Wang Boxiang: "Pioneer of Reform" and an example for county party secretaries in the new era

In August 1989, it was time for green corn to pick up pregnant seeds. A decision by Wang Boxiang, secretary of the Shouguang County Party Committee, shocked the villagers. He wants to cut down more than 20 acres of corn that is growing vigorously and conduct experiments on winter-warmed vegetable greenhouses. At that time, under the concept of "taking grain as the guideline," "killing the green" was a major event that made mistakes.

Shouguang was a famous poor county in Shandong at that time. When Wang Boxiang took office as secretary of the county party committee, he said: "For the sake of an official, we must benefit one side, and the people have no money, so we have to find a way." ”

In 1988, Wang Leyi, secretary of the party branch of Sanyuan Zhu Village, brought a fresh cucumber produced in the northeast greenhouse, and Wang Boxiang was particularly surprised after seeing it. Vegetables are grass in summer, and they become treasures in winter, and the northeast can build warm vegetable greenhouses in winter, and Shouguang can also be built.

It took a lot of trouble to go to the northeast to invite technical expert Han Yongshan, but it cost six or seven thousand yuan to build a greenhouse, which is an unimaginable number for farmers with an annual income of less than 1,000 yuan.

Wang Boxiang went to the field to mobilize and promised: Boldly try, the sky has fallen, I stand up. Regarding the responsibility of "killing the youth," he said: "The county compensates the households that suffer losses; I will bear the political responsibility."

In the end, more than 20 acres of corn were cut down, and 17 party members took the lead in building greenhouses.

In 1990, the average net profit of 17 greenhouses was more than 20,000 yuan, creating 17 double million yuan households. Wang Boxiang immediately made a decision to promote it in the whole county. The following year, more than 5,000 greenhouses were erected.

In 1990, Wang Boxiang hurried to the Jinan Railway Station and caught up with Han Yongshan, a technical expert on the train. When asked if Han Yongshan wanted to return to the northeast because he did not want to live separately from his family, Wang Boxiang sincerely apologized: "In the past, I did not take good care of you, which was my mistake. ”

He persuaded Han Yongshan to return to Shouguang, and boldly made a decision: hired him as an agronomist, rewarded a set of housing, and moved the family of four to Shouguang. In this way, the "golden key" that led the villagers to get rich was retained.

In October 1987, Wang Boxiang led 200,000 cadres and masses into Shoubei and declared war on the thousand-year-old wasteland. He lived in a low, leaky shack and fought with migrant workers for 45 days.

At the Shoubei Development Summary and Commendation Conference, Wang Boxiang left his seat, walked to the middle of the stage, bowed deeply to the audience, and expressed his gratitude to the 200,000 cadres and masses. More than fifteen hundred people all stood up, and there was a long-lasting applause in the venue, and many people shed tears.

During the period of transition from a planned economy to a market economy, Wang Boxiang led the people of Shouguang in building greenhouses and markets, setting off a "green revolution" that changed the fate of the peasants and rewritten the history of agriculture; turned the barren land, which accounted for 60 percent of the county's total area, into the "granary" and "silver mountain" of the whole county; and developed and expanded backbone enterprises and launched a battle to turn around industry. Five years later, the total output value of Shouguang enterprises tripled, and profits and taxes increased nearly tenfold.

In October 1991, Wang Boxiang was transferred away from Shouguang. In the past five years, he has left 33,000 vegetable greenhouses for Shouguang, 1.2 million mu of cotton fields, salt pans and shrimp ponds with considerable income, 4,000 thriving enterprises, and more than 100,000 "10,000 yuan households", but what he took away was a small truck that could be filled with belongings, the most expensive of which was an old refrigerator.

As the people who came to see them off gathered more and more, everyone shook Wang Boxiang's hand and tearfully bid farewell to their "Secretary Boxiang".

In 2009, when Xi Jinping met with Wang Boxiang's advanced deeds reporting team, he pointed out that Comrade Wang Boxiang is an example for the secretary of the county party committee in the new era. In 2018, at the conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, Wang Boxiang won the title of "Reform Pioneer".

Wang Boxiang has been away from Shouguang for 30 years, and has also been praised by the people for 30 years. Shouguang people said that the days will pass, but Secretary Boxiang, they will remember for a lifetime. (□ Dazhong Daily client correspondent Cui Fangfang reporter Zhao Lin)