Recently, Song Ping, the "oldest standing committee member", once again entered the public eye.
According to media reports, a few days ago, Song Ping, who was nearly 100 years old, met with Liu Jiakun, secretary of the party committee of Jiujian Village in Pingyi County, Shandong Province, who had come to visit him.
On the afternoon of the 14th, Liu Jiakun told "Zheng Shi'er" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh), "The meeting time is December 2 this year, and the location is in Hainan. ”
"Zheng Shi'er" noted that Song Ping had appeared for the second time in the past two months: on October 14 this year, he visited his alma mater, Tsinghua University, and took a group photo with teachers and students.
Song Ping poses with teachers and students at Tsinghua University
Born in 1917, Song Ping is the oldest member of the currently active retired Standing Committee. At the Fourth Plenum of the 13th Central Committee in 1989, the 72-year-old Song Ping, along with Jiang Zemin and Li Ruihuan, was added to the Politburo Standing Committee.
"Political Affairs" combed through public reports and found that at least five "special complexes" were intertwined in the work and life of Mr. Song Ping.
Nine shed villages
"This time I just went to Hainan to run an errand, and when I learned that Elder Song was in Hainan, I went to see him, and the last time I saw him was two years ago." On the afternoon of the 14th, Liu Jiakun told the "political affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) about the situation at that time.
According to Liu Jiakun, "The two sides chatted for about 40 minutes, and Elder Song was in good health. ”
Liu Jiakun said that Elder Song was very familiar with himself and often went to see him. "Through me, he learned about the situation in the countryside and the poor people."
During the meeting on the same day, Song Ping instructed Liu Jiakun, "It is not easy to develop the countryside well. The nine shed villages have now developed well, which is very rare, and it is necessary to continue to maintain the spirit of hard work and pioneering in the nine sheds, and constantly sum up and improve. ”
"I said your old man has a good brain, and he laughed." I also brought him nine sheds of honeysuckle tea, and Elder Song said that he had planted honeysuckle when he was working in Gansu. ”
At the end of the meeting, the two took a group photo to commemorate the occasion.
Photos from the scene show Song Ping sitting side by side with Liu Jiakun, Song Ping wearing a blue coat and a vest on the outside, staring at the camera with a smile on his face.
"Zheng Shi'er" noted that Song Ping's relationship with the nine sheds has a long history, and as early as the 1980s, Song Ping, who worked in the central government, formed a special friendship with the village.
Jiujian Shed Village is located in the hinterland of the old revolutionary area of Yimeng and Mongolia, and has been a well-known poor village in history.
In 1985, Liu Jiakun served as the secretary of the village branch, and he led the local cadres and masses to work hard, initially changing the poor production and living conditions of jiujian villages. This attracted the attention of Song Ping.
In July 1990, Song Ping wrote to Jiang Chunyun, then secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, praising the nine sheds. The full text of the letter was later published on the front page of the People's Daily.
The letter reads, "It is a remarkable achievement for them to work hard in such a poor and backward place on their own hands. ”
In August of the same year, at the national forum on the construction of village-level organizations, Song Ping listened to Liu Jiakun's report, and he praised: "Socialism is done, and the prestige of the Communist Party is also done." And called on the whole country to study the nine sheds.
On July 1, 1995, Song Ping inspected jiujian village and gave guidance on the development of jiujian.
"Political Affairs" noted that the nine shed villages have also been "praised" by Xi Jinping.
During the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2012, Xi Jinping, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice president of the state, affirmed the development of jiujian villages when participating in the deliberations of the Shandong delegation, and praised jiujian sheds as "although remote, the scenery is unique."
During this visit, Song Ping also instructed Liu Jiakun on the development of the nine shed villages: "You must build nine sheds in accordance with the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping that 'although it is remote, the scenery is unique here'. ”
Alma mater Tsinghua
From 1935 to 1937, Song Ping studied in the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University and gained love at his alma mater.
Song Ping's wife, Chen Shunyao, enrolled in Tsinghua a year later than Song Ping, and "Zheng Shi"(WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noticed that the centenarian couple had always had deep feelings for Tsinghua.
After graduation, Chen Shunyao worked at Tsinghua University for many years, successively serving as assistant to the president, vice provost, and deputy secretary of the party committee of the school.
During his work in the central government, Song Ping also returned to his alma mater many times to continue Qinghua's relationship.
In 1982, on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the founding of Tsinghua University, Song Ping congratulated Yao Yilin, Fei Xiaotong, Yang Dai and other well-known tsinghua alumni on their return to campus. In January 1990, as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, he went to the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University to congratulate him on his outstanding achievements in nuclear energy research.
According to reports, once, because of his busy work, he could not participate in the school celebration of the same window party, Song Ping also sent someone to send a photo. On the back of the photo, it reads: "I thank Tsinghua, Tsinghua opened the doors and windows of my knowledge, and from here embarked on a revolutionary career." I miss my teachers, classmates and comrades-in-arms, and I will never forget Tsinghua and Tsinghua. ”
After retirement, Mrs. Song Pinghe also continued to care about the development of his alma mater.
In April 2004, the "Pioneers of the Tsinghua Revolution" (upper and lower volumes) compiled by the History Research Office of Tsinghua University was published, and Song Ping wrote the title and preface to the book.
In public reports, in recent years, tsinghua university leaders have twice visited Song Ping's home to visit Song Ping and his wife Chen Shunyao and report on the development of the school.
Take care of young people
"Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noted that Song Ping takes great care of young people and is known as "Talent Bole".
According to public reports, Song Ping, who served as Zhou Enlai's political secretary from 1938 to 1947, was known as Deng Xiaoping's "old buddy" and had a good personal relationship with Chen Yun, who recommended Hu Jintao.
From the 1970s to the 1980s, Song Ping worked in Gansu for many years, becoming the first secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. At that time, he recommended Hu Jintao, then deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Construction Commission.
Global People, a magazine owned by the People's Daily, reported that "Hu Jintao has excellent professional quality, is steady and modest, handles things in a low-key manner, and has a good mass foundation." In the process of recommending talents, he was affirmed and encouraged by Song Ping, the first secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee. ”
In 1992, Song Ping, who had already stepped down from his post as a member of the Standing Committee, proposed to the Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping, and Chen Yun, in the name of the personnel arrangement group of the 14th Cpc Congress, to select Hu Jintao as a member of the new Politburo Standing Committee.
At the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao, who was only 50 years old, was elected to the Politburo Standing Committee.
Care for the poor
On June 12, 2014, Song Ping appeared in a charity activity to help poor out-of-school children "realize their dreams" as soon as possible. This is the public report that Song Ping made his debut after the 18th Party Congress.
On the same day, when meeting the organizers of the event, Song Ping encouraged them to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, advocate the world, and help more poor children in China realize their dreams.
According to reports, at that time, Song Ping also took the initiative to name the charity project "Dream Class", and when writing the inscription for the Dream Class, Song Ping wrote it 3 times and finally chose a version.
After about 10 minutes, the organizers said that due to Song Ping's advanced age, he needed to leave the venue early.
Caring for poor groups is not unfamiliar to Song Ping.
In October 2015, he also met and talked with several "post-90s" volunteer teachers of "Beautiful China" in a courtyard in Beijing's Xicheng District.
During the conversation, Song Ping stressed the importance of rural issues, "There is a big difference between urban and rural areas in China, and the rural areas are the largest part of the masses and society in China. He also pointed out the focus that needs to be paid to at present, "understanding the countryside, farmers and their needs" and "left-behind children are now a big thing." ”
"Zheng Shi'er" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noted that as early as 1994, Song Ping and his wife Chen Shunyao had helped out-of-school children. Through the "Hope Project," they funded three poor families in Slate Township, Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province.
In the spring of 1973, when it had not rained in central Gansu for 22 months, Song Ping had bluntly told his "old superior" Premier Zhou Enlai about the current situation, and soon after, the local people received relief money and disaster relief grain from the State Council.
According to reports, when the Gansu people recall this period of history, the most they say is, "If it were not for his Song family father (the local honorific title for Song Ping), we peasants would have suffered great hardships." ”
Remembering old comrades
"Political Affairs" noted that after the Eighteenth National Congress, some elderly comrades passed away one after another, and Song Ping often wrote articles or expressed his remembrance through other means.
On February last year, Deng Liqun, secretary of the 12th Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, died, and on September 15 of the same year, Guangming Daily published Song Ping's preface to the book "Deng Liqun's Self-Description: 1915-1974".
The preface, which is 1,860 words long, song ping said, can read the intellectuals needed by the party and the people in his self-description.
The preface reads: After the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Li Qun withdrew from the leading post, grew older, his hearing and eyesight declined, and he still diligently studied and wrote, especially in accordance with the instructions of Comrades Xiaoping and Chen Yun, he undertook the task of establishing the Institute of Contemporary China Studies and compiling national history. It should be said that he is a very suitable candidate. "Li Qun's bones are hard, and there is a kind of feeling, backbone, and principle of communist intellectuals."
In addition, after the Eighteenth National Congress, Song Ping also sent wreaths to the departed old comrades at least five times to express his condolences. Among them were three former provincial party secretaries, an old Red Army soldier and a scientist.
The three former provincial party secretaries were Huang Jingbo, former secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, who died in 2014, Bai Ji nian, former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, who died in 2015, and Guan Guangfu, former secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, who died in April.
On July 29 this year, the farewell ceremony for the body of Wang Danyi, a 97-year-old veteran of the Red Army, was held in Babaoshan, and Song Ping sent a wreath. On September 24, the farewell ceremony of the body of Yan Dongsheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a famous materials scientist, was held at the Shanghai Longhua Funeral Home, and Song Ping also sent a wreath.
"Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) Written / Beijing News reporter Zheng Shu Intern Zhou Wentao Proofreader: Lu Aiying