Prospector's Sentiments

This is a geological prospector's song. In the early days of liberation, Chairman Mao once said: "Geological work is the vanguard of socialist construction... One horse blocks the road and ten thousand horses cannot move forward." The story happened in the mid-1950s. In response to the party's call to "work in the border areas and difficult areas," a group of young hydrogeologists left the capital Beijing and the big cities with excellent living and working conditions. Full of revolutionary pride, they came to the northwest, especially the Qaidam Basin, where the environment is harsh and the living and working conditions are very difficult, to conduct hydrogeological surveys. They are pioneers on the hydrogeological survey front and have done something unprecedented. The book takes Tong Fei as the main line, and deeply and delicately depicts the hard and simple work style and revolutionary fighting spirit of the census work, who were not afraid of hardships and dangers, lived in the open air, fought against the sky and the earth, and sometimes against wild wolves; they were dressed like a man on a sunny day and covered in mud on a rainy day. The story doesn't seem to have a dramatic effect. But in the early days of liberation, in that era, in the sparsely populated and desolate northwest of our country, in the Gobi desert and salt marsh and salt crust areas, the geological exploration team members were engaged in hydrogeological survey work. They suffered many hardships and persevered. The working environment and the hard-working spirit to complete the tasks were unimaginable to ordinary people.