王教伟是中国山东胶州市马店镇统计站的一名统计员，负责收集农村经济数据。胶州的大白菜和黑猪享有盛名。最近王教伟正努力在诗歌领域一试身手。
今年10月1日，中国政府将庆祝中华人民共和国建国60周年。这一事件激发了各种各样看似奇特的献礼──其中包括中国国家统计局工作人员的诗歌作品。
今年30岁的王教伟抽空写下了《爱祖国爱统计》一诗。这一作品表达了作为一名默默无闻的公务员，他从自己工作中获得的个人满足：
生活中
有人嘲笑我干统计
有人藐视我和统计
有人不理解什么是统计
为什么会被统计
而我却坦然一笑
因为有了统计
我可以揭示最深的奥秘
因为有了统计
我不再孤独在数据间游戏
因为有了统计
我可以把天上的星星重新梳理
中国统计员大军的才思泉涌只是中国政府推动的庆祝建国华诞热情的一个体现。政府官员整年都在督促政府机构拿出项目为国庆献礼。据中国政府的新华社报导，中共中央宣传部部长刘云山上个月表示，希望将爱国主义教育贯彻到所有中国人的日常生活中去，以便将他们的爱国热情转化成具体行为。
9月11日，4000多名中央国家机关干部职工参加了一个合唱歌会，高唱爱国主义歌曲庆祝国庆。安徽省高速公路总公司进行了一次识别假币技能比赛，收费站工作人员比赛谁能把假币从真钞中甄别出来。
Wang Jiaowei collects rural economic data for the local statistics station in Maidian, a town on China's eastern seaboard famed for its giant cabbages and black pigs. Lately he has been trying his hand at poetry.
On Oct. 1, the Chinese government will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. The occasion has inspired all sorts of unlikely tributes -- including poetic offerings from workers at the National Bureau of Statistics.
Mr. Wang, 30 years old, found time to pen 'Love the Motherland, Love Statistics,' a reflection on his role as an unappreciated civil servant and the personal satisfaction he nonetheless gets from his work:
In life
Some mock me for doing statistics
Some loathe me and statistics
Some don't understand what statistics are
Why is it that statistics
Put a calm smile on my face?
Because of statistics I can solve the deepest mysteries
Because of statistics I will not be lonely again, playing in the data
Because of statistics I can rearrange the stars in the skies above
The literary outpourings of the statistics corps are just one sign of the government-fueled enthusiasm for the state's coming birthday bash. All year, officials have been urging government agencies to drum up programs to mark the anniversary. Last month, Liu Yunshan, head of the Communist Party's propaganda department, expressed a desire to infuse patriotic education into the daily lives of all Chinese, so as to 'turn their love for the country into concrete actions,' according to the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency.
On Sept. 11, more than 4,000 central government employees participated in a choral singing contest to mark the National Day with patriotic songs. The highway authority in Anhui province launched a campaign against counterfeit money, pitting toll gate workers against each other in a contest to distinguish real notes from fakes.
But for quirky propaganda at its best, the poets and essayists of the National Bureau of Statistics are hard to beat. Since the initiative was launched in mid-July, more than 100 submissions have been posted on the bureau's Web site. Among the more memorable titles: 'I am Proud to Be a Brick in the Statistics Building of the Republic' and 'Feelings Tied to a Sea of Numbers.'
Xiong Jianfeng, 43, director of the general office of a statistical survey team in central China's Henan province, writes of his work in a rhyming poetic style he describes as 'having a flavor of doggerel':
Day by day our surveys grow robust
Strategic service, its power we entrust
Stores of data show great changes
The world can see their rising ranges
Mr. Xiong says he is inspired by a sense of national pride at how far China has come over the past six decades. 'I just want to write something as a tribute to my motherland,' he says. 'I do, from the depth of my heart, love my country!'
In a country that takes numerology seriously, the 60th anniversary carries special cultural significance. Chinese consider six to be an auspicious number because it sounds like the word for 'to stay,' with its positive connotations of endurance and perseverance. Sixty years also marks a full cycle of life in the Chinese zodiac.
The organizers of National Day Extravaganza in Beijing have pulled out the stops. A total of 200,000 people will perform in a three-hour pageant in Tiananmen Square, including 80,000 children who will wave flowers, pom-poms and national flags. Beijing authorities plan to mobilize one million volunteers to help the celebrations go smoothly.
The state-owned China Film Group has produced an epic recounting the founding of the People's Republic that brings together an all-star cast of 100 that includes Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi and the two Tony Leungs.
Zhang Yimou, the film director who staged the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, has been enlisted to orchestrate the gala at Tiananmen Square.
Workers have widened and reinforced Chang'an Avenue, Beijing's major east-west boulevard, with 100,000 tons of durable asphalt to withstand tanks that will rumble past in a military parade. Authorities have promised that the 66-minute parade will be more impressive than the one to mark the 50th anniversary, when 24,000 soldiers marched through the center of Beijing. Plenty of military hardware will be on display, including five new missiles to match the five stars of the national flag.
One Beijing hairdresser is creating a room-sized replica of Tiananmen Square constructed entirely out of human hair collected from his customers.
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