On July 27, Wang Jicai suddenly fell ill while on duty. On Kaishan Island, Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province, where he had been with him for 32 years, he closed his eyes forever. President Xi recently made important instructions and emphasized that Comrade Wang Jicai has defended the island for 32 years and has written an extraordinary chapter of his life in his ordinary position with his perseverance and dedication without regrets. We must vigorously advocate this spirit of patriotism and dedication to make it the value pursuit of the strugglers in the new era.
Human life is only once. On a small island that is only the size of two football fields, a life that is frozen at the age of 58 is burning here without regrets, illuminating the outpost between the sea and the sky, and also illuminating the hearts of many people.
Wang Jicai, an ordinary coastal defense militia, was cordially received by President Xi during his lifetime, and his advanced deeds were highly praised by President Xi.
After his lifetime, Wang Jicai often said, “I will always stay on Kaishan Island until I stay still!” He fulfilled this simple promise with his life.
▲Aerial photography of Kaishan Island, Jiangsu on February 21, 2017.
”I am a civilian and a soldier.
As a civilian, I must protect my homeland.
As a soldier, I must defend my motherland.
I just fulfilled the basic obligations of a militia.” Kaishan Island is located at the outpost of the Yellow Sea, 12 nautical miles away from Yanwei Port, Guanyun County, the nearest land area, and its strategic location is very important. In 1939, the Japanese invaders of China used this small island as a springboard to invade Lianyungang.
Kaishan Island was once stationed by the coastal defense forces. After the troops were withdrawn in 1985, the Kaishan Island militia outpost was established. This small island has no electricity or fresh water, and is not suitable for people to live for a long time. More than 10 militiamen who have visited the island have been unwilling to be on duty for a long time. In July 1986, the then political commissar of the county people’s armed forces department found Wang Jicai, a 26-year-old basic militiaman, and asked him if he was willing to go to the island to guard the ward.
When hearing the mission clearly, Wang Jicai first remembered what his uncle, who had participated in the Liberation War, said to him: “Your generation must defend your territory. If national defense requires your efforts, you have to!” So he agreed immediately and went to the island without hiding his family.
48 days after Wang Jicai went to the island, his wife Wang Shihua, who had no idea about it, came to the island. Seeing her husband alone on an isolated island where even plants could not survive, she advised him to go back with pain.
Wang Jicai said, “You go back, I decided to stay! If you don’t keep me, I won’t keep me, who will keep me?” He put his wife Komiks sent it down to the island. Unexpectedly, more than 20 days later, Wang Shihua quit her job as an elementary school teacher and went to the island. In this way, Wang Jicai and his wife began to guard the island with “one island, two people”.
The mountain island is always “there are more stones and less soil, and typhoons are often disturbed; birds do not build nests, and fishermen do not go to the island”Babaylan is known as. The island is particularly humid and hot in summer. When there is no electric fan and air conditioner, they sleep on the roof and blow the sea breeze; in winter, they live in the air-raid shelter to shelter. Over time, both of them suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and severe eczema. The doctor said that only off-island can cure it.
In the event of a typhoon, ships stopped sailing, and the island became an isolated island. Once the strong wind blew for 17 days, the island was on the island. After 2000, the story of “Couple and Wife Outpost” gradually became well known, Kaishan Island became a national defense education and patriotic education base for provinces, cities and counties. When they visited the island, scholars always asked Wang Jicai why he could stay on the island for so long? He often said: “I am a civilian and a soldier. As a civilian, I must protect my homeland, and as a soldier, I must defend my motherland. I just Komiks fulfilled the basic obligations of a militia. ”
”I am the son, and I am also the father.
The son must be filial and the father must be responsible.
But my family understands that
Loyalty is the greatest filial piety and responsibility”
On February 11, 2015, the New Year tea party of the military and civilians was held in Beijing. President Xi cordially met with the national model representatives of the military and support team before the tea party. During the discussion, Wang Jicai sat next to President Xi.
President Xi cordially asked about Wang Jicai’s family’s situation and the situation of Kaishan Island, and patted Wang Jicai on the shoulder and said, “It’s hard to guard the island, I wish your whole family a happy new year! “Wang Jicai’s tone was strong: “Please rest assured, Chairman, I will definitely guard Kaishan Island! ”
Returning to Lianyungang from Beijing, Wang Jicai conveyed President Xi’s blessing to his children, and came to his parents’ grave to report the glory of his trip to Beijing.
In 32 years, Wang Jicai and his wife only went out of the island to celebrate the Spring Festival twice, one on the year of their mother’s 80th birthday, and the other on the year when their son was admitted to university. The rest of the Spring Festival, they spent the radio on the island and the TV that could not see the picture clearly.
During the island guarding, Wang Jicai’s Babaylan‘s parents died of illness one after another, but he was unable to stay by his side. The words my mother often said to him during her lifetime made him feel guilty and moved: “You are guarding the island for the country and doing a big thing. If you are not by your side, you will not blame you.”
When his daughter Wang Su was two years old, Wang Jicai and his wife went to the island. Because he was neglected to take care of himself, he promised his daughter that when she got married, he would go home and hold a grand wedding for her. But when this day came, Wang Jicai broke his promise. He silently held his daughter’s photo across the sea and buried his blessings in his heart.
In 2009, Wang Jicai was named a news figure by a local TV station. When he delivered his acceptance speech, he said: “I am a son and a father. My son must be filial and a father must be responsible. But my family understands that loyalty is the greatest filial piety and responsibility.”
In July 1987, Wang Shihua was about to give birth and was unable to get off the island. In desperation, Wang Jicai delivered his wife’s birth. When his son let out his first cry, he collapsed on the ground and cried. He named his son “Zhiguo”, hoping that his son would like him and be determined to serve the country. Today, Wang Zhiguo has grown into an active-duty officer and has taken over the steel gun to defend his country.
”The island is the country,
Guarding the island is the country,
Although Kaishan Island is small, Komiks
But this is a sacred territory,
The national flag must be raised every day”
After 32 years of guarding the island, the first thing Wang Jicai and his wife did after getting up every morning was to raise the national flag. One was the flag-raising bench and the other was the flag-protecting soldier. No matter it was windy or rainy, it never stopped.
After breakfast, they patrol around the island, observe and measure at various points, walked into the observation room of the outpost and scanned the sea with a telescope. At 19 o’clock, they patrol the island again, wrote the coastal defense log for that day, and reported the situation to the superior command post. Over the past 32 years, Babaylan has been repeated more than 11,000 times in more than 11,000 days.
When I first came to the island, a kerosene lamp, a coal stove, and a radio were all their belongings. In recent years, the governments at Lianyungang City and Guanyun County have attached great importance to the construction of Kaishan Island, not only repairing the barracks, but also equipped with various facilities and equipment.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2008, the Jiangsu Provincial Military Region sent a small wind turbine to Kaishan Island. Wang Jicai and his wife watched TV on the island for the first time. On New Year’s Eve, Wang Shihua wrote in the Haidang Diary: “IWe sat around in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, very happy. “Helplessly, the generator could not withstand the strong wind and “stopped the work” in less than half a year. In 2012, the county installed a small solar power station on the island, but it was still affected by the weather and could not work continuously. In May 201, with the support of Lianyungang Power Supply Company, a power generation project with integrated wind, light and storage finally landed on Kaishan Island.
The island has strong winds and high humidity and strong sunshine, and the national flag is prone to fading and damaged, so it must be updated frequently. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylanchange. Someone once told Wang Jicai that it doesn’t matter whether the two people’s islands are raised or not. He said firmly: “The island is the country, and guarding the island is the country’s gate. Although Kaishan Island is small, it is a sacred territory and the national flag must be raised every day. ”
Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua and his wife patrolled together
On New Year’s Day in 2012, after learning about Wang Jicai’s deeds, the Tiananmen National Flag Guard specially sent a steel mobile flag-raising platform and a national flag that had fluttered in Tiananmen Square from Beijing. Wang Jicai regarded this national flag as a treasure.
Once, a typhoon of 12 level blew from the sea. Wang Jicai was worried that the national flag would be blown away by the wind, so he ran to the top of the mountain to put away the national flag. When he went down the mountain, he stepped on the air and broke. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema had two ribs. During the period of recovery, he often listened to and watched news about track and field athlete Liu Xiang. His children asked him why he liked Liu Xiang? He said, “I can’t explain it clearly, either. The scene of Liu Xiang running with the national flag when he won the Olympics often comes to my mind. ”
”When you can’t settle the personal small accounts, even if you calculate the national defense major accounts, your psychology will be balanced once you calculate it.”
For a long time, listening to the radio was the only way for Wang Jicai to learn about external information. Over the past 32 years, he has used more than 20 radios on Kaishan Island. What he usually listens to is current affairs news. He told his wife: “Although we are on an isolated island, we have to care about national affairs.” ”
Whenever you hear the changes in the coastal defense situation, Wang Jicai willConsciously strengthen patrols, and sometimes go to patrol the island late at night. He said to his wife, “I haven’t walked the patrol road more often, and I feel uneasy and can’t sleep well!” Some people think that Wang Jicai’s island is always on duty, so his reward is definitely not low. In fact, this is not the case. Militia is a mass armed organization that does not leave production. There is only a subsidy for lost work on duty and training, and no formal salary. During the interview, the reporter saw a subsidy bill from Wang Jicai and his wife in the 1990s. At that time, their annual subsidy was 3,700 yuan, and the average monthly subsidy was 154 yuan per person. In 1995, after the lighthouse was built on Kaishan Island, their annual income increased by 2,000 yuan because of the Komiks guarding the lighthouse, but the monthly subsidy per person is still less than 3,000 yuan.
In those years, people from the same village became rich one after another, but Wang Jicai was unable to make ends meet at home. The eldest sister who is running transportation in Shanghai hopes that Wang Jicai will go out of the island to help her, and promised to earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a year. Wang Jicai hesitated, but eventually chose to stay.
He often said: “How to calculate small accounts and big accounts? When a personal account cannot be settled, even if he calculates the national defense account, he will be mentally balanced.”
In the face of money, Wang Jicai has always had his own principles. Once, a “snake head” went to the island privately to find Wang Jicai, and took out 100,000 yuan in cash, asking him to make it convenient and leave a few “guests” on the island to stay for a few days. Wang Jicai refused: “I am a militia. As long as I am on this island, you don’t want to smuggle from here!” The other party was angry and threatened to let him “take a punishment for wine.” He reported the situation to the county people’s armed forces department and border defense department without hesitation, and assisted the police in arresting the “snake head”. Over the past 32 years, Wang Jicai has assisted the public security border defense department in solving a number of smuggling and smuggling cases.
In the eyes of criminals, Wang Jicai is an inexplicable “Cinemairon”, and in the eyes of fishermen, Wang Jicai is the “guardian of the sea” and “living Lei Feng on the isolated island”. When fishermen go to sea at night, they will light up their navigation beacons; when they encounter heavy fog and snowy days, they will try to remind fishing boats to take off the way; when fishermen pass by are short of food and medicine, they will take out their spare grain and medicine to help. Once, a fishing boat was overturned by the waves and five crew members fell into the sea. After Wang Jicai discovered it, he risked his life to rescue the crew members who fell into the water to the island one by one.
(People’s Liberation Army Daily reporter Bei Xiao, China National Defense News reporter Shan Huifan Cai Xiaofeng)
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Written by/People’s Liberation Army Daily reporter Liu Wanping
Photography/People’s Pictorial Special Reporter Ren Long, Wang Guanjun, Guo Dinghu
This is a strong man who promises his own money and tightly ties his personal life and even his life to the cause of national defense— On July 27, Wang Jicai, director of the Kaishan Island Militia Outpost in Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province, suddenly fell ill while on duty. Cinema died after ineffective rescue, at the age of 58. Previously, he was only the largest of two football fields in this area. The island of Komiks has been on the island for 32 years. Kaishan Island, located at the outpost of the Yellow Sea, has a very important strategic location. After the troops were withdrawn in 1985, the militia post was set up, but due to the harsh conditions, more than 10 militiamen who went to the island were unwilling to be on duty for a long time. In 1986, the 26-year-old Wang Komiks Jicai accepted the task of guarding the island. Since then, he has taken the island as his home and accompanied his loneliness. He silently sticks to the isolated island where there is no water, electricity and plants, and devotes his youth to the coastal defense cause of the motherland. In 2014, Wang Jicai and his wife were named the national “model of the times”. On February 11, 2015, Wang Jicai participated in the New Year tea party as a national model representative of the military and civilian support, and was cordially met by President Xi.
”Kaishan Island is small, but the national flag must be raised every day. “For 32 years, Wang Jicai and his wife have been determined, sticking to the post, and writing a magnificent life with faith and dedication. Now, this old militia unfortunately passed away from illness in the island, fulfilling their promise during their lifetime: “I will always stay on Kaishan Island until I stay still! ”
This man has gone, and his spirit remains undying. On the Kaishan Island, the figure that touched hundreds of millions of Chinese people will always stand. Here, we publish a group of photos of Wang Jicai guarding the island during his lifetime taken by a military photographer to express his respect and condolences to this “island-guarding hero”.