On May 4, 1929, the famous Shanghai media "Life Weekly" published a blockbuster article called "Ten Questions about the Future of China".
As soon as the article came out, it immediately exploded around the world, triggering unprecedented repercussions, and in just a short period of time, more than 4,000 letters from various provinces across the country were received.
This text wept blood and cone the heart of the words, and put forward ten earth-shattering questions on behalf of the world's cangsheng, which is still painful to read to this day.
Shanghai Life Weekly during the Republic of China
These ten questions involve political, economic, military, cultural, international, and other levels, and each question is torturing the soul of those in power in old China, and every question is asking where China's way out is.
But what is desperate is that in the humiliating situation of China at that time, each of the ten questions is insoluble, and there is not even the slightest hope of solving it.
Time has slowly passed for nearly a hundred years, and it is not until today that these ten ultimate tortures that point directly to the soul of old Chinese society have all the answers.
The first question is: When will the military power of our country be unified, and when will the scattered warlords be annihilated?
At that time, in China, warlords were everywhere, and a province had a provincial valve, a place had a ground valve, and even a miscellaneous group leader could occupy several counties, knocking out the bone and sucking marrow, fish and meat people.
Japanese-style warlord troops during the Beiyang government
According to later statistics, during the Republic of China period, more than 3,000 warlords appeared successively, which dismembered the great China to pieces, and the warlord jurisdictions in various places were like countries within a country, fighting each other for the sake of turf, the decline of the country, and the suffering of the people.
Warlords, large and small, regarded the common people as personal wealth, levied tyrannically, and bullied men and women. The warlord Zhang Zongchang, but a bandit, was proficient in "eating, drinking, gambling and smoking", and was nicknamed "the Great General of the Five Poisons", but such a person had long occupied Shandong and made a blessing in the heads of the people.
Whenever he went to a place, he would search for local beauties for his sexual pleasure, and there were as many wives and concubines as his name and no name, and according to the case, there were more than 50 people, because there were too many wives and concubines Zhang Zongchang could not remember the name and appearance, so he numbered each aunt and wife, and replaced them with "XX number".
Zhang Zongchang
Warlords are everywhere, and the people are not happy, so that the first question in "Ten Questions about Future China" is "When will the scattered warlords be annihilated"!
Chiang Kai-shek worried about warlords for half a lifetime, but until he was driven to Taiwan, he did not solve the problem.
It turns out that only communism can save China.
After the founding of New China in 1949, all warlords and bandits were wiped out by the people's army, and the warlord problem, which was derived from the "southeast mutual protection" incident at the end of the Qing Dynasty and lasted for nearly half a century, was completely resolved, and under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people finally became phoenix nirvana and was reborn from the fire!
Founding Ceremony
The second question is: When will the military's right to govern be eliminated, and when will the administrative power of our country be unified by the central authorities?
This question is similar to the first question, which has been answered previously and will not be repeated here.
Question 3: When will the extrajudicial jurisdiction of the thirty-four countries be abolished, and when will the judiciary of our country be autonomous?
After the Opium War, China gradually degenerated into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and by the time of the fiasco of the Qing court in the Sino-Japanese War, the world powers had further set off a climax in the division of China.
At that time, the great powers set up a total of 27 concessions in China, including the citizens of 34 countries enjoying "extrajudicial control rights" in China, the so-called "extralegal right to govern", to put it bluntly, if foreigners killed people and set fires in China, the old Chinese government had no right to punish, and had to respectfully return the people to the home country of the perpetrators.
Shanghai Concession during the Republic of China
Among these 34 countries, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia will not be mentioned, but even South American countries in the southern hemisphere, such as Peru and Chile, have "extralegal right to control the country."
It was not until after the founding of New China that the Central People's Government abolished all unequal treaties and foreigners' privileges, and the Chinese people really stood up.
A few days ago, there was a hot news, 3 foreign men in a restaurant in Chengdu Jiuyanqiao flirted with Chinese women and beat people, and the police immediately detained and fined 2 of them after finding out the facts. In addition, in recent years, there have been many foreign drug dealers who have been sentenced and shot in accordance with the law in China, among which the drug dealer Akmao was uselessly subjected to the British government's application for "leniency" and was sentenced to death.
Late Qing Dynasty Powers Exercising "Consular Jurisdiction"
Therefore, today, we can fully say to the ancestors of a hundred years ago that in today's China, no foreigner can run amok in the land of the Chinese nation, and no matter which country foreigners trample on Chinese laws, they will never be tolerated.
Fourth question: From Beiyang to Ningfu, the fuehrer is a strong man in the military circles, when will our country be born with a literati ruling?
At the first political consultative meeting before the founding of New China, Chairman Mao solemnly declared that "Chinese people have stood up!" ”
Since then, China has always adhered to the party's leadership and the people's mastery, the old warlords have long been completely eliminated, China has no longer had the risk of warlords interfering in politics, and the good wishes of the ancestors a hundred years ago were realized as early as 70 years ago.
Question 5: When will our country hold genuine representative elections and when will we hold genuine universal national suffrage?
At that time, the cultural elite of old China, influenced by the vision of the time, only saw that the West was developed and China was backward, and they thought that everything in the West was good, but they did not know that there was another better development path in the world than the Western system - the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
On October 1, 1984, the 35th anniversary of the National Day, Peking University students unfurled a banner of "Hello Xiaoping"
Since the founding of New China, China's total economic output has soared from $12.3 billion in 1949 to $15.73 trillion in 2020, a full 1,278-fold increase.
In contrast, India's comprehensive national strength in the early 1950s was not much different from that of China, or even slightly superior, but it used the so-called "liberal democracy" system in the West. Today, 70 years later, the gap between China and India is like heaven and earth, and India's total economic output is still less than one-fifth of ours, which is a living example that truly shows the superiority and advanced nature of China's road.
In just 70 years, we have completed the 300-year process of Europe and the United States, and whether it is the speed of development or the quality of development, the Chinese model is far better than the illusory "liberal democracy" of the West.
Shenzhen today
So today we can say a word to the ancestors of a hundred years ago: Don't worry, China has already surpassed the West, we have chosen a more advanced and greater development path!
Sixth question: When will our country be able to produce rice from abundance and grain to be self-sufficient, and not worry about hunger?
Turning to the thick Chinese history books, it is not difficult to find that Chinese history is a history of famine and a history of lack of food and clothing.
China has always had a large number of people, so we have been short of food for most of our history.
During the Tang Dynasty, agriculture was greatly developed, so that there were several places where grain rotted in the warehouse, and it was praised by successive feudal dynasties as "The Prosperous Era of the Tang Dynasty", but during the Kangqian period, sweet potatoes were introduced, and some of the ration problems were solved, and they even got the title of "Kangqian Shengshi".
Stills reflecting the 1942 Henan famine film "1942"
Chairman Mao pointed out from a lofty height, and he pointed out to the point long ago:
What is the biggest problem in the world? Eating is the biggest problem!
In the 1960s, Academician Yuan Longping received the support of the party and the state, but within a few years, the "hybrid rice technology" came out of nowhere, and China's grain production increased unprecedentedly.
And today, the third generation of "hybrid rice" has also been successfully cultivated, the average yield of double-cropping rice in the morning and evening has historically exceeded 3,000 catties, and the problem of eating lamented by people of insight a hundred years ago has finally been completely solved, and the Chinese nation has no worries about hunger after that.
Always remember Elder Yuan
Seventh question: When will our country produce its own water pens, lampshades, bicycles, artificial vehicles and other things for the survival needs of the Chinese people?
Before the liberation of China, it was poor and white, and the industrial base was almost zero, and during the Beiyang government, only the extremely low-end spinning industry was able to take advantage of it slightly, as for other industrial categories, let alone talk about it.
Looking at today's China, it has long become the world's largest industrial country, "Made in China" all over the world, according to the statistics of the Central Finance Office, including automobiles, computers, etc., the output of more than 220 major industrial products ranks first in the world.
A hundred years ago, people fantasized that China would one day be able to produce its own bicycles and fountain pens to meet them, what a small demand, and how desolate and sad, today's China's strength and prosperity have far exceeded their greatest imagination and wishes.
Production lines of Chinese automobile enterprises
Question 8: When will our country be able to produce huge quantities of steel, guns, and ships for our border guards?
China's modern history after the Opium War is the most painful period of humiliation that China has experienced, the great powers divided China, the people were hungry, and the old China at that time, Mo said that the national defense industry, even the people's production industry is also a handful.
Today, China's steel and cement output accounts for more than half of the world's total electricity, power generation exceeds a quarter of the world's total power generation, the national defense industry has developed from scratch, the people's army's technical equipment has been reborn, and the comprehensive strength of the four armed forces of land, navy, air and fire is second only to the United States.
I really hope that the people of the country a hundred years ago can travel through time and space to see our powerful motherland today.
J-20
Question 9: When will it be feasible for our country to carry out compulsory primary education, to build 100,000 intermediate schools and to educate millions of senior students?
Since 1986, China's nine-year compulsory education has been implemented for 35 years, the illiteracy in Chinese society has almost disappeared, and every newborn Chinese citizen has the right to receive free education from the beginning of the landing, which is a grand event that the Chinese nation has never had in the past.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Education recently, there are 518,800 schools of various types in China, and the predecessors said that "100,000 intermediate schools", compared with today, He Zu Daoya.
As for "educating millions of senior students", it is enough to say only one data - in 2020, the number of Chinese university graduates reached a new high, reaching 8.74 million.
The second primary school of Haila Township, Weining Autonomous County, Guizhou, has nine-year compulsory education throughout the country
University education is almost a luxury for Chinese a hundred years ago, but today, as long as ordinary candidates work a little harder, the opportunity to enter the university is like a probe, almost no difficulty.
Question 10: When will our country participate in the contest of the world's great powers, expand its influence abroad, trade through trade for profit, lose civilization and make peace with outsiders?
The ideas of the predecessors still have some limitations.
So far, China has always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, not seeking hegemony, not contending for hegemony, not engaging in military expansion, adhering to the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence" in foreign exchanges, developing and making progress together with many friendly countries, and jointly building a "community with a shared future for mankind".
Alaska-U.S.-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue
Hegemonism and zero-sum games like those of the United States are simply unpopular in the world, and China has long become an important force in maintaining world peace and stability.
To lead human civilization forward, it is impossible to blindly rely on hegemony like the United States, and China's advanced system, advanced ideas, and advanced productive forces are precisely the unique Chinese contributions that China has made to the progress and development of human civilization.
In 1929, the Shanghai newspaper "Life Weekly" asked ten questions about China's future, pointing directly to the hearts of the people of the world, when every awakened person of insight was looking for the way of China's future.
Today, countless ironclad facts have proved that only the cpc central committee leads the Chinese people to take this road is the most correct, without the foresight and foresight of the revolutionaries of the older generation and the original intention and mission of the communists today, how can the Chinese nation today once again stand tall among the nations of the world?
The centenary of the founding of the party, the whole world celebrates!
Text/Dream awakening Jinguancheng
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