Editor's Note
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The Chinese nation is a nation that advocates heroes, achieves heroes, and heroes are born, and it also needs heroic feelings in peacetime. "Shenyang is a city full of heroes, with a magnificent heroic history and a unique heroic spiritual genealogy. In order to dig deep into the heroic history of the city, tell the heroic story of the city, carry forward the heroic spirit of the city, let advocating heroes, respecting heroes, and striving to be heroes become the value consensus and cultural consciousness of the people of the city, and further cohesively promote revitalization and development, this newspaper has set up a column of "carrying forward the heroic spirit and inheriting the red gene" since today, and has successively launched a series of theoretical articles.
A city with a heroic soul
——Analyzing Shenyang's "Heroic Bloodline" with Three Spiritual Genealogies as the Main Line
Fu Guiming
The people of Shenyang bid farewell to the young people who rushed to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
The people of Shenyang are heroic people, and they have written heroic history with their blood and lives, making Shenyang a heroic city.
Shenyang's history in the past hundred years has been full of ups and downs and magnificent waves, and many events have occurred that can affect the direction of history, becoming an important node city in China's modern and contemporary history. In Shenyang, the first shot of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was fired, and the trial of the last batch of Japanese war criminals ended the war; in Shenyang's Xiushui River, a war of annihilation opened the prelude to the liberation of northeast China and ended the curtain of the Liaoshen Campaign in Shenyang City; in Shenyang, almost all factories and enterprises launched a patriotic labor competition to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, asking for people to come out, materials, and money; in Shenyang, I don't know how many factory and mine workers either left their homes or dragged their families and mouths, and left their hometowns to support the country's third-line construction without hesitation In the reform and opening up, the people of Shenyang have experienced pain, but with countless attempts to dare to be the first and forge ahead, they have opened up a road of reform and development for the country...
Shenyang, the city that continues to create history, has never lacked the spiritual genealogy of heroes, the spirit of Lei Feng, the spirit of Luoyang, the spirit of reform and opening up, the spirit of entrepreneurship, the spirit of fighting against the epidemic, the spirit of poverty alleviation, the spirit of the Long March, etc., and even the spirit of the Silk Road, which seems to have nothing to do with Shenyang, is actually not far away, because Shenyang is also a node city of the Grassland Silk Road. However, in the spirit of these heroes and the heroic history they have created, there are three spiritual lineages that are more flesh-and-blood connection with Shenyang: the spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and the spirit of model workers. They have both independent attributes and mutual influence and inheritance, almost connecting the heroic history of Shenyang for nearly a hundred years, and achieving different degrees of "confluence" in this special historical period in the 1950s.
Part I
Shenyang has the "first group of image symbols" of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Fourteen years of protesting against the country have come back to life, and fourteen years of Zhengrong Shenyang dust has settled.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "After the September 18 Incident, the Chinese people rose up to resist in the white mountains and black waters, which became the starting point of the Chinese people's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and at the same time opened the prelude to the world anti-fascist war. "From the perspective of China's 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Shenyang has a saturation and integrity that nowhere else.
From the beginning of the struggle on September 18, 1931, to the restoration of Shenyang on September 6, 1945, to the trial of the last batch of Japanese war criminals in 1956, Shenyang is the epitome of the anti-fascist war of the people of the world. Especially for the six years before the Chinese War of Resistance, the Northeast War of Resistance represented by Shenyang was the "main unit" of china's War of Resistance. Countless heroes have come here, leaving behind the figure of bloody battles; there are also countless heroes who have left here and become a key force influencing history. Since the early residence of the Manchurian Provincial Party Committee was Shenyang, as an important leader of the party group, the core activity site was also in Shenyang. Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Zhao Yiman and other later heroes of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League left their footprints in Shenyang for their first line of battles in the northeast region. Fengtian First Prison once held Ren Guozhen, Chen Weiren, Wu Lishi, Liu Shaoqi, Meng Jian, Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Rao Shushi, Lin Zhongdan and other famous Chinese communists.
Shenyang, the starting point of the Chinese War of Resistance, was composed of the "first group of symbols" of the Chinese War of Resistance.
Symbol 1
Some patriotic officers and men of the Northeast Army, represented by Wang Tiehan
The first shot of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was fired
On the night of "918", during the breakthrough battle of the Peking University Camp, Wang Tiehan, commander of the 620th Regiment of the Northeast Army, led the officers and men to disobey the "no resistance" military order and fired the first shot of China's 14-year War of Resistance. Since then, there has been no shortage of patriotic soldiers in the ranks of many volunteers to save the country, such as Geng Jizhou: who was once the battalion commander of Tang Yulin of the Northeast Army, resigned in anger due to dissatisfaction with the "no resistance" policy, and sneaked back to Xinmin to carry the banner of the Fourth Route Army of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army.
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The patriotic police of Shenyang represented by Huang Xiansheng
The first shot of China's local security forces in the War of Resistance was fired
On the night of "918", Huang Xiansheng, police commissioner of Liaoning Province and director of the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, led more than 2,000 people from the Shenyang County Public Security Bureau, the Sanjing Road Police Station, the Shangbu Public Security Third Branch, the South Market Police Brigade and the Public Security Detachment to fight in the streets of Japan. After Huang Xiansheng and others withdrew from Jinzhou, Zhang Fengqi, director of the Shenyang County Public Security Bureau and head of the public security brigade, sneaked back to Shenyang and summoned his subordinates to assassinate Honzhuang Fan, commander of the Kwantung Army, in early May 1932. Later, discovered by the Japanese and puppet authorities, Zhang Fengqi and his subordinates Yang Chunyuan, Geng Guanghan, Cheng Yunqiao, Chen Fan, and Hong Dezhang (known as the "Anti-Japanese Six Heroes") were arrested and killed one after another.
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The First Declaration of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
From Shenyang
On September 19, 1931, the day after the September 18 Incident, the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Declaration of the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Armed Occupation of Manchuria by Japanese Imperialism" (hereinafter referred to as the "919 Declaration"), calling on the Chinese people to rise up against Japanese imperialist aggression. The volunteer army in Shenyang was the first to be influenced by the Chinese Communist Party and directly or indirectly accepted the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
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Shenyang was the first popular anti-Japanese volunteer army in China
Birthplace
On September 27, 1931, the 9th day after the September 18 Incident, Gao Pengzhen, the leader of the Green Forest, raised the banner of "Zhenbei Army" (renamed "Northeast National Salvation Army" on October 10 of the same year) in Shaling Gangzi, Yaobao Township, Xinmin, Shenyang. After that, Shenyang's volunteer army soon spread to the suburbs and counties, and its composition covered almost all strata of society at that time: peasants, craftsmen, squires, landlords and militia armed groups, members of the former Northeast Army and police force, green forest armed forces, intellectuals, etc. Under the direct leadership of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the CPC at that time, Li Zhaolin, Song Li, Zhao Yiman, Liu Lanbo, and others all organized the War of Resistance in Shenyang, which also laid a solid foundation for the armed struggle of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army under the leadership of the COMMUNIST Party of China in the future.
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Shenyang's "Nine Gentlemen" promoted the era of modern weak state diplomacy
The first diplomatic victory
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, the Nationalist government at that time pinned its hopes on international mediation. On April 21, 1932, a League of Nations investigation team headed by the British Lytton came to Shenyang to investigate the truth of the September 18 Incident. University professors Liu Zhongming, Bi Tianmin, Yu Guangyuan, Zhang Charlie, Li Baoshi, banker Gong Tianmin (an early member of the Communist Party of China), Shao Xinpu, social activist Zhang Yunling, and medical scientist Liu Zhongyi formed a "patriotic group" (later known as the "Nine Gentlemen of Shenyang"), risked their lives to compile "TRUTH" (Chinese "Truth"), and submitted this compilation of evidence of the Japanese invasion of China written in English to the League of Nations Investigation Mission through international friends. This set of evidence debunked the fallacy of the Japanese army invading China one by one, and was included as an important basis in the "Report of the League of Nations Investigation Mission". In February 1933, the General Assembly of the League of Nations deliberated the Report of the League of Nations Investigation Mission, ruling that the September 18 Incident was an act of aggression by Japan and that the puppet state of Manchukuo was a puppet regime concocted by Japan, and promoted the international community's first characterization of the September 18 Incident and the puppet state of Manchukuo.
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The northeast exile resistance forces were forged
The most extensive awakening force in China's War of Resistance
After the September 18 Incident, Yan Baohang, Gao Chongmin, Wang Huayi, Wang Zhuoran, Lu Guangji, Du Chongyuan, and other patriots in exile in Guanxi organized the establishment of the "Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress" in Beiping to organize and support the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. The exiled young students in northeast China and the exiled writers from northeast China sang "On the Songhua River" and "Sacrifice is at the Last Moment", which made a pioneering practice for China's War of Resistance, awakened the people's hearts, and went to the country to suffer hardships together. The humiliating experience strengthened their determination and action in the War of Resistance, like an iron current, sowing the anti-Japanese fire throughout the country, stimulating the enthusiasm of the whole nation to resist Japan and save the dead, casting a mobile "Shanhaiguan", and becoming the most extensive awakening force of the whole nation's War of Resistance.
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These "first symbols" deserve our cherishing. Each "first symbol" represents a group of heroes of the Shenyang War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, is a big article, and is a historical topic that needs to be studied. They blended and complemented each other, constituting the "first group of symbols" of Shenyang's Chinese War of Resistance, and also laid the foundation for Shenyang's position as the starting point of China's War of Resistance. In the six years before China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, an anti-Japanese national united front was initially formed with Shenyang as the center, which gave birth to the great spirit of the War of Resistance. During this period, the people of Shenyang have fully demonstrated the patriotic feelings of rising and falling in the world and having the responsibility of the people, the national integrity of treating death as a homecoming and preferring to die unyieldingly, the heroic spirit of not fearing violence and fighting to the end in blood, and the belief in victory that will be indomitable and persevering.
On March 13, 1932, the Volunteer Army attacked Shenyang City, entering the city from the XiaodongMen and withdrawing from the Great North Gate. The picture shows the people of Shenyang welcoming the volunteer army
Part II
The spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea engraved the urban fabric of Shenyang
People who have experienced war understand the preciousness of peace even more.
The traumatized people of Shenyang have experienced and understood this the most. Whether during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, whether it is a resister who has become a liberator or a enslaved person who has become the master of the state, in fact, the main body of participation is basically a generation, and they have all suffered the bitterness of the old society and tasted the sweetness of the new society. They all became masters of the city of Shenyang.
In addition to the liberators led by the Communist Party of China and the resisters who have been staying in the homeland, we find that those volunteers and young students who were exiled to resist the war have returned, becoming leaders and managers of the city, becoming responsible persons of factories and mines, engineering and technical personnel, becoming doctors and educators, and becoming the backbone of all walks of life. There is also the vast number of Shenyang working class who have turned themselves into masters. They have experienced the baptism of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and cherished this vigorous new society and new China more than anyone else. Faced with the crisis that the new society and new life are trampled on or even lost, they resolutely and resolutely choose to unite as one, go to the country together, and overcome the difficulties of the times. Therefore, in order to support the liberation of all of China and to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the people of Shenyang used the "power of the flood" to help. Especially during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the people of Shenyang showed more prominent and urgent performance, and even the "industrial bones" and "city souls" of Shenyang were initially laid.
Take a peek and see the whole leopard. Both the spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea place patriotism at the core. The spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is "the patriotic feeling of the rise and fall of the whole world and the responsibility of the people," and the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is "the patriotic spirit of always carrying forward the interests of the motherland and the people above all else and fighting for the dignity of the motherland and the nation." The spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are inherited.
For Shenyang, the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has special practical significance. Since 1950, Shenyang has been marked with the "brand of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", and this brand has become deeper and deeper. To this day, this war of founding has profoundly affected Shenyang, shaped Shenyang, and constantly engraved the fabric of the city. The great spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of Shenyang and transformed into an indestructible and tremendous force.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea created a "unique" Shenyang
During this war, Shenyang was the "rear of the front line" and the "front line of the rear", and was the most important hub of logistics support. The Shenyang Municipal Party Committee and the Shenyang Municipal Government led the people of the whole city to take immediate action, actively resumed production, raised the strength of the whole city to support the front line, and put forward the slogan of "one more drop of sweat in the rear, one drop less blood in the front". The vast number of railway workers, car drivers, medical workers, and a large number of peasants have formed transport teams, medical teams, and stretcher teams to volunteer to go to the Korean front to take up various kinds of combat work. According to statistics, nearly 40,000 wagons full of personnel and materials were grouped in Shenyang and transferred to the DPRK; more than 7,400 enthusiastic young people joined the army, and more than 3,000 technicians repaired bridges and transported materials against the indiscriminate bombardment of enemy planes; tens of thousands of people in the city participated in blood transfusion teams; and the price of aircraft cannons donated by the people of the whole city could buy 58 fighter planes.
For example, in November 1950, the Shenyang Bridge Factory organized a team of 15 people to go to Dingzhou, North Korea, to complete the emergency repair, removal of locomotives and trucks, and open tunnels; on March 21, 1951, the Shenqiao Factory organized a team of 126 people, mainly frame workers and rivet workers, to participate in the railway repair work in the DPRK. Shenqiao Factory lost a total of 13 people on the Korean battlefield.
"Factories are battlefields, machines are weapons."
The people of Shenyang realized the new development of industry during the war and formed a relatively complete industrial system. At that time, the city's 20 industrial systems and 254 subordinate factories and enterprises (including 52 private enterprises) completed the production increase and economy plan and the military supply task in emergency situations. During the "First Five-Year Plan" period, Shenyang's industrial construction has also made great achievements. The city has formed 4 complete industrial zones, completed nearly 1500 construction projects, including more than 50 key projects, formed a national heavy industry base with machine tools, electrical and electrical manufacturing industry and aviation industry as the core, and won the reputation of "the eldest son of the republic industry". At that time, Shenyang was praised by Soviet experts as "one of the eight major cities in China, a unique large industrial city in China".
Shenyang is a holy place for carrying forward the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
A cemetery to keep the souls loyal.
This cemetery is the Shenyang Martyrs' Cemetery for Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea, which was built during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (April 1951) with the funds of the Northeast People's Government and the Political Department of the Northeast Military Region, and was completed in August of the same year. On December 10, 1951, the Northeast Military Region officially transferred the cemetery to the Shenyang Civil Affairs Bureau. Most of the remains of martyrs buried in the cemetery were transported from the Korean battlefield from May 1951 to the end of 1955. Before 2014, 123 heroic martyrs of the volunteer army were buried in the cemetery, including five martyrs, Yang Gensi, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Sun Zhanyuan, and Yang Liandi, as well as other long-standing combat heroes, such as Ni Xiangming, who was a first-class combat hero, who and Yang Gensi were both prototypes of Wang Cheng in the movie "Heroes and Children"; Qi Jinhu, a first-class people's hero, the prototype of the scout who made great contributions to mubon crossing the river in the movie "Reconnaissance of Crossing the River"; Sun Shenglu, a "first-class combat hero", shot down 6 enemy planes during the war in The DPRK. Wounded 1 enemy plane; Meng Yan, who flew over Tiananmen Square at the founding ceremony; Zhao Jixiang, the company commander of the "Eighth Steel Company" during the Liberation War; Zhang Xuezhi had the title of "Hero of Fighting Thorns"; Che Yuanlu was called "Iron Warrior"; Mao Xingbiao was a first-class people's hero, and so on. There are also volunteer army cadres at or above the regimental level, and they are also heroes who experienced hundreds of battles during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The city has such a cemetery, which is the pride of the people of Shenyang; guarding such a loyal soul around it is the glory of the people of Shenyang. According to incomplete statistics, over the past 70 years, the Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang has received more than 10 million visitors. Whenever there is a Qingming Dynasty, it is customary for all units, schools, and enterprises to organize party members and cadres, workers, and students to worship the martyrs in the cemetery.
A public sacrifice for the state.
When the smoke of the three thousand miles of the Yalu River had not yet dissipated, the people of Shenyang welcomed the martyrs home in the most solemn and solemn way. At 20:20 on February 24, 1953, the remains of the three martyrs of the Chinese Volunteer Army, Huang Jiguang, Sun Zhanyuan and Qiu Shaoyun, arrived in Shenyang.
The people of Shenyang have also formed an indissoluble relationship with the martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The coffins of the three martyrs were parked in the empty field between Erwei Road and Sanwei Road in heping District (now Bayi Park), and a large mat shed was set up on the west side of the field to store the coffins of the martyrs. The Shenyang Municipal People's Government set up a funeral committee to hold a grand, solemn and solemn public sacrifice. From March 3 to 5, 1953, the festival lasted two and a half days, and a total of 145 units and more than 27,000 people participated in the festival. Jiao Ruoyu, the responsible comrades of the party, government, and army of the Northeast Military Region and Shenyang City, personally carried the funeral procession, which snaked for a kilometer and carried hundreds of wreaths. The coffin starts from the Spirit Hall and passes through Heping Avenue, Wuwei Road, Shifu Road, Shifu Square, Huigong Square... Until the Martyrs' Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of citizens braved the cold wind to stand on both sides of the street to greet and see the heroic souls of the martyrs. The funeral procession walked for more than an hour to reach the Martyrs' Cemetery. The graves of the three martyrs were arranged in the first row on the east side of the cemetery, and the three martyrs from east to west were: Huang Jiguang, Sun Zhanyuan, and Qiu Shaoyun. Jiao Ruoyu unveiled the tombstone of the three martyrs. In a sense, this public sacrifice conference is Shenyang's public sacrifice to the three martyrs on behalf of the country. The object of public sacrifice is not only the three martyrs, but also thousands of volunteer martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for the country.
From March 28, 2014 to September 2021, the cemetery welcomed the remains of 825 volunteer martyrs in Korea. The burial ceremony for the return of the remains of each martyr is very solemn, with the reading of the sacrifice text, accompanied by the "Song of Remembrance", and escorted by the ceremonial soldiers to the coffin of the martyr. This is also a public festival held in the name of the state. There is also a wall of martyrs' names engraved on 174407 the cemetery, which is 3 meters high and more than 130 meters long, and is composed of black sand granite, and there is no shortage of flowers in front of it. The Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang has become an important martyrs' memorial site in the country, and the volunteer army complex has become the background of Shenyang, a heroic city.
Year after year, day after day, the people of Shenyang and the martyrs of the Volunteer Army have carried out intimate exchanges and dialogues. On the Occasion of the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, or the Martyrs' Memorial Day, more and more relatives of the martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea come to Shenyang from all over the country. Shenyang has been regarded by more and more people as a holy place to commemorate the heroic martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and carry forward the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The people of Shenyang demonstrated in protest against the U.S. germ warfare
Part III
The spirit of model workers is the blood flowing through the circulation of Shenyang
Since the liberation of Shenyang in 1948, there is a spirit that has sprouted, formed and become more and more ingrained in Shenyang, which is the spirit of labor model. Shenyang was the first large-scale industrial city taken over by the Chinese Communist Party, and it was also the first region in the country to carry out activities to reward and publicize model workers. From October 5 to 11, 1949, Shenyang held the first workers' congress, which rewarded Zhao Guoyou, Ma Hengchang, Zhu Mantang and other 16 labor models in resuming production, creating new records, and protecting factories. These labor models became the first batch of labor models commended by the local government after the founding of New China, and entered the history of the development of China's labor movement.
If it can be said that in the rapid resumption of production and support for the liberation of the whole country, the spirit of Shenyang's model workers sprouted and grew vigorously, then during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the spirit of model workers completed the basic shaping, and its typical characteristics are a high sense of ownership and responsibility, excellent labor creation, and selfless hard work and dedication. The people of Shenyang, represented by model workers, have always carried forward the patriotic spirit of putting the interests of the motherland and the people above all else and fighting for the dignity of the motherland and the nation, the spirit of revolutionary heroism of being brave and tenacious and forgetting death, the spirit of revolutionary optimism of not fearing hardships and hardships and always maintaining high morale, the spirit of revolutionary loyalty in fulfilling the mission entrusted to them by the motherland and the people and generously dedicating themselves to everything, and the internationalist spirit of fighting for the cause of peace and justice for mankind. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the spirit of model workers and the spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea were basically merged into one.
In January 1951, in order to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and promote the patriotic labor competition, the "Ma Hengchang Group" challenged workers throughout the country. He once responded to workers across the country: "I am a forty-seven-year-old old car worker who grew up in the northeast. I have tasted the bitter taste of the subjugated slaves of the puppet Manchukuo era and suffered the oppression of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, as soon as I heard that the United States was going to arm Japan again, I was very angry, and I was determined to make Ma Hengchang's group better and answer the American aggressors. ”
In this passage of Ma Hengchang's words, it is very representative.
Separately, the spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the spirit of model workers all have their own attributes, but placed in the common context of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the three rivers are like three rivers that have achieved confluence at this point and converged into "a big river with wide waves." For the working class in Shenyang, the patriotic production movement represented by the "patriotic labor competition" is their way of fighting. It is precisely in this extensive patriotic production movement that more and more model workers and advanced producers have sprung up like a tide, such as Zhao Guoyou, the creator of the new record movement, Ma Hengchang, leader of the National Model Labor Group, Ma Deyou, a key soldier on the aviation industry front and an expert in China's first generation of anti-tank rockets, Gao Fangqi, director of the country's first model factory, Tian Guiying, the first female train driver in New China, Xu Liangui, a "technical master" of rock drilling machines, and Wang Fengen, "a banner of national industrial production and construction." Chairman Mao's good worker", Wei Fengying and other national labor models.
In the following historical periods, the spirit of Shenyang's model workers has gradually matured, gradually become systematic, and become thicker, becoming an indispensable part of the city's spirit, and also becoming a supporting force for "Shenyang to take on the responsibility" and "firstborn feelings". In the 1960s, in the face of three years of natural disasters and the severe test of the Withdrawal of Experts from the Soviet Union, Wu Jiazhu, Lin Haifeng, Wu Dayou and other model workers and advanced producers took the lead in initiating inter-factory experience exchanges and mass technical cooperation activities in Shenyang. In the process of supporting the construction of the "third line", good people are good and immediately the third line, Shenyang will be in the industrial strength of the enterprises in the outstanding cadres, technical backbone and advanced equipment have been dispatched out, and some factories, workshops have been moved as a whole. For example, 35 aviation industry enterprises in 16 provinces and cities across the country, mainly the state-owned 112 Factory (now Shenfei of the Aviation Industry) and the state-owned 410 Factory (now Shenyang Liming of AVIC), have adopted three forms: counterpart relocation, counterpart contract construction, and counterpart support, and have successively dispatched 16,795 leading cadres, technicians, and workers, as well as a large number of sophisticated equipment and materials, from the old factory to the remote mountainous areas and plunge themselves into large-scale and vigorous national third-line construction.
Since the reform and opening up, most enterprises in Shenyang have experienced the practice of rebirth and phoenix nirvana, and some reform experiences that dare to be the first and affect the whole country have been born in Shenyang. In 1979, Shenyang Beihang Farmers' Market became the first urban farmers' market in China to resume trading; from 1980, it took the lead in exploring the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements in the country; in 1982, the first Sino-foreign joint venture in Northeast China- Shenmei Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. was founded; in 1983, the largest wholesale market in Northeast China - Wuai Market was established; in 1984, the factory director was responsible for the system, which set a precedent in the country; on August 3, 1986, Shenyang Explosion-proof Equipment Factory declared bankruptcy; in 1987, The first in the country to openly recruit large and medium-sized enterprise operators (factory directors) ... These cases of daring to be the first and forge ahead created by Shenyang, coupled with the hundreds of "national firsts" created by Shenyang since the founding of New China, are all miracles created by the people of Shenyang represented by labor models at all levels and advanced producers.
Since the founding of New China, Shenyang has produced nearly 30,000 model workers at or above the municipal level. The labor models from all walks of life in Shenyang have composed a heroic song that can be sung and wept, vividly interpreted the spirit of creativity, struggle, unity and dream that the people of Shenyang have, silently shouldered the mission of the "eldest son of the republic's industry" that cannot be opened up, fully demonstrated the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and encouraged the people of Shenyang to carry forward the past, overcome difficulties, and forge ahead courageously.
The spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression - the spirit of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea - the spirit of model workers, the three heroic spiritual lineages with the belief of the state as the faith, have been deeply rooted in the urban body of Shenyang and the hearts of the people of Shenyang. They embody the monuments of countless heroes of Shenyang City, and condense the collective memory, emotional resonance and spiritual support of Shenyang, a heroic city, and inject a "heroic soul" into Shenyang, a heroic city.
Today, Shenyang is fully revitalized in an all-round way, and such a "heroic soul" is needed even more.
(Source: Shenyang Release)