Many friends may not know that China's welfare lottery from planning, to birth, and then to popularity, is not achieved overnight, but was recognized by the masses after experiencing many twists and turns, and the key person who played a positive role behind the scenes was Cui Naifu, then minister of civil affairs.
Born in 1928 in Changping County, Cui Naifu began to remember when his hometown was in the midst of Japanese voyeurism. Not long after, the War of Resistance broke out in full force, and Cui Naifu saw with his own eyes the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders in his hometown, and the idea of joining the revolution and saving the people from fire and water germinated in his heart.
The young Choi Naifu did not forget to enrich himself, and while studying at the Sino-French University, he found a party organization and actively sought to improve, and at the age of 20, he became an honorable member of the Communist Party. After that, Cui Naifu accepted the assignment of the party organization and entered the North China Revolutionary University to continue his in-depth study of Marxism-Leninism, and gradually entered the workplace.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cui Naifu was assigned to work in Shanxi and served as the secretary of Cheng Zihua, then secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee. Cheng Zihua is an old revolutionary, who participated in the Guangzhou Uprising in his early years, commanded the famous Tashan Blockade during the Liberation War, and was a proletarian fighter with strong party spirit.
What Cui Naifu did not expect was that since following Cheng Zihua, his political career had many intersections with this old leader. In October 1950, Cheng Zihua entered Beijing as the director of the National Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the following year Cui Naifu was also transferred to Beijing and continued to work under Cheng Zihua as a section chief.
Cui Naifu was transferred to Lanzhou University in 1958 at the age of 30, and during his 20 years at the university, Cui Naifu experienced ups and downs, and for well-known reasons, Cui Naifu could not work normally most of the time during this period and had to accept endless criticism.
But Cui Naifu withstood the test and joined the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1978, when the Minister of Civil Affairs was his old leader Cheng Zihua. In this way, from that moment on, Cui Naifu began to gradually give play to his glorious point in the cause of civil affairs, starting from the grassroots cadre, and became the number one in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and worked for 11 years, becoming the longest-serving leader of the civil affairs system in the history of the mainland.
Cui Naifu officially took the helm of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1982 at the age of 54, and his early experience as a deputy made Cui Naifu constantly think about how to coordinate the various dilemmas facing China's populous country, such as, how to solve the problem of rural poverty alleviation. How should we respond to disasters? How can the social security system be sound? Where should social welfare be funded?
In order to adopt appropriate means and measures under China's national conditions system, Cui Naifu has made continuous arguments, explorations and attempts, and put forward a number of measures and measures that are beneficial to the development of civil affairs in a timely and appropriate manner.
After many demonstrations, Cui Naifu for the first time put forward the concept of "three parts" of civil affairs work, and formed a unified understanding throughout the country, which is conducive to the systematic development of civil affairs work.
In 1986, Cui Naifu once again broke the traditional work idea and proposed the idea of issuing welfare lottery to the State Council, and after repeated considerations, the idea was more perfect, and finally implemented in 1987. Today, the income obtained from the welfare lottery has played an important role in earthquake relief, helping the elderly and the disabled, and helping the poor and orphans.
Now, not only urban workers, but also rural people have pension insurance. Earlier, Cui Naifu had proposed the idea of establishing rural pension insurance, which was still in the eighties of the last century, which shows that many of Cui Naif's ideas are still very advanced.
In 2010, in recognition of Cui Naifu's outstanding contributions to welfare and his achievements in China's civil affairs work over the years, Cui Naifu received the 2010 Chinese Social Worker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Although Cui Naifu is now retired from home, his ideas and ideas on civil affairs work are still fresh in the memory of many civil affairs workers, and this veteran cadre, known as the "godfather of public welfare and charity," is destined to closely link his life with civil affairs work on the mainland.