In August p>1949, when Hunan was liberated, Xiao Lei Feng went to the passing company commander of the People's Liberation Army and asked to be a soldier. The company commander did not agree, but gave him a pen. In 195, Lei Feng became the head of children's group and took an active part in land reform. In the summer of the same year, the township government walked him to study for free, and later joined the Young Pioneers. In the summer of 1956, after graduating from primary school, he became a correspondent in the township government, and soon transferred to Wangcheng County Committee as a civil servant. He was rated as a model worker in the government and joined the Youth League in 1957. In the spring of 1958, Lei Feng went to Tuanshanhu Farm and learned to drive a tractor in only one week. In September of the same year, Lei Feng responded to the call to support Angang and went to Anshan as a bulldozer. In August of the following year, he came to Gongchangling Coking Plant to participate in the infrastructure construction, and led his partners to fight in the rain to save 7,2 bags of cement from losses. At that time, Liaoyang Daily reported this story. During his work in Anshan and Coking Plant, he was rated as an advanced worker for three times, a pacesetter for five times, a red flag bearer for 18 times, and won the glorious title of "Young Socialist Construction Activist".
In December, 1959, when the conscription began, Lei Feng urgently asked to join the army, and the leaders of the coking plant were reluctant to let him go. Lei Feng ran dozens of miles to Liaoyang Military Service Bureau (now the People's Armed Forces Department) to show his determination to join the army. He was only 1.54 meters tall and weighed less than 55 kilograms, which did not meet the requirements for conscription. However, due to his excellent political quality and experienced technology, he was finally approved to join the army as an exception.
a native of Changsha, Hunan province, party member was born in China. Born in a poor peasant family on December 18, 194, he died in the line of duty on August 15, 1962, at the age of 22. Lei Feng became an orphan at the age of seven. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Party and the people sent them to school. After graduating from high school, I took part in land reform and national construction. In 196, he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and was assigned to Class 4 of a transport company of an engineering unit as the squad leader. He serves the people heart and soul, and he is willing to do anything that is beneficial to the people. He has made many contributions, and was rated as a model and model youth league member. Join the party in November. And was elected as the representative of Fushun people.
After he died in the line of duty, on January 7, 1963, the Ministry of National Defense named his class "Lei Feng Class". On March 5, 1963, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote an inscription: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng". Zhou Enlai wrote an inscription: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng: a clear class stance of hating and loving, a revolutionary spirit of matching words with deeds, a * * * proletarian style of being public and forgetting personal interests, and a desperate proletarian fighting spirit." Since then, people all over the country, especially teenagers, have been learning from Lei Feng. Since then, March 5 every year has become the day when the whole people learn from Lei Feng. ◆
Lei Feng is a great proletarian fighter and a model of serving the people wholeheartedly.
Ode to Comrade Lei Feng
Dong Biwu, a revolutionary of the older generation, wrote a poem in praise of Lei Feng in February, 1963:
Many people read Mao Xuan's words carefully
They have a clear view of class, and they have a clear understanding of labor, simplicity
Stainless screws and historical colors are always new
Only doing ordinary things can make a great fortune
An ordinary soldier lives for the people in China * *. This ordinary soldier of the People's Liberation Army has grown into a good example for the people of the whole country under the cultivation of the Party. His charm is not only the embodiment of the spirit of * * *, but also the best interpretation of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
■ He became an orphan when he was under 7 years old. After the founding of New China, he embarked on a road from a child leader, a government official, a farm tractor driver and a worker to an automobile soldier of the People's Liberation Army.
■ His height and weight did not meet the requirements for conscription, and he was approved to join the army as an exception because of his excellent political quality and experienced technology; After the sacrifice, nearly 1, ordinary citizens in Fushun spontaneously escorted his coffin.