This morning, the official WeChat platform of the Luliang Information Office in Shanxi Province, "Lvliang Release", pushed the news that from April 24 to 27, Wen Jiabao went to four schools to give lectures on geography for students.
The reporter of the Guanhai Liberation Bureau (WeChat ID: guanhaijieju) also combed and found that this is the fifth time that Wen Jiabao has come to the Lüliang Mountains in 25 years. In July 1993, August 2000, January 2003 and April 2011, he visited the Lüliang Mountains.
One of the local simple cave primary schools has worried him for 18 years.
(At the Xingxian 120th Division School, Wen Jiabao played chess with the students)
4 geography lectures were given in 4 days
According to the news of the "Lüliang Release", Wen Jiabao stayed in the local area for 4 days and successively gave geography lectures in 4 schools, namely Lanxian Senior High School, Xingxian 120th Division School, Linxian Senior High School and Jiangyin Senior High School in Lishi District. According to the report, he told the story of physical geography and the courage of Chinese and foreign scientists to explore the mysteries of nature.
During his time at the school, Wen Jiabao also observed the teaching of geography classes and other subjects in the school, participated in the students' extracurricular cultural and sports activities, and exchanged educational experiences with outstanding teachers in rural areas.
(Wen Jiabao gave a geography lecture at Lanxian Senior High School)
Official photos show Mr. Wen wearing a pair of glasses, a black jacket and pants, and sneakers. Every lecture he gave was packed. In addition to giving lectures, he also participates in extracurricular activities for students, such as playing chess with students.
Guanhai Liberation Bureau (WeChat ID: guanhaijieju) reporter found that Xingxian was the capital of the Jinsui base area during the anti-Japanese war period, and the 120th Division School was also the first school in China named after the division headquarters of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which was completed and opened on August 31, 2015. It got its name because at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army led by He Long and Guan Xiangying was stationed in Xingxian County, which was the main force that created the Jinsui Revolutionary Base Area. The school covers an area of 120 acres.
Why do you love giving lectures about geography?
Guanhai Liberation Bureau (WeChat ID: guanhaijieju) combed and found that Wen Jiabao gave many lectures on geography after retirement.
For example, Wen Jiabao visited Liudaohe Middle School in Xinglong County, Hebei Province, four times in 5 years, and at least 3 of them were geography lectures. Among them, on May 28, 2014, Wen Jiabao gave his first geography lecture here, "Talking about Geography with Middle School Students - Physical Geography", explaining the importance of learning geography well for a person's growth.
On May 6, 2015, still in the school, Wen Jiabao finished being a "student" in the geography class in the morning and became a teacher in the afternoon, giving a geography lecture for all the teachers and students of the school, talking about weather and climate.
(Wen Jiabao gave a geography lecture at Jiangyin Senior High School in Lishi District)
Why do you love geography talks? According to the People's Daily News, Wen Jiabao's father, Wen Gang, has a special love for geology. He collected many geological books, including many works of the famous geologist Li Siguang in his early years. Wen Gang has told Wen Jiabao many times that China's land is vast and full of treasures, and those mineral resources need to be explored and exploited by young people.
Perhaps his father's teachings impressed his son, in the summer of 1960, Wen Jiabao, who graduated from Nankai High School, really decided to apply for the Beijing Institute of Geology (now China University of Geosciences), and was admitted to the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources, geological surveying and prospecting, and has been associated with geology and mineral resources ever since.
(Wen Jiabao gave a geography lecture at Linxian Senior High School)
On March 26, 2016, the launch ceremony of Wen Jiabao's Geological Notes was held in Beijing, and the book was published by Geological Publishing House. The notes, reminiscences and photographs received in the book are published for the first time. The book contains more than 160 of Wen Jiabao's work and study notes during his work in the geological system from 1968 to 1985, and 632 handwritten photocopies. In addition, there are 24 reminiscence articles written by the author and more than 50 photos.
Why did you "patronize" Lüliang 5 times?
The reporter of Guanhai Liberation Bureau (WeChat ID: guanhaijieju) also noted that in addition to this time, Wen Jiabao also visited the Lüliang Mountains in July 1993, August 2000, January 2003 and April 2011.
According to China Youth Daily, on September 20, 2003, the National Rural Education Work Conference was held, and Wen Jiabao said with a heavy heart that he could not rest assured of three small things, the first of which was a cave primary school in Linxian County, Shanxi Province, where he had been 10 years ago. It turned out that on July 4, 1993, during his inspection in Shanxi, he came to baijiaping village primary school in Leijia moraine township, Linxian County, Lüliang District.
"It was raining heavily that day, and I arrived at an elementary school. It was a very simple cave dwelling, with only a dozen sets of dilapidated tables and chairs, and the five graders were in mixed classes, the students facing inward, and the light was very dark. I can never forget this scene. I haven't been to Linxian county for a few years, but I wonder if this cave school is still there? What are the conditions for the children there to go to school now? I can't rest assured. Wen Jiabao said.
The newspaper returned to the primary school at that time and found that it already had two standardized classrooms with an area of 80 square meters, three caves used by teachers for office life, and the classrooms were equipped with desks, chairs, blackboards and other teaching aids.
(In 2011, Wen Jiabao was at Jinsui Middle School in Xingxian County)
When Wen Jiabao inspected Lüliang again in 2011, the local cadres specially brought photos of the new school, and he was very happy to see it.
On January 2, 2003, just after New Year's Day, Wen Jiabao led a group of 12 officials from the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, and other departments to visit peasant households in difficulty in the jingle and loufu villages of the Lüliang Mountains in the severe cold of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius. Every household Wen Jiabao sat around the kang with the villagers and talked cordially, and asked the masses about the harvest season, the peasants' burdens, the return of farmland to forests, and primary and secondary education, and asked about their difficulties and requirements.
From April 2 to 4, 2011, Wen Jiabao came to Lan County, Xing County and Linxian County in the Lüliang Mountains for the fourth time, went deep into the fields to inspect the moisture situation, went into the homes of farmers to ask about agricultural affairs and petitioners, went to schools, health centers and farmers' markets to understand people's livelihood, and held forums to listen to opinions and suggestions.
(In 2011, Wen Jiabao learned about the cultivation of potato seedlings in Lvliang.)
The reason why I have visited Lüliang many times, according to the People's Daily, is because the place is located in the hilly and gully area of the Loess Plateau, the natural conditions are harsh, and it is still one of the key contiguous poverty-stricken areas in the country. How to get the Lüliang mountains out of poverty and fundamentally change their appearance is a difficult problem that the local cadres and masses have worked hard to explore, and it is also an issue that Wen Jiabao is very concerned about.