Recently, Kinmen Island has been one of the hottest and most irritating places in the country. Because two of our fishermen died. But many people don't know that China's Kinmen Island is in **.
Golden Gate is an island that spans history, space, scars and family affection.
Kinmen Island is an island located in Xiamen Bay, Fujian Province, China, with an area of 15165 square kilometers with a population of about 10540,000 people. The main peak Taiwu is 253 meters above sea level, and there are only small streams on the island, and the source is short and small. It is 10 kilometers from Xiamen and 200 kilometers from Taiwan Province. It can be said that it looks east to Taiwan, China, and Xiamen, China, to the west. Kinmen Island is 25 times the size of Mischief Island, making it a very large island.
The island has had its fair share of history.
The history of Kinmen Island begins with the Jin Dynasty. According to the records of the local chronicle "Kinmen Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty, there were already six families with six surnames who immigrated to Kinmen Island during the Jin Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the Li Tang Dynasty set up a horse farm on the island, which was the beginning of the establishment of administrative institutions on Kinmen Island. Zhu Xi, a great Confucian of the Southern Song Dynasty, served as the chief secretary of Tong'an County, and his jurisdiction included Xiamen and Kinmen Island, where Confucianism prevailed and was known as "Seaside Zoulu". At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a guard station and built a city on the island, named "Golden Gate City", and the name of Kinmen Island was started in the Hongwu period.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, a national hero and anti-Qing hero, used Kinmen Island as an anti-Qing base and a springboard for the recovery of Taiwan Island. Zheng Chenggong used Kinmen as a logistics base to launch the Northern Expedition to Nanjing and the Eastern Expedition to Taiwan. It's a pity that he failed in the land war, and finally had to recover Taiwan, and became a national hero because of a blessing in disguise.
*In the early years, Kinmen Island was established as a county. In 1949, Lao Chiang retreated to the island of Taiwan in defeat and stationed troops on Kinmen Island in a vain attempt to ** the mainland. On October 24, 1949, our army launched the Battle of Kinmen, but because we did not have a navy, more than 9,000 people from three regiments were unfortunately killed. This is also one of the few victories on the part of Lao Chiang. Since then, Kinmen Island has become the front line of confrontation between the two sides of the strait. "Paradise in the Army" starring Ruan Jingtian and Wan Qian tells the tragic story of the garrison of Kinmen Island. The nostalgia and confusion in Kinmen Island are all in it.
In Chinese mainland, the administration of Kinmen is divided into Kinmen County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, but Kinmen Island is controlled by Taiwan, China, and Taiwan has also set up Kinmen County on the island and made it the so-called Fujian Province ** by the Taiwan authorities, thus forming the phenomenon of one island and two counties. The coexistence of the two county governors has lasted for more than half a century.
After the reform and opening up, Xiamen and Kinmen Island gradually realized the small three links, and the direct voyage from Kinmen Liaoluo Port to Xiamen Wutong Wharf.
There are no freshwater resources on Kinmen Island. In order to solve the draft problem, in 1995 Kinmen County requested water supply from the mainland. And for more than 20 years, we have continued to supply water. On August 5, 2018, the Fujian Water Supply Project to Kinmen was officially opened. As of August 2023, in the five years since the opening of the water, the project has supplied more than 28 million tons of water to Kinmen, with an average daily value of 1580,000 tons, accounting for 73% of the total daily water supply of the Kinmen County Waterworks. Kinmen and Taiwanese need to be grateful.
But under such a premise, the tragedy of the Spring Festival in 2024 still occurred. The Kinmen patrol rammed into a fishing boat, killing two fishermen in Fujian and injuring two. Drank the water of the continent and drowned the fishermen of the continent. It's infuriating. On the 18th, our coast guard announced that it would carry out regular patrols in the waters of Xiajin.
It was the same root, and he was too anxious. Unification, come on.