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Corruption has always been a "sharp blade" hanging over many livelihood projects in China, and almost all projects involving interests will have some "gray areas brought about by corruption" to a greater or lesser extent.
But in the construction of a famous project in China, there was a grand situation where there was no corruption from beginning to end, and even exaggerated to the point that every penny was clearly recorded and used in reality.
This great project is the Hongqi Canal that benefits tens of millions of people.
The legend of Hongqi Canal continues, and the glory that Hongqi Canal has brought to the Chinese people has continued in the past decades.
Behind this channel, known as the "artificial sky river", what kind of untold story is happening? Ten years of construction time, investment of 70 million, there is not a trace of corruption and dereliction of duty, is the Hongqi Canal really so amazing?
Party members who are strict with themselves strive to be the first for the cause of the country
"Leader, take a break, it's time for our workers' rest."
"It's okay, I'm a party member, my task is to serve you, let's try to do more, finish a little early, and then there will be more people who can eat water."
In 1960, the secretary of the county party committee of Lin County, Anyang City, Henan Province, submitted an application to his superiors to repair the canal, and received a positive reply.
In order to start work quickly, party members took the lead in opening the canal, rolled up their sleeves and trouser legs one by one, and carried hoes and other tools with many workers to the heavy task of opening the canal in Taihang Mountain.
At first, the canal was very difficult to open, and due to the obstacles caused by the topography of the Taihang Mountain Range, it was quite difficult for the workers to carry out the smooth construction, and they had to use manpower to carve out the channel on the mountain rock again and again.
But how can the tenacity of the mountain stone be changed casually? The workers often worked hard for half a day to dig a little bit of gravel, and the work was very difficult.
At this time, due to the long-term shortage of water in Lin County, not only the basic industry could not develop, but even the most basic agricultural water and domestic water were difficult to guarantee.
Yang Gui, secretary of Lin County, saw the living difficulties faced by the broad masses of the people, and resolutely mobilized all the people to participate in the construction of the Hongqi Canal.
Since there is no money, then we will use manpower to pile up, since there is no technical support, then use manpower to dig, since there is no construction machinery and equipment, we will rely on manpower to use soil methods.
Yang Gui's call really hit the sore spot in the hearts of the people of Lin County, they understood what it meant to open the canal, that is a beautiful life in the future beckoning to everyone.
As a result, tens of thousands of workers threw themselves into the canal project, using their hands and simple tools to break down the obstacles that straddled the water and the people of Linxian County little by little.
In the initial channel project construction, all party members took the lead, they were always the group of people who wielded the tools the hardest, and they were always the first to start working.
With Party members taking the lead, all laborers were injected with strong vitality, and there was only one thing left in everyone's minds, that is, to open canals, build canals, and divert water.
"Party members and cadres should shoulder their responsibilities and repair 5 meters every day, and the masses should repair 4 meters a day."
"Grain distribution should also be balanced, cadres cannot be superior to the people, workers receive a grain subsidy of 2 catties, and cadres can at most 1.5 catties."
"Cadres, cadres, that is, they must do more and take more responsibility, party-member cadres are willing to sweat and bleed, and it is not difficult to open and repair canals, this is a major matter of serving the people, and we must pay attention to it!"
These were all appeals made to party members in those years, and all party members and even cadres who participated in the opening of the canal were strictly implemented, truly supporting the people and being responsible for the people.
The "Eight Disciplines" promulgated that year stated that "Party members and cadres must maintain a united front with the workers, and must truly eat, live together, work together, study together, and discuss problems with the masses."
Such a three-way order may make people feel incredible at the moment, can there really be cadres who have really done this? Is it really on the front line with the people all the time?
Huge investment, great project that has been painstakingly achieved
Perhaps doubts exist, but this is the way it is.
In the ten years since the construction of the Hongqi Canal was built, all personnel involved in the construction of the canal were required to strictly manage, even a needle must be reported, all money and grain were uniformly managed and distributed, and the possibility of cadres and workers taking more was strictly eliminated, and fair distribution was implemented to the extreme.
Thanks to the excellent and pure style of serving the people in those years, all the people were on the front line of eating and living, no one was special, and no one complained about suffering, because everyone's hearts looked in one place and worked hard in one place.
If this is the case, there will always be people who try to exploit loopholes, so it is implemented in the specific small things, and the construction team of the Hongqi Canal has also begun to "calculate".
Imagine how many workers have been working on the front line during the nearly ten years since the construction of the Hongqi Canal, where they eat and live, and their living utensils are placed on the front line, which leads to the need for a "storage box" for everyone, so those abandoned explosive boxes have become the best choice.
Strictly speaking, explosive boxes are public property, and any idea of private use is not allowed, but there are exceptions to everything, and everyone has needs, so the explosive boxes must naturally be used.
In order not to waste public property, the superior decided to price each explosive box at $0.75 and sell it to a worker, along with a receipt, which must be affixed to the inner wall to prove that no public property was embezzled.
In the face of huge projects, more true is the best way to safeguard common interests, and every detail is more genuinely prepared, in the general direction can completely eliminate the possibility of embezzlement and corruption.
Finally, after the official construction of the Hongqi Canal in 1969, after all the specific expenditure details in the past ten years were corresponded one by one, the "positive and negative loss" on the books actually reached zero.
In other words, in the past ten years, the government has not taken more than a needle belonging to the masses, and all the government's investment has not been wasted, which is another huge miracle.
epilogue
After the passage of time, the Hongqi Canal has become not only a channel for irrigating the people, but also formed a noble spirit that influenced countless later.
If the spirit of Hongqiqu can continue today, I believe that the better life belonging to the people will come sooner.
Look forward to it, look forward to the country can create a better day! I also wish all the descendants infected by the spirit of Hongqiqu to continue to move forward smoothly!