"Chinese Peasant City" book cover. Courtesy of the publisher
People's Daily Beijing, April 14 (Liu Yingying, intern Fan Zhixuan) On April 13, the "Magnificent Chapter of Recording Rural Revitalization and Common Prosperity - Seminar on the New Book of China's Peasant City" was held in Beijing. The participating experts and scholars made 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.
There are two major miracles in the history of Urban Construction in China, one is Shenzhen, Guangdong, and the other is Longgang, Zhejiang. With the development of Longgang as the main line, "China Peasant City" comprehensively tells the real history of several small fishing villages growing into China's first peasant city. A group of ordinary farmers in Longgang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with the wisdom and diligence of the people, in just forty years, not only realized the dream of farmers to enter the city, but also created a miracle of peasants building a city.
Seminar site. Courtesy of the organizer
Bai Ye, president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, mentioned at the meeting that there are two points 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. In the current history of reform, this work is irreplaceable.
Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of "Literature and Art Daily", said that "China Peasant City" is a work with a very strong sense of history, and through the author's brushstrokes, let us return to the steaming 1980s when officials started their own businesses. The temperature of the work is expressed through the character's personality and mental journey, and the character description in the book is the most characteristic.
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, and conveys great social phenomena to readers.
Zang Jun, one of the planners of the book and secretary of the party group of the Zhejiang Writers Association, believes that "China Peasant City" is a masterpiece written on the land of Zhejiang to promote reform and opening up, entrepreneurship and innovation of the great practice, the author Zhu Xiaojun focused on the big times, big themes, focused on small people, small villages, and truly wrote the difficulties of reform, the great changes, and the blessings of the people.