Text/Media reporter Zou Lei
On the morning of March 9, it was raining heavily. Cai Jianzhong took a box of chalk, held an umbrella from home straight to the alley, and began to make the day's blackboard newspaper on a 3-square-meter blackboard. "The Fourth Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress Opened in Beijing" "The Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee Held a Meeting"... Cai Jianzhong tiptoed and clutched the chalk to write the masthead, slogan, and message. The handwriting of the board book is neat, the strokes are clear, and the layout is simple and generous, which complements the surrounding publicity columns. Where the key information is, he also highlights it with patterns and symbols.
Most of this issue of the blackboard newspaper is excerpted from Changshu Daily, the content involves national current affairs, Changshu news, health information, etc., each piece of information is only briefly summarized in a few dozen words, making people clear at a glance. "The original intention of the blackboard newspaper is to publish the news in a timely manner, so that everyone can see it at a glance and understand it at once." Cai Jianzhong said that the blackboard newspaper that serves the community does not have to be long-winded, just "short, flat and fast", closely following current events and keeping up with the trend, the content update time is determined according to the actual situation, generally 2 to 3 days to update a period, if there is an emergency or major event, a day will be more than 2 issues.
Cai Jianzhong loves literary creation, worked as a correspondent of the unit when he was a supply and marketing cooperative, and has submitted nearly 600 articles to several columns of Changshu Daily and Changshu Radio and Television. Every day, he would write a manuscript of what he saw, heard, thought and thought, and collect it into a book. In front of his book case are dozens of manuscripts such as "Works of The Wisteria Bookstore" and "Collection of Stories of Cultivating the Heart". In these manuscripts, like a poet, he praises nature and celebrates life... Until 1993, when Cai Jianzhong became a party member, all praise and praise turned to the party. Recently, he has created works such as "After-feeling" and "The Initial Heart is a Lifetime of Perseverance" to forge a sincere loyalty to the party.
As a party member, Cai Jianzhong plays a pioneering and exemplary role while doing his own work, taking the lead in implementing the party's line, principles and policies, and actively participating in volunteer service activities such as community public security, policy publicity, and neighborhood mediation. After retiring, Cai Jianzhong still adhered to his original intention and shifted the main position of serving the masses to an inconspicuous blackboard in Jiuli New Village. "The community is relatively tight, and the first thing I did after I retired was to help the community run the blackboard newspaper and publicize the party's policies and community work through the medium of the blackboard newspaper." Cai Jianzhong said that due to limited business capabilities, at the beginning, neighbors often pointed out typos in the blackboard newspaper in person, and his wife also advised him not to do it again. "If you can find typos, it means that someone is watching, which means that the blackboard newspaper I run has played a propaganda role." Cai Jianzhong said that the neighbors pointed out the problem not only did not make him retreat, but also strengthened his determination to publish the blackboard newspaper. Knowing that a neighbor in the community was a teacher, Cai Jianzhong took the initiative to ask this neighbor for advice, and even asked him to read and modify in advance to improve the quality of the blackboard newspaper. He felt that running the blackboard was a responsibility on his shoulders as a party member.
In the 15 years since his retirement, Cai Jianzhong has published more than 500 issues of blackboard newspapers. No matter the rain, snow, wind and frost, as long as the community has a publicity need, he has to respond to everything and goes all out. When the new crown pneumonia epidemic struck last year, he cooperated with the community to carry out publicity work, updated the content of the blackboard newspaper for many consecutive days, and called on everyone to do a good job in protection and work together to fight the epidemic. When the garbage classification work was in full swing, he simultaneously produced blackboard newspapers on related topics, so that the awareness of garbage classification entered the brain, heart, and industry. During this year's Spring Festival, he posted a ban on burning in the blackboard newspaper overnight to publicize the relevant regulations on the ban on fire and release to the residents of the jurisdiction.
For a long time, Cai Jianzhong's blackboard newspaper attracted a group of loyal readers, and resident Ye Miaoying was one of them. "We elderly people don't use smart products, we are not very well informed, and when we go out, we can look at the blackboard newspaper and know what's going on." Ye Miaoying said that the blackboard newspaper is very well run, but the location of the setting is too high, and she often sees Cai Jianzhong climbing up and down the ladder in order to make the blackboard newspaper, which is very inconvenient.
"As long as I can be liked by the masses and can bring help to the masses, then my hard work over the years is worth it." Cai Jianzhong said that although it was very hard to run a blackboard newspaper, he enhanced the sense of mission and responsibility of party members through this incident. As long as his physical conditions permit, he will continue to run the blackboard newspaper.