Although Shi Chuanxiang's work is ordinary, his deeds are very touching and he has become a household name in Beijing. 1959 during the National Heroes' Meeting, President Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai received him, warmly shook his rough hand and asked about his work. Liu Shaoqi said: "We should all serve the people. You are a public servant of the people as a cleaner, and I am also a public servant of the people as a chairman. This is just a different division of labor in the revolution and an indispensable part of the revolutionary cause. " When Liu Shaoqi learned that he had no culture, he specially gave him a pen to encourage him to learn culture well.
1959101On October 29th, People's Daily published a photo of Liu Shaoqi and Shi Chuanxiang, which was a great encouragement to the cleaning workers all over the country. Shi Chuanxiang said: "I have been a dung digger for 30 years, and I will do it for another 30 or 60 years as long as the party needs it!" When the party needs me to do it, I will do it. "
In order to dig dung well, Shi Chuanxiang used a lot of brains and worked harder than ordinary people. There are many bungalows in old Beijing. The population density in the old quadrangle is very high, the pit is very shallow, the excrement often overflows, and the smell is very bad. In this case, he always quietly found bricks to build the pit higher. In his job, there are no holidays. No one needs to find where to dig dung. He always goes voluntarily. No matter how rotten it is outside the pit, no matter how deep the bottom is, he tries his best to dig it dry and clean it up. Brick fell into the pit, so he bent down and picked it up by hand.
Wan Li, vice mayor of Beijing, once carried a dung bucket, followed Shi Chuanxiang to learn how to pick dung and encouraged sanitation workers, which became a much-told story in Beijing. Some students in Tsinghua University once worshipped Shi Chuanxiang as a teacher, mainly to learn from his hard-working spirit and the lofty ideological realm of "Better die than die". 1966 before the national day, Mao Zedong specially took him to Zhongnanhai for a period of time. On the National Day, he was invited as a VIP to attend the National Day ceremony in Tiananmen Square, which was his first visit to Tiananmen Square.