今年已72岁高龄的张士英,1945年参加革命,曾任邢台地委副书记、衡水地区行署专员等职,1998年9月从省八届人大常委会离休。2000年5月22日,离休后的他自愿担任了临西县东留善固村顾问,从此,他把全部心血都扑在这个曾经全国闻名的村庄,帮助其提前全面建成小康村。4年来,他26次深入到村,居住时间长达150多天;不到村时,就三天两头电话或书信联系,仅书面建议就有几十条。村民想念他,常常有人打问:“张书记该来啦,什么时候来?”把他当成亲人、知己,他自己也立下规矩:在食堂吃家常饭,不动烟酒;不给县乡领导打招呼添麻烦;吃住在村,分文不取。张士英说:“抓‘中心’(经济工作),必须抓‘核心’(党员、领导班子特别是一把手),党风正才 Zhang Shiying, who is 72 years old this year, took part in the revolution in 1945 and served as deputy secretary of Xingtai Prefecture and executive commissioner of Hengshui district. In September 1998, he resigned from the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress. On May 22, 2000, after his retirement, he volunteered to serve as an advisor to Shanli Shancun Village, East of Linxi County. From then on, he devoted all his efforts to this once-famous village in China, helping him build a well-off village in advance. In the past four years, he has gone deep into the village 26 times, living more than 150 days. When he is out of the village, he talks to him by phone or letter three days or two. There are only dozens of written suggestions. Villagers miss him, often someone asked: ”Zhang secretary should come, when? “ To him as a loved one, confidante, he also made the following rules: eat homemade food in the cafeteria, do not move tobacco; do not give County leaders greet trouble; eat and live in the village, the text does not take. Zhang Shiying said: ”To grasp the ’center’ (economic work), we must grasp the ’core’ (party members and leading bodies, especially top leaders)