Chapter 19 Chapter 5: All kinds of deceit - 2 Honorable leaders

Wen Jiabao obviously has a very clear understanding of the following phenomenon of falsification. It can be said that Wen Jiabao is the one among the central leadership who has gone deep into rural areas of Anhui to conduct research the most in recent years.In order to know the real situation of the countryside and farmers, he often does not save face for local officials, and tries every means to break through the "blockade" of him, which makes those who deliberately falsify be at a loss. In May 1996, before the wheat harvest, Wen Jiabao, then an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and secretary of the Central Secretariat, went to Anhui to inspect poverty alleviation work.As soon as you come, there are three rules, no welcome and see-off, no accompanying meals, and no shouting and hugging when you go down, everything is light and easy.

His entourage is also a handful, except for secretary Tian Xuebin, security staff officer Zhang Zhenhai, a director of the Secretariat Bureau of the Central General Office and the Central Rural Work Leading Group, and a relevant leader of the Ministry of Agriculture. After they came that time, they shared two ordinary minibuses with relevant leaders of Anhui Province and went straight to the old revolutionary base of Dabie Mountains. On the mountain road leading from Jinzhai County to Huoshan County, Wen Jiabao made a surprise attack.He greeted the driver and said: "I want to make it easier." The driver stopped the car immediately.

The people in the car thought it was "convenient" for Wen Jiabao to go down, but who knows, after he jumped out of the car, he walked very fast, walking straight along a small road. The leaders of Anhui Province, who were sitting in another minibus, realized that there was a small village in front of them, and Wen Jiabao was walking towards that village. They couldn't help being surprised.Because this is obviously outside the plan of the inspection that was arranged in advance.Moreover, it looks like a very poor place. Everyone got out of the car and followed quickly. When Wen Jiabao saw some farmers walking towards them carrying tree bark, he went up to them and asked, "What are you doing?"

A woman saw that the interrogator had a kind face and a kind voice. Although she was dressed as a cadre, she didn't expect that this would be a cadre from the central government, so she answered casually: "Now there is nothing to sell on the mountain, and the supply and marketing cooperative is buying. Bark, I heard that it is used for making paper, so I peeled off some bark and sold it, so that I can buy some rations when I come back.” Wen Jiabao turned around and asked a young man again. When he learned that the other party was a private teacher, he carefully checked his salary.The private teacher said worriedly: "The village only subsidizes 50 yuan a month, not even enough for food. It is said that it is a subsidy, but it is only owed, and it is only paid when the Chinese New Year is coming. Usually, there is no money to buy food. "

Wen Jiabao nodded while listening carefully. He looked around the village carefully before getting into the car.After arriving in Huoshan County, he had a casual meal and asked to listen to the report from the county. The Secretary of the Huoshan County Party Committee did not know that Wen Jiabao did not get off the car according to the "regulations" on the way here, and he still made a report as usual. He even said excitedly: "Our Huoshan County has developed a lot in the past few years. He took off his hat and crowned him, took off the hat of a poor county, and put on the hat of "going to a well-off society." Then he skillfully analyzed the various figures of the county's gross national product, grain output, fiscal revenue, and farmers' income increase. reported it again.He was about to report the statistics of various achievements one by one, but Wen Jiabao stopped him and asked suddenly: "Your county is so good, can you pay wages on time?"

The secretary of the county party committee answered emphatically: "We don't lack a penny of employees in the county!" Wen Jiabao clicked on the name of the village he got off the car and visited.The secretary of the county party committee couldn't help being taken aback, but he immediately pointed out: "That is the poorest village in our county." Wen Jiabao smiled humorously: "I saw your poorest village?" Only then did the secretary of the county party committee know that he was in trouble. He secretly glanced at the leader of the provincial party committee who was sitting next to him.

Wen Jiabao said solemnly: "Comrades, it's not that we don't believe your figures. I pay more attention to whether the lives of farmers' families have really improved. You are all young. I hope you will visit more farmers' homes and really do a good job. Getting out of poverty is not easy, not to mention that some people will return to poverty after getting out of poverty.” At that time, Wen Jiabao wanted to see the living conditions of farmers in the submerged area of ​​Longhekou Reservoir, but Shucheng County arranged for him to see a village that was relatively good in all aspects.He spotted the problem at a glance and asked, "Is this a submerged area?"

The secretary of the county party committee couldn't hide it, so he had to tell the truth: "It's not an inundated area, it's just a marginal area." "I want to look at the submerged area, the poorest villages." The secretary of the Shucheng County Party Committee was not mentally prepared, because none of the central or provincial leaders who came down to inspect the work in the past had made such a request.Arranging for leaders to visit the "image project" and inspect the "bright spots" has long become a stylized and unchanging "rule".So the secretary of the county party committee prevaricated: "There is no road there."

"What you're saying doesn't make sense. Could it be that the car can't go in?" Wen Jiabao asked seriously. "yes." "How far will it take to walk?" The secretary of the county party committee thought for a while and said, "Ten kilometers." When Wen Jiabao heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "It's not too far away, so let's go." Then, he rolled up his trousers and hurried on the road. Seeing that Wen Jiabao had made up his mind, Lu Rongjing, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee at the time, immediately took over the words: "Get in the car quickly, if you can't drive anywhere, just get out and go!"

So everyone got in the car one after another. Never thought that the Shucheng County Party Secretary said "the road is impassable", just because he didn't want Wen Jiabao to see such a poor place. However, he is a real person. Be more careful, forgetting what I once said that the road is impassable and you have to walk ten kilometers, and command the driver to drive the car smoothly into a village. When Wu Zhaoren of the Provincial Agricultural Economic Committee told us about this episode, his face showed a look of embarrassment.He said: "When I heard the secretary of the county party committee say: 'Here we are, get out of the car!' my head buzzed. I thought, you, the secretary of the county party committee, are really terrible. You said that you can't drive in this village. You should at least Stop a little farther and let everyone walk a few steps. How can we let the car enter the village? This makes the accompanying provincial leaders stand in front of the central leaders. Chang said: "There are cracks in the ground that can be drilled in..." We were all ashamed, and we got out of the car resolutely."

It was indeed a very poor village, the houses were not like houses, they were dark and damp, because the farmhouse was too dark, if you walked into the house in broad daylight, you couldn't see anything for a long time.In fact, it doesn't matter whether you see it or not. Many peasant households ran down half the village without seeing a single valuable thing. Wen Jiabao looked at several farmhouses in a row, feeling very heavy. Once again, Wen Jiabao went to Anhui to inspect the work on agricultural economic restructuring.In Funan County, the county arranges to see Xiaochenzhuang. This is a newly-built village. Two rows of buildings stand side by side very beautifully, and the road in the middle is also wide. It looks not only rich, but also a bit imposing. .However, Wen Jiabao only took one look after getting off the car, and refused to go into the village to see it. This made the accompanying leaders very embarrassed. Wu Zhaoren had accompanied Wen Jiabao to inspect various places in Anhui many times, and he was already very familiar with each other. He broke the deadlock and went up and said, "Since you are here, let's go into the village and have a look!" "Don't watch," Wen Jiabao was unmoved, "What do you want me to see? It's nothing more than a few rich people building a few new buildings." The county leader hurriedly explained: "There is still a symposium...all the people have arrived." Wen Jiabao insisted: "I will not participate in this symposium." The atmosphere at the scene became very embarrassing. At this time, two peasant-looking people came, and Wen Jiabao stepped forward and asked, "Did you move here voluntarily?" The other party replied loudly: "It's completely voluntary." Wen Jiabao asked thoughtfully: "How much did you spend to live in such a house?" "More than 20,000." By himself, he looked at the two "farmers" who came over.Obviously, he had realized something from the tone of the other party's reply, pointing to one of them and asked: "What are you doing in the village?" The other party said: "Secretary of the branch." Wen Jiabao smiled humorously: "Then I will ask Why do you want to build such a wide road and take up so much cultivated land?" The secretary of the branch was speechless. Back in Fuyang City, the municipal party committee arranged for Wen Jiabao and his party to stay in the International Hotel. When Wen Jiabao heard that it was an "International Hotel", he refused to accept it and asked to live in a guest house.Due to Wen Jiabao's insistence, he ended up staying at the "Yingzhou Hotel" which is the guest house of the Municipal Party Committee.After dinner, Wen Jiabao didn't want to rest either. He asked to arrange for two leaders of the county party committee to report on related work.When reporting, the secretary of the Taihe County Party Committee took out the prepared manuscript, and just after reading the beginning, Wen Jiabao motioned for the other party to stop: "Don't read the manuscript, please?" After leaving the manuscript, the county Party secretary didn't know what to say What should not be said, became hesitant, very embarrassed.Wen Jiabao shook his head in disappointment, and said, "I was very angry this afternoon. I didn't see a single person in that village in Funan County. I don't know what you want me to see. Last year, I went to Henan Province and a county party committee The secretary also asked me to visit a village like this. I couldn’t see any farmers. The roads in the village were wider than what you see here, and the houses were more beautiful than this. I asked the county party secretary if such a good village is in your county. How much is it? He hesitated and said, 20%. I said, well, if it accounts for 20%, what would a rural area with 80% look like? I would like to Knowing the situation in 80% of the rural areas in your county, can you take me to have a look? He immediately said that the road is impassable, so it is not easy to go. I said, it is impossible to go by car, but people can always walk in. There are so many farmers You can go, why can't we go, you lead the way, I want to go in and have a look!" Speaking of this, he paused, the expression on his face was very complicated.The accompanying Anhui comrades, of course, could hear the meaning of these words.The county party secretary in Henan Province was not the only one who didn't want him to see the backwardness and poverty in his jurisdiction because the road was blocked. He had the same experience in Shucheng County, Anhui Province.Only showing "Political Achievements" to the above, watching "Yingge Yanwu", this kind of deceitful phenomenon has spread like a plague across China. That night, Wen Jiabao had a lot of conversations, heart-to-heart: "I have been to Fuyang area a few times. Through comparison before and after, I can see that there has been great development, and the life of farmers has also improved greatly. There are still many gaps in the requirements of civilization, and there is still a big imbalance within a region. There may be good villages, but there are also quite a few ordinary villages, and there are many poor villages. As far as a village is concerned, it is also very Unbalanced, there are affluent households, a large number of ordinary households, and relatively poor households. I think our farmers are very contented. They only eat a few bowls of white rice, have nothing to eat, and live in the same way. But to the party and the government , but no complaints, very simple. I feel that our peasants are very conscious. The more this is the case, the more our cadres should feel that their responsibilities are heavier. How to help the peasants get rich as soon as possible, we have an inescapable responsibility Responsibility." He said: "It's about rural policy issues, so I thought of Anhui to listen to everyone's opinions, because there are many comrades who are familiar with the situation and dare to express their opinions. Every time I come, I gain a lot. Many of my policies I just got off the car and learned about it. The things prepared in the local area and the places to see are often some typical and mature highlights. It’s not that these places are unreal, but they often don’t have universality. So, I really like to walk around. My research is very simple, just drive into a random village, and sometimes I need to talk for an hour, or I can talk with farmers for a day. The longest time was in Tieling, where I sat Talking with farmers on the kang, I learned a lot of things: land relations, distribution relations, and cadre-cluster relations. It is difficult to understand without sitting down and talking in depth. Even so, I still feel that my understanding of the countryside is probably at most ten percent We still don’t understand a lot of the situation. I know that the situation in rural areas is not all good. We need to look at the problems, find them, and solve them. So I hope that today’s discussion will be able to speak freely, and if there is any situation, let us know. What's the situation?" He came out of an ordinary alley in the old city of Tianjin, and had a family of five living in less than 21 square meters. Therefore, the "civilian complex" has always been rooted in his heart.He likes to go deep into the grass roots very much. Among the more than 2,000 counties in the country, he actually visited more than 1,800 counties, which is probably the most among the leaders at the central level. On that day, he said emotionally: "Our party's policies are for the benefit of the vast majority of people, and I hope to see the vast majority of the people. If the countryside is so good, what do we need people to do?" ? In Fangshan on the outskirts of Beijing, I saw many peasants still watching nine-inch black and white TVs. Is your place better than the suburbs of Beijing? Communists must care about the interests of the majority, not just the few!” He especially emphasized: "I'll say it again, I'm here to do research, not to visit, please don't just let me watch the 'bright spots'!" Wang Huaizhong, secretary of the Fuyang Municipal Party Committee sitting at the meeting place, was an extremely smart person. Hearing this, he immediately left the meeting place and hurriedly asked someone to say hello to Yingshang County. The plan between Zhangzhuang and Balihe was cancelled; and it was confessed that the high-end tableware and borrowed chefs from the Fuyang Hotel were all withdrawn overnight, and there must be no mistakes!