Which country's territory is Laoshan, which has been contested by China and Vietnam for nine years?

Which country's territory is Laoshan, which has been contested by China and Vietnam for nine years?

A literary/historical chronicle

On the border line south of Chuantou Village, Tianbao Town, Malipo County, Wenshan Prefecture, China Province, there is a famous scenic spot, which straddles the original Sino-Vietnamese boundary pillar 12 and 13. There are 7 highlands with a total area of about 8 square kilometers. The whole area is low in the east and high in the west, slow in the south and steep in the north, with an average elevation of 1000 to 65438.

In addition to beautiful scenery, the strategic value of Laoshan area is also very important. Because it is located on the border between China and Vietnam, its commanding heights control the important passage from Malipo to He Xuan Province in Vietnam. When the weather is clear, you can see the depth of the cross-strait boundary of more than 20 kilometers from the east, south, west and north directions. With the main peak of Laoshan Mountain as the center, three ridges extend to three sides, forming a three-legged trend, which is difficult to attack and easy to defend.

1979 Before the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam started, the division of Laoshan area was based on the Sino-French New Testament signed by the Qing Dynasty in 1885. As the riding point of both sides, the boundary line crosses Mount Everest, with one and a half people on both sides, and neither side has stationed troops here.

1979 After the counter-offensive against Vietnam, more than 500,000 troops of our border guards broke into the Vietnamese phalanx on the east and west lines and won in just 28 days. The defeated Vietnamese army was not satisfied with such a failure. After our border guards retreated, they crossed the border and occupied several riding points such as East Mountain, Koulin Mountain, Faka Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Shade Mountain and Laoshan Mountain of Bali River, and built fortifications to bomb and harass our border people, causing huge property losses.

In view of this situation, our border guards can only attack again. 1980 10, the battle to recover Luojiapingshan started; 198 1 in may, the battle to recover faka mountain and koulin mountain started one after another. 1In April, 984, the recovery campaigns of Dongshan, Shading and Laoshan in Bali River started one after another.

After successfully recovering Laoshan and Shading Mountain, our main attack troops then turned to defense, while the Vietnamese army constantly organized troops to carry out large-scale counterattacks. Some positions changed hands several times, and the two sides fought fiercely. In order to exercise their actual combat ability, major military regions sent troops to the front line of Laoshan in succession, and the confrontation between the two sides did not end until the early 1990 s.

After the border war subsided, the two sides began to negotiate on the border issue. From the perspective of peace and friendship in China, after several years of negotiations, the two sides finally solved the border issue:

It turns out that there are seven highlands in Laoshan area, of which 1, 2, 3 belong to China, 5, 6, 7 belong to Viet Nam, and 4 is the main peak, and the border runs through the middle, with one and a half people in each family. After two mountain rounds, almost all seven highlands were occupied by us. After re-division, we returned to the north of No.4, and the three highlands of No.5, No.6 and No.7 were "returned".

However, due to the great significance of the main peak of Laoshan Mountain as a symbol of patriotic feelings of a generation, the division of the main peak of Laoshan Mountain has changed slightly compared with before. The top of the main peak belongs to China, and the boundary line originally crossed in the middle has been moved to a patrol road on the south slope of the main peak, so the main peak is actually controlled by China, which is 0.0077 square kilometers more than the original one and bigger than a football field.

As for the disputed territory 164 * * * with a total area of 227 square kilometers, after several rounds of negotiations, the two sides finally determined China 1 14 square kilometers and Viet Nam 1 13 square kilometers, which completely solved the territorial dispute.

Today, Laoshan has become an important base for patriotic education. The 5-meter-high statue of martyrs is the spiritual symbol of the soldiers who have defended their country for ten years. The white marble monument is 1.984 m high and 0.428 m wide, which represents the sacrifice spirit of the soldiers to recover Laoshan on April 28, 1984.