Chapter 33 good leader good teacher

Comrade Ma Mingfang, member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party and former third secretary of the Northeast Bureau, was brutally persecuted by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" during the "Cultural Revolution", and died of serious illness on August 13, 1974 without timely treatment.We worked as his secretary from August 1949 to autumn 1954.Whenever we recall this experience and think of the education he taught us with his own example, we can't help but feel a lot of emotion.Comrade Mingfang is our good leader and teacher. His firm proletarian stance, serious and responsible spirit for the party's cause, close ties with the masses, and strict self-imposed style are always worthy of our study and practice. .

The period when we worked together with Comrade Mingfang coincided with the period of vigorous land reform, suppression of counter-revolutionaries, and the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea.At that time, the agricultural cooperative movement was still in its infancy.Comrade Mingfang implemented Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, principles and policies, with a firm stand and a clear-cut stand.In the land reform, he repeatedly criticized the "Guanzhong Special Theory" that some people thought at that time that "the centralization of agriculture in the Guanzhong area" seemed to be a peaceful land reform. Farm laborers and poor peasants, who account for 60 to 70 percent of the rural population, waged a face-to-face struggle against the landlord class.For this reason, in the winter of 1950, after visiting the masses and cadres, he personally wrote the article "On Two Standpoints and Two Sets of Methods of Mass Work in the Land Reform", repeatedly criticizing those who did not deeply mobilize the masses in the land reform, and peacefully reformed the land. mistake.This has played an extremely important guiding role in the in-depth and healthy development of land reform in Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi.Due to the full mobilization of the masses, the land reform, anti-rebellion, anti-US and aid Korea movements in our province at that time were carried out vigorously and solidly.

After the land reform, the poor and lower-middle peasants still had many difficulties in production. Temporary, seasonal, and perennial mutual aid organizations for job changes sprung up to solve the difficulties.Comrade Mingfang was full of enthusiasm for this new socialist thing that was still in its infancy. He went to the countryside many times to find mutual aid team leaders, poor and lower-middle peasants, and activists to investigate and study, or invited them to go to the provincial party committee to discuss their experiences and give feedback from various aspects. Help support. Comrade Ma Mingfang studied Marxism-Leninism, Chairman Mao's works, and the party's policies very carefully. He had a certain amount of time every day to read books. Every time he wrote an article and every time he spoke, he had to read many original works of Marxism-Leninism and Chairman Mao's works, or the party's policies. The documents, his articles and speeches are well-founded and sound lively and interesting.

Comrade Ma Mingfang’s many important articles and experience summary reports were conducted in person by discussing with the masses and cadres, conducting research and research, and drafting in person.He also taught his secretary to be meticulous and conscientious in his work, and he often told us about Mr. Lu Xun's serious and meticulous scientific spirit in writing.Because of Comrade Mingfang's persuasiveness and his own spirit of being serious and responsible for the party's cause, every time we drafted a document, we always made seven changes and eight changes, and finally sent it to him for review after being corrected word by word.

Comrade Ming Fang was an alternate member of the Central Committee, third secretary of the Northwest Bureau, secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, and chairman of the Provincial People's Government at that time, and his work was very busy.In addition to often going to the office of the comrades of the provincial party committee to talk with everyone, he also visits the departments, bureaus or nearby counties every Sunday. From the extensive contact with the director of the department, the secretary of the county party committee, and ordinary cadres, he understands the work and life conditions. , to help the following solve difficult problems.Comrade Mingfang is always working on holidays, and he has never been seen on vacation.

Comrade Ma Mingfang is also very rigorous in life, leaving a deep impression on people.He wakes up very early every morning and wakes up the police and service personnel. Before the police and service personnel clean up the office, he starts his day's work until late at night.He often takes a walk in the yard in the morning or in the middle of work, thinking about important issues, and sometimes finds some comrades to ask about the situation.Every time you come to his office, he is either reading or writing or thinking.No matter what meeting he held, he always arrived on time. He always waited for others and never asked others to wait for him.Whenever he attended the meeting in midsummer, he always sat there with neat clothes and hats, and took the meeting seriously.

Comrade Ma Mingfang not only lives a rigorous life, but also strictly demands his family members and children.All life and treatment are completely in accordance with the regulations, and there are no exceptions or specials.His old father and mother stayed in the countryside for a long time, and rarely received institutional housing. He is serious and patient with the comrades who work with him. No matter how busy he is at work, he always finds time to call his secretaries to report to him every three or five days. The cause of the party must be serious and responsible, and the work must be careful and thoughtful.Go deep and get results.Sometimes his criticism makes you unable to accept it all at once, but after he persuasively and repeatedly reasoned about why you should do this and not that, you will finally be convinced and feel warm in your heart.Every time he drafts a document, he always calls the drafter and the relevant comrades together, explains his ideas in detail, what to write first, what to write later, the rules and logic, and make it clear, and then ask for opinions, everyone thinks Only when they are consistent can they be written by hand.In the middle of writing, if he has any new ideas, he will come to chat with you at any time, making people feel that working in front of him is the same as going to school. He is really a tireless teacher!

Working with Comrade Mingfang, if he did something wrong, he never shifted the responsibility to the subordinates. In the spring of 1951, one day the comrades in the communication office of the Provincial Party Committee brought a forged letter from a certain chief of the Second Field Army to Comrade Mingfang, which was forged by Li Wanming, a great political swindler, requesting assignment of work. Wang Li took it to ask Comrade Mingfang for instructions. See how to deal with it?Wang Li said that he introduced him to the Special Care Bureau of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs.He said just do it.The liar succeeded, and he lied again and again. This political liar was exposed in 1955. When Wang Li went to Beijing for a meeting, Comrade Mingfang asked about it and learned about it. In March 1956, "People's Daily" published an article "The Ins and Outs of a Big Scam", saying that Li Wanming's forged letter was supposed to have been spotted by Shaanxi Provincial Party Secretary Wang Li, but he did not, and dealt with it without authorization.After reading this article, Comrade Mingfang wrote an explanation to the Organization Department of the Central Committee and forwarded it to the Organization Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, saying, "Comrade Wang Li asked me for instructions on this matter. The fault is mine, and Comrade Wang Li should not be responsible." .All the comrades who knew about this situation at that time were all moved by it.Comrade Mingfang was a veteran party member and comrade in 1925. As an ordinary party member, he always paid party dues on time and participated in the party's organizational life.Seeing that other secretaries of the Central Bureau were of a lower rank than him, he took the initiative to apply for a salary cut.

Comrade Mingfang not only cared about the progress of his comrades politically and ideologically, but also cared about his comrades in life.Comrades were sick, he personally visited the hospital.Later, when he was transferred to work at the central government, we went to Beijing for a meeting. Every time we saw him, he would always ask questions.He came to Xi'an for meetings and inspections, and always called us to talk.He is kind and kind to his comrades, very loyal. Under the persecution of Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four", Comrade Ming Fang passed away prematurely, causing our party to lose a strong proletarian fighter. This is a loss for the party and the people.We miss him, and we must follow his teachings during his lifetime to do a solid, meticulous, conscientious, and responsible job in the party, and work hard to build our country into one of the four modernized socialist powers within this century.