Author: Han Xiaoqing (Research Fellow, Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, Central Party School [National Academy of Administration])
Comrade Jiao Yulu is a good public servant of the people and a good example for cadres. Jiao Yulu's spirit epitomizes the fine work style of the CPC and is a concentrated embodiment of the party's fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly among grassroots cadres. In March 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in Lankao County when investigating and guiding the party's mass line education and practice activities that the spirit of Jiao Yulu "was, is and will remain the precious spiritual wealth of our party in the past." It is necessary to particularly study and carry forward Comrade Jiao Yulu's feelings of being a public servant who "has the whole people in his heart, but not himself," the realistic style of seeking everything and "eating the bread chewed by others without taste," the fighting spirit of "daring to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new day," and "revolutionaries must be heroes in the face of difficulties," and the moral sentiment of "not engaging in specialization at any time" in the face of hardship, simplicity, honesty, and public service. Jiao Yulu's spirit has infected and influenced generations of Chinese. Conscientiously studying and grasping the rich connotation of Jiao Yulu's spirit and profoundly excavating the lofty value pursuit contained and embodied in Jiao Yulu's spirit are of very important practical guiding significance for our party to lead the people to achieve the goal of "two hundred years" and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The relevant personnel of the film "My Father Jiao Yulu" visited the Comrade Jiao Yulu Memorial Hall. Xinhua News Agency
Zhangzhuang Village in Dongbatou Town was once the largest outlet in Lankao, and Comrade Jiao Yulu once checked the wind outlet and controlled the wind and sand here. Since the start of the battle against poverty, Zhangzhuang Village has actively developed the cultivation of Lankao melon and edible mushrooms, and used industry to drive employment. The picture shows villagers picking edible mushrooms. Xinhua News Agency
Zhangzhuang Village and the Yellow River in Dongbatou Town, Lankao County, Henan Province. Xinhua News Agency
1. The spirit of public servant who is close to the people and loves the people
Serving the people wholeheartedly is the fundamental purpose of our party and the essence of Jiao Yulu's spirit. Comrade Jiao Yulu has not worked in Lankao for a long time, only more than 470 days, but why can he win the support and endless nostalgia of the masses of the people? Because he has always kept the masses of the people in mind and sincerely served as a servant of the people. At the beginning of December 1962, Comrade Jiao Yulu was appointed by the organization to Lankao as the secretary of the county party committee. The organization asked him to go home and settle down and then report to Lankao, but he did not go home and went directly to Lankao to take up his post. Comrade Jiao Yulu said: "When Lankao is in serious difficulty, the masses there are looking forward to the people sent by the party organization to organize them to struggle against the difficulties. That's what he said and that's what he did. In the days and nights of Lankao, Comrade Jiao Yulu always kept the masses of the people in mind. He led the members of the county party committee to the Lankao Railway Station to understand the situation of the affected people going out, and when he saw the masses fleeing the wilderness, he understood and sympathized with them, and was determined to change the appearance of Lankao. To this end, he supported the abolition of the "Dissuasion Office" and the establishment of the "Three Harms" Office. On a snowy day, Comrade Jiao Yulu drew up six circulars, the fifth of which demanded: "Educate the whole party, go to the masses when the snow is closed, and share weal and woe with them." Early the next morning, he visited dozens of families in need. At the home of Uncle Liang Juncai, who was seriously ill, Comrade Jiao Yulu said affectionately: "I am your son!" This sentence shows his deep feelings for the masses and has won the eternal memory of the masses. General Secretary Xi Jinping's "Nian Nu Jiao , Remembrance of Jiao Yulu" in "Who among the people does not love officials? Turning tears into rain", truly expressing the deep feelings between Comrade Jiao Yulu and the masses of the people.
Seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation is the original intention and mission of the Chinese communists. To keep the original intention, we must always keep in mind the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly. To grasp the rich connotation of Jiao Yulu's spirit, it is necessary to firmly establish the concept of purpose, sincerely serve the people, cherish the heart of serving the people, scrupulously abide by the responsibility of serving the people, be good at seeking policies for the benefit of the people, do more things for the people, truly think of what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, and do what the masses need, and regard the fulfillment, protection, and development of the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the starting point and end point of all work.
2. The spirit of hard work and hard work, diligence and thrift
Difficulties can most test and exercise people. At that time, Lankao was seriously affected by sand, salinity and waterlogging, and the conditions were very difficult. In the face of difficulties, Jiao Yulu did not lose his heart, and he encouraged the comrades of the county party committee and said: "Lankao is a disaster area, poor, and difficult. But there is an advantage to the disaster areas, which can temper people's revolutionary will and cultivate people's revolutionary character. Revolutionaries must be heroes in the face of difficulties. "He didn't complain about the sky, didn't wait, didn't rely on it, and was determined to fight hard for three or five years to change the face of Lankao." He led the party members and cadres to control waterlogging, turned the sand and alkali, planted paulownia, and composed a heroic song of changing the world and the earth with enthusiasm and practical actions.
In terms of work and life, Comrade Jiao Yulu is extremely hard and simple. There are 42 patches on one quilt he used, 36 patches on the mattress, and patches on his clothes, hats, shoes and socks. The desk and filing cabinet he used were repaired and repaired, and he was reluctant to change them. Once, when a cadre proposed to decorate the office of a leading cadre, he asked rhetorically: "Can't you be revolutionary when you sit on a broken chair?" The "Ten Prohibitions for Cadres" drafted by him stipulates: It is forbidden to use grain to make wine and sugar, squander and waste; it is not allowed to take the opportunity of the Spring Festival to do big happy events (not to be married), to eat birthdays, to set off firecrackers, and to squander waste. Comrade Jiao Yulu used his own practical actions to explain what is called arduous struggle.
Over the past 40 -odd years since the founding of New China, especially the reform and opening up, through the efforts of several generations, the material wealth of our society has been greatly enriched, and people's working conditions and living standards have been greatly improved. Although some old contradictions and problems have been resolved, new contradictions and problems have emerged. In the face of difficulties and problems, cowering is tantamount to sitting still. Only in the struggle of not fearing difficulties and forging ahead in a pioneering spirit can we burst forth an indestructible and invincible flood and mighty force; only by facing difficulties and carrying forward the spirit of arduous struggle can we overcome difficulties and solve problems.
3. The scientific and realistic spirit of proceeding from reality in everything
Comrade Jiao Yulu has not worked in Lankao for a long time, but he has been able to lead the people of Lankao to achieve remarkable results in the management of the "three harms," one of the reasons is that he has always adhered to the scientific spirit of seeking truth from facts, paid attention to investigation and research, and made the correct policy decision to deal with the "three harms." Comrade Jiao Yulu often said: "Eating other people's chewed steamed buns has no taste." During the Lankao period, Jiao Yulu relied on a bicycle and a pair of iron feet to visit and investigate more than 120 of the 149 production brigades in the county at that time, chasing floods, checking the wind outlet, exploring the quicksand, and finally finding out the bottom line of the "three harms" in Lankao. Through this large-scale and in-depth investigation and study, a set of detailed information on the occurrence and development of water, sand and alkali in Lankao was exchanged, and a practical plan for transforming natural disasters in Lankao was formulated. Comrade Jiao Yulu's deeds have fully embodied the communists' scientific attitude of respecting objective laws and their realistic spirit of doing their work in a down-to-earth manner.
In the nearly one hundred years since the founding of the CPC, an important reason why it has been able to lead the Chinese people to overcome various risks and challenges and make tremendous achievements is to persist in proceeding from reality in everything and seeking truth from facts. In the history of the party, as long as we persist in proceeding from reality in everything we do, pay attention to investigation and study, explore the objective laws inherent in things, and formulate correct lines, principles, and policies that conform to objective reality, embody the law of development, and conform to the will of the people, the party's cause will be able to achieve continuous victories; on the contrary, the party's cause will suffer setbacks or even serious losses. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the development of the party's cause is facing new practice, new development, and new tasks, and the Chinese communists continue to carry forward the scientific and truth-seeking spirit of proceeding from reality, respect objective laws, and conduct in-depth investigation and study, so that they will be able to overcome all difficulties and dangers on the road ahead, constantly cross the new "Loushan Pass" and "Lazikou" on the road ahead, and thus gather together the magnificent forces for realizing the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.
4. The spirit of facing difficulties without fear of difficulties and risks
Before Comrade Jiao Yulu took office in Lankao, he knew about The poverty and backwardness of Lankao, because the organization had already introduced him to The situation in Lankao. In the face of difficulties, Comrade Jiao Yulu showed the fearless spirit of communists who bravely shoulder heavy burdens. He said: "Thank you to the party for sending me to the most difficult place, the more difficult the place, the more able to train people." Rest assured, organizationally, I will never leave lankao without changing the face of Lankao. "After going to Lankao to work, Comrade Jiao Yulu was not afraid of hardships, lived in the wind, ate and slept in the open, carried out a large number of field investigations, and had a good idea of the situation in Lankao, and truly knew where the difficulties of Lankao were. Under his leadership, relying on the masses and uniting as one, he pioneered a set of simple and easy methods for managing the "three harms", and finally overcame many difficulties, broke out a way of life, and led the development of Lankao.
Not being afraid of difficulties and risks, facing difficulties and advancing in spite of difficulties is an important reason why Comrade Jiao Yulu was able to do a great job in Lankao. In the face of difficulties and challenges, there have always been two completely different attitudes: one is passive pessimism, passive coping, and some even fleeing from the battlefield; the other is not afraid and faces difficulties. To study and carry forward the spirit of Jiao Yulu, we must, like Comrade Jiao Yulu, always maintain a courage to dare to do good deeds, maintain a kind of arrogance that goes against the tide, not be afraid of complicated contradictions, not afraid of arduous tasks, not afraid of heavy responsibilities, dare to take up heavy burdens, dare to overcome difficulties and win victories, and dare to strive to be the first. Comrade Jiao Yulu's noble character of forging ahead in spite of difficulties and facing difficulties and advancing in the face of difficulties and courageous heroism is the precious spiritual wealth of our party and nation.
5. The spirit of selfless dedication after bowing down and dying
In the process of leading the people of Lankao to fight against the "three evils", Comrade Jiao Yulu's liver disease became more and more serious. He often endured illness to hold meetings and make reports. Sometimes, when the pain was unbearable, he used a hard thing to hold a chair on his head and a head on the liver, and over time, the rattan chair he was sitting on was pushed out of a big hole. He never took his illness to heart and repeatedly refused the good intentions of the organization to arrange for him to be hospitalized. Later, his condition was serious, and Comrade Jiao Yulu had to be admitted to the hospital and was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. When the nurse injected him with analgesic injection in order to alleviate his pain, he felt that his illness could not be cured, and dissuaded the nurse: "I don't need it, save it for other class brothers!" On his deathbed, he said, "Alive, I did not cure the dunes, and when I die, I will be buried in the dunes, and watch you cure the dunes." "Comrade Jiao Yulu never used the power in his hands to seek any benefits for his children and relatives before he died, his son did not buy a ticket for a play, and Comrade Jiao Yulu asked him to make up the ticket afterwards. It is precisely because Comrade Jiao Yulu is hardworking and simple, selflessly dedicated, upright and honest, and does not seek his own selfish interests that he can establish a lofty prestige among the masses of the people.
Comrade Jiao Yulu had the people in his heart, and in order to change the appearance of Lankao, he did his best and sacrificed his precious life for the cause of the party and the people. It is precisely because there are countless party members like Comrade Jiao Yulu who have made selfless dedication, who care about the people and love the people, and who have selflessly dedicated their lives for a lifetime, that our party can lead the people to achieve brilliant achievements. This spirit of selfless dedication after bowing down and dying will also inspire more party members and cadres to make greater contributions to the realization of the "two hundred years" goal and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Guangming Daily (2020-09-23 06 edition)