In early December 1967, the central leading comrades greeted Han Xianchu, commander of the Fuzhou Military Region, and asked him to devote his energy to actually presiding over the leadership work of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, serving as secretary of the Secretariat of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, and raising Fujian's economy without delaying war preparations.
Han Xianchu thought and thought, thinking that it was inconvenient to accept this task. Because he has been in the army for 40 years, is not familiar with local work, and knows nothing about economic construction, how can he undertake the comprehensive work of a province?
He thought twice, but still called Premier Zhou, listed many of his shortcomings, and pleaded with Premier Zhou to find someone else. Premier Zhou said: "This is the decision of the chairman. Fujian is facing Taiwan (Bay), Peng (Lake), Jin (Men), and Ma (Zu), and there can be no problems, only you Han Xianchu can handle it. ”
Premier Zhou's words pointed out the overall situation of the country and entrusted Han Xianchu with great responsibility, which showed that the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao had a high degree of trust in him.
Han Xianchu decided to take into account the overall situation and take on this difficult mission. In August 1968, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee was established, and Han Xianchu was appointed director and head of the provincial party core group. He made up his mind to shift his main energies to Fujian's economic construction and social development work, based on self-reliance, striving for state investment, actively seeking foreign aid, and promoting economic development. He vowed: "Peel off a few layers of skin and change the face of Fujian." ”
At that time, our army had been preparing for the liberation of Taiwan, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait were preparing for war. In the military and people of Fujian, there is a saying circulating mainly among cadres: Once a war starts, Fujian will be destroyed by war, and the altar jars will be destroyed. Therefore, the central government will not establish any projects for Fufu now, will not invest too much, or maintain the status quo. The provincial work conference also reflected these ideological understandings and doubts.
Whether the Fujian front should engage in economic construction or not, and whether it can develop the economy, Han Xianchu believes that it is possible. He has his ideas, and he thinks about things from a strategic point of view, especially from a military strategic point of view.
From December 12, 1969 to August 2, 1971, Han Xianchu repeatedly stressed on important occasions such as the leading group meeting of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, the provincial party committee working committee, the provincial work conference, the provincial industrial conference, and the provincial party school reading class: "Before the war, we must build and make full preparations. When a war is fought, it is necessary to build, and it is necessary to continue to build continuously. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Taihang Mountain was also engaged in construction. During the civil war, Yan'an also engaged in construction. In the war in Korea, we also made guns and cannons. Why can't the Fujian front be built!? Treating us as frontiers and frontlines is an old frame. ”
He also pointed out: "Some people say that it is not appropriate for the Mawei Shipyard to be close to the enemy island and the mouth of the Minjiang River, which is no specific analysis, the old view. Modern warfare is a three-dimensional war, and there is a dialectical relationship between the front and the rear. When the war starts, can Shanghai, Dalian, Qingdao, Tianjin and Wuhan all be reliable? The conditions here in Mawei are so good, we must lay a good foundation and move forward. ”
He further analyzed: "What will Fujian look like?" A problem of eating, a problem of dressing, a basic industry, and a working machine must be listed and solved.
In order to seek the support of the Central Committee and the State Council, he called the leaders of the Central Committee, the State Council and some ministries and commissions to expound his ideas and strive for state investment and project support. If any provincial department leader went to Beijing for a meeting, he did not miss the opportunity, instructing and recommending them to relay his ideas, hoping to get practical support.
On November 2, 1970, 59 members of the research team of the State Planning Commission came to Fujian in three ways. Han Xianchu personally reported the situation to them and made a list of projects. The State Council actively and vigorously supports Fujian's economic construction. In the four years from 1970 to 1973, the central government invested about 1.5 billion yuan in Fujian. The country set up a project to build three new vinylon chemical fiber factories, and Fujian won the Yong'an 10,000-ton vinylon plant project.
On April 3, 1971, at the second plenary session of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, Han Xianchu dissected himself and said: "I have always done military work, and local work has never been done at all. The theoretical level is not high, there is very little understanding, it is more important than reality, and it is impossible to avoid things with some experience; I have a set of things with the army, but I have no experience with the localities. ”
He also said: "I am not a person who says some compliments, and I will not make any name behind my back." Sometimes there are things on the face, and when you are impatient with your peers and subordinates, you will lose your temper. Subjectivity is also strong, sometimes there is also one-sidedness, people are more stubborn, adhere to personal opinions a little more, but as long as you explain the reason, I can still accept. ”
Han Xianchu not only said this, but also did it. When the mathematician Hua Luogeng came to Fujian, Han Xianchu not only received him warmly, but also listened carefully to the scientists' explanations about the optimal method and the overall planning method. Hua Luogeng also gave him a book on the method of optimization and the law of co-ordination. For this kind of popular science knowledge book, Han Xianchu was very interested. Soon after he was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region, he also received a letter and material from Hua Luogeng on the new achievements made in popularizing and applying the preferential method and the overall planning method in the Daqing oilfield.
Han Xianchu said that "we cannot engage in local work with a set of methods for leading the troops," but in terms of specific working methods, he also grafted on the working methods of the troops. He asked his secretary to be responsible for drawing up an economic map that would mark fujian province's proven mineral resources, important industrial enterprises, large and medium-sized reservoirs, and investment projects.
Before long, Han Xianchu could blurt out what mineral sources were explored, what enterprises and reservoirs were in what places, what projects were invested in, and extended the relevant situation and data. In less than half a year, he will be able to skillfully map the distribution of resources and investment projects in Fujian Province.
Every time he went to a place, Han Xianchu could talk about the development of agriculture and industry in that place against the map of administrative divisions, which surprised the local cadres.
To do a good job in economic construction, we must first do a good job in investigation and study. Get the bottom of the house. In the two years of 1969 and 1970, Han Xianchu emphasized "finding out the bottom of the family" at the provincial work conference and the regional directors' meeting. It is required that each county should find out the situation of the social teams one by one, the villages, the population, the land, the production, the work points earned by the peasants, the social team teams, and the greening. He specifically demanded that "the area of land, the area of grain planted, the area of rice (including the area of single-cropping rice, double-cropping rice, and early rice), the area of other crops, the yield, the production conditions, the measures, and so on should be clarified."
He said: "The same is true of industry, we must find out the factories, machinery and equipment in various regions, how many there are in the family" and what mineral resources there are. He also demanded that Fuzhou and Xiamen "specially organize people to figure out one district at a time."
There were a lot of meetings in those years. In addition to going to the central authorities for meetings and presiding over or participating in meetings that must be held by the provincial party committee and the provincial revolutionary committee, he spent most of his time in a light and simple manner, going deep into the grass-roots units to conduct actual investigations and studies, and attaching great importance to grasping the first-hand situation. He generally does not arrange to see where not to see, what not to see, but to go personally, see with his own eyes, say with his own mouth, and know for himself.
At 15:00 on April 10, 1972, Han Xianchu rested at the Xintian Highway Maintenance Station on the way to Youxi County to investigate, and did not forget to carefully understand the situation of the Daoban: how many people there were, the main work, the calculation method of wages, and the daily supply. From the situation of a road class, he calculated that the province has 199,900 kilometers of roads, and another 2,000 kilometers of forest roads. There are more than 2,000 kilometers of roads maintained by the community team, 1,666 road shifts, and the maintenance cost is 15 million yuan a year.
On the afternoon of April 17, 1973, Han Xianchu went to Lianjiang County to inspect, focusing on the Lianjiang iodine factory, agricultural machinery factory, fertilizer factory, winery, and so on. Han Xianchu said: "To build a factory, we must make a selection of choices, and the planning and layout should be reasonable. The distillery has a total of 75 people and 16 non-production personnel. The division of labor among administrative cadres is too fine. The fertilizer plant has 290 people, many non-production personnel, and 13 cookers raise 8 pigs. 1 ton of ammonia consumes 12 tons of coal. Cadres in the management industry should squat in the factory to study and solve the problem of reducing coal consumption and reducing costs. ”
Han Xianchu paid great attention to "under the nose" to prevent "black under the lamp". As long as he was in Fuzhou, he always had to find time to go to the countryside, factories, streets, organs, public institutions, and some public facilities for on-the-spot inspections. From the autumn of 1968 to December 1973, he visited about 43 districts (times) in Fuzhou City, about 16 communes and production teams, about 20 enterprises (times), and about 6 (times) of government agencies and institutions.
He also made special trips to public facilities such as flood control embankments, reservoirs, ferries, and railway stations, especially to Mawei Port, Wharf, Shipyard, Shipbreaking Office, and Fuzhou City's residential areas where banfang are concentrated, and visited three generations of residents in the same hall.
In those years, provincial, prefectural (city), and county leaders and their party and government organs went down to the grass-roots level to investigate and study and help the grass-roots units do a good job in implementation, which has formed a trend and converged into a trend. After the end of the provincial work conference every year, all kinds of working groups grasp the implementation at the grass-roots level, and the two largest ones are after the provincial work conference in December 1970 and the grass-roots activities at the provincial, prefectural (city), county, and social levels in 1971, involving about 100,000 leaders and the masses at all levels.
Based on the situation learned from the investigation, Han Xianchu identified the breakthrough point in grasping agriculture as grasping grain production. Ensure increased food production and food supplies. He personally commanded the "battle".
Han Xianchu often said: "Fujian Province has mountains and seas, is evergreen in all seasons, has a subtropical climate, abundant rainfall, longitudinal streams and rivers, large slopes, rapid flowing water, and a basin area of more than 90%, which is conducive to agricultural irrigation and contains extremely rich hydraulic and aquatic resources." How to make good use of these objective conditions, vigorously develop agriculture, and increase grain production is an issue that leading cadres of ours should always ponder. ”
To this end, Han Xianchu proposed several measures and asked all localities to implement them.
1. Expand the area of cultivated land. At the provincial work conference and the special office work meeting held from 1969 to 1971, he emphasized the issue of encircling the sea (reclamation) and farming, and listened to reports from leaders of various regions. He said: "Expanding the area of arable land, mainly in the coastal areas, where there are many people and few lands. "The reclamation of the sea (reclamation) has been carried out in Xiamen, Jinjiang, Putian and other areas, large and small, and a large area of land in the Huli Industrial Zone of Xiamen City has been formed by encircling the sea (reclamation). The construction of the sea (reclamation) area and the seawall in the east of Quanzhou City can be said to be a model of the reclamation of the sea in that year.
There are many people in the east of Quanzhou City, there is little land, the land is barren and watery, the yield is low, the per capita cultivated land area is more than half an acre, and the paddy field is even less. In 1969, Zhu Yi, secretary of the party committee of Chengdong Commune, together with Lin Jianli, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, and Lin Guolian, the person in charge of agriculture, said that they would do what they wanted, and in less than 8 months they encircled (reclaimed) more than 400 acres of sea ( reclamation ) .
The larger plan to "encircle the sea and build fields" allows the people of the eastern part of the city to get more land and income. In August 1972, they also prepared for the construction of the Reclamation Project of the South Causeway, solved the problem of food shortage in Chengdong Commune, and formulated a specific implementation plan.
The Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau also sent a group of technical personnel to assist in the construction design; the relevant leaders of the provincial, prefectural and municipal water conservancy departments often visited the scene to guide them. After the plan for encircling the sea (reclamation) is determined by the party committee of the commune, it is submitted to the provincial party committee and the provincial revolutionary committee for approval step by step. Han Xianchu specially approved 890,000 yuan for this purpose and gave financial support.
After the reclamation project in the east of the city was basically completed, the rice yield was harvested nearly 150 kilograms in the summer, more than 250 kilograms in the autumn, and 400 kilograms in the summer of the following year. Since then, the annual grain supply of all seawall fields has been increasing continuously. Nowadays, the construction of the East Sea Embankment of the City has become the focus of urban construction in the Chengdong District of Quanzhou City.
When Han Xianchu inspected Fuzhou, he found that more than 20 mu of wasteland in the powder dry factory had not been planted for a long time, and there were also many barren corner land in Xindian Commune, and some county-run factories had similar situations. He said: "This is a waste of land by the losers. He asked the relevant departments to work together with the military and civilians to develop these corners.
On February 18, 1969, Han Xianchu went to the hot spring brigade and the Longfeng brigade on the outskirts of Fuzhou city to see about 27 acres of newly reclaimed land and expressed satisfaction. He also went to the Logistics Department of the Military Region and asked the Automobile Regiment and the General Hospital to clear up the land near the garrison. Some terraces have also been reclaimed on the outskirts of Fuzhou and in some mountainous areas.
According to incomplete statistics, in 1969, Fujian Province newly opened 18,000 mu of wasteland, in 1970 the cultivated land area was expanded by 149,200 mu; in 1971, the cultivated land area was expanded by 132,800 mu.
2. Expand the area of early rice and strive to produce more grain. After Han Xianchu went deep into the grass-roots units to investigate and study, he basically formed the idea of expanding the area of early rice and striving to produce more grain. Han Xianchu said: "The typhoon season in Fujian is in August and September, and early rice is not affected by typhoons, so it is necessary to publicize the benefits of expanding early rice. ”
In 1970, the grain sown area in Fujian Province was more than 28.28 million mu, which was even less than in 1969, and the total grain output reached 11.442 billion jin, achieving the best level in history. Among them, the total yield of early rice reached 57. More than 700 million pounds.
3. Advocate scientific farming, maintain stable yield and high yield. On May 3, 1969, after han Xianchu inspected the logistics department of the military region and the provincial agricultural college, he went to Xindian District and asked the rice expert parish of the agricultural college and the cadres of the social team how to select seeds, roll seedlings, control insects, fertilize and other production skills.
On December 4, 1970, he proposed at the Fujian Provincial Work Conference: "Scientific farming, the promotion of advanced farming technology and production increase measures." Implement the three reforms and three transformations, that is, single-season to double-season, string irrigation to rotational irrigation, intercropping to continuous cropping, dwarf stalk fine seeding, rice rolling, and rational dense planting. "This is a reform of the farming system and farming techniques.
At the same time, he called for the improvement of about 8 million mu of low-yield fields and some cold-water fields in mountainous areas in the province on the basis of summing up experience.
4. Strengthen field management and resist natural disasters. At that time, farming was "eating from the sky". In addition to normal management such as cultivation, fertilization, insect control, irrigation, seedling splitting, and greening, field management should also do its best to reduce the losses caused by drought or typhoons.
Due to the reform of the farming system, most parts of the province have planted double-cropping rice, and in order to seize time or fight drought or typhoons, they have to start harvesting and grabbing seeds almost every July. Every year at this time, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee will hold a provincial "double-robbery" teleconference. As long as he was in Fujian, Han Xianchu always personally commanded "fighting this battle."
On May 12, 1970, when fuzhou city was pouring rain, he looked up at the sky and thought about farmland. When the raindrops changed from large to small and from coarse to thin, he drove from his home in Ma'anshan to the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, first passing through the guard battalion of the military region headquarters. He got out of the car and went to the guard camp to see that the cadres and fighters were still organizing and studying, and his face suddenly sank, and he said to the cadres: "What else to learn, quickly take a hoe and a coat and rush to the field to check whether the seedlings have fallen and washed away, and whether the field burial has been damaged." ”
In October 1973, a typhoon struck Fujian. The typhoon was recorded to be the largest typhoon in 70 years, and it was accompanied by heavy rainstorms. Typhoons and torrential rains caused disasters. Just after the wind and rain, Han Xianchu took a jeep to Fuzhou Reservoir, Farmland, River, and Neighborhood to inspect.
5. Actively develop local specialties. Fujian's natural environmental conditions are conducive to the development of local specialties. In October and December 1969 and May 1970, Han Xianchu, together with the leaders of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, the organs of the Fuzhou Military Region, and the Fujian Provincial Military Region, and the responsible persons of the Branch Left Office went to more than a dozen counties to investigate and study.
He said that the difficulties and problems existing in agricultural work were mainly solved by developing the economy, diversifying operations, and expanding production. For example, in Jinjiang County, he clearly put forward that the idea of coastal areas has not been opened, and it is also necessary to think of the road, and to learn to "rely on the sea to eat the sea, and rely on the mountains to eat the mountains." "It is necessary to develop according to different conditions and characteristics. Fishing areas are mainly fishing, and there is no difference between fishing and grain. Mountainous areas and forest areas should do a good job in small autumn harvests. Cities also have to solve the problem of vegetable supply. ”
How to do the peasant side business? Han Xianchu said more than 20 ways in one breath. He said that this will not only develop diversified operations, but also enable the peasants to have money to use.
In 1970, Han Xianchu went to Beijing for a meeting and took the opportunity to introduce Fujian to the principal leaders of some large military regions and provinces he was familiar with and to sell Fujian native products. First, a little sample of tasting was sent for free, such as Gutian cigarettes, Fuzhou and Xiamen candy; then it was sold in small quantities through the main venues of the National All-Army Conference at that time (such as the Jingxi Hotel).
Through his promotion and sales, the sales of Fujian native products have achieved results, some of them have gone to the commissary of the Jingxi Hotel to buy them, and some have directly sought the help of the staff of the Fuzhou Military Region to buy on their behalf, thus to a large extent solving the problem of selling Fuzhou's local specialties.
Han Xianchu also attached great importance to industrial construction, believing that industry is the mother of all economic work, industry is not good, agriculture has no machinery, no fertilizer, and output cannot be raised.
At a meeting of cadres at and above the county level in Fujian Province on the evening of September 18, 1970, Han Xianchu pointed out that Fujian's industrial base is very weak, and its industrial output value accounts for only 0.5 percent of the country. We don't shed a few layers of skin, and it's impossible to make up our minds to change the face. There are about 1,000 factories and 20,000 pieces of equipment in the province, with many missing doors, low supporting capacity, and greatly limited production capacity, which is very prominent in contradiction with the requirements of economic development. ”
"Fujian will not produce special gear steel, bearing steel, plates, car girders, steel sheets for shipbuilding and tractors; pipes can only produce 75 seamless; non-ferrous metals and rare metals can only produce small amounts of lead and extract very small amounts of magnesium." Even if The more decent machinery factories such as Fuzhou Power Machine Tool Factory, Fuzhou Agricultural Machinery Factory, Nanping Electric Machinery Factory, Sanming and Xiamen Construction Machinery Factory have many missing doors. The chemical industry has about 160 categories and can produce about 30 categories. Plastics can only produce polyvinyl chloride, and there is a lack of matching. Hardened greases for soap making are not yet produced. ”
There are many contradictions and prominent problems, what should we do?
From January 1969 to December 1973, Han Xianchu presided over about 50 meetings of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee to study industrial issues, and 20 in 1970 alone. He said that in order to grasp the main contradiction, it is necessary to do a good job in basic industries and grasp the mother machine of work.
He proposed: Increase production and economize, improve efficiency, reduce consumption, innovate technology, and make comprehensive use of it; it is necessary to increase production, improve labor productivity, improve transportation efficiency, and vigorously reduce energy consumption; it is necessary to reform operation and management and thoroughly carry out warehouse clearance and inventory; we must vigorously recycle scrap steel and vigorously carry out comprehensive utilization; we must carry out technological innovation and design revolution; we must concentrate our efforts on doing a good job in expanding the old factories and using existing equipment to improve production capacity.
Han Xianchu said metaphorically, the sugar rate of cow pulling milling sugar is 8%, and the sugar rate of mechanical sugar extraction can reach 13%.
On the evening of March 29, 1970, when the leading group of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee and the two departments and one room of the organ studied the problem of the plan, when talking about the central government's giving of 80,000 tons of coke to refine 100,000 tons of steel, he said: "To carry out technological innovation, to reduce the coke ratio, people 500 kilograms of 10 tons of steel, we six or seven hundred kilograms of 6 tons of steel can not. He also said that scrap steel should be calculated how much the Sanming Iron and Steel Plant can eat, and try to eat it yourself. Now it is time for us to hand over scrap steel to the top, and the top will give us a distribution, and it is a waste to transport it back and forth. ”
Han Xianchu also pointed out: "The key to engaging in industry is coal, the Longyan Hongtanshan coal mine has better conditions, and the 11-kilometer railway must be carried out." This year's Canton Fair order list, the state can not supply the mining equipment can be imported. It is also necessary to import some working mother machines, and imported silicon steel sheets are not as good as imported silice steel sheet machines. ”
At the 1970 Provincial Economic Work Conference, Han Xianchu also emphatically emphasized: "The number one leaders in various localities must have a clear understanding of the situation and industry, and those in charge of industry must have a clear understanding of their family background, so that they can make a big determination and have the right methods." You must have a plan, you can't fight a bad war, in the first half of the year you give out an arm, in the second half of the year I have a leg. In going down to investigate and study, we must listen to the opinions of the workers and show concern for the lives of the workers. All regions should develop according to different conditions and characteristics, and if there is no resource, they should not engage in the things that cannot be done, and how can they all do steel?! The first thing to be solved by the industry with steel as the guideline is the problem of the whole province. ”
Later, Han Xianchu determined the "six guarantees" of Fujian industry: metallurgical baosan steel matching; civil aircraft bao triple 1600 tons hydraulic press matching; agricultural machinery Baofutuo; light industry baovi nylon; chemical industry bao sanhua; hydropower security sand, Yong'an. In terms of transportation, emphasis is placed on the construction of roads, bridges, ports and wharves.
In order to ensure the implementation of key projects such as Sangang, Han Xianchu stressed the need to send competent cadres to strengthen leadership, and the leading cadres sent to the Sanming Iron and Steel Factory, the Mawei Shipyard, and the port were all leading cadres of the army, including Yan Hong, Li Gan, Tian Shixing, Song Shunyi, and Yu Yingchuan.
According to the instructions of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee on the metallurgical industry to focus on the three steels, the three steel production and future construction meetings determined the "Fourth Five-Year Plan". On July 29, 1971, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee sent a working group to the Sanming Iron and Steel Factory to conduct investigation and research, and submitted an investigation report.
In 1972, Sangang over-completed the national plan ahead of schedule, and in the first quarter of 1973, it over-completed the national plan ahead of schedule, and the labor productivity of all employees increased and the cost fell, which was praised by the Ministry of Metallurgy, and the Ministry of Metallurgy decided to hold a national metallurgical medium-sized enterprise on-site meeting in Sangang.
Han Xianchu is more sensitive to new things and attaches great importance to learning advanced experience. In addition to integrating Fujian's own advantages, strengthening unified coordination, and advocating scientific and technological innovation, he also thought of the advanced technology and equipment of other provinces (cities), proposed to cooperate, send out, and invite in.
On July 14, 1969, when he went to visit the agricultural machinery test performance, he told the production headquarters to ask Zhang Tixue, the leader of the Hubei Provincial Revolutionary Committee and former governor of hubei province, for oxygen hammers, gasoline testing equipment and dredging boats.
On August 5 of the same year, the production headquarters sent people to the Kaifeng Oxygen Generator Factory to study. On the morning of December 20, when Han Xianchu was passing through Wuhan, Hubei Province promised to give diesel, oil rigs, and asphalt, and he wanted to prepare moso bamboo for the production headquarters and send people to Wuhan for consultation.
On the evening of July 13, 1970, at the provincial leaders' office meeting, Han Xianchu proposed that metallurgy and light industry products should be improved in quality. Agricultural machinery products are not passed, we must send people out to learn, invite people to come in and teach. He said: The production headquarters should not only grasp the numbers, but should broaden their horizons and take the initiative to come up with ideas and find ways. He also proposed to send people to Angang, Wuhan Iron and Steel, and Shanggang to study, and asked them to send people to teach and improve the quality varieties.
Zhang Tixue
On November 12, Xia Yucheng and his party from the production headquarters visited Shenyang to study and request support. Chen Xilian, director of the Liaoning Provincial Revolutionary Committee, approved 200 tons of medium plate steel and also arranged other steels.
On December 23, Xia Yucheng and his party went to Nanjing, Yangzhou, Taixing and other places to visit and study. Xu Shiyou, director of the Revolutionary Committee of Jiangsu Province, gave instructions to support a set of small ammonia synthesis equipment in Fujian.
On December 30, Hu Junqing and his party from the production headquarters visited Jinan to study and request support. Yang Dezhi, director of the Shandong Provincial Revolutionary Committee, personally explained Shandong's support to Fujian, and the equipment supported to Fujian included ordinary lathes, universal outer edge grinders, universal tool grinders, air hammers, mechanical power heads, and bituminous coal, coke, residual oil and other materials.
Before sending people out each time, Han Xianchu had to first communicate by phone with the main responsible person of the relevant province. He mentioned many times that some products of heavy industry and light industry are not meticulous, and we can invite old workers and technicians from Shanghai and other places to help, and we can also send people to learn.
Han Xianchu also attached importance to supporting agriculture through industry, proposed an industrial turn, and vigorously developed agricultural machinery. On July 14, 1969, he went to the outskirts of Fuzhou to watch a demonstration of agricultural machinery, and the tractor had different models suitable for mountainous areas and plains, as well as rice transplanters. The more he looked, the higher his interest became, and his mind became more active.
He said: "It is necessary to study and try to make agricultural machinery that can be comprehensively utilized, which can not only cultivate the field, plant seedlings, and irrigate, but also harvest, thresh, mill rice, and crush feed." The transplanter must not injure the seedling roots. The horsepower used in the plains can be larger, and the horsepower used in the mountains can be a little less. ”
On the morning of July 15, 1970, he asked the Provincial Revolutionary Committee to gather the relevant personnel of several areas who manufacture tractors and harvesters to hold a symposium to study and improve technology and design issues.
In 1969, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee identified "seven lines": tractors, automobiles, military industry, machine tools, electric motors and engines, mining equipment, and fertilizers. After that, some regions and even counties wanted to build cars.
On May 24, 1970, Han Xianchu pointed out in his speech at the cadre meeting: "Which of your specialties and counties are engaged in automobiles? Although the spirit is commendable, if everyone engages in the Fa in this way, manpower and material resources will be scattered, which will hinder the overall situation and hinder your own development. The province is engaged in automobiles to equip the whole province. Longxi engaged in cars and published in the newspaper, did some comrades see the list? We must carry forward the spirit of self-reliance and hard work, but we can't all engage in cars. If you do this, there will be a problem. ”
He also clearly pointed out: Longxi should not engage in cars, but should build tractors, and cultivate the fields and transport them. All specialties and counties should concentrate their energies on small coal, small iron, small hydropower, small fertilizers, small cement, and all kinds of agricultural machinery. If the county agricultural machinery factory can make a county's drainage and irrigation equipment, small hydropower equipment, tractor repair, and agricultural equipment manufacturing achieve self-reliance and supporting solutions, it is a big achievement. You go and get cars and you crowd out these things. In some counties, several factories have dozens of lathes combined, but they are not well organized. ”
In August 1970, Zhou Jiannan, vice minister of the First Machine Department of the State Council, came to Fujian again to conduct research, visited some factories in Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Zhangzhou, and made some observations: "I have not been to Fujian in the past, and my experience of the front line is not so deep. It makes sense to give a little more. ”
He also said: "At first, I felt that Fujian's proposal to make a change of track was very sudden, but after visiting and listening to the introduction, I thought that the turn was right and good, and the guiding ideology of industry serving agriculture was very clear. ”
Han Xianchu was worried about Fujian's economic and social development when he ate and slept. Usually, he communicates continuously with the leaders of the State Council and the leaders of relevant departments, and does not give up all opportunities he thinks may occur. Whether he went to Beijing for a meeting himself or a relevant personnel of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee went to Beijing to hold a meeting and handle affairs, he had to report to the leaders and departments of the State Council on the economic development of Fujian, put forward problems to help solve, or ask sister provinces and cities to coordinate assistance.
Zhou Jiannan, deputy director of the First Machine Department
On February 17, 1969, Liu Gong (deputy director of the office of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee) went to Beijing to do business, and Han Xianchu asked Liu Gong to report to the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Textile Industry. Yu Qiuli received him warmly and was determined to support Fujian. Qian Zhiguang, minister of the Ministry of Textile Industry, also enthusiastically expressed his support, and the Nanping 5,000-ton man-made fiber factory gave a photo, six million yuan of investment was also given, and the complete set of textile equipment was given.
On December 7 of that year, when Han Xianchu went to the grass-roots level to conduct research, he heard that there was a rice seed with a short maturity in Jiangsu Province, "Nongken No. 20", and immediately sent someone to Nanjing to coordinate assistance. Hearing that there is great potential for planting sesame seeds in coastal areas, he immediately sent people to Hubei to coordinate the solution of sesame seeds.
Han Xianchu believed that building bridges and roads is of great significance to building bridges and roads, whether it is for frontline combat readiness, for developing the economy, and for improving the people's living standards, so he has grasped it particularly tightly.
On August 12, 1967, the Fujian Provincial Military Control Commission issued the minutes of the meeting on the issue of studying the construction of the Fujian River Bridge in Fuzhou. On August 19, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee made a decision to build the Minjiang River Bridge.
Fuzhou City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, surrounded by mountains on the east, west and north, and the Minjiang River crosses the urban area into the sea. Jiangbei is Gulou and Taijiang District, and Jiangnan is Cangshan District. For a long time, the land transportation on the north and south banks of the Minjiang River has relied on the narrow and dilapidated Wanshou Bridge built before 1949.
The proposed Minjiang Bridge will be the only passage between the urban areas on both sides of the Minjiang River, the only passage between the province and the Minhou Special District in the south of the bridge, and the main passage between Fuzhou and Jinjiang, Longxi and Xiamen.
Responsible comrades of the fujian provincial party's core leading group, the provincial and municipal revolutionary committees, and the fuzhou military region's party committee have repeatedly studied the bridge construction plan, organized experts and engineering and technical personnel to design bridges, and the provincial and municipal transportation departments, material departments, and cadres, professional and technical personnel, and staff members of the Fuzhou Municipal Engineering Department who undertake the task of building bridges have all tried to come up with plans and offer suggestions.
The Fuzhou Military Region has appointed Yang Bin, deputy director of the engineering corps of the military region, as the general commander of the project, Lu Qidong, deputy chief of staff of the engineering corps, as the on-site commander, Shao Hua, deputy director of the political department of the engineering corps, as the political commissar of the engineering headquarters, and Zhang Wen, deputy commander of the Fujian Provincial Military Region, to participate in the bridge construction work.
It is not so easy to build the Minjiang Bridge, and it is very difficult. First, financial embarrassment. From January to August 1970, the province's fiscal revenue was 442.2 million yuan, accounting for 71% of the annual budget, an increase of 32% over the same period of the previous year. Han Xianchu allocated 13% of the provincial finance to the construction of the bridge, which was only 50 million yuan.
Second, there is a shortage of equipment. Sand pumping boats, piling boats, steel plate bolts, air hammers, drilling rigs, floating cranes, etc. are either not available or their functions are not achieved.
Third, the engineering and technical requirements are high, and the construction team lacks experience. The minjiang river is 30 meters deep, and it is more than 50 meters from the water surface to the bottom of the pile. The vast majority of bridge builders have never built a bridge.
In order to solve the problems in the construction of the bridge, Han Xianchu and the majority of employees worked together to unite and cooperate. Han Xianchu often went to the construction site to inspect, discuss with engineering and technical personnel, and care about construction safety and the living security of construction personnel.
Han Xianchu also "pulled down his old face" and took the initiative to ask for help from Zeng Siyu, commander of the Wuhan Military Region, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and Su Zhenhua, political commissar of the Navy, and borrowed steel plate bolts, air hammers, vibratory piling machines, and pneumatic drilling rigs. The Navy piling ship sailed to Fuzhou along with the technicians. The landing craft brought steel columns, pressure relief boxes, cranes weighing more than 30 tons and a class of divers.
The bridge construction project has won the will of the people and the masses, and the vast number of cadres and masses have enthusiastically supported and actively supported it. In order to complete the underwater work before the flood season, workers fought day and night on the construction site to solve one technical difficulty after another encountered in the construction. On June 30, 1971, the Minjiang River Bridge was officially opened to traffic, and more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians in Fuzhou Held a grand opening ceremony.
In April 1970, when the construction of the Minjiang Bridge came to an end, the construction of the Wulongjiang Bridge in Fuzhou began. On June 20, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee issued the Notice on Forwarding the Minutes of Several Issues Concerning the Wulongjiang Bridge.
The Water of the Wulong River is deep and rapid, the tide difference is very large, and it is two flow directions, and the underwater geological situation is very complicated. With a total length of 548 meters and a span of 144 meters between the two piers, the bridge is a modern prestressed reinforced concrete road bridge.
The bridge is located near the mouth of the strait in the lower reaches of the Wulong River, which is the throat of Fujian's north-south traffic. In the past, vehicles have always relied on ferries, which is not only time-consuming and inconvenient, but also unable to meet the needs of rapid industrial and agricultural production and national defense construction.
The completion of this bridge ended the history of Fuzhou (Zhou) Xia (Gate) car ferry crossing the river. It is of great significance to promoting the development of industrial and agricultural production in Fujian Province, strengthening combat readiness, and consolidating coastal defense.
The completion of this bridge has also received enthusiastic support from the relevant departments of the central government and sister provinces and cities. The relevant departments of the central government have sent engineers and technicians to assist in the design and construction. The Navy sent boats and divers and workers to fight together. Shanghai sent skilled workers to help with the arduous underwater work.
The Yangtze River Shipping Administration sent ships to bring important equipment for underwater engineering from Nanjing in advance. Many factories in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi'an and other places have made various equipment for the construction of the bridge. These supports from all over the world made a positive contribution to the early completion of the Wulongjiang Bridge.
Han Xianchu not only attached importance to the Minjiang and Wulongjiang bridges, but also attached importance to the construction of roads and bridges in Fujian Province. In the spring of 1969, he went to the grassroots level to conduct research, and many people complained to him about the road and bridge problems. On February 17, when he arrived in Yongtai, he heard that Yongtai was only 8.5 kilometers from Minqing and only 22 kilometers from Yongtai to Youxi, but there was no road, so he immediately decided to build it. From 1968 to 1073, the length of highways in Fujian Province increased by more than 6,000 kilometers.