"You are like an old scalper, working silently for the Chinese people. This also inspires me to devote my life to the cause of serving the people." Xi Jinping once described his father Xi Zhongxun in a longevity letter.
Xi Jinping said that "I hope to inherit and absorb many precious and noble qualities from my father", one of which is "the feelings of a child".
"I am the son of a farmer"
Xi Zhongxun is a "mass leader who came out of the masses".
He often said that he was the son of a peasant, and always regarded himself as a member of the working people.
During the Agrarian Revolution, Xi Zhongxun, who was less than 20 years old, devoted himself to the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu border base.
Xi Zhongxun often recalls the fish-water relationship and the flesh-and-blood ties established between the party and the masses during the struggle to create the Shaanxi-Gansu border base area. He said: "Without the support of the masses, we would not have everything."
The courtyard where Xi Zhongxun lived in Nanyi Village.
The land of Guanzhong is the starting point of Xi Zhongxun's participation in the revolution, and it is also the place he cared about all his life.
During the 6 years in Guanzhong, Xi Zhongxun always ran on the land of Sanqin and always walked among the masses.
When the masses are in doubt, they say "go to Zhongxun".
An organizational appraisal in 1942 praised him as "the party's invaluable mass leader."
During his work in Nanliang, Comrade Xi Zhongxun guided the counties to set up land committees in order to solve the land issues that farmers were most concerned about.
When allocating land, he always stood at the forefront of the struggle. Every day, he ate and lived with the poor and lower-middle peasants. When he was free, he helped the masses to farm and push the mill, and took every opportunity to listen to the opinions of the masses.
Li Dunbai once recalled: "Wherever he went, he seemed to know someone in every village. When he met this person, he asked if your mother-in-law's illness was cured, and when he met that person, he asked if your father's back pain was cured."
People who have deep feelings for the people and can benefit the people are regarded by the masses as their relatives.
The place where Xi Zhongxun usually works in the base area is crowded with people every day, and the masses always regard Comrade Zhongxun as their closest friend.
"My grandfather was also a peasant, and my father embarked on the revolutionary road from a peasant, and I myself have been a peasant for seven years." This simple feeling for peasants has always been etched in Xi Jinping's heart.
This is the period of going to the countryside in 1973. Xi Jinping (second from left) is in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province.
In one article, Xi Jinping referred to himself as the son of the Yellow Earth.
In 1969, Xi Jinping, who was less than 16 years old, came to Liangjiahe Brigade from Beijing to cut the line.
In the more than 2,400 days and nights of being an educated youth and a farmer in northern Shaanxi, he fought with the simple folks on the Loess Plateau, ate, lived and worked together. He not only forged a deep friendship with the local people, but also deeply understood What is China's rural areas, what are the joys and sorrows of the common people, and what are China's basic national conditions.
Every detail in Liangjiahe that year touched and warmed the heart of the young Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping said: "I am hungry, and the villagers cook for me; my clothes are dirty, and the villagers wash it for me; my trousers are torn, and the villagers sew for me." "They have helped me selflessly and protected me. I, especially with their honest and down-to-earth qualities, influenced me and nurtured my soul."
Knowing the good of the people well, caring for them from the heart; knowing the sufferings of the people, and bravely picking up a heavy burden.
Coming from the people and rooting in the people is the unswerving original aspiration of the two generations of Communists Xi Jinping and his father.
"Truly put the people at heart"
In September 2021, Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Yulin, Shaanxi Province, came to the place where his father Xi Zhongxun worked and lived-the former site of the CPC Suide Prefectural Committee.
On September 14, 2021, Xi Jinping inspected the old site of the Suide Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In the exhibition hall, a line of words is particularly eye-catching: sit on the side of the common people.
"Duan Duandi, this is Guanzhong dialect, steady and upright." Recalling the hometown dialect spoken by his father Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping was full of affection.
In 1943, as soon as Xi Zhongxun took office as secretary of the Suide prefectural party committee, he put forward the requirement of "serving 520,000 people", and ensured that he and the staff of the prefectural party committee would do it first.
To this end, he asked cadres at all levels to not be "official" and "master", but to go out of the "yamen", go deep into the countryside, and really find ways and do practical things for the masses.
In various periods of his revolutionary career, Xi Zhongxun always put himself in the shoes of the people, thinking about problems and doing things from the perspective of safeguarding the vital interests of the people.
As the secretary of the CPC Suide Prefectural Party Committee, he promoted the mass production movement, and solved the problems of production and life of migrants moving south and the treatment of children's diseases; when he served as the secretary-general of the State Council, he went deep into Changge, Henan to investigate, and solved the urgent need of the people's serious shortage of food rations. Saved the lives of many starving people; when he was the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, in order to solve the problem of "smuggling and fleeing" at that time, he went to the grassroots to understand the truth and made "the fundamental measure to stop mass flight is to develop the economy and improve the living standards of the masses. "The correct conclusion, and was the first to propose to Guangdong "decentralization" at the Central Work Conference, so that Guangdong "goes ahead" to develop the economy and improve people's livelihood... The curtain of the special economic zone was opened from the land of southern Guangdong.
Xi Zhongxun actively explored the reform of state-owned enterprises in Guangdong, supported and promoted the "Qingyuan Experience", expanded the autonomy of enterprises, and improved the production efficiency of enterprises.
The picture shows Xi Zhongxun inspecting the enterprise to learn about the production and reform of the enterprise.
Xi Zhongxun went to the south to govern Guangdong after 16 years of hardships. The sense of urgency of the years and the sense of historical mission made him devote himself to his work full of energy.
After finishing his day's work in the middle of the night, he often read books and newspapers to keep track of domestic and foreign trends. In his own words, he treated one day as two days.
All of this, the wife looked at it together: "As his wife, I can understand his mood very well. He wants to regain the lost 16 years of time and do more practical things for the party and the people."
Zhang Guoying, a veteran cadre in Guangdong, recalled that after Xi Jinping entered politics, Xi Zhongxun once said to his son that no matter how big an official you are, don’t forget to serve the people diligently, truly think about the people, connect with the people, and be approachable.
Xi Jinping has always kept his father's words in mind.
In the early 1980s, Xi Jinping took up a local leadership position as secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee.
The style of this young cadre is refreshing.
"Never sitting idle in the office" was the impression many people had of Xi Jinping at that time.
According to the recollection of the cadre of the county party committee office, Xi Jinping often led the county party committee staff to conduct investigations. "When choosing a large fair in the county seat, he set up a table on the street and dragged the people who came to the fair to do the investigation."
In 1983, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee in Hebei (center in the front row), temporarily set up a table on the street to listen to the opinions of ordinary people.
In 1988, Xi Jinping went to Ningde, Fujian as the secretary of the prefectural party committee.
When he visited Dang Township, the most remote mountain village in Shouning County, Ningde, he traveled through mountains and rivers from 7:30 in the morning to 12:00 noon. The villagers said he was "the biggest official who has ever been here".
Xi Jinping said: "To be the secretary of the county party committee must go to all the villages, to be the secretary of the municipal party committee must go to all the towns and villages, to be the secretary of the provincial party committee must go to all the counties and cities."
Relying on the people and for the people is the shared responsibility and strength of Xi Jinping and his father.
"The people are the country, and the country is the people"
Xi Zhongxun has experienced various historical periods of revolution, construction and reform in his life.
In 1946, Xi Zhongxun was in northern Shaanxi.
A memoir said that Xi Zhongxun participated in the completion of two historical missions in his life: one was to create the Shaanxi-Gansu revolutionary base together with Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang, and the other was to create a revolutionary base with the personal support of Deng Xiaoping and Ye Jianying and the direct leadership of the central government. special economic zone.
These two historical missions revolve around the "people". The former is for the liberation and freedom of the people, and the latter is for the prosperity and happiness of the people.
At the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xi Zhongxun watched the ceremony on the Tiananmen Gate. He said with emotion: "We should never forget that the country is the people, and the people are the country."
Simple words express the voice of an older generation of revolutionaries who have worked hard for the people all their lives.
Xi Jinping has mentioned many times that "the country is the people, and the people are the country", and said affectionately during a local inspection: "The Communist Party fights the country and guards the country, and it guards the hearts of the people, so that the people can live a good life. ."
The cut of love, the sincerity of action.
On December 30, 2012, Xi Jinping visited and offered condolences to people in need in Luotuowan Village, Longquanguan Town, Fuping County, Hebei Province.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has traveled to 14 concentrated and contiguous destitute areas, and conducted more than 50 investigations on poverty alleviation work. .
In central Gansu, which is known as "barren and bitter in the world", Xi Jinping walked into the farmhouse and scooped up a scoop of water to taste. The taste of this water made Xi Jinping frown.
This scene also infected everyone around.
Afterwards, Xi Jinping made a special trip to inspect the Yintao water supply project site in Weiyuan County. He said 8 words to the responsible comrades of the relevant ministries and commissions of the local and accompanying countries, "People's livelihood is the top priority, and water control is the most important".
Xi Jinping often said that as an "official", one should benefit one side, "always cherish the worries and the people's trust".
Affectionate words, full of people's leaders' sincere feelings for the people.
On October 25, 2017, Xi Jinping pointed out at the First Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: "The Party and the people have entrusted us with the historical responsibility, which is a high level of trust and ardent expectation for us. Conscientiously perform their duties, work diligently, commit themselves to the party and the country, serve the party and the country, and strive for a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and for the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era."
"I will have no self and live up to the people." This is exactly the innocence shared by Xi Jinping and his father.
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