Chapter 51 50. Zhang Haidi——Inspiring self-improvement

Zhang Haidi, female, Han nationality, born in 1955 in Jinan City, Shandong Province, is a member of the Communist Party of China.The current chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. Zhang Haidi suffered from high paraplegia due to spinal cord hemangioma when she was 5 years old. With tenacious perseverance, she taught herself primary and secondary school, university and postgraduate courses, and also taught herself many foreign languages, and obtained a master's degree in philosophy. When she was 15 years old, she was sent to the village of Shenxian County, Liaocheng City with her parents. She taught the children in the village, overcame various difficulties to learn medical knowledge, and enthusiastically treated the villagers with acupuncture and moxibustion. In 1983, Zhang Haidi began to engage in literary creation. For more than 20 years, she has overcome diseases and difficulties with tenacious perseverance, and published novels "Dream in a Wheelchair", "Extreme", "Forever and Forever", and collections of essays "Swan Goose Flying Fast", "A Window Open to the Sky", ,, "My German Notes", etc., translated "Modoc - The True Story of an Elephant", "Rebecca at the New School" and other foreign language works.Over the years, Zhang Haidi has also done a lot of social work while insisting on studying and creating.Made outstanding contributions to the development of the cause of the disabled.With her speech and singing, she has inspired countless young people to work hard.She is physically disabled, strong-willed, and constantly striving for self-improvement. She not only inspires the disabled, but also greatly inspires contemporary young people.She was awarded many honorary titles such as National Model Worker and National Outstanding Communist Youth League Member.

Zhang Haidi, who is physically disabled and strong, has started her unique life since she was 5 years old.She couldn't go to school, so she taught herself at home and became a teacher for the children in the village; she taught herself many foreign languages ​​and worked as a radio repairman.In order to make a greater contribution to society, she has self-studied more than a dozen medical monographs, and at the same time consulted experienced doctors, learned acupuncture and moxibustion and other medical techniques, and treated more than 10,000 people for free.In the face of the cruel challenge of fate, Zhang Haidi did not feel depressed or sinking. She fought against the disease with tenacious perseverance and perseverance, withstood severe tests, and was full of confidence in life.

In May 1983, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Decision to Learn from Comrade Zhang Haidi". Party and state leaders Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying, Li Xiannian and other eight older generation proletarian revolutionaries successively wrote inscriptions for Zhang Haidi, commending her spirit of aggressiveness and selfless dedication .Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription: "Learn from Zhang Haidi and be a new communist with ideals, morality, culture, and discipline!" "China Youth Daily" published "It is a shooting star, we must leave the light to the world", and Zhang Haidi became famous in China , won two reputations, one is "New Lei Feng in the 1980s" and the other is "Contemporary Paul".

Zhang Haidi has the belief that "you must be a person who is beneficial to the society when you live", and takes Paul as an example, and has the courage to dedicate her light and heat to the people.With her words and deeds, she answered questions about the outlook on life and values ​​that hundreds of millions of young people are very concerned about. In 1991, after undergoing cancer surgery, Zhang Haidi continued to fight against fate with an indomitable spirit. She began to study a postgraduate course in philosophy.After unremitting efforts, she wrote the thesis "Disabled Issues in the Perspective of Cultural Philosophy". In 1993, she passed the postgraduate course examination and the thesis defense in the Philosophy Department of Jilin University, and was awarded a master's degree.Zhang Haidi proves the power of life with her own courage, just as she said, "Like all people who are determined, I regard arduous inquiry itself as real happiness." Forging a path into the ocean of knowledge.

Zhang Haidi has been invited to visit Japan and South Korea three times and held lectures and concerts. Her continuous struggle for self-improvement has also inspired people of different nationalities. In 1995, she participated in the Fourth World Conference on Women as a member of the Chinese government delegation. In 1997, he was selected as one of the five outstanding disabled people in the world by Japan's NHK TV station. Zhang Haidi strives for self-improvement in his post and social work, serves the society with full enthusiasm and noble character, and dedicates to the people. He has a high reputation among the masses and is a good model that can stand the test of time.She is the pride of a generation of Chinese youth and an outstanding representative of the disabled in China.

Happiness is difficult. We often suffer for years for short-term happiness. Zhang Haidi is even more difficult.Zhang Haidi looks very happy, even in the most painful time, she can put on a bright smile. Zhang Haidi is now a writer, but writing is painful. She has a large area of ​​bed sores, and her bones are exposed, but she is still writing.She had several operations, and the operations were painful. Her nose cancer was operated on without anesthesia. She clearly felt the knife opening her nasal cavity and the needle passing through her skin.When she heard for the first time that she had cancer, she even felt elated—finally free.

She writes novels, paints oil paintings, dances ballet, shoots TV, sings, and studies for a master's degree...even, she likes perfume very much, and she lives a life of joy. "I am in pain, but I can also make others happy." When Zhang Haidi said this, poetry spread from her side. Zhang Haidi said: "I am like a shooting star, and I want to leave light to the world." With such an ideal in mind, she studied and worked with extraordinary perseverance, and sang a hymn of life.