When China’s reform and opening ships sailed out of Hong Kong, the historical coordinates positioned it as one of the earliest four special economic zones established in China. This once remote coastal defense town, which passed through 40 years of reform and opening up, has shown China’s urban butterflies. Change the password.
'Now, the sea breeze is still the same, Xiamen has changed its appearance.' General Secretary Xi Jinping is full of affection for the city. Just a year ago, when the BRICS leader met in Xiamen, he looked back at the development of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone. Praising the city's 'high quality, high value', 'brave and perseverance, hard-working local people, riding the wave of reform and opening up, using their own hands to turn Xiamen into an economic boom, the people live and work in peace, the outside world Close exchange modernization, international city'.
When the children of Ludao listened to this full-hearted voice of General Secretary Xi Jinping, I recalled the deep feelings of his days and nights working in Xiamen.
As the leader, pioneer and builder of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone, Comrade Xi Jinping, in this passionate land, struggled with the constructors of the special economic zones to open up a series of reform and opening up, economic construction, environmental protection, and cultural heritage. Vivid practices such as conservation have yielded fruitful results. The condensed scientific concepts, valuable experience and excellent style of work have still guided the city’s voyage.
Be brave to try first
Explore and promote a series of pioneering reform initiatives
'Without reform and opening up, socialism cannot advance.'
- Speech by Xi Jinping at the meeting of the Standing Committee of Xiamen Municipal Committee on June 8, 1987
In 1985, the State Council approved the extension of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone to the entire island. In the summer of this year, Xi Jinping was swept away from Hebei and went to Haxia for new positions. He served as the standing member of the municipal party committee and the deputy mayor.
At that time, Zhu Lishui, deputy director of the Xiamen Municipal Commission for Economic Reform, recalled that Xi Jinping was in charge of reform of the institutional and institutional mechanisms in Xiamen. Direct leadership promoted a series of thorny reform explorations. 'Fish to raise fish' is one of them, activating Xiamen Port and activating it. Many state-owned enterprises in distress.
Soon after arriving in Xiamen, Xi Jinping’s tall figure appeared at Dongdu Wharf. The winds of the sea were far away. He walked up to the bridge crane and looked up at the tens of meters high. He asked the staff how much they could hang. This is the only two bridge cranes in Xiamen Port. A crane can only finish 35,000 TEUs a year. Hong Kong's same cranes can complete 120,000 per year. Through several visits to the site, they carefully listened to the opinions of the company's cadres and employees. Xi Jinping made clear the problem—the transport capacity was not enough, the facilities were not perfect, and the process links were not matched. The government did not have more money to perfect the facilities.
This is not only the predicament of Xiamen Port Authority, but also the problem of the vast majority of state-owned enterprises in Xiamen at that time.
'Comrade Xi Jinping told us that the government does not want you to make profits. The money you earn, don't have a financial point, profits are left to you, but you have to promise one. Earn money first to improve facilities.' An old port man Recall the scene of a meeting at the time.
In response to the problems, Xiamen was the first to introduce taxation and profit diversion measures in the country. The city’s state-owned industrial enterprises within 66 budgets implemented tax and profit diversions and repayments after taxes. Different companies are accounted for by different proportions. Their core purpose is to Apart from taxation, as far as possible, dividends are reserved for enterprises to develop production. In the first year of reform, the Xiamen Port Authority earned more than 20 million yuan, and earned more than 700 million yuan in a few years.
At that time, Shen Dan, party secretary of the Xiamen Finance Bureau, recalled that Xi Jinping paid great attention to the tax reform policy supporting enterprise development. The facts also prove that this reform is very effective and state-owned enterprises have developed rapidly.
At that time, Xiamen had no experience in establishing a special economic zone. When Xi Jinping came to Xiamen this time, he just wanted to try the practice of reform and practice of opening up. He recalled with deep feelings, 'To work in the Special Economic Zone, It was the first time I took the leadership position at the listing level, and for the first time participated directly in the reform and opening up of the coastal developed areas. I first witnessed the construction and management of the city. ' 'These three years are the process of comprehensive learning and it is a very difficult one. , assiduous learning process, from which I got experience.'
In 1986, Xiamen was identified as one of the first pilot cities for institutional reforms in the country. Xi Jinping served as the leader of the financial institutions in the reform of the city’s financial system, management and construction of special economic zones, and led a series of policy measures to promote the reform of the management system of the special economic zones. 'Institutional reform is a self-revolutionary self-centered revolution, involving many interests, with great difficulty and resistance,' said Lin Zhaohui, executive vice president of Xiamen City Party School.
People soon discovered that Xi Jinping, who was usually humble and easy-going, was decisive and resolute in his reforms. He made a point on different occasions. 'The task of the Special Economic Zone is reform, and the Special Economic Zone should be born of reforms. We must shoulder this responsibility'.
At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Xi Jinping said, 'The reforms take a step forward and there is a risk, but the country needs someone to work hard and make progress, provide experience for the country's future reforms, and play a role in raising awareness.'
Zhu Lishui recalled, 'The reform at the time only stated that it was the self-improvement of the socialist system. What was the goal? To what extent it had to be changed, there was no definitive answer. Comrade Xi Jinping clearly stated that the reform aims to establish a socialist market economy and the administration Institutional reform is to demolish temples and temples. It is necessary to synchronize with the reform of the economic system and do a good job in the service work of foreign businessmen, grassroots organizations, and enterprises. Therefore, at that time, the program was very vigorous. It directly took a knife and cut off many government agencies.
In 1987, the eight professional bureaus of Xiamen Industrial System were all cut off. The first part of the country was implemented in the country, simplifying the examination and approval of enterprises, and delegating power to enterprises. 'This knife goes down, many people wow, but it is to force everyone to emancipate their minds as soon as possible. Going on the road, integrating into the market economy. The comrades of the Municipal Reform Commission recalled.
Promote Xiamen to achieve separate plans and strive for favorable conditions for the long-term development of Xiamen. First put forward the principle of “small government, big society”, establish a streamlined, efficient, clean, and united government; promote the financial institutions to operate in an enterprise, establish overseas investment companies and Local insurance agencies, establishing the Xiamen Foreign Exchange Adjustment Center...... Xi Jinping promoted a series of bold reforms in Xiamen. Many ideas and initiatives are pioneering and forward-looking in the country, instilling the vitality of Xiamen's economic and social development.
Expand opening to the outside world
Actively explore the road to promote development through openness
'Xiamen, meaning 'the door of the building', we can also understand it as the door to opening up, and sincerely hope that this door to open to the outside world will be built faster and better.'
——In June 1986, Xi Jinping’s speech in Xiamen entitled “Developing Horizontal Relations and Accelerating the Construction of Special Zones”
On September 23, 2015, Boeing Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Plant in Seattle, USA. President Xi Jinping boarded a Boeing-787 aircraft that will be delivered to Xiamen Airlines, and recalled the past events involved in Xiamen Airlines.
'Thirty years ago, I served as the deputy mayor of Xiamen City, in charge of Xiamen Airlines, and participated in its establishment and its initial stages. Xiamen Airlines, the airport of Xiamen Airlines, was developed using international loans. There were only a few airplanes at the time...'
As the first joint-venture and enterprise-operated airline in China, the birth of Xiamen Airlines is a preliminary attempt of China's civil aviation system reform. For Xiamen, it is open to the outside world of the Special Economic Zone and is soaring.
'To Xiamen Airlines, Comrade Xi Jinping devoted his energies. There was no room at the time, there was no room, no aircraft, no crew. Comrade Xi Jinping often ran Beijing to seek support from the Central Government, the Air Force and the Civil Aviation Administration. Support. ' Xiamen Airlines former vice president Manager Song Chengren said that these past events are familiar to the old Xiamen Airlines people.
Thanks to Xi Jinping’s unremitting efforts, Xiamen Airlines received the support of the civil aviation department and was sponsored by a financial institution. It leased two Boeing-737 aircraft to Boeing for operation. Today’s Xiamen Airlines has 200 aircraft and operates over 350 routes. 5. It has become the only airline of the Chinese civil aviation company to maintain profit for 31 consecutive years.
At that time, the airport in Xiamen was too small to be built, but there was no money to build. Xi Jinping served as the head of the Kuwaiti loan leading group for the Xiamen Airport Expansion Project. After hard work, he obtained a loan of 18 million U.S. dollars from the Kuwait government and solved the urgent need for airport expansion. .
In 1986, when Xi Jinping ran around Xiamen Airlines dreams, he also sought advice from Beijing experts for another thing. That is to explore the construction of a free port.
Xi Jinping’s work in Xiamen was the critical period after the State Council had just approved Xiamen’s gradual implementation of some of the Free Harbor policies. At that time, Freeport was a new thing in the country and almost no one understood it. Xi Jinping decided to start with study and study. The municipal party committee and the municipal government suggested that the organization should deploy competent personnel of relevant functional departments and research institutes to take the lead in starting research on exploring and implementing some of the Free Harbor policies.
Zheng Jinmu, deputy director of the Xiamen City Planning Commission, recalled that: 'Comrade Xi Jinping often took us to Beijing, visited famous scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and humbly asked various questions. I invited the Institute of Economic Research of this college to study with Xiamen. He learned how to ask questions. Love research, leave a deep impression on us.
Reform and opening up need to learn from international experience. Xi Jinping took the research team to Singapore to inspect and organize the first international seminar on 'Export Processing Zone and Freeport' to accumulate relevant international materials and data for Xiamen.
Reform and opening up must start from China's national conditions. Under the direct leadership of Xi Jinping, Xiamen did not fully refer to Singapore's free port model, but based on its own conditions, put forward specific ideas for implementing certain policies of Freeport, clearly adopting a gradual approach, and taking 'three steps' ', Xiamen is built as a 'free port type special economic zone': the first step is in the Xiangyujian Free Trade Zone; the second step is to expand the bonded zone to the whole island and turn into a free trade zone; the third step is limited to the island. Free port.
'This is the initial exploration of the road to free port development with Chinese characteristics. It is very groundbreaking in the country. ' Lin Zhaohui said that Xiamen has become the most direct beneficiary of this concept. Since then, Xiamen Special Economic Zone has achieved export Processing area, bonded area, district and port linkage, bonded port area, iterative upgrade to the Pilot Free Trade Zone, the degree of openness continues to increase.
Incorporating into the trend of the world economy, it is necessary to keep abreast of domestic and international economic information, how to have a long-awaited island city, how to have a 'clairvoyance'? Xi Jinping listed the establishment of the economic information center as one of the eight major infrastructure projects in the city. The Xiamen Economic Information Center was soon built.
The Xiamen Special Economic Zone has just expanded to the whole island. The most difficult problem is the shortage of funds. The central government only gave 50 million yuan, and the financial situation is stretched. Shen Dan said, 'Comrade Xi Jinping is in charge of finance, and he has taken more to solve the problem of 'money bag'. Many initiatives are groundbreaking'. Under the impetus of Xi Jinping, Xiamen took the lead in establishing a special economic zone financial system, taking the lead in building foreign capital for infrastructure construction, taking the lead in setting up a foreign exchange adjustment center, taking the lead in setting up a financial industry association, and establishing the first Sino-foreign joint venture in China. Bank - Xiamen International Bank.
Xi Jinping viewed Xiamen as a window of China and an open door to the outside world. With the people of Xiamen in the early years of reform and opening up, he was simply relying on an ambition to create a two-way, radiant and open development path. Today's Xiamen has become our country. The important hub of international transportation, an important gathering place for international capital, and an important window for international exchanges and exchanges.
Scientific planning strategy
Visionary for the sustainable development of Xiamen City
'To engage in modern economic construction, we must consider in the long term and make overall plans. We must not only focus on the immediate situation and deal with it on an ad hoc basis. It will do less than half the effort, and it will even lose its way, and it will not be able to grasp the initiative of the overall situation.'
- On July 30, 1986, Xi Jinping addressed the mobilization and work deployment meeting for the full-time personnel on the economic and social development strategy in Xiamen City
In 1986, an essay-raising event - "2000 - Xiamen in My Mind" was launched in the "Xiamen Daily", which triggered a large-scale discussion in the city. Numerous submissions were rushed to the future.
This journey of dreams is an indispensable link in the “1985-2000 Economic and Social Development Strategy in Xiamen” led by Xi Jinping. Later, over a dozen of the essays were adopted.
Li Xiujie, the then deputy secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Committee, recalled that 'At that time, the Xiamen Special Economic Zone entered a new phase after five years of construction. There is an urgent need for a development strategy as a guide for decision-making in order to realize faster and better development.'
Xi Jinping quickly organized the troops to take the lead directly to take up important responsibilities. He led more than 10 units, more than 100 experts and professors, and practical workers formed a task force to conduct in-depth investigations to find out about the situation in Xiamen and write hundreds of thousands of words of investigations. Materials. There are 21 special studies, continuous argumentation, which lasted for a year and a half. A strategic report of more than 200,000 words was formed. Peng Yiwan, who was working at the Tourism Bureau at that time, participated in the preparation of the strategy. He said: 'Every other place is done for five years. In the plan, Comrade Xi Jinping has to do a fifteen-year strategy for urban development. He also invited many well-known domestic experts to participate. This kind of forward-looking vision has impressed Xiamen's comrades.'
This development strategy is the first economic and social development strategic plan that the local government of China has compiled for the past fifteen years. Xi Jinping is deeply involved in the sustainable development of the city.
“Comrade Xi Jinping not only planned the urban infrastructure system, industrial development, system reforms, explored the construction of free ports and exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, but also the development of educational and scientific and other social undertakings, ecological environment construction, Gulangyu cultural and tourism resources protection, population scale control, Conducting special chapter research to make plans, and clearly deploying the protection of intellectual property rights, reflecting the innovative vision of forward-looking and coordinated development. 'Zheng Jinmu said.
In the process of formulating the development strategy, Xi Jinping constantly emphasized that 'respect the characteristics of the city and the law of development'. On August 5, 1987, at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Xi Jinping threw a question: What is the urban characteristic of Xiamen?
The answer is written in the development strategy. It examines the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in the overall situation of national reform and opening up and the development of the world economy, and clarifies Xiamen's strategic position, strategic guiding ideology, strategic goals, strategic priorities, strategic countermeasures, and later becomes a guide. The blueprint for the medium and long-term construction and development of Xiamen city.
After working in the province, Xi Jinping, who is familiar with Xiamen and is in Xiamen, did not stop thinking about the development of the city.
In June 2002, the then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Xi Jinping of the governor went to Xiamen to investigate and found a bottleneck in Xiamen's development. 'Xiamen's main island is basically saturated, while the development outside the island is obviously lagging behind. The economic hinterland is small... expansion center The urban development space and the expansion of the economic development hinterland have become the top priority for Xiamen's construction and development.
How to open up a new world of development in Xiamen? Xi Jinping issued a mobilization order of 'Improve the island and develop across islands', encourage Xiamen to accelerate the transition from an island-based city to a bay-type eco-city, and pointed out the 'four combined' inter-island development strategy. - To enhance the combination of the island and the development of the bay, the combination of urban transformation and economic transformation, the combination of rural industrialization and urbanization, highlighting the combination of urban features and the protection of the bay ecology.
The implementation of this strategy has opened the door to the acceleration of Xiamen’s rapid inter-island development and promoted the integration process inside and outside the island. Along the blueprint of Xi Jinping’s paintings, Xiamen’s transformation and development continued to write a new chapter, urban bearer function, comprehensive strength, Regional radiation belt power has realized a qualitative leap.
Focus on ecological environment
Stop hacking, indiscriminate cutting, indiscriminate harvesting, comprehensive management of Wuhu
'Can we carry out the construction of the other side with partial destruction? I think it is very clear that Xiamen cannot exchange other developments at this cost.'
--January 10, 1986, Speech by Xi Jinping at the Eighteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress in Xiamen
On December 16, 1985, the island of Ludao had a warm winter in the winter. The Xiamen Municipal Standing Committee and the Deputy Mayor's Joint Meeting were held. The atmosphere was very solemn.
Xi Jinping sat up straight and looked dignified. 'The People's Congress supervised us to see the omissions in the government's work. We should use this as a new starting point for creating a new situation in Xiamen's urban construction and environmental protection work, unified leadership, and establishing responsibility systems at all levels.'
Just over 10 days ago, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress organized the leaders of relevant departments, walked into the Wanshishan Scenic Area, boarded Gulangyu, and went to the beach. Everyone saw that some places dug sand and borrowed soil, opened mountains and stone, and turned the mountain into a mountain. The 'Shantou', the bottom of the beach is bare. In this regard, the Municipal People's Congress has criticized, not only accused of deforestation, but also pointed out that the government is not well managed.
Xi Jinping quickly deployed and asked the city management, planning and other departments to conduct in-depth site surveys to find out the city's situation and study countermeasures. '4 days later, the entire island's beach and the illegal quarrying area were closed. The Urban Management Office sent publicity vehicles to the countryside to publicize the public security. Urban management, the Urban Construction Supervision Brigade dispatched major forces, patrolled and inspected on duty. ''All departments concerned must work out detailed rather than general implementation rules, and then publish it for public notice.'
A battle of natural resources and environmental protection engulfed the whole city. But different voices emerged – this cannot be moved or moved. How can economic construction be carried out? Since ancient times, the peasants “fought back from the mountain” and the trees could not be cut. What about farmers?
On January 10, 1986, at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 8th People’s Congress of Xiamen City, Xi Jinping spoke on behalf of the municipal government.
He opened his eyes on a clear meaning, “Protecting the resources of natural scenery has far-reaching implications and is of great significance. ' 'I am from the north and I feel very precious about the grass and stones in Xiamen. ' 'Xiamen belongs to the motherland, belongs to the nation, we should We value and cherish it very much and protect it well. This must be done as a strategic task.
With regard to the relationship between environmental protection and development, Xi Jinping elaborated on his views.
The damage caused by ignorance is no longer a major aspect. Now is another tendency, constructive destruction. This destruction is not necessarily done by people without culture, but it is also reflected in ignorance, or It is irresponsible. '
At the meeting, Xi Jinping proposed concrete measures to meet the actual conditions in Xiamen from a global perspective.
“Island mining problems, whether it can be opened, how large it is, where it is opened, mining methods, protection measures, etc. These problems are formed by experts in a group to carry out survey reviews and put forward proposals for deliberation by the National People’s Congress. The general principle is: To take maximum protection, strengthen the management, planning and approval of the islands and suburban counties.
'The township government outside the island should attach great importance to how to help rural farmers to open their doors and develop new employment opportunities. In the past, it was said that 'relieving mountains and eating mountains and relying on water to eat water', but the practice of destroying resources must be firmly controlled. This is the government at all levels. Duties. '
'The station is high and the words are sincere. Comrade Xi Jinping not only reveals the deep feelings of this land, but also has a clear and persuasive point, which makes everyone more clear about the attitude of environmental protection. ' At the time, he was deputy director of the Standing Committee of Xiamen Municipal People's Congress. Xu Zuyi once recalled.
Comrade Xi Jinping attaches great importance to environmental protection, and he has invested a lot of effort in the management of Wuhu. 'Hao Songqiao, former director of the Wuhu Management Office, recalled the governance process of Wuhu, and felt deeply.
Wuhu, formerly known as Inner Bay Fishing Port on Xiamen Island, is one of the eight scenic spots in Xiamen. In the 1970s, digging the embankment and making land from the sea resulted in the transformation of Wuhu into a closed inner lake. A large amount of sewage was discharged into the lake, and the lake became stinking. The fish and egrets were extinct.
When did Wuhu no longer smell stinky? ' The voice of the citizens in the management of Lugu Lake, Xi Jinping felt empathy.
On March 30, 1988, Xi Jinping hosted a special conference on strengthening the comprehensive management of Wuhu, which started a major hardship in remediating environmental pollution in Xiamen. The meeting clearly established an integrated governance mechanism and formed a group of relevant functional departments and experts. The Lake Governance Leading Group creatively proposed the 20-character policy of 'governing the lake according to law, intercepting pollution, clearing the shore, invigorating the water, beautifying the environment'. In view of the lack of funds in the early stage, it is clear that 10 million yuan of financial funds will be invested each year, accounting for the time. The city's capital construction expenditure is nearly 10%; at the same time, multi-channel financing charges, land lease income, loans and technological transformation funds, to increase investment in unprecedented efforts.
Xiamen City followed the working principle established by Comrade Xi Jinping and carried out four large-scale remediation projects. Once the lake of smelly water became a wave of blue waves, white egrets, bright green flowers, and urban living rooms. In the past, the “Fishing Fishing” that disappeared in the city’s transformation has turned into a bright new scene in Xiamen today.
Pay attention to cultural heritage
Restoration of Eight Diagrams Building Planning Preparation for Protection of Gulangyu Island
There are not many people who can combine the natural landscape with the cultural landscape in harmony. It is necessary to regard Gulangyu as a treasure of the country and plan its construction and protection at this height.
- In 1987, Xi Jinping's request to the master planning team of Wanshishan District, Gulangyu Island
One day in 1986, Xi Jinping had just finished a report on Gulangyu and left the hall. At that time, he was the curator of the Xiamen Museum. Gong Jie, who was in charge of the restoration of the Eight Diagrams Building, pulled him.
Comrade deputy mayor, please visit the Eight Diagrams Building. ' Gong Jie issued an invitation.
'Yeah!' Xi Jinping promised to be very crisp.
Turning around in the courtyard, Gong Jie said, 'There are upstairs'.
'I know what you mean.' Xi Jinping said immediately.
When Xi Jinping walked into the building, he climbed up and stepped up. Every step he made, the old floor creaked. The water leaked from the roof left a trail of yellow-brown mildew. A small child ran over and the floor rocked.
'What's missing?' Xi Jinping asked as he walked.
'30 million yuan.' Gong Jie replied.
'Take it tomorrow.' Xi Jinping said.
Gong Jie has been hard to hide from her excitement. 'This is just so simple. I will never forget that at the most tense and most difficult times, the 300,000 he set aside completely reversed the fate of a century-old building!'
At that time, Xiamen had to be developed everywhere, and there was a shortage of money everywhere. For maintenance of the Bagua Building, Xiamen City raised 500,000 yuan before, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage allocated 480,000 yuan, but soon enough. Xi Jinping approved The 300,000 yuan is very precious.
After the refurbishment, the Bagua Building became the only and largest organ museum in the world. Due to the integrity of the history of the year, Bagua Building and another 52 historic buildings became the core elements of the Gulangyu cultural heritage, and in the course of the subsequent application process. , highly praised by UN World Heritage conservation experts.
On July 8, 2017, Gulangyu was formally included in the World Cultural Heritage List. 'If you go back, if you didn't have the first master plan prepared by Comrade Xi Jinping at that time, the scientific protection of Gulangyu would not be going smoothly.' Peng Yiwan said with emotion.
At the beginning of the reform and opening up, many people overlooked the rarity of Gulangyu Island in the boom of economic development. Many old villas were in disrepair, and fishermen demolished old masonry homes and masonry stoves. Famous wood goes home to burn fire.
However, Xi Jinping regards this island as a “treasure of the country.” He once reassured that “the number of people who can combine the natural landscape and the cultural landscape in the construction of our city and scenic area is not very large. It is necessary to regard Gulangyu as a jewel of the country and plan its construction and protection at this height.
Peng Yiwan said that Comrade Xi Jinping has opened up entirely new ideas for everyone, not only in terms of style and architecture, but also uses the overall perspective to protect the entire island, including the island's grass, trees and historical and humanistic resources.
Zhang Weixin, deputy director of the Gulangyu Tourist Area Management Office, participated in the Gulangyu Island-Master Plan of the Wanshi Mountain Area in 1987. 'Comrade Xi Jinping often came to guide the work and told us, we must touch the basic data, understand, and do it. Fine. It was under the leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping that the planning team spent nearly a year to find out the homes of Xiamen scenic spots, including Gulangyu.
At the end of September 2001, when he was then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Governor Xi Jinping went on Gulangyu again. Visitors such as weaving. Gulangyu in the tourism era, how to protect and inherit the context? Xi Jinping put forward new thinking - Gulangyu has at least 4 characteristics can be Make a fuss about the scenery series, the ocean series, the island series and the humanities series.
On June 14 of the following year, Xi Jinping came to Xiamen to investigate and boarded Gulangyu Island again. He looked at the island, which was a hundred years old, and emphasized that Gulangyu should be given a more prominent position and play a more important role.
In 2017, Gulangyu claimed success. Xi Jinping, who is already the highest leader of the party and the country, gave important instructions - 'carefully preserve the cultural heritage left behind by his ancestors, and let the historical context pass on.'
Acting for civil affairs
Efforts to solve the problems most concerned by the people
'Our special economic zones are not particularly enjoyable, but special SAR builders have special disciplines, ideals, and styles.'
——On January 10, 1986, Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress of Xiamen
In the summer of 1986, there was no rain after the summer heat, and it has been drought for a month. The rice that should have been flowered and dried is dead. A rice field in Tong'an County, in charge of agriculture, Xi Jinping's brow furrows in rural work.
'Can't wait! Tractor, electric irrigation pump, diesel, fertilizer, are all quickly deployed.' Standing on the field, Xi Jinping made a decision on the spot, and urged the relevant departments to implement as soon as possible.
Xi Jinping led the team to the field and stood on the frontline of the drought to solve practical problems in a timely manner. The city quickly set off an upsurge of drought, leading cadres and the masses went into battle, digging canals to pump water to fight drought and protect seedlings, while grabbing late rice and planting late sweet potatoes, autumn peanut.
In those years, the summer drought and autumn drought brought about 100 days of drought that had not been seen in more than 30 years in Xiamen. Due to timely drought prevention, disaster losses were reduced to a minimum. At the end of the year, the per capita income of farmers did not decrease, but also increased by 20 yuan.
This matter has always been talked about by the local people. Many people said that Vice Mayor Xiyong dares to take charge.
'Xi Jinping often with Sun Yat-sen' to aspire to do great things, do not aspire to high official 'words to encourage ourselves that position has changed, the style can not be changed.' Lee Soo Kee said Xi Jinping man very humble, arrived in Xiamen will come to visit one The old cadres asked them to learn.
Former Xiamen Municipal Committee, appointed secretary of the Tongan Caijing Xiang recalled that, Xi Jinping speak from lying, he caught the people most concerned about the issue from the start a little thing, do something is one.
During Xi’an, Xi Jinping went up and down the mountains again and again, entered the islands, entered the rural areas, entered farmers, ran bicycles to run businesses, and took tractors into the mountains. At each place, he took out books and pens, listened carefully, and carefully remembered. He said, 'When the cadres are on the three strokes, they recognize the road, they recognize the neighbors, they recognize the characteristics, what are the characteristics of the place, and what resources are made clear, the work is known.'
Wang Jinshui, deputy secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee at that time, recalled that when Comrade Xi Jinping went to Xiamen, he was the youngest one in the city’s leadership team. However, he was very solid in his work, and he was very focused on investigations and studies, not playing bureaucratic. He often went deep into the grassroots. The problems encountered at the grass-roots level are not for others to write reports, but they are brought directly to the municipal government for implementation and will be resolved soon.
Xi Jinping often said to the staff at the side, 'We have no special enjoyment in the Special Zone, but we must have special high discipline, ideals, and styles of work in the Special Zone.'
Soon after arriving in Xiamen, Xi Jinping took a car and walked to Xiamen and Baijiao Village, the highest and most remote areas in Xiamen. At that time, the villages were narrow and steep, pitted Huangni Road, and Xi Jinping was walking on a mud. After entering the village and sitting down for a while, he eagerly walked to the fields to understand the villagers' production and living conditions and find the root causes of poverty.
In Tongan, the farmers soaked tea in kungfu tea and had a thick brown tea theophylline. A farmer who had received Xi Jinping at home then said, 'I can't drink the tea cups that come out of my hometown. But I can't go down with Comrade Xi Jinping. The cup will be drunk. The folks are very touched, and they say to him if they have any heart.
After careful investigation, according to the actual conditions of the development of mountainous villages, Xi Jinping put forward the development ideas of 'mountain hats and Yamashita development' in accordance with local conditions, that is, afforestation in the mountains, fruit seeds and teas in Yamashita, and development of diversified operations. This idea guides the military camp villages and Baijiao Village has developed a green development road that integrates ecological construction and poverty alleviation. Today, these two villages have become rich and poor, with 4100 acres of trees on the mountain and 6,000 acres of tea gardens under the mountain. In the past five years, the per capita net income of farmers in the two villages nearly doubled.
'Being pragmatic, courageous, responsible, honest and self-disciplined... These styles that Comrade Xi Jinping practiced while working in Xiamen have been deeply embedded in the minds of the cadres and masses in Xiamen and implemented in the operation of special economic zones. And continue to carry forward Everbright, providing an endless source of spiritual power for urban development. 'Lin Zhaohui said. Xinhua News Agency special correspondent