20世纪70年代末期,随着“文化大革命”的结束,广东曾一度出现过全省范围的偷渡去香港风潮。在1978年、1979年,偷渡外逃达到了高潮,情况十分严重。偷渡牵涉面广,人数众多,持续时间长,有些地方甚至出现了群众性偷渡的局面。这股风潮严重影响了全省的工农业生产和社会主义现代化建设,危害了边防沿海地区的社会治安,损 In the late 1970s, with the end of the “Cultural Revolution,” Guangdong Province had once seen the phenomenon of smuggling across the province to Hong Kong. In 1978 and 1979, the smuggling out of flight reached a climax, the situation was very serious. Smuggling involves a wide range of people, large numbers and long durations, and in some places there has even been a mass smuggling situation. This trend has seriously affected the province’s industrial and agricultural production and socialist modernization and jeopardized the social order and damage in border coastal areas