow.
In the afternoon, the basketball team of the Eighth Company played a basketball game with the Railway Soldier Machinery Company.
In the evening, Company Commander Zhang held a meeting of cadres above the squad leader of the whole company, the main contents: (1) The main task of more than 4,000 people in 18 companies of new and veteran soldiers of the whole regiment is to build dozens of bridgeheads in stone, a total of more than 10,000 cubic stones, all the companies have no experience, and the regiment party committee requires the construction of the Tang River Bridge in the eighth company as a pilot, and then hold an on-site meeting to promote; (2) The slope protection project of the Tang River bridgehead requires 734 cubic meters of stone and 294 cubic meters of gravel; The "avenue" highway and railway bridge head masonry slope protection requires 645 cubic meters of stone and 225 cubic meters of gravel; The amount of work is huge, and accidents are prone to occur, so everyone must work safely; (3) The new general of the eighth company assigned 30 recruits, of which male soldiers were inserted into each squad, and female soldiers set up another squad (17 squad) in the fourth row, and transferred Jia Yunying of the 13th squad and Wang Liangkun of the 15th squad to the 17th squad as the principal and deputy squad leader respectively; (4) Ask the 8th squad to move to the west of the village to live, and vacate the house for the fourth platoon of recruits to live in.
Monday, May 17, 1971
During the day, the work was very tiring, and at night, the whole company held a meeting, and Company Commander Zhang conveyed the summary report made by Secretary Liu Shihong at the Fourth Party Congress of Taiyuan City, and only the first part of the report was conveyed in more than an hour. The company commander saw that everyone was too tired, so he announced the adjournment of the meeting and found time to continue the communication.
Wednesday, May 19, 1971
The regimental headquarters informed the 16th, 17th, and 18th companies of the recruits to come to Lingqiu today, and asked all companies to line up on the highway to welcome them; All the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Company waited on the highway for an hour without moving, and later informed them that they would not be coming today.
The party branch noticed: From tomorrow onwards, every day after dinner, the "batch repair and rectification" campaign will be carried out in shifts.
Thursday, May 20, 1971
Today is the great leader Chairman Mao's "Five. 20 solemn declaration "the first anniversary of the publication. In the morning, taking advantage of the "reading every day" time, the soldiers of the whole company listened with great excitement to the Central People's Radio, which was broadcast by Vice Chairman Lin on May 21, 1970, at the conference on "The People of the Capital Support the People's Anti-American Struggle of the People of the World" to read Chairman Mao's "Five. 20 Statement", and listened to the Central Committee's "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" to celebrate the "Five. 20 Statement: "The editorial "Program of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle" on the first anniversary of its publication. In the morning at the construction site, the whole company held a "celebration of the great leader Chairman Mao's 'Five. 20 solemn declaration 'the first anniversary of the issuance of the General Assembly'.
Friday, May 21, 1971
The 2,100 new comrades-in-arms newly recruited from Taiyuan City arrived in Lingqiu, and in addition to the newly formed 9 companies, the rest were placed in the original 9 old companies, of which 32 were assigned to the 8th Company. After dinner, the whole company gathered outside the village, and Company Commander Zhang led the team to greet the new comrades, but there was no movement until more than 9 o'clock in the evening, so the company commander asked most of the soldiers to go back to rest, leaving one person in each squad to wait to welcome the new soldiers. It wasn't until 1:10 a.m. that the car came, and Deputy Company Commander Guo brought 32 recruits: 21 men and 11 women. After settling them into dinner, they were assigned to each row: 3 people in the first row, 8 people in the second row, 10 people in the third row, and 11 people in the fourth row. It was already half past three in the morning.
Sunday, May 23, 1971
Today, Sunday, Quan Lian got up at 5 a.m. and went to the construction site from 5:30 to 8:30 to work for three hours. After breakfast, the recruits went to Lingqiu County, and the veterans sorted out housekeeping, cleaning, and washing and mending clothes. In the evening, the class affairs of each class will summarize the work of the week and evaluate the "four good classes" and "five good soldiers" of the week.
Monday, May 24, 1971
Recruits kept coming to Lingqiu, and some veterans wanted to take the return bus to Taiyuan to visit their parents. The regimental party committee decided that all fighters would not be allowed to take leave until June.
Friday, May 28, 1971 Dragon Boat Festival
On the last day of work at the Railway Corps Explosives Factory, Pan Jianping, the squad leader, fell from the broken roof of the warehouse more than three meters high and was injured while performing the task of dismantling the warehouse of the explosives factory. Upon hearing the news, Company Commander Zhang immediately contacted the Railway Corps Automobile Company and personally escorted him to the Lingqiu Unit 8737 Hospital and the county hospital for treatment.
Saturday, May 29, 1971
In the evening, the whole company held a meeting, the content of which was to rectify the Communist Youth League organization, and all the old members (the Communist Youth League members who joined the League before coming to the Railway Construction) took the oath again, and the old members were: Luo Jingsheng, Jia Yunying, Wang Liangkun, Gao Guiying, Ren Jinshan, Wang Heping, Cao Fengyin, Luo Xiufang, Liu Guimei, Cui Xiuying, and Zheng Lanfen. Company Commander Zhang and Deputy Company Commander Du gave important instructions at the meeting.
Sunday, May 30, 1971
On Sunday, the whole company did not rest and worked overtime to meet the convening of the on-site meeting of the whole regiment. The first and third rows continued to complete the task of protecting the slope foundation of the bridge, the second row of 6 shifts set up shelves on the bridge piers, the 7th squad went into the city to pull cement, and the other shifts repaired the road.
Tuesday, June 1, 1971
Today is the "June 1" International Children's Day, and at the company's meeting in the evening, Company Commander Zhang suddenly announced that "the Eighth Company will assign 35 soldiers to return to Taiyuan to work, on the condition that they study and apply Chairman Mao's writings well." There is a saying below that priority should be given to older fighters and work assignments should be given first. Now everyone understands: Recently, more than 2,000 recruits from Taiyuan City were recruited to come to the Jingyuan line, and in fact, they wanted to take over the veterans and return to the city to assign work.
Wednesday, June 2, 1971
In the evening, a meeting of cadres above the deputy squad leader of the whole company and all the members of the Communist Youth League was held, and Company Commander Zhang explained the significance of the assignment to everyone, and asked every soldier to correct their attitude, so as to "have a red heart and prepare with both hands", and work with peace of mind; Deputy Company Commander Du stressed that the on-site meeting of the whole regiment will be held in the Eighth Company soon, and hopes that everyone will go all out to make preparations, especially the precautions in terms of safety and economy.
Thursday, June 3, 1971
There are 10 comrades in the company who filled out the volunteer form for joining the regiment: An Miansheng and Zhang Dianwei in the first row; second row Gu Jianwen, Huo Zhangsheng; three rows of Sheng Zhixun and Wang Yusheng; Four rows of Zhao Shangfeng, Zuo Lianhua, Ren Guixian, Zhang Holland.
Friday, June 4, 1971
Before the dinner in the afternoon, the whole company held a meeting, and Company Commander Zhang announced the first batch of assignment work list of the Eighth Company, a total of 35 people: a row of 8 people: Wang Heping, Li Guofeng, Xiang Yaoxian, Yu Zhizhong, Wang Zhiping, Zhang Chengbin, Li Mingliang, Bai Zhenyun; 7 people in the second row: Zhao Zijing, Hu Xianghua, Chen Zhen, Huo Zhangsheng, Gu Jianwen, Bao Weixin, Zhang Jianhua; 8 people in three rows: Cao Fengyin, Zhou Xilin, Zhang Zhiyong, Sheng Zhixun, Wang Yusheng, Zhao Chenglin, Yu Shihao, Kang Yuping; 5 people in the fourth row: Zuo Lianhua, Luo Xiufang, Cui Xiuying, Zheng Lanfen, Liu Guimei; 5 people in the cooking class: Chen Genxi, Sun Zhizhen, Cui Baoying, Du Jinghua, Yu Jinlan; 1 company: Zhong Yanjuan; Seconded to 17 companies and 1 person: Ren Jinshan. The list will be submitted to the regiment headquarters for approval. After the list was announced, the eighth company caused quite a shock.
Saturday, June 5, 1971
After the late roll call, each platoon held a meeting to discuss the issue of new cadres, because the immediate problem was the large number of vacancies for squad and platoon cadres after the comrades-in-arms who had already been assigned work left.
Sunday, June 6, 1971
This Sunday, the whole company worked overtime in the morning to prepare for the construction site meeting of the whole regiment to be held the day after tomorrow.
Monday, June 7, 1971
The whole company nervously made preparations for the whole day: tidying up the construction site environment, repairing roads, painting slogans and slogans outside the village...... to meet the on-site meeting of the three regiments tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, we will have dinner at 6 o'clock, and then go to work to the construction site.
Tuesday, June 8, 1971
The single deputy commander of the Yanbei Military Division, the head of the 8740 unit of the railway corps, the head of the Bai regiment of the third regiment of the railway construction, the deputy head of Ma, and the deputy political commissar Zhang all came to attend the meeting. In the morning, more than 100 representatives of each company visited and learned the masonry slope protection technology at the construction site of the eighth company; In the afternoon, a meeting was held in the Balian Club, and the deputy company commander Guo Huimin of the Balian introduced the experience of paving slope protection; Then, the head of the regiment summarized the work of the whole regiment in May and laid out the plan for June. After the meeting, the Eighth Company urgently gathered and lined up to see off the leaders and representatives.
The on-site meeting ended successfully, and the hard work and active preparation of half a month of the whole company came to a successful end. The company commander announced: Tomorrow the whole company will have a day off! At the same time, it was informed: The Third Regiment specially invited the comrades of the Beihan Photo Studio in Hexi District, Taiyuan City, to make a special trip to Lingqiu to take pictures of the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Company at the Tanghe Bridge construction site tomorrow. Everyone cheered and jumped, and it was very lively!
In fact, the leadership also has a special consideration, which is to take photos with the comrades who are about to be assigned to work when they leave!
Wednesday, June 9, 1971
After the rain, the sky is clear, the sun rises in the east, the morning glow is shining, and the sky is clear! The railway construction soldiers were bathed in the sunshine and rain of Mao Zedong Thought, and watched the soon-to-be-repaired Jingyuan Railway pass through the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland, and everyone was intoxicated and rejoiced; Young warriors, youth is as red as fire, and their will is as strong as steel!
After breakfast, the whole company gathered at the head of the Tang River Bridge, and the photographer who came from Taiyuan took the first "family photo" since the establishment of the company more than a year ago!
Zhang Yuhao, the commander of the Eighth Company and secretary of the Party branch, who won the honorary title of "Good Company Commander" of the Third Regiment of the Railway Construction Regiment
Next, different platoons, different combinations, different heroic postures, and different expressions took pictures, leaving a permanent memorial for the comrades-in-arms of the Eighth Company!
Thursday, June 10, 1971
Before dinner, the whole company gathered for a meeting, and Zhang Yuhao, secretary of the party branch and company commander, read out the order to carry out a major adjustment of the cadres of the whole company and platoon: the new chief and deputy platoon commanders of each platoon are: An Miansheng (acting) and Wu Changqiu in the first platoon, Luo Zhiwen and Shuai Susheng in the second platoon, Ren Yongheng and Tong Mingyong in the third platoon, and Zhao Shangfeng and Gao Guiying in the fourth platoon. Pan Jianping of Class 8 was transferred to the company as a clerk, and Wang Xuezhen of Class 14 was transferred to the company as a tool custodian; Zheng Weiguo, Yu Zhaoqiang, Sun Xuqin, Song Lanying, and Jia Meiying were transferred to the cooking class. At the same time, the official list of 36 people approved by the Youth League headquarters who were assigned to return to Taiyuan to participate in the work was announced, and there was a small adjustment from the list of 35 people announced on the 4th: Zhao Shouren and Fan Linjie were added, and Cui Baoying was reduced.
Friday, June 11, 1971
Work in the morning. At noon, the whole company gathered and held the "Farewell Meeting for the First Batch of Comrades-in-Arms Assigned to Work Back to Taiyuan", Company Commander Zhang on behalf of the Party branch and the company, Pan Jianping on behalf of all the soldiers who stayed in the Eighth Company, and Zhong Yanjuan spoke on behalf of all the comrades who left the team, and then the whole company had a meal to celebrate the comrades-in-arms who were about to "change jobs"! The atmosphere is warm, but also a little bleak, after all, everyone has formed a deep proletarian feeling and brotherhood and sisterhood in the 13 months of hard work, sweating and fighting day and night on the Jingyuan Line, and sharing life and death!
Saturday, June 12, 1971
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the first batch of 36 comrades-in-arms assigned to Taiyuan to participate in the work of the Eighth Company left the Eighth Company, Dazuo Village, Lingqiu County, Jingyuan Line, and the Railway Construction Corps on the No. 14 Jiefang brand truck of Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory!
Sunday, June 13, 1971
Although it was a Sunday, due to the urgency of the project, the whole company worked overtime for half a day in the morning and rested in the afternoon. At the same time, the "education on the party's basic line" campaign was also carried out intensively. In the evening, Quan Lian studied the second subsection of the second chapter of Chairman Mao's book "The Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China", "The Object of the Chinese Revolution".
Monday, June 14, 1971
Due to the major reshuffling of the cadres of the whole company, most of the squad leaders were directly promoted from the soldiers, and although they were very enthusiastic, they lacked management experience, resulting in some problems in the labor and political study of the entire company. In the evening, the third platoon held a meeting, combined with the "basic line education", and a certain soldier was inspected, because on the 12th, he asked his comrades-in-arms who had been assigned to work to return to Taiyuan to bring back a few catties of eggs to their families.
Tuesday, June 15, 1971
After the lights went out at night, Company Commander Zhang convened a meeting of the chief and deputy platoon commanders of each platoon, and in view of the recent increase in the number of sick people in the company (increased to 20 today), he emphasized life management and organizational discipline, and said that the company was thinking of solving relevant problems.
Thursday, June 17, 1971
Company Commander Zhang went to the regiment headquarters to participate in a political education training camp that lasted for half a month. As soon as he left today, there was an incident of a few soldiers violating discipline in the company, and Company Commander Du was angry and wanted to tie up this soldier, but after everyone dissuaded him, he calmed down.
Saturday, June 19, 1971
Due to the influence of the first batch of assigned work back to Taiyuan, the soldiers' thinking was confused, and Company Commander Zhang left the company to go to the regiment headquarters for half a month of intensive training, and problems continued to occur. Today, a certain female fighter "stole the planks of the construction site and gave them to the counter-revolutionary landlord in the village" has caused a new storm. Deputy Company Commander Du was busy with the construction management of the Jingyuan Line and was overwhelmed, and the political study was supervised by Deputy Company Commander Guo.
Sunday, June 20, 1971
On June 19, 1962, Chairman Mao issued an important instruction on the "organizational, political, and military implementation" of the militia work. At the meeting, Deputy Company Commander Guo made a mobilization report on "resolutely implementing Chairman Mao's instructions on the 'three implementations' of militia work and vowing to build our company into a red Mao Zedong Thought University." Army representative Huang Shiyang gave important instructions, and all platoon commanders expressed their determination.
In the evening, the condolence group of the Hexi District Revolutionary Committee and the Ministry of People's Armed Forces of Taiyuan City came to the Eighth Company to give a condolence performance, and screened the documentaries "The Palestinian People Will Surely Victory", "Red Flag Canal" and the feature film "Tunnel War".
Tuesday, June 22, 1971
The basic route education has been carried out for more than 10 days, and there has been little progress; Company Commander Zhang went to the regiment headquarters for five days for intensive training, Deputy Company Commander Du was so busy with construction that he was dizzy, the cadres in the company were not united, and no one seemed to grasp or take care of the line education.
Wednesday, June 23, 1971
Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, and looking forward to the movie "The Invisible Front" for more than half a year, I finally saw it today, but I saw the second half of the night. In the afternoon, the railway corps informed us that even the movie would be shown in the evening, and the seventh company and the ninth company 5 miles away in the Heilong River also came, but because the film was being screened to the railway corps in Yuncailing, it would be after 11 o'clock in the evening, and the deputy company commander Du advised everyone not to wait and go back to rest, but the soldiers unanimously asked to continue to wait, and the film did not arrive until half past 11 o'clock in the evening, but everyone had a wish!
Thursday, June 24, 1971
In order to present a gift to the birthday of the "1 July" party, the Youth League headquarters demanded that the task of paving and protecting the slope at the end of the Jingtai tail of the Tanghe Bridge must be completed by the end of June. After mobilization today, the soldiers were very confident, and the third platoon put forward a challenge, and the first platoon also expressed its determination. At the same time, the "basic line education" is also firmly grasped, and each class and row hold a lecture meeting every night; On this basis, the whole company meeting will be held to give lectures.
Saturday, June 26, 1971
The number of sick people in the whole company continued to increase, diarrhea was epidemic, there were 12 serious patients alone, all the medicines of the hygienists were used up, and even the war readiness medicines that had been stored for several months were also pasted in, and the situation was quite serious. At about 9 o'clock in the evening, Company Commander Zhang, who was training at the regiment headquarters, rushed back, convened a meeting to urgently study the problems of poor route education and the increasing number of patients, and decided to take emergency measures to isolate the diarrhea cases in a centralized manner tomorrow to prevent the spread of infection; Assault on environmental and canteen hygiene, and actively prevent infectious diseases.
Wednesday, June 30, 1971
Tomorrow will be the 50 th anniversary of the birth of the great Communist Party of China, and in addition to normal work today, another important task of the whole company is to put out posters and board newspapers to publish the "July 1 Dedication," celebration articles, slogans, quotations from Chairman Mao, and instructions from Vice Chairman Lin.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the voice of Beijing was heard on the red radio waves: the central "two newspapers and one periodical" published an editorial article celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, "Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China." The soldiers of the whole company gathered together and listened and studied carefully.
The Central Committee's "Two Newspapers and One Periodical" published a celebration of the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
Hand-copied transcript of the editorial department's article "Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China".
(6) July ~ October 1971
Although the Jingyuan Line has gone through repeated efforts from the central government to the local government, it still failed to achieve the goal of opening to traffic on May 1 and July 1. Because, the difficulty is just too great.
Thursday, July 1, 1971
Today is a glorious festival marking the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China. Since Company Commander Zhang Yuhao was still attending a training camp at the regiment headquarters and had not returned, Deputy Company Commander Guo Huimin briefly explained the history of the 10 line struggles within the party. In the evening, the Eighth Company and the Party Branch of the Dazuo Village Brigade, the Revolutionary Committee, and the poor middle peasants jointly held a celebration party.
Today, the "two newspapers and one periodical" of the CPC Central Committee published an editorial article entitled "Commemorating the 50 th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China" to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Since it took three or four days for the central and provincial newspapers and periodicals to arrive here, in order to facilitate the study of the commanders and fighters of the whole company, Pan Jianping, secretary of the company, Zhang Zezhong, a technician, and Liu Yulan of the regiment branch, decided to adopt the most troublesome but also the most rapid method: to copy the "recorded news" of the Central People's Radio Station on time on the semiconductor radio. This program uses a slow recording speed to broadcast news, each sentence is repeated 3 times, the broadcast time is 23:15 last night ~ 3:00 today, 9:15 ~ 13:15 today, 15:00 ~ 19:30, 23:15 ~ 3:00 tomorrow morning, divided into 4 broadcasts, each time an average of 4 hours. In this way, the full text of "Commemorating the 50 th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China," which is more than 20,000 words long, took a total of 16 hours to be copied on 44 pages of stationery, and three manuscripts were sent to each class in time to read and study.
Friday, July 2, 1971
In the evening, Company Commander Zhang ended his half-month intensive training at the regiment headquarters and returned to the Eighth Company.
Sunday, July 4, 1971
Today is Sunday, but the whole company does not rest, and concentrates time and energy on writing a summary of the "Four Good Preliminary Evaluation". In the evening, a meeting of cadres above the squad leader level of the whole company was held, and Company Commander Zhang arranged the work and study plan for July: 1~13 days to study the editorial article "Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China" of the Central Committee's "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of China, 14~19 days to carry out the "four good preliminary evaluation", 20~27 days to carry out "criticism and rectification" and criticism, 28~31 days to study Chairman Mao's five philosophical works, rehearsal programs to welcome the "August 1" Army Day.
Tuesday, July 6, 1971
In the morning, I didn't go to work because of the rain, and I studied politics. Due to the influence of the assignment of veteran soldiers, especially after the departure of the first batch of comrades-in-arms assigned to work, the atmosphere and mental outlook of the company have undergone subtle changes. In the morning, most of the classes in the first, second, and third platoons did not seriously organize the study, and only the female fighters in the five squads of the fourth platoon were studying seriously. In the afternoon, the rain stopped, but the climate was sultry, so I finished work early after 3 hours of work, and went to the "Dadaodi" railway barracks in the evening to watch the theatrical programs performed by the detachment directly under Unit 8740.
Thursday, July 8, 1971
In the evening, the whole company held a meeting, and Company Commander Zhang conveyed the notice of the second batch of assignments to Taiyuan: the quota for the whole group this time was 150 people, including 17 people from the Eighth Company (12 men and 5 women). Suddenly, the soldiers of the whole company were again nervous and excited.
Sunday, July 11, 1971
The company commander, deputy company commander, and army representatives held a meeting for a whole day to study the list of staff assigned this time. The distribution method of this batch was different from that of the previous batch: In the previous batch, the list was first determined by the Railway Construction Corps, and after it was submitted to Taiyuan, it was then subjected to the political examination by the employing units, with the result that many people ran aground because they could not pass the "political examination," and many soldiers were in a dilemma. Therefore, this assignment will be submitted by the Railway Construction Corps first to the pre-selection list (increase by 50%), and the admitted people will be officially notified to report back to Taiyuan after the political review is passed. To this end, after the party branch drew up a list of candidates, it talked to the fighters one by one to understand the family situation.
Monday, July 12, 1971
After two days of intense work, the party branch of the Eighth Company today determined the list of 25 staff members to be assigned (Li Jin, Li Xiaoning, Xian Wansheng, Pan Jianping, Li Chunmei, Jia Yunying, Zhang Xidi, Song Xueqian, Huo Laqing, Gu Jinfang, Gao Guiying, Zhao Shangfeng, Mao Peimin, Qi Yunpei, Zhang Zezhong, Ren Yongheng, Bai Shengzhang, Cui Baoying, Ge Maochang, Zhao Jihong, Zhang Ruiyuan, Xu Jianguo, Shuai Susheng, Duan Runxi, and Wu Changqiu), and 8 more than the actual allocated quota of 17, which is to be "politically reviewed" by the employer in Taiyuan City After passing the qualifications, the final notification will be made of the list of people who have been confirmed to be admitted to work in the city. The list of 25 people is currently kept strictly confidential.
Tuesday, July 13, 1971
In the afternoon, it rained and I couldn't go to work, so I took the opportunity to carry out the preliminary evaluation and mobilization of "four good" and "five good". Since Company Commander Zhang went to the regiment headquarters to report the list of assigned staff, the mobilization was carried out by Deputy Platoon Commander Guo, and then each squad platoon talked about ideas, expressed determination, and laid the foundation. With the beginning of the preliminary evaluation of the "four good" and "five good", the "living thoughts" of the fighters are more obvious, because this "preliminary evaluation" is different from the usual, and it is directly related to the vital interests of each soldier who are most concerned: personal future and work distribution!
Wednesday, July 14, 1971
All classes have basically started to create "four good" and "five good" teaching. × platoon was not serious, and Company Commander Zhang severely criticized it; The fourth platoon and the 15th squad were very serious, and Company Commander Zhang asked the company clerks to go to the squatting point until the end of the "preliminary evaluation", and then summed up the experience and reported to the regiment headquarters.
Thursday, July 15, 1971
Today's statistics on the amount of construction work completed by the whole company since its transfer from Fanzhi County to Lingqiu County in February were reported to the regiment headquarters.
Friday, July 16, 1971
It's been a few dog days, and the heat is unbearable! In the morning, when he was working intensively at the construction site, Company Commander Du rushed to inform the whole company to immediately assemble and return to the village, because he had received a notice from the regiment headquarters that there was an "important broadcast" on the Central People's Radio Station at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is speculating about what major news will be: the Fourth National People's Congress will be held? The end of the Third Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee? An atomic bomb, a hydrogen bomb or an artificial satellite into the sky? The commanders and fighters of the whole company hurried back to the village, braving the scorching heat and holding their notebooks to wait for the arrival of the important moment. The comrades of the company prepared a big red paper and pen and ink, and only waited for the announcement of the great news to brush up on the slogans to celebrate. The semiconductor radio was replaced with a new battery, an antenna was connected, and the frequency was adjusted. When 10:30 o'clock came, no one thought that the important news of the Central People's Radio was only a one-minute "Communiqué on the Talks between Premier Zhou Enlai and Dr. Kissinger, National Security Adviser to US President Nixon", which read: "Kissinger held talks with Premier Zhou in Beijing on 9~11 July, US President Nixon expressed his desire to visit China, and Premier Zhou, on behalf of China, invited President Nixon to visit China at an appropriate time before May 1972, and President Nixon happily accepted the invitation." Despite this, everyone is extremely excited: China's international prestige has been growing recently, and more and more countries have recognized China and demanded that it be admitted to the United Nations and the Security Council; In particular, after the US table tennis delegation visited China, Premier Zhou's "ping-pong diplomacy" caused a sensation all over the world, and foreign countries commented that "China's small table tennis ball is much more powerful than any bomb of the same size in the world."
Sunday, July 18, 1971
The "preliminary evaluation" is very nervous, and the holiday is not relaxed. At 10~12 o'clock in the morning and 17~21 o'clock in the afternoon, each class is "talking about use" and summing up, but the effect is not very good, mainly because the soldiers are afraid of offending people, and they cannot boldly carry out criticism and self-criticism, and they cannot treat the evaluation correctly. There were a total of 11 students in some classes, and 10 people were voted on, and the least was 7 votes, more than half. Company Commander Zhang was very angry and immediately took countermeasures: at night, he arranged for him to squat in the first row, Du Lianchang in the second row, Guo Lianchang in the third row, and clerk Pan Jianping in the fourth row, and asked him to evaluate his thoughts, level, motivation and spirit!
Monday, July 19, 1971
Today, the party committee of the regiment held a meeting of the secretaries of the party branches and the clerks of each company, the main content of which was to report: (1) the situation of the company's cadres organizing the reading group; (2) Study the effect, typical examples and specific methods of the editorial department article "Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China" of the Central Committee's "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China; (3) The progress of the "Four Good Preliminary Evaluation" and the experience and methods of the preliminary evaluation. Political Commissar Zhang Wenkui and Deputy Political Commissar Zhang Sanmi made a summary and arranged the work of the next stage, mainly (1) strive to complete the "four good" preliminary evaluation work with quality and quantity before the end of the month; (2) Extensively carry out serious reading activities, and carry out mass activities to seriously summarize experience, so that everyone can summarize, class, and arrange to summarize.
Thursday, July 22, 1971
The evaluation of the "four good" platoons began, and the "daily reading" time before going to work in the morning was first carried out by the four platoons to "speak".
Saturday, July 24, 1971
An epidemic of virulent infectious disease began to circulate around the station: anthrax; There have been cases of death in Tangzhili Village, where the regiment headquarters is stationed. The regiment headquarters issued a notice to strictly prevent and control the disease, and some people were panicked for a while.
The film team sent by the Shanfang Party Committee and the Revolutionary Committee came to the Eighth Company tonight to screen it, and the Eighth Company invited the five companies of the railway soldiers (mechanical company, repair company, automobile company, processing company, etc.) of the "Great Daodi" and the commanders and fighters of the ninth company of the nearby Third Railway Construction Regiment to come to Dazuo Village to watch together.
Sunday, July 25, 1971
In order to prevent anthrax, the whole company is not allowed to take leave to go out today. In order to control the hearts of the soldiers, the morning cooking class distributed flour and meat filling to each class, and asked everyone to make their own dumplings. In the afternoon, the preliminary evaluation of the "four good" collectives will be carried out, and the leaders of each class and platoon will make a "lecture" report. Company Commander Du went back to Taiyuan, and in the evening, Company Commander Zhang and Deputy Company Commander Guo went to each class to inspect and found that the three men's volleyball teams did not study seriously, and the five classes of the women's volleyball team were studying hard or rehearsing for the "August 1st Army Day" program. Company Commander Zhang immediately convened a meeting of the platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders to criticize and praise them.
Monday, July 26, 1971
The plague god descended on Dazuo Village: Several suspected cases of anthrax were found in the village, the militia had blocked several roads, and the soldiers of the 6th squad could not even return home, so they had to climb over the wall to enter. All the farmers in Dazuo Village have taken medicine for prevention, and the Railway Construction Corps has not yet distributed medicine.
Wednesday, July 28, 1971
After intense construction, the eighth company is responsible for the railway construction task, the stone slope protection at the end of the original platform of the "Dadaodi" highway and railway bridge has been basically paved, and the next step is cement grouting.
After the lights go out at night, a meeting of cadres above the platoon commander level of the whole company is held to discuss the results of the preliminary evaluation of the "four good".
Thursday, July 29, 1971
The "four good" preliminary evaluation meeting that began at 10 o'clock last night did not end until four o'clock this morning, and the final result of the preliminary evaluation was: "four good classes" 5: four classes, seven classes, twelve classes, thirteen classes, and cooking classes; 101 "Five Good Soldiers"; The "four good rows" were not evaluated.
Friday, July 30, 1971
In the evening, the platoon commanders continued to meet to conduct the preliminary evaluation of the "four good platoons", and the two "four good platoons" selected in the end were the second platoon and the fourth platoon. Compared with last year: the "four good rows" in the first row were lost, the second row was maintained, the third row still fell off the list, and the fourth row caught up.
Saturday, July 31, 1971
In addition to normal work, the most intense work of the whole company is to prepare for the celebration of the 44 th anniversary of the "1 August" Army Day tomorrow. The Eighth Company plans to hold a military-civilian party with the peasants of Dazuo Village and the five companies of the railway soldiers of the "Dadaodi" on 2 July, and all squads and platoons are preparing for programs, and the propaganda team has been rehearsing programs for a week. Each platoon also held a special poster to welcome the "1 August."
Sunday, August 1, 1971
Today is the 44th anniversary of the "August 1st" Army Day, and our party will be held tomorrow. At 9 o'clock tonight, the whole company held an oath-taking meeting for new members to join the regiment, the meeting was presided over by Gao Guiying, a member of the organization committee of the eighth company league branch, Gu Jinfang, deputy secretary of the league branch, first read out the list of new league members, and then eight new league members Wu Changqiu, Bai Shengzhang, Ren Guixian, Zhang Dujing, Zhao Shangfeng, Wang Limin, Yu Zhaoqiang, Pan Jianping (and two people Yu Zhizhong and Hu Xianghua have been assigned to work back to Taiyuan) stood in front of the statue of Chairman Mao, led by the company secretary Pan Jianping to take the oath, the oath is as follows: "I voluntarily join the Chinese Communist Youth League, Resolutely implement the party's program and resolutions, strive to study and apply Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Zedong Thought, enhance the consciousness of the class struggle and the two-line struggle, always be loyal to Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, and strive for life to keep our revolutionary country red for all generations, to liberate Taiwan, the sacred territory of the mainland, to support the revolutionary struggle of the people of all countries in the world, to completely bury the emperor's rebellion, and to realize communism at an early date"!
After taking the oath, Zhao Shangfeng spoke on behalf of all the new members; Company Commander Zhang Yuhao, secretary of the party branch of the Eighth Company and secretary of the Youth League branch, made a final speech, in addition to expressing congratulations, he also put forward his hopes and requirements for the new league members. So far, the Eighth Company has approved 20 new members, plus the 12 old members who have joined the regiment before coming to the railway construction, there are a total of 32 Communist Youth League members.
Monday, August 2, 1971
Today, the military and the people jointly held a gala to celebrate the 44 th anniversary of the "1 August" Army Day, and the participating units were: the Eighth Company of the Railway Construction Company, the Party Branch, the Revolutionary Committee, the Militia Company, and the Primary School of Dazuo Village, the First and Third Companies of the Machinery Company of the 8737 Unit of the People's Liberation Army, the Fourth Company of the Automobile Company, the Finished Product Processing Company, and the Machinery Company of the 8740 Troops. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the representatives of various units first gathered in Dazuo Village to hold a symposium, and then held a conference meal in Balian, with 17 dishes and 3 staple foods, which attracted praise from everyone. In the evening, a theatrical performance was held on the big stage in the village, but unfortunately the wonderful show was washed away by a sudden heavy rain just halfway through.
Tuesday, August 3, 1971
The poor and middle-class peasants of Dazuo Village strongly demanded that the wonderful program that had been interrupted by heavy rain last night should be continued in the evening, but the PLA Machinery Company also told the Eighth Company to go to their company to watch the movie "Surprise Attack" in the evening, so the theatrical performance had to be postponed until tomorrow.
Company Commander Du, who went back to Taiyuan to do business, came back, and at the same time brought a new doctor of the Eighth Company, Dr. Zhao Caixia, who came to replace the original doctor of the Eighth Company, Zhao Youquan. At the same time, there was also Section Chief Wang of the Youth League Political Work Group, who was in charge of the distribution work, so everyone speculated that the second batch of distribution lists might have come down.
Wednesday, August 4, 1971
The leaders of the company held a one-day meeting to study and arrange the political study and construction tasks in August. The political study is mainly to meet the "double congress meeting" to be held in late August of the third regiment and the "double congress meeting" to be held in early September of the second division, and it was decided that the eighth company will personally write and learn from the 6th ~ 8th to use the "lecture" materials of Chairman Mao's works, 9~11 days to "speak" in the class, 12~14 days to "speak" in the platoon, 15~18 days to "speak" to the whole company, 19~20 days to sort out the materials and report; A special criticism meeting was held on the 21st~31st. Regarding the construction, this month is mainly the bridgehead slope protection grouting and brushing slope, laying bottom slag, the length of the site is 1500 meters, the task is not too heavy, and then enter the finishing stage, it is expected that the workload can be completed in September and return to Taiyuan.
In the evening, the Eighth Company held a joint meeting with the Dazuo Village Party Branch, the Revolutionary Committee, and the Primary School to continue the party program that had not been performed the night before.
Thursday, August 5, 1971
Unit 8740 decided to hold a militia political and construction experience exchange meeting in Gaobeidian, Hebei Province the day after tomorrow (7th), the three regiments have a total of 4 places, including 2 regiment leaders, the 16th company of recruits introduced the experience of political learning, and the regiment leader designated the eighth company to introduce the safe construction experience, because from the formation to the present 15 months of construction, our company has not had any accidents, especially in the process of performing blasting tasks and manufacturing explosives. Company Commander Zhang decided that Deputy Company Commander Guo Huimin would attend the meeting on behalf of the Eighth Company and introduce its experience at the meeting.
Friday, August 6, 1971
The regiment headquarters informed that tomorrow the commanders of the nine veteran companies of the regiment will come to our company for a meeting to study the issue of the next batch of assignments. Probably due to the anthrax epidemic, the regiment headquarters had been moved from Tang Zhili to Lingqiu County, so Dazuo Village, where the Eighth Company was stationed, became the center of the regiment's companies.
It is said that the third batch of 300 people will be allocated to the whole group, and the fourth batch will be 800 people. The problem is that the official list for the second batch of allocations (which has been submitted for almost a month) has not yet come down.
Saturday, August 7, 1971
In the morning, the company commanders of the nine companies of the regiment came to our company for a meeting, and Deputy Political Commissar Zhang, Team Leader Han of the Construction Group, and Section Chief Wang of the Political Work Group all came to discuss the issue of the assignment of work among the soldiers of the railway construction group.
In the evening, the Eighth Company held a meeting, and Company Commander Zhang officially conveyed the assignment of work. Unexpectedly, the second batch of distribution lists has not yet come down, but the third batch has been notified, and they will leave Tiejian and return to Taiyuan tomorrow. It turned out that the third batch was recruited by Hua Erjian, mainly recruiting his children (Fourth Company), and there was only one comrade-in-arms Zhang Dianwei in Eighth Company. Regarding the fourth batch of allocation, I have a total of 37 people (20 men and 17 women), and we will start studying the list tomorrow.
Sunday, August 8, 1971
As the construction is in the final stage, the current work assignment to veterans has become the focus of the work of leaders at all levels of railway construction. At 4 p.m. when dinner was held (two meals on Sunday), the Eighth Company sent a "work assignment sheet" to all the veterans, and Company Commander Zhang demanded that it be handed in by 5:10. At 6 o'clock in the evening, Company Commander Zhang convened an emergency meeting of six relevant personnel in the company compound, and asked the correspondent Li Jin to guard the hospital door and not allow anyone to enter, and the main content was: For unknown reasons, the Heavy Machinery Factory did not want to accept the children of the factory, which caused the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company to encounter great difficulties in the distribution, and the distribution list reported on July 12 was now about a month, and there was still no result. Since most of the two companies are the children of the Heavy Machinery Factory, the Resettlement Office of Hexi District of Taiyuan City is in contact and coordination with other units in order to be able to accept the children of the Heavy Machinery Factory, so it is required that the situation be summed up tonight and reported to the regiment headquarters, and that they will be brought back to Taiyuan by a special person early tomorrow morning. So everyone immediately began to sort out the bottom sheet handed in by the soldiers, and Company Commander Zhang signed the recommendation of the party branch of the Eighth Company one by one. At 9 o'clock in the evening, the regiment headquarters correspondent came to the Eighth Company to urge, and Company Commander Zhang mounted his bicycle and rushed to the regimental headquarters of the Third Regiment, which had recently moved to Lingqiu County, together with the regiment headquarters correspondent, and handed over his cousin to the comrades of the resettlement office of Hexi District, Taiyuan City.
Tuesday, August 10, 1971
Company Commander Zhang sat at the headquarters of the Third Regiment in Lingqiu County, and paid attention to the distribution of veterans of the Eighth Company. In the morning, they brought back a message and asked the clerk Pan Jianping and the fourth platoon commander Zhao Shangfeng to summarize and fill out the information of the parents' work units of the veterans of the whole company as soon as possible, and send them to the regiment headquarters in the afternoon. After intense checking and watching, the task was completed in the afternoon, but because he could not borrow a bicycle, Pan Jianping had no choice but to walk and run at the fastest speed for more than 20 miles, and rushed to the regiment headquarters in time to deliver the report.
Thursday, August 12, 1971
In the morning, Company Commander Zhang brought back a message from the regiment headquarters and asked clerk Pan Jianping to fill in the "distribution and resettlement form" by noon with the details of the company's 11 veterans over the age of 21 and hand it over to the regiment headquarters by noon. After intense checking and filling in the report, followed by a round trip of more than 20 miles, the materials were sent to the regiment headquarters in time to ensure the normal progress of the distribution work.
In the evening, Company Commander Zhang returned to the Eighth Company; Deputy Company Commander Guo, who went to Hebei to participate in the "Militia Politics and Construction Experience Exchange Meeting" held by Unit 8740, also returned. At 10 o'clock in the evening, the company commander ordered the whole company to assemble urgently, and the rapid whistle sounded throughout the village; Two platoons quickly assembled within the allotted time, while the other two platoons were scattered and dragged out and could not assemble for a long time. Deputy Company Commander Du was very angry and ordered the two platoons to bring the soldiers back and reorganize themselves to come. At the beginning of the conference, Deputy Company Commander Du spoke first, mainly criticizing the recent problem of lax organizational discipline; Then Company Commander Zhang said that he would go back to Taiyuan tomorrow on a business trip (presumably to urge the work assignment of the veterans of the Eighth Company), and asked the soldiers of the whole company to strengthen discipline, obey the command of Deputy Company Commander Du and Deputy Company Commander Guo, and ensure construction safety and life safety. Since the "big-character poster incident" in the "anti-arrogance and manpower" movement in April, Instructor Chen has been transferred, and the current company leaders are only Company Commander Zhang Yuhao (party branch secretary), Deputy Company Commander Du Ziyi, Deputy Company Commander Guo Huimin, and Secretary General Zhou Xiaokong.
Friday, August 13, 1971
In the evening, a meeting of the platoon commanders was convened to discuss and approve the summary of the "four good" general evaluation of the Eighth Company, which will be reported tomorrow, because the preliminary evaluation of the "Four Good Company" of the whole regiment is about to begin.
Saturday, August 14, 1971
When the lights went out at night, the fourth platoon found that a female soldier was "missing", and the squad and platoon commanders repeatedly failed to find her, so they reported to the company headquarters. Company Commander Zhang was not on a business trip, and Deputy Company Commander Du, who was in charge of the work, immediately decided to check the shop in the whole company! Deputy Company Commander Du and clerk Pan Jianping were responsible for checking the first and third platoons, and Deputy Company Commander Guo and correspondent Li Jin were responsible for checking the second platoon. Deputy Company Commander Du was furious and severely criticized the relevant personnel and behaviors.
Sunday, August 15, 1971
As a result of the nearing completion of the construction task and the impact of the assignment, the company's discipline was lax and its thinking was slackened to the lowest level since its formation. The "Lecture Meeting on the Study and Application of Chairman Mao's Writings" held after dinner did not seem to lift the spirit. After the evening "lecture", the League branch convened all the members to live an organizational life and check the recent incidents in the company and their own responsibilities.
Monday, August 16, 1971
In addition to the construction, after lunch, the whole company continued to hold a "lecture on the use of Chairman Mao's writings" to meet the upcoming "double congress meeting" of the three regiments.
Tuesday, August 17, 1971
In the morning, a meeting of cadres above the deputy platoon commander level was convened to discuss and determine the list of the eight companies to attend the "double congress meeting" of the three regiments: 3 collectives (second platoon, 13th class, cooking class); 8 individuals (Bai Shengzhang, Xian Wansheng, Zhang Fengkui, Bai Wenlong, Ren Yongheng, Deng Guolin, Gu Jinfang, Huang Wangying).
In the afternoon, Section Chief Wang of the Political Work Group of the Youth League Headquarters came to the Eighth Company to inform him: Li Xiaoning, the deputy squad leader of the fourth shift, was assigned to work in the Taiyuan Boiler Factory, and went to the Ninth Company at 6 o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow to take a bus back to Taiyuan.
Wednesday, August 18, 1971
After being treated in Taiyuan due to overwork, Duke, the former first platoon leader and one squad leader who had recovered after nearly a year of recuperation, returned to the team today in good health and returned to the Eighth Company.
In the afternoon, the regiment headquarters informed that Ge Maochang, the leader of the 12th squad of our company, was assigned to work in Jian's 82'an, and that he would go to the 9th company at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning to take a bus back to Taiyuan. In the evening, the company held a banquet to bid farewell to Li Xiaoning and Ge Maochang, comrades-in-arms who were about to leave the Eighth Company.
Thursday, August 19, 1971
As the construction of the Jingyuan Line was nearing completion, the regimental headquarters of the Third Railway Construction Regiment decided to organize a five-day general battle of six companies tomorrow to strive to complete all construction tasks at an early date and ensure that the whole regiment would return to Taiyuan City in September.
In the evening, the whole company continued to hold a "lecture on the use of Chairman Mao's works".
Li Xiaoning and Ge Maochang went to Jiulian to take the car back to Taiyuan, because the car was full and couldn't sit down and returned, and when to leave again had to wait for the opportunity.
Friday, August 20, 1971
Today is the first day of the railway construction battle of the six companies of the whole regiment. In order to ensure that all the construction tasks were completed before the 25th, the whole company worked hard for one day and achieved remarkable results.
Saturday, August 21, 1971
I continued to work on the construction site for a day today, and the task was completed well, and it is expected that all the engineering tasks will be completed in the next day or two.
Before lunch, Secretary Zhou Xiaokong reported to everyone the food expenses and grain consumption of the Eighth Company: in the past six months, due to strengthening management and proper arrangement, in addition to making up for last year's loss of more than 4,000 catties, the grain has saved more than 5,000 catties (these 9,000 catties of grain is equivalent to the total consumption of more than 200 people in the whole company for 25 days); The surplus of food expenses was more than 2,000 yuan (equivalent to all the food expenses of more than 200 people in the company for 20 days); In addition, it also saves more than 30,000 catties of coal. Because of the use of food stamps to buy grain, Lingqiu County's supply standard is only 18% of fine grain, so the company leaders studied and decided to regularly use food stamps to buy steamed buns in restaurants in Lingqiu County, although the price is more expensive, but everyone can eat more fine grain! The words of the secretary general were warmly applauded by the soldiers of the whole company! Everyone will not forget: In the second half of last year, due to the loss of grain, the whole company could only drink sorghum noodles and river soup after strong physical labor every day, and the thin soup filled the belly, so that in the middle of the night, the hungry stomach screamed, and the miserable life of frequent toileting!
In the evening, a meeting of cadres above the squad leader level of the whole company was held, and Deputy Company Commander Du conveyed: The construction task of our company will be completed in a day or two, and the political commissar Zhang Wenkui, the deputy political commissar of the regiment headquarters, the deputy political commissar Zhang Sanmi, the head of the Bai Baifu, and the deputy head of the regiment Ji Fenglin all expressed the hope that our company can complete the task as soon as possible and be the first to report the good news to the regiment party committee in the whole regiment. After research, it was finally decided: tomorrow and Sunday, there will be no rest, overtime work, work all day, strive to complete the task on Monday morning the day after tomorrow, and then go to the regiment headquarters in Lingqiu City to report the good news; After the good news, I will pack a movie at the Lingqiu County Cinema to comfort everyone, and I will take another day off on Tuesday.
Sunday, August 22, 1971
The construction of the Jingyuan Line entered the final sprint stage, and the eight companies brushed the arch, shoulder, slope, gravel and finally laid the track on the already formed railway embankment; Seeing that another section of the railway was built under his feet, the railway construction soldiers were extremely excited and excited!
Monday, August 23, 1971
At about 1 o'clock in the morning, a dog barking pierced the silence of the night sky in Dasaku Village, where the Eighth Company was stationed, and the second platoon commander and a soldier went to the company headquarters and hurriedly knocked on the door to report that a new set of military uniforms and military caps hanging on the wall of the 6th squad had just been stolen. Thinking of the recent phenomenon of soldiers losing money and goods, Deputy Company Commander Du was very angry and anxious, and immediately made careful arrangements to investigate, but there was no result. In the end, it was decided to resume the system of standing guard at night from tonight, starting from one platoon and one shift, all male fighters took turns to stand guard at night, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., 2 people each time, standing guard for 2 hours; The company's two worn-out and rusty "Type 38" and "Type 99" rifles, which had been sleeping without bullets for a long time, came in handy again.
In the morning, the soldiers of the whole company fought hard at the construction site for three hours and completed all the construction tasks assigned by the regimental party committee at 10 o'clock in the morning. At noon, everyone prepared for the good news in the afternoon: make placards, quotation boards, big red good news, borrow gongs, drums and colorful flags. At half past four o'clock in the afternoon, the whole company gathered at half past five, and walked to the regimental headquarters of the third regiment of the railway construction in Lingqiu County, more than ten miles away, to report to the regimental party committee: The eighth company took the lead in completing all the tasks of building the Jingyuan line among the 18 companies of the whole regiment!
After the good news, the whole company went to the Lingqiu County Auditorium to watch a chartered movie. At this point, all the railway construction tasks of our Eighth Company have been completed, which also means that our railway construction career is about to end!
Today, the regiment headquarters suddenly notified that five soldiers of the Eighth Company were assigned to work back to Taiyuan: Jia Tianfeng, Tong Mingyong, Li Yong, Wang Jinyu, and Duan Runxi. This should be the fourth batch of assignments, and the second batch of 25 people who have been reported on July 12 has not been successful for more than 40 days. It seems that there is really a problem for the children of the heavy machinery factory to return to work in the heavy machinery factory!
Tuesday, August 24, 1971
Today is a full day off to make up for the overtime work last Sunday.
In the evening, the Youth League branch arranged for all the members of the Communist Youth League to live an organizational life, and then discussed and approved the list of new members, who were Li Jin, Liu Jiyun, Zhang Fengkui, Zhang Ruiyuan, Ren Yongheng, Gao Chunfeng, Huo Laqing, Li Chunmei, and Yan Tingxiao; The Youth League branch nominated Peng Xiang; Alternate He Weixin and Li Xiantai.
Wednesday, August 25, 1971
In the morning, when it was raining and it was impossible to go to work, all squads were assigned to hold meetings to discuss the problems of strengthening organizational discipline and correcting unhealthy tendencies, and to expose the unhealthy tendencies existing in the company.
Deputy Company Commander Guo returned from a meeting at the regiment headquarters and conveyed that due to the implementation of the spirit of the central authorities' decision on streamlining the meeting, the number of delegates attending the meeting was limited to 50, including three from each old company and two from the new company. In the evening, the Eighth Company held a meeting and determined that the three representatives of the Eighth Company attending the meeting were: Luo Zhiwen, the leader of the second platoon (representing the "four good" platoon), Wang Huaishui, the leader of the cooking squad (representing the "four good" class), and Gu Jinfang, the leader of the fifteenth squad (representing the activists who studied Chairman Mao's works).
Thursday, August 26, 1971
With the gradual completion of construction tasks, the obvious slowdown of the pace of life, the pressure and expectations of assigning work, and the physiological call of adolescence, the management of the Railway Construction Corps became more and more difficult. According to the report, there have been more and more related problems in the companies of the Third Regiment recently: a female soldier of the × Company attempted suicide by jumping into a well due to "style" problems, resulting in paraplegia; Two soldiers of the 10th × Company fought and stabbed one person with a knife; The problem of not being able to stay home at night due to dating keeps happening; Cases of losing money and things within the company occur from time to time; It is quite common for soldiers to disobey management and squad and platoon leaders to dare not manage. The temporary "militia" organization of the Railway Construction Corps is showing more and more crisis phenomena and seems to have fallen into an uncertain situation. This may also be the main reason why the leaders of the division and regiment have been anxious to complete the construction tasks, get a good grasp of the recruitment and distribution of workers, and strive to return to Taiyuan City by the end of September.
Recently, several groups of comrades-in-arms who have been notified of their assignments, Cui Baoying, Duan Runxi, Tong Mingyong, Li Yong, Wang Jinyu, and Jia Tianfeng, left the Eighth Company this morning and returned to Taiyuan by car.
Sunday, August 29, 1971
After dinner, all the members of the Communist Youth League and the young people to join the League (Li Jin, Liu Jiyun, Zhang Fengkui, Zhang Ruiyuan, Ren Yongheng, Gao Chunfeng, Huo Laqing, Li Chunmei, and Peng Xiang) held a meeting to discuss and vote on their joining the League, and the result was that all of them were approved.
Monday, August 30, 1971
The calm day did not change much from usual, but by 5 p.m., the situation had changed: three Jiefang trucks (No. 22, No. 40 and No. 47) of the Heavy Machinery Factory, led by Company Commander Zhang, suddenly entered Dazuo Village, and claimed that they would bring back 70 people (including the 7th and 8th companies) who would be assigned to work tomorrow. Suddenly, Balian was boiling, and Dasaku Village was boiling! However, until nightfall, lights out and bedtime, the list of assigned staff was not announced!
Today, Director Liu of the 8737 Unit of the People's Liberation Army Railway Corps came to the Eighth Company and informed the company headquarters that the party committee of his unit had praised the two companies of the Railway Construction Militia on the Jingyuan Line, one was the Eighth Company of the Third Regiment of the First Division of our Railway Construction Division, and the other was the Seventh Company of the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Second Railway Construction Division (Wutai County).
Tuesday, August 31, 1971
The last day of August has arrived. Early in the morning, a tragic pig cry came from the cooking class: a big fat pig was killed and used to see off his comrades who had left the Eighth Company due to their assigned work! But who will leave?
After breakfast, Company Commander Zhang rode a bicycle to the regiment headquarters of the Third Regiment in Lingqiu County, and met Section Chief Wang of the Political Engineering Section of the regiment headquarters on a motorcycle on a motorcycle, so the two came to the Eighth Company together. Section Chief Wang brought the notice of the assignment of 23 people in the Eighth Company. At the all-company meeting held at noon, Zhang Lianchang, secretary of the party branch, officially read out the list of assigned staff members who were reported on July 12 and approved today after 50 days (some of whom joined later): Xian Wansheng, Li Jin, Xu Jianguo, Bai Shengzhang, Qi Yunpei, Song Xueqian, Zhang Ruiyuan, Mao Peimin, Pan Jianping, Jiang Ze, Wu Changqiu, Liu Zhiqiang, Guo Baozhu, Zhang Jinlin, Zhang Aiwen, Gu Jinfang, Li Chunmei, An Dingrong, Zhang Binhong, Gao Jinglong, Yang Zhaoxin, Shi Futuan, and Bai Fen.
In the afternoon, the comrades-in-arms who were going on the road had dinner with the company commander and the driver and had a farewell dinner.
In the evening, the comrades-in-arms who received the assignment notice nervously sorted out their luggage: bedding, clothes, enamel basins, imitation military satchels; Then there is the overnight meeting with friends, farewell, shedding tears, talking, giving gifts (notebooks), and writing gifts! There is also the necessary handover: Zhai Xianglian of Class 16 replaced Pan Jianping as the new company secretary, and the new soldier Liu Baolu replaced Li Jin as the new company correspondent; The vacancy of the departing squad and platoon leader will also be reappointed by the party branch in a day or two.
Wednesday, September 1, 1971
After breakfast, the 23 comrades-in-arms who were assigned to work left the Eighth Company, left Dazuo Village, and left the Jingyuan Line that was about to be opened to traffic in the Jiefang brand truck of Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory, and returned to their hometown Taiyuan City, rushed to the next stage of their lives, and embarked on a new job.
So far, the Eighth Company has allocated a total of 68 iron construction soldiers, accounting for about one-third of the company's veteran soldiers.
Huang Shiyang, the representative of the 8740 unit of the 8740 unit of the railway army stationed in the third regiment of the railway construction regiment
A parting message to Pan Jianping, a soldier of the Eighth Company
September 2, 1971~October 2, 1971
This month is the final stage of the construction of the Jingyuan Railway in Lingqiu County by the Third Regiment and the Eighth Company of the First Division of Shanxi Railway Construction, and it is also the last journey of the overall life of the Eighth Company.
Since the construction task of the Eighth Company for the construction of the railway had been completed by the end of August, the daily work was also the renovation and maintenance of the completed roadbed, so this stage was actually in a situation where the soldiers were waiting for the assigned work and the company was waiting for reorganization or disbandment.
From September 10 to 21, five batches of 64 fighters were successively assigned to return to Taiyuan to participate in the work in 10 days.
During this period, "IX. The occurrence of the Lin Biao incident had an important impact on China's politics, economy, and life, and also affected the Beijing-Yuan Railway.
In waiting, suffering, and expectation, the people of Tiejian finally insisted on the last moment when the higher-level party committee made a decision.
Sunday, October 3, 1971, is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which traditionally means family reunion. On the full moon night after successfully completing all the tasks they undertook, the last group of commanders and fighters of the Eighth Company bid farewell to Dazuo Village, Lingqiu County, and bid farewell to the Jingyuan Railway, which had been fighting for 17 months and had personally participated in the construction and was about to be opened to traffic, and returned to Taiyuan as a whole, to their hometowns, and to their parents and siblings.
On September 13, 2016, the comrades-in-arms of the Eighth Company returned to Dazuo Village, Lingqiu County
On September 13, 2016, the comrades-in-arms of the Eighth Company returned to the Tanghe Bridge of the Jingyuan Railway in Lingqiu County
On October 30, 1971, the Jingyuan Railway, which began to lay tracks from both ends, was connected to the Lingqiu Railway Station in Shanxi Province, and the Jingyuan Railway was completed in its entirety.
In July 1972, the whole line of the Jingyuan Railway passed the preliminary acceptance, and in November, the Ministry of Communications and the People's Liberation Army carried out the acceptance and handover, and it was officially delivered on December 31.
A particular era is over, a particular life of a particular group of people is over!
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