Chapter 12 Chapter 11 Internal Information from the League Central Committee

On April 29, 1998, the Peking University campus was extremely happy.Because the teachers and students all know that a distinguished guest is coming to the campus today, and he is Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the State.In the morning, Chairman Jiang Zemin, who is outstanding in talent, was chatting with leaders in the education field or visiting the newly completed library of Peking University. Sometimes he spoke out, and sometimes he sang poems, bringing bursts of excitement to the century-old Peking University campus. spring tide.At around 12:00 noon, President Jiang Zemin came to the student cafeteria. The students who were eating were excited. They did not expect the President to come among them in such an approachable manner.What particularly excited the students was that Comrade Jiang Zemin kindly walked to a window where he could buy food, and watched with great interest a student buying food with a magnetic card.When he learned that college students across the country have this life magnetic card, and that the relevant departments of the school use the "barometer" that appears on this magnetic card to timely grasp and solve the life problems of those students who have financial difficulties, he can't help but hold high Picking up the little magnetic card, he said "yes" and "yes" several times!

When the footage of the general secretary holding a magnetic card was broadcast on the "News Network" that night, some cadres of the League Central Committee were particularly excited, because they were very excited about the birth of the magnetic card in the hands of the college students and the later development of the nationwide relief work in colleges and universities. Knowing that it is not easy to come by. After the new school year started in the second half of 1994, dozens of key colleges and universities, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, started the pilot work of the "dual-track system" in accordance with the instructions of the State Education Commission.With the introduction of fees for new students, a group of college students from families with financial difficulties immediately faced the serious problem of not being able to go to school, and even having to drop out of school after entering the school.As the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, which mainly focuses on youth work, it has once again set its sights on poor university students just as it pays keen attention to out-of-school children in mountainous areas.Perhaps it is because of the massive "Project Hope" that has been carried out for more than ten years that the leaders of the Central Committee of the Mission have a clearer understanding: organizing and mobilizing tens of millions of out-of-school children to re-enter the classroom is an arduous and arduous task. It is not only the misfortune of the students themselves, but also the tragedy of the nation that the students who have finally been trained through the "Hope Project" are still unable to enter the university due to economic poverty, or have to face dropouts after entering the university.

"We should fully cooperate with the national education department and pay attention to the problem of impoverished college students like the Hope Project! This matter is related to the great cause of rejuvenating the country through science and education in the next century, and we must pay close attention to it!" At the meeting of the Secretariat of the League Central Committee, the youth The leading cadres at work are full of passion and burst out with a common voice. The reason why poor college students are poor is that they lack money at hand, and it is also money that is lacking to carry out the work of helping them.As the highest leading body of the Communist Youth League, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League has no money. The "Hope Project" initiated by them is also a public welfare undertaking. It relies on mobilizing and encouraging the whole society to "collect firewood and show love."Nowadays, the way to help students in need is still the same.The regiment cadres joked: They are professional "single fire" torchbearers.But don't underestimate this torchbearer. Now we all know that China's "Hope Project", which is also named in the United Nations, was started by them.In the first year of 1989, when the leaders of the League Central Committee heard that they had contacted the first donation of 2,000 yuan for the "Hope Project", they were so happy to tell everyone.Liu Yandong, the executive secretary, personally led people to accept donations from donors.We have all seen what the "Hope Project" will look like more than ten years later. It has become the largest and most extensive public welfare undertaking in China that has penetrated the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.When the relevant departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League launched the work of helping poor students in colleges and universities, the situation was not as optimistic as it was in the early days of the "Hope Project". In December 1995, they negotiated to carry out the first influential national relief activity for impoverished college students when the New Year's winter vacation approached.Once the strategic deployment is determined, all that remains is to find money—without money, it can only be talk on paper.

Initially, a corporate sponsor was negotiated, and the donation ceremony was grandly arranged.Not wanting to make a mistake halfway, the responsible comrades of the relevant departments rushed to the Sunday without rest, picked up the phone, and asked familiar and unfamiliar enterprise "bosses" for help to solve their urgent needs.Just ten hours before the scheduled donation ceremony, the thorny issue finally took a turn for the better: Mr. Xia Chunsheng, the owner of Shenzhen Golden Lighting Group Co. A total of 1.2 million a year! Boss Xia Chunsheng in Shenzhen rescued the young cadres in an emergency.As a result, a huge cross-century public welfare activity of "focusing on poor students" kicked off.

Before the end of January 1996, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Federation of Students distributed the first batch of 400,000 yuan in poverty-stricken scholarships donated by Shenzhen Golden Lighting Group to 630 impoverished students in colleges and universities.Li Keqiang, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and other four main leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League went to colleges and universities in Beijing, Chongqing, Xi'an, and Xinjiang to personally deliver the relief money to the students.Since then, activities to help poor students in Chinese universities have flourished across the country, and the general public has also come to know a term that has never been heard before in various media-"poor university students".

Are there still "poor students" in universities?Are there still people in socialist universities who are hungry and drop out halfway?The old general Hong Xuezhi couldn't sit still anymore, so he took out several thousand yuan of savings and asked the secretary to quickly send it to the All-China Federation of Students. The old minister Sun Daguang couldn't lie down anymore, and told his wife, Ms. Zhang Gang, on the sickbed: "Send the more than 50 paintings and calligraphy at home to the auction company for auction! The children can't even afford to go to college, so I feel sorry..." The old minister During the sixty years of the Southern and Northern Wars, those paintings and calligraphy were all masterpieces of modern Chinese calligraphy and painting masters Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Li Keran, Pan Tianshou, etc. Most of them were written with the names of the old ministers, which are invaluable . "Set up a bursary fund to reward those poor students from my Anhui hometown." The old minister loves his hometown and the next generation in his hometown.

The old director Mu Yusheng couldn't stay still.They rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and took out three sums of honor money for war wounds that had not been moved by the government, a sum of wages for returning to work after the "Cultural Revolution", and savings from farming after retirement. "Wow, more than 200,000 yuan!" The children and grandchildren were very pleasantly surprised. They had never heard that the always frugal old man had such a huge savings.Mu Yusheng said apologetically to his children and grandchildren: "I have been keeping this money and I am not willing to take it out. Now is the time. I want to set up a 'Horrible Window Fund' to reward those poor children who can't afford to go to college..." Mr. Mu With the money, 19 impoverished students have been funded to go to college.

Zhang Junnian, a carpenter, saw a report on the problem of poor students in the "China Youth Daily", and he couldn't sleep: What contributions can ordinary people make?Hey, the monthly wages of the two of us add up to about a thousand yuan, right?I want to donate 100 yuan a month to a poor college student to study, do you agree?Zhang Junnian gently touched his wife with his arm.The wife turned over and said: Why didn't I follow you?Zhang Junnian smiled, and happened to have 100 yuan in his pocket the next day, so he ran to the post office and filled out a form to the All-China Federation of Students...From the second month to today, Zhang Junnian is on the first day after receiving his salary every month One thing is to take a bus to the office of the All-China Federation of Students and hand in a donation of 100 yuan in person.Now he is still a young volunteer helping poor students. Every day after get off work, he has one more thing: to introduce the meaning of helping poor college students to those who know and don’t know.

... All of the above things are what I learned from the Central Committee of the League.Because most of the materials are obtained from the files of the specially established "Office of Relief and Aid for Poor Students of the National Federation of Students", readers can only be informed in a simple arrangement. In fact, behind these people and events there are touching stories. deep details.Since almost none of these benevolent people are willing to accept interviews from the outside world, few people in the society know about them.A veteran general has donated more than 100,000 yuan to the "Hope Project" to help out-of-school children since 1990, and more than half of his monthly retirement salary has been given to the poor children in mountainous areas.When he heard from the radio that so many college students were facing very difficult survival problems due to economic difficulties, he forced himself to quit smoking and drinking, and saved 5 yuan a day to help a poor student in a famous university complete his studies.As for things like this, since January 1996, when the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Student Federation launched the activity of "relief and assistance" for poor college students, a large number of Come.

When I was interviewing at Nanjing University that day, Zhu Zaohong, a senior girl from Jiangxi, stopped me and told me very excitedly at the first sentence that she had signed an employment agreement with a certain national scientific research institute in Nanjing.When she showed me the agreement letter stamped with the big red seal of the employer, her hands were shaking violently.After listening to her self-introduction, I realized that it is impossible for this girl who is about to leave the university not to be excited.Zhu Zaohong's home is in Linchuan, Jiangxi Province, a low-lying mountainous area with nine floods in ten years.When she was in high school, she was the only girl in a radius of more than ten miles. Later, she was admitted to a university, and she was admitted to a prestigious university, and she was the number one girl in the local women's circle.But Xiao Zhu’s family was poor, and her father died early. She, her mother, and five siblings lived on five or six acres of mountain fields.When she was admitted to university, there was a flood again, and the family had almost no harvest. But when she was going through the "agricultural to non-agricultural conversion" for college, a department actually asked her to hand over 550 catties of "grain". It was the kind staff of the Grain Management Office who paid a sum of money on her behalf to settle the matter.But facing the tuition fee of more than 2,000 yuan written on the admission notice, Xiao Zhu was dumbfounded.The mother sighed and persuaded the daughter: "We are a poor family, you just accept your fate!" Zhu Zaohong refused to accept it, saying that I knew "we are the future of the motherland" since I was a child, and I didn't believe that no one would save us poor children. .Such a cowardly person, Zhu Zaohong wrote a letter of appeal for help to then governor Wu Guanzheng. "To be honest, I wrote the letter to the governor in a fit of anger, and I didn't expect it to be of any use. But what I never expected was that Governor Wu really replied to the letter, and specially sent me another 1,000 yuan..." Zhu Zaohong said that when she received Wu Guanzheng's letter, she really felt what "the Communist Party is good" from the bottom of her heart.This female college student turned to good luck later, and the cadres in the township and county also followed the governor's example and donated money and materials for her.However, Zhu Zaohong's deepest feelings still came from Wu Guanzheng, the "big official".Another "unexpected" thing for Zhu Zaohong, who entered university, was that Wu Guanzheng, who later became a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, would continue to help and support her through four years of university, and often wrote letters. Encourage her to study hard.For a while, Xiao Zhu was very depressed because she didn't get the scholarship. Wu Guanzheng wrote to her after learning about it: "As long as you work hard, this is enough!" , Can write such earnest words to an ordinary student, what else can inspire youth to fight more than this?Zhu Zaohong, who has already started working, wrote to me not long ago: "What I think most now is how to repay the society, because I have 'taken' too much in the past, and in the days to come I should 'take' for others." , only in this way can I be worthy of all the people who have given me love..." I believe this is what the female college student said from the bottom of her heart.

In Shanxi, I met another secretary of the provincial party committee who had a friendly relationship with impoverished college students. He was Comrade Hu Fuguo, who was praised by the people of Shanxi as "our good secretary".Before arriving in Shanxi, I heard many anecdotes about Hu Fuguo from friends of the Shanxi Writers Association. For example, he only loved to fight the poor in Shanxi. He sued him for four years, and the common people almost didn't say "Long live Hu Fuguo" because they had a road leading out of the mountains; just after the road was repaired, he sold his clothes and wanted to "lead yellow into the country" Jin", Shanxi used to be poor because of lack of water, but doing such a big good thing will naturally offend certain people in some interests.Someone really could do it and threaten to blow up his house.But Hu Fuguo said, even if you blow me up, I will drain the last drop of blood to bring the water of the Yellow River to Shanxi.Someone went to the central government to sue him for "love Shanxi like Yan Xishan". When Hu Fuguo heard about it, he shouted "wronged", saying: "Before I mentioned the slogan of 'love Shanxi', there are 'love the party' and 'love the country' !” Hey, he’s just such a humorous and daredevil guy.Teachers and students in universities prefer Hu Fuguo to go, because "our Secretary Hu" tells the truth and does practical things.He went to Shanxi Agricultural University for inspection and saw that the students didn't even have a decent place to eat, so he immediately instructed the relevant departments to solve it.There are too many impoverished students in this school, and Hu Fuguo burst into tears when he heard this, saying that it would be difficult for me to be the secretary of the provincial party committee. Right now I can't let the dolls go hungry. What I, Hu Fuguo, can do right now is let the dolls eat an egg every day. "Deputy governor, you must handle this matter for me!" Hu Fuguo said solemnly to the deputy governor who accompanied him to the Agricultural University.The vice-governor nodded, "But you didn't write it down!" Hu Fuguo stared at the vice-governor, and didn't change the subject until he saw him write down the matter in a small notebook.In Taiyuan, I had the honor to talk face-to-face with the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, who was vividly portrayed by the people of Shanxi, about the topic of impoverished college students.As soon as he mentioned this, he immediately said anxiously: “There are so many impoverished college students in Shanxi. I once conducted a survey. Among them, there was a middle-aged woman in the National Defense Work Office who raised two college students. She sold blood to send her children to school, but later she developed anemia herself.There are even more children from rural families who can't afford to go to college, and many poor children can't even afford to go to middle school or elementary school!After I came to Shanxi to become the governor and secretary of the provincial party committee, I worked with comrades in the province to do three things, the first of which was to improve teaching conditions in impoverished mountainous areas.We in Shanxi are poor, but no matter how poor we are, we can’t afford poor education, and no matter how hard we are, we can’t suffer children!Our vice-governor in charge of education made a promise to the whole society on behalf of the provincial party committee and the provincial government: there should not be a single college student in Shanxi who drops out of school due to family financial difficulties.This is our province's commitment, but it's a hard target!In order to achieve this goal, I said the following to the governor: "I, Hu Fuguo, and you, Governor Sun Changsheng, if there is a few percent of the spirit of the woman who sells blood for her children to go to college, all of us in Shanxi Province will go to college. Children who go to middle school or elementary school will have a way of life. The children have a way of life today, but we still worry that Shanxi Minger has no future?" Hu Fuguo's charm is that he always speaks and does things with a strong emotional color.His public slogan of "grasping education with emotion" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Shanxi province.In fact, it is this kind of emotional color that Chinese Communists need to realize their purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly.Hu Fuguo's special affection for poor students also lies in his own special experience in his youth.This senior party leader who was born as a coal miner grew up in a poor peasant family. The hard times in school are deeply etched in his memory. In order to ensure that he went to university, his mother reluctantly forced his two daughters to drop out of school and become illiterate. Hu Fuguo's heart still remains in the pain of the pain... There are more than one or two people who care about the care and love of poor college students among the senior leaders of our party and government.As early as 1995 and 1996, Premier Li Peng repeatedly allocated funds from the "Prime Minister's Fund" to send money such as travel expenses and cotton clothes to poor students who could not go home during the winter vacation.Comrade Li Lanqing, who is in charge of education in recent years, almost always mentions the problem of poor students every time he inspects colleges and universities. Under his many personal inquiries, the problem of poor students in colleges and universities across the country has attracted more and more attention from all walks of life.The Ministry of Education has also introduced new measures in recent years to make the work of helping students in need in colleges and universities an important part of education reform, and implement them step by step.The provincial and municipal governments of Henan, Jiangxi, and Shanghai included the work of solving the economic difficulties of college students as government actions, and established systems such as guaranteeing the minimum living expenses of poor college students and "relief funds", so that the local work of helping students in poverty Regularization, regularization and institutionalization of income.All of these illustrate the special care of the party and the government for poor college students.It is the special care of the party and the government for the poor students that influences and arouses the love of every kind-hearted Chinese.It is worth mentioning that Xu Lianjie, president of Fujian Hengan Group Co., Ltd., a private entrepreneur who is enthusiastic about social welfare undertakings, participated in a report meeting on self-improvement and self-reliance of college students held by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The students suffered from poverty but still studied hard. The spirit made him burst into tears.Xu Lianjie immediately stated that his company will vigorously subsidize those poor students who are self-improvement.In this way, the largest fund to help impoverished college students in China so far - the Chinese College Students Cross-Century Development Fund. The (Hengan) Scholarship for the Poor has been formally established. Every year, a group of impoverished students with excellent academic performance receive the loving assistance of the "Hengan" Fund. After I heard about Xu Yunfeng in my hometown Suzhou, I couldn't help but shed tears together with many doctors present... Xu Yunfeng is a girl who is only 19 years old, but she was born unfortunate. One day when she was 12 years old, she finally fainted on the way to school after having a high fever for more than ten days. The diagnosis was leukemia.After hearing the news, Yunfeng's mother wanted to cry, because the child's father also suffered from leukemia eight years ago and died on the rowing boat home.Xiao Yunfeng was a good student since she was a child. Every morning, she was the first to knock on the school gate.The sudden misfortune forced her to be admitted to the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou Medical College, where she began a long and painful course of medication, chemotherapy and bone marrow sampling.But she did not give up her studies. For the next five or six years, she was sometimes hospitalized and sometimes went to school, and her grades were always excellent. In September 1995, with a score of 545, she passed the Yancheng City Supply and Marketing Workers Specialized Business Reserve Class.How much Yunfeng longs to live a beautiful blooming life like other girls, but she can't. Often after a class, many "bleeding spots" appear on her wrists.She was stubborn and was not intimidated by this terrible illness. During the final exam in January 1996, Yunfeng's condition began to deteriorate again. Every time she took the four exams, her classmates helped her into the classroom, and she was the last one. At the end of the exam, the teacher and classmates found that the chair she was sitting on was covered with blood, and the classroom burst into tears...but a smile appeared on Yunfeng's pale face, because she got the first place in the class in this exam. one. At the beginning of the second semester, Yunfeng had to go back to Suzhou Hospital for treatment. Only then did the school know that she had leukemia. The school launched two donation campaigns for this, and the local mayor personally approved 2 million in relief funds.But when the headmaster gave the money to Yunfeng, she refused to accept it.The principal found it incomprehensible, because he knew that Xu Yunfeng's family had already been entangled in poverty by more than 100,000 yuan in medical expenses.That night, while the principal was still thinking, a classmate sent him a letter written by Xu Yunfeng.The letter said: "I have grown up in difficulties since I was a child, and I will not be afraid of the cruel reality, but I am afraid of getting help from others. My parents have paid too much for me, and I have to accept others too much against my will. A lot of help, because I know that I don't have time to pay back so many favors, so I can't accept so much money from others. I just want to use these hard-earned money to continue a useful life ..." With tears in his eyes, the principal had no choice but to report the truth to the mayor. But at this moment, Miss Yunfeng, who is not known to have much life, is doing a feat.When she saw a report about poor college students in the "Contemporary Youth" magazine, she couldn't help but write a letter to the editorial department of the magazine, requesting to contact a poor college student for funding.She wrote in her diary that day: "Life is short, and I just want to turn every bit of it into a beautiful memory. I want to grasp every minute of my life and hope to love everyone." "Contemporary Youth magazine soon wrote to say that Song Chunyang, a girl from the Education Department of Xi'an International Studies University, had a difficult family. Her father suffered from severe pneumonia and could not go to the farm. , got cholecystitis, desperately need help.Without any hesitation, Yunfeng took out the money she had used for medical treatment, and wrote to Song Chunyang, who was thousands of miles away and unknown to each other at Xi'an University of Foreign Languages, saying: "From now on, I will send you 30 yuan a month. Yuan Qian, to help you finish your college studies..." The people in the "Contemporary Youth" magazine didn't know the real situation of Yunfeng, and thought they had contributed to a good thing.But Song Chunyang from Xi’an International Studies University saw that the sponsor was also a student, so he wrote back: “Sister Yunfeng, I really appreciate your support and encouragement, and I will summon up the courage to tide over the difficulties. You are a consumer, my good sister, I beg you, don’t send any more money in the future!” Yunfeng wrote back immediately after seeing the letter: “From the moment I wrote to you for the first time, I decided to Help you through the temporary difficulties in life. Maybe life is a kind of fate, let us treat each other with a sincere heart!" Along with the letter, Yunfeng sent another 30 yuan to Xi'an.After Song Chunyang received the letter and money again, he suddenly felt a "crying feeling".In fact, Song Chunyang didn't know at the time that the life of the little sister who wrote to her to send money was already in a very dangerous moment.At this time, Yunfeng's body's blood coagulation function has been completely destroyed by leukemia, and she loses a lot of blood every day.In more than a month, she used up 22 bags of sanitary napkins and 22 bags of toilet paper... In February last year, Suzhou Medical College, which had treated Yunfeng for seven years, closed the door to this lovely girl in desperation.After returning home, Yunfeng suffered severe pain all over her body due to the spread of cancer cells, and later she lost her hair. Every minute of her last life made her suffer pain that the living cannot feel... At 3 o'clock in the morning on February 20, Xu Yunfeng, who was only 19 years old, passed away forever.When the distraught mother was arranging the schoolbag next to her daughter's bed, she found three things: one was her daughter's beloved textbook, the other was unfinished homework, and the third was a note she wrote to her brother.The note said: "There is a girl in Shaanxi whose life is too difficult. From now on, please send her 30 yuan a month on my behalf..." In April, Song Chunyang, a student at Xi'an International Studies University, learned that Xu Yunfeng, who had been supporting her, was a leukemia patient and unfortunately passed away. She was heartbroken with grief.Because she used to think that Xu Yunfeng was a very healthy and rich girl. "Compared to Yunfeng, I am simply too small. From now on, with the spirit of sister Yunfeng, I will try my best to overcome all difficulties and complete my studies well..." Song Chunyang said in a letter to Xu Yunfeng's alma mater.