The Yalu River, which flows continuously, is filled with the scenery on both sides of the Strait; The broken bridge of the weathered Yalu River records the vicissitudes of the past
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In Dandong, the largest city on the border between China and North Korea, the memorial hall to resist US aggression and aid Korea stands by the Yalu River, engraved with the great deeds of heroes and comforting the immortal souls of martyrs
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Now the mountains and rivers are safe and the family and country are peaceful, but that history is forever engraved in the memory of the Chinese people and cherished in the memorial hall of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea
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Together, we will learn and expand together to display history more fully
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In October 23, 2020, in commemorating the 70th Anniversary Conference of the Chinese people’s volunteers in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, general secretary Xi Jinping stressed: “the spirit of great resistance to the United States and the Korean aggression surpasses time and space, and is forever fresh
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We must continue to inherit and carry forward the generation.” Let the great spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea be inherited and carried forward from generation to generation — the memorial hall of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea is carrying this sacred mission
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△ Memorial Tower of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea memorial hall was founded in 1958
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It is the only special memorial hall in China that comprehensively reflects the history of the Chinese people’s war to resist US aggression and aid Korea and the movement to resist US aggression and aid Korea
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In 1993, the new memorial hall to resist US aggression and aid Korea was completed; In 2014, the central government approved the reconstruction and expansion of the memorial hall again, and the construction officially began in 2016
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CSCEC’s eighth Bureau, as the main force, comprehensively coordinated the project construction
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On September 19, 2020, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Chinese people’s Volunteer Army’s war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the reconstructed and expanded memorial hall to resist US aggression and aid Korea officially opened
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△ after the reconstruction and expansion of weapons in the National Defense Education Park, the new memorial hall of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea covers an area of 180000 square meters, a construction area of nearly 30000 square meters, and the exhibition area in the museum is 7879 square meters, nearly five times that of the old museum
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Taking the red education of memorial gardens as the main line, the new museum includes six plates: Memorial Avenue, National Defense Education Park, Heping pool, cornerstone square, memorial square and memorial hall
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The eighth Bureau of China Construction Engineering Corporation, which undertakes the task of reconstruction and expansion, dispatched elite soldiers to overcome many difficulties, such as many processes, strong professionalism, many cross operations and great difficulty in on-site management and coordination, and fully invested in the construction of the new museum
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Zhang Xisheng, the project manager, led the team to set an ambition: “to resist US aggression and aid Korea, we will overcome ‘more steel and less gas’ with’ less steel and more gas’, and we will certainly achieve ‘high quality and fine art’ with ‘fewer people and more things’
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To build this project, we should be responsible for the martyrs and history! ” The resounding words enable everyone in the project department to shoulder a sense of mission
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While paying close attention to construction, we deeply studied the history of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, put ourselves in history, think about technology and details“ We look for the same type of engineering study, repeatedly study the atlas and specifications, find gaps and deficiencies in combination with reality, carefully grasp the key points, and make every effort to maintain the unity of commemoration and artistry
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” Zhang Xisheng said
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Starting from the first bucket of concrete, the project will set standards, launch samples, and guide the way through the samples to ensure the quality of subsequent works“ We have quantified and decomposed the construction period objectives
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The project planning coverage rate is 100%
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Safety and quality management and construction period progress are on the wall every day
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Everyone carries indicators and is picking stars and flags every day
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” Project construction staff Geng Guodong said
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△ the memorial tower of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea towering over the square in front of the museum is the symbol of the whole project
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The 53 meter high tower is designed to commemorate the great victory of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea in 1953
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The front is inlaid with seven gilded characters of the “memorial tower for resisting US aggression and aiding Korea” inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping
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Around it, there are four group sculptures of volunteers, praising the great achievements of the Chinese people’s volunteers and pinning the infinite memory of the martyrs by future generations“ It turns out that there is a tower here
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We should not only show the heaviness of the original tower, but also conform to the aesthetics of modern people
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” Li Wei, deputy chief engineer of the project, said, “we have overcome the influence of deepening design drawings and procurement cycle, and completed all the work from deepening design, bidding procurement to upgrading and transformation in 35 days.” The project team insists on refining each process and perfectly presents the shock and grandeur of the monument itself“ Thank you very much for your contribution to the construction of the memorial! ” In January 2019, Zhou Guosi, deputy curator of the memorial hall to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and his party made a special trip to Dalian to deliver a banner and a letter of thanks for “carrying forward the Luban spirit, striving for excellence, displaying the style of the Iron Army and achieving the mission” to China Construction Eighth Bureau
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The purpose of the renovation is to more truly restore the history
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The memorial hall for the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea has a collection of more than 20000 cultural relics, including 58 national first-class cultural relics, 203 second-class cultural relics and 1145 third-class cultural relics, including commemorative locomotives, large weapons and sculptures
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The restoration of cultural relics should restore history and “repair the old as the old”
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△ the weapon of the national defense education park is a “hero locomotive” with a length of more than 20 meters and a weight of more than 160 tons
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It has made great achievements in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea
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After retirement, it has been stored outdoors for 63 years
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The overall corrosion is serious and many parts are damaged“ It is really a challenge to achieve non-invasive migration and 100% original repair
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” Zhang Xisheng said
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△ after repeated research and demonstration by invited experts, the project team first used three-dimensional laser scanning technology to reshape the digital model inside and outside the locomotive, mastered the existing structure of the locomotive, and established first-hand technical data, so as to create conditions for the review of subsequent hoisting design and repair results
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According to the shape of the locomotive, the surrounding terrain and the perspective of the scanner, the scanning zones are reasonably divided
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After complex data processing, the 3D model of the locomotive is reconstructed with high precision
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Li Wei said: “at that time, we were all like living in science fiction movies
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We could make up a 3D model of what we saw
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Touching these machines and models, heroes such as Yang Gensi, Huang Jiguang and Qiu Shaoyun flashed in their minds like movies
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I think it’s worth it! ” △ war Hall: the invincible tunnel cannot be hoisted at one time due to the complex structure, large volume and uneven mass distribution of the locomotive, so it needs to be disassembled and relocated
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In order to determine the lifting point position, the project team specially developed a set of device to measure the center of gravity of large irregular objects, and then analyzed it in combination with the locomotive model to obtain the mass component and center of gravity distribution of each part of the locomotive
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Finally, the locomotive was reasonably disassembled and hoisted to repair smoothly“ In order not to cause secondary damage, we classified the corrosion degree
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After many tests, we finally determined the rust removal and repair process parameters of each part, so as to restore the original appearance of the ‘hero locomotive’
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” Li Wei said
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According to the overall planning of the project, it is necessary to move the weapons and cultural relics at the former site of the weapons park to the national defense education park
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With the experience of repairing hero locomotives, 116 weapons and cultural relics are also in place and arranged neatly in the park
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△ in order to move a cast bronze sculpture in which Chairman Mao Zedong shook hands with Commander Peng Dehuai, the project department used high-pressure water jet stone removal technology to build a temporary collection room, equipped with constant temperature and humidity air conditioning and purifier, combined with shading and sealing measures to meet the requirements of the temporary storage environment of sculptures, and solved the problem of temporary storage of cultural relics on the construction site
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△ war Hall: through gradual exploration, the ice and snow Changjin Lake project team has successfully completed the “double hundred” construction goal and summarized the construction method for the protective relocation and restoration of commemorative large weapons, cultural relics and sculptures, which has reached the international advanced level after evaluation
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The decoration is to better commemorate the history
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In addition to the buildings, the memorial garden landscape in the park has also devoted countless efforts of the project team.
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