Abstract

The great drought of 1965 brought home to the people of Sha-shih-yü the profound and indisputable truth of the statement "Irrigation is the lifeblood of agriculture," and the fact that a basic solution to the water problem constituted a prerequisite for the rapid development of socialist agriculture. Consequently, the Party branch of the production brigade decided to undertake large-scale water conservancy projects on the black rock surfaces of the mountain slopes and thus put an end to the history of chronic water shortage and drought in this village, where water was traditionally "as precious as oil."

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