Chapter 9 Chapter 5: The Country Is So Beautiful

No other city has so many mountains and waters as Chongqing.Mountains and water make up the skeleton of Chongqing.The mountain is the body formed after being devastated by the wind and dust rising in the crustal movement, and the water forms its own character and shape in the turbulent flow.Since the day of its establishment, the municipality of Chongqing has experienced a lot of trials and tribulations. In 1998, the second year after the establishment of the young municipality, it encountered the Asian financial crisis.Chongqing's economy, which was already dragged down by the aging of state-owned enterprises, has fallen into a more difficult predicament.

In 1999, on the fourth day after New Year's Day, the Qijiang Rainbow Bridge collapsed suddenly and 40 people died, which shocked the whole country and cast an inescapable shadow over Chongqing, a young municipality directly under the Central Government.This negative influence is far greater than the impact of Chongqing people spending huge sums of money to build ten bridges on the Yangtze River.The burden of the city is often unimaginable. A heavy rain in the evening of "May 1st" in 2001 caused 74 people in the north of Wulong County to be buried in mudslides instantly... At 22:50 on December 23, 2003, Chongqing people suffered another sudden disaster—a gas blowout in the Northeast Sichuan Gas Mine!Within hours, the disaster affected 28 villages in 4 towns!Wherever the poisonous gas went, people and animals died instantly... The disaster shocked the world.Afterwards, the mass transfer of 100,000 people attracted the attention of the whole country, and the people of Chongqing once again endured a catastrophe of life and death!

During a heavy rain in early September 2004, 23 districts and counties in Chongqing suffered from severe floods, especially in Kaixian County, which was the hardest hit area. A disaster that swept across the mountain people had never been seen in 200 years.In this flood, a total of 5.63 million people in 451 villages and towns in Chongqing were affected, 200,000 people were urgently relocated and resettled, 174 hectares of crops were affected, 320,000 houses were damaged, and the city's direct economic loss was 2.1 billion yuan. In the summer of 2006, the temperature in Chongqing, the "city of stoves", rose from 39°C to 42°C and 44.5°C for some unknown reason.And this kind of temperature lasted from the first 10 days and 20 days to 99 days.21 million people in the city were affected, and 8 million people had no water to drink.Another year of severe drought that has not happened in a century.The vast land is burning, and the water in the rivers is getting less and less until they dry up... The drought in Chongqing has alarmed Zhongnanhai. General Secretary Hu Jintao gave instructions in the middle of the night, hoping that relevant departments will support Chongqing in fighting the drought; the State Council held a special meeting to study countermeasures; the former Premier of the State Council When Li Peng learned of the severe drought in his hometown, he immediately sent 300,000 yuan from the manuscript fee to Chongqing to build a "mother water kiln".The veteran leaders of Chongqing, He Guoqiang, Huang Zhendong, Bao Xuding, etc. also sent donations through various channels to express their concern and support for the severe drought in Chongqing. On September 5, there was a "rumbling" thunder in the sky in Chongqing, and all the people in the city, men, women, young and old, rushed to the open air for joy. "It's raining!" "It's raining——" Shancheng seemed to be celebrating the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and many people even cried with joy...

People in Jiangcheng truly feel the importance and extraordinaryness of water, and how water is closely related to their lives and the fate of the city. In the early spring of 2007, people in Chongqing discovered that the Yangtze River and Jialing River at their feet were receding again and again, until the bottom of the valleys and rivers in many places were naked in front of their eyes... "River City" had no water, so the State Council had to step in How unfortunate and helpless it is that the upper reaches of the Jialing River opened gates to divert water to save Chongqing!Rivers dry up in winter and spring, which is rare in Chongqing!History is rare!

God always seems to be testing our young municipality on purpose. When I was writing this book nervously, on April 24, 2007, a bus of Chongqing Yuyun Company crashed into the bottom of the bridge, and 26 lives disappeared in an instant. In our life... Special terrain, special nature, special cities, there are always special disasters and emergencies.Every day in Chongqing grows through such trials and experiences.Although we don't know whether this is God's special arrangement, or a journey that a young municipality must go through.But one thing is certain: Chongqing people can withstand more than any other city, because the mountain city and river city cannot escape the double disasters caused by nature and man-made.Whether a city is strong and whether it can advance in adversity depends on luck. Chongqing people understand this, so they always experience everything in the process of bearing and fighting.

Chongqing, I therefore give it a definition: it is a city with great character.It is a city of fortitude, a city that does not shed tears, a city that only knows joy in celebration but does not cry in sorrow, and a city that never stops in the face of difficulties and disasters.And this city can have such a great mind and courage, precisely because it is every inch of hot land cast by the great rivers and mountains created by God, and there is a spiritual force that can only be bred on this hot land—— Ten years may be too short for the history of a city.The ten years of Chongqing under the Central Government have left the world with a lot to say.Maybe we use a million words to record her growth experience, but it still won't satisfy a common desire.But there is one thing that cannot be forgotten anyway, and this is the "Red Rock" in Chongqing.

Chongqing's "Hongyan" is "another Chongqing phenomenon" derived from a revolutionary classic novel "Red Rock". No one has counted the intangible assets that "Hongyan" brought to Chongqing, but in my opinion, the value of at least more than 100 billion yuan, and a city image created with 100 billion yuan may not be able to last for a long time. people's hearts. "Hongyan" is not the case. The sense of revolutionary history and heaviness that she makes the city of Chongqing publicize will double as time goes on, and it will never end—as long as our country continues to maintain If one's own national integrity and the ruling form of the Communist Party leading the country remain unchanged, then the value that "Red Rock" can produce will always be an upward trend.

A novel supports the spiritual image of a city. The mission of a staff member influences and changes the utilization and dissemination of a traditional resource, thus enabling people outside the city to bring the most shining soul of the city into their hearts and lives. The person who influenced and changed the use and dissemination of a traditional resource is Li Hua, the curator of Chongqing Hongyan Revolutionary History Museum who has spared no effort to promote the "Hongyan Spirit" for 20 years. Under the unified leadership and command of previous municipal party committees and municipal governments, Li Hua and the others will form a series of spiritual products based on the "Hongyan Spirit" with "Red Rock Soul" as the main brand content.Over the past ten years, the Hongyan Patriotic Education Base has received more than 30 million visitors (among which young people account for nearly one-third), and held the "Red Rock Soul" exhibition in more than 300 cities across the country, with an audience of 35 million; He conducted 750 "Red Rock Soul" tours in 40 cities across the country, made 900 "Red Rock Soul" reports, and issued and sold 50 million copies of "Red Rock Soul" books and CDs.The total revenue of the business exceeds 150 million.Such performance is unique among the national patriotic education bases.This shows what?It shows that the "Hongyan Spirit" has been propagated by Chongqing people to almost every corner of the country and everyone's heart...

In peacetime, in the economic society, where else has a historical revolutionary spirit been propagated to such a broad and deep level, except Chongqing people? The value created by Li Hua and the comrades at the "Hongyan" base for the municipality is no less than a "Chonggang", a "Taiji" and a "Jialing". The people of Chongqing recommended Comrade Li Hua to be elected as the "Outstanding Contribution Award for the Revitalization of Chongqing" because of this. I know that Hongyan is not only owned by Li Hua, he is just one of the many disseminators of Hongyan spirit.In fact, the previous leaders of Chongqing and all Chongqing people are disseminators of Hongyan spirit.And among the many Hongyan spiritual communicators, there is one person I can't forget——

His name is Zhang Lu, a handsome TV literature and art worker, and a household name in Chongqing. On the afternoon of February 8, 2007, the author finally saw Zhang Lu in a wheelchair in a dormitory building in a downtown area of ​​Chongqing. March 11, 1987 was the day when Zhang Lu unfortunately suffered a car accident and became disabled.On this day and this year, Zhang Lu was only 34 years old.In the early morning, the high-spirited Zhang Luzheng was running along the highway as usual when he was suddenly knocked down by the side of the road by a "Little Chang'an" car speeding past behind him. All the physical strength and all the life of a man who can stand and show his pride...

For the next seven years, Zhang Lu never went out once, like a living zombie who only knows how to breathe but does not know how to live. Only he knows that kind of loneliness and pain. Zhang Lu has tasted the taste of "life is better than death". One day, colleagues came to see him and said, Zhang Lu, you can't go on like this, so that you, Zhang Lu, are no longer a man!Zhang Lu, who no longer knew tears, heard this and immediately howled like a lion with a broken limb: "I am no longer a man! I might as well die! Woo..." The heartbroken cry The sound can reverse the flow of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, and collapse Daba Mountain and Wushan Mountain. After crying, Zhang Lu smiled and said: Then I will listen to you, go out and see what else I can do. A colleague told him: You are the famous editor of our Chongqing TV station, and there are many things you can do. One day in 1994, Zhang Lu walked out of the house for the first time after being disabled - the world outside the house was much bluer and the scenery was much more beautiful than what he had seen in the past.The first thing Zhang Lu chose was to go to Jiangjin Mountain Village, a hundred miles away from the main city, to see the children—to be strong, he was not used to others carrying him with a sliding pole. "Seeing him carrying himself shirtless and sweating, I swore in my heart: I can ignore the sky and the earth at any time, but I, Zhang Lu, must stand up to the test and stand up in my will to be a man and be a worthy colleague. People who are worthy of the people of Chongqing.” Zhang Lu told me. "In the past 20 years, although I have been sitting in a wheelchair or on a stretcher carried by others every day, I still think that I am a person who stands up and does things in terms of beliefs and ideals. I am a person who can do a little bit for the construction of the municipality." Zhang Lu commented on his poetic life in such plain language. For more than ten years, Zhang Lu has been standing on a stretcher.With all his love and wisdom, he has completed a series of classic TV works of art, spreading the civilization and progress of this era. His more than 50 episodes of TV series "Cross-Century Hope" entrust the Chongqing mountain village The hope of education; his documentary is a deep affection for his hometown Chongqing... He spread his love by means of television, igniting all the hopes and efforts of all Chongqing people for the future.Zhang Lu realized the glory of life in a wheelchair and on a stretcher. Countless mountain village children in the deep mountains got the chance to go to school again because of him. "Red Xiaoyu" and Chen Xiaomei thrived under his heart rain... "Chongqing is a big city and a big countryside. It is a major event that every Chongqing person should do his best to pay attention to the overall coordination and progress of urban and rural areas. I am a disabled person, but this does not affect my ability to do my part for this matter. The wish of strength." In recent years, Zhang Lu has been thinking about the present and future development of the municipality.In Wulong, he used TV video teaching videos to spread the knowledge of scientific farming to local farmers. The "Farmer Training Resource Station" widely opened in the county was planned and operated by him, and now it has become a local farmer. A platform for farmers to get rich. Zhang Lu, who has traveled to poverty-stricken counties in 19 countries, told me happily: "Now I go down there and see that the most beautiful building in the mountainous area is the school, and the clothes worn by the children are bright new clothes, and the parents use the most One sentence is "hope your child will become a dragon". Don't underestimate the words of farmers. They have the consciousness of "hope their children will become dragons". The next generation in rural areas will have hope. Farmers themselves have this awareness, consciously, far It is much more important than the government's efforts to mobilize children to study. Education is the root of solving the three rural issues. Farmers will voluntarily implement family planning, plant the land well, strive for a good harvest, and put If the income increases, then send your children to college and become a promising person. If this continues for a long time, will the big rural areas in Chongqing have no future?” A person in a wheelchair can have such hope and confidence in today's municipality, isn't it an inspiration and encouragement to those who can live while standing?Isn't it an extension of Hongyan spirit today? The fire of civilization needs to be passed on, and the spirit of the times needs to be given new content.Countless people in Chongqing, including Li Hua and Zhang Lu, have inherited the spark of the Hongyan Revolution in different ways, and this is the real driving force behind the rise and rapid development of the new municipality. The mountains are taller and taller, and the rivers are more surging... We have already said that Chongqing is a beautiful city.Its beauty comes from the combination of mountains and rivers, the blending of sky and earth, the companionship of moon and clouds, and the co-prosperity of man and nature; we have already said that Chongqing Municipality is a combination of a big city and a big countryside. It contains a kind of openness, fashion and brilliance, and it also contains a kind of simplicity, ordinaryness and solidity... Chongqing is a shining crystal where history and reality are imprinted on the same mountain rock, and it has never been washed away by wind and rain and faded indifferently. Chongqing is an image of today and the future projected on the same screen. You can touch and feel the essence and color of life. People in Chongqing told me that their favorite tree is the yellow kudzu tree, and they say that the yellow kudzu tree is their image.As long as you pay attention, you can see the lush yellow kudzu trees on the huge cliffs and bluestone steps in the streets and alleys of the main city, always stretching out their healthy limbs and lush leaves, nodding to passers-by.And in the ravines and riverbanks of the high mountains and distant rivers, the yellow kudzu trees that live alone or alone are always looking up or waiting for the return and the sail... Huanggeshu is the city tree of Chongqing. It is said that it has the same long history as Chongqing, and at the same time has the same quality and character as Chongqing people.It has never been afraid of wind, frost, rain and snow, nor is it afraid of cliffs, as long as it is given a little soil, it can take root and sprout, use the grown roots to firmly grasp every gap, raise its head in the wind, and constantly perform vigorous life; it Never caring about rich or poor, as long as there is a trace of rain and dew and nutrients, it will flourish and grow and reproduce happily. Even if it is a hundred years old, or after being struck by lightning or burned by fire, it will still grow new leaves on the old roots that do not die. , reappearing new and tender; it doesn't care whether others take good care of it, and it doesn't need others to sing praises, as long as you admit its existence, it will be willing to shield you from the wind and rain for your hard work—— Huanggeshu is a tree with spirituality, which connects the history of Chongqing. After the beacon fire of the Ba people was extinguished under the cruel Qin and Chu cavalry, its unyielding and strong character has been passed down to the present through Huanggeshu; The rivers and streams in the rivers and rivers are affectionate and intentional. When the boatman and the sail are in danger, it always steps forward, willing to let the ropes be tied tightly to itself, so as to block the river waves that eat people and swallow the cabin; When tigers and wolves were together, only Huang Geshu still listened to Dashan's sad stories about his struggles with wind and rain every day, and only Huang Geshu was the most fair and persistent referee in the ruthless competition between the sun and the moon. Of course, Huang Geshu most wants to leave his quality of life and expectations to human beings, so Chongqing has yesterday and today.The yellow kudzu tree is more deeply rooted and luxuriant in today's Chongqing land, because the life energy it has accumulated for hundreds of millions of years has been truly absorbed and expanded by the people of contemporary Chongqing. This is a prosperous and harmonious new Chongqing and Xinba country. The society has been presented before us—— The beauty and prosperity of a city sometimes depends not only on whether there are more and wider roads, but also on whether the flow of cars and people on the road is smooth and safe. The degree of modernization of a city is not high, sometimes it cannot be judged only by how crazy the cars on the overpass and light rail line are driving, but whether the green lawn under the bridge is lush and the music in the coffee shop next to the light rail line is pleasant. is the most important. How is the fashion and civilization of a city? It is often not about whether the girls’ skirts are short or short, and the voices of familiar English are getting more and more, but whether the inscription on the ancient people on the edge of the old city can still be seen clearly. , and whether the door of the neighbor and another office building can be safe and sound. Of course, GDP can explain the problem very well. No matter how gorgeous the villas and bungalows are in European style, how well the bridges and expressways extend in all directions, the natural air and the sufficient and clear oxygen in the interpersonal relationship are sometimes even nobler and more important than all indicators such as politics, money, and occupation.So, at the last moment of writing the essay summarizing the ten years of Chongqing directly under the central government, I suddenly thought of the meaning of Huang Geshu.There is only one reason why kudzu trees are so luxuriant in every inch of land in Chongqing, a large municipality composed of a big city and a large countryside: the climate and natural environment here are too suitable for its growth and reproduction. What is it like today when Chongqing has been directly under the Central Government for ten years?Isn't the whole city learning and implementing the "three major positionings", "one major goal" and "four major tasks" proposed by General Secretary Hu Jintao?Undoubtedly, this "314" is the overall strategic deployment of Chongqing's new stage of development, which must be emphasized and implemented again.However, my focus is concentrated on one point: this is the popularity of Chongqing today. A popular city must be a "growth pole" with great potential! A place with rising popularity must firmly attract the surroundings to itself like a magnetic field and form an unshakable "center"! A popular and beautiful world must belong to those who are ambitious, affectionate, talented, artistic, intentional, and settle down here to raise children! No matter how it is called, no matter how it is called, all the "growth poles" of today, the "centers" of tomorrow, or the more modern "municipalities" in the future, add up all their strengths and benefits, and it is the word "home". . Only a beautiful homeland is the factor and root that attracts all human beings who yearn for happiness and a peaceful life. Chongqing has been directly under the Central Government for ten years. It can be summed up in one sentence, that is-all the people living here love their homeland more and more. All the people who have been here have a kind of desire to settle their homeland In this land full of vitality and hope where the river embraces the mountains and the mountains embrace the city. that's enough. The bright spot of China in the future belongs to Chongqing. The best home in the future belongs to Chongqing. This is an irresistible trend, just like the Yangtze River flowing eastward like the Qianlichuan River where the Yangtze River, Jialing River, and Wujiang River converge... Let us, in the name of the Chinese nation, pay tribute to the fourth municipality directly under the Central Government of the Republic and to the 30.02 million people of Chongqing, wishing them to take root and flourish in this hot land forever like the yellow kudzu tree, and wishing them greater glory in innovation!