The series of reports "Struggle for a Hundred Years, Embarking on a New Journey, Counting Popular Figures", today takes you to know Wang Jinxi, who is known as the "Iron Man" on the oil front.
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Wang Jinxi was born in 1923 in Yumen County, Gansu Province. At the age of 15, he went to the Yumen Oil Mine as a child laborer. After the founding of New China, he became the first generation of drilling workers in New China.
In March 1960, Wang Jinxi led the 1205 drilling team from Yumen to Daqing. In order to solve the shortage of water supply, he led the workers to break the ice to fetch water, and the "basin end bucket lift" transported water to protect the drill. When he suddenly blew out while hitting the second well, he took the lead in jumping into the cement slurry pool and stirring it with his body, despite his leg injury. After the hard work of the whole team, the drilling rig and the oil well were finally saved.
Wang Jinxi's voice and video before his death: Our country has a big celebration, it is not enough, we have to work hard for a lifetime, we have to be an old scalper for a lifetime.
After years of fighting in the front line, Wang Jinxi became ill with labor, and wang Jinxi died of illness in November 1970 at the age of 47.
(Edited by Zhao Hanqing)