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"Two Excellences, One Vanguard" Profiles | National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker Yang Zenan: Serving Well as a Grassroots "Party Representative"

“两优一先”风采录丨全国优秀党务工作者杨泽楠：当好基层“党代表”

PLA Daily (解放军报) 13 July 2026

Summary

Yang Zenan, Political Instructor of the 2nd Duty Battalion, 4th Duty Regiment, People's Armed Police Shanghai General Corps, is profiled as a national model Party affairs worker whose unit holds year-round patrol responsibility for dispersed high-profile sites including the Bund and the Memorial of the First National Congress of the CPC in Shanghai. The article documents a concrete institutional problem the PAP faces in dispersed-duty environments: standard Party organizational life formats—centralized meetings, synchronized political education—break down when personnel are scattered across fixed posts on rotating schedules, degrading the Party committee's ability to monitor troop sentiment and maintain organizational cohesion. Yang's workarounds—duty-sector-based Party cells, staggered-time organizational life, ten-minute micro-lessons during guard-change gaps—are presented as replicable solutions, fitting a broader PLA and PAP pattern of adapting political work procedures to non-garrison operational tempos without relaxing Party oversight requirements.

Translation

National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker, Political Instructor of the 2nd Duty Battalion, 4th Duty Regiment, People's Armed Police Shanghai General Corps, Yang Zenan——

Serving Well as a Grassroots "Party Representative"

■ Ding Yang, PLA Daily Reporter Hou Yongbo

Recent photo of Yang Zenan. Photo by Miao Yifan.

In recent days, visitors have been streaming continuously to the Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In front of the venue, National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker and Political Instructor of the 2nd Duty Battalion, 4th Duty Regiment, People's Armed Police Shanghai General Corps, Yang Zenan, coordinates on-site duty forces and commands sentries in patrol and guard duties.

"The battalion bears year-round patrol responsibilities for areas including the Bund and the Memorial of the First National Congress of the CPC. Duty posts are dispersed, and organizational development must reach all the way to the last link." During a break between duties, Yang Zenan sits together with soldiers in a patrol vehicle, studying the on-site situation against the duty deployment map.

In the eyes of officers and soldiers, Yang Zenan is a "Party representative" with drive and a habit of thinking things through. While serving as Party branch secretary of a certain company, he connected with Party branches at red-themed venues in the mission area to carry out joint study and joint education (共学共育), cumulatively selecting more than one hundred officers and soldiers to join the local red heritage docent team. Each year they provide historical and theoretical explanations of the Party to tens of thousands of visitors, and have been praised by the public as "fire-spreaders at the red sacred sites."

At the end of last year, Yang Zenan was appointed Political Instructor of the 2nd Duty Battalion. Upon taking up the post, he found that the tasks of each company varied greatly and that some Party affairs backbone personnel lacked sufficient capability. To address this, he conducted in-depth on-site investigations at the companies, worked together with Party branch committees to sort out approaches to development and strengthening, and refined unit development plans down to specific phases and individuals. He innovated a paired-assistance model of "organization leading organization, Party members leading the masses" (组织带组织、党员带群众), and built platforms for Party members to practice and train. He standardized grassroots Party affairs work procedures including Party member recruitment and Party dues collection. He established practical training classes for Party affairs backbone personnel, regularly organizing Party committee members and Party cell leaders in hands-on training, systematically improving the capacity of Party affairs backbone personnel to fulfill their duties.

How to consolidate the Party-building foundation (党建根基) under dispersed-duty conditions (动散条件下), how to accurately grasp the thinking of officers and soldiers during major duty operations, how to break through in the development of units with weak foundations—one after another, these real-world test questions confront this grassroots "Party representative." He frequently carries a prepared work checklist as he goes deep into squad and platoon barracks and patrol posts, engaging officers and soldiers in conversations, jointly identifying problems and deliberating on countermeasures.

To address the problems of difficulty concentrating personnel for organizational life activities and difficulty synchronizing the pace of political education, Yang Zenan, building on centralized instruction and unified meetings, divided Party cells according to duty sectors and innovated a mechanism of "staggered-time organizational life activities" (错时开展组织生活). He uses guard-change rest periods and standby gaps to organize ten-minute micro-Party lessons (微党课) and Party member thought coordination meetings (党员思想碰头会), ensuring that every Party member, regardless of which duty post they are at, can participate in organizational life.

Over 19 years of military service, Yang Zenan has consistently held to the front-line duty post, using Party building as a lever to drive the comprehensive development of his unit, and writing a loyal answer sheet of a "Party representative" on an ordinary sentry post. He has been awarded a first-class merit citation once and third-class merit citations three times, and in 2022 was honored to be elected as a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Since the beginning of this year, the battalion in which he serves has seen steady overall improvement, has efficiently and properly handled multiple unexpected emergencies, and has received commendations from higher authorities.

Original Chinese

全国优秀党务工作者、武警上海总队执勤第四支队执勤二大队政治教导员杨泽楠—— 当好基层“党代表” ■丁阳解放军报记者侯永波杨泽楠近影。苗一凡摄连日来，前往中共一大会址纪念馆参观的游客络绎不绝。场馆前，全国优秀党务工作者、武警上海总队执勤第四支队执勤二大队政治教导员杨泽楠，现场统筹执勤力量，指挥哨兵开展巡逻执勤。 “大队常年担负外滩、中共一大会址纪念馆等区域巡逻任务，执勤点位分散，组织建设必须直达末端。”执勤间隙，杨泽楠与战士们一同坐在巡逻车里，对照勤务部署图研判现场态势。在官兵眼里，杨泽楠是个有闯劲、爱琢磨的“党代表”。任某中队党支部书记期间，他联系任务区红色场馆党支部开展共学共育，累计遴选百余名官兵加入驻地红色讲解员队伍，每年为数万名游客讲解党的历史、传播党的理论，被群众誉为“红色圣地的播火者”。去年底，杨泽楠被任命为执勤二大队政治教导员。上任之初，他发现各中队任务差异大，部分党务骨干能力不足。为此，他深入中队蹲点调研，与支部班子一起梳理抓建思路，将单位发展规划细化到阶段、落实到个人；创新“组织带组织、党员带群众”结对帮带模式，搭建党员实践锻炼平台；规范党员发展、党费收缴等基层党务工作流程；开设党务骨干实训课堂，定期组织支委、党小组长实操培训，系统提升党务骨干履职能力。动散条件下党建根基如何夯实、重大勤务中官兵思想如何精准把握、基础薄弱单位建设发展如何破局……一道道现实考题，摆在这位基层“党代表”面前。他经常揣着列好的工作清单，深入班排宿舍、巡逻点位，与官兵交流谈心，一同查找问题、研讨对策。针对组织生活人员难集中、政治教育进度难同步的问题，杨泽楠在集中授课、统一开会的基础上，按照执勤片区划分党小组，创新推行“错时开展组织生活”机制，利用换哨休整、备勤间隙组织10分钟微党课、党员思想碰头会，确保每名党员无论身处哪个执勤点位，都能参加组织生活。从军19年来，杨泽楠始终坚守执勤一线，以党建为抓手推动单位全面建设，在平凡哨位上书写着一名“党代表”的忠诚答卷，先后荣立一等功1次、三等功3次，2022年光荣当选党的二十大代表。今年以来，他所在大队全面建设稳步提升，多次高效稳妥处置突发险情，受到上级通报表彰。