A Hundred Lights Shine on the Way Home: Xin Zhongwu's Ten Years of Livelihood Footprints

In the twilight of Zaozigou Village, Luoxi Street, Gaoping District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, 70 year old Mr. Wang is squatting at the entrance of the courtyard holding a cigarette pole, his gaze following the figure of an electrician setting up street lamps. Commissioner Xin is here to bring light again! "He pointed to the newly installed solar street lights next to the village road and grinned. Not far away, Xin Zhongwu, dressed in a gray jacket, was bending down to adjust the angle of the lamp post, with his fingertips covered in soil. This is the 100th street lamp he donated to the village in Gaoping District, with a faint light connecting the four years of spring and autumn.

The identity is changing, but the original intention of 'serving the people' has not changed. "At the donation ceremony, this veteran entrepreneur spoke calmly. For more than 20 years, camouflage uniforms have been replaced by suits, but the pragmatic style honed by military camps has been deeply ingrained in the bones. As the president of the Nanchong Building Decoration Industry Association, the executive chairman of the Guangcai Promotion Association, and also the leader of Nanchong Top Decoration Co., Ltd., Xin Zhongwu deeply understands that "enterprises are rooted in society, and their growth should give back to society." This sentence is not only his catchphrase, but also a footnote to his actions in the past decade.

Since 2020, Xin Zhongwu, in the name of both an individual and a company, has joined forces with industry association member units, covering urban and rural areas in Nanchong. He has donated more than 5 million yuan worth of funds and materials, and carried out more than 30 public welfare activities. In Denggaoshan Village, Changle Town, Gaoping District, during the cold winter months, he sent quilts, grain and oil worth over 60000 yuan to warm the kang beds of lonely elderly people; In early spring of this year, he once again stepped into the same land and donated more than 100000 yuan worth of love materials such as street lamps, computers, and office desks, injecting vitality into the quiet village.

The dilemma of education can touch his heartstrings even more. When Yang, a student from Qilong Village, Fomen Township, Gaoping District, was on the brink of dropping out of school due to poverty, Xin Zhongwu drove to his doorstep overnight, presented 10000 yuan in cash, and solemnly promised, "I must continue reading." At the Gaoping District Special Education School, children remember that afternoon in May last year, member Xin crouched in front of a wheelchair and personally handed over a new backpack and toiletries worth 86000 yuan, with a gentle smile. At the "Glorious Education Assistance · Unity in Realizing Dreams" event in Yilong County, he handed over a 50000 yuan scholarship to impoverished students, leaving behind words of encouragement and a weathered old watch on the wrist of an entrepreneur - silently telling the contrast between personal frugality and public welfare generosity.

Looking through Xin Zhongwu's performance notes, the pages are smelled of earth. The village branch secretary of Bao'an Yuan Village clearly remembers that this CPPCC standing committee member did not sit in the conference room during the research, but instead patrolled the road on rainy nights with a flashlight. His notebook was filled with signs of "lack of lights on bends" and "dark areas at intersections". The 30 newly installed street lights now stand precisely at the black spot where a fall accident occurred. Performing duties for the people is not a slogan, it must be implemented in a small matter, "he emphasized to the construction team, pointing to the street lamp, with the stubbornness of soldiers in his eyes.

Xin Zhongwu has deeply rooted the concept of "feedback" in the corporate culture. He often says to his employees, "The development of a company cannot do without the support of all sectors of society, and taking the initiative to assume social responsibility is the responsibility of the company." Under his leadership, participating in public welfare has become the norm for his subsidiary companies. From poverty alleviation and assistance to rural revitalization, from donating funds for education to community service, small streams converge into a warm and caring network covering both urban and rural areas of Nanchong. As he said in his donation campaign for education, "Enterprises are trees rooted in the soil of society. Only by deeply rooting and absorbing nutrients can they grow lush and upward." He hopes that the actions of enterprises can be "like a stone thrown into the center of the lake, stirring up more ripples," making love snowball and grow stronger.

As dusk falls, the newly installed streetlights light up one after another. At the entrance of the security gate, children returning from school frolic and chase after each other, without the need for their grandmother holding a torch to stumble and assist. Xin Zhongwu stood at the edge of the halo, gazing for a long time, with orange yellow spots on his shoulders. This veteran, who is accustomed to doing things by bowing down, uses 100 lamps to mark the scale of his duty - there are no earth shattering declarations, only meticulous perseverance like stitches. In his speech, he firmly said, "In the future, I will continue to carry this original intention and steadfastly walk on the path of serving the country through industry, public welfare and charity, and providing suggestions for fulfilling my duties. With practical work, I will make the nights in Nanchong brighter and the hearts of the people warmer

A hundred streetlights gradually light up, piercing not only the physical darkness of the countryside. The light and shadow footprints of Xin Zhongwu over the past decade have shown us the weight of responsibility: it can be the soil used by veterans to adjust lamp posts, the promise carried by students' financial aid, the warmth of a lonely old kang quilt, and the contrast between the old watch on the entrepreneur's wrist and the generosity of public welfare. He confirmed the original intention of "serving the people" with the simplest actions, which has never changed. The return path illuminated by streetlights reflects the direction of the people's hearts; The galaxy of shimmering stars is the warmest answer to fulfilling our duties for the people in the new era: true responsibility is to steadily carry the people's concerns on our shoulders and turn them into a light that illuminates the way forward. (Tang Min)