The reason why Gu Wenchang, secretary of the county party committee of Dongshan County, Fujian, has always been admired by the broad masses of cadres and masses is that when he was in office, he did not pursue vigorous "outstanding achievements," but made silent dedication, leading the local cadres and masses to build a shelter forest along the coast that will benefit future generations through more than 10 years of hard work, and erected an immortal monument in the hearts of the common people. This kind of "latent achievement" is the greatest "outstanding achievement".

——""Latent Achievements" and "Visible Achievements" (January 17, 2005) from "Zhijiang New Language"

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In Dongshan County, Fujian, "sacrifice the Gu Gong first, and then worship the ancestors", along with the custom. During the New Year's holidays, people will pay homage to their most respected county party secretary Gu Wenchang.

Today's Dongshan, surrounded by green trees and flower fields, is a beautiful and rich ecological island. Who would have thought that more than 60 years ago, this place was "the beach without grass and slippery, and the wind and sand are ruthless". At that time, there were more than 150 windy days above level 6 a year, and the forest coverage rate was only 0.12%; In the past 100 years, the wind and sand have continuously engulfed their homes, smallpox and eye diseases have been rampant, and one out of ten people have gone out to work as coolies and beggars.

The mountain casuarina is the key to the transformation of Dongshan Island, and it is also a monument that Gu Wenchang has erected in Dongshan. Gu Wenchang, a native of Linxian County, Henan Province, went south to Fujian with the army in 1950, worked in Dongshan County for 14 years, and served as the secretary of the county party committee for 10 years. With the courage of "if you don't conquer the wind and sand, let the wind and sand bury me", he led the people of Dongshan to fight hard for more than ten years, planted casuarinas all over the world, built the Great Green Wall, and subdued the wind and sand that "the gods are incurable", so that the island changed the world and the people changed the world.

Later, Gu Wenchang was transferred to the deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Forestry Department, and was sent to work during the "Cultural Revolution". Wherever he worked and fought, as long as Gu Wenchang was mentioned, people had endless respect, endless thoughts, and endless calls. Planting trees, controlling sandstorms, building reservoirs, and fighting the heavens and the earth, he always rushed to the front line. In the early days of the founding of New China, he put forward the proposal of changing the "families of the enemy and the puppet" to "the families of military disasters", which won the hearts of 100,000 people. He often said to the people around him and his family, "Those who are leaders must first wash their hands and straighten their waists." The staff around him changed a few times, and he did not promote and reuse a person; He recruited others into the unit, but did not arrange for his five children to enter public office; Even if it was a bicycle, he didn't allow his family to touch it, because his surname was "Gong......

"I want to be with the people of Dongshan and the big trees of Dongshan forever", Gu Wenchang left his last words on his deathbed. Today, Gu Wenchang is buried in the Chishan Forest Farm where he led the cadres and the masses to fight the heavens and the earth. The casuarina planted more than 50 years ago is like a canopy, guarding the tomb, witnessing the enthusiasm and loyalty of this good cadre who "has the party in his heart, the people in his heart, the responsibility in his heart, and the caution in his heart".

Xi Jinping has praised three county party secretaries: Jiao Yulu, Gu Wenchang and Wang Boxiang. In "Zhijiang New Language", he took Gu Wenchang as an example to talk about the truth of "latent performance" and "manifest performance". Gu Wenchang planted trees, it may be difficult to see immediate results; But after decades of hard work, results can be achieved, and what was once a "latent achievement" has become the greatest "obvious achievement". Xi Jinping believes that "potential" and "obvious" are a pair of contradictions in the unity of opposites, "potential" is the basis of "obvious", "obvious" is the result of "potential", the work of future generations is always based on the foundation of predecessors, if everyone does not do paving stones, not willing to dedicate in obscurity, "performance" is impossible to talk about, it has become a tree without roots, water without a source, even if there is "performance", at best it is only an "image project" for quick success.