Deng Fei's actions changed China

Features Influence the times with news

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At present, the number of journalists holding press cards in China exceeds 250,000, ranking first in the world, and there are also various new media journalists and media practitioners. Recently, negative news about media people has continued to break out, and at the same time, many journalists have sought justice for those who have suffered injustices with professionalism and conscience in the industry, and have set up a benchmark for journalists in the hearts of the people. Inspiring power and chilling news have drawn public attention to the journalist community. Witness history, record the times, reveal the truth, spread hope... As the disseminator of information and the watchman of society, the "power of communication" of journalists has become increasingly prominent in social life. Today, how journalists should follow their professional duties and influence the times with news is the topic of discussion in this issue.

As a well-known public welfare journalist, Deng Fei uses the truth to form pressure and uses news to achieve change. He never wanted to be a recorder, but chose to be an observer and commentator

Text/Reporter Li Handan

As a journalist, in the past 10 years, he has never been willing to be a recorder, but chose to be an observer and commentator, writing more than 160 investigative reports, "Shenyang Ant Dream", "Killing Yang Zonghai", "Pujiuzao of Dog Day", "One Night in Beijing of Xiangxi Governor", "South China Child Trafficking Chain", "Zhouzhuang Lung Disease", "South China Boy Selling Chain", "Comrade Wu Hao"... He uses the truth to create pressure and news to achieve change. He is a leader in investigative journalists in China.

As a public welfare person, he has successively launched a number of large-scale public welfare projects such as free lunch, medical insurance for serious illness of chinese rural children, warm current plan, girl protection, let migratory birds fly, and China Water Safety Plan in the past four years, and created the "E-Agriculture Plan" to help Chinese rural children obtain basic fairness and security in the three aspects of rural children, rural environmental protection and rural economy, and support the dignified growth of rural areas.

He is the famous public welfare reporter Deng Fei. Under his advocacy and practice, the concepts of "transparent public welfare" and "public welfare for all" have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, effectively promoting the transformation of China's public welfare charity, helping social growth from the bottom up, and working with the government and enterprises to continuously and effectively solve one major social problem after another.

On a sunny afternoon in early spring, on the 9th floor of U-Tang International, located outside the Chaoyang Gate in Beijing, a slightly tired Deng Fei wore a white shirt, jeans, and white canvas shoes, and his melancholy gaze was deep and tenacious, and under the vicissitudes that did not match his actual age, what could not hide was the youth and sunshine in his bones and blood. Speaking Hunan Mandarin, he told reporters about the 14-year journey of the heart, "Gentleness and kindness, small and free forces come together, and change happens." I am Deng Fei, who loves to warm people's hearts and act to change China. ”

Drive change with microblogging

"We use the method of reporting to help the country." --Deng Fei

Deng Fei, 37, was born in a small village in Yuanjiang, Hunan Province, and graduated from Hunan University with a degree in journalism. In the third year of college, he entered the Hunan "Today Women's Daily" internship, and after graduation, he stayed behind as an investigative journalist, stubborn and upright, believing in the power of truth, trying to show a different China with a pen. His QQ signature was once "writing the dark secrets of this country."

In a short period of time, he wrote a number of investigative reports such as "There are scalpers inside the Changde Railway Station" and "Looking for a Wife", thus quickly becoming the chief reporter of the newspaper, and in 2002, he published more than 10 articles in "Southern Weekend" and "China Youth Daily", mostly for supervising public power, paying attention to the rights and interests of vulnerable groups such as women and children. "I wrote three investigative stories for Southern Weekend in one year, and am by far the author of the most foreign newspapers published at Southern Weekend."

In 2003, Deng Fei decided to join Phoenix Weekly after a trip to Hong Kong to seek a breakthrough. On this new platform, he wrote a series of blockbuster investigative reports, which made Phoenix Weekly's influence in the industry grow. Of course, in the 10 years of working as an investigative journalist, Deng Fei inevitably encountered many thrilling dangers, almost being eaten by more than a dozen Tibetan mastiffs in Yushu, almost being hit by a car in Lhasa, and packing a car in Guangxi to rush to the scene of Guizhou Wong'an overnight... However, his passion for his work remains undiminished.

However, what really made Deng Fei the name widely known was a Weibo post in 2010. In the early morning of September 16, 2010, a Jiangxi girl named Zhong Rujiu and her sister were intercepted by the county party secretary and other officials at Nanchang Changbei Airport. Previously, their home was forcibly demolished, and three relatives violently set themselves on fire.

At 8:57 a.m., after receiving a call from other reporters for help, Deng Fei issued his first microblog: "Changbei Airport Live Broadcast I: Surrounded by more than 40 officials led by the secretary of the county party committee, the family members of the self-immolation were unable to fly, the flight was delayed, and Zhong Jiumei was exhausted and just fainted, fortunately, the doctor rescued her on the spot, and there was no major trouble."

After that, things dramatically advanced, the sisters hid in the women's bathroom in a hurry, through the news transmission of the on-site reporter, at 9:04 a.m., Deng Fei released the second Weibo - Changbei Airport Live Broadcast II: The two women hid in the bathroom and kept talking to China...

Soon, more than 10 microblogs sent by Deng Fei were quickly forwarded for comment, triggering a wave of public opinion, and received the attention of the media and the central high-level, and finally led to the dismissal of a cadre of officials such as the county party secretary, the county chief, and the deputy county chief, known in history as the "Yihuang Incident", becoming the first public incident in the history of Sina Weibo.

When it was learned that the self-immolated Mother and Daughter of the Zhong Family were facing the threat of death from severe burn complications, on September 26, Deng Fei once again used Weibo to promote a "Nanchang Great Rescue", on how to urgently treat the Zhong family's mother and daughter, constantly throwing out rescue plans, discussed on Weibo, the Zhong family mother and daughter were sent to China's best burn hospital for treatment with the help of countless netizens, so that they turned the crisis into safety.

Deng Fei is credited with greatly expanding the boundaries of public opinion's power to monitor, using microblogs that everyone has, rather than the public media in which he works, to quickly express and disseminate opinions and bring about change.

Deng Fei began to have a large number of fans, and his almost live description of news events on Weibo received the attention of many netizens and made countless people remember him. Some netizens said: "Deng Fei is a journalist who dares to speak, dare to do things, is upright, righteous, and lovely."

At 21:14 on September 27, 2010, inspired by the scholar Yu Jianrong's initiative to "shoot and rescue homeless begging children", Deng Fei posted a photo of the abducted child Peng Wenle that he had come into contact with, with text, on Weibo.

"As early as March 2008, Peng Wenle, the 3-year-old son of Hubei man Peng Gaofeng, was abducted, and I wrote three articles such as "Chinese Boy Trafficking Chain" and encouraged Peng Gaofeng not to give up hope and continue to search." Deng Fei introduced.

What Deng Fei did not expect was that the miracle really happened. On February 1, 2011, in a village in Bayi Town, Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, a netizen who returned to his hometown to visit relatives found Peng Wenle. It was the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, and Deng Fei and Peng Gaofeng, who had learned the news, rushed to Xuzhou at the first time. When the child was rescued, Deng Fei slumped to the ground excitedly.

With this experience, Deng Fei launched the Weibo anti-abduction campaign, and called for cooperation with the official Weibo of the Ministry of Public Security's China Police Network to establish a Weibo Anti-Abduction Volunteer Group, calling for the integration of media and non-governmental resources to support and help the public security system combat child abduction. He believes that "Weibo provides the best tool for the police and the people to work together to fight crime, which can help any netizen easily and quickly collect, transmit and share information on child abduction and trafficking, and flow to the public security department without obstacles, forming a network of heaven and earth throughout urban and rural areas." ”

Weibo abduction infected countless Chinese people, and this anti-abduction operation, which was spontaneously organized by the people, also attracted the attention of the public security department, and eventually led to a series of special anti-abduction operations. In 2010, Deng Fei was awarded the 2010 Journalist of the Year at the Tencent Chinese Media Festival, the Journalist of the Year of Sina Weibo, and the Journalist of the Year of Tianya Community in 2010. In 2011, Deng Fei was awarded the "Rule of Law Person of the Year" by CCTV.

Deng Fei used Weibo to explain what is the news in the Internet age. And the power of Weibo also made him experience "unimaginable happiness and touching". "Weibo has a magnetic field, an aura, can constantly attract different people and different resources, so that everyone's kindness and love flow like a stream, and finally converge into a big river, rushing forward."

He also created the "Knife" journalist group, which united 200 investigative journalists, and later built the "Blue Jacket" to unite 500 national investigative journalists and editors to report on China.

"What force kept you as an investigative journalist for 10 years?" Deng Fei replied without hesitation: "Ideals, passion, responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment."

Create a miracle of public welfare charity

"We help China in a public welfare way." --Deng Fei

On the evening of February 25, 2011, a cruise ship cruised quietly on the South China Sea. In the small theater on the huge cruise ship, the annual awards party of Tianya Community was in full swing, and Deng Fei won the "Tianya Community Reporter of the Year 2010" award. Sitting next to Deng Fei is a young woman who used to be a primary school volunteer teacher in Guizhou, and she was selected by Tianya netizens as the initiator of the "China's Most Beautiful Volunteer Teacher" and "Pencil Refill" micro-public welfare activities, her name is Cai Jiaqin. She saw Deng Fei's name, her expression was surprised, and she said that when she was listening to lectures at the School of Journalism of Fudan University in Shanghai, she often heard Deng Fei's name.

During the conversation, Cai Jiaqin's expression was gloomy, and the experience of volunteer teaching made her unable to let go of the children in the countryside after returning to the city. Deng Fei asked, "What makes you unforgettable?" She said, "It's the look in their eyes, it's pathetic." The journalist's professional habits made Deng Fei's heart tighten, and he asked: "Poor, poor what?" Cai Jiaqin replied: "Every time the teacher's small canteen opens a meal, I pick up the lunch box, the children smell the fragrance, and always look at me with their eyes, so I can only take the lunch box back to the dormitory, close the door and secretly eat it."

There is no canteen in the primary school, Deng Fei can understand, but why can't the children go home for lunch? Deng Fei was surprised and alert. He vaguely remembers that more than 20 years ago, he went to primary school in his hometown village and could go home to eat lunch. Although I didn't eat well, I wasn't hungry yet.

Cai Jiaqin saw Deng Fei's surprised and dazed face, and explained: "Now that the mountainous areas are withdrawn and merged, the children are all concentrated in one school, and the distance to school is too far to go home. They get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and go home from school at 4:30 p.m., and when they get home, it's already dark before they can have a decent dinner. ”

So how can the children survive the midday hunger? Cai Jiaqin said: "They usually sleep on the table. I couldn't stand it, so I went to the tap to drink cold water. ”

This shocked another neighbor, Southern Weekend commentator Yan Lieshan. He looked sad and sighed, saying that thirty years ago he was starving and studying in the countryside of Hubei Province, how could he develop for so many years, or so?

A rush of blood rushed up to the head. Deng Fei said, "In this way, we will go to Teacher Cai's school and build a canteen for the children so that they can have food at noon." What if there is a canteen and has no money to cook? Deng Fei suggested: "A few of us will raise money together, raising 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year to feed the children."

The party continued to be lively and joyful, and no one paid attention to the brief exchange of heads and ears between the three people, nor did they know that these three "butterflies" flapped their wings and set off a magnificent social movement.

Subsequently, Deng Fei rushed to Guizhou with a group of reporters to investigate, and he found that rural children in all provinces of China are generally in deep trouble – many children who are concentrated in one school cannot go home to eat at noon and face school hunger. He was heartbroken by the children drinking cold water, roasting potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, or buying fake and shoddy snacks to fill his hunger. He was determined to help these village children.

Deng Fei noted that in order to solve the problem of primary school students' meals, the Indian government launched a free school lunch system many years ago, which has allowed 120 million primary school students to eat lunch and increased the penetration rate of education. Japan promoted the lunch ration system during the difficult post-war period, and the United States also has such a system of free lunch subsidies by the government to benefit 30 million students, but China does not yet have such a plan. As a result, Deng Fei continued to call for free lunch for poor children in rural areas on Weibo.

On April 2, Shaba Primary School in Qianxi County launched free lunch, becoming the first school in the country to enjoy free lunch, with 169 students eating free lunch. A portion of rice, a boiled egg, a spoonful of stir-fried meat with sauerkraut, a spoonful of roast potatoes, and a spoonful of cabbage soup filled the double-layered lunch box distributed by the students. Nearby villagers also gathered to watch, saying that the children's families were poor, they lived far away, and the problem of lunch had plagued them for generations.