[3]: 2  Because the success occurred four days before the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China, the field was named Daqing, meaning "great celebration.

[5]: 52–53  The successful construction of the Daqing oil field despite harsh weather conditions and supply limitations became a model held up by the Communist Party as an example during subsequent industrialization campaigns.

[5]: 52–54 In April 1960, Yu stated that Mao Zedong's texts On Practice and On Contradiction should be the ideological core of the Daqing oil field campaign.

[3]: 159  In March of that year, the People's Liberation Army was called to Daqing to maintain order so that oil production could proceed.

[3]: 159–160  The Daqing oil field continued to be a major driver of economic growth through during the chaotic Cultural Revolution era.

[3]: 123 In the mid 1980s, the oil field generated 3% of China's state revenue through a combination of the profits and tax payments it supplied.

[12] 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.

[5]: 29  Recruitment events for the 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.

"[5]: 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.

[3]: 2 In 1964, chief director of the Central Experimental Theater Sun Weishi and her husband, the actor Jin Shan, traveled to Daqing to live and work with the oil workers and their families.

[3]: 141  The next year, the Communist Party journal Red Flag published an article by Sun which praised the Daqing people.