Writing the miracle of peasants building a city, "China Farmer's City" was published

Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing

Recently, the long-form reportage "Chinese Peasant City", which records the development process of Wenzhou Longgang and writes a sample of common prosperity in Zhejiang, was published. The book takes the development of Longgang, the first "town reform city" without townships and streets, as the main line, and comprehensively tells the real history of Longgang's development from a remote and backward small fishing village to China's first peasant city.

When the town was established, Longgang only had five small fishing villages and a beach, and there was no state investment, so the town party committee and the town government mobilized farmers to raise funds to build the city. Thousands of peasants who had been hungry and begged for food gathered in Longgang with the "city dream", creating a "Longgang speed" that shocked the whole country, entering a strong town in five years, and withdrawing the town and setting up a city in thirty-five years. Longgang has achieved three major leaps from small fishing villages to peasant towns, farmers' cities to super towns, and super large towns to county-level cities, and its comprehensive strength ranks seventeenth among the top 100 towns in the country.

Why Dragon Harbor? What happened here, and what did this group of peasants rely on to build a city? This is exactly the question that the author Zhu Xiaojun tried to answer in "China's Peasant City".

Zhu Xiaojun, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize, a famous reportage writer and author of this book, said that in his view, this writing project not only fills the blank, but also has urgency and rescue. Nearly 40 years have passed since Longgang raised funds to build the city, and most of the witnesses are seventy or eighty years old, some have suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and some have passed away. If in a few years, as these people grow old, a large number of historical facts and vivid details and plots will not be known, and it will be more difficult to write such a work.

Li Jingze, member of the party leading group, vice chairman, and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, commented on "China Peasant City": What is particularly good about this book is that it is very vivid and very specific. We have a grand theme of the times, but whether or not we can implement this grand theme of the times into a very specific life of each person, the soul of each person, the actions and choices of each person is a very important test for literature and writers. This book allows readers to see history by presenting the fate and hearts of so many people. In this sense, "Chinese Peasant City" is a work with considerable literary power.