Four years ago, on February 5, an elderly man in good spirits stepped off the plane. He was greeted by Xu Zhongyuan, the founder of Jiangsu COSCO Student Aid Association, and Liu Hailin, the director of the association.
**In the past five years, it has grown to 11 provinces and autonomous regions. Today, they are going to report the good news to the old man in front of them.
The old man called, born in 1917, is now 104 years old.
* He was a child from a peasant family, and because his family was poor, he did not start elementary school until he was 9 years old. However, at that time, because of his excellent academic performance, he jumped two levels in a row.
Therefore, although he studied later than many school-age children, he was still admitted to the Department of Agriculture of Peking University (now China Agricultural University) at the age of 17.
Originally, the farmer planned to learn agricultural knowledge and be able to give back to his hometown and promote agricultural production in the future. But then something happened that prompted ** to choose to transfer.
In December 1935, due to the Japanese invasion, the students spontaneously launched the "December 9" anti-Japanese movement. At that time, there were many strategic inconsistencies between Peking University and students, which led to conflicts between the two sides.
On January 9, 1936, not a single student from Peking University attended classes, and ** was one of them. He thought that Peking University had lost his original intention of studying, so he applied to Tsinghua University, and entered the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University in the same year.
At Tsinghua University, he actively participated in chemistry experiments and discovered his new hobby - swimming. Tsinghua University's Chemistry Museum, Science Museum, and Gymnasium are the three places he often visits.
However, it didn't last long for him to enjoy his real college career. In 1937, when Japan began its full-scale invasion, Beijing was also affected, and many universities moved south, including Tsinghua University.
In the process of moving south, Tsinghua originally only moved to Changsha, and formed Changsha Provisional University with Peking University and Nankai University, so he studied in Changsha for a period of time, and at the same time, **joined the Communist Party.
This was a turning point in his life and prompted his determination to leave school. And let ** leave resolutely, it was Changsha Temporary University and then planned to go to Kunming, which made him realize that this was not the campus life he wanted.
In 1938, he officially came to Yan'an and began to study at the Marxist-Leninist School of the Communist Party of China. At that time, he came to Yan'an with the mood of resisting Japan and saving the country, but he did not know how to be a qualified Communist Party member.
At that time, he met **, who served as a teacher, and under the guidance of **, ** officially became a Communist Party member ideologically, and he finally found the goal he fought for all his life and actively participated in the anti-Japanese work.
During this period, several major events took place within the Communist Party. A major event is that in order to expand the party's political influence, ** decided to establish a newspaper, and in 1938 rushed from Yan'an to Wuhan to create "Xinhua**".
The second major event is that in 1938, the Japanese army invaded Wuhan and Wuhan was lost.
He had to transfer the publication plan of the first issue of "Xinhua**" to Chongqing, and he transferred some cadres and students from Yan'an to come over to carry out preparatory work.
*Due to his excellent grades in the Marxist-Leninist school, he stayed in school and worked. Because of the founding of Xinhua**, he was also transferred to the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing in 1941.
Here, he was fortunate to meet *** is a student who graduated from Nankai University, and at this moment, Nankai University and Tsinghua University also jointly founded Southwest Associated University in Kunming. In a way, the two are alumni.
At that time, it was the third anniversary of the founding of the Xinhua News Agency, but the KMT's toppling of our party reached a peak. Coupled with the Japanese invasion, the Kuomintang put the blame for the defeat on our party, and even plunged our party into injustice.
At this moment, the first husband is the key, the first man is not open, resolutely and the first hard bar to the end, with the pen as the **, launched a fierce literary struggle in Chongqing Xinhua News Agency, and finally uncovered the ugly face of the Kuomintang.
It was in this situation that I became the political secretary of *** and felt the integrity of *** up close.
At the age of 24, he was full of enthusiasm, and his image of not being humble or arrogant had a deep impact on him.
After that, he learned a lot of life and working principles from ***, which played a big role in his subsequent political career.
Perhaps it was under the positive influence of *** that he distinguished himself in Xinhua News Agency and served as the director of the Xinhua News Agency in Chongqing in 1946.
It didn't take long for ** to receive an important task, that is, to let him go to Nanjing and serve as the director of the Xinhua News Agency branch.
You must know that the capital of the Kuomintang at that time was Nanjing, and the address of the Nanjing Xinhua News Agency branch was not far from the ** government.
The task of ** is to expose Chiang's conspiracy of "fake peace talks and real civil war" in Nanjing, and use Xinhua ** as a medium to unite and guide people at all levels in China.
At that time, there was only one president of the entire Xinhua News Agency, and editors Yang Zhaolin, newspaper operators Cai Mingde, Yan Shijun and others, who withstood the heavy information blockade and brought the real voice to the whole of China.
Because of his contribution in Nanjing, ** was sent to Northeast China to carry out economic and industrial development. At that time, he worked in the Northeast Federation of Trade Unions, mainly responsible for the development of national enterprises, which also laid the groundwork for his later work experience.
On November 2, 1948, Shenyang was liberated on all fronts, and the army entered Shenyang with the North Bureau of the Communist Party of China. Not long after entering Shenyang, ** began to serve as the editor-in-chief of "Workers' Daily" (the predecessor of "Shenyang**").
Coupled with his work in the union, he can be said to be very busy. But he never slacked off in any of his work. In particular, at the beginning of the publication, all kinds of equipment could not be matched, but ** overcame these difficulties one by one.
In the view of **, economic development and cultural development are equally important. During the years when he worked in the Northeast Federation of Trade Unions and different newspapers, he deeply understood that development is the last word.
After that, he was transferred back to Beijing in 1952. He served as vice chairman of the State Planning Commission. At that time, Deng Gong was the vice premier, in charge of the economy and finance. The two have a certain correspondence at work.
They don't know that more than 20 years later, they will fight side by side on the ** and create a new era of China together. Their second working cooperation was with the development of the third line construction.
In 1960, he was transferred to the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China. At that time, Deng Gong was responsible for inspecting the construction of the third line in the northwest, and went to the northwest to inspect the development work.
Because the two have similar work experience, they are more able to cooperate tacitly in their future careers. And his subsequent work experience, combined with his adolescent life, has added a lot of experience to his political path.
In 1973, after the construction of the third line came to an end, ** began to serve as the secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee. Once, for the agricultural development of his hometown, he went to Peking University to study agriculture.
But what he never expected was that the agricultural knowledge he learned at Peking University would one day be applied to the land of Gansu.
At that time, the drought in Gansu was very severe. Shortly after taking office, it was time to address this dilemma. He knows that behind the drought is actually the result of the imperfect development of agricultural production.
Therefore, in order to vigorously develop agricultural production, he went to the countryside to carry out squatting, organized large-scale rural surveys, and began to spare no effort to promote the production of guaranteed production to households, which promoted the development of Gansu's productive forces.
Not only that, but also attaches great importance to the hard work of working people. Maybe it's the farmer's son who understands the hardships and difficulties of grain production.
He built a bronze statue of a forester in Hongzui Mountain, Gansu Province. Because of this model worker named Guo Fushan, he single-handedly turned the originally barren Hongzui Mountain into a fruit forest.
In December 1979, Guo Fushan went to Lanzhou as a representative of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress to attend a meeting and met **.
He gave him two apples and said, "Secretary Song, I know you never accept gifts, but this apple is my thank you for your support to farmers." ”
* Very moved, sympathetic to Guo Fushan's intentions, he accepted the apple, and gave Guo Fushan two brand-new shovels as a gift in return, to show his respect for the working people.
It is in this experience in Gansu that I deeply understand that the development of the country is inseparable from the efforts of working people; The improvement of the living standards of the working people is also inseparable from the policy support of the state.
In 1981, ** returned to the State Planning Commission again. Compared to thirty years ago, ** has a different mentality. At the same time, he was still standing beside his former mentor - * and former leader - Deng Gong.
Deng Gonghe is very trusting, and admires the two very much, and has always followed the ideas of reform and opening up of the two and embarked on the road of economic development.
During his tenure as director of the State Planning Commission, he accomplished many feats, the most important of which was to take over the task of formulating and implementing the Sixth Five-Year Plan. Under his auspices, the Seventh Five-Year Plan was also smoothly promoted.
At that time, the initial idea of the "Sixth Five-Year Plan" was formed very early, and this idea was formed in 1976, but there was never a complete plan. So, after accepting the task, the "Six Five" almost started from scratch.
With a realistic style, he attaches great importance to the conclusions of field research, and behind almost every plan, it is the result of his personal investigation.
Some heavy industry plans need to go to deserts, grasslands and other areas, and the transportation is very inconvenient, and sometimes it takes a long car ride to reach the destination, and ** even have not eaten much.
At the same time, we are also well aware that the development of reform and opening up is inseparable from the promotion of new technologies. He attaches great importance to information technology and hopes to promote economic development through information integration.
The most well-known Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project was also planned by him. He led experts in the fields of water conservancy and shipping to inspect, study, and discuss all important points along the river for seven or eight consecutive days.
After that, he contacted various experts for a discussion of 300 people, and then wrote the results of the discussion into a consultation report and submitted it to ** for review.
This process system of "evaluation first, decision later" began at that time and has been inherited to this day.
* Not only does he work hard, but also because of the experience of working with *** in his early years, he has his own set of working principles in it. First, when you are on a business trip, you will never put alcohol on the table.
Once, when he went to Hailar to inspect, it was freezing cold, and in order to ward off the cold, the local comrades persuaded him to drink some wine to warm his body. However, ** flatly rejected this proposal.
Second, when you go on a business trip, you will never accept gifts. Once** went to Jungger on a business trip, the local production of wool blankets, and wanted to give one to one person in the business trip group, ** naturally chose to refuse.
His hard-working and simple personality is not only in himself, but also deeply in his children.
According to his son Song Yichang, his father has always been strict in discipline, strictly controlling the monthly meal money, and resolutely not letting them develop the habit of extravagance and waste.
Even Song Yichang's classmates thought that his family was a child of a poor family, because he often wore very old clothes and often said that he had no money.
No one would have thought that Song Yichang, who was dressed plainly, had his father who later served as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and was at the national level.
It can be said that in the development of China's reform and opening up, it plays the role of the backbone of the past and the future. And he also retreated bravely. But still in the rest of his life, he thinks about the country for the first time.
*We care about the next generation. During the war years, he often gave young people the opportunity to show their talents and abilities, and after the modern society, many young people have made new developments.
However, ** knows, some poor children are like him back then, and it may be difficult for them to have the opportunity to get out of the mountains. So since the nineties, he has been caring about poor students.
In 1994, ** and his wife Chen Shunyao began to sponsor three students. Since then, he has sponsored several children to help them get admitted to university.
And as time progressed, the charity became more and more sophisticated. 6 years ago, ** was called by a one"Beautiful China".to learn more about the current situation in rural education.
He saw several young post-90s volunteer teachers brought by Liu Zepeng, chairman of "Beautiful China", listened to their teaching status, and said to them very seriously: "Don't underestimate your actions in the countryside. ”
After that, he came into contact with the Jiangsu COSCO Student Aid Association and personally named the student assistance project "Dream Class". He hopes that these children, after being helped by the student assistance program, will be able to realize their dreams like him back then.
Four years ago, on February 5, Chairman Xu Zhongyuan and Director Liu Hailin told ** that the Dream Class "has been built 16 and developed to 11 provinces and autonomous regions.
*I was very relieved to hear that. And when Xu Zhongyuan wanted to give the plaque of the dream class with the name of ** written on it to **, he was unhappy again:
What are these two words for? The dream class is what I wrote, and it's okay if you don't add it. ”
Even if you do good deeds, you don't want to bring your false name to yourself. What pleased him was not that he was known for "doing good", but that he had really "done a good deed".
All the people who meet ** will not be impressed by the noble sentiments of the old man and his rigorous temperament.
In that era, it was the revolutionaries who were as diligent, for the country and the people, and simple and simple as the first to create our brilliant achievements today.
And this year is the 104th year that the old man has walked, and the old man at this time has always been in good spirits and has a sound like a bell. May the elderly continue to be healthy and happy!