From Tongling Reforms to the New Deal in Southern Guangdong, the Career Trajectory of "Major" Wang Yang

Tongling Reform
In November 1988, Wang Yang became the deputy secretary and acting mayor of Tongling, Anhui Province. Tongling is a small and impoverished provincial municipality, not particularly important in Anhui, but during his four years in Tongling, Wang Yang was a lightning rod for reform and innovation, and did something sensational that shocked people at home and abroad.
On November 14, 1991, Tongling Daily published an article signed by Gong Sheng, "Wake up, Tongling! Calling for emancipation of the mind, to all the rigidity, stereotypes, closed mindset, a prelude to the emancipation of ideas about the prelude to a great discussion, in the whole Tongling stirred a strong reaction.
This article was like a thunderbolt from the poor mountainous area in northern Anhui Province, which spread to the whole of China. And Wang Yang is the initiator of this matter. What is exciting is that the horn of "emancipation of the mind" blown in the mountainous region of northern Anhui 15 years ago sounded again in the land of Southern Guangdong under the administration of Wang Yang 15 years later. This cannot be said to be a historical coincidence. But rather than a historical coincidence, it is a historical necessity.
Wang Yang said in a televised speech at the time: We need to change our mindset! Some people are "afraid of stealing when raising fish" and "afraid of cheating when doing business", but they are not afraid of being poor! This is very close to the idea of Deng Xiaoping's famous Southern Dialogue, showing Wang Yang's sharp political sense. And Tongling's approach has also attracted the attention of the top echelons of the central government, especially Deng.
　
Chongqing's governing body
Because of Wang Yang's hard political quality and competent, forward-thinking reform, coupled with its experience as a member of the State Council's Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, making the central government in the consideration of the southwest town of Chongqing municipal party secretary candidates, quickly locked Wang Yang.
At the end of 2005, Wang Yang was parachuted into Chongqing to officially take up his new post. It is believed that the appointment was made in view of his previous work at the State Planning Commission, where he was familiar with economic issues and participated in the formulation of the 11th Five-Year Plan, and that he has a clear understanding of the development of China's economy over the next five years, which could help the municipality, which is China's largest, in its new phase of development.
In addition, the central government has decided to govern Chongqing in order to solve the three gorges reservoir area, such as millions of immigrants, etc. During the past eight years, the main urban area of Chongqing has developed, but the three gorges reservoir area is very difficult to deal with. Wang Yang is experienced in dealing with conflicts in the reservoir area, and in 2004, the construction of the Waterfall Gorge hydropower station on the Dadu River in Sichuan forced the relocation of about 100,000 people from Hanyuan County. Residents were dissatisfied with the government's compensation plan for land acquisition, which led to protests and clashes with the police. At that time, it was Wang Yang who traveled to Hanyuan with Hu Wen's four important instructions to calm the situation.
Under Wang Yang's strong governance, as of April 2007, Chongqing had relocated 1,024,000 immigrants from the Three Gorges Reservoir area, completing 90% of the 1,138,000 task. Wang Yang proudly said at the time, "For the world-class problem of one million migrants in the Three Gorges, we are already winning."
After the arrival of Wang Yang, Chongqing, a major change is that the official style of Chongqing was severely rectified. An intriguing detail is that, in Chongqing in 2006, suffered a severe drought, Wang Yang to the farmers' market inspection, farmers sitting on the ground to answer his questions, the accompanying staff will be arrogant attitude twice called farmers stand up to talk back. Wang Yang suddenly made a surprising move, he grabbed a large green pepper from the farmer's basket, turned around and smashed it at the staff member, saying afterwards: "Today I am not polite to some staff members, why do we need the public to stand up and speak? We are the people's servants, standing should of course be us!" Some people also pointed out that Wang Yang was putting on a show. But some later facts made this argument go bankrupt very quickly.
One prominent event is the "most bullish nail household" incident that shocked the Chinese press in 2007. Wang Yang is most widely known for his enlightened, calm and pragmatic approach to resolving the "most bullish nail household" incident in Chongqing. At the time, Yang Wu, the head of the "nail house", climbed to the top of the island-like building and shouted: I want to see Wang Yang! Public opinion immediately pushed Wang Yang into the limelight. Instead of seeking a media blackout or using law enforcement to "play hardball," Wang Yang instructed all parties to actively negotiate with the head of the household, and ultimately resolved the matter in a rational and peaceful manner that won high praise from the media both at home and abroad.
In the "most cattle nail households" event was fired at the time, Wang Yang, another major move in the mountain city of Chongqing fire out. 2006 year-end, Chongqing Municipality issued a media reform document, the first in the country to set a precedent. The document requires that the Chongqing Municipal Party Secretary (Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress), the mayor, the Chairman of the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference in addition to the important activities related to the overall situation outside of the regular research activities, "Chongqing Daily" second edition of the news, the number of words, in principle, no more than 1,000 words; radio, television reports do not headline, the length of the length of the principle of no more than 3 minutes. Wang Yang's phrase "let readers get used to the second page to find Wang Yang" is still fresh in the memory of the Chongqing press.
　
New Deal for Southern Guangdong
In 2007, two years after serving in Chongqing, Wang Yang was transferred southward to take charge of Guangdong. When Wang Yang took over Guangdong, he said that Guangdong should continue to be at the forefront of the country, at the forefront of ideological emancipation, and at the forefront of reform and opening up. However, Wang Yang is facing a lot of challenges, because Guangdong today is no longer the same Guangdong that embraced reforms and always wanted to be at the forefront, but rather, it is characterized by a lot of bureaucratic malpractices. Therefore, Wang Yang must find another way to make Guangdong the vanguard of reform and opening up once again.
When Deng Xiaoping launched his new reforms, Guangdong was also a place he attached great importance to. Yang Shangkun, Ren Zhongyi, Xi Zhongxun, Wu Nansheng and other CPC veterans were all in charge of Guangdong and pushed for reforms, and in 1992 Deng Xiaoping opened fire on the far-left camp and pushed for market-oriented reforms, also through his southern tour of Guangdong.
In the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Secretary held after the first plenary session of the provincial party committee, Wang Yang to officials at all levels to "head-on", a breath of 22 "emancipation of the mind", and called on leaders at all levels to carry forward the year "to kill a bloody road" spirit. and called on leaders at all levels to carry forward the spirit of "killing a bloody road" back then. In addition, Wang Yang also vigorously promoted the "double transfer" economic strategy, i.e., the transfer of industries and labor throughout the province, driving backward and intensive enterprises to remote areas of Guangdong and then upgrading industries in the original places.
In 2009, a major official earthquake erupted in Guangdong. Chen Shaoji, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Wang Huayuan, secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), and Xu Zongheng, mayor of Shenzhen, were dismissed by the CCDI to investigate and handle their cases due to serious disciplinary violations, and Guangdong officials were in danger of being arrested. People familiar with the matter said the fall of Chen, Wang and Xu was related to Wang Yang's strong rule over corruption. Analysts said that the investigation and handling of corruption cases, for Wang Yang, is both a political test, but also a political opportunity. To date, a number of facts have proved that Wang Yang's rule of Guangdong has shown results. ★