In January 2024, Chen Xingjia released his new book "Farewell Song". All articles** were provided by respondents.
Chen Xingjia's life will be divided into the first half and the second half.
Previously, he was best known for his speech at the 2015 plenary session of the Commission for Discipline Inspection in Badong County, Hubei Province, where he angrily denounced corruption** and thus became an "Internet celebrity secretary".
In 2016, one year after receiving the "National Excellent County Party Secretary" issued by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chen Xingjia resigned and founded Shenzhen Henghui Public Welfare Association (hereinafter referred to as "** Association") to transform into a public welfare person. Recently, he wrote a new book "Farewell Song" from his 7-year public welfare experience, which records life and death.
Although the road is far, the journey is coming.
Xiao Li, a college classmate and friend of Chen Xingjia for decades, once disapproved of Chen Xingjia's transformation. Chen Xingjia always listened to the persuasion of the other party, and sometimes even took a piece of paper to write it down. "But I don't think he's a very susceptible person, he has his own ideas. Xiao Li told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network.
Chen Xingjia did public welfare, and the first project he initiated was the "United Love Project" for children with leukemia. He does not want to "rely on trafficking in the tragic stories of the poor to get donations from the rich", but in addition to financial assistance, he provides the whole process of support for the children from psychological counseling, life care to social reintegration.
In 2017, Chen Xingjia slept in the office of Shenzhen Henghui Public Welfare Association.
In our project, only 5% of the money is given, and the remaining 95% is service. Chen Xingjia said, "For those patients, in addition to giving money, do they have any psychological support during the long process?" Have you given them how to cooperate with popular science**? After they are disconnected from society because of their illness, how can they reconnect with society? Does anyone care about this? He hopes to explore a system to help patients solve these problems.
Among all the children he has helped, Tashi is the one who impresses Chen Xingjia. Feeling hopeless, Tashi's parents refused to help him**. The members of the meeting communicated repeatedly and completed the supplementary payment of Tashi's medical insurance in a week, and finally helped Tashi successfully obtain assistance. Later, Chen Xingjia kept putting a photo of him and Tashi on the table.
Another child who impressed Chen Xingjia was Li Ying (pseudonym), who had the longest recurrence of the disease and the highest cost among all the children, "In the words of the doctor, Li Ying experienced almost all the infections that children with leukemia may have experienced after transplantation", which also put this ordinary rural family with a lot of debt.
"Lianai Project" provided Li Ying with supplementary reimbursement in the medical insurance catalog. Chen Xingjia believes that charity should have a "boundary of action" and cannot be given endlessly, and he hopes to promote the entry of good drugs that are not included in the medical insurance catalogue into the national medical insurance.
Some patients' families were at a loss, and the "United Love Project" helped them popularize their illness and relieve anxiety; The ** cycle of the child is long and painful, and there are professional social workers to accompany them to "play companionship" or "art therapy"; On New Year's Day in the past two years, the "United Love Project" has fulfilled New Year's wishes for 100 children; After the child recovers, team members will follow up from time to time to help the child reintegrate into society.
In 2017, before the "Lianai Project" landed in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, children with leukemia in Heyuan City could only go to Guangzhou**, and later, the "Lianai Project" promoted the establishment of a pediatric hematology department in Heyuan People's Hospital. In five years, the "United Love Project" has successfully rescued 118 children in Qinghai Province and extended the model to Gansu Province.
On the other side of the mountain is the sea.
Transforming into public welfare is not Chen Xingjia's only surprising turn.
In 1988, he was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Hubei University in the provincial capital of Wuhan from Xingshan County, Hubei Province. Xiao Li remembered that on the day of the freshman meeting, Chen Xingjia said as soon as he took the stage when he introduced himself: "I am from the mountains, and I will return to the mountains after graduation." ”
At that time, Xiao Li felt disdainful of this remark: "I think this is too contrived, who will believe it when it is said?" "That is the time when the wave of reform and opening up is rising, and everyone hopes to seize the opportunity in the wind of the times.
But unexpectedly, at the moment of graduation 4 years later, Chen Xingjia really returned to Xingshan County, where he grew up, and stayed in Dashan for more than 20 years. He wrote in the book: "In addition to the nostalgia for my hometown, another important reason is that I am not so confident, I dare not step out of my comfort zone, deep in my heart, my ability can only be competent to return to the mountains and do something honestly." ”
At the same time, Xiao Li, who was in the bunk with him, stepped on the waves of opportunities of the times, first went south to Shenzhen, then north to Beijing, and finally chose to go to the United States. Later, Chen Xingjia came to study at the University of Chicago in the United States as a reserve cadre in Hubei Province and met Xiao Li in Boston. Before they met, Chen Xingjia proposed that he must go to see the sea. On the cliffs by the Atlantic Ocean, Chen Xingjia emotionally talked about a text from his elementary school days, "The Sea on the Other Side of the Mountain", which sowed a certain seed in his life.
More than 10 years later, Chen Xingjia established the ** Association and launched a public welfare summer camp called "Reading, Take Me to the Sea Outside the Mountain", bringing dozens of children from the mountainous areas of Guizhou to the sea for a poetry appreciation class.
Farewell song. Shi Ce, an employee of the **club, always kept one**, that is, at the beginning of the establishment of the **club, the headquarters of Shenzhen social organizations approved an office space for Chen Xingjia - two workstations in the corner of a large office. **, Chen Xingjia sat in a crowded corner full of things, the shelf above his head was full of trophies and awards, he curled up underneath, covered his eyes with one hand, and fell asleep.
Doing public welfare is sometimes more exhausting than energy. In the past 7 years of public welfare, Chen Xingjia has rescued many children, but he has tried his best to save the lives of the children; He has helped many people, but he has also been attacked by those who have been helped. He encouraged the depressed teenager, but in the end the teenager chose to leave ......Life and death are so densely stirred in his life.
He wrote these stories into his new book, "Farewell Song", in an attempt to put his emotions in place through writing. Xiao Li couldn't finish reading this book, he felt pain, and couldn't help but say to Chen Xingjia: "Human energy is limited, are you so sustainable?" ”
When talking about this paragraph, Chen Xingjia shed tears, covered his eyes with a piece of facial paper, and quickly adjusted himself again, saying: "I am not uncomfortable, because I feel great strength and warmth along the way. ”
Chen Xingjia's WeChat interface is often filled with messages from the children he has helped, who report their test results to him and sing birthday songs for him. He went to the Chinese People's University to give a lecture, and a girl who grew up in the mountains gave him a tearful hug after the speech.
Since doing public welfare, many well-known entrepreneurs are willing to support his career. But he remembered the donation of a couple, they came from the working class in the county, there were two children who were going to school at home, and the couple donated 300,000 yuan for the ** club, they said: "Give you the money, I think you will use it well." ”
behind the sun.
Xiao Li felt that many of Chen Xingjia's qualities were brought to him by his mother. When he was in college, Xiao Li once participated in an essay contest with Chen Xingjia and wrote "My Mother". Later, after reading Chen Xingjia's article, he did not submit his own, "I think he writes much more sincerely than me."
Chen Xingjia often tells the story about his mother that when he was a child, there was a poor family in the village who was "not welcomed", and he often came to the house to borrow salt, and his mother never let them go back empty-handed.
Chen Xingjia's "tears are extremely low", and in a conversation with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, he cried four or five times in two and a half hours. Speaking of his mother, it made him cry instantly, after his mother died, he always took ** with him, he said, "My mother brought me not only life in the physical sense" and "I want to live like my mother".
In addition to his mother, his wife also had a profound influence on him. They were college classmates and each other's first love. When he was in college, when his wife was preparing to study in the United States, Chen Xingjia didn't know what "TOEFL" was. Later, his wife gave up his job in Guangzhou City and followed Chen Xingjia back to Dashan, and during the years when Chen Xingjia was arranged by the organization to work in various places, his wife took care of the elderly and children at home alone, and supported the family's financial burden.
His wife never complained to Chen Xingjia about her hardships, but Chen Xingjia felt his wife's regret at a certain moment. When the car drove into the city, the son saw the traffic light for the first time, pointed out the window and shouted excitedly, while the wife turned around, leaned on the back of the chair and covered her face with her hands and cried. Later, they never mentioned this matter again, but Chen Xingjia knew that his wife at that moment might regret it, and she was willing to follow Chen Xingjia into the mountain, but she was reluctant to let her son be "blocked" by the mountain.
Later, his son was admitted to Peking University and eventually went to the United States to study for a full-scholarship doctorate. Chen Xingjia sighed: "I haven't worried about him since I was a child, he himself has been smooth sailing, I think there are few fathers in the world who are so lucky." ”
But Xiao Li saw a certain lack of Chen Xingjia's son. In the United States, they often get together to chat, and "he may still have regrets because his father didn't have time for him when he was growing up."
Chen Xingjia's current public welfare team is basically post-90s, and most people are attracted by him. Zhao Ying (pseudonym), a volunteer close to Chen Xingjia, said that he once doubted whether the kindness and justice he wanted to uphold were sustainable, but he saw a possibility in Chen Xingjia, "At least someone walks with me, and I am not alone."
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network Intern Reporter Pei Sitong Reporter Yang Jie **China Youth Daily.
*: China Youth Daily.