Eventful Years: Aid to Xinjiang in 1962

In 1962, Lin Deyuan, an educated youth from Shanghai, boarded a westbound train and carved a monument to the development of the frontier with his youth and blood in his den in the Gobi Desert. In the Shihezi Reclamation Area, the large canals dug by educated youths and soldiers irrigated the entire Mosuo Bay farm. On the desert frozen soil, the saline-alkali land they improved has become the most fertile soil. In Urumqi, educated youths teach and educate people, bringing knowledge to every child in the frontier...