At the beginning of the illumination, the city of Kokdala is full of lights, and the famous song "Prairie Night" echoes throughout the city, which makes people want to understand how this song has a connection with the city.
The picture shows a corner of Kokdala City at night (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
At the Kokdala Planning Pavilion, the reporter got the answer. "Night on the Prairie" was born in 1959, when in order to shoot the documentary "Green Field", a tribute documentary for the 10th anniversary of the founding of New China, director Zhang Jiayi strolled on the Kokdala Grassland. A Kazakh young man with Dongbula in his arms told in a song that he met a beautiful girl at the labor model commendation meeting, but because there was no postman to deliver love letters, he did not know when he would see her again. This story made Zhang Jiayi very excited, quickly wrote the lyrics, and then composed by Tian Ge. A world-renowned classic, known by UNESCO as the "Serenade of the Orient", was born. Kokdara, with the song, entered the hearts of people all over the world.
More than 60 years later, what did the Kokdala sung in the song look like? In the summer season, the reporter walked into the city of Kokdala of the Fourth Division in the company of singing to understand Kokdala.
The red gene is integrated into Tunken New City
"Kokdala" means green wilderness, located in the Ili River Valley known as "Saiwai Jiangnan", Kokdala City was established on April 12, 2015, is the eighth city of the Corps, is a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the Fourth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps implements a division-city integration management system. It's lined with trees, flowers and vibrant, and sculptures in different parts of the city tell the story of the city's red dna.
The picture shows the docent of the Kokdala City Planning Museum explaining the predecessor and current development of the Fourth Division (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
The predecessor of the Fourth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was the 15th Division of the Fifth Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, composed of the 717th Regiment of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which participated in five anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns, the 25,000-mile Long March, the large-scale production of Nanniwan, the return to the south and the north, the breakthrough in the Central Plains, the defense of Yan'an, and the liberation of the Great Northwest. In 1954, all the officers and men of the 15th Division of the Fifth Army of the First Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were collectively transferred to work, and they became pioneers in the Ili Reclamation Area and pioneers in the establishment of the Fourth Division in the Ili River Valley on the outskirts of Cyprus.
Over the past 67 years, the broad masses of cadres and workers of the Fourth Division have inherited the glorious revolutionary tradition, carried forward the spirit of the corps, the spirit of veterans, and the spirit of Hu Yang, always kept firmly in mind and faithfully fulfilled the duty and mission of maintaining stability and defending the border, poured out pieces of oasis on the ancient wasteland, and built a modern new city, thus playing an irreplaceable role in consolidating the northwestern border defense, maintaining social stability, developing the border economy, and protecting the safety of the people's lives and property.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the GDP of kokdala city of the fourth division increased from 13.938 billion yuan in 2015 to 21.055 billion yuan in 2020, with an average annual growth rate of 8.6%. The ratio of tertiary industry structure was adjusted from 27:46:27 to 26:31.8:42.2. In 2020, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and company permanent residents increased by 1.12% and 9.4% respectively. In 2019, the division city was successfully created as a "National Ethnic Unity and Progress Demonstration Division City".
Innovation drives industrial transformation and upgrading
Coming to The Tianshan Road in Kokdala City, what comes into sight is a magnificent Yilite Wine Culture Industrial Park covering an area of more than 1,600 acres, with a splendid park gate, a "wing" glyph technology research and development building, a "wine sea" type wine culture hall and green trees and flowers, which has become a beautiful landscape in Kokdala City.
The picture shows the first generation of Elite people firing the first pot of wine under difficult conditions (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
The reporter saw in the company's cultural exhibition hall that in the 50s of the last century, the predecessors of Yilite burned the first pot of wine under difficult conditions, and since then, the aroma of wine has been accompanied by red genes and heroic spirit passed down from generation to generation, and Yilite has developed from scratch, worked hard to open up, and walked out of a heroic road of its own. Today, Yilite is not only one of the 19 listed liquor companies, but also the largest liquor production enterprise in Xinjiang.
The picture shows the corner of the cultural exhibition hall of Yilite Wine Culture Industrial Park (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
In order to break through the traditional constraints and achieve high-quality development, Elite has explored the way of "wine and tourism integration" to highlight the brand value. According to the overall planning of the fourth division of Kokdala City, with an investment of 1.3 billion yuan and built in 2 years, the Yilite Wine Cultural Industrial Park is built with 4A standards, integrating liquor production, technology research and development, cultural display, craft experience, manor leisure and other functions, and has become a "net red place" for tourists to punch cards. "The construction of the industrial park is the historical starting point of Yilite's latecomer catching up and catching up, and a new starting line for secondary entrepreneurship." Standing at the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, Yilite will take the national famous wine enterprises as the benchmark for development and implement transformation and upgrading. Chen Zhi, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Yilite Industrial Co., Ltd., said.
In the hot land of Kokdala, not only cultivate the development and growth of local enterprises to "go out", but also practice internal skills, plant sycamores, and attract high-quality enterprises outside the region to settle down.
The picture shows the UAV displayed at the base of the industry-university-research integration project of the Fourth Division of General Aviation of the Northern Qing Dynasty (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
On June 28, the construction of the industry-university-research integration project of the Fourth Division of Beiqing General Aviation began, which is the first UAV industry-university-research project in China that integrates the UAV Attack and Defense Laboratory, the UAV Engineer College, and the UAV Industrial Park, covering the core content of UAV application research, production and manufacturing, education and training, and is committed to creating a trinity of Kokdala UAV characteristic industry with scientific research to drive education and support the industry with education, and build a national demonstration industry base for the integration of UAV industry, education and research.
"This project has taken less than a year from inspection to signing to settlement and construction, which stems from the rich application scenarios and good business environment of the fourth division of Kokdala City." Guo Jiawei, deputy director of the office of Beiqing General Navigation Technology Xinjiang Company, said that the management committee of Kokdala Industrial Park wholeheartedly served the project construction, assisted the enterprise to solve the problems of construction planning approval, employee epidemic prevention, and supporting funds, and ensured the progress of project construction. According to reports, the industrial park will be put into operation in December 2022, with an estimated annual output value of 450 million yuan and a tax payment of not less than 20 million yuan.
At present, the fourth division of Kokdala City has a state-level Khorgos Economic Development Zone Corps Division, Kokdala City Economic and Technological Development Zone, the industrial development momentum is good, the formation of agricultural and sideline products deep processing, liquor, wine, electricity, building materials, spices, logistics and other industrial system.
Based on the advantages to create a beautiful business card of modern agriculture
Walking into the rice demonstration field of the 68th Regiment of the Fourth Division, the rice is green and oily, swaying in the wind, and the jifei intelligent monitoring equipment installed in the field allows the staff to sit at home and see the growth of rice. "You only need to download a Jifei Scarecrow APP, and through your mobile phone, you can view the information such as soil moisture content, soil moisture and pH of your own paddy land, realize the automatic forecast of moisture (drought) and the intelligent decision-making of irrigation water consumption, and finally achieve the purpose of intensive farming, accurate fertilization and reasonable irrigation." Chen Xinmin, director of the Changfeng Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Kokdala, said.
The picture shows Chen Xinmin, director of The Changfeng Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Kokdala, introducing the intelligent detection equipment for rice fields (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
Chen Xinmin told reporters: "The promotion of smart agriculture has also benefited from the deepening of agricultural supply-side structural reform in Kokdala City. At present, the 68th Regiment is building a land circulation trading platform, carrying out smart agriculture pilots, and creating a modern advanced agricultural production mechanism. "Nowadays, through the way of cooperatives, we guide land circulation, realize the trinity mechanism of land, militia and workers, and achieve scale effects under the market guidance mechanism."
The picture shows the landscape of the 68-year-old rice field (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
In recent years, the Sixty-eighth Regiment has continuously optimized the agricultural structure and improved the quality of agricultural products, and has become a pillar industry for increasing the income of employees and increasing the efficiency of the regimental field in the mode of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + farmers + bases", and has become a pillar industry for increasing the income of employees and increasing the efficiency of the regiment. Next to the rice demonstration field, the Changfeng Rice Cultivation Culture Exhibition Scenic Area was also built, and in the scenic exhibition hall, it can be learned that the Sixty-eighth Regiment has changed from a barren land of salinity and alkali and the Gobi desert to a land of fish and rice and a national rice park.
In 2014, the 68th Regiment was rated as "China's Beautiful Countryside - Rice Field Landscape" by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China; from 2014 to 2020, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Civilized Unit"; and in 2020, the 68th Regiment was selected as a national agricultural industry strong town list. The "Yixiang" brand rice produced by "Yixiang Rice Industry" has been certified as green food by the China Green Food Development Center, and the organic rice produced has won the EU organic green food certification, and at the same time, it has won the gold medal of the China International Agricultural Products Fair for many times. The Sixty-eighth Regiment also became a green business card of the Fourth Division's Kokdala.
Tourists wandering in a sea of purple lavender flowers (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
In the 70 regiments of Ipal Khan lavender 4A scenic spot, tourists either wander in the purple lavender flower sea to take photos, or in the product exhibition hall to choose their favorite lavender products. The Fourth Division is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Lavender", and lavender production accounts for 95% of the national production. This purple "genie" not only makes the tourism industry in the Ili River Valley shine, but also injects a romantic tone into the entire Chinese cosmetics industry. Yipal Khan Spice Co., Ltd., a national-level agricultural industrialization leading enterprise, is the first spice enterprise in China with natural spices as the core, integrating planting, research and development, production, sales, tourism and tourism, focusing on the development of the whole industry chain of lavender-based plant essential oils and skin care products. In 2016, it was rated as a national industrial tourism innovation unit and a national industrial tourism demonstration park by the state.
In the production workshop of Iparhan Spice Co., Ltd., workers are checking whether the lavender series products meet factory standards. (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
In the 2021 "China Brand Day" activity, Xinjiang Ipar Khan Spice Co., Ltd. was successfully selected and became the "beautiful business card" of China's lavender grassland production area. Rao Liangbo, chairman of Iparhan Spice Co., Ltd., said: We will work product quality, brand influence and service to make Iparhan's brand louder, broader market and more optimized efficiency. At present, Ipalhan has completed the reform of mixed ownership of enterprises, opened a new development path supported by high-tech product research and development, and made every effort to build a lavender cultural industrial park integrating production, research, health and tourism, and help the construction of Kokdala Cultural Tourism City and Green Ecological City."
The 92-year-old veteran Yan Xinqiu retired without fading, and insisted on writing and photography for many years. (Photo by Zha Yanrong)
Today, Kokdala has truly changed its appearance! She completed the gorgeous turn from the side of the reclamation to the side of the city. "What was once a deserted beach has now become a modern and vibrant new city, and I am proud of Kokdala!" Ken Yan Xinqiu, a 92-year-old veteran who participated in the construction of Kokdala and witnessed the development of Kokdala, said with emotion. (Reporter Zha Yanrong Correspondent Liu Yahong Zhao Shuang)