Zeng Wenzhong gave a popular science lecture at a temple in Tibet-related areas of Sichuan. Courtesy of respondents
Zeng Wenzhong, deputy secretary general of the Sichuan Provincial New Federation: A public welfare popularization law in Gandang ethnic minority areas
Chengdu, January 18 (China News Network) (Reporter Wang Peng) "With the development of society, people of our new social class can not only want to get rich, but also assume social responsibility. Recently, talking about why he has insisted on going to remote areas and ethnic minority areas for legal propaganda for many years, Zeng Wenzhong, deputy to the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, deputy secretary general of the Sichuan Provincial Association of People of New Social Classes, and director of the management committee of Sichuan Yingling Heshi Law Firm, said.
Zeng Wenzhong, 49, a native of Yanyuan County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, grew up in a village inhabited by Mongolians, Han Chinese, Yi and Tibetans. After graduating from Yanyuan County Nationalities Middle School, he was admitted to university, and later worked as a teacher and also worked in government departments. Around 2000, he switched careers to becoming a lawyer.
"In the process of being a lawyer, I have been thinking that I must assume social responsibility, because I see many lawyers who are committed to social welfare." Zeng Wenzhong recalled that when he was in college, he was enthusiastic about social service activities, and after working, he had the ability to do so, and he was duty-bound.
Zeng Wenzhong at work. Photo by Lu Yang
In the past ten years, Zeng Wenzhong has gone deep into more than 10 districts and counties in Ganzi, Aba, and Liangshan ethnic autonomous prefectures to carry out activities such as sending the law into temples, organs, schools, villages, and enterprises, accumulating more than 200 days of service time, carrying out more than 300 legal publicity activities, and conducting face-to-face on-site legal propaganda or legal services for nearly 30,000 people.
After a long trip to remote areas, Zeng Wenzhong experienced the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and was also touched by the kindness and simplicity of the people in ethnic minority areas. At the same time, he is also more and more aware of the hardships of grass-roots work, "Our grass-roots cadres, who have been working in the plateau area for a long time, have not had better conditions in all aspects than in big cities, and some people even eat and live with villagers for several months a year, which I really admire." ”
Zeng Wenzhong said that it is precisely because of this that he is determined to do a good job of popularizing the law for the people in remote areas, so that everyone can enhance their legal awareness, understand the law, and when necessary, they can take up legal weapons to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. In his public service lectures that he has continued for many years, there are naturally many unforgettable moments.
Once, Zeng Wenzhong made an appointment with Ganzi Prefecture early and went to the government offices, schools, and villages in Daofu County and Kangding City to give a number of lectures on popularizing the law. Before leaving, he suddenly caught a cold. People who have traveled to the plateau know that catching a cold at high altitudes is a very dangerous thing, but Zeng Wenzhong still insists on finishing the lecture. "Because I grew up in the mountains, and everyone is in touch, so many people are waiting for me, I have to go."
At that time, the Yakang Expressway had not yet been opened to traffic, and it was necessary to take the 318 National Highway from Chengdu to Kangding and cross the Erlang Mountain. Zeng Wenzhong, who had never been motion sickness before, was motion sick because he had a heavy cold, so he persisted until Kangding. After a hasty night's sleep, early the next morning he crossed the mountains and went to Daofu County to preach. In the morning, after the two lectures in Daofu County, he immediately returned to Kangding, and there were two more lectures waiting for him.
"After arriving in Kangding, I really couldn't bear it." Zeng Wenzhong recalled that after arriving at Kangding Field, while the staff was still debugging the equipment, he quietly walked to the side of the road alone and quietly squatted down to rest. And because he was in a hurry at noon that day, it was too late to eat, and before he went on stage, he poured down two cans of Red Bull in one breath to successfully complete the lecture.
His posture of "desperately trying to get three langs" once puzzled many people. But Zeng Wenzhong told reporters that after years of walking in remote areas and ethnic minority areas, he deeply realized that the local people "really need the law." Among them, the story of defending the rights of monks in a temple in Ganzi Prefecture is a vivid footnote to this understanding.
Zeng Wenzhong was interviewed. Photo by Lu Yang
A few years ago, Zeng Wenzhong, a deputy to the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, was attending the "two sessions" of Sichuan Province in Chengdu when suddenly several monks from Ganzi Prefecture came to the outside of the venue, hoping to see him. It turned out that the credit cards of these monks were stolen and swiped in Chengdu, and the losses were very large. For monks who have been practicing in the temple for a long time, they do not know how to solve such problems, and they have heard that "there is a former lawyer in Chengdu" who can provide legal help, so they come to ask for help.
"In fact, the problem of several monks is very simple, and I quickly helped them solve it." Zeng Wenzhong said that later, the living Buddha of the temple came to the law firm to thank him, and he also established a deep relationship with the temple.
"In those years, I often received strange phone calls, mostly from people in remote areas, because I would leave my own phone when I preached the law." Zeng Wenzhong said that such an experience is the wealth of his life.
As the director of the law firm, Zeng Wenzhong has also assigned more than 30 lawyers to Tibet Prefecture and County over the years, organized 32 monks and nuns from more than 20 monasteries in the Kangding area to conduct training activities for "people who understand the law" in Chengdu, and donated more than 2,000 copies of popular law reading books and more than 500 CD-ROMs for popularizing law.
In recent years, as the deputy secretary-general of the Sichuan New Social Class People's Association, Zeng Wenzhong has personally experienced the development and growth of the New Federation of Sichuan Province, actively organized people from the new class to devote themselves to epidemic prevention and control, flood relief and disaster relief, helped to overcome poverty, and served economic development, fully demonstrating the good image of "new era, new class, new force and new deeds".
In his view, as an important part of the new social class, the lawyer community must bear social responsibility. "There's a lot more we can do in this new era." Zeng Wenzhong said firmly. (End)
Source: China News Network