Interpreting "Serving the People" with Action
Ge Yuanren
From April 15th to 17th, 2024, he went to Jianping County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province for research and study with the Red Propaganda Group of the Party School of Chaoyang District, Beijing.
The main purpose of this trip was to investigate the small bungalow village of Wanshou Street (formerly Wanshou Township) in the county. Xiaopingfang Village is located 4.5 kilometers southeast of the county seat and belongs to the Wanshou Sub-district Office. The village has jurisdiction over 7 natural tuns, 13 villager groups, 881 households, 3167 people, a total area of 32.34 square kilometers, and a cultivated area of 5303 acres. On June 25, 2007, Xiaopingfang Village established the first village-level party committee in Chaoyang City, which now has 8 party branches and 126 party members. In 2023, the primary, secondary and tertiary industries will achieve a total output value of 520 million yuan, the village collective economic income will be 12.05 million yuan, the per capita disposable income will be 30,000 yuan, and the village collective will have fixed assets of 350 million yuan.
We visited the village history museum and the online and offline supply and marketing methods of the supply and marketing cooperatives, listened to the introduction of the village secretary Comrade Qian Xueyu's introduction to the process of how the village collective can develop itself and rely on the collective economy to revitalize the small bungalow village, and saw the clean roads, the magnificent school, the villagers' activity square, the neat two-story villa-style villager houses in the whole village, and went deep into a farmer's house to visit the layout of its nearly 200 square meters of residence.
In the process, I learned that in 1991, in the face of the backward villages in the backward townships of the county at that time, a small bungalow village where no one wanted to be the secretary of the party branch. After graduating from middle school, Qian Xueyu, who worked in the county engineering team and was already a sixth-grade bricklayer, responded to the call of the higher-level party committee, gave up the rich income and development opportunities of the captain of the urban engineering team, and went to work in the small bungalow village without hesitation in order to change the development dilemma of the poor and white in the village. Qian Xueyu said, "I am the class leader in primary school, the secretary of the Youth League branch in middle school, and I grew up with red education. When Qian Xueyu told everyone about this, the mentality of "insisting on Qingshan and not relaxing" was still overflowing.
Qian Xueyu (middle) introduced the special product Nanguo Pear Wine to the visitors
Faced with the situation of "dividing the land into households," he and the village "two committees" adopted the "land lease reversal and contract responsibility system," so that the right to use the land was concentrated in the hands of the village collectives, and then contracted out under the premise of unified planning and management. At the same time, the mountain was closed for afforestation, and 5,500 acres of Nanguo pears were planted, which alone increased the income of each villager by 5,000 yuan and developed agricultural production.
In 1999, in the face of the tide of the restructuring of village enterprises, under his chairmanship, the "two committees" of the village resisted the temptation of money and the pressure of favors, and tried their best to insist on keeping the village iron ore enterprises in the hands of the village collective, laying a solid foundation for the collective economic development and growth of Xiaopingfang Village. Although this act was out of public intentions, Qian Xueyu was hated by some people, and his electric car was blown up by someone with a detonator.
In 2004, in the face of the problem of unsustainable development of iron ore as a "resource-based" enterprise, they actively changed their development ideas, adopted the method of "feeding agriculture with industry" to seek breakthroughs in green agriculture and other aspects, and made every effort to build a characteristic industry with Nanguo pear, ecological wheat and selenium-rich millet as the main products, and extended the industrial chain. Liaoning Xiuyuan Fruit Industry Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. was established, and under the guidance of the Institute of Pomology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Food College of Shenyang Agricultural University and other scientific research institutes, it has developed a series of products such as freshly squeezed fruit juice beverage of Nanguo pear, anhydrous brewing of Nanguo pear liquor, fruit wine, brandy, ice wine and so on. Jianping County Wanshou Street Guxiang Grains Professional Cooperative was registered, and the products produced such as stone-ground whole wheat flour, selenium-rich millet and sunflower oil were favored by consumers. It has got rid of the bottleneck of the single development of mineral resources and embarked on a path of sustainable development.
With the development of the collective economy, since 2004, Xiaopingfang Village has issued pensions ranging from 600 yuan to 2,000 yuan per person per year for the elderly over 60 years old. A total of more than 1,000 yuan of pensions have been issued, benefiting 840 elderly people. In 2008, Xiaopingfang Village invested more than 8 million yuan to build a nursing home with a construction area of 4,100 square meters and 150 standard rooms, so that the elderly can spend their old age here and enjoy the joy of family.
In 2006, the old village began to be renovated, with more than 120 million yuan, 520 neat two-story villa-style houses of 120,000 square meters were built, which solved the villagers' desire to "live in peace" and mobilized the enthusiasm of "happy work".
In 2009, Xiaopingfang Village invested 11 million yuan to build a first-class village-run primary school in the county, with teaching buildings, laboratories, electronic teaching and plastic playgrounds and other facilities. At the same time, preschool classes and kindergartens are set up to facilitate the children of surrounding villagers to attend school nearby. Since 2004, Xiaopingfang Village has issued scholarships ranging from 2,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan to students who are admitted to universities. A total of 72 students have been awarded and 325,000 yuan in scholarships have been awarded.
In 2004, the two "weak" villages of Choushuikeng and Lime Kiln were merged into Xiaopingfang Village, and through the development of collective industries, the problems of housing, water, electricity, and travel were solved for the masses, and the strong villages led the weak villages to achieve common prosperity. In 2023, the Party Committee of Xiaopingfang Village will respond to the call of "common prosperity of the party and the masses", further play the role of demonstration belt, and carry out common prosperity activities for the party and the masses with the surrounding party organizations of Loess Liangzi Village and Ping'an Village, and at the same time establish an agricultural development Co., Ltd. to make the collective economic income of Loess Liangzi Village and Ping'an Di Village exceed 100,000 yuan through agricultural machinery services, property management, environmental governance, etc.
At present, the water, electricity and gas bills of each household in Xiaopingfang Village, the coal fee for heating in winter, and the medical insurance premium of the "New Rural Cooperative Medical System" for each person are all paid by the village collective in accordance with the standard. These "rigid payments" cost five or six million yuan a year.
Qian Xueyu (middle) is concerned about the lives of the masses
Relying on the continuous development of the collective economy, Xiaopingfang Village has implemented the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Improving the Socialist System with Chinese Characteristics and Promoting the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capacity" adopted by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, which requires that "it is necessary to improve the education of the young, the education of learning, the income of labor, the medical treatment of the sick, the support of the elderly, the housing and the support of the weak", "improve the care and service system for left-behind children, women and the elderly in rural areas, and improve the support system for the disabled." ”
Under the leadership of Qian Xueyu, each party member of the party branch has his own contact household, helping them solve various difficulties in a timely manner, and playing the role of a grassroots party organization.
It can be said that the party organization of Xiaopingfang Village has truly implemented the newly revised "Regulations on the Work of the Branch of the Communist Party of China (Trial)", which clearly states: "The village party branch should organize and lead the peasant masses to develop the collective economy and take the road of common prosperity." ”
From the trajectory of the development of Xiaopingfang Village, we can see that Chairman Mao's "agriculture-based, industry-led" is also the guiding principle for rural revitalization. The small bungalow village immediately set about developing industry after solving the agricultural problem. "Feeding the peasants with industry" has also accelerated the development of agriculture. The contradiction of whether to develop agriculture or industry was resolved and they were dialectically unified. Promote each other and develop in harmony.
The fact that Xiaopingfang Village continues to develop has effectively confirmed the Marxist theory that in order to develop the productive forces (people + labor tools + labor objects), there must be production relations suitable for them (people-to-people relations + ownership of the means of production + distribution), and with the development of the productive forces, it is necessary to adjust the production relations in a timely manner in order to promote the further development of the productive forces. Xiaopingfang Village first put in the hands of the collectives the right to use the land, a means of production that nominally belongs to the collective, but the collective has no right to use, so that the land, a means of production, is deserved by the collective. Through unified planning, management, and distribution, the foundation of agriculture has been consolidated. Then they expanded the range of objects of labor in the productive forces - the operation of iron mines. Extend the industrial chain and carry out deep processing of Nanguo pears. Not only do they use the profits obtained from the development of productive forces to feed back to agriculture, but they also further readjust the distribution methods in the production relations, build houses for the villagers, and bear the water, electricity, and gas bills for each household, the coal fee for heating in winter, and the "New Rural Cooperative Medical System" fee for each person....... and building nursing homes to give pensions to the elderly; Build schools and give scholarships to students who are admitted to universities. All of this already contains the communist element of "distribution according to need". This seems to be the common characteristic of Nanjie Village in Henan, Zhoujiazhuang in Hebei, and Dai Village in Shandong Province that I have inspected.
The key to the failure of some rural areas to develop is that they only pay attention to the development of productive forces and do not pay attention to the adjustment of production relations. In order to revitalize the countryside, we must consider it from the perspective of mutual adaptation between productive forces and production relations.
Over the past 33 years, Comrade Qian Xueyu has insisted on taking one step at a time in the rural areas, interpreting "serving the people" with his own actions. Those cadres who put "serving the people" on their lips and write it on the wall, but do not put it into action, should really take Comrade Qian Xueyu as a mirror, maintain close ties with the masses, integrate theory with practice, compare themselves, and "do more practical things and not try to make a name for themselves" like him.
Qian Xueyu
It is precisely because our party has a group of cadres like Comrade Qian Xueyu who serve the people wholeheartedly that we have achieved today's achievements.
This year is the 80th anniversary of the publication of Chairman Mao's "Serving the People", and I hope that all party members will not forget the purpose of "serving the people wholeheartedly" formulated by Chairman Mao for us, and strive for the realization of communism for life!
April 18, 2024