Wang Kaibing, a native of Puxi, Hubei Province, was the mayor of Shashi from November 1983 to June 1986. From June 1986 to October 1994, he was the secretary of the Shashi Municipal Party Committee. After the jingsha merger, Wang Kaibing was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Seventh Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is now retired and lives in Jingzhou at the age of 88.
Old photo of Wang Kaibing
"Lookout" News Weekly is a large-scale current affairs, political and economic news weekly sponsored by xinhua news agency, which is the earliest news weekly in the mainland, founded in 1984, and initially focused on reporting on the daily work of leading cadres. This article was published in the 35th issue of "Lookout" in 1987, the original title was "The "Poems" of a Municipal Party Secretary", and the author: Zhou Dongai Yang Zhengwen, both are Xinhua Reporters. Among the many grassroots leading cadres throughout the country, "Lookout" was able to publish these anecdotes of Wang Kaibing, which on the one hand reflected Wang Kaibing's strict self-discipline and non-favoritism as the secretary of the Shashi Municipal CPC Committee at that time; on the other hand, it also showed that Shashi, as a star city, had a certain status in the country at that time.
Old photo of Beijing Road in Shashi
I have long heard that Wang Kaibing, secretary of the Shashi Municipal Party Committee, loves to write poems and once published a collection of poems, which is still rare among many cadres in Hubei. When we went to Shashi, the local comrades who knew him better said: "It is true that Lao Wang loves to write poetry, but in our Shashi, the most admirable thing is not his poetry, but his upright style." Then they gave an example, saying that Wang Kaibing had been a home of 200,000 people in Shashi for nine years, but he had never written a note for his superiors, subordinates, colleagues, relatives, and family members.
We visited the relevant departments in charge of people, money, and materials in Shashi City, and heard moving stories about his failure to approve the notes.
The daughter of a cadre works as a painter at the Shashi Thermos Factory, and her job is dirty. This cadre had worked with Wang Kaibing in the past, so he went on. Wang Kaibing said frankly: "The factory is arranged according to everyone's ability and strengths, if it is unreasonable, you can directly find the factory leader." If I want to come forward and transfer your daughter to the department, the factory leaders will be embarrassed. The above batch of strips, the bottom of the chaos ah! We must understand the difficulties of being a factory director. ”
Workshop of Shashi Thermos Factory in 1986
Wang Kaibing worked for twenty years in the Jingzhou area adjacent to Shashi. There are many old superiors, old subordinates, and old colleagues there. Many of them have family members working in Shashi, and it is inevitable that they will find him. Wang Shengbing said with a heart of heart: "If we, the secretaries, mayors, and bureau chiefs, open their mouths indiscriminately on the top, the leaders below will open the floodgates. Wang Kaibing's kind words of persuasion did not make this old comrade wake up, and some time ago he also wrote a letter to scold Wang Kaibing, and Wang Kaibing just laughed it off.
Shashi Cotton Textile Factory
Wang Kaibing is a native of Puxi County, Hubei Province. The villagers in his hometown sometimes made it difficult for him to step down. In March this year, cadres of a textile factory in Puxi County approached Wang Kaibing with a letter from the county leader. Wang Kaibing warmly received the hometown people, but said frankly: "At present, the cotton yarn in Shashi is also very tense, and the local weaving factory is still 'not enough to eat' and cannot help the hometown solve this difficulty, please apologize to the leaders of the county." ”
Wang Kaibing is not affectionate to his friends, but also to his close friends. His wife's mother's family has a girl from a relative who works as a temporary worker in Shashi. He politely declined. The girl then asked her grandmother to intercede with Wang Kaibing, but Wang Kaibing still politely refused. Now the girl is married to a worker in Shashi, but she is still a rural hukou.
At present, there are not many residents in Shashi who use gas, and many people want to build a gas stove. The old man found his daughter and talked about his wishes. The daughter mentioned this matter to her husband, but Wang Kaibing said: "When the secretary's 'open the back door', other leaders also follow the 'open back door', how can the gas company do things according to the rules?" The wife was anxious: "Others reflect that you are too 'orthodox', and if you are a secretary for a few more years, you will offend your relatives!" Wang Kaibing enlightened his wife: "In order not to offend relatives, I will randomly criticize the notes and open my mouth randomly, will anyone listen to me when I speak?" Is it convincing that the secretary of the municipal party committee has taken the lead in favoritism and engaged in unhealthy tendencies, and also wants the cadres and masses below to oppose unhealthy trends? The wife felt that her husband was right, so she stopped mentioning it. Wang Kaibing's mother-in-law, like ordinary residents, still cooks with smoky honeycomb coal.
Wang Kaibing is not selfish towards his close relatives and is more strict with his children. His house has three bedrooms and one hall, and a family of five has crammed the house full, not even a study, which is not as wide as some municipal bureau leaders. The eldest daughter works at a radio and television station and had no house to live in when she married the year before. The father said to his daughter: "The residents of Shashi City are currently having a relatively difficult time in housing, and some families are still crowded in a house. You can't take special care because you are the daughter of the secretary of the municipal party committee, and find a way to overcome temporary difficulties yourself! Wang Kaibing's family had to divide a room in half and give half to his son and daughter-in-law. When the surrounding neighbors saw this scene, they both sympathized with the new daughter-in-law and admired The noble style of Secretary Wang. Last year, the father-in-law was assigned a room in the unit, and the mother-in-law did not want to go and let her son and daughter-in-law live.
Great view of Sand City
Wang Kaibing's second daughter works in the Municipal Public Security Bureau. In 1985, she studied on her own and was admitted to Jingzhou Normal College. However, because there are few people in the bureau, there are many things, but Wang Kaibing enlightened his daughter and said: "The public security bureau has fewer people and more things, you must understand the difficulties of the bureau leaders, since the bureau leaders do not agree, you should not go." Didn't you also get admitted to the University of Electricity? Let's attend the University of Electricity and Electricity! To be out of work is to learn, and not to be out of work is also to learn. The second daughter, under the persuasion of her father, changed her studies to the University of Electricity. After two years of hard work, she has passed 12 exams and will be able to graduate next year. When people in the Public Security Bureau talked about this, they were happy to have a municipal party secretary who supported their work and set strict requirements on their children.
Listening to these stories, the reporter was also very excited. Although I have not seen the verses written by Wang Kaibing, are not these actions of his also touching poems?