In 1944, Mao Zedong gave a famous speech "Serving the People" in zaoyuan to mourn Zhang Side. Today, there is a Zhang Side volunteer service team active in Pingliang, Gansu Province, which is the Zhang Side Volunteer Service Team of the Pingliang Forest Fire Brigade. The team was established at the front garrison in Yan'an last year, and in June this year, it was withdrawn and settled in Pingliang City. They have always been dedicated to the people, inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of Zhang Side with practical actions, and guarding the lights of thousands of homes with their hearts.
While strengthening the ideology of forging the soul and relying on the red resources of the station to build a strong fighting fortress, this contingent has deepened the service of party building, convenience service, love service, rescue service, and relief service, and implemented the special practice of "five services", which has won the praise of the broad masses of the people. On the occasion of this year's Qingming Festival, they carried out in depth the activity of "paying tribute to Comrade Zhang Side and studying Zhang Side's spirit, organizing commanders and fighters to collectively recite Chairman Mao's "Serving the People" at Zhang Side Memorial Square; listening to the party's ideological line education before the inscription of "seeking truth from facts"; feeling the general secretary's struggling youth in front of the Liangjiahe Zhiqing Cave; organizing party members to study and discuss Zhang Side's spirit at the "Serving the People" podium, and constantly using the "Zhang Side spirit" to strengthen their original mission. In May, the "Zhang Side Service Fund" and the "10 Yuan Sunshine Foundation" were established, and the team members generously donated money to poor students... There are countless such examples. Regularly help and comfort homes for the elderly, rural primary schools, special education schools; take the initiative to participate in voluntary labor, afforestation and other public welfare love activities, rain, snow and ice weather to clean up the fallen wood, 3 times to organize free blood donation of 42,000mm, in the service of the people to practice the original mission.
During the National Day, a torrential rain disaster occurred in Lingtai County, Gansu Province, and they rushed to Lingtai in the night to rescue and rescue the disaster and transfer the trapped people. Use the field training period to help the masses grab crops. On holidays, they set up a consultation desk to popularize forest fire prevention knowledge to tourists, and provide help for the elderly with limited mobility and tourists who go up the mountain, and the masses said with emotion: "They are like Zhang Side of that year." The words of the masses reflect the people's call for Zhang Side's spirit, and have also become the highest praise for the forest fire brigade.
Since the establishment of zhang side volunteer service team, the environment is changing, the team members are changing, but the feeling of serving the masses has always remained unchanged. Under the guidance of the spirit of serving the people wholeheartedly, the Zhang Side Volunteer Service Team of the Pingliang Forest Fire Detachment has moved from spontaneous to conscious, from sensibility to rationality, and has become a banner of the forest fire brigade and a shining business card of Pingliang.