如何多快好省地开展水土保持工作,这是一个很重要的问题。几年来,我们除了努力学习外地经验外,并在国务院水土保持委员会、黄河水利委员会、山西省水利厅的帮助下,比较系统地总结了本地区的经验,加以普遍推广应用。这样做,既使广大干部和群众提高了水土保持技术,巩固了水土保持设施,又使水土保持的速度大大加快。在短短的十年中,已初步改变了河曲几千年来的贫困面貌。这一方面是由于在生产斗争中,坚持了政治挂帅,大搞思想革命,以 How to carry out soil and water conservation work more quickly and economically is a very important issue. In the past few years, besides making efforts to learn field experience, we systematically summed up the experience in our region with the help of the State Commission’s Soil and Water Conservation Committee, the Yellow River Conservancy Commission and the Shanxi Provincial Department of Water Resources, and popularized them widely. In doing so, even though cadres and the general public have improved soil and water conservation technologies, they have consolidated soil and water conservation facilities and greatly accelerated the pace of soil and water conservation. In a short period of ten years, the poignant outlook on Hequ has been changed for thousands of years. This is partly due to the fact that in the struggle for production we insisted on bringing politics to a close and vigorously promoting ideological revolution so as to