In the second half of the twentieth century, almost every farmer had a dream of going to the city. In classic works such as "Ordinary World" and "Life", there are descriptions of the struggle experience of rural youth "aspirants and vows to enter the city", and "peasants entering the city" once became the literary motif of contemporary writing in a certain period.
Zhu Xiaojun's book "China's Peasant City" records the tortuous process of a group of peasants eager to enter the city directly relying on the times and the struggle of the people to build a city, and writes the history of entrepreneurship in the new era - peasants building a city.
Recently, the long-form reportage "Chinese Peasant City" was published by the People's Literature Publishing House and the Zhejiang People's Publishing House. "China Peasant City" takes the development of Longgang, the first "town reform city" without townships and streets since the 18th National Congress, as the main line, comprehensively tells the real history of the development of small fishing villages into China's first peasant city, and leaves a hot and solemn record for the people's struggle.
Zhu Xiaojun, a famous contemporary reportage writer
Zhu Xiaojun is a famous contemporary reportage writer, his sketches have always paid attention to reality and people's livelihood, "A Doctor's Redemption", "The Conscience of a High-Ranking Official", "Express China" and other works have been highly praised by critics and readers, and have won the Lu Xun Literature Award, Xu Chi Reportage Award, China Short Story Literature Award, China Reform and Opening Up Excellent Reportage Award and other national reportage literature awards. "China Peasant City" comprehensively demonstrates his pragmatic and truth-seeking ability to interview, investigate, and organize materials, with solid and thick writing, delicate and sincere descriptions, while recording the grand history, and deeply telling the vivid and rich character stories in the tide of the times.
They created the miracle of peasants building cities
In the 1980s, there was a folk song in Wenzhou: "Pingyang begged for food, Wen became a human trafficker, Yongjia fled, Dongtou relied on loans to eat, and Wenzhou capitalism was rampant." "In 1981, the famous poverty-stricken county of Pingyang branched from one poverty-stricken county to two poverty-stricken counties. Among them, Cangnan is particularly poor, with neither a county seat, a central town, nor an economic center. To this end, the leadership decided to build an economic center and a material distribution center - Longgang Town.
When the town was founded forty years ago, Longgang, a deserted beach, began to develop from several fishing villages, and the people's lives were difficult, and the second secretary, Chen Dingmo, took the initiative to invite Miao to longgang town. He had a dream, that is, to lead the villagers to build a city on the spot, mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized, catch up with the Aojiang River on the other side, and let the peasants live the life of the people in the city, with electric lights, roads, middle schools, hospitals, and libraries. Without applying for state investment, Longgang, under the leadership of Chen Dingmo, had to tap the policy resources of the "Central Document No. 1" - mobilizing farmers to raise funds to build a city, and taking the lead in launching the reform of the household registration system in China; before the introduction of the land law, it took the lead in implementing the paid use of land, attracting farmers to the city, and building the "China's First Peasant City" that shocked the whole country.
Zhu Xiaojun's "Chinese Peasant City" tells the real history of the development of a small fishing village into China's first peasant city, a group of farmers in Longgang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, with the wisdom and diligence of the people, in just forty years, not only realized the dream of farmers to enter the city, but also created a miracle of farmers building a city. This book records in detail how under the leadership of grass-roots party organizations and the efforts of a group of strivers, Longgang people have explored step by step and built their ideal homeland step by step.
The extraordinary story of every ordinary creator
The book is a vivid literary reproduction of the "Zhejiang model" and the "Wenzhou model", and it is a very important milestone for us to look back.
In "Chinese Peasant City", every character is writing a legend with his life and dreams. The old secretary Chen Dingmo is the first strange man in Longgang, he has repeatedly found a chance in the Jedi, although he only has a primary school diploma, he can read through masterpieces of political theory, and in repeated thinking and research, with the help of the reform and opening up policy and the No. 1 document of the Central Committee, he has found the method and basis for reform from "Capital". "Chinese Peasant City" objectively and truthfully records the various obstacles faced in the process of longgang construction, the various difficulties encountered, the serious clan contradictions in the Jiangnan region, the competition of various local forces, and the constant tests and doubts of leading cadres.
The work deeply excavates the working attitude of the grass-roots leaders in Longgang to emancipate their minds and advance with the times, writes out their spirit of daring to be the first, pursuing excellence and surpassing themselves, and tells their spirit of openness and courage to think and dare to do.
In the early years, Longgang people called the 10,000 yuan household "monkey", each monkey has its own history of hard struggle, and everyone's road to prosperity records the hard work illuminated by dreams. Chen Zhizhi, who spun and embroidered from small yarn, Chen Ruixing, who cut rubber in the deep mountains, Yang Enzhu, who built seven floors, as well as Chen Changxu, Yang Xiaoxia, Wang Junyao, and other Longgang people, everyone's past is wonderful and extraordinary, and everyone's road to prosperity and conceptual change have become a true portrayal of farmers' realization of the Chinese dream in the new era.
The author conducts in-depth interviews and records the yesterday and today of hundreds of Longgang people, leaving behind precious memories of urban changes and spiritual histories in the process of peasants turning citizens. It not only shows the new era spirit of Longgang people daring to try, innovate and start a business, and be enlightened and open, but also portrays the vicissitudes and great changes of a group of farmers on the road of urbanization in the new era and a full sense of gain and pride.
In the form of literature, record the cutting-edge achievements of the times
Paying attention to the national economy and people's livelihood and recording the cutting-edge achievements of the times is an important embodiment of the social responsibility and sense of responsibility in the creation of reportage literature, and it is also the best expression of the writer's human feelings. "China Peasant City" not only records the process of Longgang's first "town reform city" without townships and streets in China from an objective and true standpoint, but also takes the problem of the living conditions of Chinese rural areas and Chinese farmers as the dark line in the text, and shows the unique people-oriented and spontaneous new urbanization road of Longgang.
The emergence of the Longgang miracle, objectively in line with the law of social development, is the product of the reform of the times, but has a strong local characteristics, in the book to present the view, the author deliberately highlights the policy reform that decision-makers dare to be the first in the world, the peasants' individual strength to give full play, and the self-identity of citizens.
In the author Zhu Xiaojun's view, thoroughly eating the policy and making full use of the policy is the premise for Longgang to have a later development. Looking back at history, the development of Longgang today is inseparable from the conference of forty years ago. "China Peasant City" tells that at the "On-site Office Meeting on Accelerating the Construction of Longgang", Chen Dingmo for the first time proposed to jump out of the planned economic thinking and organize the farmers who became rich first to invest in Longgang and build streets with the idea of "building for the people in the people's city". At this time, in 1984, the No. 1 document of the Central Committee had issued a policy of "allowing peasants who worked, engaged in business, and run service industries to take care of their own rations and settle in market towns", and Chen Dingmo's ideas coincided with the ideas of the county party committee and the county government, and the trip was made.
Combined with the actual situation, it is the essence of the Longgang miracle to understand the needs of farmers from the level of human development and human nature, to perceive the psychology of farmers, to take farmers as the main body of development, to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers, to make full use of the peasants' instinct to spontaneously get rid of poverty and seek prosperity, and to let them become the main force of construction. Longgang's urbanization road is not achieved overnight, and it has experienced a bumpy process of blue wisps and exploration step by step.
Provide a reform model for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way
The "city" also changed the fate of hundreds of thousands of peasants, enabling them to achieve common prosperity many years ago.
Zhejiang Longgang is the first administrative model in China's urbanization development process from township to city, without townships and streets, the first precedent of the mainland governance system, the success of Longgang reform fully reflects the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, is the best practice and achievement of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee.
It has made important achievements in economic and social development, administrative system reform, urban governance innovation and other aspects, providing a model for the comprehensive reform of China's small towns: Longgang has created a miracle in the history of human urban construction - farmers raised funds to build a city; Longgang completed the feat of peasants entering the city - taking the lead in launching the reform of the household registration system in China; Longgang is the forerunner of China's administrative reform - 40% of administrative resources efficiently undertake 100% of administrative management functions; Longgang has become a demonstration area of common prosperity - the lowest income ratio of urban and rural residents in the country. Nowadays, Longgang is a "national small town comprehensive reform pilot town" and "UNDP China sustainable development pilot small town", Longgang people are refreshing the perception of the Chinese people with the Zhejiang spirit of "working in practice, walking in the forefront, and bravely standing at the head of the tide" and the unique publicity.
Taking the road that has not been traveled, grass-roots reform and exploration, and achieving common prosperity... "China Peasant City" accurately grasps the reform miracles such as "peasants raise funds to build a city" and "people's city people's construction", comprehensively and deeply records the entire course of Longgang's reform and development and excellent reform results, and on the basis of solid interviews and historical research, it describes in detail the quest of several generations of builders, the support of generations of provincial, municipal and county leaders for reform, and the spiritual outlook and struggle process of Longgang people who forge ahead and change their lives.
It is reported that the thirty-two episodes of the TV series adapted from this work will be jointly produced by the Central Party School Dayou Film and Television Center and Laike Media, and the famous screenwriter Yuan Keping (screenwriter of the TV series "Dajiang Dahe") will serve as the chief editor.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian