Introduction to Lijia Dayu Reservoir: It is located on the west side of Lijia Dayu Village, about 40 meters west of the dam bottom from Li Xiannian’s former residence. When Li Xiannian returned to his hometown in 1963, he suggested building this reservoir in order to solve the problems of drinking water and field irrigation for the people in his hometown. At that time, more than 30,000 people from the entire Zhandian Commune participated in the construction, which took 3 months to complete. The reservoir covers an area of ​​23 acres, has a water storage capacity of 100,000 cubic meters, and can irrigate 250 acres of paddy fields. The artificial dam is nearly 10 meters high and the top of the dam is 45 meters long. meters, 18 meters wide and 35 meters long at the bottom of the dam, which greatly solved the local people's production and living water problems, and it still plays a role as a drinking water source and irrigation today.

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