In the early 1960s, the Yongjia County CPC Committee attached great importance to the ideological and political education of the vast number of cadres and the masses, attached importance to giving play to the exemplary and guiding role of advanced models, and continued to carry out study activities such as studying political theory and learning heroic and exemplary figures.
The first is to extensively study political theory among the broad masses of cadres and the masses, mainly to study the works of Mao Zedong. On February 8, 1960, the county party committee issued the "Decision on Organizing Cadres to Study Political Culture and Scientific and Technological Knowledge", requiring cadres throughout the county to work hard to learn political theory and scientific and cultural knowledge, and to arm their minds with Marxist-Leninist theory. On March 20, the county party committee also issued the "Plan for Cadres to Study Chairman Mao's Writings and Culture, Science and Technology in 1960", and began to carry out organized activities to study Mao Zedong's works among party members and cadres and the masses. Through the establishment of a study core group in the county party committee, the formation of study groups in county organs, and the opening of night schools in various grass-roots party organizations, the initial campaign to study Mao Zedong's works was carried out. After October, around the study of the fourth volume of the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", the study of political theory among cadres in the county organs has been strengthened. In 1961, with the strengthening of the party's grass-roots organizations in the course of adjustment, the establishment of rotational training in party schools and various study systems, the political theory of party members and cadres throughout the county was further strengthened. In accordance with the requirements of the county party committee, all district party committees have also set up study center groups; in addition to grasping the study of the members of the central group, they have also strengthened their leadership over the study of the whole region, which is personally grasped by the secretary of the district party committee and the propaganda committee of the district party committee; all communes, factories, mines, and schools have set up study groups to be responsible for formulating study plans, cultivating activists, and solving difficult problems. Since then, through the in-depth development of the socialist education movement in urban and rural areas, the campaign to study Mao Zedong's works has further set off a climax.
In the course of studying Mao Zedong's writings, through studying the "Theory of Contradictions," the "Theory of Practice," and the articles on investigation and research, party members and cadres were able to clearly understand the situation and change their work style in a relatively short period of time, so that they could devote greater energy to leading the broad masses to restore and develop production. Many cadres and the vast number of young league members, full of revolutionary enthusiasm, conscientiously studied Mao Zedong's articles such as "Serving the People," "Commemorating Bethune," and "The Fool Moves the Mountain." This has played a non-negligible role in improving people's spiritual realm, forming a good learning atmosphere, and enhancing the courage to overcome difficulties.
The second is to set off a climax of learning from heroic role models. On April 15, 1960, the county party committee issued the "Opinions on Carrying Out the Study of Comrade Xu Shuangxi's Noble Communist Style", requiring the members of the party league and the broad masses of the whole county to learn from xu Shuangxi, a compressor worker of the Fifth Geological Team of Zhejiang Province and a model communist party member, who sacrificed himself for the better in order to protect the country's assets and risk his life, and heroically sacrificed himself for the common good in the struggle against the fire. The Organization Department of the county party committee, the Propaganda Department, the Youth League And County Committee, the County Women's Federation, the Cultural and Educational Bureau, and the Ministry of People's Armed Forces formed a report group to study Xu Shuangxi, and the communes also formed a report group to hold a report meeting on Xu Shuangxi throughout the county. Through a period of study, Xu Shuangxi's advanced deeds have had a broad and far-reaching impact on the whole county, influenced and infected the vast number of cadres and the masses, and played an important role in promoting the socialist construction of Yongjia.
At the beginning of 1963, the campaign to learn Lei Feng was carried out throughout the country, pushing the county's activity of learning heroic models to a climax. Before his death, Lei Feng was a soldier of a certain unit of the Shenyang Military Region stationed in Fushun, Liaoning Province, and died in the line of duty in August 1962. On February 7, 1963, people's daily introduced lei feng's deeds of serving the people wholeheartedly in the spirit of "willing to be a screw" in nearly two pages. On March 5, people's daily published inscriptions by Mao Zedong and other party and state leaders on learning from Comrade Lei Feng. As a result, all fronts and each of the country set off a sustained upsurge of learning Lei Feng.
The county's lei feng learning activities were first launched among the majority of young people. On February 24, 1963, the Youth League County Committee issued the "Notice on Extensively Carrying Out the Educational Activities of "Learning Lei Feng" among the Vast Number of Young People", requiring that the activities of learning Lei Feng be widely carried out among the youth of the whole county. On April 8, the county party committee approved and forwarded the "Report on the Situation and Opinions on carrying out the Activity of "Learning Lei Feng" by the County Committee of the Youth League, requiring that the activities of learning Lei Feng be carried out more extensively, more deeply and more sustainably throughout the county. Subsequently, the county's party and government organs, trade unions, women's federations, and other mass organizations quickly participated in the campaign to study Lei Feng, and extensively organized cadres and the masses to participate in Lei Feng's deeds report meeting and Lei Feng deeds exhibition, so that Lei Feng's deeds soon became a household name in the county. For a time, it became social fashion for people to tell lei feng's stories, sing and learn lei feng songs, and learn lei feng to do good things for others. Lei Feng's noble spirit of loving the collective, caring for others, helping others, being unselfish, and specializing in benefiting people has become a driving force and a code of action that encourages people to make progress.
After that, the county party committee also organized the study of the revolutionary tradition of the PEOPLE's Liberation Army adhering to the "four firsts" and carrying forward the "March 8 style"[1]; and studied the advanced deeds of Jiao Yulu [2] of "good cadres of the party" and "good public servants of the people".
In addition, during the three-year period of continuous adjustment, the county party committee responded to the call of the central government and Mao Zedong, and successively set off activities in the county of "Industrial Science Daqing [3], Agricultural Science Dazhai[4], and the Whole Nation Learning the People's Liberation Army". From March 18 to 30, 1964, the county party committee held a meeting of the secretary of the party branch of the county's production brigade, the advanced agricultural unit, and the model worker. The meeting summarized and evaluated by learning daqing oilfield experience and "Dazhai Road", and greatly promoted local advanced experience and exchanged experience with each other. The county party committee commended advanced units and advanced individuals, called on the people of the whole county to learn from them, and strived to set off a new production climax in the county. On April 31, the county party committee also held an oath-taking meeting of "Daqing of Industrial Science, Dazhai of Agriculture", calling for the development of "Dabi, University, And Great Exchange" to learn from Daqing oilfield experience and the spirit of Dazhai. Subsequently, the county officially launched the activities of "Industrial Science Daqing" and "Agricultural Science Village".
On March 5, 1964, the "Express" jointly compiled by the Yongjia County Party Committee and the County People's Committee reported the deeds of advanced figures.
Under the impetus of the continuous activities of studying theories and models, the ideological consciousness and moral level of the vast number of cadres and masses have been greatly enhanced. A large number of exemplary figures and moving advanced deeds have emerged from all walks of life, who work diligently and earnestly for the party and serve the people wholeheartedly in ordinary posts. In many places, the phenomenon of not closing the house at night and not picking up the road has formed a good social trend in the whole society.
[1] The "four firsts" are the first of the human factor, the first of political work, the first of ideological work, and the first of living thought; the "three major work styles", that is, Mao Zedong's inscription for the Kang Da, is three sentences plus eight words: firm and correct political direction, arduous and simple work style, flexible strategy and tactics, unity, tension, seriousness, and liveliness.
[2] Jiao Yulu (1922-1964), a native of Zibo, Shandong. In 1962, he was transferred to the secretary of the Lankao County Party Committee of Henan. Together with cadres and the masses throughout the county, he waged a tenacious struggle against serious natural disasters and worked hard to change the face of Lankao. Suffering from liver cancer, he still endured severe pain, insisted on working, and was praised as a good cadre of the party and a good servant of the people. After Jiao Yulu's death, Xinhua News Agency wrote and broadcast a long-form newsletter in February 1966, "The Model of the County Party Secretary - Jiao Yulu", "People's Daily" and other newspapers and periodicals across the country, which caused strong repercussions throughout the country.
[3] At the end of 1963, after more than three years of arduous struggle, the working class on china's oil front developed the Daqing oil field through its own efforts, ending the era when Chinese lived on "foreign oil". Daqing Oilfield has not only laid an important material foundation for economic construction, but also provided valuable ideological inspiration for the people of the whole country to overcome difficulties and work hard to build the motherland. On February 5, 1964, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a circular calling on other departments across the country to learn from the experience of Daqing Oilfield.
[4] During the three years of temporary hardship in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people faced severe tests and waged a struggle against natural disasters and material deprivation. Dazhai is located in the mountainous area of the Taihang Mountains in Jinzhong at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, where the natural conditions are harsh and the land is barren. Under the leadership of the party branch, the Dazhai people began to dig slopes and build terraces from 1953, which greatly increased grain production per mu. In the construction of the vast project, the People of Dazhai did not ask the state for a penny; in the struggle against disasters and serious difficulties, the People of Dazhai created the miracle of a bumper harvest. On February 10, 1964, the People's Daily published a newsletter by a Xinhua reporter entitled "The Road to Dazhai", introducing their advanced deeds. Since then, the Agricultural Dazhai Movement has been carried out throughout the country.