Ma Baochuan, political commissar of the full-page reporter of the military newspaper, is low： there will be a large number of such reforms below the neck

One question: How big is the psychological gap when the political commissar of the division is the political commissar of the brigade?

"whoever puts this matter aside has no idea, but in the final analysis, the idea should obey the principle of party spirit."

Under the lamplight, I looked at Ma Baochuan, the political commissar of the brigade, with a conspicuous diploma on his chest. Recalling the scene when he took the lead in charging in the snow and ice during the day, the reporter cut to the chase: It must be a big psychological gap to learn from the political commissar of the brigade, right?

Ma Baochuan didn’t answer immediately, but looked out the window and lost in thought. At this moment, the snow is flying outside the window, and the cold wind is blowing the trees, just like that night three years ago.

On that day, a motorized infantry division was removed from the brigade, and the Party Committee of the Group Army announced the order: Ma Baochuan, the political commissar of the division, was appointed as the political commissar of the special warfare brigade in a higher position … "Although I was mentally prepared, when the order was really announced, my mind was still blank." Ma Baochuan said frankly: That night, he didn’t go back to the dormitory after dinner, and he walked around the camp alone in the snow.

Looking at the familiar grass and trees, he thought a lot: when he took office at the beginning of the year, he walked into the camp in high spirits and was full of energy. In those days, family members, teachers and classmates called to congratulate them. But now, just half a year later, I "go back". What do friends and relatives think when they know?

People are afraid of comparison! Among his comrades-in-arms, he is one of the few people who became the political commissar of the division; Among relatives, he is the biggest "official", which can be said to be the focus of attention.

"You just asked me how big the psychological gap is. To tell the truth, who has no idea about this matter, but in the final analysis, the idea should obey the principle of party spirit!" Ma Baochuan still can’t forget it. After he turned around for more than 10 times, he pushed open the door and saw his wife Song Lingling, who was visiting relatives in the team, busy cooking supper for herself in the kitchen. He was not happy: Why should he talk to her?

When the wife heard the noise, she looked back and saw him leaning against the door frame. She came over and asked, "Has it been announced?"

"Announced! Report tomorrow. " The wife looked at him and said nothing. She turned and took jiaozi out of the pot and brought it to Ma Baochuan: "I watched a TV series of the Eighth Route Army two days ago. You have done so many things."

That night, Ma Baochuan lost sleep. A word that my wife inadvertently said echoed in my mind again and again. "My father worked as a soldier all his life, beat the Japanese devils away, and came back as a soldier. During the war years, in order to meet the needs of the revolution, the commander can be the head of the regiment; Today, building an information-based army, in order to strengthen the army and promote the army, what is the political commissar of the division as a political commissar of the brigade! "

When the sky was a fish-belly grey in the east, Ma Baochuan was calm! The newly formed special operations brigade, as the only special operations force of the group army, is the blade of the future information battlefield. The organization put him in this brigade as a political commissar, which is both a test and a great trust!

He got up with clothes and solemnly wrote in his diary: "Loyalty is like gold! December 5, 2013. "

When I woke up in the morning, my wife found a note written by her husband at the bedside: "Don’t worry about your new job."

Ma Baochuan

Second question: how to adjust your mentality when you build a team with your former subordinates?

"In the final analysis, in a word, the sense of superiority of the political commissar of the division must be completely erased from the deep heart."

Many people didn’t expect that Ma Baochuan and his former subordinates made a "golden partner" by oorganization.

But at first, it wasn’t that simple.

The first time I went to the alpine skiing training ground, the deputy brigade commander actually reported to him: "Comrade Chief, the first special operations battalion is organizing alpine skiing training …"

Not only the deputy brigade commander, but even the brigade commander sometimes habitually calls him "the head". At first, every time I walked with the Standing Committee members, everyone always inadvertently surrounded him in the middle, and then half a step slower than him; Every time he has a working meal, he doesn’t move his chopsticks and everyone waits …

For these details, Ma Bao Chuan understands and is very vigilant: the brigade commander used to be his "deputy", the deputy brigade commander was the head of his former "staff", and there was even a section chief in the team when he was the political commissar of the division. He used to report and salute when he entered his office …

"It’s understandable that everyone doesn’t adapt, but I can’t pretend to be confused." Ma Bao Chuan knows very well that people are so polite to him because they still regard him as the political commissar of the division. What he didn’t expect was that many members of the Standing Committee said to him, "You are a division political commissar, which is not the same as us. You can give guidance if you have anything, and we will do the specific work.".

In a word, let Ma Baochuan calm heart and a ripple-the problem seems to be out of the standing committee, but the root is in my heart. Although I always tell myself that I am now the political commissar of the brigade, I still subconsciously regard myself as the political commissar of the division. How can you expect others to change their attitude if you haven’t changed your mind?

To change their attitude, you have to make a good appearance first. Therefore, Ma Baochuan took taking the lead as the first lesson to change his identity.

"But soon I found the problem again." Ma Baochuan said, whether you can’t do it or not, you can’t do it too much. During a study of political work, a standing committee member talked about a topic that coincided with his key work in the division, and Ma Baochuan casually seconded two sentences. I didn’t expect him to "slap the board", but all the other members of the Standing Committee were "one-sided" in unison.

"This quickly made me realize that I still have a mentality to change: I, the party secretary, must’ delegate power’ and not’ cover the sky with one hand’." Ma Baochuan and the members of the team "made three chapters": no one should be the "boss" in front of major issues, no one should be flexible in collective decisions, and no one should be special in daily life. When something happens, it must be discussed collectively, first democratic and then centralized!

Jiang Jinghui, the deputy brigade commander, recalled that the party Committee was silent. Although there was no interruption and no applause, several members of the Standing Committee heard the implication: the political commissar told everyone to let go of their hands and feet.

There is a training land in the brigade that has been occupied by a factory for a long time, which is a problem left over from history and it is quite difficult to deal with. The brigade party Committee arranged for a deputy leader to go to work. Some people found the brigade chief officer through local leaders and wanted to "accommodate". As a result, they searched all the team members, all with the same caliber: the decision of the party Committee could not be changed, and the training land was simply taken back.

On the day when the training land was recovered, the members of the team and the grassroots officers and men were all happy. Ma Baochuan said: "I know that at this time I got the work’ admission ticket’ and became a veritable brigade political commissar in the minds of officers and men."

Three questions: I am still a PK young man at the age of 50. Why do you fight so hard?

"If you spit a hole, you have to do it if you say something, and I have to give you a good start in reforming the current people’s minds."

In the evening, the reporter knocked on the door of Ma Baochuan’s office, and a "fishy smell" came to my face. Ma Baochuan’s cheekbones were red with cold, and her hair was soaked and tied into a wisp …

While greeting the reporter, he turned over the mask and gloves baked on the heater, and the reporter knew where this "fishy smell" came from.

"In these three years, I have this smell almost every day!" Seeing the reporter’s expression, Ma Baochuan, who had just returned from the ski training ground, was a little embarrassed.

Why are you working so hard? In the dead of night, Ma Baochuan opened his heart: "Indeed, many people say that I don’t need to work so hard. I look at it this way: at the first party Committee meeting, I made a public statement and looked at me first. If you say it, you have to do it. "

How? You have to focus on the hardest thing to do.

The special warfare brigade is composed of officers and men of 11 troops. It is undoubtedly the most difficult to carry out special warfare training, and many people are afraid of difficulties. "No one will. At this time, the leader will not take the lead!" In terms of training and mobilization, Ma Baochuan’s words have so far made people excited: "I am the highest position in the whole brigade, look at me!"

"It’s easier said than done!" Ma Baochuan said frankly, "I am a person who is almost 50 years old. It is really tiring to fight with a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old. The most important thing is danger!"

"I’m not afraid of your jokes when I say it. On the eve of my first skydiving, I even wrote my suicide note." Ma Baochuan said that he had been a soldier for more than 30 years, and this was his first time to write a suicide note. The first parachute jump training in the brigade, the brigade commander and the deputy brigade commander thought it was too dangerous, so they took turns to do the work and told him not to jump, but he didn’t do it.

"I’m in danger, the soldiers are not dangerous? If I don’t jump, how dare I let others jump? " Ma Baochuan JiYan.

"Being quick-eyed is quick-eyed. I really got on the helicopter and looked down. My heart was really sudden!" The moment the helicopter door opened, Ma Baochuan walked to the door and looked down, and his legs trembled unconsciously. I can think of a large group of new soldiers behind me. He immediately turned around and said, "It’s not very stable!" "

"Don’t be afraid, everyone. Jump according to the action essentials. I’ll give you a sample!" Say that finish, he jumped out of the hatch.

Ma Baochuan and the team members.

Four questions: How do you understand others’ incomprehension?

"My name is Ma Baochuan, but Ma Pingchuan’s life will not be wonderful. We have caught up with the era of reforming and strengthening the army. This experience is a treasure for a lifetime. "

A few days ago, Ma Baochuan finally put down his work and took a vacation to return to his home in Shenyang.

A few days after he got home, an old classmate took him and his wife home for dinner. Ma Baochuan and his old classmates sat opposite each other, telling each other their true feelings.

After listening to his experience, his old classmates were aggrieved for him: "Baochuan, why are you so happy to be a division political commissar and’ demoted’ to be a brigade political commissar?" If you can’t come back, let’s work together, and you can earn 1.8 million in less than one year! " Ma Baochuan smiled and didn’t answer the words.

In recent years, there are also local leaders who are interested in him, promising him important positions and persuading him to take off his military uniform and return to local development. But he always smiles and doesn’t pick up summer crops.

"Who doesn’t want to live a good life and who doesn’t want a good life." Every time I don’t understand, Ma Baochuan said that after being a soldier for more than 30 years, the army trained me step by step from a rural baby to a full-time teacher-level leading cadre. It can be said that this military uniform has been integrated into my body and I can’t get rid of it.

Ma Baochuan’s feelings for the army, his wife ling-ling song is the most clear. He is healthy and handsome in a suit, so his wife specially bought him several sets. But Ma Baochuan, whether he is off work or on vacation, is either dressed in a military uniform or a camouflage uniform, so that he has bought several suits for several years, and he still hasn’t got up once.

Ma Baochuan said that everyone has their own goals in life. Old classmates fight business, and he feels that making more money is the value of life; But I have always believed that there must be some people in this society who silently guard this country. "I am destined to be such a person in my life!" He said.

"My name is Ma Baochuan, but Ma Pingchuan’s life will not be wonderful! Looking at the problem from another angle, we have caught up with the era of reforming and strengthening the army. " Ma Baochuan said: Personally, I don’t think this is news. It may not be long before the political commissar of the division becomes a political commissar of the brigade-the reform of "below the neck" has begun, and perhaps more teachers and political commissars of the division will become brigade commanders and political commissars of the brigade …

"This experience is a lifetime treasure, which makes me bite my teeth and do so many things that others think are’ impossible’." Ma Baochuan picked up a pencil and drew a circle on the paper: "A person who takes individuals as the center and interests as the radius all day can’t see the distant scenery."　

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Ma Baochuan is unusual.

Liu Jianwei Li Dapeng Deng Qingying

Who’s Ma Baochuan?

Political commissar of a special operations brigade of the 16th Army of the Army, with a Chinese face, rough voice, medium build and straight back.

At first glance, he seems to be no different from many brigade political commissars of China Army. But when you open his file, you will be surprised: four years ago, he was already a political commissar of motorized infantry division!

Why "demoted"? It turned out that three years ago, when the army establishment system was adjusted and reformed, a certain motorized infantry division was removed and changed to a brigade, and Ma Baochuan became a brigade political commissar overnight.

In the appointment order, 11 regimental cadres changed from chief officers to deputy officers, and hundreds of cadres rotated their jobs.

At this point, everyone’s eyes were fixed on Ma Baochuan, wanting to see "when this volcano will erupt".

However, Ma Baochuan’s performance was unexpected.

On the first day when he was a political commissar of the brigade, he was the first to stand at the forefront of the exercise training; At the first democratic life meeting, he was the first to "fire" himself; The first training assessment, he was the first to play; During the first construction, he carried sand with the officers and men …

Ma Baochuan has the highest post, the oldest and the oldest qualification in the Special Operations Brigade. Many people say that you are a political commissar of a division, and it is a kind of dedication to lie down as a political commissar from a provincial capital city to a remote ravine.

But Ma Baochuan doesn’t seem to be used to living a comfortable life.

In the first assessment, Ma Baochuan stunned the officers and men of the whole brigade: in the snowstorm, he actually hit five people’s heads with five bullets in the 810m sniper assessment field, breaking the record of the whole brigade!

Why does a political chief work hard on the training ground? Ma Bao Chuan has his own understanding: "As a new type of fighting force in the future battlefield, the special warfare brigade is a fighting cadre regardless of military cadres or political cadres. Besides, political work is not only done by talking, but also by doing it! Only the pens and guns are hard, and the waist of political cadres is hard! "

Ma Baochuan knows better: Silent actions can boost the morale of the army more than strict orders. The reform of "below the neck" has begun, and many officers and men have such concerns, some worry that they will be laid off, and think that it is useless to do more; Some people are worried about the limited development in the next step and want to stop and watch and see the situation.

"Only when leading cadres have no distractions can officers and men be unaffected." In alpine skiing training, Ma Baochuan insists on being the first to be present every day. After three years, he has practiced 3 km cross-country skiing for 13 minutes and 53 seconds.

It is not easy to practice alpine skiing, and it is even more difficult to practice skydiving and diving, which not only requires high physical and psychological quality, but also is dangerous. Ma Baochuan is still the first one-

After two consecutive skydiving, he made the first real jump in the whole brigade, setting a record for the highest position and the oldest skydiving in the whole brigade. The whole brigade organized diving training. Like the soldiers, he carried hundreds of kilograms of diving equipment every day, and the skin on his back was dried off layer by layer. He successively completed more than 10 subjects such as fixed depth diving, directional diving, underwater shooting and underwater obstacle breaking. Assessment.

What surprises Ma Baochuan is not that he broke four training records of the whole brigade in a year, but that he won the first prize in the major practical research project of the "Warrior I" project of the Group Army, and he was the only political work cadre among all the winners.

These achievements not only surprised the officers and men, but also produced great inspirational effects among them. Not long ago, in the brigade special forces level certification assessment, the passing rate of the officers and men of the brigade was as high as 96.3%. All the political cadres of the brigade mastered the main special combat skills such as parachuting, downhill, diving, sniper and climbing, and all passed the special forces level certification assessment …

Today, many people are slowly savoring what Ma Baochuan said three years ago: "Worry less and take more responsibility; Look at my work and stay and listen to the party. "

Ma Baochuan, not ordinary. The officers and men said that the political commissar was "unusual" because he did what he said.

The "Ma Baochuan phenomenon" is going on.

Alex Gao

The political commissar of the brigade was originally the political commissar of the division. Ma Baochuan’s story is not a case.

Searching the news in recent years, we found that in addition to Ma Baochuan, in 2013, there were two comrades in the former shenyang military area command, Fu Wenhua and Feng Zhongguo, who were transferred from the division commander to the brigade commander because of the adjustment of the army establishment system.

If we look at the nearly 90-year history of the People’s Army, there are countless Sichuan-style cases in Ma Bao, which can even be called the "Ma Baochuan phenomenon" unique to the People’s Army.

During the revolutionary war years, the reorganization of the people’s army was a common occurrence. During the Long March alone, the Red Army involved the reorganization of units above the regiment level for more than ten times. The downsizing or even cancellation of the army’s organizational system will inevitably lead to the demotion or transfer of the corresponding commanders. In the face of these contradictions, there has never been a unit that did not listen to the command and a commander that did not obey the command.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into "the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army" based on the national justice. The original three front armies of the Red Army were changed into three divisions, with the commander-in-chief of the front army as the division commander, the head of the army as the brigade commander, and the commander as the head of the army. Many senior generals were demoted to four or even six levels. Among them, He Long, the commander-in-chief of the Red Second Army, was appointed as the division commander of the No.120 Division, and Xiao Ke, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Second Army, was appointed as the deputy division commander of the No.120 Division, and was demoted by 4 levels. And Li Xiannian was appointed as the battalion commander by the military political commissar, which was equivalent to a 6-level demotion.

After the founding of New China, in order to adapt to the development of war forms and the needs of national security, the People’s Army has continuously streamlined and reorganized its military scale. Before President Xi announced that "China will reduce the number of military personnel by 300,000", the army had successfully completed 10 large-scale disarmament, and dozens of military regions, corps and service headquarters were successively abolished, and thousands of affiliated institutions such as military hospitals, schools and farms were abolished, transferred or downsized, and the total number of military personnel was reduced from 6.27 million at the peak to 2.3 million.

In recent years, although there is no smoke of war, the Sichuan-style story of Ma Bao is still repeated. The most typical one is Major General Gan Zuchang. In the fourth disarmament, in order to support the reform and not burden the organization, he offered to return to his hometown as a farmer.

The reason why "Ma Baochuan" has become a phenomenon is closely related to the people’s army’s adherence to the road of elite soldiers with China characteristics and its adaptation to the rapid development of the new military revolution in the world.

The focus of this round of military scale structure and strength reform will be to reduce the number, improve the quality, and build a lean and efficient modern standing army by optimizing the composition of military scale. From this perspective, the "Ma Baochuan phenomenon" must be continuous, not perfect. It can be predicted that a large number of commanders will face the same tests and challenges as Ma Baochuan after the "below the neck" reform is fully launched.

Facing the test of reality, Ma Bao’s Sichuan style of "advancing and retreating, listening to all organizations, never bargaining before difficulties" has become the common attitude of our officers and men, and it is also inseparable from our military’s value orientation.

In the 12th Army of the Army, every year, new cadres at or above the regimental level must go to the Military History Museum to review a passage. That was the military order issued by Wang Jinshan, the commander of the column of the predecessor of the group army, before the battle of Dingtao: I will be the brigade commander after one brigade is left; There is one group left, and I will be the head; There is one company left, and I will be the company commander …

The value of revolutionary soldiers lies not in the size of ranks and positions, but in how much they have contributed to combat effectiveness and in their persistent pursuit of victory.

Ma Baochuan’s unit was changed from a division to a brigade, which is an optimization of our army’s strength composition based on combat effectiveness. In the future, the characteristics of lean, integration, miniaturization, modularization and versatility will become more and more prominent in our army. In a sense, Ma Baochuan, the political commissar of the brigade, has reduced his position compared with the previous political commissar of the division, but his responsibilities on his shoulders have not been alleviated at all.

As a soldier, what should we pursue? Yesterday’s "Ma Baochuan" gave an answer with blood and life. Today’s "Ma Baochuan" are writing their answers with their own actions.

On the journey of strengthening the army, transformation and reshaping are the norm. No matter yesterday, today or tomorrow, in the river of time when the people’s army grows, the "Ma Baochuan phenomenon" is a continuous tense. Every soldier should not only have the courage to hit the water in the middle stream, but also have the responsibility and mind to follow the trend.