Source: Learning Corps, People's Liberation Army News and Communication Center
On November 7, the 2021 China Journalists' Day special program "Good Journalists Tell Good Stories" was broadcast on the CCTV Comprehensive Channel of China Central Radio and Television Corporation. 10 outstanding journalists told their interview experiences and stories, showing the outstanding performance of the national news front in the major news events in 2021, and presented the 22nd China Journalists' Day.
Li Lin, a reporter of the Current Affairs Department of the People's Liberation Army News and Communication Center
Shared the border guards
A touching moment of dedication to the motherland with the love of youth
The love of youth dedicates itself to the motherland
■ Li Lin, Department of Current Affairs of the PEOPLE's Liberation Army Press and Communication Center
★ That familiar photo
This is a familiar photo, at that moment, the heroes used their bodies and lives to write out their bold loyalty to the motherland. Just behind these heroes, at this very moment, there are still many border guards waiting on the border line of the motherland.
I just returned from an interview on the plateau, and what I want to share with you is the story from the forbidden area of life and from the border line.
★ Highland officers and soldiers sang songs on patrol
★ Youthful officers and soldiers
This youthful photograph was taken at a certain point at an altitude of 5300 meters. There are hundreds of officers and men in this unit, and 94% of them are "post-90s" and "post-00s." Like all young people, they laugh, they love to laugh, they love to make trouble, and they love beauty. Even when they reach the forbidden area of life, they will wear a mask and use beauty for photos. So, some people will ask, really fight, can these children do it?
But on that particular night, I saw a different side of them:
That night, they suddenly received a notice to shut down all external communications, and each of them immediately wrote a "suicide note", and the atmosphere was suddenly tense.
Everyone understands what this means.
In the early hours of the morning, the commander who came to arrange the task said: "The task is urgent, Communists, take a step forward!" ”
Everyone brushed together and took a step forward.
The commander took one look at it and ordered: "Married and have children, take a step forward!" ”
The result was another step forward for everyone.
The commander had no choice, and finally ordered: "It is an only child, take a step forward!" ”
At this moment, the team did not move at all.
The commander was silent, and for the first time, the nearly 30-year veteran had red eyes in front of his "dolls."
These "dolls" did not disappoint him, and the officers and men advanced to the task point within three hours and completed the task cleanly! At the end of the mission, the officers and soldiers signed their names on the national flag.
★ Officers and soldiers signed their names on the national flag
I've been a soldier for 22 years, and looking at these kids who are half my age, my heart is also pounding with a force. With their clear eyes and youthful faces, they continue to write the unchanging heroic genes of the people's army - to defeat all enemies and never yield to the enemy!
The Iron And Steel Division inherits the soul of the Iron Blood Army, and behind this army soul, I also see another feeling of the soldiers.
★ Warrior Yang Hendry
★ Group photo of Li Lin interviewing Yang Hengji
Yang Hengji, 19, is stationed at a border post in Ali, Tibet. In the vast no-man's land, he and his comrades-in-arms have been with the heavens and the earth and the stars for many years, what kind of feeling do they have in their hearts?
Unexpectedly, this college student soldier from Shandong answered me like this, he said: "The footprints I stepped on in the no-man's land may be the first footprints of human beings on this planet!" Sister Li, I am not bitter, I am very cattle! ”
The stories I tell all come from the western frontier of the motherland, from the heroic troops, and from the places where Chen Hongjun, the recipient of this year's "July 1st Medal," fought.
★ Soldier He Shengpan took a picture of Chen Hongjun
This is the front line of border defense guarded day and night by officers and soldiers of the plateau. Under the 8 big characters of "Great rivers and mountains, no land is allowed," soldier He Shengpan took out a photo of chen Hongjun, the old battalion commander. He told me that when the battalion commander brought them here, he was wearing this dress. He also remembered that when he set out, the battalion commander turned on a flashlight and said, "I will bring you up safely, and I will bring you back one by one!" ”
The soldiers returned, but On that day, Chen Hongjun fell forever on the border defense line he had guarded for ten years.
★ Chen Hongjun's child
Four months after Chen Hongjun's death, on October 25, 2020, his son was born. This day coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Volunteer Army's war to resist us aggression and aid Korea, and I think this may be the bloodline inheritance in the dark. A few days ago, Chen Hongjun's lover sent me a picture of her and the baby, and I praised the baby's eyes for being so beautiful, and she said to me happily: "This child is like his father!" ”
★ Li Lin and the officers and men of the plateau rode around the border
For more than a decade, I've been on the road to military news coverage. I have always wondered whether this generation of young soldiers can stick to it, and why are they sticking to it?
That day, on the shores of Lake Spangur, my comrades and I rode around the edge, a steep slope of nearly 50 degrees, and the rubble kept rolling down. People can't walk, horses can't walk, but the soldiers laugh and sing the song "When the Soldier Goes Ali" for me.
Wading through the last glacier
Turn over the last big board
Walk up the roof of the roof of the world
Climb the plateau on the plateau
Bayonet chisel boundary monument, youth write border pass
We are Ali, we are the plateau...
Bayonet chisel boundary monument, youth write border pass. In the steel helmets that the soldiers took off, I saw the words "It is better to shed all the blood than to lose an inch of the country." At that moment, I knew that these words were carved into the chests of these young officers and soldiers. It was also at that moment that I understood them.
★ Li Lin and the officers and men of the plateau patrolled
Who is saying that the new generation of officers and men who grew up in reform and opening up and enjoyed a prosperous life cannot bear hardships and shoulder responsibilities? Teenagers have their own juvenile madness, like mountains and rivers with a strong backbone.
Not long ago, President Xi Jinping wrote back to encourage all the officers and men of the "Plateau Shubian Model Battalion" to commend them for guarding the sacred territory of the motherland with their youth and blood. At this time, if we ask again, in the face of blood and fire, life and death, can the young officers and soldiers of the new era win the battle? I think they've answered!
(Produced by the Media of the Learning Corps and the People's Liberation Army News and Communication Center)