Awarded the title of pioneer of reform, Wang Boxiang was more excited and relieved. He said that this award not only means an affirmation of his own work as a county party secretary in Shouguang for five and a half years, but also the greatest praise for the people of Shouguang for their hard work and pioneering, from solving the problem of food and clothing to embarking on the road to prosperity.
Wang Boxiang attends a meeting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. (CCTV screenshot)
"It was the farmers who smelled the market first"
In 1986, when Wang Boxiang took office as secretary of the Shouguang County CPC Committee, it was at a time when the central authorities proposed that the problem of food and clothing in some rural areas be basically solved, and the focus of work shifted to solving the problem of poverty among the people. How to make the people rich as soon as possible? Combined with the actual situation in Shouguang, Wang Boxiang immediately mobilized all townships, villages, and functional departments in the county to concentrate on solving one thing, that is, to make the people drum up their pockets as soon as possible. Around the question of how to get rich, everyone in all counties, townships, and villages has come to find a way. Growing vegetables this road is not found at once, but also tried many times, and later learned in Sanyuan Zhu Village Wang Leyi that there is a Han master planting greenhouses, Wang Boxiang went to investigate and found that it is indeed feasible, after settling down, he made up his mind to implement. From 17 greenhouses in the first year, it suddenly grew to more than 5,000 in the second year, and basically spread out in the third year throughout the county.
Wang Boxiang inspected the growth of vegetables in the greenhouse in 1990. (Expansion Pack)
There is another important objective reason why Shouguang Greenhouse can develop, that is, the people of Shouguang have keenly captured the needs of the market. Shouguang's terrain is divided into two from the middle, the south is suitable for growing vegetables, because there is a Shengli oil field in the west of Shouguang, there are 300,000 workers in the oil field, in the planned economy era, the wages of workers are relatively high, they have to eat vegetables in addition to eating, because the local vegetables are not produced, the car must go to Shouguang, when going there, many people will carry some vegetables back from Shouguang, so back and forth, Shouguang farmers gradually formed a habit of growing vegetables and expanded year by year, and then construed a vegetable trading market.
Later, in the spontaneously formed vegetable market, Wang Boxiang specially planned to establish a large-scale wholesale market to combat speculation and reverses, ensure the safety of market transactions, and gradually launch the Shouguang vegetable brand. At that time, people from the south and north of the south sea came to buy vegetables, and dozens of hundreds of cars could ensure that they were all filled as long as they came to Shouguang. Scale is effective, which forms a virtuous circle.
Wang Boxiang said that the reason why Shouguang was able to develop greenhouses was that farmers keenly smelled the breath of the market and finally tasted the sweetness of the market.
Identify three goals to turn saline land into good land
At that time, seeing that Shounan had become a white and vast vegetable greenhouse, and how to develop Shoubei, which was still a saline and alkali land at that time, was still a difficult problem that Wang Boxiang needed to constantly think about, and after investigation, he identified three major events for the development of Shoubei: picking ditches and lifting fields, fishing and breeding, and building a salt factory.
Shoubei is near the sea, and a saline land does not grow crops at all, but Shouguang cannot develop half of it, and it cannot leave Shoubei behind. Therefore, Wang Boxiang led 300,000 shoubei people to fight hard day and night, digging a ditch in the saline and alkali land, and when it rained, the alkali water flowed into the ditch and rushed into the sea, pressing the alkali down and turning the ground into a good land, Wang Boxiang said with emotion: "At that time, the 600,000 mu of land was dug out by the local people one by one. ”
It is precisely because the goal of the three major events in Shoubei development is clear that the people are willing to engage in it. Wang Boxiang said that in the past, some people in the project were not active, why? It is because the benefits are not good, Shoubei zhi saline alkali land, is the people can see, touch, personally experience the benefits, only two or three years, the 1.2 million acres of land has been developed. Until now, many village secretaries and ordinary people in Shoubei have remembered that they have said that thanks to the development of the original white and vast alkali land into the current good land, not only can grow cotton, but also breeding, now even richer than the south, if there is no Shoubei development at that time, there would be no good life now.
Looking back on the years of that year, Wang Boxiang was still excited. "It is precisely because of the reform that Shouguang's agriculture has continued to develop, the peasants' living standards have been continuously improved, And Shouguang has been rich in vegetables and rich in the market, all of which were a good foundation laid at that time, otherwise it would not have developed so well." It was then that the foundation was laid, and after the people consciously and voluntarily took the road of vegetables, I just gave Shouguang a foundation. ”
"I don't have many meetings, but I do a lot"
When Shouguang was appointed secretary of the county party committee, Wang Boxiang's greatest ideal was to do something for the people, lead the people of Shouguang to do a big job, and let everyone in Shouguang benefit. Over the years, Shouguang farmers have indeed benefited greatly from vegetable cultivation. When he went to the countryside, everyone surrounded him and said, "If you are at a loss, or you will not be rich, in the past 30 years, as long as you plant greenhouses, which household has no money?"
Farmers grow vegetables to earn money, which is already thick, and then go to trade or do business, the money in their hands is more. As long as you can do it, there is no one who does not earn money. Wang Boxiang recognized this "dead reason": if he identified the right thing, he made up his mind to do it to the end!
In Wang Boxiang's eyes, this award is not obtained in one or two years, but a historical witness in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. He said that the party and the people had not forgotten him, and that he only needed to go to the countryside of Shouguang for a walk, and as soon as the local peasants heard that he had gone, many people surrounded him and asked him about this and that, asking for warmth, and some peasants shed tears when they held his hand.
"It's not enough to just say good things, I don't have many meetings, I don't talk much, I do more, just do it." In the five and a half years that he served as the secretary of the Shouguang County CPC Committee, there were also many twists and turns, but everyone worked forward with one heart, and there was continuous reform and continuous progress. In Wang Boxiang's eyes, this is the 40 years of progress, and the thinking of Shouguang people is constantly reforming and making progress, which has brought about the consciousness of action. In the land of Shouguang, more than one million Shouguang people wrote the big article of reform, and Shouguang also developed from a poor agricultural county to one of the top 100 counties in the country.
Greenhouse planting technology is actively promoted to the outside world
The farmers of Shouguang have become rich by planting greenhouses, and many places have come to learn greenhouse technology. At that time, there was also controversy, and some people and individual cadres said that this technology had to be kept secret, and this technology was learned by others and robbed us of our jobs.
Wang Boxiang said that this "secret" cannot be kept even if it wants to be protected, the greenhouse is not needle and thread, it cannot be hidden at home, it must be passed out sooner or later, it is better to take the initiative to push outward, the whole country is rich and better, we will also follow the good, we boldly push outward, our greenhouses can not collapse. Not only are they not secret about the greenhouse planting technology, but as long as someone asks, they send technicians to go, and when they go, there are more than a dozen people, and the technology quickly spread to Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet and even abroad.
Now, after retirement, Wang Boxiang still maintains the habit of reading books and newspapers every day and caring about major state affairs, and he is still thinking about the role of the county party secretary in the development of a county, and he suggested that the state should take some measures to specially train the secretary of the county party committee, and train a group of suitable seedlings.
Wang Boxiang said: After the reform and opening up, the biggest change is that most people have become rich, and without reform and opening up, there would be no peasants today. Farmers not only have food to eat, but also have money to spend, why did this change happen earlier in Shouguang? That's because the people of Shouguang took the initiative to find their own way. The greatest significance of reform and opening up is not to let others find a way for you, but to find your own suitable way.
Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Zhang Gang