The natural landscape of dripping water piercing through the stones, I heard and witnessed it when I was in the queue and settled down, and I was amazed. To this day, the scene of his perseverance still comes to mind, and I have learned a lot about the philosophy of life and movement.

Hard as stone, tender as water - it can be seen that the stone is stubborn, and the water is light. But a drop of water can eventually pierce a stone, and water has won the victory after all.

It is a perfect embodiment of the personality of one after another and the courage to sacrifice. A drop of water, both small and weak, will definitely be shattered against stubborn stones. At the moment of sacrifice, although it failed to see its own value and results, its value and results were reflected in the broken bones of countless droplets, and in the success of finally piercing the stone. In the whole process of historical development, in the process of developing in an economically backward region, we should not admire our own prominence, but should seek to forge ahead bit by bit, and be willing to become a foreshadowing for overall success. When every worker becomes such a "drop" and such a victim, why should we worry about not being able to create some kind of historical opportunity for success?!

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I admire the landscape of dripping water through stones, and I really admire a perfect personality who is willing to sacrifice for the overall success; Advocate a kind of ambitious, down-to-earth, persevering, unswerving spirit.

- "The Revelation of Dripping Water Through Stones" (March 1990) from "Out of Poverty"

Further reading:

The power of the water droplet is insignificant, but it is single-minded and persistent, so it can drip through stones. There is a rabbit-shaped "dripping water through stone" stone in Taiji Cave in Guangde, Anhui Province, and there is a Bodhisattva top dripping eaves hall in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi, all because the raindrops are dripping, and the stone is poured into the ground, forming a honeycomb-shaped stone pit.

The idiom of "dripping water through stones" is often used as a metaphor for perseverance, and a small set of strength can also achieve great credit. This idiom was first used in the Northern Song Dynasty. When Zhang Qianya, a famous minister of Taizong and Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the county magistrate in Chongyang County, the social atmosphere in Chongyang was very poor, theft was commonplace, and even the money and property of the county government were often stolen. Zhang Qianya was determined to put a stop to this crooked wind. One day, he saw a small official in charge of the treasury coming out of the treasury in a panic, and judged that the treasurer might be stealing, so he asked his attendants to search the treasurer. As a result, a copper coin was found in the treasurer's turban. The treasurer defended: "What is the great deal about stealing a copper coin?" Zhang Lingya then picked up the red pen and wrote: "One dollar a day, thousands of dollars for a thousand days, the rope is sawed and the wood is broken, and the water drops are worn by stones." This means that if you steal one copper coin in one day, you will steal a thousand copper coins in a thousand days. If you keep sawing wood with a rope, the wood will be sawn off; The water drips and drips, and it can drip through the stones. Since then, the trend of stealing in Chongyang County has been stopped, and the social atmosphere has also greatly improved.

From September 1988 to May 1990, Xi Jinping served as secretary of the prefectural party committee in Ningde. At that time, Ningde was recognized by the State Council as one of the 18 concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas in the country. Within three months of taking office, Xi Jinping traveled to nine counties under the jurisdiction of Ningde, and later to most of the towns and villages in the region, making every effort to promote the eastern Fujian region to get rid of poverty. When Xi Jinping left Ningde, 94% of the poor households in the region had basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and the People's Daily also carried a special report on it with the title of "Ningde Crossing the Food and Clothing Line". Under the inspiration of Xi Jinping, Ningde continued its efforts with the spirit of water drops and stones, and weak birds fly first, such as Ningde Chixi Village with ten years of "blood transfusion" for on-site poverty alleviation, ten years of "blood exchange" relocation for poverty alleviation, ten years of "hematopoiesis" and "tourism + industry" poverty alleviation, and finally embarked on the road of poverty alleviation and prosperity. In 2015, Xi Jinping summed up the poverty alleviation experience of this "China's first poverty alleviation village" with the phrase "dripping water through stones and making contributions for a long time".

At that time, the reform and opening up opened the country, and Ningde, Fujian Province was also in the initial stage of poverty alleviation. Today, China stands at a new historical starting point, is moving towards a higher realm of development, Xi Jinping is still thinking about the old folks in poor areas, he often said, "well-off is not well-off, the key depends on the villagers", "to achieve a well-off in an all-round way, no ethnic minorities can be left behind, no one can be left behind", in order to encourage leading cadres at all levels to truly have a grand plan, down-to-earth, perseverance, unswerving, in the poverty alleviation to achieve the overall success of "dripping water through stones".