As we all know, the strength of a country depends on the younger generation of the people, who have dreams, enthusiasm, ability, and sufficient time, and the importance of young talents to a country is self-evident.
In 1978, when Comrade Chen Yun re-assumed the post of Vice Chairman of the Central Committee, he was 73 years old, while Deng Xiaoping was 74 years old and Comrade Ye Jianying was 81 years old.
Because the turmoil of the previous decade made all the leaders turn their attention to other places, when everything was corrected, they suddenly found that at this time, the country's leading cadres were in disarray and the youth talent pool was in crisis.
Conservatively estimated, if this situation does not improve significantly in the short term, then in the next five to ten years, the country's leading cadres will face a fault crisis. Faced with this situation, a group of state leaders led by Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, and Ye Jianying began to focus on the national "successor issue", aiming to train more young cadres and pave the way for China's future development.
So how did Deng Xiaoping promote young cadres Wu Bangguo and Huang Ju in Shanghai?
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After the central authorities completed a series of rectifications, they began to shift the focus of their work to various fields, and coupled with the great policy of reform and opening up, there have been obvious progress in the economic, cultural, military, and scientific and technological aspects.
However, in this prosperous situation, Deng Xiaoping sensed the huge crisis that China was facing at this time, that is, the "succession problem." At that time, from the whole country to the top, from the central to the local, leading cadres generally developed in the direction of aging, and the reserves of young cadres were far from sufficient.
In order to enable New China to march forward all the way on the road of rapid development, the leaders of the PARTY Central Committee headed by Deng Xiaoping began to put forward the principle of selecting and promoting cadres for training young cadres. However, due to various reasons, although local organs have responded to this policy put forward by the central authorities, the proportion of young cadres among leading cadres in actual selection and promotion is still very small.
In July 1979, Deng Xiaoping came to Shanghai, the economic center of the country, and held talks with the leadership team in Shanghai at that time on the "succession issue". During the talks, Deng Xiaoping emphatically said that the "succession issue" is a major issue, the selection and training of young cadres is imminent, and Shanghai, as China's economic center, must make full preparations in this regard.
Subsequently, Deng Xiaoping pointed out the problems existing in Shanghai's current leading body, the personnel were redundant, and the leading cadres were older, and after the talks, the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee formally put the matter of cultivating young cadres on the agenda.
In December 1980, at the working conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deng Xiaoping clearly put forward the four criteria for the selection of talents at the current stage in the country, revolutionization, rejuvenation, knowledge, and specialization, referred to as the "four modernizations" policy.
At the meeting, he also stressed that the center of the "four modernizations" principle is rejuvenation, because only when leading cadres develop toward rejuvenation can we always ensure the party's advanced nature and vitality.
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At the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1982, two minutes written and drafted by Comrade Chen Yun were printed and distributed, namely "Promoting and Cultivating Middle-Aged and Young Cadres is a Top Priority" and "Minutes of the Symposium on the Retirement of Old Cadres."
The two articles seem to be aimed at different groups of cadres, but in essence, they both solve the same problem, that is, the "succession problem" that China faced at that time. After the meeting, Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping held separate forums to discuss with leaders from the central and local governments the selection and promotion of young cadres.
Because in the previous meeting documents, Chen Yun emphatically raised the issue that the age of young cadres should be set at the age of forty years old, so at the later forum, he also mainly answered why the age of forty was set, and the fundamental reason was that leading cadres around the age of forty had sufficient energy to complete the tasks entrusted to him by the party and the state.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping also said at the forum, "This is a strategic issue, and if it is not resolved as soon as possible, I am afraid that we will usher in another disaster." "With the bold advance of the two central leaders, China has set off a wind of leadership reform from top to bottom, and the main purpose of this reform is to select a group of talented young cadres.
At the same time, Shanghai's leading body closely followed the central policy and began to select talented young cadres throughout the city, and for this reason, Deng Xiaoping also instructed that talents could be excavated in various places, whether it was enterprises, institutions, social organizations, or technical backbones, scientific research experts, as long as he had talent and was not old, he could become a candidate for young cadres.
In the end, under the selection of the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Wu Bangguo Huang Ju and eighteen others were selected to enter the list of candidates for young leading cadres in Shanghai.
In February 1983, Deng Xiaoping came to Shanghai again to inspect the work, during which he read in detail the list of young cadres recommended by the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee.
Although he did not know the eighteen candidates very well, through some basic introductions, it could be found that these eighteen candidates belonged to the best of the young people, and that they were still young, and as long as they were cultivated for a period of time, they would soon be able to take on big responsibilities in different positions.
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In 1983, with the approval of the central authorities, the leading body of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee carried out a major blood change, leaving only 5 political commissars Chen Guodong, Hu Lijiao, Wang Daohan, Wang Jian, and Zhang Chen, and the remaining 13 standing committee members all retreated to the second line, making room for the new generation of young cadres to train.
At the same time, seven of the original eighteen candidates for young cadres were selected to enter the leading body of the municipal party committee, including the younger Wu Bangguo and Huang Ju. In terms of training young cadres, responding to the call of the state, and solving the "succession problem", Shanghai has set a good example for the whole country.
Therefore, Deng Xiaoping attached considerable importance to several young cadres carefully selected by the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, and in order to enable Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju, and others to adapt to the needs of their posts as soon as possible, Deng Xiaoping held talks with the five veteran leaders who remained among the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee on many occasions, hoping that they would be able to train several young cadres well for the sake of the country and the people without reservation.
Moreover, in order to enable young cadres to better "enter," Deng Xiaoping also put forward a series of principles and policies to encourage old cadres to "come out."
In China in the seventies and eighties, from the central to the local, a large number of old leaders came from the revolution, whether it is merit or seniority is impressive, and now for the future of new China, they have to retreat into the background, so it is necessary to rationally arrange the life arrangements of this group of old cadres after retirement.
At the initiative of Deng Xiaoping and others, the retirement system for public officials began to be systematically improved, and the leaders of the older generation retreated to the background with peace of mind, leaving room for a new generation of young cadres to fully display their talents.
On this basis, the old cadres can be rehired again as expert consultants in various fields after retirement, so as to correct the shortcomings in the work of young cadres, so that the new generation of young cadres can not only show their fists in the post, but also the old generation of cadres can assist from the side, even if in another five years and ten years, when the state's rights are facing changes again, it will not affect the overall situation.
In addition, Shanghai, as the economic center of the whole country, Deng Xiaoping also attached great importance to the readjustment of the leading body of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and in order to encourage and support the work of the newly appointed young leaders, Deng Xiaoping went to Shanghai many times to hold friendly talks with them.
Among them, when Wu Bangguo Huang Ju and others began to act independently, Deng Xiaoping also personally came to inspect their work, and in the process of inspection, he also constantly gave Wu Bangguo Huang Ju and others teachings in all aspects, and recognized their performance in their work.
It was also this recognition that made Wu Bangguo Huang Ju and others who had first taken up their posts add a little more confidence and motivation to their work, during which Deng Xiaoping repeatedly stressed: "It does not matter if young cadres are allowed to do it, to break through, and it does not matter if they make mistakes. ”
It is precisely under such encouragement that talents such as Wu Bangguo Huang Ju have gradually made some achievements in their own jobs, and then they have become benchmarks among young leaders. In addition, during his many inspections, Deng Xiaoping spared no effort in teaching Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju, and others that they must seize the tide of the times, have a general pattern, and dare to seize the opportunity.
When Deng Xiaoping inspected Shanghai in 1994, before leaving, he specially summoned Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju, and others to his side, saying to them: "You must seize the tail of the 20th century, this is the last chance for Shanghai." After saying that, he jokingly said to Wu Bangguo Huang Ju and others in front of him: "I am old, I don't know how many more years I can do for the country, the rest depends on you." ”
A few years later, when Wu Bangguo recalled this experience again, he still felt a thousand emotions, in his heart, the achievements of their generation of leaders were inseparable from the teaching and guidance of the leaders of the older generation, and under the care of Deng Xiaoping, a group of young leaders led by Wu Bangguo Huang Ju quickly grew up in their posts and were able to stand alone.
Later, when the leaders of the older generation gradually retreated into the background, this group of young leaders also brilliantly fulfilled the heavy burden of the work of replacing the old and the new leading cadres.
Ancient poetry clouds, the generation of talented people in the country, each leading the way for hundreds of years, the future of the country will eventually belong to the next generation.