preface
With the development of the times, knowledge is becoming more and more important in daily life, especially now a person's knowledge reserve basically determines his future living conditions, and the education of the people is the cornerstone of a country's development, so our country has promoted universal education at all costs since the founding of the country, especially for ordinary peasant children, so in the middle of the last century, our country can be said to have launched a huge literacy campaign. For this reason, our great leader Chairman Mao also had a unique dialogue with Liu Shaoqi.
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As we all know, our great leader Chairman Mao can be said to be full of poetry and books, and when he was very young, because his family and grandmother's house were a book-scented family with a lot of books, so when Chairman Mao was young, he could often come into contact with some books that ordinary people could not touch, so under such circumstances Chairman Mao gradually liked to read, and this also laid a good foundation for Chairman Mao's future.
During the university period, Chairman Mao can be said to have grown rapidly, and his thinking has also undergone quiet changes, and after graduating from university, Chairman Mao came to Peking University, became the librarian of Peking University, and met the founders of the party, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, and others, that is, during this period Chairman Mao's thinking can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Moreover, Chairman Mao not only liked to read himself, but also required the people around him to read, so under the supervision of Chairman Mao, most of the guards who served as Chairman Mao's guards were given good places after they were discharged from the army, after all, at the beginning of the founding of New China, the "intellectuals" who could read and write were fragrant everywhere.
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Moreover, because Chairman Mao attached great importance to education, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to many reasons such as China's feudal atmosphere and social atmosphere, there were many Chinese and illiteracy in the people at that time, and it is said that the illiteracy rate was as high as 80 percent when New China was first founded.
After experiencing the sweeping action in full swing, the illiteracy rate in New China can be said to have been greatly reduced, especially the young and middle-aged people who are the pillars of the country have basically all been illiterate, and this has also provided a large number of talent reserves for the development of the subsequent republic.
Coincidentally, among the top echelons of the party, Chairman Mao is not the only one who loves to read, but this person must be incomparably familiar to everyone - he is Liu Shaoqi.
Liu Shaoqi's childhood experience is similar to Chairman Mao's, except that the place of study has changed from his grandmother's house to a classmate's home, when he was studying in private school, Liu Shaoqi met a classmate with a fairly good family, and this classmate's father had experience abroad, and the family collection was also quite a lot, and in the relationship with classmates, the classmate's father also liked Liu Shaoqi quite a lot, so Liu Shaoqi often had the opportunity to go to his classmates to read.
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Later, Liu Shaoqi had the opportunity to study in the Soviet Union, and Liu Shaoqi also cherished this opportunity during his study abroad, so in order to read some foreign books, Liu Shaoqi could say that he immersed himself in learning Russian, and during this Soviet study abroad, Liu Shaoqi came into contact with communism, and was also deeply attracted to it, so in 1921 Liu Shaoqi joined the Communist Party.
Later, due to the development needs of the domestic workers' movement, Liu Shaoqi returned to China and began to lead the domestic workers' movement, but at this time Liu Shaoqi still did not give up studying and reading, and during the later Anti-Japanese And Liberation War, Liu Shaoqi still took the time to study Chinese philosophy when facing multiple encirclements and blockades by the enemy, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Shaoqi also brought into full play his "belly full of learning" and successively put forward "On the Cultivation of Communist Party Members" and "Report on the Land Reform Problem" and many other reports.
Therefore, during a conversation with someone, Chairman Mao also laughed and quipped that Liu Shaoqi "did not study for three days and could not catch up with Liu Shaoqi", and Liu Shaoqi also laughed after hearing about this matter, and it is quite interesting that Liu Shaoqi also replied with a sentence of "one day without merit, can not catch up with Mao Zedong" to ridicule Chairman Mao.
Nowadays, it seems that although these two leaders who contributed to the development of the republic have some taste of "commercial praise", it is undeniable that both Chairman Mao and Liu Shaoqi face a large number of tedious administrative affairs every day.
But it still has not forgotten to read for a moment and forget to learn, so it can be seen that everyone's success is their own efforts, even the national leaders are the same, need to always learn to surpass themselves, so as an ordinary person, we must be more so, to study hard to prove ourselves, to contribute to the cause of the motherland, contribute our own strength.