What is reclamation, then the western regions will be prosperous; Reclaiming wasteland will lead to chaos in the western region.

Now this sentence means that the development and construction of the western region through land reclamation can promote local social and economic development, safeguard national unity and consolidate the frontier defense of the northwest of the motherland.

1, reclamation is a Chinese word, pinyin tún kěn, which is interpreted as settlement reclamation. Reclamation is generally used in conjunction with border defense, that is, "reclamation and border defense." The significance mainly includes the following two aspects:

1), garrison training.

"Biography of Ming Taizu and ChristianRandPhillips": "Liangzhou has many idle fields, please open up wasteland for the army." "Clear Draft, Record 1 of Eating Goods": "Those who have committed crimes should be sent away for a limited year and released."

2) refers to the settlement of wasteland.

Guo Moruo's Li Bai Du Fu Poetry Society: "People in the Tang Dynasty built fields around lakes."

2.20 14 when Xi Jinping visited Xinjiang, he said that in history, every dynasty after Qin Shihuang took stationing troops and guarding the frontier as an important measure to develop and consolidate the frontier. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, reclamation activities in Xinjiang have a history of more than 2,000 years. If you are prosperous, you will be prosperous in the western regions; Abandoning wasteland will lead to chaos in the western regions.

3. Throughout the history of the rise and fall of dynasties in the western regions, it is not difficult to find a universal law: all rulers who are stable in the western regions have achieved fruitful results in the reclamation of the western regions; On the other hand, whoever has made remarkable achievements in reclamation in the west will have a stable rule in the west. The two are complementary, closely related and mutually causal.

Extended data:

1, reclamation policy of Han dynasty;

As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the Han government summed up the lessons of the failure of the Western Expedition and began to "establish a captain to plow the fields" to create conditions for the Han Dynasty to unify the western regions. After the unification of the western regions in 60 BC, the Western Han Dynasty further expanded the reclamation in the western regions, and the soldiers who cultivated the wasteland were also soldiers, peasants and peasants.

This policy not only provided food and grass for the army, but also ensured its combat effectiveness. It also developed production, prospered economy and promoted social progress in border areas. It is also an important force for maintaining social stability and developing economy in the western region. Since the Han dynasty, all dynasties have taken reclamation as an important measure to unify and manage the western regions. Among them, the Tang and Qing dynasties were the largest and achieved the most remarkable results.

2. Reclamation policy in Tang Dynasty.

Since Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, large-scale land reclamation has been carried out in the western regions, starting from the Prehai Lake (now Balikun Lake) in the east, to the Suiyechuan River (now Chuhe River) in the west, to the Kunlun Mountain in the south and to the Junggar Basin in the north, which has made new progress in land reclamation in the western regions.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, wasteland was also developed on a large scale, including "twenty villages in Anxi, seven villages in Shule, seven villages in Yanqi, twenty villages in Beiting, one village in Yiwu and one village in Tianshan". In order to effectively manage land reclamation, the central government set up the Land Reclamation Department in the Ministry of Industry of Shangshu Province, and set up a doctor of land reclamation, who was in charge of the land reclamation laws of the Tang Dynasty. Set up "farm ambassadors" in various places to manage local reclamation.

3. Reclamation policy of Qing Dynasty.

Reclaiming farmland in Qing dynasty was inseparable from the war to recover the frontier. In the early Qing Dynasty, after the Junggar rebellion was put down, in order to solve the problem of food supply for the army, the Qing government began to reclaim land in Barkun, Hami and Turpan. "It is a good idea to settle the fields, facilitate the people, have enough food and have enough soldiers."

After the Qing Dynasty unified Xinjiang, wasteland was greatly developed and spread all over Xinjiang. Reclaiming cultivated land has become an important measure to develop frontier and local economy. During the Daoguang period, after the rebellion in Zhang Geer and Ynsup was put down, the Qing government called exile to open up wasteland in order to solve the problem of overpopulation in some places in the mainland.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Reclamation and Frontier Defense