File picture: Yang Shanzhou’s family portrait. One day, a relative came to the prefectural committee to find Yang Shanzhou: “Brother, your words and actions are effective now. Please transfer my wife and children from the countryside to the city! I only ask you this once.

Information picture: Yang Shanzhou’s family portrait

One day, a relative went to the prefectural committee office to ask Yang Shanzhou: "Brother, you can do everything you say and do now. Please transfer my wife and children from the countryside to the city! I only ask you this once. "Yang Shanzhou laughed: "Oh, it's really hard for me to be a cadre of the Communist Party. I am surrounded by people who are doing personal things..." He said to this relative: "I have power, but it belongs to the party and the government. It belongs to the people, and it can only be used to do business honestly. "For many years, Yang Shanzhou has kept the back door tightly closed. He has never approved a note that violated his principles or made a "back door" phone call. Yang Shanzhou locked the "valve" of power and closed the "forbidden zone" of desire. In his ordinaryness and simplicity, he won the admiration of the people.

When Yang Shanzhou was the secretary of the Shidian County Party Committee, he declined the organization’s good intentions many times and did not transfer his family’s urban household registration. Today, the eldest daughter is still working at home, and the second and third daughters are primary school teachers and ordinary employees of tobacco company respectively. "Now, whenever I think of my father, what comes to mind is the towering tree standing at the place where his bones are buried. He did not bend down to protect my mother and our sisters in his arms, but opened his arms to serve the common people. It has protected me from wind and rain for a lifetime," said her daughter Yang Huilan.

Source: Yuncheng City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision website