At the beginning of 1992, 88-year-old *** went to the south to inspect and made a speech, I didn't expect to return to Beijing from the south, ** was seriously ill, and afterwards the eldest son of *** Deng Pufang said with emotion: "The old man's southern speech is not easy at all, he is willing to give up his life to speak!" ”
Deng Pufang's words are not exaggerated at all, ** the speech of the southern tour was carried out under pressure, more than 20 days before his southern tour, that is, on December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union officially disintegrated ** 15 countries, and the impact caused by it spread all over the world, especially the violent turmoil in the socialist camp.
At that time, the international community was undergoing great changes, and what should China do after the collapse of the Soviet Union? At that time, some people who were dissatisfied with reform and opening up took the opportunity to obstruct the process of reform and opening up, and even attacked the chief designer, and some people had doubts and worries about whether to continue reform and opening up.
At this juncture full of doubts and worries, it was decided not to let the great cause of reform and opening up fall short, and the 88-year-old *** decided to go south for inspection, and only by using objective results to seek truth from facts can we prove that the line of reform and opening up is correct and must be unwavering.
On January 3, 1992, the first three people in the office arrived in Guangzhou, and the three-person team discussed the reception arrangements with Guangzhou.
Later, Chen Kaizhi, then deputy secretary general of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, put forward a plan, suggesting that he inspect Shenzhen, Zhuhai and the Pearl River Delta and Guangzhou, and then go to Shanghai, and later agreed to Chen Kaizhi's plan, and in 1984, Chen Kaizhi was responsible for the reception of the first southern tour.
On January 17, ** and his party took the southbound train in Beijing, did not stop along the way, arrived in Wuchang on the 18th, and only met with Guan Guangfu, then secretary of Hubei, and Guo Shuyan, the governor of Hubei Province, on the platform, and the first question they asked was: "How is the production?" ”
** Tell them to take construction as the center, not to engage in formalism, and to make time to do more practical things. At 9 o'clock in the morning of the 19th, the special train of ** arrived in Shenzhen, and Xie Fei, who was the secretary of Guangdong at the time, Li Hao, who was the secretary of Shenzhen at the time, and others greeted him
According to the principle of half-day visit and half-day rest, everyone accompanied *** to the hotel where they stayed, but they didn't expect *** to ignore the fatigue of the journey, there was no rest, ** said to Chen Kaizhi who accompanied him: "When I arrived in Shenzhen, I couldn't sit still!" Hurry up and call a taxi and let me go out and have a look! ”
In the afternoon of the same day, he went to Huanggang Port to inspect, and then he took a car to the city for a turn, with a happy smile on his face, he said: "Shenzhen's construction achievements have clearly answered those who have such and such worries, the surname of the special zone is 'she' not 'capital'."
On the afternoon of January 20th, accompanied by Chen Kaizhi and others, he took the elevator to the revolving restaurant of the Shenzhen International Trade Center, he sat in front of the window and listened to the Shenzhen Secretary Li Hao report on the development of Shenzhen. ”
**It seemed a little emotional, everyone was very excited to listen, and there were bursts of warm applause, and now history has proved that ** Southern Tour speech strengthened people's confidence in reform and opening up at that time, and ushered in today's prosperous China.