1997年12月31日,年根岁末,人们都在忙于除旧迎新,无锡市委副书记缪根宝却还在办公室里细读着一封刚刚收到的人民来信。信是一对已经退休的老知识分子夫妇写给他的,叙述了他们的儿子刑满释放回到社会后,求职无门给一家人带来的苦恼。信中这样写道:“工作一直找不到,他的精神很是消沉,一天到晚闷闷不乐,甚至想当 On December 31, 1997, at the end of the year, people are busy getting ready for the new year. Miao Genbao, deputy party secretary of Wuxi Municipal Committee, still reads a letter just received from the people in his office. The letter was written to him by a couple of old retired intellectuals who described the anguish they had brought to their families after their son’s release from prison was released. The letter reads: ”Work has not been found, his spirit is very depressed, depressed all day long, even want to be