In the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, China had just put things in order, the society was back on track, and the reform and opening up led by Deng Gong had just begun.
The whole world is full of curiosity about China, and it is also full of curiosity about China's new generation of leading core comrades.
They wonder what kind of policies *** will adopt to govern China? Curious about what kind of person *** is? They are more curious about how the new generation of leadership will treat the previous generation of leaders?
Many people in the world want to interview Deng Gong up close, and in 1980, the famous Italian female journalist Farage got this precious opportunity.
Farage, whose full name is Oriana Farage, is a well-known Italian journalist and writer who has covered the Vietnam War, the Indo-Pakistani War, the Middle East War, and the unrest in South Africa.
Farage is a two-time winner of the St. Vincent's Journalism Award and a once-Bancarella Bestselling Author Award. She also received the United StatesColumbia College, Chicago, Doctor of Letters, honoris causa
Farage was a fierce woman who had been involved in the movement against Mussolini since the age of 10, giving publicity and information to the Resistance. Slightly older, she also became an Italian partisan and fought against fascism with real weapons.
After the end of World War II, Farage's first job was as a journalist for the Central Italian Morning Post, where he ran police and hospital-related news.
Five years later, Farage rose to prominence, interviewing people who were no longer the town's police officers and doctors, but internationally renowned people.
From the mid-'60s, Farage began to become a world-renowned journalist, earning a world-class reputation as she volunteered to cover the front lines of the Vietnam War.
Farage has interviewed many world-renowned dignitaries, such as Kissinger, Ayatollah Ruhollah Ruhollah, and many othersHer interview style has always been tricky and spicy, often with aggressive questions, and hersThe unruly personality is the same.
Before each interview, Farage spends weeks researching the details of his interviewees, which last six or seven hours.
Many powerful VIPs revealed their true thoughts in Farage's cannon-like questioning.
Before 1980, Farage submitted two applications to China to interview Deng Gong, but was unsuccessful.
Until 1980, the year of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy, Farage applied again through the opportunity of his father's friend Italian ** Pertini to visit China.
This time, Farage's application was approved by China, and she will be the first female journalist in the Western world to interview Deng Gong face-to-face.
The reason why he agreed to Farage's interview application was that Deng Gong considered that this interview would play an important role in China's reform and opening upIt can make the world know more about China, and to a certain extent, it can also promote the confidence and willingness of world capital to invest in China.
On August 21, 1980, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Farage met Deng Gong in Hall 118 of Zhongnanhai, and this world-renowned interview began.
At the beginning of the interview, Farage was his signature aggressiveness, and the questions he asked were very tricky.
However, in the face of Farage's tricky problems, Deng Gongdu smiled and resolved them one by one, showing the demeanor and wisdom of the leader of a big country.
Towards the end of the interview, Farage asked Deng Gong another sensitive question:
"Mr. Deng, why have you been the second-in-command all these years? ”
As soon as Farage finished speaking, the translator's face changed, the question was ostensibly a personal issue, but in fact it was an allusion to China's political ecology, and she didn't know whether to translate or not.
However, at the suggestion of Deng Gong, the translator still translated the question locally.
After hearing this question, the people present all fell silent and waited for Deng Gong's answer.
Deng Gong faced this question and replied with a smile in nine words"No impact on my work".
After a pause, Deng Gong continued to answer with a smile"I'm also getting older, and in the future, I will take a back seat with a group of old cadres and give young people a chance."
Deng Gong's answer is actually based on the background of the times.
After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, a large number of veteran cadres who had been ** returned to work after putting things in order.
Although the comeback of veteran cadres has brought the country back to the normal track, it has also exposed that our cadres are aging and too old to meet the needs of modernization.
After Deng Gong made a comeback, he keenly discovered this problem.
For this reason, Deng Gong proposed the rejuvenation of cadres, the so-called rejuvenation of cadres, that is, to realize cadres at all levels of the local party and departments."RevolutionizedYounger, knowledgeable and professional
According to the actual situation at that time, Deng Gong pointed outThe middle- and lower-level leadership groups must have a majority of middle-aged and young people, and the high-level leadership groups must also demand more middle-aged and young talents.
Some veteran cadres are worried about the inexperience of young people and that they are not qualified for important positions.
In such cases,Deng Gong said, "Don't look down on young people."
It is true that young people lack experience, but in the face of modernization, don't old cadres and comrades also have no experience? Aren't you going to make mistakes too?
While veteran cadres should play their role as "ballast stones," they should also encourage young people to "come from behind," so as to ensure the success of our country's reform and opening up.
It was under the instructions of Deng Gong that in 1982, in the first institutional reformThe number of deputy prime ministers was reduced from 13 to 2. ** The number of ministries has been reduced from 100 to 61, and the number of ministry staff has been reduced from 5The number of people has been reduced from 10,000 to 10,000, and the average age of ministerial-level leaders has been reduced from 64 to 60.
Only then can the reform of the rejuvenation of cadres in our country advance steadily, and only then can many outstanding young cadres "catch up from behind."
Deng Gong's wonderful answer made Farage secretly admire in his heart, and Deng Gong became one of the few celebrities who was not asked by Farage.
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