Wu Gang, formerly known as Wu Baogang, has also used pen names such as Kou Tiangang and Dongfang Ji. He is from Lintao, Gansu Province. He has a college degree and is a retired deputy prefecture-level cadre. He once served as the president of the Gansu Essay Society and is now the honorary president. , editor-in-chief of "Gansu Economic Daily. Essay Monthly" and a member of the Chinese Writers Association.
Wu Gang has been writing essays since the mid-1950s. His works have been published in People's Daily, Essay Monthly, Fujian Daily, Haimen Daily, Shanwei Daily, and Gansu Daily. , "Gansu Economic Daily", "Gansu Geology and Minerals News", "Voice of the People", "Party Building" and other newspapers and magazines. Since the reform and opening up, Wu Gang's essay creation has entered a new stage and he has become one of the most accomplished and influential essayists in Gansu Province. In 1995, his first collection of essays, Xiangyang Collection, was officially published, containing more than 200 essays and 370,000 words. In 1997, his second collection of essays "Dingxin Collection" was published, containing nearly 100 articles and 200,000 words. In 1999, his third collection of essays, "Selected Essays in 50 Years of Gansu. Wu Gang Volume" was published, containing more than 110 works and 210,000 words. Since the new century, his essay writing has also shown a fruitful trend. His fourth collection of essays, "Yangzheng Collection", is expected to be published in the near future, with more than 200,000 words.
Wu Gang is a very diligent and hard-working person in writing. He cares about national affairs and people's livelihood sufferings. He has a keen perspective, clear opinions, feelings and feelings, and faces life directly. The salient features throughout his essays are: advancing with the times, keeping up with the current situation, praising the bright, criticizing the current ills, sharp writing style, strong flavor of the times, the earthy flavor of life, and a fighting style that does not agree with the false, evil and ugly. Shortly after the reform and opening up, he wrote essays such as "The Short-lived Ultra-Left", "Thoughts Caused by a Professor's Jumping from a Building", "Destroying the Cultural God" and "The Art of Deceiving the People by Those Who Are Chaosing the Country", recalling history and linking the present, and profoundly exposed the "ultra-left" The essence of harming the country and the people. Works such as "Thinking from Cutting to Heavy", "Ode to Commodities" and "Ode to Markets" sharply criticized the ultra-left trend of thinking that "cuts off" the market, commodities and private enterprises as the "tail of capitalism", and enthusiastically praised the party The basic line of reform and opening up and the primary stage of socialism, as well as the major scientific decision to write private enterprises into the constitution as an important part of the socialist market economy.
In recent years, he has created works such as "Chen Danqing is justified in resigning", "Is it reasonable to tarnish Confucius in this way", "Destruction of Dreams", "Public Sacrifice to Ancestors", "Feat of Love", etc., which clearly praise the truth, goodness and beauty, and criticize Fake, Evil and Ugly, praising Wenchuan's earthquake relief feats, promoting righteousness, justice and traditional Chinese culture, and criticizing unhealthy tendencies in society, has produced good results. "The Disillusionment of Dreams" has been published by "Gansu Economic Daily. Essays Monthly", "Critics", "Radio and Television Seniors", "Shantou Daily", "Gansu Geology and Mineral News" and other newspapers and periodicals. "Chen Danqing Justified His Resignation" seriously criticized the rigid model of "One Politics, Two Foreign Languages, and Three Majors" in higher education examinations. It was published in "Gansu Economic Daily. Essays Monthly" and "Essays Monthly" and was selected into the 2006 "National Selected Essays". Precisely because Wu Gang's essays have a distinctive personality, essayist Wu Yue judged his essays as "written for the times". For example, the "stone" in Zhang Qing's hand in "Water Margin" "often hits the target with one blow." Some readers in Shanghai and Lanzhou said that Wu Gang's essays "have the style of Lu Xun". His essays have a strong color of speculation and justice, but lack of literary color, which puts forward new and higher requirements for his future creation.
Wu Gang has also made more explorations into the theory of essays. He has spoken at several national essay annual conferences to state his essay views and understandings. The title of the speech delivered at the Tianjin Annual Essay Conference was "Essays must carry forward China's excellent traditional culture." The speech delivered at the Foshan Essay Annual Conference, Guangdong was: "Essays must have the courage to participate in the reform of the political system." The speech delivered at the Hangzhou Essay Annual Conference was : "Some insights and understandings of Lu Xun's essay creation", the speech at the Kunming Essay Annual Conference was: "Essay creation requires three close approaches", the speech at the Shenzhen Essay Annual Conference was "Gansu Provincial Essay Society Cultivates New Essay Writers" "Six Ones" Practice" and so on. These speeches discussed several arguments in essay creation based on the combination of theory and practice. They had certain new ideas and attracted the attention and praise of the conference. In recent years, Wu Gang has been responsible for most of the commentary speeches after the Gansu essay selection. He has a moderate level of praise and criticism, and reasonable comments. Members report that he has inspired and helped them. Wu Gang believes that essays are a style between political commentary and literature. They are the "light cavalry" of literature and the "barometer" of the times. They are articles of righteousness and justice. Therefore, authors must strictly demand themselves to be upright and upright. With a clear mind, care about current affairs, stay close to the people, work hard to learn literature, history, philosophy and scientific knowledge, and be a down-to-earth new generation and essayist. You must not try to gain fame or fame.
Wu Gang was particularly concerned about the development of essays. Since the early 1990s, he has served as the vice president and secretary-general of the Gansu Provincial Essays Association for nearly 10 years. He served as the president from 1999 to 2005, focusing solely on his essay career. He united the members of the Essay Society, sacrificed a lot of his writing time, extensively contacted essay writers across the province, especially young newcomers, and did a lot of specific organizational leadership and editing work.
Starting from the third issue, he has compiled 16 issues of the society's journal "Gansu Essays", each issue has about 10,000 words, comprehensively introducing the essay creation situation, achievements, award list, member address book and essay creation trends in various provinces and cities, from editing to proofreading and publishing. He runs it almost by himself. 400 copies of each issue are printed, distributed to members, and communicated throughout the country. Together with other members of the leadership team, Wu Yue, Tian Qichuan, Zhang Jiachang, Xing Tongyi, Wu Chenxu, Qi Yuchao, Wang Boye and other comrades, he organized the 19th selection of outstanding essays in the province, and selected about 800 outstanding essays, which played a positive role in cultivating new talents. . In 1999, he took charge of the project and co-edited and published "Selected Essays in Gansu for 50 Years" with the third president Zhang Jiachang. It has 10 volumes and 1.8 million words, and contains more than 1,500 essays by more than 150 authors across the province. It comprehensively demonstrates the fruitful achievements of Gansu's essay creation since the liberation in 1949, especially since the reform and opening up. In 2005, he was appointed as a specific operator, and together with the current president Wu Chenxu and executive vice president Wang Boye, he edited the Gansu New Century Essay Anthology "Longyuan Thorn Rose", which included about 200 award-winning essays in Gansu since 2000, 45 Ten thousand words once again demonstrated the achievements of Gansu essay writing. Since the end of 2004, he has also been employed as the chief editor of "Gansu Economic Daily. Essays Monthly". He personally selects and reviews manuscripts. There is one issue per month, 4 pages and 4 pages, with 16-17 articles published. 46 issues have been published. About 750 essays have been published, 70% of which are by authors from this province, and many new essayists have been discovered and cultivated. Wu Gang took essays as a career, worked selflessly, regardless of reward, and contributed to the development of Gansu's essays. In 2005, the Gansu Provincial Social Science Research Society awarded him the honorable title of "Gansu Provincial Social Science Outstanding Society Worker".
"Don't forget the mulberry trees at night, the sky will still be full of clouds." Although Wu Gang is over seventy years old, he still fights in obscurity on the essay front, with uncompromising writing and undiminished enthusiasm. I pray that he will be in good health, happy in spirit, and create more excellent works.