Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
"A person who can think is a person with boundless power."
Covering up the people's daily publishing house's newly launched "People's Daily Tells Stories Like This", I can't help but think of the timeless words of the French literary giant Balzac. This is a heavy book, because it not only has the responsibility and mission of the People's Daily reporter to go deep into the deep mountains and snowy frontiers of the plateau to tell the story of China's realization of a well-off society in an all-round way, but also has a profound reflection on China's efforts to get rid of poverty.
This book includes 12 (group) newsletters published by the People's Daily in recent years, including: "New Songs of ussuri boats", "We must do a good job after getting rid of poverty", "Look at puffins in poverty alleviation", "In Yucheng, look at the dawn of rural revitalization", "Fuping Chuangfu", "Chixi Village on the road to poverty alleviation"; the next part includes: "Mang Mang cheng kun out of the mountains", "Daqing in the new era so answers "iron man three questions"", "thirty and stand to see Hainan", "Shanghai: benchmarking the world's highest open wind blowing", "Inner Mongolia: seventy years of galloping horses", "Tangshan forty years".
The 12 (group) newsletters show the arduous process and glory of China's poverty alleviation and all-round well-off, which can be called a model of news writing. These articles are intertwined in time and space, opening and closing; intertwined with large and small, magnificent; there is the mind of the stars and the sea, and there are poems and distant feelings; they are the memory of the country, and they are also the chapters of the times. Most of these newsletters won the annual People's Daily Excellent Award or the first prize of good news, and they are the finest products in the News Reports of the People's Daily, which are extremely political, ideological, newsworthy, and literary, and are the crystallization of thinking and the testimony of exploration. It is worth mentioning that the 12 (group) communications in the book are accompanied by the creative notes of the participating reporters to tell readers the stories behind these high-quality reports.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited the grassroots many times to investigate and investigate, observe the people's suffering, guide the practice of poverty alleviation, and travel all over China's great rivers, north and south, inside and outside the Great Wall. From Fuping, Hebei Province, deep in the Taihang Mountains, to Dingxi, Gansu Province, where "the world is in a bitter barren world"; from the hutong old streets of the capital Beijing to the rugged Liangshan Mountains, General Secretary Xi Jinping has to go into ordinary people's homes every time he inspects and investigates, asks about cold and warmth, sees changes, listens to the voices of the people, and seeks development. Among these 12 (group) newsletters, many of them were formed after the reporter followed in the footsteps of General Secretary Xi Jinping and revisited the places where General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected and investigated. We see:
-- In Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, the reporter wore the stars and daiyue, stayed overnight in a farmhouse, traveled more than 600 kilometers, went deep into the village where the Hezhe ethnic group lived by the river for generations and fished and hunted for a living - Bacha Village of The Hezhe Nationality Township, relived General Secretary Xi Jinping's exhortation of "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and no nation can be less", harvested fresh materials and personal experiences dipped in dirt and dewdrops, thus writing out the real living conditions of the Hezhe people, and writing the unremitting pursuit of our party to undertake the mission and promise thousands of gold. He wrote about the vivid practice of the vast number of cadres and the masses in jointly building a beautiful homeland and sharing a happy life.
——In Fuping County, Hebei Province, the reporter went straight to Luotuo Bay. This small mountain village in the depths of the Taihang Mountains has always touched the heart of General Secretary Xi Jinping. When the reporter entered the village, the sky was already dark, and snowflakes were still rolled up in the sky. Together with the locals, they ate farm meals, stayed in farmhouses, and talked freely at the old man's home of Tang Zongxiu, who had been investigated by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Marshal Nie Rongzhen once said, "Fuping is not rich, and death is not blind." Camel Bay is the old area among the old districts, just like "a sparrow" in China's poverty alleviation campaign, and the People's Daily reporter "dissects the sparrow" to see the big in the small and illuminate the trajectory of China's realization of a well-off society in an all-round way. In the past, Tang Zongxiu's old house leaked rain, and when it rained heavily, her daughter who worked outside was worried about the collapse of the house and called the old man to go out to avoid it. Now that Tang Zongxiu's whole family is living in a new house, the bright hall is warm, how can it be seen? The reporter described it in a detail: "The warmth inside the house is melting, and the flowers in the moon are pink, completely ignoring the snowflakes fluttering outside." "A seemingly unintentional glance is actually a deliberate stroke for the reporter to have a before and after comparison." In the two "articles" of "Fuping Poverty Alleviation" and "Fuping Creating Prosperity," the reporter wrote out the good story of Fuping cadres and masses twisting into a rope and working together to create a "rich" and well-off.
——In Sichuan Province, the reporter stepped on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, took a green-skinned train, and rushed to the depths of daliang Mountain. On the road, in the mountains, in the green-skinned train cars, they talked with the Yi compatriots about life, production, and livelihood, and understood "what this (government) railway, which runs at a loss, means to these Yi compatriots who have lived in the mountains for many years." It is after reading this article that we can know that the Chengdu-Kunming Railway is not just a railway! It is a road of war readiness, close to the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base, a landmark project for the construction of the "Third Line," which is about to start construction; it is a road of national unity that stabilizes the frontier and passes through Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, China's largest Yi nationality concentration area; it is a road of extreme political significance, passing through the place where the Red Army's Long March has passed; it is a major economic artery, and it is a road for tens of millions of people in the southwest to realize their dreams of stepping out of the mountains; it is also a spiritual road that shows fighting spirit and pride, and it is a "road of contending for gas" that Chinese self-reliance, carrying the Chinese spirit and Strength. Both history and reality are on the "road".
-- In Hainan Province, this reporter stood in the Hainan Special Economic Zone, which has been born for 30 years, lamented that "the South China Sea is vast and the sky is windy," lamented that "the east wind of reform and opening up has awakened this azure that has been silent for too long," felt that "a border island has developed into an important window for the mainland's reform and opening up," and was moved to "dare to break through, dare to try, and immerse themselves in hard work; over the past 30 years, the 'Hainan people' have not changed their original intentions and have struggled unceasingly." It is this kind of sigh, sigh, emotion, and emotion that makes the reporter write "the wind comes from the sea, and the tide rises to the south of the sea." In the 30 years since the establishment of the provincial special economic zone, Hainan has written the "spring story" of the country's largest reform 'test field' with the flying passion of 'sea breakers'. Hainan, once closed and backward, is now open, prosperous, civilized and livable. 30 years of hard work, there are too many memories to keep an eye on."
The people also work hard, and they can be well-off. With a history of more than 2,500 years, the Book of Poetry is an ancient beginning of Chinese poetry. In this poetry classic, the famous poet uses a leisurely chant to tell the simple dream of the Chinese people since ancient times to pursue the well-off.
Once upon a time, "two acres of land, a cow, wife and children hot kiln head" is the most luxurious and humble wish of the Chinese; once upon a time, what people who stayed in the agricultural civilization thought and hoped for was to solve the problem of food and clothing; once upon a time, "upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones" was the highest vision that Chinese who had just opened the door of the country; once upon a time, bicycles, sewing machines, watches, and radios were synonymous with a better life; once upon a time, "ten thousand yuan households" was the dream goal of many families. From "800 million people can't eat enough" to "more than 1.4 billion people must eat well", every run is a transcendence.
Today, through thousands of years of ups and downs, this dream has become a reality in China's land - the mainland has won a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, under the current standards, 98.99 million rural poor people have all been lifted out of poverty, 832 poverty-stricken counties have all been removed from the hat, 128,000 poor villages have all been listed, the overall regional poverty has been solved, the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty has been completed, and another human miracle has been created in the annals of history.
Throughout the history of the world, poverty is a stubborn disease of human society, and anti-poverty has always been a major event in the governance of the country and the country in ancient and modern China and abroad. At present, there are still about 700 million people living in extreme poverty worldwide. In the main battlefield of China's vast rural areas, China's poverty alleviation battle has created a remarkable miracle in the world.
According to statistics, for every 100 people lifted out of poverty worldwide, more than 70 people come from China. Especially in the context of the still severe global poverty situation and the intensification of the gap between the rich and the poor in some countries, the mainland has achieved the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule. The intensity, scale and remarkable results of China's poverty alleviation are unprecedented and rare in the world. Today's China has not only written the most successful miracle of China's poverty alleviation, but also contributed the Chinese wisdom of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation to mankind. The People's Daily reporter wrote the Chinese story of witnessing the miracle with pen, heart and emotion, and wrote about the victory and glory of the new era with emotion.
Today, the well-off are endowed with a new meaning of the times, and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is a key step in realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The struggle is endless, only by always thinking about the long-term and thinking of danger in times of peace can we uphold endurance and firm confidence, and can we make the vast and subtle. Because — "Our understanding of time is not measured in ten years or a hundred years, but in a hundred years and a thousand years." ”
If "newspapers are the bottom draft of history", then the people and events reported by the People's Daily should be historical archives of the national development process, and the 12 (group) newsletters in this book are important chapters in the process of recording the process of the Chinese nation's realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.
Without "news", how to write "new ideas"? "Novelty" is insufficient, how to refine the deep meaning? The People's Daily reporter used 12 (group) newsletters to answer this question in a down-to-earth manner.
In Hezhang County, Bijie City, deep in the Wumeng Mountains in northwestern Qianxi, there is a 2,300-meter-high village with a common village of Miao, Yi and Han ethnic groups named after "puffins", which was once regarded by United Nations experts as "uninhabitable" shiyi. In 1985, a Xinhua reporter came to Puffin and was so shocked by the extreme poverty that he wrote down what he saw, heard, and thought overnight and sent it to Beijing. Comrade Xi Zhongxun, then member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Secretariat, gave instructions: "The people of all nationalities who are so good and who live such a poor life not only do not blame the party and the state, but blame themselves for 'not fighting for anger', which is a serious warning to us bureaucrats!!! He demanded that "the provincial party committee set a time limit for such areas, have a feasible measure, and do more work in a down-to-earth manner in a planned and step-by-step manner to change this look." Since then, planned, organized, and large-scale poverty alleviation and development have been carried out in Puffin, Hezhang, Bijie, Guizhou, and the whole country. This is an unprecedented anti-poverty experiment. In the new era, the People's Daily reporter excavated the historical factors of poverty, looked for specific measures to eliminate poverty, and concluded that "as long as there is still a family and even a person who has not solved the basic problems of life, we cannot be at ease", and it is the strong mission of the Chinese Communists, which is deeply rooted in the blood and genes, which promotes the most magnificent anti-poverty struggle in human history.
Wang Yibiao, editor-in-chief of the book, deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, and vice chairman of the All-China Journalists Association, wrote in the "Afterword" that the manuscripts included in this collection of reports "are full of a common pursuit of me and my colleagues -- the light of thought, the fragrance of the earth, and the power of words." He summed up the writing experience and personal experience of these articles in three sentences: looking at problems on Tiananmen Square, he strived to be a "great man of the country"; he found feelings in the fields and tried to carry the people in his heart; he studied the past and sought breakthroughs in the present, and strived to ensure that the pen was clean. The reason why tiananmen square people look at problems and have "the great power of the country" in mind is because "the People's Daily, as the organ of the party Central Committee, is born with the nature of the political organ, takes a clear-cut stand in stressing politics and righteousness, insists that politicians should fulfill their responsibilities in running newspapers, and has a 'great state of the country' in mind." The reason why the people are found in the fields and the people are in their hearts is because "the key to whether a newsletter report can infect and move people is to see whether the writer has the people in his heart, whether his position represents the people, and whether the words respect the people." To write good reports that record history and depict the times, we must go down to the grassroots level, take root in the people, write for the people, speak for the people, and express our feelings for the people." Seeking breakthroughs in learning from the past and seeking breakthroughs in the present, the end of the pen is clean and clean, because "high-quality news reports with quality, style, and bones have a common quality, that is, the story is told well and can arouse readers to empathize with it." As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, storytelling is to tell facts, images, emotions, and reasoning, and only by telling facts can people be convincing, image can move people, emotions can infect people, and reasoning can affect people."
This is the People's Daily reporter of the new era!
People's Daily reporters are always on the road. They, no! We- climbing over the mountains, crossing the canyons, fighting the rapids, standing bravely at the head of the tide, with the strength of our feet, eyes, brains, and pens, witnessing the human miracle of China towards a happy life: whether it is the Eight Forks where the Hezhe ethnic group lives, the Liangshan Mountains on the cliffs, or the puffins in the barren world, daqing that always maintains vitality; whether it is Fuping in the Taihang Mountains, Chixi under the Nanping Peak, or Inner Mongolia with galloping horses, Hainan standing on thirty... In every corner of the well-off and national rejuvenation, the fate of countless people has changed, the dreams of countless people have been realized, and the happiness of countless people has been achieved.
Literary changes are stained with the world, and the rise and fall of the world is related to the chronology. Sitting in the office and looking at the screen, you can't enjoy the most beautiful scenery. Only when you go out, sink down, and melt in, will the article be covered with dirt, dewdrops, and heat. "Zhan Yixiang, a graduate of Bijie Normal College, went to serve as the secretary of the puffin village branch on the night, a person was restlessly lying in the simple village committee office, the sound of the wind and dogs barking was particularly harsh, and he did not sleep all night..." The details of such a report were not related to the interviewee", did not empathize, were difficult to dig up, and were even more difficult to present.
A sense of presence, a sense of involvement, a sense of depth, a sense of wind and clouds, and the enhancement of thoughtfulness and readability are a major feature of these communications. These 12 (group) newsletters have a big vision and a big pattern, are good at observing and thinking about problems from the overall situation and from the overall situation, and write reports, fully demonstrating the historic achievements made in China's poverty alleviation under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and profoundly revealing the main reasons and valuable experiences of these historic achievements.
How to face China's questions, the world's questions, the people's questions, and the times' questions is the thinking of the People's Daily reporters in the new era, and it is also the answer of the People's Daily reporters in the new era. (Li Fang)
People's Daily Overseas Edition ( 2022-05-18 Edition 07)