Chapter 36 Mao Anying apprentice Wu Manyou

"The power of role models is infinite." In order to better promote the mass production movement, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to select labor heroes, summarize and promote their experience, and form a new driving force for the movement. In the past, "only warriors or politicians were heroes, but now laborers can also be heroes." The editorial of "Liberation Daily" said so. In January 1943, at the high-level cadre meeting held by the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 22 heroes who had made outstanding achievements in leading production were commended and rewarded. Units will be rewarded as a group. On February 3, Mao Zedong personally wrote an inscription for the 22 production heroes.Part of the inscription is as follows:

Wang Zhen: Creative spirit He Weizhong: Pragmatic, simple, and selfless Yan Fusheng: Persisting in the implementation of the farming policy Liu Jianzhang: A model of cooperatives Fan Ziwen: A model of institutional production Started to further carry out labor hero activities, and selected outstanding laborers in each village, township, and county to commend them.All walks of life also launched special labor heroes to participate in the model worker conference in Yan'an. In November 1943, the Border Region Government held the first Model Worker Conference, and it will be held every year thereafter to commend workers. On January 10, 1945, Mao Zedong delivered a speech "We must learn to do economic work" at the model worker conference, highly praised the great contributions made by labor heroes and model workers in production and construction, and affirmed that they "have three kinds of strengths. "Three roles", that is, the leading role, the backbone role, and the bridge role.

The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the model worker meeting, and the model worker meeting at all levels is held in a grand manner.Labor heroes and model workers wore big red flowers and were greeted and sent off by the band; during the meeting, the "Heroes Meeting Report" was published to introduce their advanced deeds; the central leadership comrades in Yan'an came to the meeting to give speeches and awards, and issued certificates of merit for model workers and border area self-made blankets and daily necessities.It is an honor to be a model worker. At that time, in the industry, the "Zhao Zhankui Movement" was carried out to study Zhao Zhankui's hard-working spirit.

Zhao Zhankui is a native of Dingxiang, Shanxi Province. After arriving in Yan'an in 1938, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military Works Team to study and joined the Communist Party of China. In July of 2010, he was assigned to a farm tool factory as a foundry worker. In this ordinary position, he worked hard and achieved outstanding results. Well, the greatest number of good workers. In September 1942, the "Liberation Daily" published the editorial "Learning from Model Worker Zhao Zhankui", which set off an upsurge in industrial production. In terms of agriculture, the most typical story is the story of Wu Manyou.

Wu Manyou was one of the most famous labor heroes in the border area at that time. In 1928, he fled from Hengshan County to Erxiang, Liulin District, Yan'an. Because of poverty, he had to reluctantly sell his two daughters. In 1935, Liu Zhidan led the people of northern Shaanxi to carry out the agrarian revolution.Wu Manyou got 60 farms of wasteland and started a new life from then on.He opened up wasteland and improved the soil year after year, turning the 60-year-old wasteland into cultivated land, obtained good harvests, and became a wealthy farmer.He is an anti-Japanese family member, not only does not want preferential treatment from the government, but also takes the lead in paying public food, and serves as the director of the anti-Japanese war, giving preferential treatment to other anti-Japanese family members.

He went to Nanniwan and worked with the soldiers for 28 days, telling them how to plant the best seeds on the hillside, and teaching them good methods of opening up wasteland. By chance, a reporter from "Liberation Daily" discovered Wu Manyou's deeds and made a systematic report.Wu Manyou was selected as the first labor hero in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. After becoming a model worker, he was not complacent and continued to work hard.He selected and bred the seeds together with the manager of the high-tech farm, then tested them in his own field, and then introduced them to other farmers.

He was very disturbed when he heard that Mao Zedong went to work in the fields himself.He asked someone to send a message to Mao Zedong and said: "I will plow 10 acres of land for you and hand over 5,000 catties of grain, so you can do big things with peace of mind!" Driven by him, farmers in the border areas set off an upsurge of substituting farming for the head of the central government. When mentioning this labor hero who was slightly older than himself, Mao Zedong always said with respect: "Comrade Wu Manyou is the person who made the most contribution to the mass production movement, and he made great contributions to smashing the Kuomintang blockade in the border area. "

In 1946, Mao Anying, the eldest son of Mao Zedong, returned to Yan'an from the Soviet Union. Mao Zedong asked him to go to the countryside to exercise and receive education, so he handed him over to Wu Manyou and worshiped him as his teacher. In the large-scale production movement, the role model effect was produced, their experience was promoted, and a large-scale labor competition to catch up with and surpass the advanced emerged in the border area, which greatly promoted the economic development and the improvement of work efficiency. Thanks to the joint efforts of the military and civilians in the border areas, the mass production movement has achieved great results, which not only ensured the supply of the party, the government and the army, but also greatly reduced the economic burden of the common people.

According to statistics in 1943, 1 million mu of wasteland was reclaimed in the border area, 160,000 shi was increased in production, 150,000 mu of cotton was planted, 600,000 loads of salt were produced, 4,500 second-timers were rehabilitated, 10,000 immigrants were resettled, and the lives of the party, government, military and civilians were significantly improved. In 2008, the troops in the border region produced nearly 100,000 shi of fine grain (millet, corn, etc.) throughout the year. In addition to the self-sufficiency of the grain, 350,000 shi was handed over to the grain bureau of the border area, and 718% of the self-sufficiency in food, clothing, housing and transportation was achieved; 656%; the production of units affiliated to the border region government reached 51% of the total self-sufficiency, and also established a considerable scale of "revolutionary housework" (Zhu De's words, referring to the accumulation of public funds).The public grain received by farmers in the border areas dropped to 1114% in 1942 and 9% in 1943.

Under the slogans of "combining labor and force" and "combining combat and production", the anti-Japanese base areas in the enemy's rear took advantage of the gap between war and work to engage in productive labor, achieved good results, achieved partial self-sufficiency, and realized the central government's "do it yourself , to overcome difficulties" requirements. The motto of the Communists is: "There is no end to the joy of fighting against difficulties." The Japanese and the die-hards of the Kuomintang originally wanted to starve the communists to death, but they did not expect that the communists, with no foreign aid and relying on their own hands, not only got out of the predicament, but also painted a picture of the harvest, the six animals, and the harvest. A thriving picture.Since then, the Communists have added another ability: they can do economic work and engage in economic construction.

Mao Zedong said humorously: Chiang Kai-shek did all kinds of bad things, but it was a good thing for him not to pay our Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army.Our economy was blocked, and we lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary, which made people who had some illusions about Chiang Kai-shek no longer have illusions. He made us find the way to do it ourselves.This is more reliable than any salary or any assistance. Xu Fanting, a famous general of the Kuomintang and director of the Jinsui Administration, said at the first Labor Heroes Conference: "Communists have three heads and six arms. The three heads are the head of the 'gun', the head of the 'hoe' and the head of the 'pen'. The six arms are the 'two hands' capable of fighting, the 'two hands' capable of producing, and the other 'two hands' 'To be able to write articles, to study, and to catch traitors and spies. Such superficiality is good for the common people and good for China." The significance of the mass production movement is enormous, "This is a miracle that has never been seen in Chinese history, and this is our invincible material foundation." Mao Zedong was full of confidence in the future: As long as we all know how to fight, produce, and do mass work, "we will not be afraid of any difficulties and will be invincible in the world"!