- Foreword
"Talented people have emerged from generation to generation, and each has led the way for hundreds of years." No matter ancient or modern times, there are always countless great people who dedicate their lives to light up the road in the darkness.
In Guangdong at the end of the 19th century, there was such a person. When he was young, he had a feeling of serving the country and participated in the reactionary Kuomintang's war. After the victory of the Liberation War, he devoted himself to the development of Guangdong and became a light in the hearts of the Guangdong people.
He is Xie Fei.
In January 1999, Xie Fei suddenly felt unwell. He thought he would be fine after taking medicine for a few days, but he knew it would get worse. So he went to the hospital for examination and was diagnosed with leukemia . When
heard the news, he was suddenly shocked. This was an incurable disease at the time.
Soon, he calmed down and made an unexpected decision.
What kind of decision did he make? What happened next?
- He had great ambitions when he was young
Xie Fei was born in a small county town in Shanwei, Guangdong. There were four children in his family and his life was very difficult.
I thought that even if life was bad, as long as my parents and brothers and sisters were by my side, I could get through no matter how bad life was. However, his father became ill due to overwork, and the family had no money for treatment, which delayed his illness. He passed away when Xie Fei was 3 years old, leaving his mother, Li Chun, to take care of his four siblings alone.
At that time, the country was in an era of war and turmoil. There were many warlords from the Northeast, Sichuan, and Guangxi factions inside, and there were all-round plundering by the Japanese outside. The people were in dire straits and their lives were miserable, let alone a peasant family like this.
But mother Li Chun is very kind and strong. With four children, she still manages her home in order.
My mother and her brother worked at the landlord's house for more than ten hours every day, barely able to maintain the family's food and clothing. Despite this, when Xie Fei reached school age, she still insisted on sending Xie Fei to study because she knew that only studying was the real way out.
The sensible Xie Fei would go to the fields to help his mother work after school every day.
While in school, Xie Fei was not only smart, but also very hard-working. He often studied without sleep and food, determined to study for the rise of China. Neighbors often praise him for his intelligence, diligence, literary talent and eloquence. When my mother saw this scene, she couldn't help but feel happy in her heart.
But such happy days did not last long. Seeing his mother's hard work and the embarrassing situation of his family, Xie Fei knew that he could no longer study. In 1947, Xie Fei, who was only 15 years old, dropped out of school after finishing high school.
But he still did not give up hope in life. He felt that he was very lucky to have studied for more than ten years in such a difficult environment. If it were not for his mother and brother, he might still be an illiterate farmer.
At this time, Japan had announced its surrender. The people could have lived a peaceful life, but the Kuomintang did not abide by the Double Ten Agreement and provoked a civil war . In the next four years, the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began, and Guangdong was also the main battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.
When Xie Fei was in school, his class teacher was a Communist. Under the influence of his teacher, Xie Fei came up with the idea of joining the Communist Party, and the seeds of revolution kept sprouting in his heart. Xie Fei felt that he should devote himself to the revolution and contribute to the liberation of the people.
At first, Xie Fei didn't dare to let his mother know, but later his mother actually supported him very much.
So, at the age of 15, he was not afraid of hardships and dangers and resolutely embarked on the road of revolution.
In this way, 15-year-old Xie Fei joined the revolution. He served as a "democracy activist" in Hekou Township and Shangbu Township, Lufeng County, promoting the Communist Party's policies in the countryside and mobilizing young people to participate in the revolution. Although he was still young, when he encountered the Kuomintang's "purge", he was calmer than adults and used his wisdom to resolve the crises one by one.
In 1949, the people of the whole country finally ushered in the dawn of victory. 17-year-old Xie Fei was also recognized by the party organization, and he got his wish and joined the Communist Party of China in Hetian Township, Lufeng County, becoming a true Communist Party member.
- Diligent, asking for nothing in return
After the Liberation War, Xie Fei did not mind that being an official made less money, and he was willing to stay in his hometown of Lufeng County, Guangdong Province to serve the people and became a grassroots service worker .
At this time, the situation of land reform ushered in. During the process of land reform, he did not talk on paper, but went deep into every household, insisted on going from the masses to the masses, and used practical actions to lead the people to seek development and work with the landlords. struggle and help them solve the difficulties in life. Under his guidance, the living standards of the people in Lufeng County have continued to improve.
Being pragmatic and simple is the impression Xie Fei leaves on others at work. How could such a good party member not be respected by the people? So after completing his work at the grassroots level, he became the district committee secretary with the highest number of votes. After learning the news, Xie Fei couldn't believe it because he just wanted to serve the people well and asked for nothing in return.
In the following days, he worked more diligently. Because of his outstanding performance, he successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Lufeng County Party Committee, deputy county magistrate, and even became the youngest county party secretary. At that time, he was no longer to 28 years old. The
organization also saw that he was a rare talent, so in 1959 he was sent to the Guangdong Provincial Party School of Guangdong Province for further study. At the party school, he worked hard to learn scientific and cultural knowledge with the same enthusiasm as when he was young. After completing his studies, he was promoted to work in the party and government organs in Guangzhou.
At that time, Guangdong was in need of fresh blood. After more than 20 years of training, in 1983, Xie Fei once again went to the Central Party School to study as a key talent training. After that, he was appointed Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee. Since then, Guangdong has embarked on a path of rapid development.
At this time, he did not feel complacent about his past achievements. Instead, he showed off his previous energy and happily ran around the city. Whether it was industrial and mining enterprises, scientific research institutes, or universities, middle schools and primary schools, you could see his achievements. figure.
He acts vigorously and resolutely, and will definitely do what he says. He is not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and does not engage in formalities. Instead, he keeps things simple and often goes to the countryside for research, staying for ten and a half months at a time. He has won unanimous praise from the people.
He said that he is the child of farmers. Without farmers, he would not be where he is today.
In everyone’s impression, Xie Fei is extremely friendly, he has never been shy towards the people, and he wears very simple clothes. You wouldn’t recognize him as a leader in a crowd. When
was serving in Guangdong, his cousin Xie Fucai once visited him. When he pushed the door open, he saw that there was not even a single decent piece of furniture in the small house - the dining table was an old marble table and the stools were from A long bench in the countryside.
Xie Fucai couldn't believe that this was the residence of the Provincial Party Committee Secretary. Even his own home was better decorated than Xie Fei's. His nose suddenly sore and he admired his cousin even more.
He asked Xie Fei why he didn't improve his life. Xie Fei just smiled and said nothing.
Later, a relative wanted to ask him to find a job. He thought it was just a matter of words, but he refused forcefully. He would not allow such a thing to happen. In his mind, it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone else. Only what you earn through your own ability is yours.
After he became famous, Xie Fei did not forget his mother. Life was not good in the past, and his mother suffered too much. Now he is far away from home and cannot fulfill his filial piety, so he is extra gentle every time he sees his mother. , as if he was still that little boy, nestled in his mother's arms.
In early 1991, Xie informally became the top leader of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.
A year later, the 88-year-old Deng Xiaoping inspected the south, and Xie Fei accompanied him as Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. During the 11 days from January 19th to January 29th, they discussed the future of Guangdong Province while inspecting.
Deng Xiaoping looked at the map of Guangdong and said that in 20 years Guangdong will definitely catch up with Asia's " Four Little Dragons".
Hearing these words, Xie Fei was very excited, which means that Guangdong will become a key development target of the country.
On the third day after Deng Xiaoping left Guangdong, Xie Fei held a grand meeting at the Zhudao Hotel in Guangzhou. The meeting was full of cadres at the bureau level and above. He excitedly conveyed the transcript of his conversation with Deng Xiaoping, danced and gestured, and even shouted: "Comrade Xiaoping's southern tour will have a major impact on Guangdong. We must go all out and live up to Xiaoping!"
In the following years, In order to achieve the goal of catching up with Asia's "Four Little Dragons", Xie Fei He led the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to formulate the "Three Three Projects", that is, establishing three mechanisms of socialist market economy, democratic rule of law, and honest government supervision, strengthening the three foundations of agriculture, transportation, energy, communication, and education and technology, and realizing Three optimizations: industrial structure, ecological environment and population quality.
In May 1993, he made a report on "Struggle to Basically Achieve Modernization in Guangdong in Twenty Years" at the Seventh Party Congress of Guangdong Province. After that, he led all the people of Guangdong Province on an arduous road of exploration.
In the process of reform, Shunde City in Guangdong Province has to be mentioned, because Shunde is a model of reform and is of great significance to the success of Guangdong Province's reform. It is the key to the success of Guangdong Province's reform.
Xie Fei has listed Shunde as a comprehensive reform pilot area and will go to Shunde every season to personally implement reforms. The "mixed economy" and "revitalization of high-quality assets" that our country continues today are the results of Shunde's reforms and are still effective today.
Guangdong’s rapid economic development in less than 20 years has shocked the country and even the world, all of which are inseparable from Xie Fei’s hard work.
- Concealed his illness and passed away peacefully
He dedicated his life to his hometown. In 1998, Xie Fei was elected as the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and his work location was changed from Guangdong to Beijing. Since then, he has never returned to Guangdong, or to Lufeng .
After arriving in Beijing, although his mother Li Chun could not be with him, she could always see him on TV. She was content to see that her son was still well.
People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes. In January 1999, Xie Fei, who was feeling unwell, was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. At that time, Xie Fei was only 67 years old. He still thought about continuing to serve the country and the people. He should go home and spend more time with his mother, but it is a pity that God will not give him this opportunity.
At that time, there was no treatment for leukemia in our country, and the medical environment was not as superior as it is today. As long as you get leukemia, you will face death, so there are not a few people who died from this disease.
After more than half a year of conservative treatment, Xie Fei passed away in Guangzhou. As he lay dying, he was still optimistic, still thinking about national events and the development of Guangdong. He said that he has lived up to anyone's expectations in his life, and he believes that Guangdong will get better and better in the future.
Before his death, he asked his children not to tell their mother Li Chun the news of his passing. The old man was 103 years old. If he knew that he had passed away, he would be devastated and the consequences would be unimaginable. Let her live happily. Later in life.
I didn’t expect that this would last for 10 years.
Whenever there is a festival, Li Chun will receive gifts from her son. She has never thought that her son has passed away. Until later, when she was watching the news broadcast, she would ask her daughter-in-law why she couldn't see Xie Fei. The daughter-in-law had no choice but to find an excuse to fool him, and couldn't bear to hurt the old man's heart.
8 years later, Xie Fei's wife also passed away, and the news was concealed.
seemed to feel something. Although Li Chun's consciousness became increasingly unclear, she often kept mumbling about where her son had gone and where her daughter-in-law had gone. He would also call his son's nickname "Axiang", as if he saw Axiang when he was little.
In 2008, Li Chun was 112 years old. She received a birthday gift from "Xie Fei" as usual. But this time, she didn't ask Xie Fei why he didn't come back, but acted very calmly.
Maybe she had already made a conclusion in her mind. Exposing the lie would not change the fact that her son had died, but would make everyone feel uncomfortable. She already understood her son's good intentions, so why bother to expose them?
On March 17, 2009, Li Chun also passed away. She had never been sick in her life, and she lived a happy life with her son later on, so she was very peaceful when she passed away.
She could finally see her son. The ten years of separation were really too long.
- Ending
In ancient times, there was Zhuge Liang who "dedicated himself to death", there was the Southern Song Dynasty general Yue Fei, and today there are Deng Jiaxian who "two bombs and one honor", Kong Fansen and Kong Fansen who took root in Tibet and faced difficulties. Xie Fei on top. They watered the future of the motherland with their sweat and dedicated their lives to the cause of the motherland. These people are worthy of being remembered throughout our lives.
Although Xie Fei did not see the rising sun of the 21st century, he will always live in the hearts of the people. In Guangdong, he is still a famous figure.
There is a very eye-catching plaque in his hometown of Luhe County (originally called Lufeng County), with four large golden characters engraved on it - Xie Fei's Former Residence. The people of Guangdong all know that without him, Guangdong Province would not be what it is today.
Walking on the street, no one can fail to marvel at the prosperity of Guangdong. It has long become a bridge between China and the world. Its inclusiveness is unmatched by any other city in China. We should learn from Xie Fei, study hard when we are young, set great aspirations, conscientiously serve the country and the people after graduation, and devote our lives diligently to our jobs.
Chairman Mao once said: "Some people's lives are heavier than Mount Tai, and some people's lives are lighter than Mount Tai."
Xie Fei is the person whose life is heavier than Mount Tai. Facing difficulties is his code, and working hard is his motto. He has used practical actions to prove the development potential of Guangdong Province and lead the people of the country towards a better future.
If he saw today's Guangdong and today's China, would he also be shocked? We should always remember our hero - Xie Fei.
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