Text/Chen Hui
After the founding of New China, countless heroic models were produced, but what people most admired was the founding hero model, because their heroic model medals had records of fire and birth and death, because they were the founders of New China.
The 1950 National Congress of Combat Heroes and the National Congress of Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers' Labor Models were a great gathering of model founding heroes, and the names of the founding heroes and models were forever engraved in the annals of the history of the Chinese nation.
1. There are 350 national combat heroes and models, 57 people who have fought 50 to 100 times, and 9 people who have fought 100 to 250 times or more, and each hero and model has made outstanding achievements.
On July 21, 1950, the Government Council of the Central People's Government made the Decision on Convening the National Conference of Representatives of Combat Heroes and the National Conference of Model Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers. Accordingly, on 27 July, the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army issued the "Instruction on Convening Representatives of National Combat Heroes and Electing Model Workers of the Armed Forces to Attend the National Conference of Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers."
The decision of the Council of State and the instructions of the General Political Department clearly stipulate the criteria and scope for the selection of heroes and models: "The combat heroes selected by the army include the most typical heroes of each branch of the army, such as gunners, special shooters, tankers, demolition men, bombardiers, and heroes who cross the sea and land heroes, and other exemplary figures and representatives of model units, while combat heroes are the mainstay." "The scope of model labor in the armed forces should mainly be selected among military production, public works, agriculture, handicrafts, and medical workers."
Through democratic means, the major military regions and field armies have gradually and carefully elected 350 delegates to all the meetings, including 307 combat heroes and model workers of the People's Liberation Army, and 43 representatives of militia heroes.
◆ Mao Zedong shook hands with the hero of the battle.
The national congress of combat heroes and models is distributed as follows: 54 from the Northwest Military Region and the First Field Army; 59 from the Southwest Military Region and the Second Field Army; 78 from the East China Military Region and the Third Field Army; 76 from the Central and South China Military Region and the Fourth Field Army; 40 from the North China Military Region; 16 from the Northeast Military Region; and 27 from units directly under the Central Military Commission, totaling 350, including 307 heroes and exemplary representatives.
Among the 307 heroes and exemplary representatives of the troops, 57 have fought 50 to 100 times, 9 have fought 100 to 250 times, 78 have made special merits 1 to 9 times, and 36 have made great contributions 3 to 11 times.
Among the 307 founding heroes and models, each has an earth-shattering legend:
Shoot the hero Wei Laiguo. In 1942, Wei Laiguo joined the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army, and he combined the hard-working shooting technique with the spirit of bravery, and grew into a "sharpshooter" with both wisdom and courage. In his lifetime, he experienced countless battles and battles, killing a total of 360 enemies, creating the most heroic results of our army's shooting.
◆ Sharpshooter Wei Laiguo.
In August 1948, Wei Laiguo attended the World Congress of Working Youth held in Warsaw, and the Soviet students gave him a plaster statue of Gorky and said figuratively: "Gorky hits the enemy with a pen, you hit the enemy with a gun, you are all glorious people!" ”
Cavalry hero Tai Xide. In 1945, the Mongolian young man Tai Xide joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Democratic United Army, experienced more than 200 battles, 40 times on horseback into the enemy position, with a saber to kill more than 60 enemies, once single riding on horseback on the battlefield captured more than 100 Kuomintang officers and men, one of which was a major general, who made special merit and won the "Hero Medal". At the National Congress of Combat Heroes, he made a speech on "living on a horse, dying on a horse, seeing the red with a saber, and making meritorious contributions to the people," which aroused great repercussions. Xu Beihong, the "horse painting expert" of that year, went to his residence and painted a portrait of this riding hero.
◆ Cavalry hero Tai Xide.
Tank hero Dong Laifu. Dong Laifu has an impressive and legendary experience:
The first tank vehicle of our army, he was the driver; in the Battle of Jinzhou, he became the first tank hero of our army, and the tank he drove was named "Gongchen"; in the Battle of Pingjin, he drove the tank and made great contributions; at the founding ceremony, he drove the leader of the tank team; and in the 1950 National Congress of Combat Heroes, he was the representative of the tank heroes.
In the "Commemorative Journal of the National Conference of Representatives of Combat Heroes" compiled and printed by the General Political Department of the People's Revolutionary Military Committee of the Central People's Government in 1950, it was written: "Dong Laifu is the pilot of the 'Meritorious Hero' who has the most meritorious service and skill in the tank unit. In the five battles of the Battle of Jinzhou, each time he successfully completed the mission. He has made two major contributions and one small contribution. He is now a deputy platoon leader, 24 years old, from Yantai City, Shandong Province. ”
At the National Conference of Combat Heroes in September 1950, he was awarded the title of "Tank Fighting Hero" by the Central Military Commission, and as a representative of the armored troops at the banquet of the conference, he happily toasted chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao's kind smile was deeply imprinted in his mind.
Spelling hero Liu Sihu. The First Field Army once carried out the "Study Liu Sihu" campaign, and he was a "special hero" who had repeatedly created miracles and was the deputy company commander of a certain regiment. Liu Sihu created the miracle of stabbing 10 people with a bayonet in one battle, and he had many bayonet wounds and bullet wounds left by the enemy: 5 bayonet wounds on the head and face; one stab in the neck, throat, abdomen, and left armpit; three stabs in his left hand, one of which pierced the muscle between the thumb and index finger. In addition, a bullet shot through the left eye and the bridge of the nose came out from behind the ear, blinding the left eye; bullet wounds in the right face and right eye; and the right leg was pierced by two bullets with 4 holes. The accumulated scars are the heroes' testimony on the battlefield, and the knife wounds and gunshot wounds are the feats of the warriors who are not afraid of strong enemies.
One-armed blast hero Chai Gakuhisa. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, our army lacked artillery and heavy weapons for siege. In 1938, Chai Xuejiu joined the Eighth Route Army as an engineer, and later grew into an engineer battalion commander of the Second Field Army, he trained 1870 engineers, personally blew up countless enemy bunkers, fortifications, and city defenses, and unfortunately lost his right arm.
Chai Xuejiu also successively researched and invented more than 10 kinds of engineer weapons and equipment, such as explosive cannons, slogan shells, curved gun barrels, light bridges and pontoon bridges, and played a huge role in the war.
Chai Xuejiu was wounded 7 times in battle, made 27 meritorious contributions, won the "People's Meritorious Service" medal twice, received three commendations, and finally won the title of "One-Armed Demolition Hero".
Nine dead hero Liu Kuiji. When the Third Field Army mentions the "Young Hero Battalion Commander", people will naturally think of Liu Kuiji, and when they see his accumulated scars, they will think of his feat of nine deaths.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Kuiji was wounded in battle 18 days after joining the army, leaving his right arm crippled, and his superiors had to demobilize him. A few months later, he returned to the army with 5 militiamen and asked to join the army again, and Liu Kuiji got his wish.
But when he returned from the soup, he was on fire. In a battle shortly after returning to the team, Liu Kuiji was wounded in the head by a shell again, and was treated in the hospital for his wounds before recovering, and returned to the battlefield again. During the battle, he was wounded again under his right eye, and the organization once again arranged for his demobilization. A few days after leaving the army, Liu Kuiji returned to the army, saying: "I want revolution, I can't leave the army, as long as I am alive, I will fight the enemy to the end!" ”
Liu Kuiji was wounded 9 times from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War of Liberation, with 16 scars from head to toe, and once each of the first class merit and the second class merit, and won the title of "First Class Hero of East China".
"Ascending Hero" Yang Liandi. In 1949, Yang Liandi joined the railway corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1951, and is the heroic representative of the railway soldiers of our army.
In August 1949, his superiors ordered Yang Liandi's brigade to repair Bridge No. 8 within three months. Yang Liandi invented the "Ladder of Heaven", took the lead in climbing the bridge, and created the bridge repair method of "taking turns to blast and level the pier roof", completed the task 20 days in advance, and won the title of "Hero of Ascension". In September 1950, he was honored to attend the National Congress of Combat Heroes.
◆ Commander-in-Chief Zhu De was with the representatives of the heroic models of the conference.
After attending the National Congress of Combat Heroes, Yang Liandi went out to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as the deputy company commander of the 1st Company of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the 1st Railway Division of the Volunteer Army. On May 15, 1952, while commanding a company to repair the Cheongcheon River Bridge, he was unfortunately killed by a time bomb shrapnel dropped by an enemy plane and killed in the head. The leading organs of the Volunteer Army posthumously awarded him the title of "Hero of the First Class of the Chinese Volunteer Army". The Government of the Dpr Korea conferred on him the title of "Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", the Gold Star Medal, the National Flag Medal of the First Class, and the Hero's Certificate. The company in which he worked was named "Yang Liandi Company".
Scouting heroes qi into the tiger. Among the reconnaissance heroes of our army, he has made the most meritorious contributions: 10 times; the most exemplary: 5 times; and he has also won the People's Hero Medal of the First Class in East China.
In the Battle of crossing the river in 1949, Qi Jinhu led 5 scouts to smuggle into the heishazhou in the center of the river to reconnoiter the terrain and enemy situation, and when they grasped the enemy's situation, they were trapped on the island by the enemy and could not send the intelligence back, after several days of maneuvering with the enemy, they finally returned to the Jiangbei troop station by rowing a wooden basin and completed the reconnaissance task excellently. After the battle of the river crossing began, our army easily captured the black sandbar.
Love soldier model Lu Shunbao. Lü Shunbao, deputy instructor of the artillery battalion of a certain division, was a well-known model of love soldiers in the whole army, and he hated the enemy to the bone, he was like a loving mother to the soldiers, and he was like a filial piety to the people. Lü Shunbao has successively won 1 meritorious service and 3 great meritorious deeds, and has been praised as "the banner of loving soldiers and loving the people".
The highest-ranking national combat hero is named Zhao Xingyuan, who joined the Eighth Route Army in 1939 and served as the deputy commander of a regiment. Zhao Xingyuan has been wounded 9 times, 6 times for battle merit, 2 times for peacetime work, and has also been elected as a combat hero, a model youth captain, a model political work cadre, and an "all-round hero".
The oldest national combat hero is Jiang Weiping, who was 73 years old when he attended the National Congress of Combat Heroes and served as the vice president of the First Branch of Peace Hospital. In February 1938, when he joined the 359 brigade of the Eighth Route Army, he was 60 years old, in Nanniwan, he was appointed by the brigade commander Wang Zhen as the farm chief, more than 400 acres of land, in addition to self-sufficiency, handed over 4800 stones of grain, twice won the 359 brigade labor hero, once won the title of "Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Labor Hero" and "Model Worker", was commended by Chairman Mao. In the battles of Qingfengdian and Shijiazhuang, he served as the leader of the hospital, leading everyone to receive more than 1,200 wounded, saving lives and helping the wounded, with remarkable achievements.
Li Guoying, the battle hero who captured the most enemies. Li Guoying, commander of a certain battalion of the North China Military Region, went through more than 70 large and small battles, was wounded 8 times, and personally captured 1 cannon, 4 heavy machine guns, 4 light machine guns, and 40 rifles, and even more miraculously, he personally captured more than 100 enemy soldiers. Li Guoying was awarded the title of "First Class Combat Hero" once and twice.
The names of heroes are countless, and the feats of heroes are too numerous to count. The national heroic models of combat selected in 1950 are all outstanding in merit and admirable, they are the kaleidoscope of the national elite, through which they can show the iron backbone of the communists, the invincibility of the people's army, and the indomitable indomitability of the Chinese nation.
2. There are 10 heroines and models, including 2 militia heroines, including Guo Junqing, a hero of the "Mulan" style, Tu Xun, an instructor who participated in 17 battles, and Sun Yumin, who killed 17 enemies.
There are 10 founding heroines and models, of which Guo Junqing, Tu Xun, Jiang Jie, Cai Liyun, Jiang Rongguang, Li Landing, Huang Ruiying, and Huang Defang are heroines and models in the army; Sun Yumin and Liu Hucheng are militia heroines.
Guo Junqing enjoys the reputation of "modern Mulan", reflecting the feature film "Youth in the Fire of War" that reflects women's dress as men, which is based on Guo Junqing.
"Special hero" Guo Junqing was born in a poor peasant family in Lingyuan County, Liaoning Province, and his father was forced to die by the landlord when he was 13 years old. In order to avenge his father, in August 1945, 14-year-old Guo Junqing dressed as a man and falsely reported that he had joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the age of 2. He joined the Communist Party of China in September 1946.
In January 1948, the 16-year-old Guo Junqing was transferred to 3 consecutive classes and served as the 4th class leader. In June, the attack on Hirazumi Prefecture was her first time in battle, and the 4th squad was a assault squad tasked with capturing the commanding heights of Erdaoshanliang. After the battle began, she and the deputy squad leader and the combat team leader each led a group to attack from the foot of the mountain.
◆ Guo Junqing, who is full of military merit badges.
Guo Junqing rushed to the front with a red flag, and the enemy bombarded them with fierce artillery fire, and the deputy squad leader was unfortunately shot and killed. She ran over and carried the deputy squad leader's gun and more than 100 rounds of bullets on her back, shouting: "Comrades, the deputy squad leader has sacrificed for the poor, we want to avenge him!" Taking the lead and rushing up, the whole squad of fighters rushed up together under her leadership and occupied the commanding heights of the Erdao Mountain Beam.
The enemy counterattacked, Guo Junqing led 4 squads of fighters to desperately hold the position, and finally the enemy rushed to the front of the position, she took up her bayonet and rushed to the enemy, and finally led the whole class to drive the counterattacking enemy down the second mountain beam. After the war, Guo Junqing made small contributions, and the 4th class won the award flag of the "Combat Model Class".
Since then, Guo Junqing has participated in many battles, and each time he has shown great bravery and made rapid progress. When the troops moved south in 1948, she was already the deputy instructor of the company. In April 1950, she was transferred to a division as a deputy political instructor, and in May she fell ill, a women's disease that had fallen behind in a long war environment. During the examination at the hospital, her "daughter body" was eventually exposed.
Since then, "Modern Mulan" Guo Junqing has enjoyed a reputation in the whole army and the whole country. During the National Congress of Combat Heroes, the famous writer Ding Ling visited Guo Junqing and praised the "modern Mulan".
Tu Xun held the highest position among heroines, served as an instructor in a combat company, participated in the most battles, and was born and died on the battlefield 17 times.
Tu Xun was a student at Kunming Kunhua Girls' High School, and in 1949, the Kuomintang 26th Army slaughtered more than 200 young students on the south bank of the Panjiang River in Huaning County, which aroused Tu Xun's great indignation and made her realize the reactionary nature of the Kuomintang. In March 1949, Tu Xun joined the Qianbian Column of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as a waiter. But she resolutely proposed to the leader: "Want guns, be a combatant, and fight the enemy!" The leader said to her: "You are a lesbian, not suitable for the battlefield, working in the rear, just as contributing to the revolution!" ”
"When the enemy slaughters the people, there is never a distinction between men and women, and there should be no distinction between men and women when killing the enemy!" At Tu Xun's strong request, the leader finally agreed to let her become a soldier in the combat company. Attacking the town of Fourth Street was her first time in combat, and she signed up for the Commando. After the battle began, she and the commandos charged bravely, climbed the trunks of trees, climbed the wall, and rushed into the town office, defeating more than 40 enemies and capturing more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Later, Tu Xun also performed prominently in the battles of Quxi, Jianjiu, and Longwu, not afraid of death, daring to fight hard, and bravely killing the enemy.
When attending the National Heroes Congress in 1950, Tu Xun was introduced in the hero profile of the congress as: "A 21-year-old female instructor who participated in 17 battles." "She was honoured to be on the list of the Bureau of the General Assembly.
Li Landing, the medical captain of a hospital of the Third Field Army, was the oldest of the heroines, and joined the New Fourth Army in the winter of 1941, when she was only 17 years old. From the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War of Liberation, Li Landing never left the front line, always followed the troops forward, went to the Tang Dynasty countless times to rescue the wounded, saved the lives of countless officers and soldiers, was repeatedly rated as a model worker and meritorious hero, won the People's Hero Medal of the First Class in East China, attended the International Democratic Women's Congress in 1948, and the name "Li Landing" became synonymous with Chinese women in battle.
In addition to the female combat hero representatives, female models have also achieved remarkable results and made outstanding contributions.
Jiang Jie, director of a certain department of health, model worker. In 1946, in the Battle of Northern Jiangsu, he did not sleep all night, changed the medicine for 260 wounded, and was awarded the second class merit 2 times and the third class merit 2 times, and was rated as a first-class model.
Jiang Rongguang, a medical assistant, model worker. In 1947, he was responsible for covering and treating 50 wounded and sick in Jiaodong, and insisted on more than 1 month in a village, successfully completing the task. Rong has been awarded the second class merit 2 times and the third class merit 3 times.
Huang Ruiying, a nurse squad leader, model worker. Since 1942, he has rescued and nursed countless wounded and sick people, and has been awarded 3 major merits, 2 small feats, and 2 times as a model nurse of the first class.
Huang Defang, director of a certain hospital, model worker. He has made meritorious contributions once and has been elected as a model worker once.
Cai Liyun, the leader of a hospital detachment, is a model worker. Minor feats in combat 4 times.
Female militia hero Liu Hucheng, although she is a working woman, she has the same name as a man, and her military achievements have surpassed many male heroes, and in the Jiangyan area of northern Jiangsu, the common people affectionately call her "our Commander Liu". During the National Congress of Combat Heroes, Czech journalists interviewed Liu Hucheng and were touched by her heroic deeds.
◆ Venue of the National Model Labor Congress of Combat Heroes.
Sun Yumin, a female militiaman, was a prominent hero of the War, participated in more than a hundred battles, planted dozens of mines, killed 17 enemies, and was elected as a delegate to the East China Women's Congress and a delegate to the National Women's Congress.
The 10 national combat heroines and female models represent thousands of working women and female soldiers in the army who are striving for national liberation, and they constitute a beautiful landscape at the national congress of combat heroes.
3. 43 militia heroes, participated in the battle 1444 times, won 26 award flags, 20 award certificates, and 33 people won the title of combat hero, each hero is meritorious and worthy of the name.
In the creation of a new China, the militia played an important role. At the 1950 National Congress of Combat Heroes, the Party, the State and the Army did not forget the vast number of militiamen who sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths for the sake of national liberation, and 43 militiamen were elected national combat heroes.
"Guerrilla hero" Hao Qingshan. Hao Qingshan joined the militia in 1942 and joined the party in 1943 as a militia company commander. Relying on guerrilla warfare, he went deep into the tiger's den and beat the Japanese puppet army to death, and the Japanese army once offered a reward of 200,000 yuan to arrest him. In 1944, he was elected "Combat Hero" of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region; in 1945, he was elected "Hero of Labor and Arms" of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region; in 1946, he attended the Congress of Heroes of Labor and Arms of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region; and in 1950 he was elected "Hero of National Militia Fighting".
Hao Qingshan used landmines and blasting techniques to kill the enemy in large quantities. He mastered superb blasting technology and mine-laying technology, blowing up 8 enemy locomotives, blowing up more than 20 bridges guarded by the enemy, and blowing up railways more than 50 times.
◆ Militia hero Hao Qingshan.
From the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War of Liberation, Hao Qingshan killed and wounded more than 60 Japanese and Kuomintang troops, captured 45 traitors and spies alive, killed 13 traitors and spies, and captured 26 guns of various kinds. When attending the National Congress of Combat Heroes, he served as the secretary of the village party branch.
"Almighty Hero" Li Dianbing. Li Dianbing was selected by the Jin-Cha-Ji Liberated Area as a hero of the "best of three worlds": a hero of battle, a hero of labor, and a model worker, and his heroic deeds were compiled into songs for singing. In 1938, Li Dianbing joined the Communist Party of China and formed a militia organization in the village, he led the militia to eliminate 30 Japanese Kou in battle, and attended the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Heroes Conference with honor, and was elected as a combat hero. After 1944, Li Dianbing led the villagers to work hard to open up the wilderness for production, intensive cultivation, promoted the prosperity of the whole village, supported the War of Resistance, and was rated as a labor hero and model worker by the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region.
"Bandit hero" Zhao Chengjin. In 1942, Zhao Chengjin joined the militia organization, joined the party in 1943, and served as the director of the HuachangYucun Farmers' Association in the first district of Qinglong County, Rehe Province. During the Liberation War, landlord armed forces and bandits were rampant in the local area, and Zhao Chengjin, who was already the secretary of the village party branch, not only seized weapons from the bandits with his bare hands and eliminated many bandits, but also led the whole village militia to fight the bandits and disintegrate the bandits, and quickly eliminated the local bandits and eradicated the bandits. In February 1950, at the Rehe Provincial Celebration Conference, Zhao Chengjin was selected as a "First Class Bandit Model".
"Mine Hero" Zhao Shoufu. From 1942 to 1947, Zhao Shoufu participated in more than 200 battles, and he used mines and blasting to kill countless enemies; he invented and created more than 30 kinds of mines, trained more than 1,200 militia demolitionists, brought out 82 demolition kings and demolition models, and his Zhao Xuan village was selected as a "model village for blasting"; he was elected "militia combat hero" of Jiaodong Military Region three times.
The most senior militia hero folds the many heroes. When he joined the Communist Party of China in 1928 and fought against the enemy for 22 years, he appeared at the National Congress of Combat Heroes with a white towel wrapped around his head, and the delegates to the conference looked at this simple old hero with admiration.
A native of Origami Ping Village, Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, origami Do-hsiung came from a poor peasant background and joined the Communist Party at the age of 22. During the Period of the Red Army, he established Party organizations and militia forces in his village and persisted in armed struggle; During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as a platoon leader of the Militia Self-Defense Army, organized the militia to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army in combat, annihilating and capturing dozens of enemy personnel; During the Liberation War, he organized a guerrilla group of more than 20 people, served as the leader of the group, and carried out guerrilla warfare, annihilating more than 60 enemy and capturing more than 100 enemy personnel.
"Grain Preservation Hero" Yang Mingkun. In 1940, Yang Mingkun joined the militia organization of Deng Zhuang in Sui County, Henan Province, and after he cooperated with the New Fourth Army to eliminate Li Yufang, the leader of the puppet army who committed the most heinous crimes, and 9 other people, he became famous.
After several years of training in 1943, Yang Mingkun had become a local anti-Japanese leader, taking the lead in resisting the grain delivered to the Japanese and Leading the militia to protect the grain of the masses and deal with the devils. Under his call and protection, none of Deng Zhuang handed over a grain to the devil.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang army came again to grab grain. Once, 250,000 kilograms of public grain of our army were stored in Deng Zhuang, and the Kuomintang army came to grab grain after hearing the news. At the moment of crisis, Yang Mingkun led the militia to hide the public grain in the cellar, so that the enemy had nothing.
Many times of grain resistance, grain protection success, so that Yang Mingkun famous, the people called him "grain protection hero"!
The 43 national militia combat heroes, each with a breathtaking legend of life and death, it is difficult to tell one by one here, the above 6 militia heroes are their outstanding representatives, but also the leader of tens of millions of militia in the country, the deeds of the heroes tell the world a truth: "Tu Ba Lu" also boarded the battlefield of the "Hall of Great Elegance", but also can fight evil battles, hard battles, clever battles, but also can make the Japanese and The Kuomintang army afraid to fight.
4. Mao Zedong's congratulatory speech, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De's speech, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai's inscriptions, national congratulatory telegrams, and People's Daily editorials, paying tribute to the fighting heroes the country's highest honors.
The National Congress of Combat Heroes held on September 25, 1950, was the largest, most grand and highest standard heroic congress in New China.
The leaders of the Republic congratulated the Assembly on their inscription:
Mao Zedong's inscription: "Combat heroes, you are exemplary figures of the People's Liberation Army, I hope you will continue to work hard, make more progress, and strive to build a strong national defense force." ”
◆ Mao Zedong's inscription for the national combat hero and model.
Zhu De's inscription: "Carry forward revolutionary heroism." ”
Liu Shaoqi's inscription: "Be modest and cautious, guard against arrogance and impatience." ”
Zhou Enlai's inscription: "Strive to build a strong people's army, people's air force, and people's navy!" ”
Mao Zedong also read out a congratulatory speech from the CPC Central Committee: "The CPC Central Committee extends warm congratulations to your meeting and expresses its gratitude and respect for your work.
"In the struggle to destroy the enemy and in the struggle to restore and develop industrial and agricultural production, you have overcome many hardships and hardships and shown great courage, wisdom and enthusiasm. You are the exemplary figures of the whole Chinese nation, the backbone of promoting the victorious advancement of the people's cause in all fields, the reliable pillar of the people's government and the bridge between the people's government and the broad masses.
"The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China calls on all Party members and the people of the whole country to learn from you, and at the same time calls on you, dear comrades of all deputies and all the comrades of the country who are heroes and model workers, to continue to learn from the battle and from the broad masses of the people. Only by never being proud and complacent and continuing to study tirelessly can we continue to make outstanding contributions to the great People's Republic of China and thus continue to maintain your glorious title! ”
At the meeting, leading figures spoke one after another; Vice Premier Chen Yun delivered an opening speech; Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Vice Chairman Liu Shaoqi, Premier Zhou Enlai, and Acting Chief of general staff Nie Rongzhen spoke successively; Xiao Hua, deputy director of the General Political Department, made a summary of the meeting; and Luo Ronghuan, director of the General Political Department, delivered a closing speech.
People's Daily published an editorial titled "Long Live the People's Heroes!" 》。 In the editorial, it was pointed out: "The National Conference of Representatives of Combat Heroes and the National Conference of Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers and Model Workers opened in Beijing at the same time today. It was the first nationwide rally of people's heroes. This is the glory of the 5 million People's Liberation Army! It is the glory of the working people of China! It is the glory of the People's Republic of China and Chairman Mao Zedong! We warmly celebrate the opening of the two conferences and pay high tribute to all the heroic models! ”
All provinces, cities, parties, and mass organizations across the country sent congratulatory messages, congratulatory messages, congratulatory letters, congratulatory banners, and congratulatory messages to the National Congress of Heroes of Combat, and the congress received a total of 110 congratulatory telegrams and 3,072 congratulatory letters.
During the congress, the representatives of the national combat heroes sent a "telegram of tribute to Chairman Mao Zhu", and issued a "letter to the army and the working people of the whole country", and also issued a "telegram of condolences to the families of revolutionary martyrs and honorable soldiers", expressing their condolences and lofty respect for the families of martyrs and honorable soldiers!
In his summary report to the congress, Xiao Hua, deputy director of the General Political Department, introduced the reasons for the emergence of heroic models: "The cause of communism and the cause of the people's liberation are themselves great heroic causes. The people's army under the leadership of the Communist Party is itself a heroic army. ”
The First National Congress of Combat Heroes of New China also had some regrets: First, most of the heroic deputies elected were heroes who emerged during the liberation war, while there were no heroic representatives of the servicemen in active service during the period of the Great Revolution and the Red Army, and there were very few heroic representatives during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; second, some famous heroes in the history of our party and our army were not elected, such as Dong Cunrui, Liu Hulan, and the Five Heroes of Wolf-Tooth Mountain. Third, there are very few heroes in high-level positions, and the highest position is the deputy regimental post. The fourth is the elected hero representative, the hero without sacrifice. Luo Ronghuan, director of the General Political Department, expressed this regret in his closing speech: "Our congress does not and cannot fully include the representative figures of the combat heroes of the people's liberation war and their heroic deeds in various periods, especially the lack of relatively detailed records of the martyrs who made heroic sacrifices. ”
Later, it turned out that our party and the army had correctly evaluated and praised the heroes of various revolutionary periods, Dong Cunrui was selected as a statue of the heroic model of the whole army, the Liu Hulan Memorial Hall was completed in her hometown, and the five heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain attended primary school language textbooks.
Time flies, and the fingers flicker. Seventy-one years have passed since the National Heroes' Congress in 1950, and many of the founding heroes have been in the past, but their heroic deeds and dedication have forever inspired the latecomers of the Chinese nation and created new heroic achievements for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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