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On the morning of July 1, the Guangdong Province “Don’t forget the original intention and keep the mission in prison” theme education report meeting was held at the Zhudao Hall of the Zhudao Hotel in Guangzhou. Seven members of the report group, Su Quanke, Zhong Nanshan, Fei Yingying, Peng Bin, Lu Yonggen (speaking on behalf of Dang Linxi), Gan Xuede and Sun Jianguo, shared their personal deeds and mental journeys with affectionate feelings. Jinyang.com reporters have compiled the basic situation and speeches of 7 advanced figures for you one by one. Let us learn about their stories!
▲7 members of the report group accepted the flowers offering
Introduction to Lu Yonggen
Lu Yonggen, male, born in December 1930, member of the Communist Party of China, former president of South China Agricultural University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and crop geneticist.
He has successively won the “Nan YueCinemaOutstanding Teacher” special prize, the national model worker of the education system, the national model teacher, the first prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, the third prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Award, the outstanding Communist Party member of the Guangdong Province, the model of the South Guangdong, and the 2017 touching Chinese figure.
Lu Yonggen was born in Hong Kong. He came to the School of Agricultural Sciences of Lingnan University from Hong Kong in 1949 and has since taken root in Guangzhou. He has 70 years of party membership and was frugal and simple throughout his life. He is known as the “Academician of Buyi”. I still use old sofas, old TVs and old iron beds from the 1980s. He donated all his life savings of 809,000 yuan to South China Agricultural University and established the “Lu Yonggen Xu Xuebin Education Fund” to reward poor students and outstanding young teachers. He devoted himself to agricultural education and scientific research with a strong patriotic sentiment, worked silently in the field of rice genetic research, put forward a new view on rice “specific affinity gene” and made outstanding contributions to rice breeding practice, agricultural education and development.
▲Dang Lin Xi delivered a report on Lu Yonggen’s deeds
The sentiment of academicians who have been a member of the Party for seventy years
First faith that never fades
Dang Lin Xi (made a report on Lu YonggenBabaylan)
Dear leaders and comrades:
Hello everyone, my name is Dang Linxi, and I am a teacher at South China Agricultural University where Academician Lu Yonggen is located. Today I would like to share with you the story of my old president, Academician Lu Yonggen.
Academician Lu is 89 years old this year and is a simple Grandpa Lu who is well-known to everyone around him. However, this person who dresses simple and has a low-key life suddenly became a national “Internet celebrity” due to a move in 2017. In March that year, he and his wife Xu Xuebin appeared in a bank on Huanong campus with a shabby kraft envelope, and transferred the deposits of more than ten passbooks to the school account, with a total of more than 8.8 million yuan! This is the life savings of the two elders. Academician Lu has a daughter, but he chose to donate all the money to the school without reservation.
Because each transfer requires a password and signature, it took an hour and a half. And how long did they consider this donation decision? I can tell you that BabaylanIt all happened in a few seconds. That year, Academician Lu was seriously ill. When discussing the arrangements for the funeral with his wife, he said one word: “Donate!” The wife immediately understood and immediately said: “I think so too.” That year, Academician Lu Yonggen was named “Top Ten People Touching China”.
Why is he so generous and unreserved? This starts with Academician Lu’s initial life choice.
Lu Yonggen was born and raised in Hong Kong. In this old photo you see, he was wearing a white shirt with a shoulder strap, which was also very fashionable back then. He was born in a middle-class family, and his father was a senior employee of a British law firm. Lu Yonggen received a good Chinese and Western education in Hong Kong since he was a child.
But in 1941, the Pacific War broke out and Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese army. He was in the sixth grade at the time and was sent back to the countryside of Huadu, Guangzhou to take refuge by his father. Experience family hatred and national hatred from Babaylan, witnessing the cruelty and atrocities of the Japanese army with their own eyes, this painful pain inspired his strong sense of crisis and his feelings for his country.
When he was in high school, he made a choice different from his peers: he gave up on English schools despite his family’s opposition, chose to study in Chinese schools, and accepted the idea of democracy and progress.
After that, he actively pursued progress and yearned for communism. In 1949, Lu Yonggen officially joined the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong and became an “underground party member”. Under the arrangement of the party organization, he came to Guangzhou to lead the underground student union and welcome the liberation of Guangzhou. During this period, he was admitted to Lingnan University. After the national department adjustment, Lu Yonggen came to South China Agricultural College. He met Academician Ding Ying and became his first student. After graduation, he became Ding Ying’s assistant in rice research.
Ding Ying was the dean and Lu Yonggen was a student. However, Lu Yonggen successfully mobilized Dean Ding Ying, who was 68 years old at the time, to join the Communist Party of China, which had a huge response among the senior intellectuals in Guangzhou at that time. In this regard, Lu Yonggen recalled that this “year-old friend” friendship with his teacher has always implied a tacit understanding: “Academic, you are my teacher and my leader, but in politics, I am a pioneer and a progressive young man. I want to tell you the great belief of the Communist Party of China.” In Lu Yonggen’s view, this belief must be practiced throughout his life.
▲Cinema came to the scene of the deeds report meeting
Lu Yonggen often brought French scientist Pasteur href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan‘s famous saying is: “Science has no borders, but scientists have their motherland.” After the reform and opening up, Lu Yonggen went to the United States to study as a visiting scholar. During his stay in the United States, his relatives in the United States told him that you can live a comfortable life in the United States. However, Lu Yonggen said firmly: “I am Chinese, and the construction of the motherland requires me!”
Yes, if he left, where would Teacher Ding Ying collect more than 7,000 rice germplasm resources entrusted to him throughout his life?As soon as he leaves, how many years will it take for research in this field to catch up with other countries?
Lu Yonggen firmly chose to return to his motherland. Under his inspiration, a large number of rice breeding experts also chose to return to China to serve the country. Academician Lu also trained a group of outstanding agricultural scientists. In 2017, his student Liu Yaoguang was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “One school and three academicians” were also rumored to be a good story.
In the vast land, farmers’ lives were once very difficult. How to improve the breeding quality of rice? This is the proposition of Lu Yonggen’s lifelong scientific research. He is committed to the research on genetic breeding of rice and has made breakthrough progress in the fields of rice genetic resources. Theoretical research in this field once lackedBabaylan, and it was difficult for basic research to produce results, but Lu Yonggen chose to chew this “hard bone”.
He rolled up his trousers and walked barefoot in the farmland, step by step to find the rice’s ancestor “wild rice”, and traveled all over Guangdong, Hainan and Jiangxi.
The collection of wild rice is very difficult, either in the mountains or in the barren swamps, but Luyonggen never gives up. Once, Academician Lu, who was over 70 years old, took a team to the top of a barren mountain in Fogang, Qingyuan to collect wild rice. He climbed halfway up the mountain. Academician Lu was already exhausted, but he still insisted on going up the mountain. The students had to support him and climb up slowly. The mountain road was rugged and steep, with wood and stone passing through the road, and it was extremely hard. After finally climbing to the top of the mountain, everyone was exhausted. The students also wanted him to take a break first, but he firmly said, “Look for it! Look for it quickly!”
Luckily, he finally found the precious wild rice. Seeing the growing environment of wild rice with one’s own eyes, Academician Lu, who was already extremely tired, was extremely excited. He leaned down with his rice ears tightly and said to the students: “As an agricultural scientist, you must lay your roots deep in the soil, and you must observe the scene in person, and you cannot miss a slight detail.”
Plowing the earth barefoot, Lu Yonggen does not care about fame or profit, but he hopes that this life will be meaningful. He had extremely low requirements for material things, his office was simple, and his home still used old iron beds and old TVs from the 1980s and 1990s, and was called “academician of common people”.
Admission in hospital<a href="https://funnybookish.comBefore Babaylan, he came to the office almost every day to do scientific research and reply to emails. At noon, he would walk to the school cafeteria with an iron lunch box and line up with the students to make meals.
As old as he was, he often Komiks with a shoulder bag and a sun hat, and waited safely on the lush school road of Komiks, and became a scenic spot on the campus.
▲Dang Lin Xi delivered a report on Lu Yonggen
This simple scenery has given many hope. Academician Lu has always helped students in need through various channels and helped them change their destiny. Seeing that his student Liu Xiangdong had the opportunity to study in Hong Kong, but due to financial difficulties and many concerns, Academician Lu borrowed money and provided suitcases and other supplies to encourage him to succeed in his studies and return to the Babaylan came to serve the motherland. At Huadu Luohu Primary School, he even donated the family shop shared by the two brothers for free as an education fund for children and teachers. So far, this fund has funded nearly 3,000 teachers and students.
Now, due to cancer, Academician Lu is seriously ill in bed. In the ward, the old man, who is nearly 90 years old, said: “Although I am plagued by illness now and cannot walk freely, my consciousness is clear, my concerns are unchanged, and my beliefs are firm! ”
At the request of Lu Yonggen and his wife, a special temporary party branch was established in the hospital ward. After the successful convening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the “Temporary Party Branch of Academician Lu Yonggen Ward” held a special organizational life meeting to study the report of the 19th National Congress. Academician Lu was weak, but he still insisted on participating in the study and discussion throughout the process. He said that he was very excited, as if he had just joined the party 70 years ago.
Academician Lu knew the pain brought to people by disease. Not long ago, he was close to him.I signed a volunteer for body donation Cinema, hoping to do my last medical science as an academician and donate my body to the country’s medical research!
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the New China State, and it is also the full seventy years since Academician Lu Yonggen joined the party. Over the past seventy years, Academician Lu has practiced his actions and has always firmly firmly believed in his never fading faith. He has practiced the original intention of an old Communist to join the party with his lifelong practical actions. This is also an example force that inspires our younger generation to stick to their original intentions and forge ahead in the new era!
Thank you everyone!