#夏日生活打卡季#
Founding General Zhang Aiping once angrily rebuked: The army doing business is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall! It's drinking to quench thirst! "If we continue like this, there will be a war in the future, and it will kill our heads!" Kill the head, and leave a name-call! ”
In the difficult rectification process of stopping the army's business, there was one person who could be said to have made an indispensable contribution, and this person was Ding Yongning, a female reporter from Xinhua News Agency at the time.
Ding Yongning (third from left) and colleagues from Xinhua News Agency
In 1988, after Ding Yongning returned to China from his term as a correspondent in Romania, he and his colleagues went to Weihai, Shandong Province for vacation, where Liugong Island is famous in Chinese history and was the Beiyang naval base of the Qing Dynasty during the Sino-Japanese War, and the Beiyang Navy was the main force of the Sino-Japanese naval battle, and Deng Shichang, who was martyred in the naval battle, was the Beiyang naval admiral.
Over the years, it has been crowded with tourists, both to admire the scenery and to admire the heroes and embrace the fierce history: it is also an important place for China to open up to the outside world, and there are many international tourists.
A statue of national hero Deng Shichang on Liugong Island
Ding Yongning recalled that at the gate of the "Naval Office", the headquarters of the Beiyang Navy, several "photographers" shouted to people: "Take pictures!" "Photography souvenir!" Each stall has two people, one person takes pictures, one person issues tickets, and four or five stalls are connected, competing to attract customers. And they are all naval fighters in military uniforms and military caps!
Further on, six naval soldiers guard a small square table to sell tea! The military cap is crooked, the military uniform is open.
Not far away, several naval soldiers placed binoculars, soda, and film in front of them, shouting loudly. When he saw the tourists walking by, he shouted: "Take pictures!" Two dollars and five corners each! See the telescope for free by the way! Color film, Fujifilm's! ”
Further ahead is the "Rear Battery" located on the edge of the cliff, where visitors take their own photos and must pay the naval soldiers waiting on the side. There is a "naval photography spot" between the old and new batteries, where several soldiers are busy taking pictures of tourists and renting military high-powered telescopes to tourists to watch the seascape.
Returning to the tourist pier from the "rear battery" and passing the naval barracks, Ding Yongning and his colleagues also heard that the shops and hotels located on this side of the barracks were also run by the navy.
Ding Yongning said: "We basically don't see neatly dressed naval soldiers at this naval base. It gives the impression that the navy is not the guardian of Liugong Island, but the merchants and uniformed peddlers on the island. ”
Ding Yongning asked them:
"Comrade, you are soldiers, how did you start trading?"
"Isn't it business for all now? Why can't soldiers do business? ”
"Your main duty is to defend the motherland!"
"Now there is no war!"
"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use troops for a while!"
"We are carrying out orders from above, and each company has a quota, can it not be completed?"
Shandong Liugong Island Sino-Japanese War Museum
Ding Yongning was heartbroken! She said: "The historical resort where the national hero Deng Shichang led the sons and daughters of China to fight against the enemy has now become a chaotic storehouse. The business activities of PLA soldiers have seriously damaged the image of our people's army and the country. ”
Ding Yongning discussed with Xu Bihua, a fellow photojournalist, to write an internal reference, she was responsible for the text, and Lao Xu was responsible for photography. The title is straight to the point, and it is called "A certain unit of the Navy has a bad image of doing business on Liugong Island."
According to the unwritten rules of the news unit: the railway police, each in charge of a section, she only has to guard her "one acre and three points of land", in other areas, the well water does not violate the river water. Ding Yongning is a reporter from the International Department of the Xinhua News Agency, and according to the news about the troops, they can not touch it at all.
However, Ding Yongning is a person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, even if he goes out on vacation and travels, Ding Yongning loves to cross borders to "nosy". This tube, the management of a big thing.
The manuscript was first sent to the People's Liberation Army branch of the Xinhua News Agency, but it was politely returned, and then sent to the country, where Ding Yongning repeatedly stated his interests and disadvantages, and used both public and private relations, and the country finally agreed to adopt it, but the reporter's comments and feelings were deleted, and the photos of the military appearance still did not dare to be distributed. But it was finally published.
After half a year, my colleague Lao Xu happily told Ding Yongning, saying, "Our internal reference worked!" ”
"How can I see it?"
Lao Xu said: An old friend of his army complained to him: "The income is not good, I heard that a reporter wrote something and stabbed Yang Shangkun, and now he is not allowed to do business." ”
With the help of the former political commissar of the Armed Police Force, Ding Yongning found the report submitted by the Navy Party Committee to the Central Military Commission. The report said: "After receiving instructions from Vice Chairman Yang and other commanders of the Central Military Commission and the General Headquarters, we instructed the North Sea Fleet and the Qingdao base to seriously investigate and deal with the problems reflected in the article. ”
The report then proposes the following corrective measures:
1. The whole navy has been informed of the investigation and handling of the business activities carried out by the Liugong Island troops wearing military uniforms, and all units have been asked to seriously learn a lesson from this. At the same time, cadres at all levels are required to conscientiously study the relevant regulations of the Central Military Commission, the general departments, and the Navy on production and operation, clarify the boundaries of policies, and strengthen their sense of discipline.
2. Units at and above the regimental level immediately conducted a thorough inventory of the army's production and operation in accordance with the requirements of a certain document of the Central Military Commission and the requirements of the circular issued by the Third General Department on the problem of a small number of units sending soldiers out to do business without authorization, and resolutely corrected the problems found.
3. In connection with the rectification of military style, conduct an in-depth education in the purpose and glorious traditions of our army, and require the troops to have self-respect, self-respect, self-love, and conscientiously safeguard the reputation of the army.
4. Reiterate to the troops that in the future, any business activities that are found to be unenforceable, prohibited, or violate the regulations of their superiors must be seriously investigated for responsibility.
After all, the role of the internal reference of "A certain naval unit doing business on Liugong Island is not good" is limited.
By 1993, according to statistics, the number of production and operation entities in the whole army had reached 10,000, and more than 800,000 employees were employed. What is more serious is that the military is engaged in production and operation, and because of the drive of economic interests, incidents of competing with the people for profit occur from time to time, causing some military-political and military-civilian contradictions.
This also attracted great attention from Zhang Zhen, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
As early as when General Zhang Zhen was serving as president and political commissar of the National Defense University, on one occasion, the department of international students bought and sold cashmere and lost hundreds of thousands of yuan, which caused internal contradictions in the team. In order to help them find out the situation and deal with the aftermath, Zhang Zhen spent a lot of energy and time. Another time, due to a local business dispute, the relevant personnel sued the National Defense University, and Zhang Zhen, as a general as the legal representative, of course, became the "defendant." All this made Zhang Zhen profoundly realize that the army cannot engage in production and operation.
On October 30, 1993, the Decision of the Central Military Commission on Rectifying and Reforming the Production and Operation of the Armed Forces was officially issued. The "Decision" calls for centralized and unified management of production and operation, that combat units below the military level no longer engage in commercial production, and that existing enterprises be centralized and managed by all military regions and services and arms. The "Decision" proposes to implement a separate system of separating military from enterprise and separate production and operation, so that troop building and production and operation will be operated separately according to their respective tracks...
On November 3 of the same year, the All-Army Production and Operation Work Conference was held in Beijing, and Zhang Zhen spoke on behalf of the Central Military Commission. He raised his voice and emphasized: "Judging from the lessons of history, the military's business is an important reason for its decline, and it is necessary to abide by discipline and law to prevent the occurrence of various corrupt phenomena!" Zhang Zhen also specifically talked about an example from the Huaihai Campaign. At the beginning of the campaign, the Kuomintang decided to abandon Haizhou and Lianyungang and let its troops in the Ninth Pacification Region retreat to Xuzhou. If this is the case, the enemy is concentrated together, and the battle will be difficult to fight. At that time, Liu Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou's "Suppression Commander-in-Chief," was driving several salt trumpets in Haizhou, and for his own selfish interests, he even told his agent in advance, causing storms in the city. At this time, Li Yannian, commander of the Ninth Pacification District of the Kuomintang, was still in the dark, and afterwards he said with emotion: "Liu Zhi values money so much and leaks military secrets, so why not be defeated!" ”
Zhang Zhen later mentioned this incident again at the all-army disciplinary inspection work conference. Zhang Zhen emphatically pointed out: "Business will inevitably lead to corruption in the army, and corrupt armies are all ineffective!" ”
In order to do a good job in rectifying and reforming the army's production and operation, Zhang Zhen put forward four requirements: unify thinking and obey the overall situation; Strengthen leadership and careful organization; Strict discipline and prohibition; Stabilize the team and improve quality. After the meeting, all units took active action and, in accordance with the decision of the Central Military Commission, sorted out and rectified production and operation, and centralized management. In 1994, the Central Military Commission organized forces to inspect and accept this.
In March 1998, the Central Military Commission decided that non-combat units would not engage in commercial production. In July, the CPC Central Committee also made a clear decision that the military and armed police forces should not operate.