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Excerpts from A Wide River Full of Waves

  • Writer: Bennie Wang
    Bennie Wang
  • May 21, 2022
  • 2 min read

一条大河波浪宽:1949—2019中国治淮全纪实 / 潘小平,余同友,李云,许含章著. — 合肥:安徽教育出版社,2019.


Pan, Xiaoping, Tongyou Yu, Yun Li, and Hanzhang Xu. Yitiao Dahe Bolangkuan: 1949-2019 Zhongguo Zhihuai Quanjishi [A Wide River Full of Waves: A Complete Record of China’s Huai River Management from 1949 to 2019]. Hefei: Anhui Education Publishing House, 2019.


ISBN 978-7-5336-8866-0


Dust Jacket (top-right)

“中宣部2019年主题出版重点出版物”


“70th Anniversary of New China Theme Book Series Endorsed by the Publicity Department of CCP”



p. 1 (bold, highlighted)

“第二章:火热的年代:1951-1957”


“Chapter Two: The Fiery Years: 1951-1957”


p. 58 (highlighted)

“……被组织和被管理的对象,主要是分散于土地上的农民,而且往往一上就是几万,甚至是几十万人、几百万人之多。”


“…the subject of organization and management were mostly peasants that situated across the land, and they were usually numbered in the tens of thousands, even in the hundreds of thousands or millions.”


p. 66 (partially highlighted)

“在治淮初期,各大工地上活跃着的工程技术人员,大多来自国民政府时期的水利部门,因此在新中国成立的政治运动中,他们大多受到各种审查、批判。”


“In the early stages of the Huai River Flood Control Project, the engineering technicians that were active across the large construction sites mostly came from the hydraulic engineering departments during the Kuomingtang era [the Nationalist Government]; thus in the political movements during the establishment of the New China [the People’s Republic of China], they underwent all sorts of investigations and criticism.”


p. 67 (highlighted)

“……中央军委命令将中国人民解放军第90师和第98师,更名为 “水利一师” 和 “水利二师”,整建制投入到治淮建设之中。”


“…The Central Military Commission ordered the 90th and 98th Divisions of the People’s Liberation Army to be renamed “Hydraulics First Division” and “Hydraulics Second Division,” and to be completed redirected to Huai River Flood Control Project.”



p. 104 (partially highlighted)

“建设大军从四面八方汇集过来,其中有……100多名干部,……400多名应届毕业生。……技术工人来自上海、福建、蚌埠、合肥等地,医务人员由从上海来的华东医疗大队担任。……中国人民解放军……雄赳赳、气昂昂地开赴工地,如同开赴朝鲜战场。工地施工人员最多时,有干部1380人,军人、技工10500人,民工8000多人。”


“The personnel of Huai River Flood Control Project was gathered from all corners, including…100-plus cadres [and]…400-plus university graduates. Technicians came from Shanghai, Fujian, Bengbu, Hefei, and other places; medical staff came from the East China Medical Brigade based in Shanghai… The People’s Liberation Army…valiantly and spiritedly marched to the construction sites, as if marching towards the battlefields in Korea. At its peak, the construction sites had 1380 cadres, the military, 10500 technicians, and over 8000 peasant laborers.”

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