Steel and Spirit: Labor Mobilization in the Construction of the Yingxia Railway in the 1950s
Guangze, Shaowu, Shunchang, Yingtan, Xiamen, Zixi, Zhima, Nakou, Shaikou, Weimin, Yangkou, Dabugang, Futun Creek Do you know how the Yingxia Railway was built? The answer may surprise you: hundreds of thousands of civilian workers, armed with picks, shovels, carrying poles, and bamboo baskets, dug it out of the mountains of Northern Fujian—inch by inch. From 1955 to 1957, every county in Northern Fujian was mobilized. Guangze contributed 5,000 workers. Shaowu sent 12,000. Shunchang added 8,500. ...