"The officials do not disturb the people, and the people become rich." This stems from his years of experience in journalism and his unique insight into public-private relations. Liang Heng graduated from the National People's Congress, started as a resident reporter, and has always adhered to the news industry for decades, and his works are deeply loved by the majority of readers.
In 1982, a new magazine was about to be launched, and it invited journalists and writers from all over the country to share the sights and attractions of different places.
After receiving the invitation, Liang Heng decided to write an article about the ancestral hall in his hometown of Shanxi. In order not to waste time, he completed this work in just over two hours on the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year.
An article by Liang Heng was initially rejected by the magazine, but it was published in the supplement of his newspaper and was favored by the editor of the junior high school Chinese textbook. In this way, the new textbook of "Jin Ancestral Hall" appeared in September.
This was Liang Heng's first selection of textbooks, and in the decades since, more than a dozen of his articles have been compiled into different textbooks. Even in 1984, Liang Heng's work was used by the son of one of his classmates, who mistakenly thought that "Liang Heng" had died.
Liang Heng, a young intellectual, was born in Huozhou to a family that valued traditional culture. His father exposed him to books such as "A Thousand Poems" from an early age, and his middle school Chinese teacher helped him understand the mood of the poems through vivid paintings.
These experiences led Liang Heng to develop a strong interest in literature. After that, he studied in the archives department of the National People's Congress for four years, and was deeply influenced by teachers and students, and became a young man with a deep sense of family and country.
However, fate led him to another path: after graduation, under the special background of the times, he could only go to the remote north to work as a farmer for a year. Despite this, Liang Heng is still full of anticipation for the future and a love for literature.
Liang Heng vividly remembers that in the spring of 1969, when he was assigned to a place without a house, the locals told him, "If you look closely, that low, yellow building is a house, almost mixed with the earth." ”
During that time, together with more than 20 college students, he built sheds and stoves with his own hands, learned to collect firewood, make fires, cook, raise horses, and dig ditches.
Despite their rural confinement, no one gave up hope for the future. Someone left through the postgraduate entrance examination, and Liang Heng started propaganda work in the county with his talent, and became a reporter for "Inner Mongolia**" in 1971, and began his journalism career.
After Liang Heng changed careers to become a journalist, he was full of freshness and momentum. In contrast to the tedium and secrecy of the archival profession, journalists need to get out of the office and get as much information as possible from interviewees, and Liang Heng describes himself as "even if he falls, he has to grab a handful of dirt and go back." ”
He worked with people from three different nationalities in a small press station. They carried their bags and ran around, and the poor place had both yellow sand, sweet fruits, and enthusiastic villagers.
On their way to travel, when they are thirsty, the villagers will pick seasonal fruits for them to taste; When Liang Heng's baby was born, local compatriots took him to catch yellow sheep in the snow to help them breastfeed.
Inner Mongolia is the starting point for Liang Heng to embark on the road of journalism, and it is also the hometown where he grew up. In 1974, he temporarily left the front line of journalism and returned to his hometown Shanxi to engage in propaganda work; In 1978, "Guangming **" recruited reporters, and Liang Heng resolutely decided to seize the opportunity to re-embark on the road of journalism.
In May of that year, he came to the newspaper office to report, just in time for the convening of the historic Third Plenum. In this "good time", Liang Heng went down to the grassroots level and interviewed many people from different industries, some of whom may not have been well known at the time, but they were extremely representative.
After an interview, on his way back, he drafted a manuscript of less than 2,000 words, leaning on a pen tied to a rope next to the ticket window. A few months later, the manuscript was published, and the response was beyond everyone's expectations, and Liang Heng won several awards for it, and the pig farmer he interviewed who had experienced ups and downs became a model of grassroots reform and changed his life.
At the third session of the Sixth National Congress held in 1985, Liang Heng happened to study at the Party School. What is surprising is that he found and reported on 4 professionals from Shanxi, who worked silently in their respective positions, and through Liang Heng's report, they became famous and became models of the industry and the times.
As a journalist, it is extremely exciting to dig out an unknown talent, especially in Shanxi, which was backward in all aspects back then.
When asked how to write such a brilliant and well-watched press release, Liang Heng shared his three secrets: one is to keep the pulse of the times, the second is to understand what the people are thinking, and the third is to pay attention to what he finds.
When Liang Heng went down to the grassroots level, he found that there were many trees on both sides of the road, but he was not satisfied with simply talking about the number of trees, but digging deep into the economic value of these trees, using the bicycle that ordinary people are familiar with as a yardstick.
His 300-word report was original, with a perspective close to life and a novel entry point, which won the "Forestry Good News Award" that year. Liang Heng's success is not accidental, in addition to his keen grasp of spiritual needs and genuine concern for life, his solid writing skills are also indispensable.
His masterpieces have not only won awards in the journalism category, but also in the literature category.
After graduating, Liang Heng's enthusiasm for literature did not wane, and he and several friends squeezed on a kang to study poetry collections in the cold winter of Shujiu. In 1975, he submitted a poem to a magazine, which was accepted, and he was paid 14 yuan.
As a result, he creates newsletters and other manuscripts that accurately convey the elements of journalism, while also being vivid and engaging.
Liang Heng's work spans multiple creative cycles, ranging from articles completed in a short period of time to works that took years to create. For example, "Da Wu Da You*** has gone through a 20-year creative process, starting in 1978, and the author rushed from Shanxi to Beijing to conduct research.
Although the number of articles on political topics is small, its influence should not be underestimated. Whether it is Zhuge Liang's "Teacher's Table" or Wei Wei's "Who is the Loveliest Person", they are all well-known masterpieces.
In recent years, there have not been many people involved in this field, and Liang Heng is one of them. He became interested in political figures in history class when he was a student, and the photocopy of "On New Democracy" in the corner of a textbook** sparked his enthusiasm for reading "Mao Xuan".
As a journalist, Liang Heng's writing has been facilitated in many ways. The need for work led him to read a lot of newspapers and magazines at the same time as reading books, so that he could obtain the latest information and grasp a lot of information that others had not noticed.
In the '80s, when the country first opened, people were excited about everything new. As a journalist, Liang Heng is a well-informed and knowledgeable person, and even so, the extent of his shock about life abroad is still surprising.
In 1984, Liang Heng saw everyone in Beijing surrounding a reporter who had just returned from Germany, rushing to see the paper brought back by his colleague. Today, paper towels are an indispensable item in daily life, but at that time, Liang Heng couldn't make out what it was.
When he learned that the small piece of paper with the delicate pattern was actually toilet paper, he was shocked, for this unimaginable "Hao", but also for the incomprehensible "waste" of those who have gone through the difficult days.
At that moment, people realized the importance of openness, and only by opening up can we see clearly the gap between ourselves and the outside world, face the problems existing in the country's development, and find appropriate solutions.
At that time, both leaders and farmers were desperate to get rid of poverty and live a better life. Reform and opening up, on the other hand, have brought opportunities for recovery and development to the long-frozen market and economy.
Liang Heng believes that economic development is driven by interests, and commodity exchange will naturally occur. Because he personally experienced the arrest and punishment of peasants for selling their own agricultural products, and also saw the people's desire for reform, he was able to write that masterpiece that met the needs of the people.
Many years later, Liang Heng saw on television that rural towns and towns were forced to require farmers to plant a certain kind of designated crops, and to pull out the crops that had grown to a certain height in the fields.
The pursuit of farmers is only the prosperity and tranquility of life, and they should be committed to ensuring people's livelihood and promoting development, rather than ignoring the wishes of farmers for the sake of so-called "economic interests" and ignoring how farmers without food can make a living.
Liang Heng's identity is becoming more and more diverse, not only the deputy director of the Press and Publication Administration, the vice president of the country's largest newspaper, but also the transformation from a journalist to a **. When students from top universities asked him what he wanted to do in the next life, he replied unabashedly, "I want to be a **."
He believes that the essence of being an official is to serve the people, and this is the viewpoint he has always upheld. From the clear distinction between public and private affairs set by the teachers and teachers on campus to the example they set for their classmates, to what he saw and heard after work, he firmly believed in the concept of "being an official is to serve the people".
Although he is already in a high position, he still cares about those poor people, and specially raises a lot of cotton clothes for the poor people to spend the winter. Soon after, however, he found the cotton clothes still lying in the storeroom, to be used as "warmth in the countryside" when the New Year came.
Seeing the place where he was wearing warm and decent winter clothes, Liang Heng felt very angry.
Being an official is not for the sake of "putting on a show," but for earnestly performing one's duties. The higher the official position, the heavier the responsibility. However, some people put away their hard-prepared clothes just to pursue the "political achievements" of the New Year.
Liang Heng has done much more than that. For example, in 1993, he donated his books on popular science mathematics, physics and chemistry in the form of Zhanghui to Xinjiang Publishing House free of charge, and personally raised more than 100,000 yuan for publication.
After serving as the deputy editor-in-chief of "People**", his work has become busier, often working until the early hours of the morning, but "boiling" has become the norm in his life. It is admirable that even under such circumstances, he still took the time to pay attention to the ordinary individuals who were wise and kind and beautiful, as well as the revolutionaries who made the mountains look up to them, and created many popular works.
After his retirement, Liang Heng continued to maintain his passion for writing and society. He spent years travelling extensively and concentrating on books on forestry subjects, unrelentingly exposing the illusion that the stipend was a matter of glory.
In addition, he wrote an article about Zhang Wentian. Outside of work, even though he is in his seventies, Liang Heng still lives like an ordinary old man, dressed plainly, without any shelf.
However, it is such an old man who has written many wonderful articles in the past 40 years.
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