自从1957年冬季以来,我国人民在党的社会主义建设总路线的光辉照耀下,以人定胜天的坚强信念,在全国各地掀起了一个史无前例的大规模的“驯服洪水、战胜旱災”的水利运动。这个水利建设高潮同1958年上半年开始的农业生产高潮相汇合,曾经推动了人民公社运动的发展。在全国农村实现人民公社化以后,水利建设更出现了一个崭新的局面。人们依靠这个 Since the winter of 1957, under the brilliant shining of the party’s general line of socialist construction, our people have set off an unprecedented large-scale water conservancy campaign that “has tamed the floods and defeated the drought” throughout the country. This climax of water conservancy merging with the climax of agricultural production begun in the first half of 1958 has promoted the development of the people’s commune movement. After the people’s communes have been established in the rural areas throughout the country, a brand-new situation has emerged in water conservancy construction. People rely on this