When it comes to birthdays, Mao Zedong's attitude was very different from others. He refused to take privileges throughout his life. During his 50th birthday, 60th birthday, 70th birthday, and 80th birthday, he refused to let his relatives and the masses celebrate his birthday. However, although the birthday is small, it shows Mao Zedong's style of a great man of integrity, self-discipline and warm-heartedness.
But on December 26, 1964, Mao Zedong made an exception on his 71st birthday, preparing three tables of meals. Not only did he invite leaders such as Chen Yi, He Long, and Dong Biwu, but he also specially invited 4 special "representatives". Before the meal, Mao Zedong said: "Today is not a birthday or a birthday, but a three-dimensional meeting is implemented. I used my royalties to treat everyone to a meal. My daughter did not come because they did not have to go to the countryside and , and they were not qualified. There are workers, farmers and leaders of the People's Liberation Army. Not only do they eat, but they also have to talk!"
These four special "representatives" are Dong Jiageng, Xing Yanzi, Dazhai Village Party Branch Secretary Chen Yonggui, and Daqing "Iron Man" Wang Jinxi. At that time, they came to Beijing to attend the Third National People's Congress as representatives of National People's Congress . During the meal, these four representatives were arranged to sit next to Mao Zedong. So what outstanding deeds do they have that can win this honor?
Mao Zedong and Chen Yonggui shook hands
Dong Jiageng
Dong Jiageng, formerly known as Dong Jiageng, was born in 1940 in a peasant family in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. In 1957, after graduating from junior high school, Dong Jiageng applied for a normal school, but failed the exam by a few points. After working at home for a year, he was admitted to the next year of Yancheng key high school Longgang Middle School .
During the three years of high school, Dong Jiageng was both good at character and academic performance. He has always served as the class monitor and the Youth League Secretary. He was also recommended to the party in 1960. In 1961, Dong Jiageng took the high school graduation exam and scored above 96 points for each subject. The school decided to allow him to study in , the Department of Philosophy, Peking University, and .
But at this time, Dong Jiageng made an unexpected decision. He wrote the eight words "Return to the hometown to farm, and be determined to work hard" on the volunteer application , and was determined to go home to farm. The school suddenly became a sensation: Is Dong Jiageng crazy?
Dong Jiageng
But Dong Jiageng had his own ideas. At that time, our country was in a period of three years of natural disasters, and the whole country could not have enough food. Yancheng is located in northern Jiangsu, a relatively poor area in the province, and most of the land is saline-alkali land, which is nicknamed "Lankao of Jiangsu".
In 1961, a famine broke out in Donghuo Village where Dong Jiageng was. Because his father lacked food, he could only pick some cimu in the field to make soup. The cimu sausage that had already burst into green in spring was poisonous. After drinking the soup, his father was unconscious and bit the spoon in his mouth when he died.
Another important reason why Dong Jiageng returned to his hometown to farm was that he repeatedly read Mao Zedong's article "The Direction of Youth Movement", and there were a few words that deeply touched his heart: "See whether a young man is revolutionary, what should he use as a standard? There is only one standard, which is whether he is willing or not to be integrated with the vast number of workers and peasants." Dong Jiageng has already determined that building a new socialist countryside is the "social university" he wants to go to.
On May 4, 1961, Dong Jiageng officially left school and returned to his hometown to farm. In order to show his determination, he changed his name to "Dong Jiageng", which means "strengthening agriculture and determined to work hard."
Dong Jiageng was working
Dong Jiageng's second year after Dong Jiageng returned to his hometown, all the paddy fields in the production team were flooded and late rice could not be planted. The members had to walk to work and then take a boat home. In order to change this situation, Dong Jiageng decided to convert paddy fields into dry fields and implement rice, wheat, cotton and green manure rotation. The production team was not in enough labor, so Dong Jiageng mobilized all the students on holiday to come and help. After a hard battle, they first transformed 100 acres of dry land and planted cotton.
But growing cotton requires phosphate fertilizer , and the team has no money or place to buy it.When everyone didn't know what to do, the knowledge Dong Jiageng learned in books came in handy. He led everyone to buy firewood and then burned it to ashes, which became good fertilizer.
In autumn, the production team not only achieved a bumper harvest of grain, but also grew cotton. Everyone admires Dong Jiageng, and those who used to gossip and mock him also gave him a thumbs up.
Later, the commune leaders considered that Dong Jiageng's family had a poor financial background and a difficult life, and planned to transfer him to work in the post and telecommunications office, where he could earn 30 yuan a month. When Dong Jiageng's mother found out, she was very happy and said to him: "It's better to study. Now I don't have to farm anymore, and my mother is relieved."
But Dong Jiageng said: "Mom, I don't want to go."
The mother couldn't believe her ears: "No one else has thought of this job? Don't you know the good and the bad!"
But Dong Jiageng was unmoved. He said: "Mom, I'm not saying this job is not good. If I wanted to find a good job, I could have gone to college. As young people in the new era, we should fight on the front line. I don't think farming is hard!"
But his mother still couldn't understand, and even wanted to scare Dong Jiageng with suicide, so Dong Jiageng went to the commune leaders himself and explained his thoughts to them. The leader sincerely stated that this was a decision made by the organization to take care of him, but Dong Jiageng said: "I am very grateful for the organization's care for me, but let me persist in the difficult environment!"
The leader was also deeply moved by him, so he said : "Okay, if you are ambitious, then work hard!"
Since Dong Jiageng's production team has always had good harvests, and their experience has been promoted throughout the county, Dong Jiageng has naturally become a model. In early 1964, the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League successively issued articles calling for learning from him. His deeds soon appeared in major newspapers and radio stations across the country, and were even adapted into a drama.
In June 1964, Dong Jiageng attended the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Youth League and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the League. In December of that year, as the first National People's Congress representative in the Yancheng area, he went to Beijing to attend the Third National People's Congress as the deputy leader of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress delegation.
"China Youth" magazine featured Dong Jiageng as the cover character
That day, Mao Zedong asked Dong Jiageng during dinner: "How many years have you studied?"
Dong Jiageng replied: "Twelve years of study, and graduated from high school."
Mao Zedong asked again: "Where are you from?"
Dong Jiageng replied: "I am from Yancheng, Jiangsu."
Mao Zedong said: "You are from Yancheng, northern Jiangsu. Did you know that there are two bridges in Yancheng?"
Dong Jiageng thought for a while and said: "We have many bridges in Yancheng, not just two bridges!"
Mao Zedong met Dong Jiageng He didn't understand, so he added: "Two Qiao, they are both good at writing articles."
Dong Jiageng used to like composition in school, so he knew it immediately. He said: "It's Hu Qiaomu and Qiao Guanhua." Mao Zedong nodded happily.
From left: Chen Yonggui, Xing Yanzi, Mao Zedong, Dong Jiageng
During the dinner, Mao Zedong kept serving Dong Jiageng food and said: "You are young and from the countryside, eat more." Mao Zedong also smoked four cigarettes. Dong Jiageng handed the cigarette to him, and Xing Yanzi lit it for him.
In the spring of 1975, Dong Jiageng was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Fourth National People's Congress and served as the second deputy leader of the "Top Ten" preparatory group of the Youth League Central Committee. After Mao Zedong passed away on September 9, 1976, Dong Jiagang, as a member of the funeral committee, was the only one allowed to stay by his side for seven days and seven nights!
In 1982, Dong Jiageng was appointed as the deputy mayor of Guomeng Township in the suburbs of Yancheng City, in charge of industrial production. He showed off the same energy as before, traveled to many places, and insisted on not taking a taxi into the city or taking a bus for short distances. He often ate at roadside stalls. Under his leadership, the industrial output value of Guomeng Township more than doubled in just three years, and many products were sold abroad.
In 1987, Dong Jiageng was transferred to the deputy director of the Yancheng Suburban Township Enterprise Administration. He worked at the grassroots level all year round, rain or shine.Once, a reporter who had interviewed Dong Jiageng before happened to come to Yancheng after retiring and wanted to talk to him. However, after asking several factories he had visited, they all said that he had just left. The comrades in the bureau had no choice but to tell the reporter: "You'd better go to his house at night to find him. Director Dong usually has a hard time finding him during the day."
Middle-aged Dong Jiageng
In 1994, 54-year-old Dong Jiageng was unanimously elected as the vice chairman of the Yancheng County CPPCC. He had to leave the township enterprise management position where he had worked hard for more than 10 years. He was indeed a little reluctant to leave. Everyone advised Dong Jiagang to relax after reaching the CPPCC, but he still wanted to do some practical things and often went to the grassroots with the county party committee and county government leaders. He also often used his spare time to write articles for newspapers to help everyone provide knowledge and policy answers.
In 2000, Dong Jiageng officially retired. As a celebrity, many private business owners paid high prices to hire him and promised that as long as he put his name on the list, he would get high remuneration, but he refused.
Someone once said to Dong Jiageng: "With your popularity, you would have made a fortune long ago."
But Dong Jiageng said: "My popularity is not personal capital, but people's wealth. Serving the people is my fundamental purpose."
Xing Yanzi
Xing Yanzi was born in 1940. Her hometown is Sijiazhuang Village, Baodi County, Tianjin City. Her original name was "Xing Xiuying". In 1959, the secretary of the Tangshan District Committee suggested that she change her name to "Xing Yanzi", so she has used this name ever since.
Xing Yanzi grew up with her grandfather in her hometown in the countryside. Her father was the deputy director of a factory in Tianjin. In 1958, after Xing Yanzi graduated from high school, everyone thought she would stay in the city as a matter of course, but she chose to return to the countryside to be with her grandfather.
At that time, Xing Yanzi's thoughts were very simple. She simply liked the countryside and wanted to spend time with her grandfather. However, everyone felt that this beautiful city girl would not stay in the countryside for a long time and would go back soon.
Xing Yanzi and her grandfather
At that time, the villagers saw that Xing Yanzi didn’t know how to do any work, so they arranged for her to help in the canteen. But she made a joke as soon as she arrived. That day, a large pot of porridge was cooked in the canteen for her to watch. After a while, the cooked porridge overflowed. She didn't know what to do and shouted anxiously: "The porridge is out, please come quickly!"
The villagers on the side saw it and teased Xing Yanzi: "Kowtow to it, and it won't come out!" Unexpectedly, Xing Yanzi actually knelt down and kowtowed, making everyone laugh.
But as she gradually adapted to rural life, Xing Yanzi became proficient in all kinds of farm work, and she even became a labor expert in the village.
Sijiazhuang Village, where Xing Yanzi is located, is a poor village with a small labor force. Moreover, there was a three-year natural disaster at that time, so the Youth League branch decided to give Xing Yanzi certain production tasks.
Xing Yanzi felt that it was not enough to do it alone, and that she had to mobilize all the women in the village, so she and a few partners first organized a kindergarten, which immediately freed more than 20 women to work in the fields. Then she led the female members of the village to form a "Swallow Commando Team", which quickly expanded to 16 people.
Xing Yanzi (middle) and her sisters
Xing Yanzi then led a commando team to break open three-foot-thick ice holes in the winter, build nets to catch fish, and build curtains for self-rescue at night. They only slept five or six hours a day, and earned more than 3,900 yuan for the village in just three months, which was an astronomical sum at the time! This money did save the lives of people in the village.
1960 was the second year of natural disaster . The whole country was facing many difficulties. In this special background of the times, it was natural to set an example to build confidence in everyone's production and life. Xing Yanzi is undoubtedly a good example.
Xing Yanzi's promotional poster
In 1960, "Hebei Daily" and "People's Daily" took the lead in reporting Xing Yanzi's advanced deeds, and then launched a massive publicity campaign to learn from Xing Yanzi across the country.In the People's Pictorial in October 1960, Xing Yanzi also appeared in the magazine as the cover character. The then vice chairman of the National People's Congress, Guo Moruo, also wrote a song "Swallow Song" for her, published in the People's Daily on September 12 of that year:
Xing Yanzi, a good role model.
Learn from Wang Guofan and Iron Girl.
The whole family is in the city, and I am willing to stay in my hometown. The seedlings are growing in the garden, and the net is full of fish on the ice.
It is cold in the cold weather, so we must rush to plant and open up land.
must make the stones grow grain. After enduring hardships before enjoying the fun, all work is obedient to the party.
Beidahuang becomes a nest of gold and silver,
swallows form a team and fly over Yellow River .
Xing Yanzi, a good role model.
Youth is dedicated to the countryside, and youth will never grow old.
One horse can take the lead, and tens of thousands of horses will race together.
sets ambitions as high as the sky, and is full of energy and strength.
is diligent and thrifty, talks and laughs, and
can treat labor as a treasure.
feeds more grain for the country and society,
is good for the country and society, everyone is good for the country and society.
Sijiazhuang became Yumi Township,
swallows formed a team and flew over Yangtze River .
As Xing Yanzi became more and more famous, she held more and more positions. At most, she held 16 positions alone, the highest of which was the Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. She also was elected as a member of the Central Committee for three consecutive terms since the "Ninth National Congress" of the Party.
On the surface, Xing Yanzi did become an "official", but these positions are not paid, and she has never enjoyed the treatment of any leading cadres. Most of the time she is still in the grassroots rural areas, raising pigs, raising pig manure, and catching pig grass... She is still an ordinary person, doing all kinds of work done by an ordinary farmer steadily.
xing Yanzi shook hands with Chairman Mao
1987 after the party's "th National Congress " was held, Xing Yanzi was not continued to be elected as a member of the Central Committee. She organized her to serve as deputy director of the People's Congress in Beichen District, Tianjin, in charge of urban and rural construction and environmental protection. She ran to the countryside most of the year, with a solid work style and was praised by everyone, and worked until her retirement in 2001.
On September 14, 2009, Xing Yanzi was named one of the "100 Chinese figures who have moved China since the founding of New China". On September 25, 2019, she was awarded the honorary title of "The Most Beautiful Struggler".
Chen Yonggui
914, Chen Yonggui was born in a poor peasant family in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province. After the founding of New China, Chen Yonggui was "absolutely poor" and " proletarian ", so he was divided into land and houses during the land reform. Since then, he actively participated in production labor. Due to his outstanding performance, he soon became the secretary of the Party Branch of Dazhai Village, Xiyang County.
In the early 1950s, the Dazhai Party Branch formulated a ten-year plan to transform the "seven ditches, eight beams and one slope". Chen Yonggui took action and led everyone to write articles about Dazhai becoming rich with sweat. In December 1959, the Jinzhong Prefectural Committee held an on-site meeting in , Xiyang County, and made the decision to learn from Chen Yonggui.
963 was an extraordinary year for Dazhai. Dazhai suffered seven disasters in a year. Heavy rain that never happened in hundreds of years poured on the land of Dazhai in this summer. The middle of the village was covered with red and yellow mud. Every household had walls collapsed and the kilns collapsed. The grain was silted more than 20,000 kilograms of grain. The ground was even more amazing. Dozens of embankments were destroyed, and no seedlings were seen in nearly 200 acres. The area with hopeless harvest reached more than 400 acres...
When Dazhai was affected, Chen Yonggui was having a meeting in the county. As soon as the meeting in the county dispersed, he rushed to the village. When the villagers saw him, they were crying and crying. Chen Yonggui anxiously asked everyone about the disaster. When the villagers told others that they were safe, Chen Yonggui actually said humorously: "Then I congratulate you!"
After learning about the disaster in Dazhai, the superior leader called Chen Yonggui and asked him if he needed support. However, Chen Yonggui said without hesitation: "Thank you for your concern, we appreciate it."
Chen Yonggui
Faced with the disaster, Chen Yonggui put forward the slogan of "three not three not many": do not have relief funds, relief grain, relief supplies, sell a lot of grain to the country, a lot of food for members, and a lot of collective inventory.Then he led the villagers to work. In this year of disaster, Dazhai's grain yield per mu was 704 kilograms, and the total output reached 560,000 kilograms. Not only did he not ask the state for a penny of relief, but he also paid 240,000 kilograms of commercial grain to the state. At the end of that year, the members of the community ended their history of living in earth kiln forever and moved into new houses in Shiyao.
The deeds of Dazhai people overcame natural disasters attracted the attention of their superiors. Shanxi Province set off a climax of learning Dazhai . Chen Yonggui was invited by various units to give a report. At the report meeting, Chen Yonggui showed his excellent eloquence. Although he had never read any books, he frequently expressed golden sentences, such as "The train runs fast, all depends on the locomotive", "Cadres and cadres must do one step first", "It is better to act like a shout than to shout", etc., which are still circulating today.
famous writer Zhao Shuli After listening to Chen Yonggui's report, he was very excited. He specially found Tao Luqi, Secretary Tao, and said, "Secretary Tao, I found a talent today!"
Tao Luqi asked, "Who is it?"
"Chen Yonggui! He talked about Mao Zedong in no place, but he was everywhere It is Mao Zedong Thought. There is no mention of philosophy, but there is dialectics everywhere. I admire it. Talent! Chen Yonggui is amazing! "
Chen Yonggui conducts labor
1 On March 28, 2019, when Mao Zedong visited the south, his special train stopped at Handan Station in Hebei for a period of time. He listened to Taoluqi's report on Shanxi's work. Tao Luqi mentioned Chen Yonggui's deeds during the report. Mao Zedong listened with relish and interrupted from time to time.
When Tao Lu reported that Chen Yonggui had put forward a slogan of "joining production and leading production", Mao Zedong interrupted, "It's great! Just like fighting, it's not okay to talk on paper. If you don't participate in war, how can you command the war?"
Mao Zedong asked again, "Chen Yonggui is literate?"
Tao Luzhu replied, "Chen Yonggui is 43 years old and is 50 years old this year. He can read newspapers now and knows what logic is. Not long ago, he gave a report in Taiyuan. Zhao Shuli was very impressed by him and said that Chen Yonggui's speech did not quote classics, but his views were completely in line with Mao Zedong's thoughts and Dialectics. "
Mao Zedong said happily after hearing this: "Good articles have been published in the valley! Chen Yonggui doesn't know much literacy, but he does a lot of things!"
After that, Mao Zedong continued to inspect various southern provinces. Whenever he went to a place, he would talk to local cadres and masses about the self-reliance of Dazhai. He said: "I think Dazhai is a banner. Do you learn? It's not possible without the spirit of Dazhai!"
In June 11964, Mao Zedong said at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee: "Agriculture mainly depends on the spirit of Dazhai, and rely on self-reliance. There are more Dazhai and more Chen Yonggui!" From then on, " Agricultural Learning Dazhai " became the highest instruction, and Chen Yonggui was also famous all over the country.
Dazhai Hongqi Square
When eating that day, Mao Zedong asked Chen Yonggui: "You are a crop expert. How old are you?"
Chen Yonggui said: "50 years old."
Mao Zedong sighed: "You know your destiny at fifty. You should not be upright. You can't be upright in your life. Some people are not good, your tail is too high, you should be as a human being with your tail!"
969, Chen Yonggui was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the "Ninth National Congress" of the Party, but his life is still the same as before. From 1972 to June 1973, the Dazhai lasted for 17 months. Chen Yonggui took the lead in carrying water and sowed seeds on demand, leading the villagers to dig millions of pits and carry 120,000 dan of water. This is the famous "a thousand miles acre of land". In this year, the land that was not fertile per mu of Dazhai had a yield of 1,026 kilograms of grain per mu, and a total of 770,000 kilograms of grain was handed over to the state 500,000 kilograms.
1969, Chen Yonggui was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Ninth National Congress of the Party, but his life is still the same as before. From 1972 to June 1973, the Dazhai lasted for 17 months. Chen Yonggui took the lead in carrying water and sowed seeds on demand, leading the villagers to dig millions of pits and carry 120,000 dan of water. This is the famous "a thousand miles acre of land".In this year, the non-fertile land in Dazhai produced 1,026 jins per mu, totaling 770,000 jins of grain, and 500,000 jins were handed over to the state.
In 1973, Chen Yonggui was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the "Ten National Congress" of the Party. In January 1975, when Chen Yonggui went to Beijing to attend a meeting of the Fourth National People's Congress, Zhou Enlai said to him: "I have come to you this time to arrange the affairs of the National People's Congress. You must be prepared to be the deputy prime minister of the State Council and promote the Dazhai spirit to the whole country. How about it?"
Chen Yonggui was stunned after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "Prime Minister, my cultural level is not good, I really can't be this deputy prime minister!"
Zhou Enlai said seriously: "Look at you Yonggui, are you a party member? If you are a party member, you must accept the party's arrangements!"
Zhou Enlai and Chen Yonggui
At this meeting, Chen Yonggui was officially appointed as the deputy prime minister in charge of national agriculture, ranking 8th among the 11 vice prime ministers.
In September 1980, at the third session of the fifth session of the National People's Congress, Chen Yonggui requested to resign as Vice Premier of the State Council, and the conference approved his application. In 1983, Chen Yonggui was assigned to work as a consultant at a farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. He still maintained his true character as a working man. He got rid of the Hongqi car assigned to him by the organization and insisted on walking or taking the bus to go out.
On March 26, 1986, Chen Yonggui died of lung cancer in Beijing at the age of 71.
Wang Jinxi
In 1923, Wang Jinxi was born into a poor peasant family in Yumen City, Gansu Province. Not only could he not be able to go to school since he was a child, he also had to shoulder the burden of working to support his family. When Wang Jinxi was 6 years old, Yumen suffered a famine that had not happened in a century, and the family was even more difficult. He had to pick up a begging stick and become a "begging boy", relying on begging to maintain the family's life.
Later, Wang Jinxi once panned for gold in the mountains and dug for oil in the wilderness, but no matter how hard he worked day and night, he still couldn't provide enough food and clothing, and he had to be beaten and scolded by the foreman often.
Wang Jinxi’s former residence
It wasn’t until September 25, 1949, when Yumen was liberated, that Wang Jinxi’s family ushered in a new life. The next year, Wang Jinxi passed the exam and entered the Yumen Oilfield Company, becoming the first generation of oil workers in New China.
Wang Jinxi was grateful to the Communist Party from the bottom of his heart. He worked very hard and soon received praise from everyone. In 1956, he not only joined the Communist Party of China with honor, but also served as the captain of the 205 drilling team.
1205 team is a backward team, unable to complete the drilling tasks every month, and the workers' mood is very low. After Wang Jinxi took office, he mobilized everyone and said: "Don't blame the sky, don't blame the earth, just blame yourself for not living up to expectations!"
Wang Jinxi and his workers
But some people said: "Xixiao Well 315 is a hard nut to chew!"
Wang Jinxi said: "I am not afraid of the sky or the earth. I am just afraid that I will lie down when encountering difficulties!" His words finally inspired everyone's fighting spirit, and then he led everyone to work hard for a month and finally successfully completed the task.
Later, under the leadership of Wang Jinxi, the drilling team set a national drilling record of 5,009.3 meters per month in the "Quality and Rapid Drilling" labor competition organized by the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, and became famous in the national petroleum system.
In July 1958, Yu Qiuli, the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of Petroleum, went to Yumen, Gansu Province to hold an on-site meeting. He specially met with Wang Jinxi, and cordially held Wang Jinxi's hand and said, "You have a good name. Jinxi, Jinxi, please call our Ministry of Petroleum Jinxi too!"
Yu Qiuli
Wang Jinxi said to Yu Qiuli After reporting on his work, Yu Qiuli was very happy. He said to the surrounding oil field leaders: "Wang Jinxi is Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway. He is worthy of a big responsibility. We must fully support him and let him work freely!"
In 1959, Wang Jinxi led the drilling team to break their highest drilling record. He was also named a model worker in Gansu Province that year and went to Beijing to participate in the National Model Worker Conference and the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In this year, a large oil field was discovered in Northeast China. It was the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, so the central government named it "Daqing". On March 25, 1960, Wang Jinxi led the 1205 drilling team to travel day and night from Yumen to Daqing to participate in the oil battle.
Wang Jinxi
On April 2, the drilling rig that the drilling team had been looking forward to for a long time finally arrived, but there were no cranes and tractors at that time. How should we unload the drill rig from the train?
In order to win time to start drilling as soon as possible, Wang Jinxi decided to lead everyone to pull and carry the drill rig as soon as possible. In order to encourage everyone, he said a famous saying: "If you have the conditions, you must go, and if you don't have the conditions, you must go!"
Wang Jinxi led everyone to do it while shouting yelling to boost morale:
"Comrades, work hard!" "Hey-he!"
"I'm moving now!" "Go-go!"
"Let's go!"
"We're so motivated!" "Hey-he!"
"We're so motivated!" "Hey-he!"
"We're so motivated!" "Hey-he!"
"We're so motivated!" "Hey-he!"
"No matter how difficult it is, you won't be afraid!" "Go—!"
"Let's roar!" "Hey—hey!"
"The earth is shaking too!" "Go—hey!"
Wang Jinxi
Later, the head of the drilling team Song Zhenming sorted these numbers into an passionate poem:
Oil worker roared, and the earth was shaking three times.
Oil workers are very motivated and don’t be afraid of great difficulties!
In just 4 days, Wang Jinxi led everyone to install the drilling rig. After drilling, Wang Jinxi ate on the well and slept on the well. He did not get down the "fire line" for seven days and seven nights. He was hungry and ate a few cold steamed buns. When he was sleepy, he slept in the haystack for a while. The workers all advised him to take a rest for a while, but he said humorously: "The sky is not covered, the ground is used as a bed, and sleeps until dawn."
One day in late April, when Wang Jinxi led everyone to drill a well, he suddenly had a blowout when he drilled a well 700 meters deep. The liquid column sprayed harder and fiercer, and soon it reached more than 20 meters high.
blowout means that water, crude oil and natural gas buried deep in the formation suddenly erupt under the high pressure of the formation. If it cannot be processed in time, then derrick will be swallowed into the formation, causing the well to be destroyed and people to die.
At this time, Wang Jinxi told himself that he must not panic and must lead everyone to stop the blowout immediately. To press the blowout, you need to use barite powder to adjust the mud, but it is not on the well site. He made a quick decision to use cement instead. However, when everyone poured bags of cement into the mud pool, the cement was sinking at the bottom of the pool because there was no mixer and it was useless.
At this critical moment, Wang Jinxi suddenly jumped into the mud pool and stirred the mud with his body! Many workers were infected by him and jumped in one after another. Everyone strode their arms and stirred the mud with their bodies. After three hours of fighting, Wang Jinxi finally led everyone to subdue the blowout.
Wang Jinxi jumped into the mud pool
But Wang Jinxi was soaked in the mud all the time, and his whole body was blistered by the mud with strong alkaline. After everyone pulled him up, he fainted on the ground. Everyone wanted to send Wang Jinxi back to rest, but after he woke up, he said, "Don't worry about me! Hurry up and cycle, don't let the cement solidify! Treat the mud quickly!"
This moved everyone present very much. Everyone said, "This is really an iron man!"
After Yu Qiuli learned about Wang Jinxi's deeds, he held a special meeting to praise him and called on everyone to "learn iron man and be an iron man." He said,
Wang Jinxi led the workers to create conditions under the difficult conditions of lack of transportation tools and no lifting equipment , and carried the man on his shoulder to lift the drilling rig weighing more than 60 tons, stood up, and successfully drilled a well.We just need to learn from his fearless spirit of hard work, and learn from his heroic spirit of never being overwhelmed by difficulties but must overwhelm all difficulties!
Wang Jinxi is a typical
When eating that day, Mao Zedong said to Wang Jinxi: "You and the oil workers have made a big celebration together. It's great! The oil workers do a fierce job and fight well!"
At the banquet that day, there were 12 dishes on each table, but Wang Jinxi must have not eaten enough. It's not that the amount of food is insufficient, but that he almost didn't eat it, because he has been listening to Mao Zedong's speech and keeping every word taught by the Chairman in his heart. This is the greatest happiness for him, so how can he still eat it? After the banquet, Chairman Mao instructed the service staff to give each labor model an apple, but Wang Jinxi himself was reluctant to eat it, so he brought the apple home and dedicated it to his old mother.
In April 1965, Wang Jinxi was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Drilling Party Committee and deputy commander-in-chief of the Drilling Command by the Daqing Battle Committee of the Communist Party of China. After he took office, he said heroically: "One day, we will make our country's oil flow into a river!" Then he began to work in a new position.
Wang Jinxi
On May 3, 1966, Zhou Enlai inspected Daqing, and Wang Jinxi personally held the brake handle and performed the operation of drilling, drilling and connecting drill rods for him. After Zhou En came to see it, he asked happily: "How many meters can you hit?"
Wang Jinxi replied: "This year is guaranteed to be 50,000 meters."
Zhou Enlai said "Okay" three times in a row. When he left, he held Wang Jinxi's hand tightly and said: "If both of you teams hit 50,000 meters this year, you must tell me."
In September of this year, Wang Jinxi led the 1202 and 1205 teams to score a record of 70,000 meters. He also led the delegation to Beijing to report the victory. Zhou Enlai met them again on the Tiananmen Gate Tower on September 29.
However, due to long-term working on the front line, Wang Jinxi's physical condition became worse and worse. In April 1970, when he went to Yumen to attend the National Petroleum Work Conference held by the Ministry of Petroleum, his stomach disease relapsed and his pain was unbearable. He had to leave Yumen and go to Beijing for examination.
But after the examination results came out, it turned out to be in advanced stage of gastric cancer! After Zhou Enlai learned about it, he immediately instructed: "We must take positive measures to treat at any cost!"
After the National Day in 1970, Wang Jinxi's condition worsened and she was often in a coma. Once, when Wang Jinxi was awake, he took out a small paper bag from under the pillow with his trembling hands and handed it to a leader who was visiting him.
The paper bag contains 500 yuan subsidized by Wang Jinxi at all levels after he was hospitalized, and there is also a bill he wrote down, which reads: "Please hand over the money sent to me by the leaders and comrades during the hospitalization period. I am not in trouble."
Wang Jinxi and his family
By early November, Wang Jinxi's condition became more serious. He often fell into a coma. In his coma, he said to the medical staff around him: "Let me go back to Daqing to have a look. I want to see comrades and see the Daqing Oilfield."
On the evening of November 15, 1970, Wang Jinxi unfortunately passed away at the age of 47.
These four representatives are outstanding examples on all grassroots fronts, and they have indeed made extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions. They are always worthy of our respect!
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