Wherever there is oil, there will be Yumen people.
Yumen, named after the four counties of Hexi during the reign of Emperor Yuanding of the Han Dynasty, is called Yumen because jade is transported from the western region. As a gateway to all parts of the Western Regions, it exists not only as a natural pass, but also as a place of soldiers.
The distance of the Jade Gate lies in the spring breeze of Wang Zhizhuo; the desolation of the Jade Gate lies in Li Bai's absence; the weight of the Jade Gate lies in the golden armor worn by the yellow sand of hundreds of battles, and it is also in this long time to serve the country.
Quietly buried under the Yumen City Pool, there is not only the feeling of border plugs, but also the treasure that can subvert the world, at that time, this treasure has not even been named, and the rulers who own them do not know that if they have such thermal energy and use it, they may be able to rewrite history.
It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that Shen Kuo, a famous politician and scientist in China, gave it its official name - oil.
Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" records that "oil" was found in the Yan'an area of Shaanxi Province, and when oil was burned, it was like burning hemp rods, and the burned bituminous coal could be used as ink, even the "pine smoke ink" formed after the burning of pine wood could not reach it, and asserted that charcoal smoke would be "popular in the world".
In a word, in the late 1850s, on a farmland in the small town of Titusville, Pennsylvania, on the other side of the ocean, a drill rig with a steam-driven oil pump drilled the first modern industrial oil well, the Drake well, which was 21.7 meters deep, producing about 5 tons of crude oil per day, and also opened the prelude to the modern oil industry.
When the internal combustion engine and oil refining technology were in full swing on the other side, the Qing government was seated by the Xianfeng Emperor and immersed in the beautiful dream of the heavenly kingdom, until the Manchu Dream shattered, ushering in more difficult years for the people to live.
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In 1923, the domestic warlords were fighting endlessly, the foreign powers were looking at the tiger, but the life of the "flower grower" did not stop growing, and Wang Jinxi, a newborn Yumen person, was born in this way.
In 1929, Yumen suffered a century-old famine, and the vision of sending Wang Jinxi to school was shattered, and 6-year-old Wang Jinxi took his blind father Wang Jintang to make a living begging.
In 1932, nine-year-old Wang Jinxi replaced his father Wang Jintang in labor and delivered wool to the wool factory to be built by the warlord Ma Bufang.
In order to treat his father's illness, the ten-year-old Wang Jinxi herded cattle for the landlord, and by the end of the year, the landlord deducted his salary for "losing the cow".
In 1938, at the age of fifteen, Wang Jinxi entered the Yumen Oil Mine as a child laborer and worked in the Yumen Oil Mine for eleven years until the liberation of the Yumen Oil Mine in September 1949.
Counting the first half of Wang Jinxi's life, twenty-six years of storms and rains, he struggled in the oppressed and enslaved old society, but the suffering did not crush him, but inspired his yearning for a new world.
At the time of the founding of New China, the annual output of crude oil was 120,000 tons, and it was a drop in the bucket. In the face of external troubles, the war is fought with steel and oil, there is no oil, aircraft, tanks, cannons are just beautiful models.
In the face of internal worries, the central government's use of foreign exchange to buy imported foreign oil will greatly deplete the national treasury, and the shortage of crude oil will become a key factor restricting the development of the national economy, and it will be difficult to guarantee the construction, development, and national security of New China.
There is no end to the nest, and China's oil industry must be put on the agenda. In 1952, nearly 8,000 soldiers of the PLA's 19th Division, who had taken off their uniforms, were collectively transferred to the oil front.
At the end of the year, Yumen Oilfield was included in the "First Five-Year Plan" and built into the first petroleum industrial base in New China, and Yumen Oilfield became the largest oilfield in New China.
As early as 1950, the 27-year-old Wang Jinxi passed the examination to become the first batch of mine workers in New China, and has been deeply cultivating in the petroleum sector, dedicating his down-to-earth, hard-working, hard-working and hard-working attitude to the construction of the new world.
In 1956, at the age of 33, he joined the Communist Party of China and began leading his own drilling team " Beau 5 " as a captain.
In 1958, the Bewu 5 team led by Wang Jinxi, a Yumen man, was known as the "Steel Drilling Team" during the mission to turpan in the west.
In 1959, at the National Day meeting on the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Jinxi was named a national model worker; it was also during this period that oil was sprayed out of the oil well named "Songji Three Wells" in Datong Town, Heilongjiang, and Datong was transformed into "Daqing" to celebrate the tenth national day with the discovery of new oil. Wang Jinxi also officially applied to join the "Northeast Songliao Petroleum Conference".
In the 1960s, China, which had not yet recovered from its vitality and coincided with three years of natural disasters, made it difficult for the people to take care of themselves, but the heroes on the Songnen Plain launched a day and night, arduous oil war for the construction of the country.
In April 1960, the first oil injection well was drilled by Wang Jinxi's team, when hitting the second well, it encountered a blowout, and in the time of crisis, Wang Jinxi, who was sick on the field, replaced the stirring mechanism with his body to serve the blowout, and the landlord lady blurted out a praise for the iron man during the visit, achieving the title of "iron man" that accompanied him throughout his life.
The "Iron Man Spirit" as a symbol, a flag inspired people in the war zone. At the end of 1960, the crude oil production capacity of Daqing Oilfield reached 970,000 tons, after three years of arduous battles.
By 1963, Daqing Oilfield achieved an annual production capacity of 6 million tons of crude oil, crude oil production was basically self-reliant, China officially announced the end of living on foreign oil, and began to gradually show the courage and responsibility of a big country.
In April 1970, the National Petroleum Work Conference was held in Yumen, and while looking forward to the grand oil ambitions of a big country, Wang Jinxi had an attack of stomach disease and was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer.
Just after the National Day in 1970, the iron man Wang Jinxi's condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and he died on November 15, 1970, at the age of 47.
The 21 years after the founding of New China are the 21 years in which Wang Jinxi's dream shines into his life, and in the past 21 years, he has not been afraid of hardships and selfless dedication, and has lit up the new world with the image of an "old scalper".
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Throughout Wang Jinxi's life, he has devoted himself to "engaging in career", and the care of his family seems to be a bit thin.
But his requirements for the family are very strict, even after becoming a leadership position, although the organization tries its best to give him a subsidy for difficult workers, he does not move this long-term subsidy to his home, in Wang Jinxi's view, there are other difficult workers who need more subsidies.
Honesty and dedication have become epitaphs engraved in his blood, never to fade. 23 days after Wang Jinxi's death, his mother also died, leaving him in vain to accompany him and feed his wife Wang Lanying.
Wang Lanying is not only the lover of the hero, but also leads by example to show the world the tenacity of the women behind it. She and Wang Jinxi had two sons and three daughters in their lives, and had been waiting for her family until her death due to illness.
The eldest son, Wang Yueping, born in 1952, came to the northeast at the age of 8 with his father Wang Jinxi from Yumen, Gansu Province, to participate in the "Northeast Songliao Petroleum Conference", accompanied by oil wells scattered in the wilderness and drilling rigs that worked endlessly.
In Wang Yueping's eyes, although his father has less time to go home, his father's personality is both emotional and easy-going, and he is a person who does not lose his temper in life, but he can be called "playing with his life" when he treats his work.
As the "second generation of oil", he believes that his father experienced the difficult old society and entered the new world with gratitude, so he devoted himself to his work and his fist heart was to serve the party and the country.
Wang Yueping joined the army at the age of 16 and returned to his hometown of Gansu to serve, his father only visited him once on a business trip to Yumen, after five years of service in the army, Wang Yueping was demobilized from the army and returned to daqing oilfield to work in the 1205 drilling team led by his father.
Wang Jinxi's expectation for Wang Yueping is not to be rich and noble, but to continue to dig more wells and produce more oil for the country, and Wang Yueping works hard like a father in his work.
He knows very well that his father's title of "Iron Man" is not shouted out, but he has worked hard to get it out, and he has always practiced it, not only not to brag about his father's heroic title of "Son of Iron Man", but also to ask himself and his children to be diligent and diligent in their work and pay tribute to their father.
In the end, Wang Yueping was injured in the line of duty, had to bid farewell to the first line of drilling, and later served as the party secretary of the underground resource company of Daqing Oilfield Co., Ltd., becoming a veritable "oil second generation" who inherited his father's legacy.
Tiger father and dogless daughter, Wang Jinxi's long queen Ying also chose to work in the field of "oil second generation" and became a worker in daqing oilfield drilling company, and has now retired.
The second son, Wang Yuefu, was very astute when he was a child, but according to the family's route, Wang Yuefu entered the 1205 drilling team where his brother Wang Yueping worked after graduating from junior high school.
After working in the first-line construction site of the drilling team for five years, because of his clever mind, excellent learning and hands-on ability, knowledge and technology, and the organization and coordination work were also in good order, he was recommended by the superior unit to enter the junior college class of Changchun University of Posts and Telecommunications to learn petroleum theory knowledge.
In order to send more outstanding talents to the country's oil industry, he decided to teach by example, and in 2000, he terminated his labor contract with the unit and left the drilling line, turning to the university, teaching oil-related courses in the university, and later entering the propaganda department, and continued to publicize and pass on the spirit of iron man until retirement.
The second queen, Yuezhen, chose the same path as Wang Yuefu, joining the army after graduating from high school, and later working as a pharmacist at a military school in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, and is now retired.
In November 2020, the Jasmine Garden community in Chaoyang District, Beijing held a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Wang Jinxi's death of "Inheriting the Spirit of Iron Man and Building a Beautiful Home", and Wang Yuezhen, as a resident of the community, appeared at the event to remember her father and relive the spirit of "Iron Man".
The youngest daughter Wang Yueqin is the most regrettable girl, Wang Yueqin was born in a three-year period of hardship, since birth has suffered from polio, long-term hunger and malnutrition have led to her developmental deformities, she once worked as a waiter at a liquefied gas station, unfortunately, the pain did not let her go, in her prime of life has died of illness.
The Si people have passed away, the blood has been passed down, and the iron man spirit of patriotism, entrepreneurship, truth-seeking and dedication is in the same vein, always inspiring and inspiring the sons and daughters of China...