At that time, he was the deputy captain of the Yuanbao Village Land Reform Team and the writer Zhou Libo (data photo).
Leng Juzhen (second from right), the first secretary of Xiaonanhe Village, Raohe County, Heilongjiang Province, and the captain of the village work team, was at the scene of the 5th Xiaonanhe Farming Festival in 2021 (data photo). Xinhua News Agency published
The fertile black soil in Northeast China, with rice and beans everywhere and rice and grain in the warehouse. Heilongjiang, this was once the backbone of farmers who had turned over the land to support the liberation of the country. Today, this place has become the "ballast stone" of national food security, bravely becoming the vanguard of agricultural modernization, and embarking on a new journey of rural revitalization.
has experienced the baptism of the "storm" of land reform 75 years ago. The decisive battle of poverty alleviation is blowing the black soil of the spring breeze of rural revitalization. It has always been a hot land for pioneers and strugglers, and a witness to the earth-shaking changes in the fate of farmers.
At different times, there were a group of special combat groups shining here - the rural work team. They delivered the Party’s policies to thousands of households, educated and mobilized the masses, and used their hard-working hands and wisdom to change their homes and destiny.
For farmers to "turn over" - wherever the farmers are, the "big locust tree" is planted
East Dahaodi, Yuanbao Village, Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang Province. 75 years ago, the land reform team laid the first stake here, and the farmers assigned to the fields turned over and became the owner of the land for the first time.
Nowadays, this is a demonstration area for dry fields to be converted into paddy fields. In the rice fields that have just been newly transplanted, green seedlings sway in the wind.
Yuanbao Village, known as the "first village in land reform", has another title in history: Guangluotuan. The story of Zhou Libo's novel "Storm" takes place here. Luo Qingbao, a 84-year-old villager in Yuanbao Village, told reporters that before the land reform, the poorest families in the village only had a pair of pants, and whoever went out would wear it. This is the origin of Guangluo Tun.
Overthrow the feudal land system that ruled the countryside and allowed the oppressed peasants to "turn over" it became the mission of the Chinese Communists.
On May 4, 1946, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Instructions on Land Issues", implementing "those who plough their own fields." The Northeast Liberated Area was the first to set off a craze for land system reform. Leading organs at all levels have sent a large number of land reform teams to go deep into the countryside, mobilize the masses, accuse landlords, punish bullies, and allocate land.
In the autumn of 11946, the 38-year-old writer Zhou Libo came to Songjiang with the army and took the initiative to ask to stay in the Yuanbao District of Zhuhe County (now Shangzhi City ) to participate in land reform, and was appointed as the deputy captain of the land reform team.
Luo Qingbao said that the land reform team arrived at Yuanbao, but was initially "coldly accepted". The masses did not understand the work team and had a big question mark in their hearts, fearing that they would not stay for a long time, and the bandits would come back to take revenge, so the honest and poor farmers did not dare to approach the work team.
Faced with this situation, the work team took out the Communists' secret treasure - mobilizing the masses. They traveled around the house, visited the poor and asked about their hardships, and also went to the fields to help the peasant brothers work, working, chatting and making close friends.
In Luo Qingbao's memory, Zhou Libo, a cultural person with glasses on his nose and a pen in his pocket, often sits cross-legged on the farmers' kang, chatting and laughing with everyone, and teaching them to sing revolutionary songs.
Zhou Libo not only gave political lessons to the land reform activist training class, but also told stories such as "Li Youcai's Ban Dance" by Zhao Shuli and the Eighth Route Army and the White-Haired Girl.
The first secretary of the Yuanbao District Working Committee at that time, Han Hui, once told in his recollection article how the work team carried out mass work. They also began to "plant locust trees" in "Li Youcai's Ban Talk" when poor farmers often gathered under the big locust trees to talk about the plot, and they also began to "plant locust trees" in Yuanbao.
Farmers like to chat with each other after meals, the "big locust tree" will be planted in whose house. The work team participated in it and talked about how the Eighth Route Army fought against the Japanese and landlords, interspersed with revolutionary principles and propaganda of the Party’s rural policies. This method is not restricted and lively, making everyone clear about the meaning of land reform, saying that it will not be dispersed late at night.
The diaphragm and concerns were eliminated, and the enlightened Yuanbao people began to stand up and expose the landlord bully.The working team struck while the iron was hot, and established peasant associations, self-defense forces, women's associations, etc. with poor and hired peasants as the backbone, so that they could handle important work in land reform, cultivate the ability to be the masters of the country, and leave a work team that would not leave.
As the bully and landlords were defeated, the farmers were assigned to the land they had always dreamed of. "Our whole family thanked Communist Party from the heart." Luo Qingbao's family of four was divided into more than 20 acres of land. "I was so happy that I didn't sleep all night. Without the Communist Party, we would have nothing." The land system reform in the liberated area laid the deepest mass foundation for the establishment of a new China. The peasants who have made a comeback in politics and economy sincerely support the Communist Party. They actively participate in the struggle to defend the fruits of victory by supporting the front and joining the army. "The father sends his son, the wife sends his husband, and the brothers strive to go to the battlefield first" was a moving scene back then.
html Zhang Baojin, the 180-year-old current secretary of the Party Branch of Yuanbao Village, has served as the branch secretary of the village for 41 years. He said that the land reform team has accumulated rich experience in the process of in-depth rural publicity, education, mobilization and organization of farmers, which provides valuable reference for doing a good job in the "three rural" work after the founding of New China.In 2020, the total assets of Yuanbao Village reached 730 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 333,000 yuan. More than half of the villagers lived in buildings or villas. The "first village for land reform" has undergone historic changes.
In order to cut off the "roots of poverty" - in 2016, 8 villages have been the "fire seed" of the prairie fire
Raohe Lanqiao Village, Ning'an Waterfall Village, Dongning Dongsui Village, Shangzhi Dafangzi Village... Over the past 16 years, Chen Hua, the "department-level village official" has led 8 backward villages into advanced villages and well-off villages. In December 2019, Chen Hua retired from the agency and was no longer the first secretary of Kuoshan Village and the captain of the village work team. "There is no end to poverty alleviation. I want to work until the day when the people don't need me," he said.
As one of the provinces with heavy poverty alleviation and development tasks in the country, Heilongjiang once had 20 national poverty-stricken counties, 8 provincial poverty-stricken counties, and 1,778 poor villages.
In the former provincial poverty-stricken village of Suileng County, a "happy courtyard" covering an area of more than 1,500 square meters and surrounded by white walls is surrounded by green trees. There are 35 rooms in the courtyard, and flowers, fruits and vegetables are planted in the middle of the courtyard.
htmlLi Guoqin, a villager in her 170s, has moved in for five or six years. She was a poor household in the past and was one of the first residents of the "Happy Courtyard"."In the past, we lived in mud thatched houses, and it rained heavily outside and lightly inside." Li Guoqin said that through the replacement of the homestead, the old couple lived in a spacious and bright new house. Li Guoqin also transferred 12 acres of land in his family, earning 5,000 or 6,000 yuan a year, plus photovoltaic power generation, agricultural machinery dividends, etc. in the village, and lived a stable and happy old age.
Kaoshan Village is the last stop of Chen Hua's career in more than ten years. He first arrived in September 2015. At that time, Kuoshan Village was still a typical "dirty and messy village". The village headquarters was simple and the party organization was weak and scattered. The village collectively owed more than 600,000 yuan in debt, and the villagers had no hope of getting rid of poverty.
In order to understand the village situation and public opinion, Chen Hua led the poverty alleviation team to go to villages and households during the day, and at night, he gathered village cadres, old party members and village representatives to chat, and gathered ideas to "take the pulse" of Kuoshan Village.
"The housing problems of poor households and dangerous houses are problems that everyone has reported more." said villager Sun Yuanlong. The working team invited the Harbin Institute of Architecture to plan and design, and built this "happy courtyard" that is warm and energy-saving, suitable for concentrated living, and can be moved in with your bag.
While solving the problem of ", no worries, three guarantees, ", the work team aims to develop poverty alleviation industries and organizes party members to take the lead in developing flower planting projects. Over the past few years, the flower industry in Kaoshan Village has become well-known in the surrounding areas, and more than 80 poor households and marginal households in the village have been able to make a living through the flower industry.
"Even during the COVID-19 epidemic, our flower industry has achieved good results." Chen Hua said that he is more confident now, and this year the village has expanded the flower planting area. Although he has entered his second year of retirement, Chen Hua is still worried about going to the village, which is tied to half of his energy and time.
In addition to flower planting, Chen Hua led the working team to develop a lot of "family assets" for Kuoshan Village.Using poverty alleviation funds, the village purchases hookers, high-power tractors and other agricultural machinery and equipment to form a mechanized farming team; form a village labor construction team, which is not only for the use of the village, but also "work" outside to help the village collectively increase its income. At present, the village collective has a surplus of more than 500,000 yuan per year.
industry has been established and the results of poverty alleviation have been consolidated. Villagers in Kuoshan Village said that the work team is "his own family". In Chen Hua's view, the work team is like a spark, and we must try every means to make the flames in the village ignite. To make the village truly change, it is necessary to improve the lives of villagers, and to ignite hope from the hearts of villagers, sparking fire will spread and burning more and more vigorously.
Chen Hua is a microcosm of 6,182 village-based work teams and 25,200 village-based cadres in the front line of poverty alleviation in Heilongjiang. It is them who have opened up the "last mile" of targeted poverty alleviation in .
Farmers who rely on this black soil have finally tasted the happiness of a well-off society.
In order to retain "homesickness" - "I feel like there is not enough time"
The banks of the Ussuri River. The Dadingzi Mountain in "Ussuri Boat Song" is dyed green after a winter of ice and snow. At the foot of the mountain, shrouded in a layer of mist is Xiaonanhe Village, Xilinzi Township, Raohe County.
"Secretary Leng!" At four or five o'clock in the morning, villager Chen Zhaojun came to the residence of Leng Juzhen, the first secretary and the captain of the village work team, and knocked on the door symbolically and went straight into the house. Leng Juzhen quickly climbed off the kang and the two started chatting. Such a scene has become the daily routine of Leng Juzhen in the village over the years.
"Farmers get up early in farming, and they get used to going to the ground to come to you and ask you for a solution if you have anything." After a while, Leng Juzhen simply stopped hanging the door when she was resting at night, and basically just sleeps with her clothes. "It's convenient for people to get up in the morning," she said.
For more than five years, Leng Juzhen's originally beautiful and fair face turned into "plateau red" and her hands were also covered with calluses. However, during this period, Xiaonanhe Village developed rapidly, and the rural tourism and pepper industry were in full swing. Not only did it get rid of poverty, it was also selected as the first batch of national rural tourism key villages in 2019, with the cumulative income of tourism and agricultural products of the whole village being about 5 million yuan.
"Land is the lifeblood of farmers. To revitalize the land and make 'golden cakes', farmers can stay at home and increase their income and become rich, which is most in line with the interests and ideas of farmers." Leng Juzhen said.
"Complete poverty alleviation is only the starting point, and rural revitalization is a comprehensive requirement and challenge." Leng Juzhen is even busier and feels that there is not enough time.
For several consecutive days, Leng Juzhen slept relatively late, and she had too much work during the day. She could only calm down after eight or nine o'clock in the evening and do some unfinished work.
"The focus this year is rural environmental governance." Under the light, Leng Juzhen spread the 1.2-meter-long and 2.4-meter-wide Xiaonanhe Village planning map for reporters. There are now 147 households and 437 people living in the village, and each household has its location marked in the picture. According to the plan, on the basis of good sanitation, apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, , etc. will be planted separately, with different scenery on each street to meet the needs of tourism and photography.
Recently, a tourism company is preparing to use a piece of abandoned land in Xiaonanhe Village to invest in the construction of B&B , which has entered the signing stage. This made Leng Juzhen feel relieved. The travel company is responsible for the operation of the homestay, so the village will no longer have to worry about the flow of customers in the future.
"During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, our goal is to build an advanced, prosperous, beautiful and harmonious Xiaonan River." Leng Juzhen has already made detailed plans for the future of Xiaonan River Village.
Industry development is still the top priority. Not long ago, the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Xiaonanhe Village signed an agreement to use it as a pepper test base, and plans to carry out deep processing to increase product added value. Leng Juzhen said that the newly developed chili seeds can produce three crops a year, and the output of the chili sauce factory will exceed 1 million bottles this year.
The new winery is about to be put into use. Inspired by Leng Juzhen, villager Zhou Yanliang built a small wine shop with nearly 20 tons of soju wine a year, all sold in the surrounding area. Through investment promotion, a Guangdong company is upgrading and transforming the filling equipment of the winery and is responsible for exploring the domestic market.
"I basically had nothing to do before Secretary Leng came."Zhou Yanliang said that he is now busy with farming, raising pigs and soy wine. Although it is harder, he is full of motivation. The industry has grown, but the foundation is not solid enough, especially the market test is insufficient; it is difficult to change the villagers' ideas and concepts overnight; the attractiveness of rural talents is still weak... These are some practical problems. It is already late at night, and the night in the small mountain village is quiet under the starlight, away from the hustle and bustle. Leng Juzhen sat in front of the computer, typing on words, looking up, the time has passed zero, and it is another new day. "We need to add more efforts to rural revitalization. "She wrote. (Reporters Han Yu, Wang Chunyu, Qiang Yong, Wang Song)
Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph
