The train runs fast, all thanks to the headband. For a province, if the economy wants to develop quickly and the people want to live well, the provincial party secretary is very important. They are the parents and officials of the ruling party, and they have strong ability and quality, then the development of the province will be thriving.
Since the reform and opening up, the development of Guangdong Province has been obvious to all, and its GDP has always ranked first in the country, which is inseparable from the efforts of successive Guangdong Provincial Party Committee teams. In the 1980s, Ren Zhongyi and Lin Ruo, the old provincial party secretaries, contributed to the development of Guangdong, and both of them were old revolutionaries. It is precisely because of the two people's succession that they have laid the foundation for the subsequent development of Guangdong.
Figure | Ren Zhongyi (middle)
Ren Zhongyi was born in September 1914 in Wei County, Hebei Province. In that era of war and chaos, he was determined to study for the rise of China from a young age. In the autumn of 1934, he was admitted to the Department of Political Economy of the Chinese University in Beiping, where he studied and participated in the student anti-Japanese salvation movement. In the student movement of the "12.9 Movement" that shocked China and foreign countries, he was in the procession.
When he was in college, Ren Zhongyi joined the Communist Party in 1936 because of his strong revolutionary will and active approach to the party organization. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Ren Zhongyi worked in the rear, mainly to do a good job in urban construction in the Liberated Areas, and accumulated a large amount of valuable experience in urban management and construction by doing cadres in middle schools and learning in middle schools.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ren Zhongyi mainly served in the northeast, serving as the secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee, the secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, and the secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee. In particular, in 1977, he served as the secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, and in only three years, he carried out a drastic rectification of chaos, emancipated his mind, actively supported reform and exploration, and the development of Liaoning Province quickly embarked on the right track.
Just as he was preparing to build a special northern economic zone in Dalian, in November 1980, the central government issued a paper order transferring him to Guangdong Province, and he has since served as the secretary of the provincial party committee. At this time, Guangdong Province was in the early stage of reform and opening up, everything was crossing the river by feeling the stones, there was no ready-made road to go, and the pressure on Ren Zhongyi was very large. However, Ren Zhongyi turned pressure into a driving force, made full use of the central government's policies, and carried out drastic reforms.
He reformed prices, advocated acting in accordance with the law of value, gradually liberalized the prices of major food, clothing, housing, and other products such as fish, meat, and eggs, reduced the circulation of commodities, and made the shelves of goods that were empty in the past dazzling. Resolutely letting go of the development of the individual and private economy has produced a large number of private enterprises that are still influential today. Taking the lead in innovating the reform of the investment system and adopting the highway construction model of "loan construction and toll repayment", it has greatly promoted the development of highway construction in Guangdong Province. In addition, the country's earliest five-star hotel White Swan Hotel opened at this stage, and Hong Kong investor Fok Ying Tung also invited Ren Zhongyi to attend the opening ceremony.
Figure | Deng Xiaoping and Ren Zhongyi
During his tenure as Ren Zhongyi, he brilliantly fulfilled the mission entrusted by the central authorities, and the construction results of Guangdong Province became more and more obvious. In July 1985, at the age of 71, he stepped down as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. Who will take over the banner of Guangdong Province's reform and opening up? According to common sense, the governor should be replaced, but at this time, the governor Liang Lingguang is almost 70 years old, and neither age nor energy can no longer be qualified for this task. After weighing it up, Lin Ruo, the second secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, took over.
For Lin Ruo, Liu Shaoqi's wife Wang Guangmei spoke highly of him. In 1988, Wang Guangmei arrived in Guangdong and went to Lin Ruo's home without greeting. When he saw the dilapidated sofas, beds and other furniture in his home, he said with emotion: "I didn't expect that in Guangdong Province, the earliest in the country's reform and opening up, the family of the provincial party secretary was so simple." ”
Figure | Lin Ruo
Lin Ruo is an old revolutionary, and his life is very legendary. Lin Ruo was born in October 1924 in Fuyang Town, Chao'an, Guangdong Province, to a well-fed family. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after the fall of Guangdong, he began to contact the Communist Party's anti-Japanese national salvation ideas and joined the Communist Party of China in the year of the surrender of Japanese imperialism.
In 1947, Lin Ruo, who was studying at Sun Yat-sen University, had to give up his soon-to-be university diploma and work in the Dongjiang Guerrilla Zone as director of the political office of the guerrilla regiment due to the exposure of his identity as an underground revolutionary worker. In October 1949, during the Guangdong Campaign, Lin Ruo led the guerrillas to brave the rain of guns and bullets to cooperate with the Erye and Siye.
In 1950, New China was in ruins, and the construction of all walks of life needed red and professional intellectuals. According to the organizational arrangement, Lin Ruo went to Dongguan County to work, he took one step at a time, became the secretary of the county party committee, and did a lot of practical things for the people of Dongguan, and the older generation of Dongguan people still miss Lin Ruo very much.
Figure | Lin Ruo (first from left)
After that, he served as the secretary of the Zhanjiang Prefectural Party Committee, the secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee (equivalent to the deputy secretary), and the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee (the first secretary at that time was Ren Zhongyi). In July 1985, Lin Ruo took over the banner of Ren Zhongyi and became the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and continued to emancipate his mind, seek truth from facts, and push Guangdong's reform and opening up to a new depth.
He vigorously supported the development of township enterprises, formulated support measures in combination with the actual conditions of Guangdong, and emerged the "four little tigers" of township enterprises represented by Dongguan, Zhongshan, Shunde and Nanhai. Coordinating the regional development of the province, especially pouring a lot of effort into the backward mountainous areas, leading the broad masses of the mountainous areas to take the road of governing the mountains and getting rich, and putting forward the decision of "eliminating barren mountains in five years and greening the land of Guangdong in ten years". In addition, he promoted the reform of state-owned enterprises, fully decentralized enterprises, state-owned enterprises were rejuvenated, and Guangdong's GDP ranked first in the country for the first time in 1989 and has remained until now.
Figure | Lin Ruo commuted to work by bicycle
Lin Ruo was a very famous Qing official, who not only punished a large number of corrupt elements, but also was upright himself. The cars allocated to him by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, in addition to the grass-roots research, are never used to commute to work, and they are all commuted by bicycle. He was also very strict with his children, and none of his three sons were in politics, but in the end they were all very good at their own skills.
On November 15, 2005, Ren Zhongyi died in Guangzhou at the age of 92. On October 7, 2012, Lin Ruo also died in Guangzhou at the age of 89. Looking back on the lives of the two old secretaries, they worked diligently and painstakingly for the development of Guangdong, gave full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of an old party member, and paid tribute to them!