China News Service, Xinzhou, September 27th: "Daughter of Dashan" Liu Guizhen: Perseverance and dedication is a blessing
Author Yang Jing
"I was born and grew up here. The landscape and land of Duanjiawan nurtured me. I will serve the villagers in Duanjiawan for the rest of my life." Liu Guizhen said: "I will not forget my original intention, keep my mission in mind, and continue to do more practical things and solve problems for the villagers. Do good things, do good things, and life will be better.”
Over the past 44 years, from village doctors and substitute teachers to village party branch secretary and village committee director, "Daughter of Dashan" Liu Guizhen has "four shoulders and four shoulders", and has used her words and deeds to build a "heart-to-heart bridge" between the party and the masses. ”, in the pursuit and realization of his own life value in silent perseverance.
"One shoulder and four burdens" for the villagers
Duanjiawan Village in a valley in Daixian County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, has been lacking doctors and medicines for many years.
In 1977, the village desperately needed a doctor, but there was no suitable candidate.
When the father of Duanjiawan Village Party Branch Secretary said, "You are only a high school student in the village, whoever you don't go to" made Liu Guizhen give up her college dream and start studying medicine.
In 1978, she officially became a village doctor.
Liu Guizhen has been a doctor for more than 40 years, and has never charged fees for doctor visits or injections, and even subsidizes the villagers to buy medicines, "It is difficult for the villagers. I can't bear to accept them when I watch them take money out of the bag from the left and the right. money."
Duanjiawan Village was poor and backward, and teachers in the city were reluctant to teach. In 1988, Liu Guizhen became a substitute teacher again.
"Except English, the rest of the classes are taken, and there are 15 students at most." Liu Guizhen said that in 2017, the village primary school was merged into the township central school, and she took off this burden.
Liu Guizhen came to check on the villagers.
Photo by Wang Bintian
Having been teaching for more than 30 years, she has witnessed Shanliwa's indomitable experience of seeking knowledge and education and the development of education in mountain villages, and has won more respect from the villagers. Liu Guizhen is very gratified.
In 1996, the "two committees" of the village changed. Liu Guizhen, who practiced medicine and taught at the same time, was elected as the secretary of the village party branch by unanimous votes. Since 2003, he has also served as the director of the village committee.
Leading the villagers to "pull out the roots of poverty"
"Look up at the mountains, look down at the rocks".
At that time, Duanjiawan Village was a poor village with poor natural conditions, no resources and no industry. The villagers grew corn and millet, making life difficult.
"The villagers have elected me as the director of the village committee, and I have to do things." In order to change the status quo of the backwardness and poverty of Duanjiawan Village, Liu Guizhen organized the party members and cadres in the village to go to Inner Mongolia and Taiyuan, Shanxi for investigation and research, to understand market information, and to take the lead in In the third year, pine tree seedlings were sold for 75,000 yuan.
Subsequently, the villagers began to follow the development of the seedling industry.
Liu Guizhen acted as a technical instructor again, teaching the villagers the techniques of raising seedlings and guiding the field management.
The nursery area of the whole village has grown rapidly to more than 80 mu, with an average income of 60,000 to 70,000 yuan per mu, and the highest can reach more than 100,000 yuan.
At the same time, Liu Guizhen actively explores channels to increase income, and leads villagers to plant Chinese herbal medicines such as Scutellaria baicalensis and Bupleurum, which can increase the village's income by more than 400,000 yuan per year.
By the end of 2017, Duanjiawan was completely lifted out of poverty.
In 2018, Liu Guizhen led the establishment of the "Liu Guizhen Planting Seedling Cooperative in Dai County", which not only promoted the development of the seedling industry in Duanjiawan, but also drove the development of the seedling industry in surrounding villages.
Liu Guizhen led the villagers to develop the seedling industry to help the villagers increase their income.
Photo by Wang Bintian
Do a good job of warm "mother's family"
There are few people in Duanjiawan, and there is no special women's director. Liu Guizhen knows that women's work is an important job, so she took the initiative to undertake this work in 1987.
"How to give full play to the organizational advantages of the Women's Federation and let the sisters who stay at home live a good life" is a question Liu Guizhen often thinks about.
Liu Guizhen led the women to build a "women's home" and a farmhouse bookstore, and participated in literary and artistic activities organized by the village, which enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the women.
At the same time, women are regularly convened to study and publicize the Party's major policies and policies by reading newspapers, and to convey the voice of the Women's Federation.
In addition, the Village Women's Federation has successively organized women to make handicrafts such as paper-cutting, embroidery, weaving, etc., to expand export channels and increase women's income.
Liu Guizhen sticks to her dream and uses her words and deeds to lead the villagers to create a better life.
Photo by Wang Bintian Photo by Wang Bintian
Hold the position and seek development
As a daughter raised by the mountains, Liu Guizhen sticks to her dream and uses her words and deeds to lead the villagers to create a better life.
In 2020, Duanjiawan Village and Wangjiahui Village will be merged to conduct medical insurance, population census, fire prevention and epidemic prevention, bridge and road construction... Liu Guizhen is busy again.
Today's Duanjiawan, under the leadership of the "two committees" of the village, has established a new development idea of "stimulating the endogenous power of the masses, integrating the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, strengthening the village's collective economy, and realizing the common prosperity of the whole village". , the whole village is committed to building a new socialist countryside that can retain the idyllic nostalgia, and hopes that the villagers can live a life of worry-free food and clothing, support for the elderly, and live and work in peace and contentment.
The branch is the fortress, and the party members are the banner.
"Without selfishness, things are easy to handle." His father's words and deeds have always affected Liu Guizhen, "Do your best to help others, and life is valuable and meaningful. This is not only a family tradition, but also a qualified party member. quality.”
A national model of poverty alleviation, a national pacesetter of the national March 8 red-banners, a national labor model, and a national outstanding party worker... In the face of various honors, Liu Guizhen always wants to "escape".
"My work is very simple, and anyone can do it." Liu Guizhen said: "Being elected as the party's 20th National Congress representative is the trust of the party and comrades in me, and it is also a heavy responsibility. I want to be in Duanjiawan. Persevere until you can't move or do anything." (End)