焦裕禄

焦裕禄

焦裕禄，河南省兰考县原县委书记，中国县委书记的榜样。焦裕禄于1946年加入中国共产党，于1962年被调到兰考县担任县委书记。

1962年12月至1964年间，兰考县遭受严重的内涝、风沙、盐碱“三害”。焦裕禄坚持实事求是、群众路线的工作方法，同全县干部和群众一起治理“三害”，立誓“拼上老命大干一场，决心改变兰考面貌”。由于繁重的工作和长期不规律的饮食，焦裕禄身患肝癌，但他用硬物顶着肝部缓解疼痛，坚持工作。他与时间赛跑，与自然灾害抗争，奋战了475天，用生命换取兰考人民的幸福。1964年5月，焦裕禄病逝于郑州，终年42岁。

在焦裕禄精神的感召下，兰考县的干部群众齐心协力，有效治理了“三害”。1965年，历史上一直缺粮的兰考实现了粮食自给自足。2017年，兰考县退出贫困县序列，成为河南首个“摘帽”的贫困县，也是全国第一批实现脱贫的国家级贫困县。多年来，每年有成千上万的人从世界各地前来缅怀焦裕禄，参观学习兰考县的巨大发展变化。

2009年到2014年，习近平三次到兰考指导工作，把焦裕禄精神概括为“亲民爱民、艰苦奋斗、科学求实、迎难而上、无私奉献”，并号召学习焦裕禄同志的“三股劲”：对群众的那股亲劲、抓工作的那股韧劲、干事业的那股拼劲。

Jiao Yulu

Jiao Yulu (1922-1964) was secretary of the Party Committee of Lankao County, Henan Province and a role model for all county Party committee secretaries in China. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1946 and came to work in Lankao in 1962.

Lankao County suffered from three serious harms – waterlogging, sandstorms, and land salinization. Jiao Yulu, following the principles of seeking truth from facts and relying on the people, worked shoulder to shoulder with the officials and local people in an all-out effort to improve Lankao's outlook. Because of onerous work and irregular meals over a long time, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, but he kept on working notwithstanding, racing against time to combat natural disasters. He worked tirelessly for 475 days and devoted his life to the well-being of Lankao's people. In May 1964, he died of cancer in Zhengzhou at the age of 42.

Inspired by Jiao Yulu, the officials and the people of Lankao County continued their effort and succeeded in harnessing the "three harms." In 1965, the county achieved self-sufficiency in grain production. In 2017, it was removed from the list of impoverished counties, the first in the province and one of the first in the country. Every year, tens of thousands of people travel to Lankao to commemorate Jiao Yulu and learn from Lankao's experience of making tremendous changes.

From 2009 to 2014, Xi Jinping inspected Lankao three times. He summed up Jiao Yulu's spirit as "loving the people, working hard against difficulties, respecting science and seeking truth, and making selfless contributions" and called on the officials and Party members to learn three things from him – how he kept in close touch with the people, how tenacious he was at work, and how determined he was in serving the people.