On July 23, the film "Mountain Peach Blossom", directed by Shanxi director Wu Gang, held its premiere in Linfen. The film is based on Song Xueqin, a college student who married Fenxi County, and takes the real experience of hard work and entrepreneurship as the plot framework, showing the process of rural people working hard to start a business, getting rid of poverty and getting rich, and never returning to poverty under the care of the party committee and the government. Director Wu Gang and the main creative team, as well as some leaders of Linfen City and Fenxi County, attended the premiere and watched the film with the audience.
Director Wu Gang introduced that this film takes the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as the background of the times, telling the story of Li Wanqing (Zhong Xiaodan), the secretary of the township party committee, when he was investigating the village of Baba in Fenxi County, Linfen City, when he met the wedding of villager Hou Jun, only to learn that Hou Jun brought back a daughter-in-law from the city who graduated from college. A marriage and a series of changes that followed made the heroines Song Linqing (Wang Xiaohuan) and Hou Jun become farmers in the new era. It was this restless peasant, with the help of Li Wanqing and the support of the local party committee and government, who led the villagers to change the eternal mode of labor and create a green water and green mountains, which not only enabled the peasants in Paquan Village to get rid of poverty and get rich and live a beautiful and happy life, but also sounded the clarion call of never returning to poverty.
Wu Gang said that the film tells a small story, but it is a big event. The time span of the film is about 6 years, the relationship between the characters is complex, and the environment is relatively concentrated. In his view, this is not only an ordinary rural poverty alleviation film, but a genre film with epoch-making significance. The meaning and spirit contained in her core is powerful and penetrating. Wu Gang believes that the experience of Li Wanqing, secretary of the township party committee, guiding Song Linqing in the play is not the process of the soul struggle of a special individual, but reflects the difficulties and anxieties that every Chinese people at the critical moment of achieving a comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation, and even every ordinary person who has been lifted out of poverty may inevitably encounter and inevitably face in the course of his life. The power contained in the film can touch the soul of urban youth, grassroots party members and ordinary people who have been lifted out of poverty and become rich in the new era.
After watching the movie "Mountain Peach Blossom", the audience was deeply moved and commented that it was a masterpiece that sang the main theme of the times, condensed the positive energy of development, embodied the pursuit of art, and reflected the lives of the masses. At the important moment when the whole country has deeply studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "July 1st" important speech, continued to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promoted rural revitalization, the release of the movie "Mountain Peach Blossom" is timely and of great significance, and will have a broad and far-reaching impact on inheriting and carrying forward the fine tradition of self-reliance and hard struggle, inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the old revolutionary areas and the spirit of poverty alleviation, and further encouraging the vast number of cadres and the masses to devote themselves to the great practice of rural revitalization.
The film "Mountain Peach Blossom" is produced by Shanxi Film and Television Group Shanxi Film Studio (Co., Ltd.), jointly produced by linfen municipal party committee, municipal government, municipal party committee propaganda department, Fenxi county party committee, county government and county party committee propaganda department. Since the film started in May 2020, after more than a year of meticulous production by the creative team, it is now officially meeting with audiences across the country. In 2018, the film was listed as a film script incubation project of the China Propaganda Film Script Planning and Planning Center, a high-quality film support project of the National Film Administration, and in 2020, it was recognized as a key support project for poverty alleviation films by the Shanxi Film Bureau.
Source: Shanxi Evening News reporter Li Xifang
Editor: Li Jumei
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