Long ambition, hard bones, accumulating strength

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily

If the younger generation has ideals and responsibilities, the country will have a future and the nation will have hope. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the meeting celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: "Chinese youth in the new era should take it as their duty to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, enhance their ambition, backbone and confidence to be Chinese, and live up to the times, Shaohua, and the ardent expectations of the party and the people!" Cordial encouragement and affectionate words encourage the Chinese youth in the new era to run the new journey with a posture of long ambition, hard backbone, and confidence, and to establish new merits for the party and the people.

If you don't stand up, nothing can be done in the world. We must strengthen our ideals and convictions and be young people with ambition in the new era. To maintain long-term ambition, we must constantly build a solid foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, stabilize the rudder of the mind, and strengthen our absolute loyalty to the party with firm ideals and convictions. The average age of the deputies of the COMMUNIST Party of China is 28 years old, the average age of the Red Army generals during the Long March is less than 25 years old, the average age of the Chang'e team and the Shenzhou team is 33 years old, and the average age of the Beidou team is 35 years old... Generation after generation of outstanding young people who are full of the ambition to save the country and serve the country have integrated their youth and enthusiasm into the rivers of the motherland and demonstrated their majestic strength. In the new era, Chinese young people should bear in mind the "great power of the country", regard establishing great aspirations, great virtues, becoming great talents, and undertaking great responsibilities as the pursuit of life, strengthen their ambitions in the power of understanding the truth, strengthen their ideals and convictions in the process of studying and practicing understanding, and practice their original mission in striving for achievements.

Man has no bones and is not secure. In the party's century-long struggle, generations of young people have bravely stood at the head of the tide and strived to be pioneers, showing the backbone of Chinese. This kind of bone gas is now embodied in the soldiers of the Red Army who are "hardened by wind and rain, and the wild vegetables are full of hunger and determination"; it is embodied in the iron man Wang Jinxi, who "would rather live for twenty years less and desperately want to win the big oil field"; and it is embodied in the heroic officers and soldiers of the new era of defending the country and defending the border with "rather spilling hot blood and not losing an inch of land." With a strong backbone, we must carry forward the fine traditions, continue the red bloodline, cultivate the heroic spirit of "the more difficult and dangerous the more we move forward," adhere to the high fighting spirit of "daring to teach the sun and the moon for a new day," and adhere to the ethics and integrity of "the rich and the noble cannot be adulterous, the poor cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent." Only by filling the bones and strengthening the spirit can we better shoulder the heavy responsibility of realizing national rejuvenation.

Self-confidence comes from confidence, and confidence comes from hard work. China has completely bid farewell to the history of being slaughtered by others, the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. This confidence stems from the profound foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, from the strong leadership of the party and the arduous struggle of the Chinese people. In the new era, Chinese young people are born in a prosperous era of a strong country and shoulder the heavy responsibility of struggle. Having confidence means facing the future with confidence and being good at taking responsibility. Constantly pursuing the spiritual realm of "I will live up to the people without myself", deeply understanding and grasping the trend of the times and the needs of the country, tenacious struggle, pioneering and enterprising, in order to achieve a career with hard work.

Ambition, backbone, and confidence are interdependent and complement each other. In the new era, only by constantly growing their ambition, hard bones, and accumulating confidence, continuing to struggle, and forging ahead can Chinese youth live up to the times and Live up to Shaohua, and hand over qualified answers with practical actions.

People's Daily ( 2021-08-19 07 edition)