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Wen Wenshidao
In 1977, when Wan Li first arrived in Anhui, a heavy sense of depression permeated his heart.
Among the 280,000 production teams in the province, one-third of the farmers could not even guarantee food and clothing, and hunger and poverty followed them.
Early the next morning, Wan Li with three steamed buns, embarked on the road to Jinzhai County.
Jinzhai, that once old revolutionary area, now suffers from poverty. Along the way, he saw dilapidated villages, parched fields, and people shivering in the cold wind.
When he entered a leaky hut, the scene in front of him cut his heart like a knife.
A skinny girl was tightly wrapped in a tattered quilt, her body shivering in the cold wind. Wanli did not hesitate to take off his own cotton coat and gently draped it over the girl.
At that moment, he had only one thought in mind The debt we owe to the people, it is time to pay!
At the end of the expedition, Wan Li stood in the field, looking at the land that was once sprinkled with the blood of our forefathers, his heart is full of pain and guilt.
He exclaimed This is the old revolutionary area! We can’t let the people suffer any more!
He knew that changes had to be made. If we still follow the old path, it’s not going to work.
A year later, in March 1978, the state asked all provincial leaders to go to Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, to learn from Dazhai in agriculture.
At that time for that kind of arrangement, Wanli heart quite dissatisfied, because he knew clearly, learning artificial terraces, simply can not solve the problem of survival of the people of Anhui.
So he claimed to be absent, only sent a representative to go to study, when he left, he also instructed the representative that
Dazhai this set, we do not support, can not afford to learn, but also can not openly oppose.
After the delegate left, he went back to work. He was on a field trip to study the difficulties faced by the countryside and pondered the way out for the countryside and the farmers.
Wan Li supported the practice of contracting production to the household.
Wan Li, formerly known as Wan Mingli, was born in 1916 in Dongping County, Shandong Province, into a poor farming family.
In 1936, at the age of 20, Wan Li joined an organization in Qufu, Shandong Province, and from then on began his revolutionary career.
In his early years, Wan Li was involved in revolutionary activities through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and other important historical periods.
In 1975, he was appointed to the top management of the Ministry of Railways. Faced with the semi-paralyzed plight of China’s railroads at that time, he pushed for the reorganization and restoration of the railroad system with his keen political insight and firm determination.
In 1977, Wan Li, who had created a miracle of reorganization in the railway system, was once again entrusted with an even more arduous task, to take up the leadership of Anhui Province to save that poorest province in China.
It is for this reason that the scenes of Wan Li’s inspection of the countryside at the beginning of the text and his great contribution to the rural reform were created.
Late at night on November 24, 1978, 18 families from Xiaogang Village in Fengyang, Anhui Province, gathered secretly in the earthen hut of villager Yan Lihua’s house.
Under the dim light, the villagers sat around in a heavy and tense atmosphere.
At the suggestion of villager Yan Hongchang, they decided to divide the fields into single farms and implement the practice of parcels to households.
It was an unprecedented attempt and a risky choice, but also a helpless choice for the farmers who wanted to survive.
The villagers pressed their red handprints one by one on a simple note, which was not only a promise for the future, but also a bet on life.
Because in the policy environment at that time, the parcel to the household was regarded as the restoration of capitalism, once exposed, they will face severe punishment.
However, the villagers of Xiaogang Village had no way back.
At that time, Fengyang was known as a village that relied on three kinds of subsidies: food, loans, production, and relief.
The villagers lived in extreme poverty, and many of them even resorted to begging. As Yan Hongchang said, if we get out of this way, I believe that the organization will certainly be realistic.
They decided to express their determination by entrusting their children to other villagers, who would jointly support their children if something bad happened to them as a result of the Baojian to the household.
But when the secret of Xiaogang Village reaches the higher-ups, there’s a groundswell of opposition.
Some denounced it as a retrogression, while others accused Baogang of restoring capitalism.
At the critical moment, Wan Li stepped forward, in the face of those voices of skepticism, he slammed the table, said categorically
The people are starving to death, why talk about capitalism? If it slides into capitalism, I’ll pull it back! But if we can make more grain, we can save a lot of people!
Shortly afterward, Wan Li personally came to Fengyang for research.
In the face of the Fengyang County leaders’ concerns about the transfer of production to households, he made a decision on the spot to let it go ahead! It’s just a production team! It won’t turn the world upside down! It can’t be overthrown!
It was that courage and commitment that supported the reform practice in Xiaogang Village and sounded the trumpet for the subsequent rural reform.
Soon, Xiaogangcun brought good news.
In 1979, Xiaogang Village ushered in a bumper harvest, with a total grain output of 133,000 pounds, equivalent to the sum of the 1955-1970 output.
To know, before the village of Xiaogang a year of grain income of only 30,000 pounds, which is enough to increase production by more than four times.
When the villagers for the first time to the state to pay the grain, Yan Hongchang holding the grain bag tears This life never thought I could eat!
Miles 10,000 word report to impress the top
However, the bumper harvest in Xiaogang Village did not quell the controversy in the market.
Soon after, some people published articles criticizing the “production to household” policy, and one of the authors, Zhang Hao, criticized the policy, saying that
The practice of contracting production to households is a retrogression, which will mess up the thinking of the cadres and the masses and jeopardize production.
One of them, Zhang Hao, criticized it as a retrogression that would mess up the thinking of the cadres and masses and cause harm to production, and demanded that those places that had already seen the division of land into groups and households must resolutely correct their mistakes.
That article is like a heavy bomb, to the just started rural reform cast a huge shadow, Anhui Henan and other places to bear the brunt, many of the implementation of production to household production team even suspended the spring plowing and sowing.
Wan Li was very angry when he read the article.
He had already proved with experiments that not only was the contracting of production to households not wrong, but also greatly liberated the productive forces.
So Wanli organized a counterattack overnight and submitted a report of tens of thousands of words to the top management, in which he used detailed data to prove that increasing production was the hard truth!
He also took the risk of incorporating the experience of Xiaogang Village into government documents, and suggested that single-family households in remote mountainous areas should be allowed to engage in household production, in order to strive for more space for reform.
That game eventually alarmed Deng Gong.
Deng Gong carefully read Wanli’s report and, after much deliberation, finally made a public statement in 1980
After the relaxation of the rural policy, some suitable to engage in the package of production to the household to engage in, the effect is very good, the change is very fast Some comrades are afraid, this is not terrible.
Deng Gong’s statement, for the practice of household production to provide an important policy support, but also let the Anhui star fire eventually become a prairie fire.
Soon after, Document No. 75 was formally issued, clearly stating that in remote mountainous areas and poor and backward areas, production could be distributed to households.
The document emphasized that the practice of household production under the leadership of production teams was dependent on the socialist economy and would not depart from the socialist track, nor was there any danger of a return to capitalism.
The document gave a proper name to household production and cleared the way for rural reform.
At that time, Wan Li was squatting on a hillside in southern Anhui, teaching farmers to graft chestnut trees. As he did so, he said, “Don’t just grow food, but also engage in commercial agriculture!
Wan Li’s persistence not only rewrote the destiny of China’s rural areas, but also made the folk song “If you want to eat rice, look for Wan Li” spread all over China.
Looking back years later, the 18 red handprints of Xiaogang Village and Wan Li’s hat together constitute the most thrilling bet in the history of China’s reform.
There was no theory in the bookstore, only the hungry farmers and the officials who dared to take the responsibility, used the most simple wisdom of survival, tore open the iron curtain of the planned economy.
As Wan Li said What is socialism? To feed the people is the greatest socialism!
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