1950年,我们新生的人民共和国面临严峻考验:美帝国主义穷凶极恶在朝鲜挑起战火;淮河洪水浊浪翻卷,在豫、皖、苏等省肆虐逞凶,泛滥成灾。特别是安徽省淮北灾害更惨。毛泽东主席在批阅淮北的三份灾情电报时,难过地流了泪。一份电报中写着:“由于水势凶猛,来不及逃走或攀登树上,失足坠水(有在树上被毒蛇咬死者)或船小浪大,翻船 In 1950, our nascent People’s Republic of China was facing a severe test: the atrocities of the U.S. imperialists provoked a war in North Korea; the flood waves of the Huai River turned upside down and wreaked havoc in the provinces of Henan, Anhui and the Soviet Union and flooded. In particular, the disaster in Huaibei, Anhui Province is even worse. Chairman Mao Zedong sadly shed tears when he read the three telegram of disaster in Huaibei. A telegram reads: "Due to the ferocious water, it is too late to escape or climb the tree, fall into the water (with a snake who has been bitten by a poisonous snake in the tree)