Seventy years after the abolition of Plains Province this year!
From August 1949 to November 1952, as the capital of Pingyuan Province, the size of Xinxiang City gradually expanded, "the population grew from less than 50,000 to nearly 150,000, the area of the urban area grew from 37 square kilometers to 72 square kilometers, the industrial and commercial households grew from more than 500 to more than 3,100 households, and the primary and secondary schools grew from 23 to 62." (Xinxiang Municipal People's Government, "Problems That May Occur in Xinxiang City after the Abolition of Pingyuan Province and Their Handling Plan (Draft)")
In the past three years and more, the enterprises, schools, restaurants, hospitals, and other industries in Xinxiang have been titled "Plain Province": Rongkang Hospital of Pingyuan Province, Pingyuan Provincial Library, Pingyuan Provincial Baiquan Cadre Sanatorium, Pingyuan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Institute, Pingyuan Provincial Nursery School, Pingyuan Provincial People's Hospital, Pingyuan Provincial Yucai Primary School, Pingyuan Provincial Xinxiang Senior High School, Pingyuan Provincial Agricultural College, Plains Medical College, Plains Provincial Normal School, Plains University, Plains Theater, Plains Hotel, Plains Provincial Party Committee Guest House, and Plains Provincial Military District Guest House , The Handover Office of the People's Government of Pingyuan Province, the Pingyuan Shopping Mall, the Electric Saw Factory of the Pingyuan Provincial Military District, the Pingyuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, the Pingyuan Provincial Waterworks Plant, the Pingyuan Provincial Stadium, the Pingyuan Provincial Prison, the Pingyuan Provincial Fresh Light Machine Bleaching and Dyeing Factory, the Plains Provincial Public-Private Partnership Zhongyuan Textile Co., Ltd., the Plains Machine Factory, and many others.
After the abolition of Pingyuan Province in 1952, the Pingyuan Provincial People's Government held that "all that should be retained and can be retained, local finances, houses, structures (such as hospitals), etc. should be retained." (Report of the People's Government of Pingyuan Province to the Premier on the Abolition of Chahar Province and the Adjustment of Zoning in Pingyuan Province, November 12, 1952) "Economic, cultural, transportation, and health institutions that have direct ties with the local people and are not needed by the Central and North China Bureaus, some of which transfer the original units to Henan or Shandong, and some of which assign cadres to two provinces on a case-by-case basis." All enterprises, factory production units in the two provinces, the stores and departments of the companies of the Department of Commerce, the warehouses of economic units, the rongjun correctional institutions, hospitals, and units where cadres are recuperating are handed over to Henan or left in the local area unchanged, and their cadres do not move with the unit. (Notice of the People's Government of Pingyuan Province on Issuing Plans for Handling Several Issues Concerning the Completion and Transfer of Work, November 24, 1952)
This measure has a far-reaching impact on the construction and development of many aspects of the economy, culture, transportation, health and so on after Xinxiang Urban Area.
Looking back at the development of the past seventy years, the enterprises, hospitals, schools and other departments and units that survived during the Pingyuan Provincial Period have undergone great changes, some of which have completely withdrawn from the historical stage, and some have always accompanied the Xinxiang people from that era to the present.
Old photographs and archives clearly record a certain fragment, scene, and decision of that period of time, and through their ups and downs, you can feel the pulse of the times. The old buildings and factories that have survived to this day, the unique culture they contain are more likely to bring future generations into the reverie and contemplation of that period of time and space...
The provincial party committee, the provincial government, and the provincial military district, which are the highest organs of the party, government, and army in Pingyuan Province, are now the remains of the office buildings in Xinxiang, and only the offices of the provincial party committee in the middle section of Heping Road are the offices of the provincial party committee, and the institutions working here include: the Policy Research Office, the General Office, the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the United Front Work Department, the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the Discipline Inspection Commission; the offices of the provincial government organs are scattered on Renmin Road, Pingyuan Road, West Avenue, East Avenue, Jiankang Road, and Freedom Road; and the Provincial Military District and its subordinate Rongjiaoyuan, Rongjun School, Correctional Institution, and Military Post Office are concentrated on Rongxue Road.
With the continuous urban transformation and some commercial operations, the offices of the provincial government and the provincial military district are now completely missing, and the photos or objects that have survived to this day show that the buildings at that time did not have the modern "tall" feeling, and appeared very simple and close to the people.
In order to meet the needs of two municipalities directly under the central government, six special districts, and one mining area under Pingyuan Province to the provincial capital, the provincial party committee, the provincial government, and the provincial military district have set up their own reception venues.
Located in the west of the north section of Liberty Road, the Plain Hotel is a hospitality unit directly under the Plain Province. Its Yu cuisine is quite prestigious and has been well received by Peking Opera masters such as Shang Xiaoyun, Xun Huisheng, and Qiu Shengrong. Live fish, butterflies, steamed white eels, dried hydrangea scallops and other delicacies were also enjoyed by diners at that time and later, but unfortunately, due to various reasons, Pingyuan Hotel disappeared from the vision of Xinxiang people after 2000.
Also disappearing is the Pingyuan Provincial Military District Guest House on Beiguan Street, which is a vague memory for the old city people of the eighties and nineties today, and may be an incredible "legend" for people in their fifties and sixties, because Beiguan Street is too narrow and dilapidated.
Located in the western section of Pingyuan Road, the Pingyuan Provincial People's Government Communication Office, now in the tide of the market economy, has been transformed from the Xinxiang Municipal People's Government Communication Office into the Kyushu Hotel for the people, and what remains unchanged is the building building in the northwest corner of the intersection of Pingyuan Road and Jiefang Road that has gone through 70 years of vicissitudes.
The fixation of the office space of government agencies has also solved problems such as medical care and schooling for cadres, workers and their children.
Rongkang Hospital in Pingyuan Province, which was located in the "military zone" of the urban construction plan at that time, was founded in 1951 and still serves the society and the people here. The Henan Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, located on Jianshe Road, was originally located in The Third Branch of the Rear Hospital of the Plains Military Region of the people's liberation army of the Chinese people's liberation army, which was originally located in Yuejia Dengzhuang, and was relocated to Xinxiang City in 1954.
Renmin Road is the road of life and death, which is the nickname of Xinxiang people, and the eastern end of Renmin Road is the beginning of life - "Xinxiang Maternal and Child Health Hospital" (formerly known as Xinxiang Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital). It was only a "health care hospital", which was moved here in 1974 from Jiangzhuang Backstreet, and its original name was the Pingyuan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital established in 1950.
The Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Finance, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Industry, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation, the Labor Bureau, the Cooperation Committee, the Health Bureau, the Water Conservancy Bureau, and the Health Bureau and The Food Bureau on Renmin Road undoubtedly planned and promoted the centralized layout of kindergartens, primary schools, hospitals, and dormitory buildings around here.
The Pingyuan Provincial Nursery School (now Yucai Kindergarten), formerly known as the Kindergarten of the Jiluyu Border District Administration, is the first kindergarten in Xinxiang City; the Pingyuan Provincial Liyucai Primary School (now Yucai Primary School), founded in 1950, is limited to the children of county-level cadres of provincial and municipal organs, and the students implement the supply system until 1953; the Pingyuan Provincial Direct Diagnosis and Treatment Department located on The Health Road was renamed the Pingyuan Provincial People's Hospital in 1952, and is now a well-known Xinxiang Central Hospital.
After a long period of time, the pattern is still like this, and the residents who live here or a little farther away have to enter the "first kindergarten", "second child", "Yucai primary school" to go to school, and go to the "central hospital", which shows the depth of the impact.
The impact of national health and cultural improvement on the country's economic construction and social progress is particularly obvious.
In order to cultivate the high talents needed and promote the future construction of The Plain Province, the Plains Provincial Government proposed the establishment of the "Plain University" in October 1950. The state attaches great importance to this construction, allocating 5.5 billion yuan (old currency) to support it, while recruiting teachers to prepare for the needs of the school.
In just three months, in the eastern section of Jianshe Road and on the south bank of the Wei River, a Plain University with teaching and living facilities such as teaching buildings, student dormitory buildings, student canteens, administrative buildings, and faculty canteens was built. In March 1951, it was named Plain Normal School. In 1953, it merged with Henan University to form the Second Branch of Henan Normal University. In 1956, it became independent of Xinxiang Normal College. In 1985, it was renamed Henan Normal University.
In the past three years, the schools created in the past three years include: Pingyuan Agricultural College (now Henan Science and Technology College), Pingyuan Medical College (now Xinxiang Medical College), Pingyuan Provincial Normal School (now Xinxiang Normal College), Pingyuan Provincial College of Finance and Economics (now Zhengzhou Aviation Industry Management College), Pingyuan Provincial Industrial School (now Henan Textile College), etc.; the "Provincial Xinxiang Middle School" created in 1940 was merged with the Fifth Union of Taihang in 1949 and named Pingyuan Provincial Xinxiang Senior High School. In 1958, it was renamed Xinxiang No.1 Middle School. The "One Middle School" that has developed so far is now full of peach and plum in the world, and its contribution to Bo Huayu, the name of the Education Circle in Xinxiang, is also extraordinary.
It is precisely because of the creation of many colleges and universities here that it provides a strong wisdom booster for the future development of Xinxiang in all aspects, rather than declining due to the revocation of the status of the provincial capital.
In order to solve the shortage of supply and demand caused by the increase in population, especially the shortcomings of insufficient sales outlets, based on the principle of economy, the Pingyuan Provincial Government filled in the pits with soil, broken bricks and other building materials after the demolition of the Xinxiang City Wall, and invested 370,000 yuan (old currency) by the Pingyuan Provincial Department of Commerce to build a two-story frame structure mall in the middle of Pingyuan Road in 1951, which was opened in July 1952 and was named Xinxiang Department Store. It was the largest shopping mall in Plains province at that time. In 1976, it was changed to its current name - Xinxiang City Department Store. After several renovations, the department store building has a bell tower on the top of the main building, which can be described as a feature of Xinxiang Shopping Mall.
The same is the Plains Mall on Plain Road, which began to be built in 1950, but officially opened on July 1, 1957, and was crowned with "Plain", which shows the mall's nostalgia for the word "Plain".
Thinking about it now, the length of time it takes must be a week. The hard-won business name, whether after the abolition of The Plain Province or at the moment, can be described as a difficult and rare name.
In recent years, with the city's high-quality requirements for the living environment, the city is famous for its creation in the Plain Province period of the Plain Province Fresh Light Machine Bleaching and Dyeing Factory (Invested by the Plain Province Public Security Department. Enterprises along the Weihe River, such as the Present-day Xinxiang Bleaching and Dyeing Factory and the Pingyuan Provincial Public-Private Partnership Zhongyuan Textile Co., Ltd. (now zhongyuan Cotton Textile Factory), gradually disappeared due to environmental protection, market, restructuring and other reasons.
As the first internal relocation joint venture formed by Shanghai Chengde Textile Factory and the Logistics Production Department of North China Military Region in Xinxiang City, its brilliant and "red" background is enough to establish a memorial site on the original site of its factory, but the four words "Zhongyuan Textile Factory" can only become a memory talk in the language of Xinxiang people.
Fortunately, the Pingyuan Machine Factory, which Xinxiang people now call "116 Factory" (China's Aviation Industry No. 116 Factory), still stands north of Jiefang Bridge, and is one of the few large enterprises that can survive in the Pingyuan Provincial Period.
The Plain Machine Factory, formed by the merger of the Jilu Yujihua Iron Works and the kuomintang repairs it received, "when it was just liberated, the cost loss rate of [the plant's complete water trucks] accounted for 12 percent, and now it has dropped to 0.85 percent, and the quality of water wheels occupies the first place in north China" (Xinxiang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, "Possible Occurrences and Problems in Industrial Production in Xinxiang City after the Abolition of the Province, and The Handling Plans and Requirements", October 17, 1952), and in 1954 it became one of the earliest manufacturers of aviation airborne equipment on the mainland. Nowadays, the "Plain" brand trademark used by 116 Factory has become a well-known trademark in the country.
Fading the dazzling aura of the capital of Pingyuan Province has made Xinxiang people lose their political status and the advantages of related treatment, but they have more feelings for the word "pingyuan" that linger to this day.
Seventy years of time and precipitation, so that Xinxiang people with the times to seek development at the same time, but also understand the preservation, protection of the previous generation of hardships, traces, is the responsibility and responsibility of this generation, because of experience to succeed, because of the defeat and setbacks can be nirvana rebirth!