The Study Of Irrigation And Water Conservancy Construction During New China (1949-1959)

In recent years, the government makes great efforts to nurture and develop the agriculture, and puts the development of agriculture as the "central first document" for years, and pays attention to the construction and management of the agricultural infrastructure, especially the small construction of the farmlands and water conservancy. Agriculture is the basic of the development of the national economy, and "water conservancy is the lifeblood of agriculture", the vicissitude of farmlands and water conservancy is directly relate to the development of agriculture, and it has already become the important infrastructure of the rural economy and the rural social development.Before our country founded, the country was under the rotten control of the nationalist party, and the scourge of war for years, so the infrastructural construction of farmlands and water conservancy was extremely weak, the conditions of agriculture was needed to be improved. And added the influence of the frequent natural disasters, the food supply was very tense. When our country was founded, the national economy began to revival, and the production of agriculture was still the first priority. The party and the government accorded a great importance to the work of water conservancy, led the people of the whole country to have some large-scale construction of water conservancy, and made a huge achievement. The infrastructure of farmlands and water conservancy had a great development during the years from1949to1959.During the revival of the national economy, the national policies about farmlands and water conservancy were mainly tend to resume and product the old infrastructure, and prevent the water problem, so it could reach the purpose of the large-scale production. It has a strong increase the enthusiasm of peasants build the irrigation works by agrarian reform. Meanwhile, the government also paid close attention to the works of irrigation management. During the time of "the first five plans", the operation movement was widely spread in our country, it provided the possibility for the country to develop a large-scale production of the farmlands and water conservancy, and it helped the development of the production of agriculture, supported the construction of the industry. In the Great Leap Forward, there has another tide of construction of the farmlands and water conservancy in our country, and millions of the people participated the movement, and it has achieved spectacular achievements.It effective helped the development of agricultural production, and supported the construction of the national economy by the construction of farmlands and water conservancy in1950s. Nevertheless, some places did not carry out the central committee documents in their real situation, they neglected the management, and it offered a profound experience to the construction of farmlands and water conservancy. This article tries to conclude the construction of farmlands and water conservancy in1950s, and I hope that it has some values to the academe.