"What do you think is Dazhai culture?"

"The core of Dazhai culture is self-reliance and hard work. This is the spirit and heirloom of our Dazhai people. "

Guo Fenglian is full of excitement and joy when she mentions Dazhai. In addition to being the place where she grew up, it is also the place where she has devoted half her life. Even now, she is still making progress for the development of Dazhai. With.

Dazhai, where Guo Fenglian worked, was known to almost everyone in the 1960s and 1970s. It even became the "Dazhai model" highly praised by Chairman Mao. Premier Zhou appeared in Dazhai three times. Provide suggestions for development.

So, what is the magic power of this Dazhai? What strategies did Guo Fenglian contribute to the development of Dazhai? And why is Guo Fenglian called the Iron Girl? How is Guo Fenglian's life now?

1963 was the most difficult year for Dazhai in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province. It was also the year when Guo Fenglian appeared in Dazhai.

In August 1963, Dazhai suffered a severe flood that had not happened in a century. All the terraces built in Dazhai were washed away. The people of Dazhai, which was already poor, suffered even more from the natural disaster. Unspeakable.

Chen Yonggui, who was then a committee member of Xiyang County, could not allow natural disasters to invade the people, so he fought to restore Dazhai's past while cheering for the desperate villagers.

The difficult conditions plunged the entire Dazhai into gloom. Sixteen-year-old Guo Fenglian was very unwilling to see Dazhai destroyed. After thinking for a long time, she decided to do something for Dazhai.

This later gave rise to the name Iron Girl.

In order to dedicate her strength, 16-year-old Guo Fenglian decided to participate in the work of restoring land and rebuilding homes after the disaster, so she joined the youth team composed of 23 young women including the first captain Zhao Sulan. Commando.

Sixteen-year-old Guo Fenglian is full of strength. Although she only weighs less than 90 kilograms, she can lift a 140 kilograms pole without gasping for breath.

Everyone says that Guo Fenglian is a child full of strength. Even though she is petite, she is very powerful!

Thanks to the efforts of this guerrilla group, Guo Fenglian and the 23 young women in the village became well-known figures in the village. They did the same hard work as adult men. As soon as the village's production and construction tasks were released, , this group of women rushed forward, and even told everyone: "What men can do, we women can also do it."

With this belief, this group of twenty-three women The women's commando team is called the "Iron Girl Team" by the villagers.

The enthusiasm of the twenty-three girls was not dampened by the hardships in Dazhai. On the contrary, they became more and more courageous with each setback.

On May 21, 1963, when Premier Zhou came to Dazhai to make suggestions for the production and construction of Dazhai, he wanted to show his best appearance in front of the Premier. Guo Fenglian even borrowed a shirt from the girl next door.

In order to relieve their boredom, the girls also composed and performed Yangko. The lyrics they composed were also very realistic, such as "The dry pipe is pot to pot. The cadres and the masses sit together and use towels to hold their heads together." We sweat just as much..."

At that time, for the post-disaster reconstruction of Dazhai, the Iron Girl Team brought joy to everyone.

And Guo Fenglian is one of the leaders.

Sixteen-year-old Guo Fenglian has a lot of opinions of her own. After joining the Iron Girl team, she even contributed to the development of Dazhai.

In 1964, Guo Fenglian took over the title of captain of the Iron Girl Commando.

Even though she was only 17 years old when she took over the title of captain, Guo Fenglian was the oldest child in the team, and the youngest was only 13 years old.

Since Guo Fenglian took over, she has led the "iron girls" to build land in the winter. When digging through the frozen soil, no living soil was found below three feet. Each hand was so cold that their mouths were cracked, and the tiger's mouth was shocked and bloody. Not a single complaint.

The "iron girls" followed the older generation on the construction site, eating rice made from ice, working from dawn to dusk, even if they were wearing rags, they didn't care at all.

1964 was also the time when Chairman Mao publicly issued the slogan "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture". This small village located in Shanxi Province began to become famous throughout the country, and the Iron Girls team led by Guo Fenglian became nationally famous. The object of praise.

Dazhai is very popular. People from all over the country choose to come to Dazhai to study. Everyone knows that the production team here has been praised by the chairman, and they all want to meet the legendary committee member Chen Yonggui. And the famous Iron Girl leader Guo Fenglian.

As her fame grew, Guo Fenglian also began to follow Chen Yonggui to study everywhere, learn from the experience of other production teams, and go to the party committee to study.

Guo Fenglian’s academic quality is also improving step by step.

Under the leadership of Chen Yonggui and Guo Fenglian, the production and construction of Dazhai began to become more impressive.

There is even talk of the climax of Dazhai’s ten-year transformation.

In the ten years from 1964 to 1974, more than 140 national leaders came to Dazhai for inspection work. Premier Zhou came to Dazhai three times and even summed up the spirit of the people of Dazhai. ----"Political leadership, ideological leadership, self-reliance, and hard work."

This spiritual declaration is still the struggle creed of Dazhai people today.

In addition to the visits of national leaders, more than 9.6 million people from all walks of life have visited Dazhai nationwide. Dazhai has also received 25,478 people from 134 countries and regions. Foreign guests.

The ten years of Dazhai’s glory have greatly benefited the people of Dazhai.

During these ten years, Guo Fenglian also became the actual leader of Dazhai.

After the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chen Yonggui was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. In order to allow Dazhai to develop better, Chen Yonggui called Guo Fenglian over and told Guo Fenglian to make Dazhai bigger and stronger. , Guo Fenglian, who took over the task, lived up to her trust and led Dazhai to its glorious moment.

In 1973, Guo Fenglian officially served as secretary of the brigade party branch of Dazhai.

Dazhai became famous and became a progressive banner in the era.

However, Guo Fenglian, who had always felt that Dazhai was at the forefront of reform, could not find Dazhai's name at the opening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in December 1978.

At that time, eighteen households of farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, had already established a large contract system.

The villagers of Dazhai thought that Dazhai could once again become a model of rural transformation under the leadership of Guo Fenglian. Unexpectedly, in 1980, Guo Fenglian was transferred away from Dazhai.

At this time, the thinking of the Dazhai villagers also changed.

Guo Fenglian said that Dazhai was in a state of stagnation at that time. The main reason was that the thinking of Dazhai people was almost in a state of standing still. I can't accept the contrast between before and after.

In 1983, Dazhai began to implement the joint production contract responsibility system. After Guo Fenglian was transferred from the organization, Dazhai had four secretaries in a row. Although the per capita income had reached 700 yuan, But compared with other villages across the country, the gap between Dazhai and Dazhai is still huge.

In this way, Guo Fenglian and Dazhai began to live ten years apart. Guo Fenglian was changing, and so was Dazhai.

Guo Fenglian, who has always been concerned about the development of Dazhai, decided to return to Dazhai, and this return once again changed the development trajectory of Dazhai.

On November 15, 1991, Guo Fenglian returned to Dazhai according to the arrangement of the superior party organization and served as the sixth village party branch secretary.

At first, Guo Fenglian was very worried about whether she could do a good job. Although Guo Fenglian, who had left Dazhai for eleven years, cared about Dazhai, she was still not familiar with Dazhai's development concept. Guo Fenglian had always been worried. Can I stand up to my position as Secretary of Dazhai again?

Guo Fenglian, who had always thought that Dazhai could continue to flourish under the glory of the ten-year climax, was shocked.

She never expected that the development of Dazhai would be worse than imagined.

"It's very dirty and messy. I didn't expect Dazhai to be so bad."

Guo Fenglian, who returned to Dazhai again, was very heartbroken about the development of Dazhai and couldn't bear it. I imagined that this was the Dazhai that I had rebuilt after the disaster, and I couldn't believe that this was the Dazhai that had received more than a hundred national leaders who visited and praised it personally.

After carefully exploring Dazhai, Guo Fenglian came up with her own ideas. She decided to transform Dazhai and restore it to its former glory.

Visiting people in the streets was Guo Fenglian’s first step in transformation.

Guo Fenglian found that most of the villagers had lost their initial fighting spirit, and even began to doubt whether the Dazhai spirit of "self-reliance and hard work" was right or wrong. They all expressed their incomprehension, and the disappointment in the pessimistic mood was greater than the hope.

The first time the Dazhai villagers saw Guo Fenglian again, they were not overjoyed, but cried. They didn’t understand where they were headed.

Guo Fenglian understood that the ideological burden on the villagers was too heavy, and the resulting instability caused the villagers not to know the direction of change.

In addition, the income of the people is also very backward in terms of the collective economy. After Dazhai recovered from the disaster in the 1960s, it began to gradually engage in mechanized farming, scientific farming, construction of water conservancy projects, etc. construction.

In the past ten years, Dazhai should have relied on such advanced levels to develop vigorously. However, dilapidated pipes and irrigation equipment have been taken away everywhere. The trees on the mountains have been severely cut down, and the terraces have been severely damaged. It has also been in disrepair for a long time. The stone dam was washed away and no one took care of it. The ground is full of weeds.

Moreover, it is clearly written that in 1991, the per capita income of the village was more than 600 yuan and nearly 700 yuan. However, after checking the assets and capital, it was found that there was basically no money in the collective account, and a lot of money was still owed.

Seeing this, Guo Fenglian felt very heavy. She could not accept or accept that the once glorious Dazhai ended up in this situation.

Guo Fenglian always believes that changing the thinking of Dazhai villagers is the foundation for subsequent transformation and reform work.

To this end, Guo Fenglian began to work from dawn to dusk, visiting door to door, soliciting opinions, and convened many party member meetings, cadre meetings, mass meetings and other meetings.

After three months, Guo Fenglian found the root cause of Dazhai's backwardness.

With less communication between cadres and the masses, the villagers of Dazhai must be closed-minded and conservative; the village leadership team is seriously aging and ideologically conservative; the folk customs are also deteriorating.

In order to let the Dazhai villagers see the progress and development of the villages outside, Guo Fenglian took more than 130 people to study and study in other places. She used all her family savings to pay for travel expenses.

In May 1992, Zhu Rongji, then Vice Premier of the State Council, came to Dazhai for investigation.

Zhu Rongji emphasized to Guo Fenglian: "Comrade Fenglian, don't be dazzled by this. Each place has its own specific situation. We must proceed from the actual local situation at that time. We must first improve the farmland. If you have money to eat, you can develop diversified businesses and engage in processing industries based on actual conditions.”

In fact, before Vice Premier Zhu Rongji arrived in Dazhai, Guo Fenglian led the villagers to start straw knitting and work on the floor. Brick and other factories were set up, but they all failed.

But Guo Fenglian was unwilling to give up just like that. Since this path didn't work, she would switch to the next one.

In June 1992, Guo Fenglian was invited to Jiangsu for inspection and reached an agreement to jointly set up a factory with Jiangyin Nanzha Woolen Printing and Dyeing Factory. Dazhai began to introduce complete sets of equipment for the production of woolen sweaters.

In October 1992, Dazhai Wool Sweater Factory was officially completed and put into operation.

In 1993, Dazhai produced 30,000 woolen sweaters, and then Dazhai Knitting Garment Co., Ltd. was established.

In 1994, Dazhai Zhongce Cement Plant was officially put into construction. In order to prepare funds for the project, Guo Fenglian traveled around. In order to meet the boss of Zhongce Investment, Guo Fenglian went to Beijing overnight to meet with Zhongce Investment. Huang Hongnian, the boss of Guo Fenglian, was very touched by Guo Fenglian's spirit when he saw him like this, and immediately decided to invest in Dazhai.

In 1996, Dazhai tourism industry was officially put into construction. Relying on Dazhai's unique geographical conditions, Dazhai Forest Park was officially launched.

Thanks to Guo Fenglian’s efforts, many businesses valued Dazhai’s trademark effect and began to invest in building factories in Dazhai. Today, Dazhai has formed a business with tourism, coal, chemicals, building materials, It is an important production base for multiple pillar industries, mainly agricultural products such as wine making.

In 2009, Guo Fenglian was named one of the top ten female heroes in China.

At this time, Guo Fenglian was already sixty-two years old.

But it is still fighting for the construction of Dazhai.

In July 2021, the 74-year-old Guo Fenglian, the general secretary of the Party in Dazhai Village, was invited to Beijing to participate in activities celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The 74-year-old man is still radiant .

If you come to Dazhai again in 2022, you will find a kind-hearted old man making plans for the development of Dazhai. That person is Guo Fenglian.

Someone once asked Guo Fenglian, after a person leaves this world, what is the best thing to leave behind?

Guo Fenglian said that she wants to leave roots to do practical things for the people, and a road, a house, a tree, and a flower are the foundation of the root. . "

Guo Fenglian, the secretary of Dazhai, went from being an iron girl at the age of sixteen to a wise man who led Dazhai to create greater glory at the age of seventy-five. Guo Fenglian is Dazhai's business card.

She is a banner for the development of Dazhai and a pioneer of the times for the Chinese people to overcome difficulties and lead the people to prosperity. Guo Fenglian's lifelong dedication is the best embodiment of the spirit of Dazhai.

To the "Iron Girl". Secretary Guo Fenglian pays tribute to Guo Fenglian, a model of the times