今年十月下旬,胡耀邦同志视察了沂蒙山区后,号召老根据地人民要赶超经济发达地区的山东临沂地区。沂蒙山区曾是我党领导的革命根据地之一。战争年代,这里的人民为革命付出了高昂的代价,为社会主义新中国的诞生,作出了卓越的贡献。仅一个蒙阴县,抗日战争和解放战争中就有57,000多人参军参战,占当时全县总人口的四分之一。 In late October of this year, Comrade Hu Yaobang inspected the Yimeng Mountain area and called upon the people of the old base area to catch up with the Linyi area of ​​Shandong Province in the economically developed areas. Yimeng Mountain was once one of the revolutionary bases under the leadership of our party. In the war years, the people here paid a high price for the revolution and made remarkable contributions to the birth of the new socialist China. In Mengyin County alone, over 57,000 people in the Anti-Japanese War and Liberation wars participated in the war, accounting for a quarter of the county’s total population at that time.