A hundred years in an instant
Henry Norman Bethune, a member of the Communist Party of Canada and an internationalist fighter (1890–1939)
One day at the end of March 1938, a foreigner with a high nose and blue eyes appeared in front of a cave in the foothills of the Phoenix Mountains in Yan'an, and he was Norman Bethune, a famous Canadian thoracic surgeon. In January of that year, Bethune set off from Vancouver, Canada, crossed the Pacific Ocean by boat, and traveled to Hong Kong, Wuhan and other places, after more than 80 days of trekking, and finally arrived at Yan'an, the holy land of revolution.
In 1938, Bethune was in Yan'an.
TV series "Bethune" Translation: Chairman, this is Mr. Bethune, a famous doctor.
Mao Zedong: I know you, you are the comrade who was appointed by the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of the United States to come to China thousands of miles to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance.
In 1916, Bethune graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in Canada with a bachelor's degree.
The day after arriving in Yan'an, Bethune met mao Zedong, the legendary figure he had read about in the book "Red Star Shines on China". Bethune said that if the treatment is timely, the rescue rate of the seriously injured can reach 75%, which is a surprise to Mao Zedong. Their conversation lasted more than three hours, and Bethune repeatedly and earnestly told Mao that he was going to the front line of the battle.
In September 1938, Nie Rongzhen (center) and Bethune were interviewed by Ye Wenjin, a reporter for the Salvation Daily. (Photo by Sha Fei)
In April 1938, Bethune, dressed in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, crossed the Yellow River in the east and went to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. When Nie Rongzhen, then commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, first saw Bethune, he advised him to rest for a few days before talking about work, but Bethune said: "I don't need to rest, you want to use me as a machine gun." Li Longchi, executive vice president of the Bethune Spiritual Research Association, said that as soon as Bethune worked, he completely entered a state of self-forgetfulness.
In 1939, Bethune operated on the wounded at the Small Temple of Sunjiazhuang in Laiyuan, Hebei Province. (Photo by Sha Fei)
Li Longchi, executive vice president of the Bethune Spirit Research Association: During the battle of the Qihui, for 69 consecutive hours, Bethune did not rest, did 115 surgeries, and the success rate was more than 80%, which is a miracle. How did Bethune persist in not sleeping for three days and three nights? Bethune's attendant He Zixin introduced that when Bethune was particularly tired and difficult to support, he was always shouting, little devil, carry ice water, He Zixin brought him a bucket of cold water, he slammed his head into it, stayed inside for a while, pulled out his head, and continued to go to the operation.
In September 1938, after the opening ceremony of the Songyankou Model Hospital in Wutai, Shanxi, Nie Rongzhen (second from the left), Bethune (middle) and others took a group photo. (Photo by Sha Fei)
The fighting on the front line became increasingly tense, and many of the wounded lost blood seriously, and Bethune boldly tried a simple blood transfusion method with his experience in the anti-fascist battlefield in Spain, setting a precedent for blood transfusion in the field of our army. Yu Xinyuan, a 17-year-old soldier who was seriously wounded in the Battle of Loess Ridge, was about to amputate him, but was stopped by Bethune. Years later, Yu Xinyuan still remembers what Bethune said to him at that time.
Yu Xinyuan: When Bethune came over, he asked me how old I was, and I said I was 17 years old. Bethune told him that after he was such a young child, after he was intercepted, what would he do in the future? After that, he set out to treat me. He was the savior of my life's happiness, so I can never forget bethreave.
He Long is photographed with Dr. Bethune (first from left) and Brown (first from right).
Bethune led a field medical team to multiple battlefields, braving the hail of bullets and bullets, and rescuing thousands of wounded and sick in extremely difficult conditions, while he himself was fatally infected in an emergency operation and died on November 12, 1939.
Bethune worked in the sweltering heat
Hearing this bad news, Mao Zedong was extremely saddened, and personally wrote the famous article "In Memory of Bethune", calling on the Chinese to learn from Comrade Bethune's communist spirit and internationalist spirit, and praising him as a noble man, a pure man, a moral man, a man detached from low-level interests, and a man who was beneficial to the people.
Important
January 6-8, 1949
Mao Zedong presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to discuss the current situation and tasks. The meeting adopted the resolution drafted by Mao Zedong entitled "The Present Situation and the Party's Tasks in 1949." The resolution points out: After the battles of Pingjin, Huaihai, Taiyuan, and Datong, as far as the main military force of the Kuomintang has been annihilated, the Kuomintang regime has been basically overthrown by us. We have defeated the Kuomintang on a national scale with complete certainty. The years 1949 and 1950 will be two years of victory for the Chinese revolution throughout the country. We must carry the revolution through to the end, and not allow it to be abandoned halfway. It is also pointed out that in 1949 it is necessary to convene a political consultative conference of the democratic parties and people's organizations aimed at fulfilling the tasks of the Chinese people's revolution, with the participation of no representatives of the reactionaries, to proclaim the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of China, to form the central government of the republic, and to adopt a common programme. Several large field armies, after completing all the preparations for crossing the river to the south, marched steadily and step by step to the south. The resolutions of this meeting are included in the fifth volume of the Collected Works of Mao Zedong.
January 6, 1979
When meeting with Colombo, president of the European Parliament, Deng Xiaoping pointed out: It seems that there has been no relaxation in the international situation, and it should be said that the factors of war have at least not decreased. Now we need all the forces willing to maintain international peace, security and stability to unite and not to do nothing. We have always wanted to strengthen our cooperation with Europe. We signed a treaty of peace and friendship with Japan and normalized relations with the United States. We have no other aim, which is to strive for a longer peaceful environment.
January 6, 1980
In his speech at the banquet welcoming Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Deng Xiaoping pointed out: Today's world is more tense and more turbulent, especially in the Middle East and the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and southern Africa, which has become a hot spot that has attracted worldwide attention and is full of dangers. On the 7th, when holding talks with Mubarak, he pointed out: The international situation is not tending to ease day by day, but is becoming more and more turbulent day by day, and there is a danger of war. The question we are facing is how to delay the outbreak of war and strive for peace for a relatively long time, which is more beneficial to us in China, for the people of the world, and especially for the third world. As far as China is concerned, the goal we have set is to achieve four modernizations by the end of this century. Achieving this goal is difficult without a peaceful environment. China truly loves peace.
Party history looks back
In 1941
On January 6, the Kuomintang created the Anhui Incident that shocked China and foreign countries. On October 19, 1940, He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, in the name of the chief and deputy chiefs of staff of the Military Commission of the National Government, forcibly ordered the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army south of the Yellow River to withdraw to the north of the Yellow River within a month. While refuting this unreasonable demand, the Communist Party of China, proceeding from safeguarding the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, promised to transfer the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to Jiangbei. On January 4, 1941, more than 9,000 people from the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and a detachment under it set out from Yunling to move north. On the 6th, when the troops marched to the Maolin area of Nanjing County, Anhui Province, they were ambushed by more than 80,000 Kuomintang troops. The New Fourth Army fought for seven days and nights, running out of ammunition and food, except for about 2,000 people who broke through, most of them died heroically. The military commander Ye Ting was detained during negotiations with the Kuomintang troops, deputy commander Xiang Ying and deputy chief of staff Zhou Zikun were unfortunately killed by traitors after the breakthrough, and Yuan Guoping, director of the political department, was sacrificed. This is the southern Anhui incident that shocked China and foreign countries. After the Incident in Southern Anhui, the Kuomintang attempted to block the news and forbid newspapers from publishing articles exposing the truth of the Southern Anhui Incident, and Zhou Enlai indignantly wrote in the Xinhua Daily: Thousands of ancient injustices, a leaf in Jiangnan; the same room Ge, why are you anxious?! " inscription.
In 1947
On January 6, in order to strengthen the organization and leadership of the growing student patriotic movement, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called Dong Biwu and transferred to the Shanghai Working Committee and relevant responsible persons. The telegram pointed out: The anti-US demonstration of the students in Pingjin, Beijing, and Shanghai has achieved very good results and has had a great impact. The foundations of the democratic and patriotic movement are expanding day by day, and they are gradually playing a coordinating role with the victory in the war of self-defense in the Liberated Areas. In our party's work in the Chiang Kai-shek district, we should make every effort to make use of the achievements of this student movement to expand the propaganda and activities of national patriotism. Through student activities and newspaper exposures, it is necessary to penetrate these propaganda into workers, shop assistants, women, the urban poor, industrialists and businessmen, freelancers and even overseas Chinese, and to arouse their response in order to expand the movement.
In 1950
On January 6, the Beijing Municipal Military Control Commission issued a notice announcing the recovery of foreign barracks real estate in Beijing and the requisition of barracks and other buildings. Tianjin, Shanghai and other places have also successively recovered and requisitioned foreign barracks real estate. The right of the imperialist countries to garrison troops in Chinese mainland was completely abolished.
In 2015
On January 6, the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Innovative Development of Cloud Computing and Cultivating New Formats of the Information Industry. On August 31, the State Council issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Development of Big Data.
Historical moments
On January 6, 1941, Ye Ting and Xiang Ying led the New Fourth Army and the troops stationed in southern Anhui to the Piling area east of Maolin, but were stopped by the Kuomintang troops and forced to rise up in self-defense. The picture shows PiLing.
On January 6, 1949, the East China Field Army, with the cooperation of the Central Plains Field Army, launched a general offensive against Du Yuming's group.
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