Editing Daqing Oil Field (section)

== Ideological significance ==
The Chinese government promoted the success of the Daqing oilfield and the selflessness of workers who built it as part of the face of new the socialist industrial person that China sought to encourage in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Meyskens |first=Covell F. |url= |title=Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China |date=2020 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-108-78478-8 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |doi=10.1017/9781108784788 |oclc=1145096137 |s2cid=218936313}}</ref>{{Rp|page=29}} The Chinese press urged industrial workers to follow the model of ascetic living practiced by workers on the Daqing oilfield in order to advance China's development of socialist modernity.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=29}} Recruitment events for the [[Third Front (China)|Third Front]] construction, a massive campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in China's interior in case of invasion by the United States or the Soviet Union, urged prospective Third Front workers to learn from the Daqing oil field and "use revolutionary spirit to avoid all difficulties."<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=94}} During the Third Front, the model of the Daqing oilfield went from being a slogan to a fundamental principle behind the centrally directed and militarized industrialization campaign.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=66}}

"Iron Man" Wang Jinxi was the most significant [[model worker]] in Daqing oil field,<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=137}} and remains one of the most celebrated working class models in China.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=139}} An experienced oil worker from the [[Yumen City|Yumen]] Oil Field, Wang was one of the first oil workers to arrive to work the Daqing field in Saertu.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=137}} At Daqing, Wang was one of the first model workers selected by [[Yu Qiuli]] due to Wang's devotion to the oil production industry and to competitive work.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=139}}