The scene of the seminar is courtesy of the People's Literature Publishing House
"Chinese Peasant City" book cover Courtesy of the People's Literature Publishing House
Beijing, April 13 (China News Network) (Reporter Ying Ni) "Recording the Magnificent Chapter of Rural Revitalization and Common Prosperity - The Seminar on the New Book of "China Peasant City" was held in Beijing on the 13th.
The book takes the development of Longgang, Zhejiang Province as the main line, and comprehensively tells the true history of several small fishing villages growing into China's first peasant city. A group of ordinary farmers in Longgang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, in just forty years, not only realized the dream of farmers entering the city, but also created a miracle for farmers to build a city. This "city" changed the fate of hundreds of thousands of peasants, enabling them to achieve common prosperity many years ago.
At the seminar, the participating experts and scholars made an in-depth interpretation and interpretation of the literary and practical significance of this work from the perspective of recording rural revitalization, common prosperity, and writing epic poems of people's struggle.
Yang Ping, vice president of the China Book Critics Association, stressed that "China Peasant City" has two major contributions, one is a strong historical one, and the other is a strong reality. Through specific legendary events, this book leads our thinking on farmers and rural areas to depth, conveys the legendary and remarkable social phenomena to readers, lets more people know, and allows more people to reflect on China's rural problems. In this sense, the merits of this book are great.
Bai Ye, president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, said that there are two things that impressed him most about "China Peasant City", one is to write about reform from the unique perspective of "peasants building a city", and the other is to create a group of very vivid characters. Overall, it is a very good work, especially in the current history of reform, this work is irreplaceable.
Since its publication, the book has received extensive attention not only from critics and readers. Chen Dingmo, one of the protagonists of this book and the first secretary of Longgang, sighed after reading this book, which spreads to the readers the arduous entrepreneurial spirit of several generations of Longgang, the perseverance of not being afraid of hardships and difficulties, and never turning back to the end of a road, and introduces to the world the experience of all kinds of hardships, various bitterness and success they have experienced, and the experience of achieving "common prosperity" through their own labor.
Everyone highly affirmed the author's two-year in-depth interview and research, the repeated verification and recording of facts in the text, and affirmed his profound thinking and the height of history, the emotions and details of literature, and the humor and vividness of the character language. It is unanimously agreed that the author has written a magnificent, ups and downs, and a moving entrepreneurial history of the common prosperity of Chinese farmers.
In his speech, Li Yan, general manager of China Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., affirmed that the book has great practical value in rescuing history, filling in gaps, and introducing experience in the context of the era of promoting rural revitalization with the strength of the whole party. Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, reviewed the difficult process of the book from the selection of the topic to the publication.
Bao Hongjun, secretary of the party committee and president of Zhejiang Publishing United Group, believes that the author of "China Peasant City" will integrate profound historical insights, skillful literary expressions and profound people-oriented feelings into a soft, tenacious, vivid and vivid image of Longgang farmers.
The conference was jointly sponsored by the People's Literature Publishing House and the Zhejiang People's Publishing House. (End)