Wu Yunduo at work
Wu Yunduo's handwriting (file photo)
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that a promising nation cannot do without heroes, and a promising country cannot do without pioneers. Turning over the red picture of the CPC leading the people's revolutionary struggle, there is such a military-industrial hero who "dedicates everything to the party." As a pioneer in the cause of military industry in the revolutionary base areas during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in our country, his life walked with the history of the republic's gun manufacturing, and he used his life to practice his oath to the party and wrote a hymn of the times that inspired people to tears and stirred people to forge ahead. He is Wu Yunduo, who is known as "China's Paul Kochakin".
"A man who has the communist ideal and is infinitely loyal to it can withstand any storm or difficulty." "If I have an afterlife, I will still choose the Communist Party of China, always follow the party, and dedicate everything to the party!" ...... Wu Yunduo's sonorous oath echoes in our ears through time and space.
"To give everything to the party" means absolute loyalty to the party
"The world is supremely virtuous, and it is greater than loyalty." Loyalty is the firm spiritual conviction of the Chinese Communists to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. Absolute loyalty to the Party is not a slogan, and it is required that every Communist Party member must firmly establish communist ideals and convictions and be ready to sacrifice everything for the interests of the Party and the people. Wu Yunduo interpreted his absolute loyalty to the party with his life's actions.
Born at the foot of the Anyuan Coal Mine, Wu Yunduo's family was poor and he knew how to share the burden of his family since he was a child. He went up the mountain to pick coal, pick up cinders, and worked as an electrical worker in a coal mine. At the age of 9, Wu Yunduo joined the children's group and participated in activities such as winding, sentry, and sending letters. The exploitation of the capitalists and the suffering brought about by the war left a hard impression on him like a hot red soldering iron. In his miserable life, he gradually realized that to turn around, to liberate, and to be bright, the only way to do so was to follow the Communist Party.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wu Yunduo resolutely joined the New Fourth Army. After being sent to the New Fourth Army Headquarters Repair Center, he began his career as a soldier in the thatched hut of the farmhouse. For Wu Yunduo at that time, military engineering was a completely unfamiliar field. But he firmly believed that to join the revolutionary ranks, he had to follow the Party and listen to it. In May 1939, Wu Yunduo joined the Communist Party of China. Since then, he has been determined to fulfill his promise of absolute loyalty to the party.
From the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the period of the War of Liberation, and then to the founding of New China, Wu Yunduo made important contributions to China's military industry in different posts. He snatches the heaviest burden, dares to gnaw the hardest bones, and always rushes to the front when encountering danger.
In 1941, Wu Yunduo led a small detachment to produce a batch of emergency bullets. Once, he was dismantling the detonator on the fuze of an old shell he had collected, when suddenly, a detonator exploded in his left hand... Decades later, he recalled, "I knew it was a very dangerous job, and I wanted to do it myself, because I was a Communist Party member, and in times of danger, I should stand in front of everyone and not push dangerous work to others." ”
Wu Yunduo has been injured many times in his life, has undergone more than 20 surgeries, has more than 100 wounds all over his body, has dozens of shrapnel pieces in his body, and the joints on his legs have been fixed by plaster bandages for a long time, have hardened, and walked straight... But with tenacious perseverance, he has always insisted on fighting in the front line of production and scientific research. He said, "As long as I live for one day, I will certainly work for the party and the people for one day." ”
When experiencing setbacks, we still strengthen our ideals and convictions; when faced with life and death choices, we use actions to interpret absolute loyalty to the party. On September 30, 1951, Wu Yunduo, as a special representative of the national model workers, went to Beijing to participate in the National Day ceremony. At the banquet that night, Premier Zhou Enlai shook Wu Yunduo's hand and said, "You are China's Paul Kochakin." ”
To "dedicate everything to the party" means to dedicate without complaint or regret
"Although nine deaths, they still have no regrets" can be regarded as the best footnote to Wu Yunduo, an excellent proletarian fighter. In front of the party and the people, he has long abandoned his personal life and death, and has melted every minute and second of his life into the furnace of revolution and into the tide of construction.
During the war years, he sacrificed his life and forgot his death to forge swords for the country.
At that time, the production conditions of the military industry were extremely simple. Fixing the rudder of the well to a bracket, and hanging a piece of iron lump of more than 100 kilograms from the well rope, it becomes a "hand-cranked steam hammer" for forging the body of the gun and shell casing; on the stone grinding shaft of the grinding grain, a conveyor belt sewn with coarse cloth becomes a "human push engine"; the flashlight lamp bead is ground out of a hole to stuff gunpowder inside, and once the electricity is connected, it becomes an "electric detonator"... It was in such a "blacksmith shop" that Wu Yunduo and others built our army's first ordnance repair workshop, and for the first time produced rifles and the first batch of flat-firing cannons and gun grenades; produced artillery with a caliber of 42 centimeters and a range of up to 4 kilometers; developed a variety of mines such as laurel, electric thunderbolt, chemical mine, and timing mines; under the condition of only 8 people, the annual output of 600,000 rounds of ammunition ...
In order to build weapons and ensure the smooth operation of the front line, Wu Yunduo walked on the brink of death several times, but the threat of death never stopped him from advancing. In September 1947, in a mountain depression called Tiger Tooth in Ganjingzi, Dalian, a loud "bang" startled people outside the hillside. A huge wave of explosive air threw Wu Yunduo, then deputy director of the engineering department of Dalian Jianxin Company and director of the fuze factory, into the air and onto the beach 20 meters away - it was testing new shells, and when Wu Yunduo rushed forward to check on an unexploded bomb, the shell suddenly exploded... This was the third time Wu Yunduo had been seriously injured.
In the era of peace, he spent his days and nights in the public service and devoted himself to the party.
After the founding of New China, Wu Yunduo successively served as deputy director of the Central and Southern Ordnance Industry Bureau, deputy chief engineer of the Mechanical Science Research Institute, and vice president of the Scientific Research Institute of the Fifth Machine Ministry, presided over a number of weapons scientific research, trained a large number of military industrial talents for the country, and made important contributions to the modernization of national defense and the improvement of military equipment. For Wu Yunduo, as long as he can do a little more for the party, he will be very happy no matter how tired he is. As he himself said, "Even if it dissolves itself into a pinch of dirt, as long as it is paved on the road to communism, and lets the partners rush through it in a big stride, it is the greatest happiness." ”
After retiring, Wu Yunduo invested a lot of effort in youth education and the cause of helping the disabled. Dragging his crippled body, he gave thousands of reports to government agencies, factories, schools, and other places, and the audience reached as many as 100,000 people. When he was hospitalized, he used the ward as a classroom, receiving Young Pioneers for team days and Communist Youth League members for regimental lessons. At the inaugural meeting of the Beijing Sick and Disabled Youth Club, Wu Yunduo encouraged the sick and disabled young people to learn knowledge and skills, produce self-help, improve their own quality, and create a better future.
In 1983, during his serious illness, Wu Yunduo made a will: after the incident, he would not hold a memorial service, would not bid farewell to the body, and would not preserve the ashes. When his life was about to come to an end, he was still attached to the motherland and the party. He dedicated all the light and heat of his life to the deeply loved party and the people, and until the end of his life, he had no complaints or regrets.
To "dedicate everything to the party" means to cultivate excellent skills
On the road of growing from an ordinary worker to a pioneer in the cause of military industry, Wu Yunduo has always adhered to a realistic attitude and constantly tempered his hard skills.
When apprenticed in the mine, Wu Yunduo was not satisfied with only mastering the skills, but insisted on studying the principles of machine operation. He changed the cramped attic of the workshop into a learning area, working hard during the day, earning money to buy industrial books and basic physics books, learning to master the knowledge of AC motors and DC motors; holding technical lectures at night to tell the knowledge to the workers' brothers.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Yunduo led the workers to overcome various difficulties and produce much-needed guns and ammunition for the troops in the front. In 1939, Wu Yunduo and his comrades-in-arms built the first arsenal of the New Fourth Army in the ravine because of their ugliness and simplicity, and manufactured the first rifle, the first bullet, the first mortar shell, and the first mine of the New Fourth Army. Whenever the Japanese puppet army attacked the base area, he led everyone to carry the machine to fight guerrillas. As long as there is time, we insist on production and complete the tasks assigned by our superiors on time every time.
American journalist and writer Smedley personally test-fired rifles made by Wu Yunduo and others at the New Fourth Army Ordnance Repair Institute, and visited long stools, low stools, wooden stakes, wooden planks, stone mills and other manufacturing equipment. She said with emotion: "I have traveled from the Americas to Europe, to many countries, and I have seen many factories, but I have never seen an arsenal like yours." It's a rarity in the world! ”
More than half a hundred years old, Wu Yunduo still raced against time to read and study, reading the Selected Works of Mao Zedong four times and the Complete Works of Lu Xun twice. He also took the initiative to help the production team conduct scientific experiments and extract nitrogen fertilizers urgently needed for agricultural production from gangue. In 1987, Wu Yunduo wrote in an inscription for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute in 202: "Strive to climb the peak of science and technology and make greater contributions to the modernization of conventional weapons!" ”
Constantly enhancing the ability to study is the life code for Chinese communists to always maintain their youth. No matter how difficult the conditions were, Wu Yunduo persisted in studying hard, tempering his own skills, making one contribution after another to the cause of the party and the people, and making every effort to fulfill the missions and tasks entrusted by the times.
To "dedicate everything to the party" requires a high degree of honesty and self-discipline
"Come with a heart, don't take half a blade of grass with you." Maintaining the honest and honest nature of Communist Party members is the creed of life that Wu Yunduo has always believed in.
In the late 1950s, Zhou Enlai instructed Wu Yunduo to allocate a small car, and the comrades concerned chose a British-made high-end car, but Wu Yunduo insisted on changing it to a cheap car. After the car was equipped, he also insisted on using it only when necessary, and commuting to and from work on weekdays was crowded with buses. He was seriously injured in the leg, his eyesight was also very poor, everyone looked in the eyes, the pain was in his heart, but he himself smiled and said that it was a small thing not to take the car, and it was a big thing to lose the old tradition of thrift and thrift.
After retiring, Wu Yunduo still participated in many social activities and his physical condition became worse and worse, but he only went to the hospital for treatment when he really couldn't stand it, and he only stayed in the general ward. During a hospitalization, Wu Yunduo's weight was already too light, and the medical staff repeatedly mobilized him to transfer to the cadre ward, but he resolutely disagreed, and said: "I did not participate in the revolution, I did not store myself in the bank, planning to earn a generous interest." ”
Wu Yunduo's last return to the institute was in 1981 before his retirement. He did not inform anyone before leaving, but when he arrived at the office, he looked at his old colleagues, looked at the familiar office building, and left by bus without eating. His wife Lu Ping fell in the process of taking care of him, and some comrades suggested that the organization should arrange personnel to take care of him, but he strictly refused: try not to add trouble to the organization for their own affairs, which is my only contribution.
A high degree of honesty and self-discipline and the maintenance of a hard and simple work style are still the source of motivation for our party to overcome difficulties and achieve its dreams. Wu Yunduo also overcomes the next problem with the support of this motivation.
In a letter to Zhang Haidi, Wu Yunduo mentioned, "Only a person with lofty ideals can his spirit always be full. This ideal is to fight for the happiness of the people and to fight for the prosperity and strength of the country. "Yes, Wu Yunduo's whole life has been adhering to this lofty and lofty ideal. For the cause of the party and the people, he dedicated his youth, his life, and everything he had.
With the passage of time and the changes of the times, Wu Yunduo's spirit of "dedicating everything to the party" will not fade, but will certainly shine in the long river of history, inspiring generation after generation of party members and cadres to be brave and fearless, selfless and selfless, to work hard, and to contribute their strength to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Contributed by the Comprehensive Department of the Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Youth Theory Study Group of the Press and Propaganda Center, written by Wang Shuying and Yang Zuye)