In January 1975, the first National People's Congress was held in Beijing, which brought together people from all walks of life, including a plainly dressed woman working at the grassroots level as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
The day before the official opening of the National People's Congress, Zhao Xinchu, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, found the woman and said to her: "* Ask me to greet you, after this meeting, you can be transferred to the province!."”
The woman was very moved, but she declined ***'s kindness, she said to Zhao Xinchu: "Wait a little longer, thank you for caring about me as an ordinary person, but my grassroots work has not yet been completed, and the people in my hometown still need me!."”
So, what exactly is this woman?Why did she participate in the National People's Congress?Why do you "never forget" her?
The story of this woman starts from 1933, her identity is really not simple, her name is Xin Zhiying, and she is the earliest model worker in my country.
In January 1933, Xin Zhiying was born in a poor peasant family in Mijitai Town, Songzi County, Hubei Province.
Songzi County is adjacent to the Jingjiang River section, and since ancient times, the so-called "Yangtze River, danger in the Jingjiang River", every flood season, the water of the Jingjiang River floods, and the people of Songzi have to suffer from the flood in addition to suffering from the war.
Xin Zhiying grew up in an environment of war, poverty and flooding, and the difficult growth environment sharpened Xin Zhiying's indomitable will.
On October 1, 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, the fire was extinguished by the People's Liberation Army, but the flooding of the Jingjiang River still plagued the local people.
In the spring of 1952, after a year of careful planning, the first generation of Chinese leaders led by *** decided to build the "Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project" in the dangerous section of the Jingjiang River to ensure the safety of the lives and property of 5 million people near the Jingjiang River section.
The Jingjiang flood diversion project is the first large-scale flood control project after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he personally gave instructions and invested the troops of a corps of the People's Liberation Army to complete this grand project for the benefit of the country and the people before the flood season of that year.
Xin Zhiying was 19 years old this year, and at this time Xin Zhiying was already a women's committee member in Mijitai Town.
After the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project officially started, Xin Zhiying took the lead in working on the flood diversion site as a women's committee member, and she led the women in the town to contribute to the construction of the project.
But soon after, Xin Zhiying found that the efficiency of such busy operations was very low, so she organized the sisters in the construction site and assigned one-stop operations such as stone transportation and gravel according to the strength of physical strength, which greatly increased efficiency.
Xin Zhiying herself is also fighting on the front line of the construction site, she is good at using her brain, after careful exploration, Xin Zhiying created the "harrier turning over stone rubble method", so that the efficiency of stone crushing has been doubled, and the women's group led by Xin Zhiying has an average of 0. per person per day2 square increased to about 1 party, Xin Zhiying himself can reach 138 square level.
Rao Mintai, the county magistrate of Songzi County and the commander of the migrant workers, was so happy that when he heard that the work efficiency of the women led by Xin Zhiying was several times higher than that of the male comrades, he personally asked Xin Zhiying for advice on the "harrier turning over stone rubble method", and promoted the stone gravel method to the entire Huangshantou construction site.
After that, Rao Mintai reported the experience summarized to the general headquarters, and after the commander-in-chief Tang Tianji learned about it, he called on the whole construction site to learn from Xin Zhiying.
For this reason, Tang Tianji specially launched a May labor competition, and 83 gravel mutual aid groups sprung up on the construction site at once.
After Xin Zhiying's "harrier turned over stone gravel method" was promoted, Songzi County migrant workers completed as many as 16,420 square meters of gravel tasks two days in advance, on May 13, the headquarters held a grand celebration meeting, and the head of the Hubei Provincial Migrant Workers Command awarded Xin Zhiying a big red pennant at the conference.
After the celebration, most of the migrant workers involved in the gravel went home, but Xin Zhiying insisted on staying to participate in the task of plugging the dam.
In view of Xin Zhiying's outstanding performance and outstanding contributions during the dam blocking work, the headquarters rewarded Xin Zhiying with a set of farm tools and two ploughing cattle, and also rewarded her with a pennant of "Dam Blocking Hero", and since then the name of "Dam Blocking Hero" Xin Zhiying has resounded on both sides of the Jing River.
On June 20, 1952, the Jingjiang flood diversion project was successfully completed in only 75 days, half a month faster than expected, which was an amazing miracle in the history of water conservancy projects.
On June 22, the Jingjiang Flood Distribution Headquarters held a heroic model congress at the Shashi People's Theater, at which Xin Zhiying was rated as a special model worker, and sat on the rostrum of the conference as a peasant heroic model representative and the leaders of the headquarters.
After the commendation meeting, Xin Zhiying led the two horns with a big red flower on the cow, full of honor back to his hometown, people say that this cow is the "hero cow" of Songzi County, is a symbol of the Songzi heroic model of the cow.
After that, Xin Zhiying was appointed as the deputy head of Shuanglong Township, and in September 1952, he attended the Songzi County Land Reform Review Meeting, at which the leaders of Songzi County read out a good news in public: **The leader invited Xin Zhiying to Beijing to attend the third anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, ** will meet in person!
As soon as these words came out, there was thunderous applause in the venue, Xin Zhiying was excited as if she was in a dream, for her, it was the greatest honor to be able to enter Beijing to meet her.
Xin Zhiying packed her bags and prepared to leave the next day, and the county magistrate Rao Mintai personally sent her to the Xinjiangkou Steamship Wharf, where he took out a brand-new hardcover notebook and gave it to Xin Zhiying, and wrote on the notebook with a fountain pen on the spot: "Keep the glory, carry forward the glory" eight big characters as encouragement.
After Xin Zhiying arrived in Beijing, she stayed at the guest house of the Ministry of Water Resources, and she was joined by 11 heroic and exemplary representatives of the Jingjiang flood diversion project.
On September 30, 1952, the staff of the guest house sent Xin Zhiying a brand new Mao suit and a large envelope with her name written on it.
At 6:30 p.m., Fu Zuoyi, then Minister of Water Resources of China, personally went to the guest house of the Ministry of Water Resources and walked into the splendid hall of Zhongnanhai Huairentang with 12 heroic and exemplary representatives of the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project.
At 7 o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by *** and others, they slowly walked into the venue, and the hall of Huairentang suddenly sounded the song of "Dongfang Hong".
Fu Zuoyi said to Xin Zhiying and a female model worker next to Xin Zhiying: "You two represent our table and go to toast to ***!."”
Xin Zhiying followed Fu Zuoyi to ***, she raised her wine glass with a red face and blessed ***: "I wish *** good health!."”
At this time, Xin Zhiying had short hair, and asked Fu Zuoyi: "Old Fu, is this little comrade a boy or a girl?"”
Fu Zuoyi smiled and said: "It's a girl, she is here to toast the chairman on behalf of the 300,000 military and civilian laborers of the Jingjiang Project!"”
** smiled happily and said, "Good!".Good!It's a new society now, boys and girls alike!You must cure the water in your hometown, for the people, and for the benefit of your children and grandchildren”
Xin Zhiying's heart swelled with a warm current, she kept this sentence in her heart, and she secretly decided to dedicate her life to the great cause of water control in the motherland.
After the end of the land reform in 1953, Xin Zhiying responded to the call of the state and contacted the villagers to establish the first "perennial mutual aid group" in Songzi County, and then expanded the scale to establish the first rural cooperative in Songzi County - Xin Zhiying Agricultural Production Cooperative, at the end of the year, Xin Zhiying joined the Communist Party of China, Xin Zhiying was only 20 years old this year.
Surrounded by water on three sides, Xin Zhiying's Datong District is the lowest altitude in Songzi County, and Longtai Village, where Xin Zhiying's cooperative is located, is the poorest village in Datong District.
Xin Zhiying was determined to change the backward appearance of Longtai Village, she led the villagers of the cooperative to dredge the waste river, dig the waste embankment, and tidy up the mass graves, and then Xin Zhiying led the villagers to dig canals and build drainage gates, and Xin Zhiying struggled on this land for ten years.
Thanks to Xin Zhiying's efforts, the cultivated land area of Longtai Village has expanded from less than 1,000 mu to more than 3,200 mu.
With her outstanding contributions, Xin Zhiying was successively elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress of Songzi County, Hubei Province and the National People's Congress, and then Xin Zhiying also attended the Third National Women's Congress on behalf of Songzi County.
In 1964, Xin Zhiying's third child was born, and before she could nurse the baby, Xin Zhiying received a notice from the organization leader asking her to go to Beijing to participate in the third session of the National People's Congress as a representative of the National People's Congress.
Newborn children can't be weaned, but such an important meeting as the National People's Congress can't be ignored, what should I do?Xin Zhiying hid from her husband and entrusted the child to the neighbor next door who also had just given birth, and then resolutely went all the way to Beijing.
After Zhang Tixue, the secretary of the provincial party committee who led the team at that time, learned about this incident, he severely criticized the staff who was responsible for notifying Xin Zhiying: "Why don't you let Xin Zhiying bring the child with you?"”
After the end of the conference, Zhang Tixue arranged for Hu Hengshan, secretary of the Jingzhou Prefectural Party Committee, to accompany Xin Zhiying home in advance.
Xin Zhiying was very moved by this incident, and it was not until more than ten years later that Xin Zhiying still remembered this incident vividly: "The cadres of that era were really intimate to our people!."”
At the end of May 1970, Songzi County was suddenly hit by a huge flooding disaster, with an average daily rainfall of 193 mm, about half of the county's farmland was flooded, and the road from Songzi County to Shashi was also flooded, unable to open to traffic, resulting in traffic interruption.
The people of Songzi County finally got rid of the floods, and then Songzi County suffered the most serious drought since the founding of the People's Republic of China, with a total rainfall of only 94 from June to August6 mm, the land in Songzi County cracked, and the water-dividing dam was also lifted due to drought, and the entire embankment surface was reduced by one centimeter.
Floods and droughts followed, and Songzi County suffered immeasurable losses, damaging large areas of cultivated land and destroying water conservancy facilities.
After learning the hard way, Xin Zhiying decided that a large power drainage and irrigation station must be built in order to completely solve the threat of drought and flood.
Xin Zhiying found the secretary of the county party committee and stated her views and needs to the secretary of the county party committee, but the secretary of the county party committee said: "We also want to build a water conservancy and irrigation station!"However, the disaster continues to be affected, and the finances are tight, where are we going to raise such a large amount of money!?”
Xin Zhiying, who refused to admit defeat, then approached Xia Shihou, vice governor of Hubei Province, who explained to Xia Shihou the situation of Songzi County and the need to build a large-scale power drainage and irrigation station, hoping that Vice Governor Xia could approve some project funds for her.
Xia Shihou didn't ask much, and said directly: "Is one million enough?"”
Xin Zhiying was overjoyed: "Enough, thank you Vice Governor Xia!."”
Xin Zhiying returned to Songzi County with this million, and found the secretary of the county party committee, who was overjoyed to see that Xin Zhiying had successfully asked the province for funds, so the secretary of the county party committee immediately contacted the county and district-level cadres in Songzi County, set up an electric pumping station construction project headquarters, and began the construction of the electric irrigation station project.
Seeing that once the large-scale electric irrigation station is completed, Songzi County will no longer have to worry about large-scale drought and flood disasters, Xin Zhiying is particularly excited, and she has been working day and night on the water conservancy project site.
At this time, Xin Zhiying was suffering from a serious ** disease, but in order to realize her dream of building a large-scale electric irrigation station as soon as possible, she resolutely sweated on the construction site despite the dissuasion of her life.
But one day in October 1971, Xin Zhiying suddenly vomited blood from his mouth, fell on the construction site, and was rushed to the county hospital for rescue, and then sent to Wuhan Hubei First Hospital for hysterectomy.
Due to excessive blood loss, Xin Zhiying was too weak, and the doctor suggested that Xin Zhiying rest for at least half a year, but Xin Zhiying couldn't stay in the hospital for more than ten days, she returned to the construction site after being discharged from the hospital, but she suddenly fainted after a few days of busy work.
After Xin Zhiying rested in the hospital for more than ten days, she clamored to return to the construction site, but the leading cadres really couldn't do anything about her, so they arranged for her to live in the Mijitai guest house near the electric row station, and listened to the work report while resting.
During this period, provincial leaders Zhang Tixue and Xia Shihou came to Songzi County to inspect the construction of the electric irrigation station, and they held Xin Zhiying's hand and said: "You are still as energetic as when you built the flood dam!"Nothing has changed!”
In January 1975, the Fourth National People's Congress was held in Beijing, and Xin Zhiying was re-elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
Just one day before the official opening of the conference, Zhao Xinchu, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, specially found Xin Zhiying, and she told Xin Zhiying that Xin Zhiying was selected as a member of the presidium of the conference.
Xin Zhiying looked surprised, and Zhao Xinchu said with a smile: "*Many leading comrades know that you are the earliest model worker in our country, and it is normal to be elected as a member of the presidium of the conference!"”
As soon as Zhao Xinchu finished speaking, she immediately slapped her head and remembered something more important, she said to Xin Zhiying: "Oh, that's right!."**Knowing that you just had a major operation a few years ago, the prime minister is very worried about your physical condition, and he asked me to greet you, after this meeting, you can be transferred to the province!”
Xin Zhiying was very moved after listening to Zhao Xinchu's words relayed by the premier, and he said to Zhao Xinchu with tears in his eyes: "* There are many opportunities every day, and I still come to care about the situation of me, an ordinary person, in my busy schedule. Thank you for the Prime Minister's care for me, but I think it is better to work at the grassroots level now, the water control task assigned to me has not been completed, and the people in my hometown still need me, so wait!”
**The prime minister and Xin Zhiying met in December 1964, when the prime minister and the Hubei delegation reviewed the "Hubei** work report", Xin Zhiying was also among them, in this deliberation, the ** prime minister expressed high praise for Xin Zhiying's water control work, and Xin Zhiying was also deeply impressed by the prime minister who always thought about the people.
During the National People's Congress in January 1975, ** organized all the delegates to participate in the New Year's Day meeting initiated by the CPPCC, Xin Zhiying and Liu Su'e, a professor at Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, came to the front of ***, and the prime minister warmly shook Xin Zhiying's hand and said: "Comrade Xin Zhiying, you have worked hard to control the water!."The party and the people thank you. ”
Xin Zhiying was moved to tears, but before she could thank her, ***, who was busy with official business, left with other leading cadres, Xin Zhiying thought to herself, she must find an opportunity to thank ***.
One day after the presidium meeting, Xin Zhiying found an opportunity to grab the opportunity in front of ***, she held ***'s hand and said affectionately: "Prime Minister, you have to take care of your health!."Hundreds of millions of us farmers want you to be healthy.
** also held Xin Zhiying's hand tightly and thanked: "Thank you, thank you farmers across the country." ”
The Fourth National People's Congress was successfully concluded, at the meeting, the premier solemnly put forward the grand goal of "four modernizations" to the national people's representatives, and the conference appointed the premier as the premier and the vice premier.
After the end of the conference, Xin Zhiying returned to Songzi County to continue to fight for the cause of water control, since the end of the Fourth National People's Congress, Xin Zhiying has never seen the premier again.
In December 2019, Xin Zhiying won the honorary title of the fourth "Most Beautiful Songzi People", and at 9:50 a.m. on February 24 of the following year, Xin Zhiying died of myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction at the age of 87.