江苏省今年遇到了几十年来所少见的大旱。广大干部、群众在党的坚强领导下,依靠了人民公社的威力,充分运用了十年来的水利建设工程,使抗旱斗争已经取得了重大的胜利。全省受旱面积曾达2,000多万亩,经过数百万抗旱大军连续奋战,已有1,000多万亩受旱作物得到灌溉。省委已把抗旱列为当前农村压倒一切的中心任务,井提出:抓水源,抓灌溉,全党动手,全力以赴。广大干部、群众正在已取得胜利的基础上,继续鼓足干劲,顽强战斗,力争实现省委关于抗旱防旱工作紧急指示里所说的那样:“化大旱为小 This year, Jiangsu Province has encountered a rare drought rarely seen in decades. Under the strong leadership of the party, the vast number of cadres and the masses have relied on the power of the people’s communes and made full use of the water conservancy construction projects over the past decade to make a major victory in the fight against drought. Over 4,400,000 mu of drought-affected areas in the province have been battled over by millions of drought-resisting troops and over 1 million mu of irrigated crops have been irrigated. The provincial party committee has listed drought as the overwhelming central task of the current rural areas and put forward the principle of grasping water sources, grasping irrigation, and launching the whole party’s all-out efforts. On the basis that the cadres and the masses are already victorious, they will continue to work hard and fight tenaciously and strive to achieve the provincial Party committee’s emergency instructions on drought and drought relief: "