"The train forward to the station Xujiadian" 3 | Township secretaries from the province
Written by Cui Hongguo
"Spring has a dream, autumn has a dream, the people's dream has you and me; spring planting and autumn harvest, intensive cultivation, wind and rain we will open up the cause; sweat to cultivate flowers, hard work to produce results, good time to grasp." 」 This is a song written by a township cadre in Qianjiang, Hubei Province, called "The Dream of the People". Cadres who have taken root in townships and towns have countless spring, summer, autumn, and winter in the wind and rain fulfilling the dreams of others, and they are also fulfilling their own dreams. According to the organizational arrangement, I only have two years of spring, summer, autumn and winter to realize my dream of working in townships and towns, how should I record my resume in my cadre file for these two years? Before going to Xujiadian, I was waiting for the report to be there, and I meditated hard. I have always been unforgettable for the experience I once had working in Fengjia Town, so I have never had a sense of distance and alienation from those township cadres, and I have always taken the pulse of the difficulties and setbacks I encountered in my work and life from that unforgettable experience and beautiful encounter, and draw an inexhaustible source for my literary creation. Many of them are experiencing the experience I once had in the township, and I can find a shadow of myself in them. They are a special group — township cadres.
"The clouds rise and fall, your footsteps are constantly shuttling, and your figure is always flashing at sunrise and sunset." Spring and summer pass, you regard other places as your hometown, cross the autumn and winter, and go home is a luxury in your dreams. "When I created this documentary, I had been away from the beautiful hot land of Haiyang and Xujiadian for a while, but those landscapes, those villages, those faces have always haunted me. Although they often make WeChat videos, they always stand in a prominent and conspicuous position in my heart. I not only need to faithfully record in the documentary every village and mountain that I measured with the footsteps of everyone in those days, but also need to consciously and introspectively show my current concern and some unique thinking about the special field of townships and towns and the special group of township cadres. These concerns and reflections are not so much a sympathy as a voice from their own perspective on the ecology in which they live, stemming from my experience of working life in the township, but not exactly equivalent to the experience. Maybe it won't stir up too many ripples, but I need to do it, and I also feel that this is my current mission as a writer. So, in the process of recording, I switch back and forth between reality and the past, sometimes fast-forwarding, sometimes playing back. At this moment, during the Qingming holiday, I tapped on the keyboard and heard the singer Dong Jun singing the song "Township Cadre", and I felt the same way, and with a song, I re-entered the township called Xujiadian.
My personal work log clearly records that the day I reported from the province to the township was October 30, 2017, an ordinary day, but destined to stay in my memory and records. There was another time node before that was August 27, 2010, when I left Fengjia Town in Lubei province to the Provincial Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, and was directly selected from a township mayor in a remote area to a provincial department as deputy director, which changed not only my work, but also my future life. At that time, countless people threw envious eyes at me, and I also knew that that kind of opportunity was not available to everyone, so I cherished it. Besides, at that time, from the township to the provincial city, it was something that countless people did not even dare to think about, falling on themselves, that feeling is far from being able to describe the jackpot, a period of time is naturally strange, excited, happy, joyful, although soon work and life have entered the normal, but their own indescribable joy is still in the heart for a long time, how to say that it is also into the city, and it is the provincial city, the villagers at home also feel that there is a light and face. Seven years later, on October 30, I left the provincial capital again and went to the township of Haiyang in Yantai called Xujiadian to serve as the secretary of the township party committee. The coming and going of the year and the going today are two completely different experiences, compared to the time when I entered the city, I went to the township again, less strange and confused, more rational, more kind, more confident, more confident, naturally there are also a lot of freshness that has changed the environment.
I remember that it was a semi-cloudy day, and cui Fengyou, the deputy director in charge of the hall, went to send me. The trains and high-speed trains from Jinan East Railway Station to Haiyang North are both numerous and fast, and it takes less than 3 hours to reach Haiyang North Railway Station. After driving through Weifang north to east, there are more hills and mountains of the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the fields, villages, mountains, and jungles that I often pass through when I go to Yantai along the way seem to present a different scene to me on that day, bringing me a new feeling. In the past, when the high-speed rail roared by, those fields, villages, mountains, and jungles were all hurried by, and they were scenery for me, and I was a passer-by for them. Now, before I arrived at Xujiadian, I felt that those scenery was rushing straight at me, I couldn't dodge, I couldn't push away, I couldn't get around, whether it was behind me or in front, whether it was left or right, they were around me, talking to me, I knew they were still landscapes, but I was no longer a passerby.
It was a kind of township complex that was about to be faced, rising in my heart like the cooking smoke of my hometown. I can enjoy the scenery, but I can no longer think of myself as a passer-by who rushes from Jinan to Yantai by high-speed rail, although I will eventually become a passer-by, but in those two years, I was the person in the drama in that infinite landscape. After driving through Laiyang, I saw apple trees spread over the hillsides on both sides of the high-speed railway base, full of red apples. The land is not as flat as my hometown Lubei Plain, some are on the slope of the mountain, some are in the hollow between the two mountains, some are at the foot of the mountain, some are on the hills between the flat land and the hillside, the leaves of the fruit trees begin to fall, some apples are still in bags, and most of them are hanging on one tree after another, hanging heavily. There are countless people and hired workers busy in the vast countryside. Under the semi-cloudy sky, there was a gray cloud floating among the mountains, there was no sun, there was a very light blue from the thin sky of the clouds, gray and blue matching, thick and light, the unique boundless red became the main color of those mountain fields, attached to those full of hanging solidity, flashing on both sides of the roaring high-speed rail, dangling, living.
The activity arranged by the city that afternoon was not only to pick me up, but also to send Secretary Chi Xiansheng to Fang Yuan to take office, which is the handover of the two of us! Secretary Xiansheng is an old township, and he has been the secretary of Xujiadian for nearly four years, and his work is bold and spicy, with a sense of responsibility and responsibility, especially when he has rich experience in dealing with complex problems at the grass-roots level. Because Fangyuan Street is a downtown street, there are many enterprises above the scale, undertaking important matters such as the transformation of old villages in the city and the main urban area, investment promotion, urban management, etc. To make an analogy, Fangyuan Street is like Jinan's Lixia District and Shizhong District, which plays an important role in the city. Secretary Xiansheng is also a very temperamental person, with great affection for righteousness, and has a deep affection for Xujiadian and those colleagues who have worked for many years. Deputy Secretary Tao Keling and Vice Minister Li Zhitian of the Organization Department, who participated in the handover of our work, conveyed the relevant spirit of my appointment to Xujiadian in Haiyang in accordance with the procedures, announced the appointment, and introduced the relevant situation of Secretary Chi Xiansheng. Deputy Director Cui Fengyou introduced the relevant situation of my work in the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, and especially introduced my past resume to the comrades in the town, saying that I had been engaged in public security work for a long time in Zhuanhua and had four years of experience as a township mayor, and it was also the leaders of the department who decided to let me participate in this exchange after repeated consideration and study. This introduction of the director of the Fengyou Department immediately brought me closer to the town cadres, and I was also what they thought of as "township cadres, their own people." Secretary Xiansheng's parting speech was emotional, and he choked up several times, with tears in his eyes, and he could feel his simple and deep feelings for Xujiadian. "Why do I often have tears in my eyes, because I love this land deeply", his temperament left a deep impression on me, and in the days of his subsequent appointment, I often asked him about some town and village feelings in Xujiadian, and he was like a family treasure every time. After leaving Haiyang and returning to the provincial city, we have been interacting.
The ceremony that day was held in the conference room on the second floor of the town, which was very simple, there was no false talk, and the words of the rural people were "no false heads". The mayor of the town, Li Xiaolei, was attended by Deputy Secretary Hong Shan, Chairman Dong Rihong of the National People's Congress, Liu Ziyuan, member of the Organization Committee, Jiang Peng, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and all other members of the leading body. Jiang Xuemei, director of the town office, and several young comrades in the office made preparations in advance, and the work was done thoughtfully and meticulously. When I was serving in Fengjia Town, I was in charge of a section of office, and I knew very well that the office of a township was really the center of a township, and things were many and complicated, and we often heard a phrase called "a thousand lines above, a needle below", all the lines above must pass through the township needle, this is the truth, to the township, all the lines must pass through the township party and government office, so the office of a township can reflect the efficiency of the work service of a township and the spirit of township cadres. The township party and government office has always given me the feeling that the three words are "not easy." They are working overtime and stressfully for a long time, and they need to be understood and encouraged. After leaving Xujiadian and Haiyang, I still feel remorseful and uneasy about not giving enough psychological and emotional care to their inner world and work pressure at that time. I think that if I have another chance, I will definitely go deep into their hearts and listen more to their sincere, simple, kind, uplifting voices.
At the handover ceremony on that day, I also made a statement with everyone straight to the point, and I also made a record in the log at that time, "I completely obey the organizational arrangement, this exchange appointment is also a rare opportunity for me personally, I am also 47, and when I was 47 years old, I went to the township to grope and climb with everyone, so if I missed this opportunity, I will not have it again, so I must cherish the two years with everyone." Although I came straight from the province, my roots are in the townships, I am a township cadre in my bones, I did not have the idea of gilding, I did not come to hang up the post and lie flat, I just came to shake off everyone's arms together. I feel empathy for everyone's work and life in the township, so you don't have to worry about me being a day cadre, you can open your heart and communicate with me, I will go deep into the village with you to understand the situation, grasp the facts, and develop ideas, ideas, and ways for our whole town to develop. How to live these two years, how to do the work, wait for two years to listen to everyone. "Flipping through my journal, I seem to see the scene of my cordial interaction with that group of strange and familiar colleagues that afternoon.
On the night of October 30th, I stayed in the office and started my two-year Xujiadian work model. Next door to my office is the conference room where Secretary Chi Xiansheng was handed over in the afternoon. To the west of the conference room is the Party and Government Office, which arranges personnel on duty every day. That night, I sat at my desk and looked out the window at the square courtyard. "On the east and west sides of the yard, two huge cedar pavilions are covered and lush. In front of the window is a thicket of green bamboo, straight and straight. At the beginning of the wind, the orange lights in the courtyard ripple, the bamboo shadows are hazy, and the pine and bamboo are accompanied by each other, which has become the most poetic embellishment in the courtyard. At that moment, I knew that because of Xujiadian, there was more fresh and pulsating source in my spiritual blood. "In my later essay, "The Train Forward to the Station Xujiadian," I recorded in detail how I really felt about staying in town that night. From the window, I saw lights flashing in the courtyard and on the street corners outside that were different from the neon of the provincial city. The yard was quiet and there were few pedestrians on the street outside. I know that there are a thousand things waiting for me, the township secretary from the province, to face each other in the next few days.
Cui Hongguo is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the Shandong Writers Association, a member of the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association, and a member of the Jinan and Yantai Writers Association. He has published essay collections "The Ranch for Finding the Soul", "The Most Beautiful Encounter with Haiyang - Cui Hongguo Prose Collection", and "Jiaodong Prose Twelve Houses Cui Hongguo Volume". He has published more than 120 essays and book reviews in many newspapers and periodicals such as China Writers Network, Yantai Culture Network, Contemporary Prose Network, Qilu Evening News, Lianhe Daily, Contemporary Novel, Jiaodong Literature, Capital Literature, Yellow Sea Prose, Jiaodong Prose Annual Selection Micro-Journal, etc., and his works have won awards in provincial and municipal essay contests for many times. "The Train Forward to the Station - Xujiadian" won the "Jiaodong Prose Annual Selection (2022) Best Work Award" issued by Huanghai Digital Publishing House. "The Bridge of Jinan" was selected as an excellent essay recommendation for qilu evening news "Qingwei", and "Four Brothers Gone" was commented by Qilu As a monthly "explosive article".
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