“…… Difficulties and opportunities coexist, risks and successes coexist. When our comrades see difficulties, they must see opportunities; While thinking about the risks, it is also important to see the light of hope for success. If the opportunities and hopes for success outweigh the difficulties and risks, we must do it unwaveringly. The leading body of our municipal party committee should have a consensus, that is, for the sake of the historical mission it shoulders and for the sake of the long-term and fundamental interests of the 10 million people in the Pingchuan area, we must dare to seize opportunities and take risks.

"We must have the great ambition of leading 10 million people to make Pingchuan take off in an all-round way, and don't open your mouth and keep your mouth shut, because the economy is underdeveloped. Knowing that it is underdeveloped, it is necessary to catch up, and what to say? Who will sympathize with you?! No one will sympathize with you, they will only look down on you more! In the future, when we go to a meeting outside, our comrades will strive to sit in the front, that is, they will fight for this breath. Water, electricity, and roads must be connected as soon as possible, how can they be connected without funds? Everyone takes ideas, thinks of ways, and is not afraid to overthink it. If we dare to think, we dare not think about it, what else can we do?!

"The mental outlook must be changed, the ideological concept must be changed, and the head can no longer be full of small peasant thoughts, small economic consciousness, and can no longer be satisfied with a full stomach. Today is just to have a full stomach, tomorrow is likely to be hungry. Two months ago, I saw a slogan on the Hetian Highway, with ten big characters on it: 'Start with a yam and make a fortune by processing', I was very unhappy, and asked the secretary of the township party committee, can you get up and make a fortune by relying on dried sweet potatoes? This is the typical small-scale peasant mentality, not even the big farmer! The output value of a village factory in Jiangnan is more than that of a county in yours, and you can't catch up with others even if you grow sweet potatoes in the county for ten years.

"It's the same in our city, where the big pot of rice raises people lazy. In some factories, they have to take out loans to even get their wages, and the temporary workers of the peasants in the factories have not quit, and no one has done the dirty work. How is this possible? If this continues, what hope does our state-owned enterprise have? What else is there to do?! Comrade Cao Wuping is in charge of industry, you should conduct investigation and research to see how this problem can be solved? Can you try to bring him the iron salary and the iron rice bowl?! There is also the issue of cadres, and I would like to make a suggestion here: the cadres and personnel of loss-making enterprises should be frozen; those who are immoral and incompetent shall be dismissed on the spot; If the enterprise does not turn around its losses, one cannot adjust it. The Organization Department and the Personnel Bureau were requested to come up with a plan for this matter and submit it to the Standing Committee for study.

"There is one more point that I want to make clear here. In the leading group of the municipal party committee with me as the squad leader, no one can despise their predecessors. You must know that Secretary Xie Xuedong or Secretary Guo Huaiqiu are all good comrades and leaders who work hard and seriously, and they have done their best for Pingchuan, and Secretary Guo Huaiqiu has even lost his life. I don't want to hear anybody say anything wrong with them in front of me. Frankly, neither you nor I qualify for that.

"Finally, I would like to talk about the unity of the team. As the leader of the 10 million people, the unity of our group will, in a sense, determine the rise and fall of the entire Pingchuan. Some comrades told me who is in our team and who is in which gang. I said, it's very strange, I have been the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee for six years and I haven't seen any gangs, how can you see it? I don't think there is a serious gang problem in our team and in our cadres in Pingchuan, but I know that some comrades have more contacts because of their historical work relationships. I would like to express my stance here: It doesn't matter if there are more contacts between comrades, but if such contacts cause abnormal likes and dislikes, affect work, and affect the decision-making of the city party committee, I, the secretary of the city party committee, will never agree to it. Of course, this kind of problem doesn't exist at the moment, I'm just saying hello in advance.

"As for me personally, I assure my comrades: In all the work decided by the municipal party committee in the future, I will first take the lead, devote all my energy to my work, and never abuse my power for personal gain, never form gangs, and never play political tricks on my comrades. I ask myself to do it: I don't care about anyone, I only look at my work performance and work ability. I hope that the comrades in the leading group will supervise me and remind me that a good atmosphere of stressing principles and attaching a high degree of unity will be formed, so that our leading group can become a strong fighting collective worthy of shouldering the heavy responsibility of history and a leader of the 10 million people of Pingchuan who will shake off poverty and become rich. ”

At the first enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the new group of the Pingchuan City CPC Committee, Wu Mingxiong said.

The new and old members of the Standing Committee of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee remembered Wu Mingxiong's impromptu speech, and at the same time, they also got to know a brand-new Wu Mingxiong, Wu Mingxiong, as secretary of the municipal party committee.

Later, recalled, Shu Huaru also said:

"I really got to know Wu Mingxiong at the first enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee that he presided over. I could no longer have imagined that Wu Mingxiong would have such confidence and courage and speak so inspiringly in such a frustrating atmosphere at a memorial service for the former secretary of the municipal party committee. In my opinion, in addition to the factor of power, it may be more of a factor of personal temperament and leadership level. The problem of gangs in the ranks of cadres in Pingchuan was originally well known to everyone, and it was also the most troublesome, but Wu Mingxiong handled it very well, neither breaking it nor letting it go, and giving a subtle and forceful warning, which later proved to have really worked. I realized at that time that with such a secretary of the municipal party committee by his side, there would be no more mayors in Pyongcheon who were subject to others. I can throw off my arms and do it vigorously. Therefore, as soon as Wu Mingxiong's words fell, I took the lead in applauding him. This is one of the few times in my life that I have received sincere applause. ”

Cao Wuping, the new member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, also said: "It should be admitted that Wu Mingxiong is a politician. His politics is a politics of doing great things for the people of Pingchuan, not a politics of seeking personal promotion and making a fortune. If he wants to do something, he can't ignore the historical and current situation in Pingchuan. Although he also knew as well as everyone else that Xie Xuedong and Guo Huaiqiu had failed to handle the affairs of Pingchuan well, he not only did not discuss it himself, but also did not allow others to discuss it. A 'non-contemptuous predecessor' not only shows Wu Mingxiong's political maturity, but also shows Wu Mingxiong's mind as a politician. The readjustment of the Standing Committee's leading bodies also reflects this point. Chen Zhongyang was left behind, and at the same time, I was nominated to join the Standing Committee, forming a de facto checks and balances, and Chen Zhongyang and Xiao Daoqing were both happy. Happiness is not the goal, doing things is the goal. Wu Mingxiong really had a lot to do, and the first time he presided over an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee, he put forward one item after another, asking everyone to find a way. At that time, I had a hunch that the secretary of the municipal party committee would make everyone's butts smoke, so that you simply did not have the time and energy to engage in those intrigue tricks. ”

Xiao Daoqing has another opinion.

Xiao Daoqing saw in Wu Mingxiong the tremendous effect of power on people.

In his diary that day, Xiao Daoqing wrote: "The force of power is enormous, it changes people, shapes people, and at the same time corrupts people. This corrosion refers not only to the depravity of personal life and the expansion of selfish desires, but also to the infinite expansion of political ambitions. In a certain sense, the unlimited expansion of political ambitions has brought greater harm to the cause of the party and the people, and the consequences have been more serious, and they have also become more deceptive. If Wu Mingxiong's personal life is degenerate, it may only destroy Wu Mingxiong, and the expansion of Wu Mingxiong's political ambitions may destroy the peaceful life of the people of Pingchuan. I think that from the first minute he grasped power, the secretary of the municipal party committee, who was born as a peasant, was about ready to take the lives of 10 million Pingchuan people as capital to make a political gamble, right? won the bet, and he left his name in history; The bet was lost, and he went home to retire, what a smart old comrade. Naturally, Wu Mingxiong is just a retreat today, limited to asking questions, and has not yet made a bet, so maybe there is still room for maneuver? Perhaps there is a possibility to limit this ambition for power? I can't tell. ”