All against exaggeration

1April, 958, Wan became the first secretary of Tianjin Municipal Committee, and his work was even more arduous. Wan is never satisfied with listening to reports and guiding his work. In order to grasp the situation, he spends at least one third of his time in the countryside every year to investigate and study. Investigation and research is his working method to deeply understand the reality and grasp the situation, and it is also an important channel for him to closely contact the masses. At that time, Tianjin administered 14 counties with a population of over10 million. In order to get familiar with the situation in each county as soon as possible, Wan often goes to the countryside to investigate and study. At that time, the conditions for going to the countryside were relatively difficult, and the roads were mostly gravel roads and dirt roads. Wan Xiaotang went to the countryside without pomp, took one or two staff members and took a jeep. Run for ten days. Wan is in poor health, suffering from severe stomach problems and neurasthenia, but no matter how tired he is, he must first talk to the cadres in the county and community to learn more about the local situation. 1in March, 960, Wan Zeng took his staff to wuqiao county and other places to inspect the hardest hit areas, saw the real situation of rural disasters, investigated the serious losses caused by reckless command and boasting to agricultural production, and immediately convened a meeting of Wuqiao county party secretary to take measures to correct mistakes in time and solve farmers' production and living difficulties. At the peak of 1958 Great Leap Forward, "high-yield satellites" were widely deployed in rural areas. I heard that some newspapers advertised the yield per mu of rice experimental field in Xinli village, the eastern suburb of Tianjin 1.24 thousand Jin, so I asked the responsible comrades. When Wan learned that it was a false report, he immediately pointed out seriously that he should seek truth from facts, don't go with the flow, and don't bully his superiors and deceive his subordinates. And instructed newspapers and radio stations not to publish such false news.