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  • [Poster 1 captions:] 1. In 1960, as imperialists, revisionists and counter-revolutionaries were raising an anti-China chorus, and the Soviet renegade clique was planning to use oil to choke us [by cutting supply], there came the joyful news that our nation had struck oil at the Daqing oilfields. A multitude of workers on the petroleum front followed the brilliant decision of Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee, and converged from all sides to join forces at Daqing, to declare a mighty battle for oil. 2. As the battle began, the struggle between two classes and two [political] lines was very severe. The Oilfield Party Committee’s first decision was to call on the whole workforce to study Chairman Mao’s brilliant works including “On Practice”, “On Contradiction”, to take class struggle as the key, and carry the battle for oil forward. “Iron-man” Wang Jinxi, a vanguard warrior of the Chinese proletariat, led the way in responding [to the decision], he and the workers used campfires as their lamps, the grasslands as their classroom, and studied the “two essays [listed above]”, making the heroic vow that “even if it means we live twenty years less, we will do everything in our power to achieve a great oilfield, and hurl the label [literally ‘hat’] of being backward in oil [production] into the Pacific Ocean.” 3. The workers, cadres, and technicians of Daqing acted in accordance with Chairman Mao’s instructions, and broke free from foreign strictures, taking their own path of industrial development, conscientiously adhered to the “An[yang] Steel Charter”, and under the leadership of the Oilfield Party Committee, they launched a mass movement, persevered in putting practice first, expanded investigation and research, combined revolutionary spirit and a scientific attitude, discussed ideas collectively and drew up plans collectively, relied on the masses of the workers, and setting out from real conditions, they established a working methodology of simultaneously investigating, launching, and constructing, and thus splendidly resolved the many contradictions and technical problems with launching and constructing an oilfield. 4. The battle for Daqing was joined fiercely and moved swiftly. Many of the requirements for construction were not in place, and in order to lose no time to the imperialists, revisionists and counter-revolutionaries, and to speed forwards, “Iron-man” Wang Jinxi took the heroic posture of overcoming all [difficulties], and put forth the slogan “if requirements are there we go ahead, if requirements are not there we create them and go ahead.” When there weren’t enough cranes, he led the workers to haul on ropes and pry with crowbars, setting up sixty-ton drilling rigs, and gaining time to start drilling ahead of schedule. 5. Wang Jinxi led the 1205 drilling team, and after an arduous battle working day and night for five days, they victoriously drilled the first well. As the glistening black oil gushed from the ground, there was rejoicing throughout the well-site. Wang Jinxi and the workers forgot the exhaustion of their days of struggle, triumphantly shouting “Long live Chairman Mao!” again and again. When the masses of the region saw Wang Jinxi making revolution and working all out day and night, they were greatly moved, and called him “Iron-man,” and from then on, the name Iron-man spread through the oil-field. 6. [inscriptions on banners: left;] [Hard as] Steel Drilling Team; [right;] – Never …] Not long after the battle for Daqing began, Liu Shaoqi’s gang ran to Daqing and slandered the battle as “a total mess, it doesn’t look like an industrial operation,” and they moved to have it shut down. The oil-field Party committee, facing these circumstances, launched a “firing-line rectification,” and motivated the masses to condemn all kinds of accusation and slander, and vigorously commended Iron-man Wang Jinxi’s heroic deeds in standing up to the wind and waves of class struggle, working hard and speeding forward, and persevering in the battle. A mass movement to study the Iron-man and strive to become iron-men developed on a grand scale.
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