Let the light of theory illuminate the practice of strong army
——Remembering Yu Xiwen, squad leader of the information service support station of a certain rocket army group
"He is a loyal soldier of the'Four Haves', he is a moral model who practices his purpose, and he is a'good Chinese man' with a wide range of good deeds. He uses ordinary acts of kindness to let the sun shine into the distant mountains and let dreams plug Wings, let the red gene shine with the light of the times!"
This is the site of the first "Strong Army Pioneer" award ceremony for a certain Rocket Army base. The jury gave the award speech to Yu Xiwen, the monitor of the information service support station of a certain Rocket Army group.
In the 16 years since he joined the army, Yu Xiwen has worked hard to practice winning skills and has participated in more than 100 major tasks. He has been named one of the “National 100 Models of Positive Network Energy”, “National Model Individual of National Unity and Progress”, and won the National Military Non-commissioned Excellent Talent Award. The Rocket Army's "Information and Communication Vanguard" was rated as one of the top ten "Strong Army Pioneers" of the base, and won the third class three times.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the army, Yu Xiwen used the party's innovative theories to arm his mind in the great journey of strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army in the new era.
He is a "theory junk", and his biggest hobby is reading and learning——
"Thoughts are not lost, actions are not skewed"
In early November, hundreds of outstanding mid- and high-level non-commissioned officers from various units of the whole army studied intensively in the School of Information and Communication of the National University of Defense Technology.
There are no empty seats in the classroom.
As a trainee, Yu Xiwen became the protagonist of the lecture.
This time he is not talking about professional knowledge in communications, but about his understanding of Xi Jinping’s thinking on strengthening the army.
Speaking in a simple way, the audience listened with gusto.
During the lecture, Yu Xiwen gradually presented 16 carefully made mind maps, closely linked the various parts of the "Outline for the Study of Xi Jinping's Thoughts on Strengthening the Army", and refined and summarized each knowledge point in detail.
"Clear, simple and easy to understand, making the broad and profound thinking of strengthening the army easier to learn and remember." The students were full of praise.
"Unexpectedly, ordinary soldiers can learn so deeply, understand so thoroughly, and draw so close!"
In September 1985, Yu Xiwen was born in Wuyuan, Jiangxi. The former site of the Special Committee of Anhui and Jiangxi is in his hometown.
He grew up listening to the stories of the revolutionary ancestors, and has a natural and simple feeling for the party.
Yu Xiwen clearly remembered that when he first joined the recruit company in December 2004, he found a copy of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" in his luggage.
Later, I learned that it was the prize my mother had won for participating in the agricultural technology competition organized by the village.
When Yu Xiwen joined the army, his mother secretly put the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" into his luggage.
If Yu Xiwen is a treasure, read it carefully whenever he is free.
In recent years, Yu Xiwen has not only read through the "Guidelines for Studying Xi Jinping's Thought on Strengthening the Army", "Xi Jinping on Strengthening the Army and Prospering the Army", and "Xi Jinping on State Administration", but also reading through the "Communist Manifesto" and other classics, and wrote more than 500,000 words of reading notes. , And compiled and printed the collection of learning experience into four collections including "The Power of Understanding the Truth" and "The Promise in the Heart of the Soldier".
The officers and soldiers said that he was a "theoretical junkie", and his biggest hobby was reading and studying. The Xinhua Bookstore where he was based became a "check-in place" he frequented.
"Thoughts are not lost, and actions are not stray."
Yu Xiwen's study of Xi Jinping's idea of strengthening the army also influenced and led his comrades in arms.
College student Liang Shunxiang enlisted in the coastal city of Guangdong. He likes the Internet world and often surfs the Internet in his spare time.
Compared with the Internet, he believes that professional and theoretical studies are boring and resistive.
After the recruits got off the company, Liang Shunxiang began to "count down to retirement". He was listless all day and his training was always half a beat slower than others.
"Only when the dream of a strong army becomes the dream of every officer and soldier can it have strength and foundation; only when the dream of every officer and soldier is integrated into the dream of a strong army, can it have a platform and come true." Yu Xiwen took the initiative to tell Xiao Liang, "Strong The relationship between military dreams and personal dreams.
Hard work pays off.
Gradually, Xiao Liang changed from a "small kid" to a "sunshine soldier".
To give people a spark, you must have a torch in your heart.
In September last year, the Rocket Army’s biennial political theory teaching post training contest was held.
The contestants are all experts and professors who have been engaged in theoretical teaching and research for a long time. Yu Xiwen was invited to serve as a judge of this competition.
It was the first time in the Rocket Army to invite a non-commissioned officer to serve as a judge of this level of competition.
What's admirable is that Yu Xiwen always commented on her every time she made her comment. Even the old professor present gave a thumbs up.
Yu Xiwen explored and summed up the "four-step method" of theoretical learning in practice—in-depth systematic study, connection with practice and enlightenment, radiation-driven broadcast, and work based on posts. Now it has become a new method of theoretical study in the group.
Theoretical study is a master, and training and preparation can be called a master——
"For a soldier to have real abilities, he must refine his hard skills to defeat."
"Guarantee the battlefield, win the underpinnings, give up life, and fulfill the mission!"
In May 2020, Yu Xiwen's group was ordered to participate in a mission.
Before the "battle" started, the al-Qaida organization officers and soldiers handed out the war books, wrote the war family letters, and recorded battle messages.
Facing the camera, Yu Xiwen left such words.
If the battlefield is not won, everything is zero.
His base is at the forefront of preparations for military struggles and is responsible for heavy military struggle preparations.
Soon after the 2018 New Year training started, Yu Xiwen ushered in an unexpected challenge.
It coincides with the comprehensive upgrade of the base's information network equipment. His unit is responsible for information assurance and security protection, and belongs to the "central nervous system" of the modern battlefield.
In the face of complex communication networks, brand-new operating platforms, and sophisticated system software, it is extremely difficult to complete tasks in a short time.
Who will bear this important task?
Yu Xiwen stood up and promised to complete the task within one month!
During that time, Yu Xiwen was in the computer room, delving into it repeatedly, and when he encountered problems, he consulted experts.
In less than a month, he completed the debugging of the equipment and took the lead in taking the lead independently, with the ability to be on duty for combat readiness.
The combined training of theater formations is a comprehensive test of information support capabilities.
In July of that year, the theater organized a joint training of information network elements in accordance with the idea of integrating into operations, full network, and system support. The director department sent network viruses to test the troops' ability to deal with them.
Unexpectedly, a backup computer failed to complete special handling within the specified time limit due to a system failure.
At this time, if you don't report the malfunctioning computer, you don't have to worry about deducting points and it's not easy to be discovered; and if you report it truthfully, you will lose the handy "first".
Seek truth first when you win!
Yu Xiwen reported the truth. Although the unit lost points in the joint performance, it allowed the whole group to form a good atmosphere of seeking truth from facts.
In recent years, in order to improve the capability of joint information support, he has actively innovated the allegation security protection support guarantee model, and proposed a "one master, two standby" network security protection method.
"For a soldier to have real ability, he must refine his hard skills to defeat." Yu Xiwen said so, and did so.
The opening speed of satellite portable stations once became a bottleneck restricting the improvement of unit combat effectiveness. Yu Xiwen and his comrades worked together to tackle key problems. After repeated optimization procedures, the opening speed under field conditions was increased by nearly 50%.
The head of the regiment Gu Dunyong praised him: "Yu Xiwen is a good master in theoretical study, and training and preparation can be called a master."
Consider working hard for army building as mission pursuit and responsibility ——
"The cross-river pawn is used by the car, and the small soldier also has great achievements"
With a sense of responsibility and courage, and a simple and loving emotion, Yu Xiwen regards being able to contribute to army building, work hard, and contribute talents as mission pursuit.
After the opening of the new round of military reform, Yu Xiwen repeatedly studied Chairman Xi’s series of important statements on strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army, and deeply realized: “Military reform is a big chess game.
Yu Xiwen learned that noncommissioned officers generally have more applications for vocational skills appraisal and consultation. The crux of the problem lies in the ideological misunderstanding of "useless".
The contingent of non-commissioned officers is the main body of army building and the main force that constitutes combat effectiveness.
If this team is not well established, it will directly affect the informatization of the army and the construction of new military talents.
Through investigation and observation, he found a way to solve the problem, and wrote "Several Suggestions for Noncommissioned Officers' Skill Appraisal Work". After being published on the original All-Army Political Work Network, he received thousands of likes.
Since then, he has successively written more than 100 suggestions and articles including "Reasonable Increase of Non-commissioned Officer Vocational Skill Allowance", 7 of which were published in military journals, and 16 suggestions were adopted by superiors.
At the end of 2015, the original Second Artillery Corps was renamed the Rocket Corps.
Joining this great reform, Yu Xiwen felt that changing from "soldier" to "army" was not only a change of name, but also the beginning of leapfrog development.
"We have entered the 5G era, and our minds cannot remain in the era of hand-cranked phones." System adjustments, weapon equipment transformation, personal abilities must be upgraded, and thinking must follow!
So he set his sights on the future battlefield.
He consulted the leaders of theater organizations on joint operations, consulted communication experts on the problems of informatization and intelligent construction, and wrote a research article on "Network Security Protection Countermeasures for Joint Operations."
Experts commented that the article provided new ideas for new tactics and new training methods in the context of innovative system operations and cyber offense and defense, and won the third prize of the first essay essay competition of the Army's First Information Power Forum.
"The little pawn across the river is used to set up a car, and the little soldier can do great things too!" "We can't take our work lightly. If we regard ourselves as small, the non-commissioned officer should play the role of the non-commissioned officer!" He often reminded himself and convinced his comrades. .
For a period of time, individual officers and soldiers of the unit had misunderstandings about training and preparing for war.
Facing the misunderstanding of officers and soldiers, Yu Xiwen felt that he must be guided in a timely and correct manner.
After careful preparation, Yu Xiwen gave a tutoring lesson to the officers and soldiers of the army under the title of "The Corrosion of Thought is More Dangerous."
"If you relax in your mind, you will relax in training. The Rocket Army has a mission like a mountain and must always maintain a high alert state of'full bow and sleep with armour'."
In recent years, the military's communications equipment has been continuously updated, and informatization has developed rapidly.
At the beginning of 2018, the superiors distributed the new communication command system software, and Yu Xiwen discovered problems in the software design during the operation.
Some people advised him to do more than to do less.
"Things related to combat effectiveness are big things, that is, we have our own internal affairs!" The stubborn Yu Xiwen reflected step by step, and finally solved the design defects completely.
Very stingy to myself, but generous to poor students——
"Let the sun shine into the distant mountains, let dreams have wings"
People often say: "No matter how hard you are, you can't suffer your children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor education." Yu Xiwen was deeply moved by this.
In May 2013, when Yu Xiwen was visiting relatives on vacation, he walked through the villages and alleys to learn about the education situation in his hometown.
When he learned that some children in the village were facing out of school due to poverty, he secretly made up his mind to "let the sun shine into the distant mountains and let the dreams have wings."
After returning home, Yu Xiwen discussed with his wife Liu Xiaomei and decided to subsidize each of the five poor children 1,000 yuan per year until they complete their studies.
Zeng Taoxiang is a poor student in the old revolutionary base of Jinggangshan. He has good character and academic performance. He had the idea of dropping out of school due to family poverty.
After Yu Xiwen learned about it, she tried every means to raise her tuition, living expenses, mail review materials, and wrote letters to encourage her regularly.
With the help of Yu Xiwen, Xiao Zeng worked hard and was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University for the college entrance examination this year.
As Yu Xiwen's deeds of helping students and helping the poor spread widely inside and outside the military, more and more people participated.
In 2013, with the support of the Communist Youth League Party Committee, the "Yu Xiwen Volunteer Service Team" was established.
In recent years, Yu Xiwen and his caring team have successively implemented assistance programs such as "Building Dreams with Love in Old Areas" and "Warm Winter Action", and established a WeChat group of "Soldier Hearts and Childlike Hearts" to carry out student assistance activities, and stationed in Tibet, Guizhou and other ethnic minority areas. The troops established points of contact and paired up with local minority students in extreme poverty.
In fact, Yu Xiwen's family is not rich, his wife does not have a fixed job, his children are still in elementary school, and his parents live in rural areas.
He is frugal, and he has used a mobile phone for nearly 10 years, and the watch he wears is an electronic watch worth tens of dollars.
He is very stingy to himself, but very generous to poor students.
For more than 7 years, Yu Xiwen and his "caring team" have sent warmth and love to more than 2,000 impoverished students in 33 schools in Tibet, Guizhou and other places, helped build 37 "love book corners", and sponsored 28 students to get admitted. The university helped 102 out of school children return to school.
"Quickly, call him!" On the morning of December 11, 2013, a leukemia patient in the Resident People's Hospital was in critical condition and was in urgent need of a therapeutic amount of platelets.
However, blood stations and hospitals have run out of stocks.
At the critical moment, the hospital thought of Yu Xiwen.
It turned out that Yu Xiwen had already signed an agreement with the hospital to voluntarily join the China Bone Marrow Bank and donate hematopoietic stem cells.
Yu Xiwen's platelets were transfused into the patient's body, and the patient was saved.
The patient’s mother asked the name of this kind-hearted person, and Yu Xiwen said, “I’m the PLA. This is what I should do.”
Since Yu Xiwen joined the army, he has gone to the hospital to donate blood regularly, and the total has reached 9,000 ml, which is equivalent to the blood volume of two adults.
At the beginning of this year, the new crown pneumonia epidemic came suddenly.
Yu Xiwen and his caring team did everything possible to raise medical supplies, donating 100 sets of medical isolation gowns, 50 sets of protective clothing, and 20,000 masks.
"One thought of the original heart, the true feelings are like water flowing. The first thought of the heart spreads the light of truth." In the song "One Thought of the First Heart" composed for him by comrades-in-arms, we seem to see that Yu Xiwen is firm on the road to forge ahead and do not move forward step by step. Hesitate and do not slack off.
Our reporter Su Yincheng