At No. 5 Madao Hutong, a small alley off North Dongzhimen Street in Beijing’s Dongcheng District, a child was born into a poor family whose father did odd jobs and pedaled a tricycle. He was born the same year as the People’s Republic of China. After six years of elementary school, he was the only student in the entire school who had not joined the Young Pioneers. He spent all three years of middle school without joining the Communist Youth League. His grades were abysmal: he scored only 6 out of 100 on an exam and sometimes even handed in a blank paper. Yet this same person joined China’s foreign trade workforce. With the care of the Party organization, the support of leaders at every level throughout his career, the help of benefactors at crucial moments, and the guidance of countless talented colleagues and mentors, he steadily studied and worked hard while gaining rich practical experience. He unloaded scrap steel from ocean-going freighters. He traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Luoyang, and other cities to organize export supplies from businesses. He also worked with rural communes and brigades to organize export goods, and went into Fujian’s mountainous regions with geological teams to explore for mineral deposits. Before turning eighteen, he represented China at the 21st Export Commodities Fair, then the country’s largest diplomatic event. As a member of Beijing’s economic and trade delegation, he visited the United States, West Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He later led company delegations on visits to the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He once headed a business section with annual exports of nearly ten million US dollars, overseeing nearly fifty million yuan in daily operations each year. After the company restructured and became responsible for its own profits and losses, his section’s export business generated tens of millions of yuan in profit. He worked his way up from the lowest rung, taking jobs as a sales representative, factory liaison, deputy section chief, and section chief, or department manager. After 26 years, he stepped away at the height of his career, struck out on his own, and achieved even greater success.
It's a personal memoir, it's well written, and many of the details are definitely not something that children today can make up.
Nowadays, many children write chronicle essays, but because of their inaccurate grasp and partial understanding of history, their writing is ridiculous. At first glance, the author of this article is an eyewitness of that era. He talks about it and presents such a real and vivid article. It also allows me, a person born in the late 1960s, to have a clear understanding of some things that were specious in the past, and feel very cordial. Thanks to the author! I hope to write more good articles like this!
The author is my neighbor in Tongzilou. I usually see him laughing and joking, optimistic and cheerful, willing to cook, and very friendly to everyone. I never expected that he is a strange person who can write a book, and his writing is so vivid, detailed and fascinating that I admire him very much. I am proud of this neighbor and wish him good health and greater success in his writing!
It has the same flavor as jasmine tea. Although it is not strong, it is also attractive to taste slowly, allowing people to understand the ridiculous things of that ridiculous era. After understanding it, they will cherish the current life more. The author's memory is really good, and he can still remember the names of small people and places from decades ago.
I didn't watch it at first. I thought it was too detailed and even a bit cumbersome. Then I listened to it on my mobile phone and listened to it while working. I felt that the rhythm was just right. It felt like watching a TV series. It was also good to be a popular science writer, and I understood all aspects of that era.
After listening to it, I felt a lot of emotion and felt the same. Works based on the author's personal experience are always so fascinating, and this article by the old man is one of the best. For a junior high school graduate to have such smooth writing, clear context, and a sense of ease and ease, one can't help but admire him even more. Looking forward to the follow-up story.
It's well written, immersive, like documentary literature, it should be the author's autobiography, haha
Look, everything is dry
Is it sitting on a personal autobiography? As a Guangzhou native, I also learned a lot about Guangzhou that I didn't know before.
As I read it, I felt that this was a good book! Strong sense of age! The narrative is informative, clear and easy to understand.