At 11:10 on February 26, 2020, Li Qintian burned out the last trace of light and heat of his life and closed his eyes forever.
The 85-year-old, a 61-year-old party member, was still worried about caring for the cause of the next generation until the last moment of his life.
Life goes on and on and on. In the 3 years of hospitalization, 14 times of chemotherapy did not crush him, he used the ward as an office, supported the weak body with firm faith, and wrote down more than 700,000 words of work summaries, documents, activity plans, etc. in one stroke.
He walked so detachedly, no farewell ceremony, no flowers, no mournful eulogies, everything was so low-key, just like his style of life.
Come with a heart, without half a blade of grass. In the 23 years since his retirement, he has shouldered the burden of more than 10 public welfare undertakings, won 6 national honorary titles and 36 personal honors.
revere! admire! Miss!
When he left, too many people were reluctant and sad, reminiscing about his voice and smile. "Although you are gone, we will certainly follow in your footsteps and continue to walk!" It was a promise made to him by his colleagues who had fought side by side.
Inheritance is the best sacrifice. The Shandong Provincial Customs Work Committee made a special decision to carry out learning from him, which is the first time in the 28 years since the establishment of the Provincial Customs Work Committee; the Zibo Municipal Customs Work Committee and the Zhoucun District Committee also made decisions to carry out extensive learning activities from him in the city.
"I am a member of the Communist Party, and I deserve to work for the Party, but I have not done enough."
On April 28, 2016, the China Customs Work Committee Held an Exchange Meeting on The Experience Exchange of Party History and National History Education was held in Zibo. As one of the observation points, the Zhoucun District Youth Party History and National History Education Center welcomed more than 200 delegates from all over the country.
"Starting with a few display boards, now with an area of 1500 square meters, with 220 exhibition boards, including 130,000 words and 3100 pictures..." Listening to Li Qintian's report, Gu Xiulian, director of the China Customs Work Committee, said 7 good, clapped 5 times, and gave high praise.
Behind the praise, Li Qintian's endless blood and sweat are condensed.
In 1997, Li Qintian retired from the post of deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Zhoucun District People's Congress. He should have been recuperating for a long time, but he retired without rest, still fighting in the front line, serving as the executive director of the District Customs Work Committee, the president of the District Community Volunteer Association, the chairman of the District Elderly Sports Association, and the head of the District "Five Elders" Lei Feng Volunteer Service Group.
Having worked on the education front for more than 30 years, he has an inseparable complex for teaching and educating people. He deeply realized how important it was to educate young people and train revolutionary successors. Let the young people of the whole region listen to the party, follow the party, and become qualified builders and successors of socialism, which has become his firm belief.
"How do you pass on the red gene from generation to generation?" In 2011, the China Customs Work Committee deployed the theme education activity of "learning the history of the party, praising the party and following the party", which gave him great touch and inspiration. After deep consideration, he decided to prepare for the establishment of an education center for party history and national history.
To build a museum, it needs materials, places, docents, funds... It's not easy to try it out. But Li Qintian was not afraid, and he said to his colleagues around him: "General Secretary Xi jinping asked us to study the history of the party and the history of the country, which is a compulsory course. ”
Just do it. He collected information extensively, worked hard, slept and forgot to eat, often worked until 2 o'clock in the night, used more than 70 broken pens, and designed and compiled 11 educational materials on party history and national history. The "two histories" textbooks he compiled, with rich pictures and texts and concise language, not only closely integrated with primary and secondary school textbooks, but also added local history of Zhoucun, which imperceptibly played a role in touching, motivating and educating the vast number of young people.
The problem of teaching materials was solved, and the problem of venue followed. He asked around for information and finally found an idle old factory building of 1500 square meters. The person in charge of the enterprise belonging to the factory was deeply moved by the intention of the old man and decided to provide it for free.
In terms of the allocation of docents, he gave full play to the advantages of the five elders, and successively held 6 training courses and trained 800 five old docents. At the same time, in accordance with the requirements of "eating through the content, expressing clearly, and explaining vividly", 10 five elders were selected as docents of the "Two Histories" Education Center.
It is precisely with this feeling and responsibility that Li Qintian, who was nearly eighty years old at the time, dragged his thin body and chewed down one "hard bone" after another. In June 2015, the Zhoucun District Youth Party History and National History Education Museum was successfully opened.
Nowadays, the Party History and National History Education Center has become the "Ideological and Moral Education Base for Minors" and the "Party Member Education Base" in Zhoucun District, and has been named "The Education Base for Caring for the Next Generation" by the Provincial and Municipal Customs Work Committee. Since its establishment, it has received 135,000 visitors from inside and outside the province.
In 2017, due to long-term fatigue and illness, Li Qintian had to be hospitalized at the strong request of his family. On his sickbed, he still remembered his work: In order to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, he insisted on compiling, designing, and producing a special exhibition board entitled "Blood Casts the Soul of the Army" to guide the establishment of a patriotic and patriotic army education base; in order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, he forcibly endured illness and consulted materials, changed his manuscript several times, and compiled more than 20 special exhibition boards for "40 Years of Brilliant China's Reform and Opening Up", which were exhibited in turn in primary and secondary schools in the whole region.
The feelings are as deep as the sea and touching to the heart. The relevant departments in Zhoucun District wanted to learn and publicize his deeds, but he resolutely disagreed. "I am a communist, and it is right for me to do work for the party; I have not done enough to be praised, so I should not cause trouble for my comrades."
This is the responsibility of an old party member!
"The trolley does not fall and continues to push, for the sake of the next generation of the motherland, play the residual heat to continue"
On December 22, 2016, the national "most beautiful five elders" commendation meeting for caring for the next generation was held. The meeting commended 12 "most beautiful five elders" who cared about the next generation in the country, and Li Qintian became the only veteran cadre in Shandong Province to receive this honor.
"The old man is eighty-one this year, the car does not fall and continues to push, for the sake of the next generation of the motherland, play the residual heat to continue..." At the meeting, his sonorous and powerful speech touched everyone in the audience.
Take work as happiness and dedication as happiness. Li Qintian does not seek fame and profit, gives up his small family and takes care of everyone, and is affectionately known as "Old Lei Feng" by the people around him.
Under his inspiration, a large number of old comrades joined the ranks of the five elders. Zhoucun District registered 3,500 five-old volunteers, set up a youth law popularization education publicity group, five old Internet café supervision group, Lei Feng volunteer service group, and urban management woodpecker, traffic safety, sanitation, garden and other 12 professional teams, to achieve "where there is a need for volunteer service, there will be the figure of the five elders."
Care for tomorrow, popularize the law first. In order to strengthen the popularization of law education among young people, Li Qintian set up a propaganda group for youth law popularization education, personally formulated ten specific measures, led the propaganda group into the school, and preached more than 700 times of the "Law on the Protection of Minors" and the "Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency", with more than 33,000 students educated. In order to achieve the effect of edutainment, he and the five old volunteers wrote and performed more than 20 programs such as "Four Grandfathers Say Grandchildren", "Talking About Addiction", "Love and Law", etc., and collected these programs into a book...
In August 2014, as the only representative of Shandong Province to receive the award, Li Qintian led a team to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to participate in the Second National Youth Legal Popularization Education Commendation Conference of "Caring for Tomorrow, Popularizing the Law First". It is precisely under his unremitting promotion that Zhoucun District has been awarded the "National Advanced Unit for Youth Legal Popularization Education" for three consecutive years.
Children are addicted to the Internet, and parents are impatient. In 2009, the Five Old Internet Cafe Supervision Group came into being, which made many "small net worms" get lost and return. "The Five Old Internet Cafe Supervision Group is the pioneering work of Director Li Qintian, who has saved teenagers who are obsessed with the Internet, solved the most headache problems for schools and parents, purified the environment for the healthy growth of teenagers, and won high praise from society, schools and parents." Five-year-old volunteer Xu Guangying said.
Li Qintian was frugal all his life, but he was very generous in caring for the next generation. He launched the "Hand in Hand Care Action" for 4 consecutive years, raising a total of more than 2.36 million yuan and helping more than 1,540 poor students; he donated 5,000 yuan per year for 8 consecutive years to fund 2 students with economic difficulties to complete their studies; in 2019, he was seriously ill, and still took the lead in donating 5,000 yuan for a leukemia teenager; this year's Spring Festival holiday, a sponsored student visited him in the hospital, and when he left, he secretly stuffed 2,000 yuan in red envelopes for his children, saying that he was giving his children travel expenses...
It is such an old man who dedicates his life's efforts and energy to his beloved cause, uses his own words and deeds, and influences the people around him with his own personality charm...
This is the mind of an old cadre!
"In life, we must make more contributions to social development, and life will continue to struggle"
In 2007, the first national fitness Qigong exchange exhibition conference was held in Zhoucun District, Li Qintian organized 10,000 elderly people to exchange and display, and the participants were deeply shocked and admired after watching it, and all applauded and applauded.
However, when Li Qintian was just appointed as the chairman of the District Elderly Sports Association, the Elderly Sports Association was still in its infancy, with no personnel and no facilities, only an official seal and a license.
"In life, we must make more contributions to social development, life is constantly struggling, the trolley does not fall and just pushes...", this is the words he often hangs on his lips; "work takes the lead, and works to create first-class", which is his consistent work style.
In the face of difficulties, Li Qintian had no fear. He established the work idea of "consolidating and developing urban areas, focusing on rural areas, highlighting the characteristics of Zhoucun, grasping popularization on the one hand, and improving with the other", and clarified the work goal of "laying the foundation in one year, raising the level in two years, producing experience in three years, and striving to win gold medals in the upper reaches".
He widely advocates the scientific fitness of the five elders, and actively cares for and cares for the five elders, "the body is the capital of the revolution, and a good body can better serve the children." Under his leadership, 28,000 people in Zhoucun District, with a population of more than 300,000, practiced fitness qigong. In the square, in the village, in the street, you can see the figure of the old people exercising and fitness everywhere.
Under his unremitting efforts, the Zhoucun District Elderly Sports Association ranked among the national advanced ranks, in 2008 was rated as the national advanced collective, for more than 10 consecutive years to carry out the national 100 cities and thousands of villages fitness Qigong exchange and display activities, won the "Best Display Award", successfully created as the only fitness Qigong characteristic area in the province.
Write with loyalty to bear responsibility, and burn true feelings with dedication. During the illness and hospitalization, whenever leaders, colleagues, relatives and friends came to visit, he always happily talked to everyone about work and pulled family routines. "Doing such meaningful work as caring for the elderly and caring for the next generation gives me enough courage and strength to fight against the disease; reading, studying, and writing materials are my spiritual pillars." His optimistic and resolute spirit touched everyone around him.
This is the realm of an old comrade!
Now the elder is gone. He walked silently, but vigorously. He is like an immortal torch, letting his life burn endlessly, sprinkling light on the world...
Source: China Torch official website