Text |Mei Xiaomin
In 1954, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee determined the plan for the implementation of first-class development in Xin'anjiang. In 1956, the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station was officially included in the first five-year plan, and two months later, the preparatory work for the construction of the Xin'anjiang Power Station in Jiande Tongguan officially began.
At the second Xin'anjiang Reservoir Resettlement Work Conference in Zhejiang Province, the leaders of the provincial party committee decided to take Jiande, Jinhua and Jiaxing as resettlement pilots, while Jiaxing County will take Wangdian Township, which is located 7 kilometers south of Jiaxing city and has fast water and land transportation, as a resettlement pilot.
In 1957, the Provincial Party Committee decided that the three townships of Chayuan, Zifeng and Fuxi in Chun'an County, located within the 40-meter elevation water level of the Xin'anjiang Power Station, 13 villages, and more than 6,000 people were the first batch of relocation objects, of which the second village of Chayuan was determined to be relocated to Wangdian Township, Jiaxing County.
In April 1957, the Primary Society of the Second Village of Chayuan selected 9 representatives to visit the Jiannong Senior Society in Wangdian Township, Jiaxing. During the two-day inspection, the delegates summed up "two good and three bad".
"Two good" means that the land is good and the yield is high; More side hustles, more income.
The first is that it is 500 miles away from Chun'an, relatives are separated, and it is difficult to bring furniture; The second is that Jiaxing is an endless plain, with heavy rain and wind, small and difficult roads, expensive firewood, and poor draft; Third, there is poor hygiene and many patients.
In particular, when the two production teams of Jiannong 13 and 14 visited, the delegates saw more than 10 winter melon legs suffering from haematariasis and two big bellies suffering from schistosomiasis. Later, I heard from the Jiaxing Immigration Committee that about 80% of the people here suffer from schistosomiasis. At that time, the nine delegates did not know what was going on with blood filariasis and schistosomiasis, but when they saw the big belly with yellow skin and thin winter melon legs, they were all stunned: Jiaxing can't go, no matter what.
At the mobilization meeting of the immigrants of the second village of Chayuan held later, a swarm of voices sounded. Zhou Shuhuai, a junior social cadre, said: "Immigration is a good thing, everyone is willing to go, but we don't care about our health, we are not willing to go." At his instigation, the majority of the crowd demanded a change of place of emigration, which made the meeting break up unhappily.
On the evening of April 28, Hu Yuezhong, a cadre of the junior society, held a meeting in secret, and the people attending the meeting secretly said: "We would rather die in Chun'an than go to Jiaxing, where we have a big belly!" ”
On April 29, the junior social cadres of Chayuan No. 2 Village selected five representatives to Lishang Township in the port area of Chun'an County and Yangcunqiao Township in Jiande to explore a plan for collectively joining relatives and friends. At the same time, he wrote a letter to the county party committee, the prefectural party committee, and the provincial party committee, requesting that the resettlement location be changed. As a result of this move, the thinking of the masses in the second village of Chayuan was very confused for a time, and there was a serious confrontation between the cadres and the masses and the migrant cadres in Chun'an County.
On May 13, Chun'an County received a notice from the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Civil Affairs: "The plan for the collective relocation of the second village of Chayuan to Wangdian Township, Jiaxing cannot be changed, and the work must be done well and carried out according to the plan." In the afternoon of the same day, two cadres of the Jiaxing Special Agency came to the second village of Chayuan, accompanied by Lin Jie, head of the working group of the county immigration office in Chayuan No. 2 Village.
After seeing the two cadres from Jiaxing, the air in the whole village became tense, and people gathered in groups and talked about it. Some people speculated: "* It has been confirmed that we have moved to Jiaxing. Some simply incited: "If you tell us to send us to death, we will resolutely refrain from doing it." At seven o'clock in the evening, Lin Jie notified the cadres to hold a meeting, and nearly 500 people from the second village of Chayuan flocked to the streets and alleys, surrounded Lin Jie, and there were only a few people at first, but soon increased to dozens of people, and finally more than 100 people, forcing Lin Jie to change the location of the relocation.
Lin Jie explained to everyone repeatedly. But the people of the second village of Chayuan, who had lost their minds, especially the women holding their children, cried out repeatedly: "We can't let our son die." Lin Jie was forced to retreat to the hall of a farmer's house, and I don't know who blew out the farmer's kerosene lamp. There was no moon that day, and it was pitch black in the house, and I don't know which young man shouted, "He told us to die, and we will beat him to death today." Lin Jie was beaten back to the patio and ran through the back door.
The unrelenting crowd saw that Lin Jie had run away, and they chased him all the way to the Tea Park Working Committee. At that time, all the cadres of the district party committee had gone to the village to do their work, and the downstairs was empty. In a panic, Lin Jie broke into an upstairs office and saw four public security officers from the county public security bureau who were in a meeting. Seeing that Lin Jie's face was pale and he couldn't even speak, when Wang Yingshi, the working group of the county public security bureau, asked "what's going on?" again and again, hundreds of people from Chayuan No. 2 Village who were about to be relocated also rushed up and surrounded Wang Yingshi who stopped them. A company of armed police officers of the Railway Corps stationed in the Chayuan District Committee to build the Xin'anjiang Railway happened to be in the district organs, and it was only with their persuasion and obstruction that Wang Yingshi was able to escape. It was only in the chaos that the soldiers of the armed police force and other public security personnel were beaten together.
After this collective protest incident, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Committee made a timely reply and agreed to the "Report on the Opinions on the Resettlement of Resettlement in the Xin'anjiang Reservoir" issued by the Jiande Prefectural Committee. The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Civil Affairs decided to cancel the task of the Jiaxing Special Office to resettle Xin'anjiang immigrants, and the Jiaxing County Immigration Agency was also abolished. The relocation point of Chayuan No. 2 Village was adjusted from the relatively wealthy Wangdian Township of Jiaxing County to the relatively poor Jinqiao Township of Fuyang County.
In fact, compared with Chun'an, Wangdian Township, Jiaxing County, is indeed a treasure land, so that the immigrants from the Xin'an River Reservoir can thrive here, which is the correct decision of the provincial party committee, but the Chun'an immigrants who do not know the truth and are short-sighted do not receive this "love", but lose this great opportunity. Fortunately, history has passed, and the immigrants from the second village of Chayuan have already started a new life.
In September 1959, the Xin'an River Reservoir began to store water.
April 1960, p.
Units 1 and 2 generate electricity 20 months in advance. In September of the same year, the 220 kV Xin'anjiang, Hangzhou, and Shanghai high-voltage transmission lines were erected, and the East China power grid began to take shape. It took only three years from the official start of the main project to the power generation of the first unit. This extraordinary speed has added great impetus to the industrial start of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and southern Anhui, and greatly promoted the rapid start and take-off of East China's industry.
Note: This article is excerpted from Tong Chanfu's documentary book "National Special Operation: Xin'anjiang Great Immigration".