In 1977, Xian Henghan worked in Lanzhou for 27 years, and was later dismissed from the posts of first secretary of the party committee and first political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, first secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and was transferred back to the Military Commission for reassignment.
Although he expressed support for the transfer at the time, in the end he did not wait for a new appointment and was given a notice to retire from active duty.
In 1949, after Yiye liberated Shaanxi, Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu, Xian Henghan was appointed deputy director of the Political Department of the Northwest Military Region to assist Liao Hansheng in his work.
When Liao Hansheng became deputy political commissar, Xian Henghan was promoted to director of the political department. For the next 27 years, he remained in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.
Although Xian Henghan was a native of Guangxi, he never left the northwest after he came to northern Shaanxi in 1936.
It can be said that the Great Northwest is his second hometown, and even closer to him than his first hometown to some extent. In 1955, after the establishment of the Lanzhou Military Region, he served as the political commissar of the military region and worked for 22 years.
In 1967, the army was ordered to support the leftists, and he began to reduce contacts with the localities, and in 1968 he became secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and head of the Revolutionary Committee.
Since then, his main focus has been on the local area, and his first tasks are grain production, water conservancy construction, ensuring that there is no need for state relief food, and minimizing the situation of ordinary people leaving their homes to beg for food.
After several years of unremitting efforts, our agricultural production has achieved remarkable results. From a 1969 baseline, food production doubled by 1975, an encouraging achievement.
Naturally, there are some shortcomings in the results of our work. In handling the work of the Lanzhou Railway Bureau, because we failed to handle it properly, he lost his black hat in Xishan and was dismissed from his posts as first secretary of the party committee and first political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, first secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee.
Of course, the problem of the Lanzhou Railway Bureau is a complex one, and it is not part of the local administration in the first place. However, his superiors asked him to be involved in the process.
In the end, we decided that he was in the railway system and engaged in another set of actions in the fight against the right-leaning overturning case, which paralyzed the Lanzhou Railway Bureau for a time and seriously affected the economic construction, national defense construction, and people's livelihood of several provinces and autonomous regions in the northwest.
Considering his mistake, the higher-ups decided to let him leave Gansu first and return to Beijing to await his reassignment. He actively expressed his support for this transfer.
There are two main reasons for his departure, firstly, he had disagreements with the commander of the military district, Han Xianchu, on his work and could not agree on certain issues, which affected internal unity.
Secondly, he was deeply moved by the attitude of treating the sick and saving people for the cadres who made mistakes, being strict in criticizing and lenient in dealing with them.
In 1982, he was still in Beijing waiting for a job assignment, but to no avail, he returned to Gansu to deal with his previous problems. As soon as he returned to Lanzhou, he suffered all kinds of criticism, and even fell ill and was hospitalized because of it.
In the end, he was forced to retire from active duty. In his later life, he chose to settle down in Gansu and recorded that special experience with his pen.
He hoped that one day, if anyone who studied this period of history was interested, these records could serve as a basis for their judgment and analysis.
As for the merits, let history decide.