People's livelihood is diligent, but diligence is not lacking. The Chinese nation is hardworking and creative. It is precisely because of labor creation that we have historical glory; it is precisely because of labor creation that we have today's achievements.

  Daming, canal repairing, planting trees, scorching rice cakes, grinding bean curd ... For decades, General Secretary Xi Jinping has left a warm memory of his work with the people, showing the true nature of the people ’s leaders and their feelings for the people. .

General Secretary from the Yellow Earth

  "Our roots are rooted in the working people."

  Xi Jinping ’s grassroots experience and labor experience in his youth made him well aware that labor is an important magic weapon for tempering style and connecting with the masses.

  At the beginning of 1969, under the age of 16, Xi Jinping took the initiative to apply to join the team in the rural area of ​​northern Shaanxi and came to the Liangjiahe Brigade of Wen'anyi Commune in Yanchuan County.

  In Liangjiahe, he ate and lived with the working people, "sincerely be with the folks, and consciously accept the hardship of hard life", from a "children who are not familiar with the world" to "a good way of farming."

In 1973, Xi Jinping (second from left) was in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, when he went to the countryside.

  After becoming the party branch secretary of the Liangjiahe Brigade, he worked with the villagers to grow land, drill wells, dams, and roads, develop production, and change the appearance of his hometown ...

  Xi Jinping later recalled with emotion, "I live among them, and work among them, they are no longer separated from each other." At the same time, he also "learned the peasant's spirit of seeking truth from facts, hard work and hard work" among the working people.

  Leaving Liang Jiahe, Xi Jinping still insists on the good habit of not forgetting his work.

  In Zhengding, the villagers were catching up with the villagers to hoe the ground and the seedlings when they were inspecting the village. Xi Jinping picked up the hoe and rolled up his sleeves to work with the villagers, as well as the old farmers. This surprised everyone in the group.

  In Ningde, he not only participated in labor, but also thought deeply about labor. He once wrote in "Escape from Poverty": "If the rural labor force continues to be bound to the original scale of arable land, relying on the hoe and sickle, following the old farming tradition of thousands of years of sunrise and sunset. Slow-paced and inefficient production labor is not a good thing. On the contrary, looking at the mass transfer of labor with reform and opening up, we will be pleasantly surprised to find that we have obtained an extremely valuable, yet to be developed, potentially creating huge Brand new resources of value. "

  In Zhejiang, he put on the miner ’s uniform, put on a hard hat, and took the cage to the bottom of the well for nearly a thousand kilometers. He bent down and walked for more than 1,500 meters along the low and narrow inclined shaft. He came to the mining site to visit and condole in the well. Coal mining workers and eat dumplings with the workers.

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△ In 1995, Xi Jinping, who was the deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee, participated in the labor of the flood dike reinforcement project in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River in Minhou.

△ On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2005, Xi Jinping came to the Zhejiang mining area of ​​Changguang Coal Mine and took the cage to the bottom of the well for nearly a thousand kilometers. Workers mining coal underground.

△ In January 2007, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, cooked for the elderly at the Retirement Home in Pingdu Town, Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province.

  Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, Xi Jinping's investigation and investigation have covered almost all parts of the country, from poor mountain villages to grassroots communities. He worked with the masses, leaving behind memorable experiences and warm moments.

△ On February 2nd, 2016, Xi Jinping and the villagers played a cake in Shenshan Village, Maoping Township, Jinggangshan City, Jiangxi Province.

△ On February 12, 2018, Xi Jinping grinded bean curds with residents during his inspection in Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

△ On August 21, 2019, Xi Jinping, who was investigating in Gansu, came to Babusha Forest Farm in Gulang County. During the inspection, he picked up a ditch plow and participated in the sand control work.

△ On March 10, 2020, Xi Jinping visited the Vulcan Hill Hospital to understand the hospital construction and operation, patient admission, medical personnel protection and scientific research, etc., and visited the patients who were receiving treatment. Medical workers encouraged everyone to strengthen their confidence and overcome the epidemic.

△ On April 3, 2020, Xi Jinping came to Jiugong Town, Daxing District, Beijing to participate in the voluntary tree planting in the capital. This is the eighth consecutive year since Xi ’s 18th National Congress of the Party, Xi Jinping has practiced, picked up a shovel, and took the lead in participating in voluntary tree planting activities.

Praise workers, pay tribute to workers

  Xi Jinping, who came out of the working people, has always been very concerned about and supported the workers. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, he has attended activities with the working people many times, talked with representatives, wrote back to model workers, encouraged the workers, and showed the deep friendship between the people's leaders and the working people.

  On April 28, 2013, Xi Jinping came to the National Federation of Trade Unions to discuss and deliver important speeches with representatives of national labor models. He emphasized that the whole society must implement the major policies of respecting labor, respecting knowledge, respecting talents and respecting creation, safeguarding and developing the interests of laborers, and protecting the rights of laborers.

  On April 30, 2014, Xi Jinping, who was working in Xinjiang, met with model workers and representatives of advanced workers and advanced figures in Urumqi, and had a discussion with them. (The picture shows that during his inspection in Xinjiang on the morning of April 28, Xi Jinping talked with the villagers in Ayamang Village, Tokzak Town, Shufu County.) Xi Jinping emphasized at the symposium that labor models and advanced workers and advanced figures Not only do you have to do a good job, but you must also spread the work spirit and work concept to the whole society, so that hard work, hard work, and hard work will become popular in the whole society.

  On April 28, 2015, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the celebration of the "May 1st" International Labor Day and the National Congress of Recognizing Labor Models and Advanced Workers. He pointed out that to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and then to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, and harmonious socialist modernized country, fundamentally depends on labor and the creation of workers. Therefore, no matter how the conditions of the times change, we must always respect labor and respect laborers, and always attach importance to giving play to the main role of the working class and the broad masses of working people.

  On April 26, 2016, Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on intellectuals, model workers, and youth representatives in Hefei, Anhui. He pointed out that the model worker is an outstanding representative of the working masses and the most beautiful worker. The model worker's spirit of "caring for the job, striving for first class, struggling hard, being brave to innovate, indifferent to fame and fortune, dedication" is a vivid expression of the spirit of the great times.

  On April 30, 2018, Xi Jinping wrote back to the students of the undergraduate model class of China Labor Relations College. He wrote in his letter that socialism is done, and the new era is also done. I hope you will cherish the honor, study hard, continue to work hard in your respective positions, and create more successes, use your energy, enthusiasm, and diligence to inspire more people and encourage the working people to strive for the new era. He also emphasized that the whole society should respect the model workers, promote the spirit of model workers, and let honest labor and hard work become common practice.

  These words from General Secretary Xi Jinping embodies a distinct theme: advocating labor and paying tribute to laborers. A sentence full of affectionate words made the working people feel warm and invigorated, and it has also become an inexhaustible motive for the hard work of all working people in the new era.

  (CCTV, CCTV)