"Pursue the truth, and when the pearl falls, it will rise again. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and repeated comparisons. Strategies will win thousands of miles. Sophisticated calculations are what the country relies on." This is a poem inscribed by Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association in the 1980s, for a photo of Chen Yun making an abacus.This poem is a vivid portrayal of Chen Yun's plan for the economic construction of New China. Chen Yun was born in Qingpu County, Jiangsu Province (now Qingpu District, Shanghai) on June 13, 1905, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1925.Since he presided over the financial work in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in 1944, his revolutionary career has formed an indissoluble bond with financial work.When he took office, he set rules for himself and all financial cadres: "Do we have the attitude of a 'treasurer' or a cashier? Every comrade, bureau chief, section chief, and section member must have a 'treasurer' attitude." , the attitude of being the head of the family should raise the sense of responsibility to this level."

Of course, Chen Yun's "treasurer" attitude is not to care about personal interests like a businessman, but to carefully plan and budget for the national economy and the people's livelihood. Under the conditions of wartime finances in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, Chen Yun asked the financial cadres to "carefully plan their own people", "first the villain and then the gentleman", and "it is not shameful to count money in front of comrades." After presiding over the country's financial and economic work, Chen Yun was even more deliberate and weighed pennies and pennies, and even once advocated that the financial department should be like an iron rooster that "doesn't spend a dime."He warned financial cadres: "Money belongs to the common people, we can't make fun of the common people's money."

What Chen Yun envisioned was to build the national economy of New China into a "socialist economy that benefits the people."He said that it took decades to make the revolution a success. "Now we are faced with the problem of how to consolidate and develop the achievements of the revolution. The key is to arrange the lives of more than 600 million people and truly benefit the people." . However, this family member who has been planning for the national economy and the people's livelihood all his life and is in charge of hundreds of millions of funds, his life is simple, and sometimes it can even be said to be poor.In the 1950s and 1960s, among the top leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, there were three famous families who were relatively difficult, namely Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, and Chen Yun. The reason was that there were many family members and many relatives who needed help. After Chen Yun passed away in April 1995, the staff around him calculated the property left by him, and there was only less than 20,000 yuan in manuscript fees, and a pension of 13,360 yuan after his death.

Chen Yun, the pioneer and one of the founders of the socialist economic construction cause, did not leave any savings for himself, but left a huge wealth, both tangible and intangible, on the land of China and in people's hearts.