Chapter 4 03. Ma Yongshun —— Castle Peak is always in sustainable use

Ma Yongshun (1914-2000) male, Han nationality, model worker.A native of Baodi (now Tianjin), Zhili. In 1937, he entered the northeast forest region as a lumberjack. In the winter of 1948, one person completed the logging volume of six people. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1951.Later, he served as director of Yijimi Forest Farm of Tieli Forestry Bureau and deputy director of Tieli Forestry Bureau.He is a representative of the Tenth and Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a representative of the Second and Third National People's Congress.In the 1950s, he created the safe logging method, the four-season file and saw method, and the assembly line method, which were popularized and applied in various forest areas across the country.Has been rated as a model worker in Heilongjiang Province and Northeast Forestry Industry Administration for eleven times. In 1956 and 1959, he attended the National Conference of Advanced Producers twice.

Where the rooster holds its head high on the territory of the motherland, there is a piece of eye-catching green.With its rich gifts, the vast and vast forest not only contributed to the country, but also nurtured many warriors and heroes. Ma Yongshun's footsteps started from here. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the working conditions in the Xiaoxing'anling forest area of ​​Heilongjiang were very difficult.In winter, it is freezing cold, and the temperature is often thirty or forty degrees below zero.The northwest wind blew on my body, and my hands and feet were as cold as cat bites. In summer, there was no wind in the forest, and it was so stuffy that I couldn't breathe.

Workers in the forest area go to the mountains to log, eat sorghum rice, and live in cellars.Under such difficult conditions, Ma Yongshun felled 1,200 cubic meters of wood in one felling period. One person completed the workload of six people, creating the most manual logging in the country. In logging operations in the 1950s, loggers cut logs standing up, causing the roots of the trees to be too high.In order to cut down the roots and produce more wood, Ma Yongshun first scraped away the snow around the roots of the tree with his hands, knelt on the ground with one leg, and cut the saw close to the roots, reducing the height of the roots from the previous 60 to 70 centimeters. less than ten centimeters.Ma Yongshun's left leg was injured, and he knelt down to harvest. The wound was cracked and the pain was excruciating, but he remained silent and insisted on gritting his teeth.After Ma Yongshun's method of cutting down roots was popularized in the Northeast Forest Region, more than 14 million yuan of wealth was added to the country in one year.

Ma Yongshun is not only a solid and hardworking person, but also a person who is good at thinking about ways and doing things skillfully.He changed the big belly saw into a curved handle saw, which increased the work efficiency by 3 times.He summed up and created the "Safe Logging Law" and "Four Seasons File and Saw Method", which became the textbooks for manual logging operations in the country. At the National Heroes Meeting in 1959, Ma Yongshun was cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai.Premier Zhou asked: "Comrade Ma Yongshun, how old are you?" "Prime Minister, I am 46 years old." Ma Yongshun replied excitedly.Premier Zhou laughed loudly and said: "You are still a young man at the age of 46. You are a model worker from the northeast forest area. You forestry workers work very hard... You not only need to produce more timber, good timber, but also Afforestation, green hills are always there, sustainable use!"

Ma Yongshun is determined to contribute to the promotion of Qingshan.Since 1960, during the afforestation season every spring, Ma Yongshun went up the mountain every morning to plant trees before and after get off work.During the noon break, he also hurriedly planted a few more trees. Ma Yongshun said: "I have made a wish to the mountain. As long as my body is not broken, I will go up to the mountain for afforestation." Every year, he not only personally leads the whole family to go up the mountain for afforestation, but also rushes to participate in the afforestation of other forest farms as long as he knows about it.In recent years, he has personally built more than 300 mu of forests in Ma Yongshun Forest Farm.Inspired by his spirit, Ma Yongshun's forest farm has afforested more than 1,000 mu. "Youth Forest", "March 8 Forest", "Red Scarf Forest", "Individual Forest", "Dedication Forest" and "Old Achievement Forest" are all over the foot of the mountain, in the middle of the hillside, and on the top of the mountain.In 1999 alone, 4,700 mu of forests were afforested in this field.

The spirit of Ma Yongshun has blossomed not only in the Ma Yongshun Forest Farm and the Tieli Forestry Bureau, but also in the forest industry and forestry areas of Heilongjiang Province. In 1991, Ma Yongshun was 78 years old.He pinched his fingers and calculated, and there were still nearly a thousand trees left to pay the "debt" for logging in the past.During the Spring Festival of this year, he held a family meeting and mobilized the whole family to go up the mountain with him every year for afforestation. On May 1st, Ma Yongshun led a family of 18 people from three generations to form the Majia Army and went to the barren hillside to plant trees.He is not only a commander, a combatant, but also a quality inspector.Through the efforts of the whole family, more than 1,500 larch saplings were planted on the barren hillside.The number of trees planted by Ma Yongshun exceeds the number of felled trees in the past, and his wish for many years has come true.By 1999, the whole family had planted more than 50,000 saplings on the barren hills.

In June 1988, Ma Yongshun won the honorary title of Global Top 500 Environmental Protection issued by the United Nations. In 1999, after being awarded the National "May 1st" Labor Medal, he was awarded the title of Top Ten National Greening Models. On February 10, 2000, Ma Yongshun died of a heart attack in Tieli City, Heilongjiang Province at the age of 87.