Ma Xiaoguang, the champion of Shaanxi College Entrance Examination: The most extravagant thing is to eat tofu.

The 1980s was the early morning of China's reform and opening up.

Long hair, perm, frog mirror, white shirt, bell-bottoms ... When some new things began to fill the streets, in the middle school classroom, high school students in the 1980 s were working hard silently with their heads buried.

The 1980s was the starting point of China's educational system reform. People in the 1980s were both lucky and contradictory. At that time, technical secondary schools still had enough strength to collide with universities. For these middle school students, choosing to enter the university means giving up a stable job and a city hukou ... and the college entrance examination is just around the corner, they have no choice but to cut their own path.

At this time, no one knows what "college entrance examination immigrants" are, and no one will ever associate the word "black-box operation" with the college entrance examination. Candidates in the 1980s only knew that the college entrance examination was a very important examination, and there was no enrollment expansion, so the admission rate was low. There are basically no private colleges with high fees. Tens of millions of candidates stare at the limited university resources and limited study places in the country, and it is no exaggeration to describe the college entrance examination candidates in the 1980 s with "a thousand troops crowded on a wooden bridge". University is the place where all hopes are pinned. Being admitted to a university is half the success of their life.

Especially for candidates from poor rural areas, the success or failure of the college entrance examination means a very different beginning: being admitted to a university means jumping out of the agricultural gate and obtaining urban hukou and "cadre" status; If it fails, then go back to the countryside and continue the life of "facing the loess and facing the sky" for generations.

"When you are in Tian Shelang, you will appear in the emperor's hall at dusk." Someone described the sudden change of the examinee's fate at that time. Therefore, rural candidates at that time, as long as they had some conditions, would try their best to squeeze the college entrance examination. It is an honor to go to college. When a child receives a letter of admission from a university, he must beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers and hold a banquet. At that time, it was called "yue longmen the Carp".

It was at this time that Ma Xiaoguang stood out from the college entrance examination.

1980, Ma Xiaoguang became the top liberal arts student in Shaanxi College Entrance Examination with a total score of 455, and entered the Chinese Department of Peking University in the same year.

In the eyes of Chen Minxi, a high school teacher, Ma Xiaoguang is an "interesting little croton". Love to play and cleverness are the deepest impressions left by Ma Xiaoguang.

"That child is so interesting. In the current words, that child's homework is a scorpion, and his sports popularity is also a scorpion. " Teacher Chen Minxi said.

Ma Xiaoguang is a strong-willed and planned student. He does what he should do. He has been the president of the student union of the school. Although he is not tall, he has strong leadership, studies well, is smart, is helpful and gets along well with his classmates. Ma Xiaoguang likes playing basketball. He plays it every day, even before the entrance examination. At that time, on the basketball court in No.3 Middle School, I would play basketball for an hour or two every day after self-study. Ma Xiaoguang was the only one who never stayed up late. He has never disturbed his study and life planning because of the college entrance examination.

In his mother's eyes, suffering is the wealth of Ma Xiaoguang's growth.

1970, Ma Xiaoguang's parents were both sent to Yongji countryside, and their two children followed them to the countryside at the same time. At that time, Ma Xiaoguang was less than ten years old. He must work with his parents, take care of his younger brother while his parents are working, and study in a difficult environment. This experience strengthened his character and made him more fearless in his later life.

"At that time, the economic situation at home was not very good, and expensive furniture was sewing machines. This machine is used to make clothes for children and also to make desks for them to study. " Ma Xiaoguang's mother said. Suffering actually made Ma Xiaoguang cherish the opportunity of learning more. Without money to buy a lot of study materials, he used his evening time to copy the study materials he needed. 1980 before the entrance examination, a neighbor with a better family knew that his family had children to take the college entrance examination, so he specially sent a few kilograms of tofu, which became the most luxurious nutritious meal for Ma Guangzhong before the examination.

At the same time, a good family study atmosphere has greatly influenced Ma Xiaoguang's life to some extent.

Ma Xiaoguang's family is an intellectual family. His father is an editor of a TV station and his mother is a teacher of a primary school. The family learning atmosphere has always been strong, and the environment is open and democratic. In the process of growing up, his parents were the first objects he studied and imitated, so their words and deeds and role models had a great influence. Since childhood, Ma Xiaoguang watched his parents busy studying and editing at their desks every day, and always accepted his parents' expectations of his study, so his study was solid and conscious.

Ma Xiaoguang sometimes makes mistakes, but his parents just reason with him and never beat or scold his children. Moreover, he will never lecture and nag him all the time because of a mistake, and will not arouse his disgust. On the contrary, it will make him deeply remember the mistakes he made and will not make them again after accepting criticism.

"I remember very clearly that my son's college entrance examination volunteers are all written in three columns in Peking University. He is confident in himself and thinks that he will be admitted to Peking University. We respect his wishes. " Ma Xiaoguang's mother said that when she learned that her son was the top liberal arts scholar in the college entrance examination, although her family was very happy, she tried her best to make Ma Xiaoguang downplay his title as the top scholar and didn't want him to be proud and enterprising. Obviously, in his later life and work, Ma Xiaoguang did the same.

From 65438 to 0984, Ma Xiaoguang graduated from Chinese Department of Peking University with a bachelor's degree in literature.

In the early 1980s, graduates from a famous university, even those from technical secondary schools, could be called highly educated. However, Ma Xiaoguang was not satisfied with his bachelor's degree, but chose to pursue further studies. From 65438 to 0987, he received a master's degree in literature and entered China Renmin University to teach the history of ancient literary criticism in China.

Ma Xiaoguang and his lover are both teachers of China Renmin University. Objectively speaking, the choice of teaching is actually Ma Xiaoguang's original intention, because he is very willing to do a science. But five years later, he became a staff member of the newly established Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait.

In Beijing, the capital of the 1990s, it was not so easy to change jobs. However, Ma Xiaoguang still seized the opportunity of ARATS to employ people. It doesn't matter that no one introduced him. He went to the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait with his resume. He recalled: "It was very simple, there was no exam. I negotiated with the other party and was officially hired. "

Before joining the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, Ma Xiaoguang was already a lecturer at Renmin University of China, and obtained an intermediate title. However, after arriving at the new work unit, he needs to start from the chief clerk.

"I think it doesn't matter. As long as you work hard and have expertise, you can still stand out. " In this regard, Ma Xiaoguang understood it this way.

I said so, and so did Ma Xiaoguang. During his work in ARATS, he was always busy with all the talks between the mainland and Taiwan Province Province: writing materials, attending talks, having a meeting the night before to study the talks the next day, and asking for instructions from the rear ... All these are indispensable to him. Among them, Wang Gu Singapore Talks 1993, Gu's visit to Beijing and Shanghai 1998, James Soong's visit to the mainland and other major events are among the main participants.

On June 3rd, 2005, Gu, chairman of Taiwan Province Strait Exchange Foundation, died of terminal cancer in Taibei. His memorial service is scheduled to be held in Taipei on February 2 of the same year.

Due to physical reasons, Wang Daohan, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, was unable to pay his respects in person. Therefore, Wang Daohan decided to send three people as his personal representatives to Taiwan to pay their respects. Finally, Sun Yafu, Vice President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, Li Yafei, Secretary General, and Ma Xiaoguang, Director of the Research Department, went to Taiwan as their personal representatives to pay their respects.

"Be a down-to-earth person and work diligently." Since working in ARATS, Ma Xiaoguang has paid great attention to this code of conduct and has never been flushed with any colleagues. He is now the Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Bureau of the Taiwan Province Affairs Office of the State Council and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait.

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