Huaxi Village is recognized as a wealthy village, and no one dares to call it the first.
Huaxi Village, known as the "No. 1 Village in the World", achieved a total annual income of more than 52.4 billion yuan in 2012, an astonishing figure that not only surpasses countless villages, but also some cities are difficult to match.
In addition, Huaxi Village is equipped with heavyweight transportation equipment such as highways, waterways, tunnels and world-class fields, and luxury houses and luxury cars are all available. The brilliance of Huaxi Village is inseparable from Wu Renbao's outstanding contributions.
Under his leadership, Huaxi Village has grown from an area of only 0The 98 square kilometers of impoverished rural areas have developed into today's "No. 1 village in the world".
Huaxi Village, a name widely known in the land of China, is also the hometown of a legendary Wu Renbao. He is the head of Huaxi Village, known as the "most beautiful secretary" by the villagers, and his life is dedicated to changing the fate of Huaxi Village, leading Huaxi Village from a poor mountain village to "the first village in the world".
Wu Renbao's death immersed the entire Huaxi Village in grief, and countless villagers came to mourn, and his funeral was full of tears. So, what kind of person is this Wu Renbao, and how did he bring Huaxi Village to prosperity and strength?
Let's explore his story together. Wu Renbao was born in 1928 in a peasant family in Wujiaji, Huashu Township, Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province.
He spent his whole life striving to achieve this meaning.
* Period, Wu Renbao's childhood memory will always be "poverty". The family is so poor that it is difficult to even have enough to eat, let alone study. He knew that "the children of the poor are in charge of the house early", and since he was a child, he hardly let his parents worry about it.
In order to change the family situation, he got the consent of his parents and went to the landlord's house to work as a cattle herder. In his spare time, he also goes to the river to catch fish and shrimp and exchange rice to improve his food.
Despite the hardships of life, he was hopeful for the future and determined not to be poor again.
In 1944, at the age of 16, Wu Renbao decided to challenge the unknown. He watched the market carefully, and the cloth business attracted his attention. However, due to his lack of experience and access, his cloth business did not go well and even lost money.
Despite the failure of his first attempt, this did not discourage him, but rather inspired his determination. In 1949, the founding of the People's Republic of China provided better employment opportunities for more people, and Wu Renbao was one of them.
He was assigned 2 acres and 4 points of arable land and started a new life.
Although Wu Renbao did not own much land, he devoted himself to it with great enthusiasm, carefully managed it, and generously donated the grain to the front line after the harvest. His outstanding performance was seen by the superior leaders, and in February 1954, he was appointed as the People's Finance and Food Committee of Huashi Gudai Township, becoming a national cadre and entering the first sequence.
In 1957, he left after three years of working in the people's ** of Huashi Gudai Township, which also laid a solid foundation for him to officially lead Huaxi Village.
At the end of 1957, Wu Renbao was transferred to Huashi Township, Jiangyin County, and served as the secretary of the 23rd Society Branch and the Secretary of the Party Branch of the 17th Brigade of Huashi Commune. During his tenure in office, he served the masses wholeheartedly, conscientiously implemented the purpose of coming from the masses to the masses, won wide acclaim from the masses, and became a good cadre who was deeply loved.
Due to his outstanding leadership ability and noble personality, Wu Renbao was successfully elected as the first party branch secretary of the Huaxi Brigade in the early days of the establishment of Huaxi Village. However, it was not easy to serve as the secretary of the party branch of the Huaxi Brigade, because Huaxi Village was extremely poor at that time, and many people were afraid to avoid it.
However, Wu Renbao was not afraid of difficulties, bravely shouldered heavy burdens, and used his wisdom and sweat to lead Huaxi Village out of poverty and towards prosperity.
From the beginning of its establishment, Huaxi Village was faced with problems such as a large number of people and little land, scattered land, and backward infrastructure. Under such conditions, Wu Renbao resolutely took over the rice planting work in Huaxi Village.
In the face of many difficulties, he actively sought solutions, worked hard to improve the condition of cultivated land and farmland infrastructure, and led Huaxi Village to achieve a bumper harvest of agricultural production.
Wu Renbao cares about the poor villagers and vows to let Huaxi Village get rid of poverty and become rich. He organized a mobilization meeting for the whole village, and passionately expressed that he wanted to let the villagers have enough to eat and live in new houses, and to completely change the poverty of Huaxi Village.
His promise was fulfilled, and Huaxi Village was transformed from a poor village into a "rich village". Wu Renbao's actions and determination are deeply admired.
Wu Renbao's action of leading the villagers to work did not receive enough attention from the villagers of Huaxi Village, and some people even ridiculed him for being inadequate. However, Wu Renbao was not discouraged by this, because he was convinced that the only way to win the trust of the villagers was to put in real efforts.
So, Wu Renbao decided to lead by example and went down to the field himself. In those days, every day before dawn, he would go out of the house, and only after the stars hung in the sky did he drag his tired body home.
He leveled the land, built water conservancy, planted rice and rice, and did everything himself, and every day of work was fully arranged. His actions were recognized and respected by the villagers, and his bold words were finally realized.
Wu Renbao's exchanges with the villagers allowed the villagers of Huaxi Village to witness a series of his actions, which made more and more villagers begin to believe in Wu Renbao's promises at the beginning of his tenure.
Under the leadership of Wu Renbao, the villagers of Huaxi Village were full of passion, and the results of their joint efforts were also rewarded, and the grain output of the Huaxi Brigade increased significantly, making a qualitative leap compared with before.
In just one year, the yield of rice per mu in Huaxi Village has increased from less than 350 catties to 1,050 catties. Except for the part handed over to the state, each villager has enough surplus food in their hands, and it is no longer a problem to eat and drink enough.
After the Iron Maiden Agricultural Combat Team in Huaxi Village completed the set goal, Wu Renbao was not satisfied with this, he began to think about how to lead the villagers to common prosperity. Wu Renbao understands that agriculture alone cannot make the villagers rich, and that new ways to get rich need to be found.
After much deliberation, he came up with the idea of "industrial riches", a decision that appeared very innovative and unique in the country's countryside.
Wu Renbao firmly believes that "good ideas should be put into practice immediately", and he does not hesitate to put them into practice. He used his savings to buy a large stone mill and rallied the whole village to build a small mill together.
The small mill quickly became profitable, and a year later, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the small mill had earned more than ten thousand dollars, which was a lot of money for people in the sixties.
However, Huaxi Village already has a population of several hundred households, and 1,000 people can only get about 10 yuan each. This means that Wu Renbao's "well-off dream" is still some distance away from him.
In the 60s, Wu Renbao accompanied his brother provinces and cities to visit the small mill in Huaxi Village, and although he affirmed that it would continue to develop, he did not take it as the key development direction of the whole village.
After in-depth observation, Wu Renbao turned his attention to the hardware processing factory. However, when he revealed his thoughts to others, he was met with unanimous opposition. He was warned, "Are you crazy?"
Do you understand the consequences of being caught? Although he knew that this kind of capitalist behavior of setting up a hardware processing factory was undoubtedly committed against the wind during the period when "raising no capital and destroying capital" and "fighting for private criticism" swept the whole country, and he would definitely not have good fruits to eat if he was caught, he did not back down because of this.
While delivering food to the villagers during the busy farming season, Wu Renbao also silently made up his mind in his heart to find a way for the village to get rich. He firmly believes that only by establishing a hardware factory can we lead everyone to a better life.
So, he gathered a group of young people who dared to try and secretly established a hardware processing factory together. In order to prevent detection from outsiders, they even built a high fence.
Every time someone came to inspect them, they hurriedly locked the gate so that they could continue their work with peace of mind when the inspector had left. Despite the intensity of the work, they persevered and finally succeeded in building a hardware processing factory, laying a solid foundation for the economic development of the village.
In Huaxi Village, there is a village chief named Wu Renbao, who decided to use 3,000 yuan to start a small hardware factory (this was filmed in August 1969).
When he saw the hardware processing factory in front of him, he was both excited and nervous. However, it soon turned out that his nervousness was unnecessary, because this hardware factory brought great wealth to Huaxi Village, even many times higher than the income from farming.
However, paper could not contain the fire after all, and the secret establishment of a hardware factory in Huaxi Village was finally known to outsiders and reported to the superiors. Although the superiors were dissatisfied with Huaxi Village's behavior, when they saw that the hardware factory had indeed changed Huaxi Village a lot, they no longer pursued it, and even allowed Huaxi Village to be officially put into operation.
This experience made Wu Renbao no longer need to sneakily lead the villagers to get rich, and the approval of his superiors also gave the villagers of Huaxi Village more motivation, and their enthusiasm reached an unprecedented height.
Huaxi Village used to be a poor village with tiled houses and bungalows, but under the leadership of Wu Renbao, it has achieved a magnificent transformation and become a wealthy village. In 1978, the fixed assets of Huaxi Village exceeded 1 million yuan, and more than 200 families in the village lived in brick houses, achieving a well-off life.
Wu Renbao was committed to the welfare of Huaxi Village, and just as he was about to vigorously develop industry, he implemented the household contract responsibility system, which was contrary to his ideas.
However, Wu Renbao, who tasted the sweetness of industry, was unwilling to give up industrial development, and finally made a decision: to subcontract more than 600 acres of land in the village to good farmers, and others to join the factory.
In this way, agriculture and industry develop at the same time without affecting each other.
In Huaxi Village in the 70s of the last century, it became the norm to study newspaper articles during labor breaks. At this time, the discerning Wu Renbao saw the success of the hardware processing factory, so he encouraged the villagers to invest in a new plastic textile factory.
His decision was unanimously supported by the villagers of Huaxi Village, who took out 2,000 yuan to join the ranks of building the factory. Although Wu Renbao brought the wealth of the whole village, he did not monopolize it, but implemented the "villager shareholding system", and every year the income from the factory would be distributed to the villagers in the form of dividends.
Since then, Wu Renbao has led everyone to establish dozens of factories of different sizes, such as metallurgical factories, copper factories, aluminum factories, etc., so as to further accumulate wealth.
Wu Renbao: The creator of 100 million yuan village and the promoter of reform and opening up In 1980, the total income of Huaxi Village exceeded 100 million yuan, becoming a real "100 million yuan village".
People thought that Wu Renbao's legend was over, but his next operation was surprising. In 1992, the publication of the "Southern Tour Speech" caused ripples in Wu Renbao's heart.
**'s "reform and opening up should be bolder, and if you see it, you will boldly try and boldly break through", which makes Wu Renbao have endless aftertaste.
At the Huaxi Villa in the 90s, Wu Renbao reacted quickly, urgently convened a meeting, and came up with a bold plan: to accumulate raw materials. He encouraged the villagers to go all out and actively purchase all kinds of raw materials, such as steel billets, aluminum ingots, electrolytic copper, etc.
Some people ridiculed Wu Renbao as "stupid" and felt that his idea was difficult to realize, however, his "joke" did not last long. In just over ten days, Huaxi Village purchased tens of thousands of tons of raw materials, which was a great success and made a net profit of more than 100 million yuan.
Wu Renbao's decision-making power and forward-looking thinking not only made Huaxi Village profitable, but also made those who laughed at him fall through the glasses.
Under the rapid development of the economy, the country's raw materials have been rising, and even reached a historical high. In this situation of short supply, the raw materials purchased by Huaxi Village before have naturally become sought-after goods.
However, Wu Renbao did not stop there, he still led the villagers of Huaxi Village to create one miracle after another. In 1999, it was a milestone year for Huaxi Village, and Huaxi Village's first company was officially listed, creating a new precedent.
The listing of a village is undoubtedly unprecedented, but Huaxi Village has done it. All these achievements are inseparable from Wu Renbao's outstanding leadership.
In 2003, because of his advanced age, Wu Renbao decided to resign as party secretary of Huaxi Village. Despite stepping down, he still devoted himself to the construction of Huaxi Village and worked hard to create a better future.
Today, Huaxi Village has developed into a bustling town with a total area of more than 35 square kilometers and is known as "the first village in the world". The former impoverished village has become a prosperous scene full of luxury cars and villas.
Wu Renbao has made great contributions to the development of Huaxi Village, and his achievements are indelible.
Wu Renbao, as a national model worker, the most beautiful struggler, and one of the "100 people who have moved Chinese since the founding of New China", completed his legendary life on March 18, 2013, at the age of 85.
Although Wu Renbao's death is a great loss to Huaxi Village, the new era he created for Huaxi Village, as well as his legendary story, will always be remembered and praised by future generations.