Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 11 (Xinhua) -- On January 11, the Xinhua Daily Telegraph client published a report entitled "Be a Tree in the Afterlife - Memories from Grassroots Journalist Wei Tongxin's "Tree Monument".
Tree burial is the last choice that 56-year-old Wei Tongxin made for herself.
In the southeast corner of the cemetery in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, on the trunk of a tall and green cypress tree, there is a small wooden sign with a length of 30 centimeters and a width of 10 centimeters, which reads "The Tomb of Wei Tongxin", and a wreath surrounds it, which is particularly gorgeous under the sunshine.
As the editor-in-chief of the Fuxin Media Center, the last group of reports she planned during her lifetime has many stories about trees, which affectionately outlines the moving picture of Fuxin's wind and sand control, planting and protecting greenery for more than 70 years.
The last circle of friends she forwarded before her death was: "Fuxin Daily Large-scale Planning: Planting Trees on the Desert". Soon due to the worsening of her condition, she was nearly blind in her eyes, and since then she has never seen enough of the ink-filled words she has read in her life.
On her deathbed, she and her family said that they especially missed the big poplar tree in the newspaper yard, which witnessed her 30 years of hurried footsteps and late night departure. She once praised the poplar tree like this: "Each of your branches is precipitated with the ideal of seeking truth and truth, and each of your leaves reflects the light of goodness and beauty." ”
Wei Tongxin, like thousands of grassroots journalists, chose to take root in the soil and live in the sun all his life.
Planting trees on the desert book
"Planting Trees on the Desert" is the last article in the large-scale report "Lucid Water and Green Mountains Run Fuxin - Fuxin Environmental Construction Report since the Founding of New China" planned by Fuxin Daily, after it was issued on September 26, 2023, Wei Tongxin, who was lying on the hospital bed, showed a relieved smile, she wanted to say a few more words in her heart after forwarding it to the circle of friends, but her trembling hands always refused to obey the call, and she did not type a word.
At the beginning of February 2023, Wei Tongxin was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and in order for this group of reports to be published smoothly before the "June Five-Year World Environment Day" and the "Liaoning Horqin Sandy Field On-site Meeting", she tried her last strength to endure the torture of illness and always pay attention to the progress of the report. "She had to look at all 20 pages, and one night at 11 o'clock I asked me to pass the newspaper sample to her, on May 11, for the word 'run' of 'green water and green mountains run Fuxin', she and I discussed it in WeChat for an hour, when she had just finished her second chemotherapy and was lying on the hospital bed with a high fever. Tong Wenjie, deputy editor-in-chief of the Fuxin Media Center, said that he and Wei Tongxin talked about work on WeChat until September 28.
Two months later, on November 26, Wei Tongxin said goodbye to her lifelong journalism.
In the minds of some colleagues, relatives and friends, there are always memories of her last days of life still busy with news.
Gao Limin, deputy director of the financial media department of the Fuxin Media Center, opened the WeChat record in the "media official account" group within the newspaper and said: "This is 3:38 a.m. on November 28, 2022, 0:22 a.m. on November 30, and 0:37 a.m. on December 4. At this time, it was only more than 2 months since she was diagnosed with a serious illness, and she actually already felt it, but she was reluctant to put down her work. ”
On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2023, Wei Tongxin happened to see someone sending home a circle of friends who lamented the changes in her hometown for the New Year, "We were having dinner at the time, and she was very excited, so she stood up and said: 'This is great, we have to organize a report immediately.'" Wei Tongxin's sister Wei Tongguang recalled that she put down her dishes and chopsticks and started to make phone calls, "In fact, in the past few days of the Chinese New Year, she has not been able to eat, her face is not good, and she has been tormented by illness." ”
Zhang Yufei, director of the interview department of the newspaper of the Fuxin Media Center, witnessed Wei Tongxin's work status before going to the hospital to check his diagnosis. On January 28, 2023, on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Fuxin City will hold a meeting, at which 200 advanced individuals will be commended, and a single picture of 200 people will be published in the newspaper after the meeting. Zhang Yufei said that she did not go to the hospital for a check-up until the next morning, after attending the meeting, and when she saw her again, she was already undergoing chemotherapy in the hospital.
During Wei Tongxin's serious illness, he sent a WeChat message to Wang Yimin, member of the Standing Committee of the Fuxin Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda: "The girl who is full of vitality is no longer good, and she needs to be overhauled." "Energetic girl" is the title given to her by Wang Yimin, and she especially admires her love and passion for journalism. Wei Tongxin has turned her journalistic ideals into a lifelong action and a lifetime of perseverance, and she is an excellent representative of grassroots journalists who have light in their hearts and walk with the times. ”
On January 22, 2023, when she was suffering from her illness, she forwarded Fuxin's WeChat News's "New Year Planning - My Letter" in her circle of friends, and wrote her New Year's message: "Strengthen the belief of moving forward bravely, strengthen the confidence to make the days better, the new year, worth believing and looking forward to!"
No regrets in the choice
On the evening of January 4, 2024, Xing Zuomin, a 78-year-old retired teacher, took out a well-preserved 23-year-old Fuxin Daily from a drawer and choked up while reading it. The report, titled "No Regrets", tells the story of his dedication to education over the years.
This is an experiential report written by Wei Tongxin in 2000 when he was the deputy director of the science and education department of Fuxin Daily. Xing Zuomin's school is located in the suburbs, and he has to get up at 4:30 every day and change buses three times to get to the school in time. In order to truly experience the hard work of Teacher Xing, Wei Tongxin took the reporter to rush to Xing Zuomin's house from home at half past three. "At half past four o'clock, I just turned on the light and put on my clothes, I heard a knock on the door, it turned out that reporter Wei had already come, afraid of disturbing my rest, and had been waiting outside, in November, the sky was very cold, it was really difficult for them. "They stayed with me all day until they came home at 9 p.m." ”
The report had a strong social repercussion, and many readers wrote to express their respect for Xing Zuomin, "Because of this report, it has strengthened my choice that I do not regret." Xing Zuomin said.
Wei Tongxin joined Fuxin Daily as a reporter in 1993, and the direction she set for herself is: to go to the front line, to ordinary life, to praise beautiful sentiments, and carry forward the spirit of the times. More than 20 news works written by her have won news awards at or above the provincial level, and she has won many honors such as the Top Ten Heroines of Fuxin City and the Top Ten Journalists of Liaoning Province.
As a department leader, she still performed well, in 2003 during the "SARS", she served as the director of the Fuxin Evening News Department, she proposed "the most dangerous place, I go first!" On April 20, a student came back from Beijing, because the high fever did not go away was suspected of being infected with "SARS", for a time rumors spread, panic shrouded the whole city, Wei Tongxin took the risk to go deep into the hospital to follow up and interview, after learning that the diagnosis was not "SARS", the first time to issue a report "I am going to be discharged", in time to eliminate the public panic. She led reporters to go deep into the fever clinic, the checkpoints at the entrance and exit of the city and the medical staff, mastered a large number of first-hand materials, and wrote more than 70 manuscripts, she herself was named "Liaoning Province Anti-SARS News and Propaganda Advanced Individual", and her department was named "Liaoning Province Anti-SARS News and Propaganda Advanced Collective".
After serving as the editor-in-chief of the media center, she deeply felt a strong sense of responsibility and mission. On January 28, 2020, when the new crown epidemic came, she wrote in her circle of friends: "If there is a war, you will be recalled! End your vacation and go into battle! This is the mission of a journalist and the responsibility of a responsible media!" On February 2, 2020, she wrote in her circle of friends: "I posted three comments in a row, cheering for the fight against the epidemic, Fuxin Daily, it is our duty to defend the territory." ”
Tong Wenjie still remembers the scene when Wei Tongxin was angry, just after the Spring Festival, the epidemic started, rumors were flying all over the sky, Wei editor-in-chief asked the new media to speak out quickly as soon as he went to work on the fourth day of the new year, and the newspaper would appear in the newspaper on the fifth day of the new year, publish a special edition, and use the financial media to forward and hedge rumors. She said solemnly at the time: "At this time, the mainstream media must speak out, and it is a political responsibility. ”
As the editor-in-chief, she always keeps the bottom-line thinking and first-line thinking in mind, during the new crown epidemic, the official release of information is often at night or even in the middle of the night, in order to prevent problems, the Fuxin City Media Center 3 public accounts forwarded by her alone in the end, some editors recalled that they are rotated weekly, but the editor-in-chief Wei is always a person, "Sometimes I feel sorry for us, she let us rest first at night, and she guards alone." ”
Meng Qinghui, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Fuxin Municipal Party Committee and director of the Municipal Media Center, said: "She has been chewing words every day for 30 years, and has never been impatient. ”
On November 8, 2017, the day of Journalists' Day, she wrote in her circle of friends: "No matter how nervous, tired, and hard, it can't offset the love and responsibility in my heart." This was true in the past, and it is true now, whether we travel day or night, we are always on the road. ”
Qingqing Liuhe Bay
In 2022, Fuxin Media Center's financial media report "2021 Witness: Daoxiang Four Seasons, Qingqing Liuhe Bay" won the 32nd China News Award, which is the first news work in the history of Fuxin News to win the China News Award, and also represents that the development of financial media in Fuxin Media Center has reached a new height. Some commentators said that this work is "both aesthetic and emotional, the combination of traditional media and new media, which is a work of heart and touching".
The heaviness of traditional media and the agility of new media are the best descriptions of Wei Tongxin's rise to the challenge and bold innovation after serving as the editor-in-chief of the Fuxin Media Center in 2019, opening up a new road for grassroots party media.
As a city in transition, Fuxin has an underdeveloped economy, aging staff and outdated equipment in the city's media center, and in the face of these difficulties, Wei Tongxin proposed: "The conditions are poor, but we are not bad, as long as we keep up with this era in time, we can guard the public opinion position for the party." ”
In terms of traditional media, Wei Tongxin chose to implement the spirit of the central government in Fuxin by planning large-scale reports. Zhang Jian, director of the current political news editing and publication department of the Municipal Media Center Newspaper, recalled that the deepest impression was that the editor-in-chief Wei did several large-scale news planning, at first some people did not understand, thinking that it was enough to do a good job of daily reporting, more than 20 editions, each article is tens of thousands of words, and tired and not much money, why bother? ”
The large-scale news report "Our Big Open-pit Mine" shows the past, present and future of the Fuxin Haizhou Open-pit Mine in an all-round and panoramic way with 28 pages, and the report allows Fuxin people to understand the glory and struggle of the coal power city, and looks forward to the dawn and future of urban transformation, forming a strong public opinion atmosphere and good publicity effect.
In addition, under the leadership of Wei Tongxin, a number of insightful, in-depth press releases such as "Poverty Alleviation and Fuxin" and "20 Years of Fuxin Transformation" were also planned. These manuscripts closely follow the spirit of the central government, closely combine with the reality of Fuxin, and choose small incisions to reflect the big theme. The report was called by the leaders of the municipal party committee as "not only for the preservation of historical materials, but also for the current inspire." ”
In order to better play the role of grassroots party newspapers in promoting local economic and social development, Wei Tongxin proposed to reporters to be an expert reporter, deeply cultivate one field, specialize in multiple abilities, and effectively provide wisdom and public opinion support. Liu Dan, the head of the newspaper's reporter station in Zhangwu, recalled: "Editor-in-chief Wei often told me that if you want to really do a good job in reporting on desertification control, you must first make yourself a desertification control person. In July 2018, Liu Dan wrote a manuscript entitled "Encounter with the Suluk Grassland", which tells that there were large areas of grassland in the history of Zhangwu, which is the historical witness of the local development of grassland economy and the cultural support for improving the ecology with grass, and also found new highlights and breakthroughs for the development of regional cultural tourism. "Editor-in-Chief Wei asked me to do a continuous report immediately after seeing it, digging deep into the history of the Suluk Prairie, which resonated in the local area after it was issued, providing new ideas and cultural support for the local area to improve the ecology and develop the grassland economy with grass and sand fixation, and in 2019, the local grassland ecological restoration demonstration area was established, and gradually called the brand of 'desert grassland'. ”
In terms of media convergence, Wei Tongxin has cultivated a young team dedicated to new media reporting. She personally planned the topic selection, guided the refinement of the theme, paid attention to the expression techniques, studied and discussed the practice with reporters, and jointly explored the way of grassroots media development.
Xu Manxin is an ordinary reporter who is good at shooting short videos, so Wei Tongxin asked her to take the lead and serve as the head of the financial media video studio, giving her a platform and opportunities to fight for funds for her. "Under the personal guidance of Editor-in-Chief Wei, we have created a series of high-quality new media short videos, among which "Honest Fuxin with You in My Heart" also won the 'Golden Begonia Award' at the Asian Micro Film Art Festival. Xu Manxin said.
Nowadays, financial media reports have been deeply integrated into the lives of Fuxin people and have played a role in guiding public opinion. From November 6 to 9, 2021, the heaviest snowfall since meteorological records began in Fuxin, and the duration and amount of snowfall set a record in Fuxin. 3,000 sanitation workers, 6,000 people's police and auxiliary police rushed forward, firefighting, medical care, and volunteers guarded the life channel, and the power supply, heating, and water supply units connected thousands of households. Wei Tongxin quickly organized reporters to go to the front line to interview and shoot a short video "Fuxin Power in the Wind and Snow", a short video of 2 minutes and 35 seconds to show the efficiency of Fuxin and convey the temperature of Fuxin, and the touching picture was quickly widely spread throughout the city, showing a trend of swiping the screen, providing strong public opinion support for the city's fight against the blizzard.
Wei Tongxin once expressed his feelings in an article: Today, we are born in this era of majestic and great achievements, the scene is more magnificent, the stage is more grand, we should use the pen, heart, with burning passion to write the "Spring and Autumn" of the new era.
Ink-scented paper cranes
The cold winter night, the silent streets, the weeping music, the five paper cranes folded in newspapers, and the words "A thousand papers are difficult to comfort, and ten thousand inks give a fresh breeze" on the prayerful arms...... A short video of more than 20 seconds quickly spread in the local area in the days after Wei Tongxin's death, and many people shed tears of grief.
She Rui, a 43-year-old deputy director of the financial media department of the Fuxin City Media Center, said that it was very windy that night, and he filmed alone for more than two hours. "I chose to fold the newspaper in front of the newspaper building because she dedicated the most precious youth of her life to this piece of newsprint, and sent my most respected person with a thousand paper cranes full of ink. ”
Just like the straight and upright pine and cypress, Wei Tongxin's noble character throughout his life has won people's respect.
She has a lot of affection for the people. She said that the attitude towards the poor and disadvantaged groups is the best way to test a journalist's feelings for the people. In 1999, she planned the "Focus on Poor Students" report, and some college students from poor families successfully completed their studies with donations from all walks of life. 47-year-old Song Shaohong still remembers that because of poor family conditions, she had a difficult time during school, and she has always been an excellent student in the school, "After Sister Wei understood my situation, she often came to the school to encourage me, and after reporting my story, I also received some social donations." More than 20 years have passed, and Song Shaohong has not forgotten the people who helped her during the critical period of her life. In 2022, Song Shaohong, who was far away, specially asked her sister, who opened a yogurt shop in Fuxin, to send handmade yogurt to Wei Tongxin and her colleagues.
She is as warm as spring to her colleagues. Chen Lihua, a reporter from the newspaper's interview department, recalled: "In the winter of 2021, my mother passed away, and the editor-in-chief Wei immediately called and sent WeChat to comfort me after hearing about it. ”
Even during her serious illness, Wei Tongxin still cared about her colleagues. On September 6, 2023, when she heard that a colleague's child was admitted to university, she insisted on calling to congratulate her despite the fact that she was having difficulty breathing at the time, and on October 19, she sent a voice message to her colleagues: "You should be careful, I heard that the air can transmit 'Eryang'. A month before her death, on October 29, she was also concerned about whether the Journalists' Day unit was holding activities, and suggested recommending two young journalists to participate in the provincial top ten reporters and outstanding reporters.
Although it has been more than a month since she passed away, many colleagues still have not deleted her WeChat, "I still want to listen to her voice again and leave a memory, although it is a static picture, I know that it will not be updated again, but I still have to leave a place for her in my heart." Colleagues said.
She was filled with guilt for her family. After serving as the editor-in-chief, she has never traveled outside the province with her family, and she said to her husband: "I want to keep this stall, and when I retire, I will definitely perform well and accompany you to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland." ”
Her biggest regret is that she was not able to attend her daughter's wedding in person and send her blessings in person. September 2, 2023 is the day of her daughter's wedding, half a year ago, she insisted on exercising while undergoing chemotherapy, "I owe too much to my daughter as a mother, and I must not be absent when my daughter gets married", for which she also ordered a blue cheongsam early. As the wedding approached, her condition began to worsen, and she needed oxygen at any time, but she was unable to attend her daughter's wedding on the spot, so she had to bless her daughter through video. A few days before the wedding, with the help of relatives and friends, she dragged her weak body, put on a cheongsam little by little, put on a wig, put on a light lipstick, sat on the chair and tried her best to straighten her upper body, happy smile, smooth words could not be seen at all that she was still gulping oxygen a few minutes ago, 1 minute and 36 seconds of video, recorded for more than 2 hours, she said that she must present her best side to her daughter's wedding. "Dear baby, happy newlywed! Although I can't be there to witness your beauty and happiness, my mother's love and blessings will always accompany you......"
On December 16, 2023, there was a heavy snowfall in Fuxin, and the cemetery was silent, Wei Tongxin's daughter came to her mother's "tree tablet" and drew a big "heart" on the white snow, and she wrote in the "heart" one by one: "Mom, we love you!"