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The Qinling Mountains lie across central my country, starting from southern Gansu in the west, passing through southern Shaanxi to western Henan, and the main body is located at the junction of southern Shaanxi Province and northern Sichuan Province, "and it is east-west and east, with a length of about 1,500 kilometers. It is an important watershed between the river system and the Yangtze River system.

On the north is the fertile Guanzhong Plain, and on the south is the narrow Han River Valley. The main peak of the Qinling Mountains, Taibai Mountain, is 3,767 meters above sea level, and the mountains are mostly folded and broken block mountains.

There is always a saying that the Qinling Mountains are respected as the dragon vein of Chinese civilization.

During the Southwest Joint Governance "government", railway construction was a major event related to economic and social development. After the Kunfang Railway in Kunming Yifangchenggang, which went directly to sea, the Kungui Railway was successively built, followed by the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, and Chengyi Railway.

In 1931, the Guangzhou-Nanning Railway was opened to traffic. In 1932, the railway from Nanning to Hunan Ark was built to the junction of Huguang.[

After the national unification, the construction of highways and railways has been put on the most important "government" work schedule. To build a new China, to achieve a blowout in the first five-year economic plan, transportation must be one of the places where great efforts are needed. Looking at the whole country, "the transportation in the southwest is the best". In addition to the railway system that runs through the southwest, the construction of highway hubs is also complete, especially in Sichuan and Yunnan, which are particularly developed. For example, in Sichuan, there are three expressways in the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, Chengdu Mianyang Expressway, and Chengdu entrance Yibin Expressway. After more than five years of construction, it is finally in Kunming-Yibin's Kunyi Expressway, which is open to traffic in 2019. Going straight north, the expressway can lead to Mianyang. This means that the entire southwest basic road construction has completely reached the forefront of the country. "At the same half of the west, it has a huge economic leverage and transportation.

After all, this is a huge achievement that Zhang Shusheng only achieved after nearly a year of construction in the southwest.

In addition to the best transportation in the southwest, the transportation in the southeast and north is good, the terrain is flat, the geological structure is not complicated, and it is suitable for rapid road construction. The original highway system is not backward. Most areas in the southeast and north can connect to county-level roads. The new transportation construction will be the same as the southwest. In the five-year plan, the townships will be connected to townships within the five-year plan. That is, before 1939, it will ensure synchronization with the southwest, and in the northern, southeast and coastal areas, the townships will connect to highways. In terms of railways, Beijing

The Guangzhou Railway will be renovated in five years, newly built and opened to traffic. The old Beijing-Han Railway built from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China and the soon-to-be-finished Guangdong-Han Railway will not meet the needs of the new China. While renovating the Beijing-Han Railway and the Guangdong-Han Railway, the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge will be a key project in two aspects. Overall, the construction is not difficult, mainly the renovation project. The Guangdong-Han Railway's project volume is less than a quarter. Other work will be concentrated on the renovation and Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge.

In addition to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway to ensure the full opening of traffic, the Wuhan-Hanjing Railway, Han-Beijing-Shanghai Railway, which was built on the basis of the original Zhengtai Railway, will be another major artery for construction and transformation (Lianyungang, Lanzhou, Jiangsu).

Finally, there is the Lanxin Line "Lanzhou to Urumqi railway line, which will be the latest railway line planned to be opened to traffic." Since the construction of the entire line is also very difficult and the railway foundation is somewhat difficult, it is expected that it will not be opened to traffic until the last year of the first five-year plan.

In this way, it seems that the number of newly built transportation projects in China is huge, and there are many projects, but in fact, only: the Baocheng Line, Lanxin Line, and Longhai Line require great efforts. Others are either transformations or connecting a certain section between the two cities.

The construction of key railways at the same time is a big deal, reflecting the "government" determination to build. Compared with the liberation period of later generations, "the project volume is about twice as large as the Baocheng Line was too dangerous and it is difficult to use a large number of local people to participate in construction, Lanxin Line and Longhai Line can use a large number of local people to participate in foundation building, transport and other work. You should know that in the Soviet Union at the same time, they used almost the same method when building roads. They dug roads in front and built foundations in the back, and railway tracks and sleepers were transported from behind to start laying. This speed is extremely amazing. Especially in the densely populated Longhai Line, the construction speed of railways will be very fast. Relatively speaking, Lanxin Line will be much slower.

These railway projects began quickly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1933, especially the Baocheng Line, which directly used the former southwest railway engineering army. Because of the railway foundation of Guangyuan-Chengdu, the entire Baocheng Line was divided into two major directions, Guangyuan and Baoji north and south. In order to ensure the progress of the project, the new China began many industrial layouts in Baoji at the same time, such as Baoji Steel Base and Baoji Cement Factory, Baoji Locomotive Factory, etc., and the direction in Guangyuan is simpler, Chengdu-Chongqing Yi Economic Circle

A large number of excellent steel, ready-made rails, cement and even ready-made culverts are loaded northwards, so the progress of Guangyuan direction is the fastest. The method of starting construction at the same time is adopted by taking multiple points and "in the second half of the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we built Yangping Pass from Guangyuan" and went straight to Luyang. This speed is very scary. It has a railway mileage of more than 0 kilometers, and it took only half a year to build it. But the premise is that "the huge industrial foundation in the southwest, construction machinery and a railway construction army of more than 60,000 people have been used.

Although this is compared with the highest record in later generations of a construction group, which starts construction of multiple lines and builds thousands of kilometers a year, it is a record in China at this time. After all, the road from Guangyuan to Lueyang is also very difficult to walk. The Baocheng Line, which was built in later generations in more than five years, was opened to traffic. At the same time, the construction machinery, technology and materials of the Baocheng Line were much more advanced, and the line survey did not take too long. The superiors issued the most detailed construction drawings that had been compared on-site review.

That was the work that started in the year of Earthworms. At that time, Zhang Shusheng issued a batch of detailed survey data on the Baocheng Line to the Ministry of Transportation, saying that it was a route map bought from a foreign road construction science team. The Ministry of Transportation organized personnel to conduct field re-testing and comparison for three months, proving that it was reliable and effective.

Lu Zheng is a reporter from Bashu Daily. Since receiving the task of interviewing Baocheng Line from the newspaper, he has rushed to Guangyuan alone. After seeing his assistant, the local guide Bei Yingming quickly set off on the motorcycle to transport road construction materials to Luoyang via Yangping Pass.

"Lao Bei, I heard that the construction difficulty of this Baocheng Line is the best in China or even Asia?" Before coming, Lu Zheng made up a lot of information about the Baocheng Line." But there were only a few. He only knew that this Baocheng Line was a national first-level key project, and tens of thousands of road construction workers even had time to rest in winter, and was fighting on the road construction front line in the cold winter.

He also found out from news reports that the Baocheng Line is a railway that costs nearly 100 million yuan, adopts the electrification design of the entire line. In order to consider the ecology, increase vehicle speed and shorten the railway mileage, the method of building bridges was adopted. Among them, the donations from overseas Chinese reached nearly 0.5 billion.

There is also a data in the construction project in the Baocheng Line Guangyuan direction. Construction machinery alone concentrates about 30% of the machinery in the southwest, which is a very huge number.

"Yes, it's very difficult to build." Just a Qinling Mountains makes people difficult. Not to mention the whole of Asia, "looking at the world," such a difficult railway." Bei Yingming was originally planning to open a travel agency, but after receiving newspaper reporters for a long time, he turned into a special media guide.

The two were talking, and what came outside was the sound of the motorcycle moving forward at night, which was not too loud. This was the benefit of electrified railways. Although electrified railways appeared in the past year, "but in China, building electrified railways in complex places like the Qinling Mountains is a big test for the new China railway technology, but at present, at least Chengdu has already been able to pass through all the way north to Lueyang.

Shortly after dawn the next day, the locomotive with only a few rails passed Yangping Pass. After an hour, they arrived in Lueyang. The two got out of the car and started to head towards the depths of the real Qinling Mountains. Along the road, they were riding a small rail motor vehicle from the road construction team. Lueyang went north and there was no railway connection for the time being.

After another half a day of rushing, the two finally entered the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains. "The altitude is getting higher and higher, and the momentum is getting more and more dangerous. "Old Lu, you can't go forward anymore, there is a place for driving mountains and firing cannons in front of you."

Lu Zheng and Bei Yingming got off the railcar and stood halfway up the mountain. "You can see the hill one kilometer ahead" the road construction team was shooting gun holes on the steep hillside. Occasionally, there was a rumbling sound of cannons, and then they saw huge rocks splashing and falling into the abyss. [

"Although the design of Baocheng Line is mainly designed with multiple tunnels and bridges, many places still have to adopt the design of winding up and winding down the mountains, turning around, and it is obviously only a distance between two mountains."

Bei Yingming raised his hand and pointed at the mountainside in front, and saw many road construction workers busying themselves on the mountain road. There were many cars, carriages, and rickshaws coming and going on the mountainside road.

Although there is no snow in the Qinling Mountains today, it was very heavy a few days ago. Nearly half of the green mountains can be seen covered by snow, but even so, the road construction project has not stopped.

Around Lu Zheng and the others, railway tracks are being laid. Many workers from the Southwest Railway Bureau are lifting the railway from the rail vehicles, or unloading them from the cars, and then laying them on the roadbed that has been built and compacted. The land-based cobblestones are covered with a thick layer of snow. Bei Yingming introduced that these cobblestones were taken from the streams in the valley.

“What a lively scene.”

What Lu Zheng saw was a construction site of tens of thousands of people. The huge and steep Qinling Mountains did not stop these hard-working road builders. As soon as the heavy snow stopped, the road construction work quickly recovered.

"Let's go, my wife, take a look."

The two of them immediately walked forward along the mountainside and advanced with difficulty among the steep mountains. Soon, they came to a temporary resting point for workers, which was also the accommodation point for workers on the mountain.

There are about two hundred simple large tents in a vast forest that have been cleared out, and they are military green, very similar to the military tents that Lu Zheng once saw. There are no adults in the tent, but many children can be seen running around, playing with snow while warming their hands.

In the huge camp, there was a sound of reading.

"The sky gate interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the clear water flows eastward to return here. The green mountains on both sides of the river are facing each other, and the lonely sail is coming from the sun..."

"Little guy, I'm still reading books in the cold weather. Isn't it cold?"

Lu Zheng turned to a large tent, but saw a **-year-old girl sitting in front of a charcoal basin reading a book, with her expression focused until the sound rang out. "I noticed that outsiders came.

"It's not too cold." The girl pointed to the charcoal basin and was a little taciturn in the face of strangers. Lu Zheng walked to the tent and saw that there was a tightly wrapped little guy on the small bed not far behind the charcoal basin. He was about two or three years old.

"What's your name? Can you please look at your textbook?"

"Well...my name is Ye Xiaojing."

"Don't worry, uncle won't get dirty, haha." Lu Zheng took off his gloves. The child obviously went to school in other places. He was very familiar with this kind of textbook. Now the whole country is using this kind of textbook. Although the education in New China is free, there are many things that have to be done. In schools, simple education and frugal education have always been well grasped. The child originally read an ancient poem "Wangtianmen Mountain", a textbook for the third grade of elementary school.

Perhaps because of the education received in school, the girl was not afraid of children and answered several questions. It turned out that these children were the children of road construction workers. The workers were busy building roads and had no time to go back to nearby cities to visit their children. The "government" sent the children to the workers' gathering point during the winter vacation, "and returned to school after the New Year and continued to attend classes. The children of these railway workers, because their parents were not around for a long time, were able to study with peace of mind and worry about food and clothing.

When Lu Zheng asked him where his father and work were currently at work, she stood up, walked to the camp, and pointed to the cliff opposite. It turned out that "her father was a blasting worker and her mother was a blasting worker. The two were in the same team. They were responsible for drilling holes and firing firecrackers on the cliffs all day.

"Uncle, dad said that when the railway is built, we can take the train to Xi'an to see the ancient city wall."

Lu Zheng nodded, very moved. The child finally had a winter vacation, but he could only get together with his parents at night.

"Xiaojing, what do you want to do when you grow up?"[

“I want to be a railway worker.”

"Why?"

"When my parents get old, I can continue to build roads and make them old. I can take the train to Lhasa to watch the sunrise. In the textbook, the sunrise in Lhasa is so beautiful."

Lu Zheng's eyes were slightly moist. According to Bei Yingming, due to special periods, there are many cases where parents are railway workers now. Many people are destined to spend their entire lives fighting in the wilderness, just to make the transportation in the new China accessible.

The railway workers couldn't tell too much, so they had to tell their children that if the railway was repaired, they could go to Xi'an to see the ancient city wall. The children believed that if the railway was repaired by themselves in the future, they could let their parents go to Lhasa to watch the sunrise.

After saying goodbye to Ye Xiaojing, the two continued to walk down the mountain and saw many soldiers holding guns from afar.

"That was Japanese prisoners of war. In the Guangyuan direction of the entire Baocheng Railway, in addition to more than 50,000 Chinese workers, there were more than 40,000 Japanese prisoners of war. What they did was the hardest and most tiring job."

Looking from Lu Zheng's direction, the direction below was almost the bottom of the valley, and you could see the dense Japanese people working like ants, and they were using their own labor to atone for their sins in the war.

"On the country", more than 400,000 Japanese troops and more than 300,000 arrested armed expatriates participated in labor reform. In terms of railways alone, they were all seen from the Longhai Line to the Baocheng Line."

The next week, "Lu Zheng and Bei Yingming stayed on the Qinling Mountains, watching the lively construction sites in the Qinling Mountains". This construction far away from the hustle and bustle deeply touched Lu Zheng. This was not the first construction site he had interviewed. As a reporter from Bashu Daily, he visited dozens of medium and large construction sites, and these construction sites that were listed as key projects during the first five-year plan had touched him, but only the road construction workers on the Baocheng Line deeply touched him.

"After this interview mission is completed, it is time to go to the construction site of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. I should write more press releases to reflect the bitterness and efforts of these road construction workers who are far from people's sight, so that the entire nation can remember their contributions to the rise of the new China."
Chapter completed!