China News Service, Kunming, November 27th. Title: Feature: Party Representative Zhang Guimei "Sings a Folk Song for the Party"
Author Chen Jing
On the 27th, Kunming, the "Spring City" in winter, was warm and sunny, and the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of China in Yunnan Province opened as scheduled.
In the venue, party representative Zhang Guimei sang "Sing a folk song for the party" with female party representatives in Lijiang, Yunnan in an interview with the media, which drew rounds of applause.
She said that this is what she wants to say to the party.
Zhang Guimei is the founder of China's first free girls' high school-Lijiang Huaping Girls' High School. In the past 13 years, she has helped nearly 2,000 mountain girls get out of the mountains and enter the university.
He has successively won honorary titles such as "Model of the Times", "Model of National Poverty Alleviation", and "July 1st Medal", becoming a banner of Yunnan education circles.
On the same day, Zhang Guimei, who was suffering from more than 20 diseases, entered the venue in a wheelchair. After the opening meeting, she came to the interview area in a wheelchair again, stood up with the help of the staff, refreshed and accepted the interview.
The picture shows Zhang Guimei being interviewed by the media and Liu Ranyang photo
"Mr. Zhang, after listening to the "Report" made by Wang Ning, secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, on behalf of the 10th Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, how do you feel? What do you want to say?" the reporter asked.
Zhang Guimei replied, "Let’s express our heartfelt voice with singing: sing a folk song to the party, and I compare the party to my mother. My mother only gave birth to my body, and the glory of the party shines on my heart..." Throughout the venue, the song was over, and there was thunderous applause.
"In the "Report", what impressed me most is these few words, '1.5 million people have moved the poor and cut the poor.' It has fulfilled the solemn promise of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. "In the group discussion, Zhang Guimei said excitedly, "I just want to say that, without the Communist Party, there would be no New China."
Yunnan, located in the southwestern border, is the "Shangganling" of China's poverty alleviation.
With the slow opening of the nationwide fight against poverty, 9.33 million rural poor people in Yunnan have all been lifted out of poverty, and the per capita disposable income in poverty-stricken areas has increased from 7,847 yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2016 to 11,740 yuan in 2020, 1.5 million People have realized "moving the poor" and "cutting the roots of the poor", and historically solved the regional overall poverty and absolute poverty that have plagued Yunnan for thousands of years.
"I have been doing home visits in the past few years and have traveled about 120,000 kilometers. In the past, I had opinions on many cadres and occasionally had conflicts. I felt that their work had not been done well. In the past few years, the changes in Yunnan have been really great. When I got older, I realized that I had misunderstood them.” Zhang Guimei said that this year she went to a township in Yongsheng County, Lijiang for a home visit. She traveled more than 20 in two days. Before changing to another place, she could not finish so many in five days.
In the process of home visits in recent years, she has seen families with nothing in the past move into new houses, students and parents who were once poor put on snow boots in the cold winter, and the elderly also chanted, "Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China." "...Zhang Guimei said, "Over the years, I have witnessed the road to poverty alleviation in Yunnan. I also hope that I can live a few more years and continue to witness the realization of Yunnan's various goals and blueprints."
The picture shows Zhang Guimei and Liu Ranyang who participated in the Yunnan Provincial Party Congress
The "Report" pointed out that in the next five years, Yunnan will work hard to let the people out of poverty live a better life, work hard to make the people have more convenient and full employment, and work hard to make the people have better education.
Zhang Guimei is full of expectations for this. She said that the mission is on her shoulders, and there is only struggle. Without struggle, the blueprint is just the blueprint. Under the leadership of the party and the government, these goals will surely be achieved.
And she will continue to struggle in her post to train the students of Huaping Girls’ High School to become the backbone of all walks of life in society. They are all present. Please rest assured, the party, there must be these children on the road to strengthening the country." (End)