大寨村居于太行山深处,隶属山西省晋中地区昔阳县。1952年冬,全村办起初级农业合作社,雇农出身的陈永贵担任社长,后来又担任了党支部书记。1953年秋,实行农业集体化的第一年,大寨村党支部制定了改造自然的10年造地规划,把全村7条大沟、几十条小沟都闸坝垒堰, Dazhai village lives in the depths of the Taihang Mountains, under the Shanxi Province Jinzhong region Xiyang County. The winter of 1952, the village set up a primary agricultural cooperatives, employing Chen Yonggui as a president, and later served as party secretary. In the autumn of 1953, in the first year of agricultural collectivization, the Party branch of Dazhai Village formulated a 10-year plan for making a land for nature improvement and put 7 ditches, dozens of ditch dams and dam weirs in the village,