Chapter 4 Chapter Four

The life experience of Cheng Xianmin, the current deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Huaxi Village and "professor villager", is undoubtedly the "note" that shines particularly dazzlingly in these wonderful movements. Cheng Xianmin was 39 years old.The young professor who bid farewell to Xi'an Jiaotong University alone because he was unwilling to be "embarrassed in his pocket" walked into Huaxi Village one day out of curiosity... "Are you a university professor?" "Yes. My family is from a farmer in Shangluo, Shaanxi. Because my family is poor, I worked very hard after school, and I skipped grades from elementary school to university. I have been studying hard for more than ten years just to get out of the 'farm gate'. It's true. After being a university professor, I found that I was still unable to change the poverty of my family, so I came to southern Jiangsu alone to seek a way out..."

"what is your major?" "Mechanical Manufacturing Major." "I heard that you had three years of experience in setting up a factory in another place near our Huaxi Village? Why are you leaving now?" "Yes, the profit of that factory has doubled several times since I went there. But in the end, because I am a foreigner, they don't listen to me in many key decisions. Now the factory is going from bad to worse, and I have to leave..." "Then—are you willing to come to our Huaxi Village?" "If I come, can you give full play to my professional expertise and start a business according to my suggestions, and not treat me as an outsider?"

"It's absolutely possible—as long as you are right, as long as you truly regard yourself as a member of Huaxi Village, Huaxi Village will treat you sincerely." "Then I am willing to stay in Huaxi." "Okay!" A pair of calloused hands warmly stretched out to the young professor.Cheng Xianmin recognized the smiling old man standing in front of him as Wu Renbao, the old secretary of Huaxi Village. "Tell me, what are the conditions for your professor to stay in Huaxi Village?" Wu Renbao likes to be straightforward. "No conditions." Cheng Xianmin replied very straightforwardly.

"Really?" "No." Cheng Xianmin shook his head affirmatively.Seeing that the old secretary's eyes were fixed on him, he had no choice but to say: "The salary can be lower, just three hundred or so..." Wu Renbao stretched out his hands again, held the hand of the young professor, and said with a very gratified smile, "You are a person who gets along well with me! Work hard, Huaxi Village has a place for you!" In this way, Cheng Xianmin became the first professor to work in Huaxi Village.With his professional knowledge and admirable work ethic, he contributed all his intellect and ability to start a "factory" business in Huaxi Village.At the end of the year, Cheng Xianmin wanted to go back to Shaanxi to visit relatives. Wu Renbao gave him 3,000 yuan and said, "You are losing 300 yuan a month." The young professor was very moved by the words of the old secretary. The general cadres and business managers in the village only get a salary of more than 100 yuan a month.

... When I went home to visit relatives the next year, when Cheng Xianmin was packing his luggage, Murakami's accountant came in carrying a bulging sack and said to him, "The old secretary asked me to give these to you." Cheng Xianmin opened the sack and took a look, he was so surprised that he didn't close his mouth for a long time: Oh my god, the sack is full of bundles of brand new ten-yuan bills!No more, no less, 50,000 yuan!50,000 yuan in the 1980s was definitely an astronomical figure for most Chinese people.Faced with the burning feelings of the old secretary Wu Renbao and the Huaxi people, Cheng Xianmin cried... When he returned to Huaxi Village from his hometown, Cheng Xianmin gave Wu Renbao the family register that had been in his pocket for five years: "Old secretary, If you agree to take us in, we will be villagers of Huaxi Village from now on..."

After hearing this, Wu Renbao turned around and shouted at the villagers who were busy working on the "factory" construction site: "A professor came to West China to be a villager. I believe our tomorrow will be better!" "The sky in Huaxi is the sky of the Communist Party, and the land in Huaxi is the land of socialism..." At this moment, the loudspeakers surrounding the whole village sounded the "Huaxi Village Song" familiar to the farmers... Three years, more than a thousand days, in the blink of an eye, Wu Renbao made large green and environmentally friendly factories stand in the fields of Huaxi Village like a magic trick, and became the first in the majestic rural land of southern Jiangsu. An industrial park.Until 1988, the economy of Huaxi Village showed a diversified pattern with the secondary industry as the main body and the primary and tertiary industries as the two wings. The annual output value exceeded expectations, reaching 101.06 million yuan.

The goal of "100 million yuan village" has been achieved, and Huaxi has once again become the most glorious banner of the national agricultural front! Wu Renbao was 60 years old this year.But with his high-spirited mental outlook, no one can put the label of "old man" on him.Wu Renbao said with a smile that he was in his youth, "Because I am only 34 years old in the party. What kind of work do 34-year-old people do? Of course they do earth-shattering and earth-shattering things!" Such is the mind and sentiment of a communist who lives and struggles endlessly. Sublime!

Wu Renbao has a catchphrase: "A party member is a banner, and a party member represents the image of the party. If a party member does good deeds, the common people will praise the Communist Party." And he thinks this way: "Serving the people wholeheartedly is the duty of a party member. To serve the people well, the most fundamental thing is to let the people live a good life. To let the people live a good life, we must develop the economy.” Relying on this idea, Wu Renbao led the farmers of Huaxi Village to create a new era at the speed of "ten years spanning an era" with his unwillingness to be mediocre, his ambition to be new and pragmatic, and his dedication to economic development. One myth after another of the "No. 1 Village in the World" has been revealed.

"Without soil and foreign land, with both the city and the countryside, we will build Huaxi into a prosperous socialist farmer's paradise." This is Wu Renbao, who started to lead the farmers on the basis of the continuous growth of the collective economy after completing the "land" and "factory" of Huaxi Village. It is another historic ascension towards an all-round well-off society and the "moderately healthy level". During this period, Wu Renbao added the content of "scientific development and advanced planning" to Wu Renbao's guiding ideology of "seeking truth from facts and working hard".

The "Butu" built by Wu Renbao is not the buildings and rows of colorful Chinese and European peasant villas that we see in Huaxi Village that we can only find in metropolitan cities, or the golden pagoda building that symbolizes the image of Huaxi. A superficial perception of appearance.His "no soil" is actually the contemporary Chinese peasants, under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, with their hard-working entrepreneurial spirit and heroic ingenuity to dare to be the first in the world, in completing the process from holding a hoe to a hammer; From dealing with crops and land, to embracing machines and markets; from a farmer to a factory manager; from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, the "self-revolution" begins to fully enter the "genetic revolution" process of rebirth.This is not only a meaning of saying goodbye to the old days of ending traditional agricultural civilization and waving goodbye to modern industrial civilization, but also a new exploration of socialist agricultural urbanization in line with China's national conditions. "Soil" is the essence of farmers. When Wu Renbao led the construction of the prosperous Huaxi Village, the reason why he was praised by the world and was regarded as a role model for Chinese farmers is that he never broke away from the "soil" essence of farmers.After the 1990s, Huaxi started the astonishing process of "building cities"—that is, the process of rural urbanization—after obtaining the huge material accumulation of rural industrialization.In the traditional sense, "building a city" will always destroy the original rural natural pattern.However, under the careful planning of Wu Renbao, Huaxi Village did not simply move the concept of the city to the village. They pursued the advanced design and investment of "one hundred years without lagging behind" in the external buildings and internal installations.In terms of planning and site selection, it insists on the harmonious integration of modern urban buildings and rural natural scenery, so this kind of "Huaxi City" makes people never get tired of seeing it, living in it forever, and has a unique charm.

"The one-hundred-year improvement in planning and quality actually contains huge economic benefits. In the past, when farmers had a better life, they flipped their houses, and no matter how much wealth they accumulated, there was little left due to building houses again and again. This situation also occurred in Huaxi Village in the early stage of development. Now we have changed our thinking and tried to advance as far as possible when planning and building houses. In the long run, we have achieved the goal of "no soil" for a hundred years , and because of the beautiful hardware construction, it has played a very good role in attracting investment and gathering talents.” Wu Renbao pointed to those peasant villas that cost several million yuan that are envied by Americans and Europeans, and explained the mystery for me in this way . Adjacent to those luxurious European-style villas, I took a stroll to visit the "Farmer Park" that represents the cultural concept of Huaxi Village, where "Buyang" is very representative.Walking into the park, among the green shade and flowers, there are small bridges and flowing water, boats shuttling, birds singing, willows blowing and singing... But the most eye-catching things are the "Taoyuan Jieyi Pavilion" and "Three Visits Thatched Cottage" that Chinese people are familiar with. " and "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" pavilions and so on.Many people who visit Huaxi will always ask Wu Renbao, the old secretary of "100% Bolsheviks", why he engages in such tricks. "This is exactly an effective form of traditional cultural education that our old secretary has always insisted on advocating based on the actual situation of farmers." Xiao Zhao from the village's "Spiritual Civilization Office" said: The old secretary believes that educating wealthy farmers Therefore, it is necessary to continuously instill modern civilization ideas in them, but at the same time, we must not abandon the traditional cultural education of the Chinese nation.The old secretary often said that we Communists believe in communism and firmly follow the road of socialism, but we must also emphasize "benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety", especially the younger generation of farmers must be taught to be loyal and filial to the elderly and their parents.For this reason, the old secretary also advocated the establishment of a special award in the village: where there is a 90-year-old elderly, the immediate family members can each receive a "loyalty and filial piety award" of 1,000 yuan per year.Where there is an elderly person who lives to the age of 100, each immediate family member will receive a "loyalty and filial piety award" of 10,000 yuan per year.When Chen Zhenmei was 100 years old, 37 members of her family, including five generations, won a grand prize of 10,000 yuan each, totaling 370,000 yuan!Someone asked the old secretary, is the bonus too much?The old secretary said: "Not much at all. If the elderly in Huaxi Village can live to be a hundred years old, it proves that our Huaxi people not only live affluent, happy, and healthy lives, but also that future generations have done a good job of filial piety to the elderly. There are rewards like this. It's worth it." Wu Renbao is superior to others!Such "non-foreignness" contains profound Chinese characteristics and peasant characteristics. Walking out of the "Farmer's Park", I was attracted by a rolling hill.Although this mountain is not very high, it has a special momentum because it stands on a flat field, and its shape is very like a living giant dragon. There really are "dragons" everywhere! While speaking, my feet stepped into a majestic archway with flying eaves and brackets, on which there are four golden characters - Huaxi Park.Hey!In this park with twists and turns, surrounded by mountains and rivers, I finally got a taste of the "foreign" scenery of Huaxi Village: the "White House" in the United States, the "Ancient Castle" in the United Kingdom, the "Arc de Triomphe" in Paris, the "Astronomical Observatory" in Germany, and the Czech Republic. The "country villa"... here is really "foreign"! "Farmers going abroad used to be something that they never dared to dream of, but in Huaxi, our villagers can 'go abroad' every day without any formalities. They can eat breakfast in 'India' and stay in 'Japan' at night. You can travel to more than a dozen 'countries', and you are guaranteed to enjoy first-class services..." Xiao Zhao, who is engaged in publicity, introduced vividly, and took me to the situation of "going abroad" from time to time.Really, in Huaxi "Garden of All Nations", there are many kinds of foreign language services, all kinds of food to enjoy, and all kinds of cultural appreciation.In short, this place is full of "foreign". "No soil, no foreign", both "local" and "foreign". In Huaxi Village, you can feel, be excited, intoxicated and reminisce all the time in this great blend of traditional and modern, history and reality of Chinese and Western culture. ... Yes, all of these permeate the meticulous creativity and unique ideas of Wu Renbao, a peasant thinker. To understand it, we must not only penetrate the philosophical realm of dialectics, but also comprehend the realistic foundation of seeking truth from facts.I understand Wu Renbao's "no soil, no foreign" in this way - in the "no soil" here, "no" is actually a kind of pursuit, an ideal, a kind of innovation, and a kind of keeping pace with the times; "It is the essence of seeking truth from facts, with Chinese characteristics, or in other words, with the characteristics of Chinese rural areas and farmers. "No" and "soil" here are a pair of dynamic and revolutionary dialectics that depend on each other and promote each other.Similarly, in the "not foreign" here, "no" is actually a kind of abandonment of those blindly worshiping foreign ideas and dogmatism that were criticized by Comrade Mao Zedong long ago.However, the "foreign" pursued here represents the advanced consciousness of Wu Renbao and Huaxi people who are good at absorbing all the achievements of human civilization and willing to accept new ideas and new things. Wu Renbao's other concept of "City and Country" in building Xinhua West has the same meaning as "no land, no foreign land".It allows us to have an endless philosophical realm and substantial content that can be used for reference. This once again makes me wonder why Wu Renbao can't be a great man with a strong earthy flavor that we can praise? Faced with this question in my heart, Wu Renbao said modestly, I am just a farmer, a communist who pays attention to facts. "If you ask why the banner of Huaxi has not fallen for decades, my experience is: because we have always achieved the 'three not to fall', that is, 'not to be defeated', 'not to be frightened' and 'not to be praised'. "The old secretary explained: "It cannot be difficult", which is usually our determination and method in the process of transforming the objective world; Do comrades have strong political discernment and political strategy capabilities.Wu Renbao went on to give an example that Huaxi Village and himself have encountered repeated disputes between "black models" and "red models" in the past decades of ups and downs.For example, during the "Cultural Revolution", Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's group repeatedly suppressed and slandered Huaxi Village in order to uplift the false ultra-left models they had set up, and even resorted to extreme measures in an attempt to destroy Huaxi Village, which insisted on building a The banner of the new socialist countryside with its own characteristics.In those years, the people of Huaxi unswervingly insisted on the belief that socialism must develop productive forces. They made the banner of Huaxi Village flutter in the wind forever with the two missions of making people live a better life and making more contributions to the country. In the 1980s, the "household production contract" in rural China was fully rolled out across the country, and there was only one tone at that time: the word "bao" is omnipotent, and one package will work.It seems that whoever does not "package" deviates from the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee.All of a sudden, such hats came from all directions to Huaxi Village, which has always insisted on "no division, no package". Of course, it mainly hit Wu Renbao, the leading goose.Facing the ever-changing situation and heavy pressure across the country, Wu Renbao remained calm. He told the cadres and masses in the village that the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party was based on our Party's summarization of the mistakes and lessons of the "Left" in history. The central meaning of the policy adjustments made based on the actual situation in my country’s rural areas is to allow all practices and responsibility systems that are conducive to increasing production, increasing income, and improving farmers’ enthusiasm for production to be supported. One model, and a one-size-fits-all model, is exactly what the central government does not advocate.In response to someone outside who said, "After we divide the land into households, the farmers are like a long drought and a rain. Don't you in Huaxi not divide the land and you are not afraid of the upper and lower?" Let’s start. Our respective situations are different. If you divide, you are seeking truth from facts, which is the spirit of the Third Plenary Session; Road." Wu Renbao also introduced Huaxi Village's advantages such as "the vitality of the industrial structure and the attractiveness of the collective economy" to those leaders and friends who sincerely love Huaxi.Especially when Wu Renbao introduced that as early as the 1960s and 1970s, Huaxi Village began to entrust households and personnel for farm work that is convenient for individuals, and the practice of implementing the responsibility system of factory directors in enterprises, those who doubted Huaxi Village and persuaded Wu Renbao were very angry. He said in amazement: After working for a long time, your Huaxi Village has taken the lead in implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session! Talking about the ups and downs of Huaxi Village and the ups and downs he had personally experienced, Wu Renbao said frankly: One of the great skills of the communists is not to be intimidated in the face of various tests.But in order not to be intimidated by others, you must have an account in your heart of governing for the people and benefiting the people.With this account, you will not lose your way in doing things, and will not be swayed by any force, let alone intimidated by any political situation. In Huaxi Village, whether it is the old generation who worked hard with Wu Renbao, or the younger generation who grew up after the reform and opening up, or the younger generation who gathered here from all directions this year, when they talk about the old secretary’s policy level and ability to deal with changes, There is always a feeling of admiration from the heart, even to the point of admiration: "The old secretary must be right, because his understanding of policies is higher and more accurate than ours." truth. After the "15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China", the central government made a strategic adjustment of "grasping the big and letting go of the small" according to some situations that occurred in the country's economic development at that time.All of a sudden, all fronts and all fronts immediately "whispered" to "transform" those small units and small enterprises that had lost their vitality and lacked profitability. The "overall transformation" of township and village enterprises.At that time, Huaxi also had some enterprises that were not very profitable, and someone suggested to Wu Renbao: Just take the opportunity to "release" these enterprises and forget it!Wu Renbao shook his head and said: Every enterprise and every brick and tile in Huaxi Village belongs to the villagers of the whole village, and we have no such right to "release".All we can have is responsibility, which is the responsibility to support these poorly profitable enterprises.Under the guidance of Wu Renbao's idea, Huaxi Village took advantage of the "Fifteenth National Congress" to carry out a "Grasp the Big and Help the Small" initiative within the scope of the village enterprise group with the goal of adjusting the industrial structure and paying close attention to corporate efficiency. It will quickly make the industrial benefits of the whole village present a comprehensive and healthy development trend of "big to strong, small to excellent".By 2000, under the leadership of Wu Renbao, Huaxi people had created industrial sales of 5 billion yuan and profit and tax benefits of 500 million yuan in an area of ​​only 0.96 square kilometers.After the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Wu Renbao proposed a new goal of "scientific development, effective development, innovative development, and coordinated development" for Huaxi.Specifically, in terms of the industrial production indicators of the whole village, he and the cadres set the goals: 6 billion in 2002, 8 billion in 2003, and 10 billion in 2004.As a result, due to the four major measures of "scientific, effective, innovative and coordinated" development, the production efficiency has not only been fully completed, but also an annual increase rate of 10 billion yuan has appeared for two consecutive years!