What impressed Li Changping most was not his extraordinary wisdom, but his extraordinary courage. The goal of social transformation has been very clear, and the key needs the realistic spirit and innovative courage of China people. -Zhang Yinghong turned a new page in time. People who care about agriculture, countryside and farmers continue to pay attention to Li Changping's new jobs, new works and new trends. Now, we can say, with Siulapa, why did Li Changping fail? Correspondingly, or on the other side of the same coin, is it a failure or a success? Li Changping is a failure or success, in the eyes of different people will have obviously different judgments. Siulapa is my "spiritual alliance" on the three rural issues. He once compared Li Changping and Zhang De 'an, and thought that Li Changping, who had received higher education and served as secretary of the township party committee, began to carry out reforms in Pan Qi township only after receiving instructions from the central leadership. Faced with powerful local forces, he finally had to leave. "Li Changping failed". However, a few years later, looking back, did Li Changping succeed? In the current institutional environment, besides self-evaluation, a person's success is also faced with two external evaluation systems, namely, official evaluation system and folk evaluation system. The official evaluation system can be divided into local (grass-roots) evaluation system and central evaluation system. Theoretically, these two evaluation systems should be consistent. However, in the period of social transformation, the friction between old and new ideas and systems will inevitably form different interest subjects and the resulting conflicts of interest. In this kind of contradiction and conflict, two different evaluation systems will inevitably shift or even oppose each other. Li Changping, as the secretary of the township party committee, on the one hand, should be judged by the traditional view of political achievements of the higher-level government, mainly the county-level government, and on the other hand, he should be judged by all the people in Pan Qi Township. Faced with the increasingly acute problems concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers, Li Changping has two rational choices: First, according to the established rules of grass-roots power game, he will complete the task of "target management responsibility system" assigned by his superiors, win the title of "advanced secretary of township party committees", and pave the way for future promotion. This is a recognized "road to success". Second, facing the urgent reality that "farmers are really bitter, the countryside is really poor, and agriculture is really dangerous", and risking losing their jobs, I wrote to Premier the State Council to tell the truth about the three rural issues. After a fierce "ideological struggle", inspired by the knock of conscience and the belief of telling the truth, Li Changping resolutely chose the latter. This made him stab the "grim situation" of "agriculture, countryside and farmers" in the false report and bubble propaganda at the grassroots level. In this way, in the evaluation of local governments, Li Changping is undoubtedly failing. However, in the judgment of the Central Committee, Li Changping's behavior conforms to the spirit of seeking truth from facts and the concept of governing for the people, which has always been advocated by the ruling party. His petition letter has received important instructions from the Prime Minister, which has aroused unprecedented attention from high-level officials to the issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers. In this sense, Li Changping is successful. At the same time, in the folk evaluation, Li Changping not only won the general praise of farmers in Pan Qi, but also won the general recognition of the mass media and the general public. This made Li Changping become the "most famous township party secretary" in China from tens of thousands of unknown contemporary township party secretaries. Li Changping's "appearance" undoubtedly greatly enhanced the attention of Chinese people and the high-level attention to the issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers. The institutional factor that it is hard to tell the truth is that Li Changping does not tell the truth, and traditional local forces and vested interest groups will not crowd him out; Similarly, if Li Changping doesn't tell the truth, public opinion and the general public will not widely agree with him. Li Changping did not "tell the truth" to the Prime Minister and the people, so there would be no Li Changping today. Whether Li Changping failed or succeeded, it was because he dared to tell the truth in a lie and silence. Li Changping's failure to tell the truth at the grass-roots level reflects an outdated old concept, the cultivation of lies by the old system and the rejection of truth. In the dual social structure of urban and rural areas, the grass-roots power organizations at the county and township levels, which directly deal with farmers, have formed an interest alliance in the game and interaction with farmers. This three-level interest community in counties and villages has a high degree of commonality of interests and consistency of action not only in responding to farmers' resistance, but also in responding to the supervision of provinces and cities, especially the central government and the news media. The power operation of the three-level interest community in counties and villages has formed a set of rules of the game that are not conducive to telling the truth. The first is the top-down cadre appointment system. Originally, Marxist classical writers were firmly opposed to the cadre appointment system. Engels once made it clear: "The state government appoints district heads and mayors, which is absolutely not available in English-speaking countries, and we must eliminate this phenomenon in the future, just like eliminating the county heads and political officials in Prussia." The appointment system of cadres in the Soviet Union was widely adopted and gradually became rigid. Deeply influenced by the Soviet model, China has widely implemented the top-down cadre appointment system. This top-down cadre appointment system has become the main link to maintain the three-level interest community of counties and villages. For cadres, in most cases, lower-level cadres are obedient to higher-level leaders, but bossing around farmers. This humility to leaders and arrogance to farmers constitute the "duality" of cadres. The second is the target responsibility system of layer by layer decomposition. This target management responsibility system decomposes the hard indicators of economic and social development determined by the government from county to township, from township to village, and then to every farmer. At the beginning of the year, all levels signed the target responsibility form, and at the end of the year, they were assessed according to the target management responsibility form to determine the "political achievements". This target management responsibility system has formed a typical "pressure system" in practice, which has transformed the economic index contract system at the county and village levels into the political responsibility contract system. Leading cadres at all levels do their best to achieve all the "indicators" related to the target responsibility system (including fraud and exploitation of farmers), while leaving behind things unrelated to the target responsibility system. Therefore, there is often such confusion: all levels and departments successfully complete the target responsibility certificate signed at the beginning of the year every year, but farmers complain a lot, various problems pile up, and social contradictions are becoming increasingly acute. The third is the task completion system with the highest political achievements. Under the top-down cadre appointment system and hierarchical target responsibility system, the administrative goal of grass-roots government will change from "benefiting the people" verbally to "achievement first" in practical work, and this "achievement first" is only reflected in a large number of specific numerical indicators. Although the tasks of these numerical indicators have had a "happy ending" by the end of the year with the efforts of all kinds of unscrupulous means at all levels, serious problems have generally appeared: the statistical data is seriously distorted, the debts of villages and towns are increasing, the "three chaos" has been repeatedly banned, and the contradictions between cadres and the masses are constantly intensifying. "Power Vortex" The three-level interest communities in counties and villages have formed a powerful "power vortex" under the strict rules of the game. Once this "power vortex" is formed, it has strong exclusive characteristics. All individuals who do not adapt to the operation of this "power vortex" will be ruthlessly squeezed out and encircled in this "power vortex". In this "power vortex", some leading cadres in party member with a strong sense of responsibility and mission will also deeply sympathize with the peasants' experiences, deeply reflect on the shortcomings of the old system, and strongly resent the rough style of some cadres. They tried to comfort farmers with their own personality strength and resist the bondage of the old system to human nature. This aggressive behavior is inevitably out of step with the "power vortex" in practical work, and the results are mostly tragic: either it is pushed out by the "power vortex" or it is completely buried by the "power vortex". Li Changping is a typical representative who was pushed out in this "power vortex". In a civilized society, telling the truth and telling the truth will inevitably win the strong solidarity and moral support of the people and public opinion. The ruling party has carried forward the spirit of seeking truth from facts for a long time, and strongly publicized the opposition party's concept of building the party for the public and governing for the people, which will certainly encourage and forgive Li Changping who is seeking truth. This made Li Changping get a warm hug from the whole society after being "driven out" by grassroots forces. Now, he has worked as a project officer in an NGO, engaged in a brand-new NGO poverty alleviation cause. Courage is more important than wisdom. Li Changping was not the first person to see the serious problems concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers, but he was the first person who dared to give up his job as secretary of the township party committee and complained that "farmers are really miserable, the countryside is really poor and agriculture is really dangerous". What impressed Li Changping most was not his extraordinary wisdom, but his extraordinary courage. This can be applied to a sentence recently summed up by Zhu Youzhi, president of Hunan Academy of Social Sciences: Courage is more important than wisdom. In the period of social transformation, from planned economy to market economy, from Soviet-style socialism to Socialism with Chinese characteristics, from rule of man to rule of law, from all-round government to limited government, from focusing on single economic development to paying attention to all-round development of economy, society and people, this transformation goal has been very clear, and the key needs the realistic spirit and innovative courage of China people. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has comprehensively planned a grand blueprint for building a well-off society in an all-round way, and also inspired people's innovative courage in an unprecedented way: "All ideas and concepts that hinder development must be resolutely eliminated, all practices and regulations that constrain development must be resolutely changed, and all institutional drawbacks that affect development must be resolutely eliminated.