＂If we can’t see, let more people see us.＂

On the evening of March 9, the Fujian delegation was stationed.

When the reporter knocked on Wang Yongcheng’s door, he was groping for a braille pen and a braille board, struggling to "dot" on braille paper to take notes. In the past few days when he came to Beijing to attend the meeting, he repeatedly revised his speech every night and was often busy until late at night.

Deputy Wang Yongcheng deliberated and spoke at the meeting.

Among nearly 3,000 deputies to the 14th National People’s Congress, Wang Yongcheng is the only blind person. In an exclusive interview with China People’s Congress magazine, he said, "As a blind NPC deputy, I must bring the voices of my blind brothers and sisters to the NPC. If we can’t see it, let more people see us! "

"Always walk out of an aboveboard road!"

"Every disabled person is like a grass. Although he has experienced the tempering of life, he is still stubborn, still full of hope and growing in the sun." This is the life portrayal of Wang Yongcheng’s blindness for nearly forty years.

In 1985, 19-year-old Wang Yongcheng was blinded by an accident and had no sense of light. When he lost his light in his youth, the once colorful world suddenly fell into a deep darkness, which made him pessimistic, desperate and self-destructive, and even once thought of suicide.

At the lowest point in life, it is good to have the support and companionship of family members. In 1989, Wang Yongcheng met his wife, and they broke through many obstacles and finally came together. For the sake of his lover and his family, he is determined to learn a living skill.

Wang Yongcheng began to teach himself Braille to take the exam and went to Henan to study blind massage. Because you can’t see, it’s normal to take the wrong bus, get off the wrong station, fall into the river, and walk on the tracks … It’s normal to stumble, but it’s normal to stumble. Fortunately, there are always enthusiastic people to help him out of trouble again and again.

"After a lot of suffering, I also feel a lot of true feelings. I know that there is nothing in life that I can’t pass. I always have to walk out of a road and walk out of an aboveboard road!" Wang Yongcheng said.

During his study in Henan, his wife, who was far away from home, supported his studies by working as a cleaner, and sent him 130 yuan’s salary every month, 100 yuan. Life was hard, which made him cherish the hard-won opportunities, study very hard, and finally graduated with excellent results.

In 1995, Wang Yongcheng returned to his hometown, rented a 10-square-meter facade room and founded the first local Chinese massage health care center for the blind. At that time, blind massage was still a new thing, and the store was deserted. Wang Yongcheng went around for free clinics and gave massage to the masses, which really eased the pain of many patients.

"When I first heard someone call me’ Dr. Wang’, I was so excited that I trembled all over and felt that I had found the meaning of life, and I could also contribute to others and society." Wang Yongcheng sighed.

When the value of life is gained through dedication, he finds the motivation to move forward. With superb technology, enthusiastic service and hard work, Wang Yongcheng’s health care center has gradually improved and expanded its scale, solving the employment problem of more than a dozen disabled people.

In 1996, with the support of Sanming Disabled Persons’ Federation and other relevant departments, he began to hold a training course on blind massage, giving his skills to others, and expanding the scope to the whole province, and achieved good results of "training one person, finding a job and helping a family". Later, he founded the Fujian Strait Massage Guidance Center for the Blind, which trained more than 6,000 blind masseurs for free for more than ten years, with an employment rate of 98%, and led more blind people to get rid of poverty and stand on their own feet.

Things are sweet and bitter, and those who taste them know; There are dangers in the Tao, and those who follow it know it. Because he has personally experienced various difficulties, Wang Yongcheng regards helping the blind as his mission and responsibility.

As the chairman of Fujian Blind Association, Wang Yongcheng actively responded to the spirit of the CPC Central Committee and Fujian Provincial Committee on implementing the strategy of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, participated in the "Sunshine 1+1 (social organization+old village) hand-in-hand plan", and took the initiative to help the old revolutionary areas and set up a provincial-level poverty-stricken village-Yongyue Village, Anyuan Township, Ninghua County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. Based on the village conditions and people’s feelings, we integrated social resources, and invested a total of more than 1.3 million yuan to help the disabled, help the poor, help students, help doctors, help farmers and other multi-dimensional assistance, support the construction of village water pipes, street lamps and other infrastructure, directly serve and benefit more than 4,000 villagers, and practice the party’s purpose and fulfill social responsibilities with practical actions. It was rated as one of the "Top Ten Typical Cases" by the Civil Affairs Department of Fujian Province.

Years of dedication have won high recognition from the broad masses. In 2023, Wang Yongcheng was elected as the representative of the 14th National People’s Congress. He said excitedly: "I come from the rural grassroots and grew up in the warmth and sunshine of the party. I can be elected as a deputy to the National People’s Congress, which fully reflects the superiority of our socialist system. "

"Let more people know about the blind group.

What you think, what you worry about. "

As a newly elected deputy to the National People’s Congress, Wang Yongcheng was deeply impressed by "the representative should play the role of a bridge" when he was trained to perform his duties.

In his view, one more identity means one more responsibility, one must perform a good job, come up with high-quality suggestions, and make more suggestions and voices for the disabled.

There are more than 85 million disabled people in China, who are a particularly difficult group and need full respect, care and help from the whole society. Engaged in the work of the disabled for more than 20 years, Wang Yongcheng often visited and investigated everywhere, and deeply felt that the cause of the disabled in China had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has attached great importance to the development of the cause of the disabled, guaranteed their basic livelihood, improved their quality of life, and promoted their all-round development. The sense of acquisition, happiness, and security of the majority of disabled people has improved significantly.

Before attending the conference, representative Wang Yongcheng had a discussion with the blind group to listen to opinions and suggestions.

"I am a witness, a witness and a beneficiary." Wang Yongcheng said. In recent years, more than 20 laws and regulations, such as the Civil Code, have stipulated the protection of the rights and interests of the disabled. The financial investment in the cause of the disabled at all levels has increased year by year, with more than 4,000 service facilities for the disabled, and the standard of "two subsidies" for the disabled has been continuously improved …

In the investigation, Wang Yongcheng found that while remarkable achievements have been made in the cause of the disabled, the healthy people still don’t know enough about the specific difficulties faced by the disabled groups, and many well-intentioned help is inevitably thoughtless in practice.

At the end of February this year, Wang Yongcheng had a discussion with the blind group in Zhangzhou on the proposal to be submitted to the conference. The experience shared by a blind man resonated with those present.

The blind man traveled by plane alone, and the ground crew enthusiastically pushed the wheelchair after learning about it, but it embarrassed the recipients: he could walk by himself and only needed someone to help guide him.

Then how to guide the blind to travel? "If you help me, I stand in the front, I don’t know the road ahead, and my heart will still be afraid. It is best for you to walk slowly ahead, and I will hold your shoulders or arms, so that you can perceive the general road conditions through the ups and downs of your body. " The blind man said.

The method is simple and easy, and enthusiastic people "are not impossible, just don’t know". It is precisely by observing each other’s incomprehension that Wang Yongcheng has been running between all walks of life and blind people. "Everyone cares about us, and we should take the initiative to let everyone know about us." He often encourages blind friends to communicate with the outside world and boldly tell others what kind of help they need.

Wang Yongcheng knows that it is his mission and responsibility to speak for the blind and let more people know what they think, worry and hope.

"My suggestion was specially taken back by the comrades of the Health and Health Commission."

"The blind are blind and the heart is not blind. The lack of vision brings keen hearing, touch and highly concentrated thinking. Years of exploration and practice have proved that Chinese medicine massage is the best choice for blind people to obtain stable employment and decent jobs. " Wang Yongcheng said.

According to the data, by 2022, a total of 13,618 blind people in China had obtained the qualification certificates of blind medical massagers, more than 3,000 blind people were practicing in medical institutions, and more than 600 blind medical massages were opened.

However, the electronic registration of health technicians and the implementation of the filing system management in Chinese medicine clinics have made it difficult for blind people to verify their medical qualification certificates, and it is difficult to approve blind people’s medical massage centers. Most certified blind people cannot engage in medical massage as they wish, and blind people who have already practiced in medical institutions have also encountered new difficulties.

How hard does a blind person have to work to get this thin qualification certificate? How important is a stable job in a medical institution to a blind family?

All this, Wang Yongcheng personally experienced and felt the same. "If we can’t see, let more people see us!" To this end, Wang Yongcheng has done a series of preparatory work.

"Improve the social security system and care service system for the disabled and promote the all-round development of the cause of the disabled." "Eliminate unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination that affect equal employment, so that everyone has the opportunity to realize their own development through hard work." Wang Yongcheng regards Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party as his "pillow book", in which he knows by heart the part about the cause of the disabled, and reads it verbatim. Wang Yongcheng took it as the first case of his proposal to the conference. He extensively consulted the law on the protection of the disabled, the law on traditional Chinese medicine and other laws, and found the basis for blind people to engage in medical massage services.

Knowing that representative Wang was going to attend the two sessions with suggestions about the blind, blind people from all over the country sent Wang Yongcheng a lot of materials. These "invisible but tangible" words bear the hearts of blind friends, and finally converge into suggestions-National Health Commission, Chinese Medicine Bureau and other departments revise the "Measures for the Administration of Medical Massage for the Blind", incorporate blind medical massage institutions and blind medical massage personnel into the electronic registration management of medical institutions and medical staff, and solve the problems of filing blind medical massage institutions and practicing blind medical massage personnel.

The lack of large-character textbooks suitable for students with low vision is also a problem strongly reflected by the masses. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education on December 28th, 2022, there are 41,806 school-age students with visual disabilities who receive compulsory education, of whom about 60% are enrolled in regular schools to receive integrated education. For these students, the font size, background color and pictures of ordinary textbooks are easy to cause visual fatigue and affect residual vision. Therefore, it is necessary to publish barrier-free Chinese character teaching materials.

Wang Yongcheng suggested that the Ministry of Education should publish the general textbooks for compulsory education used by students with visual disabilities in large print simultaneously, and list them in the catalogue of teaching books for primary and secondary schools of the Ministry of Education, and provide them to students with low vision in regular classes throughout the country free of charge through schools, so as to meet the learning needs of students with visual disabilities, ensure that children can study with peace of mind in general schools and "stay, keep up and learn well", thus improving their sense of acquisition, happiness and satisfaction.

With thousands of carefully prepared suggestions, Wang Yongcheng came to Beijing and walked into the Great Hall of the People. These days, Wang Yongcheng is busy but full. He refined his suggestions and repeatedly discussed and communicated with the staff of the ministries and commissions who came to attend the group deliberation. "My suggestion was specially taken back by the comrades of the Health and Health Commission. The staff of the conference also kept contact with me and said that they would follow up the handling."

"I must not only actively perform my duties, but also perform brilliantly!"

In March, the world-famous National People’s Congress was grandly opened! What are the two sessions like for you and me? It is a solemn and magnificent Great Hall of the People, a bright red flag fluttering in the wind, a packed auditorium with 10,000 people under the lens focus, and a beautiful business card of China’s democracy.

For Wang Yongcheng, the two sessions were measured with both feet, listened with both ears, touched with fingertips and felt with the heart.

"Please press the voter!" On the morning of the 5th, the announcer’s prompt sounded at the conference venue, and when voting on related decisions began, the representative on the side asked if he needed help to press the voting button. Wang Yongcheng declined with a smile. Before the meeting, with the help of his wife, he had touched several voting buttons on the desktop with both hands and kept their positions and functions firmly in mind.

"I can clearly distinguish a dot as small as Braille by hand, and there is no problem with such a big voting key." Wang Yongcheng said, "I must personally cast a sacred vote!"

Representative Wang Yongcheng and his wife were at the meeting.

In order to facilitate Wang Yongcheng’s performance of his duties, the secretariat of the First Session of the 14th National People’s Congress made proper arrangements: his wife accompanied him as a guide and assistant, and her room was equipped with a computer for the blind. When she went to the Great Hall for a meeting, she took a special bus and took barrier-free access …

Unable to see the grandeur of the Great Hall, Wang Yongcheng listened to the grandeur of the Great Hall with his ears and measured it with his feet. Nearly 3000 delegates gathered together to listen to the government work report. At the end of each page, when everyone turned the page in unison, the sound was like a breeze blowing leaves, like waves rolling snow. For Wang Yongcheng, this is the unique voice of the two sessions and the echo of the surge of democracy.

Groups of accurate and detailed data and bursts of applause cheered Wang Yongcheng up. "Improve the care service system for the disabled … to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the disabled." Hearing these words in the government work report, Wang Yongcheng was filled with emotion and could not calm down for a long time.

New spring, new departure. "Next, I will not only actively perform my duties, but also perform brilliantly! I want to use my own performance story to tell the whole society that our democracy is the most extensive, authentic and effective democracy. " Wang Yongcheng said, "After the conference, I will bring the good policies of the party and the government to our disabled friends, and earnestly publicize, implement and guide the spirit of the conference."

Although the road is long, it will come, and although it is difficult, it will be done. Wang Yongcheng firmly said: "As a deputy to the National People’s Congress, in the next performance of my duties, I will continue to go deep into the grassroots, listen to the opinions and suggestions of the people, worry about the needs of the disabled, think about the thoughts of the disabled, and really help solve the problems that everyone is anxious about."

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