The Long March, the eternal glory of the people's army
■ Wang Guangwei Gu Lingkai
85 years ago, the Communist Party of China led the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to achieve a glorious victory in the 25,000-mile Long March with great heroism. This great feat in human history and the most precious spiritual wealth left to us is the great spirit of the Long March forged by the Chinese Communists and the officers and men of the Red Army with their lives and blood.
The spirit of the Long March shines on the "golden fish hook" that would rather sacrifice himself than help his comrades out of the meadow, engraves the "half-cut belt" with an incomparably firm belief in victory, and burns on the "seven matches" entrusted to his comrades before dying... As an important part of the red gene and spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists, the spirit of the Great Long March has been deeply integrated into the blood and soul of the Chinese nation, has become a rich nourishment of the core values of socialism, and has become a powerful spiritual driving force that encourages and motivates the people of the Chinese to continuously overcome difficulties and move from victory to victory.
"Hardships and hardships, Yuru Yucheng." The Long March has brought a political party to maturity and into a butterfly, and it has also enabled an army to emerge from a desperate situation and change its feathers into a new life. The length of the Long March, the scale of the long march, the distance of the journey, the danger of the environment, and the fierceness of the battle are unique in Chinese history, and they are also extremely rare in the history of world wars and even in the history of human civilization. In the long journey, the red army soldiers continued to rise up through setbacks, hardened into steel through hardships, and created a human miracle of swallowing mountains and rivers. The Long March tempered the people's army, the Long March tempered the people's army, the Long March made the people's army, and the Long March opened up a new starting point for the development of the people's army.
Each generation has its own Long March, and each generation must take its own Long March. At the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping warned the whole party: "Over the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has handed over an excellent answer sheet to the people and to history. Now, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to embark on a new road to achieve the goal of the second centenary struggle. "On the new Long March Road, although I don't hear the golden sands, I still have to jump into the canyon and run into the rapids; although I have not seen the Dadu Bridge, I still have to climb the iron rope and wade into the dangerous beach." Only by vigorously carrying forward the spirit of the Great Long March, knowing the heavy burdens, and forging ahead can we cross one "snowy mountain" and "meadow after another," conquer one "Loushan Pass" and "Lazikou" one after another, and win new and greater victories.
The Long March is the glory of the people's army, and the glorious people's army must forever inherit the great spirit and fine work style of the Red Army's Long March. "In this life, I will be proud and proud, and it will be difficult to make a long march again." The epic of the Long March belongs to history, but also to the present and the future. On the road of the new Long March, let us hold high the torch of the spirit of the Long March, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, implement the military strategic principles for the new era, adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, persist in taking the road of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively promote political army building, reform and strengthen the army, strengthen the army with science and technology, strengthen the army with qualified personnel, and manage the army according to law, promote national defense and army modernization with the spirit of seizing the day, build the people's army into a world-class army, and with more powerful capabilities. More reliable means to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests!
(Author Affilications:Unit 69250)
Source: China Military Network - People's Liberation Army Daily