"The people elected me as their representative, and I should represent the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the Central People's Congress Work Conference that "we must give full play to the role of people's congress deputies, so that the people have a call and I have a response." As a deputy to the National People's Congress for two consecutive terms, Geng Funeng, chairman of the Good Doctor Group, has a lot of feelings about this sentence and has been practicing it.
On the morning of March 8, 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Sichuan delegation to the Fifth Session of the 12th National People's Congress to participate in the deliberations. At the meeting, Geng Funeng reported to General Secretary Xi Jinping on the effectiveness of the Chinese herbal medicine industry in participating in targeted poverty alleviation. General Secretary Xi Jinping interjected several times to inquire about whether there is a market for planting appendages and whether the market is stable. Geng Funeng replied: "There is a market, very stable, there are a number of hospitals in Beijing to purchase our cloth towing tablets. "When the meeting was adjourned, General Secretary Xi Jinping deliberately shook my hand and said to me, 'Chinese medicine has great potential, do a good job!' It was the happiest moment of my life! Speaking of a scene 4 years ago, Geng Funeng still can't hide his excitement and joy, which also strengthens his confidence and determination to continue to abide by innovation and take the road of developing the traditional Chinese medicine industry.
Performing Duties and Fulfilling Responsibilities The words reveal the love for the people
People's congress deputies come from the people and from different industries. How to correctly perform duties and give play to the role of deputies? Geng Funeng's understanding is that it is necessary to give full play to the characteristics and advantages of people's congress deputies coming from the people and taking root in the grass-roots units, find out the "difficult points and blockages" that the people are really concerned about and concerned about, visualize them into suggestions, and let these suggestions be implemented in a down-to-earth manner and become an effective driving force for solving problems at an early date.
Geng Funeng's hometown is in Daliangshan, Sichuan Province, which was once one of the "three districts and three states" with the most arduous task of poverty alleviation. As a grassroots representative and pharmaceutical entrepreneur who came out of Daliangshan, Geng Funeng always insisted on "coming from the grassroots and going to the field". He is well aware that the people are the soil for the development of enterprises, and only the common prosperity of the people can achieve better development of enterprises. To this end, Geng Funeng created the "Good Doctor" brand, the original intention and concept is "to be a good person, make a good medicine", to be a good image, excellent quality, responsible enterprises. This is not only the responsibility of being an entrepreneur, but also stems from a deep sense of responsibility and mission that he embraces in the land where he raised himself.
Since 1996, Geng Funeng has led the Good Doctor Group to unremittingly carry out poverty alleviation work in the Chinese herbal medicine industry in Daliangshan, adopting the organizational model of "company + branch + cooperative + base + farmer", and promoting the planting of Chinese medicinal materials in accordance with the innovative way of "providing good seeds, responsible for technical training, and implementing guaranteed reserve price acquisition of the medicinal materials planted" to minimize the planting risks of growers. In 2014, when the Sichuan Federation of Industry and Commerce was deploying targeted poverty alleviation work, Geng Funeng took the initiative to choose the most remote villages on the map and had the most difficulties. He said, "Give it a try and see if we can help." In this way, he brought advanced planting models and business philosophies to the depths of the mountains, and little by little pried the "poisonous seeds" of absolute poverty rooted in this land.
When talking about why for more than 20 years, he has always insisted on driving the poor people to get rid of poverty and become well-off, Geng Funeng sighed: "Many years ago, I went to a village. When I saw the children running in the snow in winter, their feet frozen with red blood marks, I was sad. My hometown is still so poor, I want to find a way to make them more money and help them as much as I can. ”
Industrial poverty alleviation for the rural people to support the day to get rich
Geng Funeng, who was born in Liangshan Prefecture, has a deep feeling for the Yi people and grass and trees in the Liangshan area. With his election as a deputy to the National People's Congress, his determination to participate in the construction of his hometown and benefit the Yi people has become stronger and stronger, and his sense of responsibility has become stronger.
From being elected as a deputy to the Liangshan Prefecture People's Congress to becoming a deputy to the 10th and 11th People's Congresses of Sichuan Province, Geng Funeng knows that the higher the platform, the heavier the responsibilities and missions on his shoulders. Since 2003, Geng Funeng has put forward nearly 30 representative suggestions on how to increase poverty alleviation in poor areas, how to accelerate the development of the ethnic medicine industry, increase the investment funds for the transformation of three rooms in Yi District, resource development to ensure the income of local residents, talents and employment in ethnic minority areas, and how the traditional Chinese medicine industry can help regional development.
In 2013, Geng Funeng was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress. With his previous experience in performing his duties, he quickly entered the role of NPC deputies in performing their duties and threw himself into the practice of performing duties with a more diligent work attitude and a more pragmatic and practical spirit. He promoted the planting of Chinese medicinal materials such as Sichuan Continuum, Zhizi, Honeysuckle, Muxiang, Rhubarb, and YizhiHuanghua in 9 counties of Liangshan Prefecture, covering an area of more than 30,000 mu, driving more than 70,000 people from 15,000 households to embark on the road of stable poverty alleviation, and attracting 18 counties and cities across the country to start planting relevant Chinese medicinal materials.
Tenacious struggle, willing to be a road stone. Located in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, huolan village is located in an alpine mountainous area above 2700 meters above sea level, and was once plagued by poverty. Geng Funeng led the team of Good Doctor Group to actively guide and demonstrate, provided the local people with fine seeds of traditional Chinese medicine for free, donated production and living materials and provided technical training guidance, which was recognized and welcomed by the Yi people. Since the income from planting appendages is more than 5 times that of traditional crops, the annual income from planting appendages in the village reaches more than 1 million yuan, and in 2020, it will achieve poverty alleviation with high quality, a historic farewell to the history of poverty that has lasted for thousands of years.
In September 2021, when the golden autumn flowers bloomed, Geng Funeng went to The Lantern Village to investigate, and once again saw the smiling faces of the villagers who enjoyed the harvest. The 4 acres of appendages planted by Macha Aou, the secretary of the village branch, grew well and were handed over to the good doctor's appendage acquisition point, and the purchase price was 28784 yuan on the same day. Talking about the recent situation of life, Macha Ao said: "Growing appendages is an important source of income for families, and now rice and meat can be afforded to eat whatever they want. The child also went out of Liangshan and was admitted to the Sichuan College of Arts and Sciences, becoming the first college student in the village. ”
Macharil, a large planter, had never gone out of Liangshan before, and when he was a child, because his family was poor, there were four brothers and sisters, and the clothes were always worn by the eldest and the second, and the second wore by the third until they were worn; even his marriage was the dowry money obtained by his sister's marriage, and then used to marry his daughter-in-law. Over the years, relying on the cultivation of appendages, he built a spacious and beautiful one-house courtyard, and raised more than 50 sheep, 3 cows, and 1 horse, from a long-term poor household in the village to a well-known "rich star" today. The improvement of economic conditions also changed Macharil's thinking, from the traditional labor to "if you want to help the poor before helping the intellectual", he sent his two children out of Daliangshan for education. The experience of Macharil and others is a microcosm of the people's poverty alleviation and prosperity in the DaliangShan District, and with the perseverance of Geng Funeng's team, the local people's life has improved day by day.
At the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference held on February 25, 2021, Geng Funeng won the honorary title of "National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation". Liangshan Prefecture has ended the long-term poverty, but he knows that poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle. Geng Funeng did not have the idea of resting his feet, but he was full of ambition and formulated a new plan according to local conditions and situations.
In the next 5 years, on the basis of certain practical results in rural revitalization, Good Doctor Group plans to plant more than 80,000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials in Liangshan Prefecture, more than 70,000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials in other counties in Sichuan Province, and more than 50,000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials in other suitable areas of the country, so as to achieve the goal of developing more than 200,000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials in 70 townships and 150 villages in 10 provinces, 20 counties, 150 villages, with an output value of more than 600 million yuan, and driving more than 100,000 farmers to increase their income by more than 6,000 yuan per year. At the same time, we will promote the construction of 30 GAP demonstration planting bases for Chinese herbal medicines totaling 500,000 mu across the country to help promote economic development and rural revitalization efficiency across regions to promote common prosperity.
The development of the Traditional Chinese medicine industry enjoys that love
Inspire the courage to take responsibility with great dreams, and stimulate the vigor of responsibility with great practice. Through years of practice, Geng Funeng has realized that the sustainable development model of the whole industry chain of Chinese herbal medicine can play a unique advantage in the new chapter of rural revitalization in the new era, which not only makes the national treasure of traditional Chinese medicine glow more vitality, but also benefits more people.
In the heart, in words, in deeds. Geng Funeng led the Good Doctor Group to adhere to the industry-oriented position, take the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine as its own responsibility, not only established the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Research, the National Enterprise Technology Center and the Postdoctoral Research Workstation, but also continued to carry out project research with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Sichuan University and other scientific research institutions around the theme of proprietary Chinese medicine and biomedicine. With the efforts of all parties, Good Doctor Group has achieved remarkable results in scientific research and innovation, ranking "Top 100 Enterprises in China's Pharmaceutical Industry" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for 10 consecutive years, being "China's Top 100 Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceuticals" and Sichuan's Top 100 Private Enterprises, and becoming a well-deserved national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization.
In recent years, Geng Funeng has submitted 37 representative suggestions related to traditional Chinese medicine, such as "vigorously developing the cultivation of Traditional Chinese medicines and establishing a complete industrial chain, which will consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and the effective connection between rural revitalization", "increasing the publicity of Fethobi", "establishing cultural self-confidence, and starting from dolls", "carrying out the fourth phase of clinical and international integration of proprietary Chinese medicine", "vigorously developing the modern industrial system of traditional Chinese medicine", "supporting the development of traditional Chinese medicine clinics", "accelerating the development of national medicine", "scientifically defining 'traditional Chinese medicine'", etc.
At the National People's Congress from 2016 to 2018, in response to the problems of resource monopoly in the development of traditional Chinese medicine, Geng Funeng repeatedly called for speeding up the pace of legislation and breaking the institutional mechanism of the monopoly of APIs; promoting enterprise compliance with discipline and law, ensuring the health and sustainable development of the traditional Chinese medicine market, and making traditional medicine better benefit mankind. This appeal was endorsed by many medical representatives and positively responded to by the State Drug Administration.
Develop in the dialectic of innovation and integrity, and progress in the agitation of tradition and modernity. Chinese medicine is a great creation of the Chinese nation and occupies an irreplaceable and important position in China's excellent traditional culture. At the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress in May 2020, Deputies Zhang Boli and Geng Funeng jointly proposed that "chinese medicine culture should be integrated into the basic education of primary and secondary schools, and the genetic implantation and inheritance of Chinese medicine culture should be grasped from dolls", which triggered strong repercussions.
At the Fourth Session of the 13th National People's Congress in March 2021, Geng Funeng submitted 13 deputies' proposals, covering topics such as innovation in traditional Chinese medicine, consolidation of poverty alleviation achievements, rural revitalization, brand and intellectual property protection, traditional Chinese medicine culture, and primary medical care. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China listed detailed development plans when replying to Geng Funeng's proposal to "vigorously develop the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials in poverty-alleviation areas and establish a complete industrial chain to help rural revitalization".
As a deputy to the National People's Congress, Geng Funeng is like a prolific "writer", with pragmatism and diligence as the pen, the field and the traditional Chinese medicine industry as the ink, with feelings to write his in-depth thinking, investigation and research suggestions in the motherland. In the more than 9 years as a deputy to the National People's Congress, he conscientiously performed his duties as a deputy, actively offered suggestions and suggestions, and made 83 speeches at the congress, delegation meeting and group meeting, and submitted 106 suggestions, totaling more than 160,000 words, covering the development of traditional Chinese medicine, people's livelihood, health, brand and intellectual property protection, scientific and technological innovation and many other fields.
The French thinker Rousseau once said: "The person who lives the most meaningful life is not the oldest, but the person who feels the most about life." "Geng Funeng has both the life thinking of "or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hong Mao", but also the feeling of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the people, continuing to learn from the saints, and opening up peace for all the worlds". Speaking of the direction of his future efforts, he frankly said: "In the future, I will stand at a new height and the perspective of the needs of the masses of the people, with a sincere temperature, continue to carry the responsibility and mission, do my best to speak for the people, better ground the truth, observe the facts, gather the wisdom of the people, benefit the people's livelihood, better stoop down, sink my heart, move the truth, and do practical things." ”
Looking back at the past road of struggle, looking at the road ahead. People's congress deputies are the "last kilometer" connecting with the masses, connecting the party and the government at one end and the masses at the other. To make suggestions for the country's economic and social development, to speak out for the improvement of the people's lives, to ensure that the people have a call, I have a response, and do more practical things and do good things for the masses, this is the original intention of Deputy Geng Funeng in performing his duties. "To make a man reveal his essence, it is most effective to make him take on a responsibility." Geng Fu can serve the country with industry and rejuvenate the country with hard work, and he has turned what he thinks and says into reality step by step with actions.
Source: Chen Qingli