伟大的建国十周年来到了。全国水利电力职工正以高涨的劳动热情,满怀胜利的信心,深入贯彻党的八届八中全会的决议,反对右倾保守思想,掀起增产节约运动新高潮,用充分发挥水利工程效益,坚决保证安全发电、供电,超额完成第三季发电100亿度、装机100万瓩光荣任务的实际行动,来迎接和庆祝这一具有伟大历史意义的节日。回顾十年来,我国水利电力职工,在党的领导下,以主人翁的战斗姿态和雄健豪迈的步伐,为迅速恢复与发展祖国水利电力事业进行不懈的斗争,并且取得了史无前例的巨大成就。旧中国,水利电力事业的基础是十分薄弱的。在水利方面:许多主要江河得不到治理,已有的一些工程也任它荒废和破坏,以致不少的江河流域形成大雨大灾、小雨小灾、无雨旱灾的严重局面。解放前全国灌溉面积只有二亿四千万亩。在电力工业方面:解放时,全国发 The tenth anniversary of the founding of the great country came. The employees of the water conservancy and electric power in the country are working with a high level of labor enthusiasm and full of confidence in victory. They thoroughly implement the resolutions of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Party Congress, oppose right-leaning conservative thinking, set off a new upsurge in production and conservation, and fully utilize the benefits of water conservancy projects and firmly guarantee safety. Power generation and power supply, overcoming the actual actions of the third quarter to generate 10 billion kWh of electricity and installing 1 million GT of glory, to greet and celebrate this historic festival with great significance. Looking back over the past ten years, under the leadership of the party, our water conservancy and electric power workers have been fighting unremittingly for the rapid restoration and development of the motherland’s water power and electric power, and have achieved unprecedented achievements. In old China, the foundation of water conservancy and electric power was very weak. In terms of water conservancy, many major rivers are not governed, and some of the existing projects let it be abandoned and destroyed. As a result, many river basins are in serious conditions of heavy rain, light rain, and no rain and drought. The irrigated area before the liberation of the country was only 240 million mu. In the power industry: when it was liberated, the whole country