20世纪70年代初,申纪兰被任命为山西省妇联主任,享受正厅级待遇,但被她拒绝。她说,劳动模范不一定就能当官,我的文化程度不高,当官可能会误事。后来,她又被推选为山西长治市人大副主任,有关部门要给她转城市户口,定级别,配专车,她全都推辞了。如今,申纪兰仍是一位普普通通的农民。“世界上什么学问都好学,最难学的是吃亏。要想当个共产党的好干部就要学会吃亏,不怕吃亏。有了苦事、难事、吃亏的事,当干部的要跑到前头;有了好处,有了甜头,当干部的要退到群众的后头。”这是全国劳动模范、山东省茌平县王老乡小杨屯党支部书记张国忠说的。党的十一届三中全会后,上级决定让他担任抓农业的县委副书记,让他转户口,老婆孩子都进城。可是他不去,说:“组织上对我的关心,我有数我感谢组织,可是我觉得自己离不开小杨屯的群众,小杨屯的群众也离不开我。” In the early 1970s, Shen Jilan was appointed Director of the Women’s Federation of Shanxi Province, enjoying the treatment at the rank of office, but was rejected by her. She said that a model worker might not be able to be an official and that my education level was not high enough that an officer might mislead. Later, she was again elected as vice director of Shanxi Changzhi Municipal People’s Congress, the relevant departments to give her a transfer to the city account, set the level, with a car, she all declined. Now, Shen Jilan is still an ordinary farmer. “What is learned in the world are studious, the most difficult to learn is to lose .If you want to be a good party cadres, you must learn to suffer, not afraid of loss .Have bitter things, difficult things, sufferings, when the cadres to go ahead ; With the benefits, there is sweetness, when the cadres to retreated to the masses behind. ”“ This is a model worker of the country, ”said Zhang Guozhong, secretary of Party branch of Wangyang Township, Chiping County, Shandong Province. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, the superior decided to let him serve as deputy secretary of the county grasping agriculture, let him transfer account, wife and children are into the city. However, he did not go and said: “The organization cares about me. I thank several organizations, but I think I can not do without the masses in Xiao Yangtun and the masses in Little Yangtun can not live without me.”