阳东县大八镇,是粤中地区一个知名度较高的革命老区之一,早在抗日战争初期,阳江地区的党组织和后来挺进粤中的抗日队伍就在这里活动,抗日战争胜利后,留地方坚持革命斗争的同志也一直坚守在这里。解放后,原粤中、珠纵的不少老同志都先后回过大八镇看望革命战争年代哺育过革命队伍的老区人民。文化大革命结束不久,我回过大八镇,当时正是百业待兴,群众生活还比较困难。去年底,我参加省老促会重返大八镇调查,情况大有变化,使我深受鼓舞。近年来,大八镇的工农业持续增长,人民生活有了很大改善,贫困户大大缩小。根据1998年统计,全镇工农业总产值2.36亿元,其中农 In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Party organizations in Yangjiang and later in the Anti-Japanese contingent in Guangdong Province moved here. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, The comrades who persist in the revolutionary struggle in the local areas have also been sticking here. After the liberation, many old comrades in the former Guangdong, Zhuzhu and Zhaogong had successively returned to the Dazhazhen people who had visited the revolutionary areas nurtured by the revolutionary ranks in the era of the revolutionary war. Shortly after the Cultural Revolution ended, I returned to the town of Dadaxi. At that time, it was all business to be prosperous, and the life of the masses was still rather difficult. At the end of last year, I was greatly encouraged by the fact that I participated in the investigation of the provincial party headquarters and returned to the town of Daxi. In recent years, the industrial and agricultural sectors in Dada 八镇 have continued to grow, the living conditions of the people have greatly improved, and the number of poor households has shrunk dramatically. According to statistics in 1998, the town’s total industrial and agricultural output value of 236 million yuan, of which agricultural