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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 poster
Edition:
Second printing 44,001–144,000.
Geographic Coverage:
China
Coordinates:
35, 105
Chronological Coverage:
1960/1963
Collection:
Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
Provenance:
From the collection of Barry Till.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
posters
Date Digitized:
2015-10-15
Transcript:
1. In 1960, as imperialists, revisionists and counter-revolutionaries were raising an anti-China chorus, and the Soviet renegade clique 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.
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These images are provided for teaching and research use only.
Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 poster
Edition:
Second printing 44,001–144,000.
Geographic Coverage:
China
Coordinates:
35, 105
Chronological Coverage:
1960/1963
Collection:
Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
Provenance:
From the collection of Barry Till.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
posters
Date Digitized:
2015-10-15
Transcript:
7. “[The Daqing workers] regard the north wind as an electric cooling fan, and see the blizzard as fried noodles. In battles raging from north and south, from the heavens and the oceans, We vow to achieve the number one oil field!” [quoted from a poem by “Iron-man” Wang Jinxi]. The workers of Daqing feared neither hardship nor death [in their determination] to bring glory to Chairman Mao and win credit for socialism. The drilling team braved temperatures of thirty and forty degrees below zero, as they persevered with sinking wells in the wide open spaces, and the Steel 1202 Drilling Team’s record of wells struck for the year 1961 exceeded that of the Soviet revisionists so-called “Achievers” drilling team, and they spoke proudly of themselves “not being afraid of frozen ground or snowdrifts nine feet tall, oilfield workers don’t care if it’s winter [literally – have no winter].”
Technical Note:
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