康保县五棚大队地处海拔1400多米的内蒙古高原,历史上是个“荒山秃岭干梁头,风沙干旱年年有,雨大水土顺沟流,无雨耕地渴死牛”的穷地方。在大跃进的1958年开始植树造林,但以后数年由于受刘少奇反革命修正主义路线的干扰,造林停滞不前,幼苗无人管理,所以从1958年～1968年十年内,只保住20亩林地。 The five-pound brigade in Kangbao County is located in the hinterland of Inner Mongolia at an altitude of more than 1,400 meters. It is historically a poor place where “barren mountains and bald mountainsides, dry sand and droughts every year, heavy rain and floods, and thirsty dead cows without rain and farmland” are located in Inner Mongolia Plateau. In 1958, during the Great Leap Forward, afforestation began. But in the ensuing years, disturbed by the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Liu Shao-chih, the afforestation stagnated and the seedlings were left unmanaged. Therefore, from 1958 to 1968, only 20 mu of forest land remained.