Chapter 30 Chapter Twenty Eight

In my impression, customs is a mysterious and solemn national gate. If it is also regarded as a window industry, this window is really important.Looking out of the window, it seems that you can see the international situation at once, and each customs officer directly represents the image of the country. In this sense, the spiritual civilization construction of the customs has profound meaning. During the interview, the author has been to two port units, one is the port office in Zhuhai, and the other is the Suifenhe Customs in Heilongjiang Province. Zhuhai Gongbei Customs, the author has stopped here several times.At that time, before the return of Macao, we could only do fugue here.From here, you can see a silhouette of Macau. On the other side of the not-too-wide sea, Macau is vaguely visible, and you can see speeding cars and leisurely pedestrians. At that time, Macau was like a plot in a dream, and like another world. of the image.Before the return of Hong Kong, a publishing house asked me to write about the return of Hong Kong. I remember that the article started from Macau, because according to the order of history, there was Macau first, and then Hong Kong.The author's description of the Macao port is mostly based on materials and imagination.I remember that when I went to the customs for an interview, the author deliberately stopped in front of the big iron gate leading to Macau, and looked back and forth for a long time to confirm whether the imagination at that time was correct.

Liu Gonghe, deputy director of the Zhuhai Port Office, introduced some information about the customs and guided us to visit the port.Zhuhai Customs is an advanced unit of spiritual civilization in the province. With the return of Macao, they have increased the elements of spiritual civilization in their work, which has been well received by Zhuhai and Macao.Because I was in a hurry, I just watched the flowers on horseback and did not have too in-depth interviews, so I only had a superficial impression of the customs work. The Suifenhe Customs gave the author a taste of the unique customs charm.

Suifenhe Customs is a time-honored brand.Suifenhe's fate as a port city has been doomed since the Middle East Railway came here.Although Suifenhe was just a river at that time.The river is like a shiny silver awl, and the Manchus living here call it Suifen in Manchu language, which means awl. On January 17, 1903, the five stations after the opening of the Middle East Railway were renamed Suifenhe Station, and since then it has begun to write the history of a port city. On July 1, 1901, Russia set up Russian customs in Suifenhe without the consent of the Chinese government. On July 8, 1907, after Sino-Russian negotiations, it was renamed Beiman Customs.According to the "Northern Manchuria Tax Customs Trial Regulations", the Northern Manchuria Customs aims to inspect the incoming and outgoing goods and collect taxes on goods shipped from the 100-mile duty-free trade area along the border. On January 9, 1933, Manchukuo, a puppet regime established by the Japanese army with bayonets, took over the premises of the Suifenhe sub-pass during the period of the Republic of China regime, and re-established the colonial Suifenhe sub-pass. On May 23, 1946, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China liberated Suifenhe. On September 16, 1949, the Northeast Trading Corporation decided to establish Suifenhe Customs. Since then, a complete Customs began to appear in the history of the Republic...

Suifenhe Customs is one of the earliest customs in the Republic. Suifenhe City is located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, bordering Russia in the east, with a borderline of 26 kilometers long and a population of 39,513. The city has a total area of ​​460 square kilometers. Nine mountains, half water, half fields.The streets in the city are undulating along the hills, the cement and asphalt roads are clean and spacious, and the buildings are stacked on top of each other, full of Eastern European and Japanese architectural sentiments.Standing on Paotai Mountain and overlooking as far as the eye can see, the city walls of foreign countries can be vaguely seen, and the mountains and rivers of the two countries have a panoramic view.Here is the terminal station of the Binsui Railway, there is a railway mixed track leading to Russia's Grotekovo Station and two road passages.Suifenhe is a land port city for trade with Russia, Eastern Europe, South Korea and other countries, with a maximum annual throughput of 2 million tons. It was once known as a border commercial city in history.

Suifenhe Customs is in the arms of the city, and the development of the city is closely related to it.For quite a long time, Suifenhe was on the front line of the anti-revisionist movement, and the customs was its forward post.During the Cultural Revolution, Suifenhe was bruised and bruised, and the customs were even worse.After a rather cold and quiet day, Suifenhe, as an important commercial center in the Far East, ushered in its long-lost prosperity. This is the business opportunity brought to it after Suifenhe was built as an open city along the border in 1992. Opening the country, people see opportunities everywhere.Now, there are more than 1,500 trading companies and more than 8,000 self-employed businesses.The private economy has accounted for one-third of the city's fiscal revenue.The volume of civilian trade has reached more than 10 billion.Participating in the international cycle, accepting the judgment of the market and quickly forming its own market outlook and values, the concept of Suifenhe people has undergone tremendous changes.

Guide progress, eliminate ignorance, develop in order, and order in development.Since October 1992, the city has carried out civilized business training and education among self-employed individuals in the city, formulated the "Code for Civilized Business Services", signed the "Service Agreement" with business households, and implemented listing services. These activities have continued until now. The people who went out saw the civilization outside the region, and they couldn't help praising: "Damn, how civilized!" The private Datong Economic and Trade Company took the lead in the city. They signed the "Convention on the Construction of Spiritual Civilization" with overseas laborers to formulate codes of conduct.They successively dispatched more than 370 laborers, and brought high-quality and efficient projects and the virtues of the Chinese nation abroad, winning a reputation.As the first private enterprise to cross the ranks of municipal civilized units.

The construction of spiritual civilization that began in the early 1980s has left a quiet and peaceful memory for people. In 1993, the whole city launched a tough battle to reshape the city's image, and the port people started the second progress in the construction of spiritual civilization. The decision-makers of Suifenhe City paid full attention to the construction of a civilized city, formulated a long-term plan, and took effective measures to ensure the implementation of funds.More than 200 million yuan has been invested successively to improve infrastructure projects such as communications, water supply, power supply, and roads.The carrying capacity of the city and the functions of port passages have been strengthened.The cargo handling capacity has been increased from 1 million tons to 3 million tons, accounting for 70% of the province's cargo volume at ports to Russia and 25% of the country's total.

Suifenhe painted the most beautiful picture with his diligent hands.Now, when you walk on the street, there are row upon row of high-rise buildings, wide and flat asphalt roads, clean and tidy streets and alleys, green trees, blooming flowers, heavy traffic, and gathering of merchants... Especially the signboards are particularly eye-catching, big From company-star hotels to small individual stores, almost all of them have Chinese-Russian bilingual plaques, which can make people feel the charm of openness. On July 1, 1991, the national flag raising ceremony was held for the first time in the newly completed central square.When the five-star red flag rises in the blue sky at dawn, lofty ideals rise in the hearts of the people at the port, and they want to embrace the world.

Since then, raising the national flag as a content of spiritual civilization construction has been persisted. People in small towns came out of the closedness, so bookstores, dance halls, and karaoke halls sprung up like mushrooms after rain.The sales volume of Xinhua Bookstore is among the best in the province.Various correspondence classes and training courses have attracted countless young people, and people are taking the time to enrich themselves.The small town started a newspaper and became one of the four major civilized landscapes in Heilongjiang Province. Everything is changing, towards high standards.

In 1994, the "Five-Year Plan for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization" was formulated, which clarified the need to build a modern and civilized city with political stability, economic prosperity, beautiful environment, affluent life and cultural development. mechanism. Qingyun Market, the largest shopping mall in the city, took the lead in putting forward the slogan of optimizing the environment, doing business in a civilized manner, credit first, and service first. Typical examples such as civilized booths and Communist Party booths have driven the progress of the city's civilized construction.As a result, the market has become increasingly popular, with an annual turnover of 2 billion yuan.

There are nearly 20,000 private entrepreneurs in the city. They are an important part of the economic structure and the top priority of spiritual civilization construction.Playing the role of the party is the most effective way to build spiritual civilization under the conditions of a market economy. In September 1994, the party branch of a private enterprise was established and the branch was built in the market. Since then, self-employed party members have a home.They listed business, civilized business, played a leading and exemplary role.Farmers in Qianjin Village who have cultivated the black soil for generations took advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up to go abroad and set up joint ventures, bringing the effective domestic contracting system to foreign joint ventures. Modern new countryside. Customs is the most iconic civilized unit in Suifenhe City. After a long period of identification, civilization has become a new energy and resource valued by people. Customs is close to the water. On the one hand, it grows together with the city, on the other hand. On the one hand, it is influenced by foreign civilizations, and its civilization matures earlier and faster.Zhai Dejun, deputy secretary of Suifenhe Customs, said proudly when introducing the civilized service competitions carried out by the Customs: Our customs officers strictly follow the requirements of the "Code for Civilized Service of Customs On-Site Staff" formulated by the General Administration of Customs, basically doing ten musts and ten prohibitions. On August 26, 1997, Dongning International Economic and Technological Cooperation Corporation declared to import two truckloads of scrap steel, and the waste certificate it submitted was a copy. Xu Guang, who was the head of the document review team at that time, said very politely: Please submit the original copy.The customs declarer, Mr. Zhao, was very unhappy, and said angrily: "The copy can be declared at other ports, why can't it be done here?"And the more you talk, the more you speak, the higher your voice.But Xu Guang remained calm and patiently explained to him the national regulations on waste import management and the adverse effects of the foreign waste incident.Zhao was finally convinced and apologized to Xu Guang. Good people and good deeds, such as helping others for joy, making money without money, etc., also emerge in endlessly in our creation activities. In November 1997, a Russian woman suffered a sudden heart attack and fell to the ground on the exit passage. Customs officials Liang Zhenwu and He Kaihong helped her into the rest room in time, and quickly obtained first-aid medicine from the health inspection department and took it for her. After she returned to normal, she was sent to the seat in the carriage. When she was about to leave the country, she said with tears and excitement: It was the Chinese customs that gave me a second life. On August 25, 1998, four Russian passengers were surrounded in front of the Suifenhe International Departure Hall, one of whom was a disabled person in a wheelchair.Due to the language barrier, the people around couldn't figure out what they wanted to do, and they could only feel that they were very anxious. Zhang Yingchen, the chief of the travel inspection, saw this scene at work, and immediately called an undergraduate translator to clarify the situation: these four people are a family, who Disabled people are national heroes who were disabled during the Great Patriotic War. They went to Tibet, China to seek medical treatment for the disabled, but they did not make the trip because the cost was too high. They asked the Russian embassy in China to pay for the expenses. Reception by the person in charge of Suifenhe Foreign Affairs Office.However, due to a mistake in the date, there was no one to pick them up when they arrived in Suifenhe. At this time, they were penniless.After learning about this situation, they immediately let these Russians into the lounge, and immediately contacted the Suifenhe Foreign Affairs Office.When the comrades from the foreign affairs department came to receive them, these passengers held the hand of the customs officer and said repeatedly: Spaziba, (translated as thank you), China Customs, Harasau! (translated as good).In order to improve the service and better facilitate customs clearance and inquiries for customers, Suifenhe Customs invested tens of thousands of yuan in July 1997 to set up an electronic touch screen in the railway customs declaration hall.Each department has set up a consultation desk. Since the establishment of the activity, a total of more than 2,000 external consultations have been conducted. Since the anti-pornography campaign was launched, Suifenhe Customs has seized 210 obscene video tapes, more than 10,000 copies of books and periodicals; more than 800 reactionary and disseminated religious books; piece. In May 1997, the Customs made a typical speech on the anti-drug experience exchange meeting held by the French Customs and the Chinese Customs in Guangzhou on the experience of seizing ephedrine tablets. Suifenhe Customs and Russian Grotekovo Customs often have friendly exchanges. It is said that in addition to normal meetings on foreign affairs, the two sides are more involved in competitions.On the basketball court under the customs office building, the two sides often hold games here.Speaking of the game, I was a little worried. Everyone in Russia is tall and burly. I asked doubtfully: Can we have the courage to play against them?Did you lose miserably?The Deputy Commissioner Liu who received the author stared and said, how can we lose?In order to prove that what he said was true, he insisted on Minister Zhang and Deputy Secretary Li of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee to testify.Secretary Li nodded and said that the Russian side has been here many times, and the customs have also been to the Russian side many times. They are not opponents in basketball, table tennis, and football. We often win easily. If you ask about volleyball, we seem to be close... How much difference?The friends at the customs laughed but did not answer. Soon, I checked the record at Suifenhe Customs: On August 2, a group of 40 people from Grotekovo Customs in Russia was invited to Suiguan for a friendly match of basketball, table tennis and volleyball. Leaders of relevant departments of Suifenhe City watched the match.Suifenhe Customs easily won the basketball and table tennis matches, and lost to the visiting team by a huge margin in the volleyball match... Seeing this, the author smiled knowingly. Suifenhe Customs is really a group that loves to be competitive in all kinds of work... The "Resolution" of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Party pointed out that serving the people and contributing to society is not only a concrete manifestation of the party's purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, but also an inevitable requirement for adhering to the socialist moral principles.Under the conditions of a socialist market economy, everyone is not only the object of service, but also serves others. It is even more necessary to advocate the moral norms of serving the people and contributing to the society, and doing good things for the people and the society... Guo Lianzhao is only an eighth-rank official in a county-level city. However, it is such a Zhima official who has always followed the life principle of doing good things for the people and the society. Guo Lianzhao was born on the fifth day of the first lunar month in 1951.There is an old folk saying that the first-year mother is the official of the fifteenth day, which means that all the girls born in the first year and boys born in the fifteenth year will have good luck in the future and have a bright future.Guo Lianzhao was not a woman, she was born on the fifth day of the first lunar month. Although she was not born on the fifteenth day, there was a five-character relationship, which was almost inseparable, and she was destined to be an official.There are also big and small officials, some have power over the government and the public, while others are as small as grass, so they are called sesame officials.Guo Lianzhao is the director of the Land and Mineral Resources Bureau of Xinzheng City. According to the past, the first level of the county magistrate is the seventh rank. At his level, he should be an official of the eighth rank, which is a little lower than the seventh rank Zhima official. Know if he is in pain or pleasure. One thing I know, Guo Lianzhao is not mediocre. The author has known Guo Lianzhao's name for many years. He is an advanced model person who has been commended by the Henan Provincial Government and Zhengzhou City many times, and he has also been reported by the media many times.During this period, it was rumored that there were many masterpieces in land in Xinzheng City, such as the relocation and resettlement project of the international airport, the Zhengxu Expressway project, the Taiwan Shengda University project, the Longwang Township reclamation project, etc. Absolutely impossible. However, Guo Lianzhao is an eighth-rank official. Anyone who can pursue perfection with gusto in this ordinary life must have a deep reason.Especially land officials. It is not an easy task to sing this role well during the 8 years without becoming an official or getting rich, and then withdraw peacefully after consummating meritorious deeds.Guo Lianzhao is 1.78 meters tall, with a burly figure, a kind face, and thick black hair that is slightly curly.It can be seen from the upright and slightly rich face that he must have been a handsome young man when he was young. Now, Guo Lianzhao with curly hair is sitting opposite me. He is on the sofa in Room 212 on the second floor of the Xinzheng Municipal Party Committee Guest House, looking at me with some confusion. History is imaginative.The following is Guo Lianzhao's account: My father joined the Eighth Route Army in 1944.His unit is Pi Dingjun's Independent Regiment of the Western Henan Eighth Route Army... The sky is gray.Gray wet clouds flew low against the oil basket mountain.This is by no means just a matter of his particularly appropriate methods, not just a matter of his particularly strong abilities, but the key lies in his thoughts and feelings.He deeply loves the land of Xinzheng, and the people living in this land of Xinzheng... He is the elf of the land, an unknown but extraordinary elf... Chewing on Vice Mayor Li's words, the author bid farewell to Xinzheng as the night darkened.At the Zhengzhou Railway Station, when I shook hands with Director Guo Lianzhao, my feelings were enriched.I feel that it is in touch with the mountains and rivers of Xinzheng, with the sand dunes and jujube forests of Xinzheng, and with the loess land of Xinzheng... One day in March 2002, Guo Lianzhao, who had been the director of the Bureau of Land and Mineral Resources for 13 years, was elected as the deputy director of the Xinzheng Municipal People's Congress with almost all votes at the city's people's congress. A new life journey... In the civilized industry of civilized units full of stars, there are always leaders like Guo Lianzhao, Zhang Lijun, Yuan Lihua, etc. who are willing to serve as public servants and are willing to contribute.They do not give play to the exemplary role of party members and cadres for a while, but take the lead in strengthening socialist beliefs and practicing socialist morality throughout their lives. "Introduction to Socialist Spiritual Civilization" says: Our Party currently has more than 63 million party members, and this team should be conscious participants and leading practitioners in the construction of spiritual civilization.The majority of Communist Party members must take the lead in strengthening their socialist beliefs, especially when our cause encounters difficulties in the development of our cause and when various social contradictions are concentrated and prominent, we must have full confidence in the future of the cause of socialist modernization, and use this to influence and Drive more people to build socialism with Chinese characteristics unswervingly and work hard.Communist Party members from all walks of life must take the lead in practicing socialist morality, be able to withstand all kinds of tests in the market economy environment, and use socialist moral requirements to regulate their behavior at any time and under any conditions. The people in this unit set an example.It is precisely because of Guo Lianzhao, Zhang Lijun, Yuan Lihua, a large number of devotees with strong party spirit who actively participate in the construction of spiritual civilization, that our creative activities are so full of passion and vitality.This is also the secret of why the towering tree of socialist spiritual civilization is lush and evergreen!