History cannot be forgotten, and in the more than 40 years of reform and opening up, although it has gone through hardships and vicissitudes, on the whole, the whole country has made great achievements, and the lives of the people have also undergone earth-shaking changes.
Before the reform and opening up, the life of ordinary people was really hard!
The following is an excerpt:
In early November 1977, Wan Li, then the first secretary of Anhui, went to Jinzhai County to investigate, and after seeing two peasant households, he burst into tears.
In the mountainous area of Yanzihe, he walked into a low and dilapidated thatched hut, and in the gloomy room, he saw an old man and two girls sitting in the grass stack next to the pot, so he came up to greet them affectionately, and the old man looked at him numbly, motionless.
Wanli stretched out his hand to shake his hand, but the old man still looked at him numbly and refused to get up. Wanli was puzzled, thinking that the old man had a problem with his hearing. The accompanying local cadres told the old man that the newly appointed first secretary of the provincial party committee had come to see you, and the old man bent over and stood up slowly and tremblingly. At this time, Wanli was stunned, it turned out that the old man was naked and not wearing pants.
Wan Li beckoned to the two girls next to him, but the girls just looked at him with shy and curious eyes and refused to move half a step. The villagers chimed in and said, don't scream.
They didn't have pants to wear, it was too cold, they couldn't resist the cold, so they squatted by the pot to warm up"
Wan Li went to another farmhouse and saw that there was only one middle-aged woman in tattered clothes, so he asked about her family.
How many people do you have in your family?""A family of four, a couple and two children. ""Where have they gone?""Went out to play.
Please call them.
Come back and let me see. "After urging her twice, the woman had a difficult face and was reluctant to go out to find it. Under Wanli's repeated urging, she reluctantly lifted the lid of the pot, only to see two naked ** girls sitting in the pot. It turned out that the pot stove where the rice had been cooked, removed the iron pot, and used the residual heat in the pot to put the two children who had no clothes to wear in it to protect themselves from the cold. The above content is from: "Oral History of Reform and Opening-up" Oral History of Anhui Provincial Agricultural Economic Commission Zhou Yueli's oral recollection.
I remembered a sentence from Comrade ***:"Failure to carry out reform and opening up is a dead end.
It's been 40 years, according to the great man:"Changed the world!"
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