At the beginning of September, the long-form reportage "Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens - Remembering the People's Hero Zhang Chao" was officially published and released. People's Daily New Media, Learning Power, China News Network, China Writers Network, China Youth Network, Hunan Daily, New Hunan Client, Red Net, Yueyang News Network, Hunan Daily, Changsha Evening News, Yueyang Daily and other central, provincial and municipal mainstream media have publicized and reported, tencent, Sina, Baidu and other more than 20 websites reprinted, has had a wide impact on the country. It has established the heroic image of young soldiers in the new era and enriched the content of party history study and education.
Zhang Chao is a native of Yueyang and an outstanding student who graduated from our seventh middle school. Born in August 1986, enlisted in the army in September 2004, he was a squadron leader and a first-class pilot of a naval carrier-based aviation unit. On April 27, 2016, Zhang Chao was unfortunately killed in the line of duty while performing a land-based flight training mission before boarding the ship, at the age of 29. After Zhang Chao's sacrifice, he was posthumously awarded by the Central Military Commission as a "strong army pioneer chasing dreams and seas and skies", and approved as a heroic model for the whole army. In September 2019, he was awarded the national honorary title of "People's Hero".
On June 29, 2016, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made an important instruction: "We must summarize and publicize the advanced deeds of martyr Zhang Chao. ”
On November 12, 2018, the Organization Department of the Yueyang Municipal Party Committee issued a notice to carry out the activity of learning from Comrade Zhang Chao in the city. Recently, with the consent of the municipal party committee, the Organization Department of the municipal party committee issued a circular to study and carry forward Comrade Zhang Chao's advanced deeds and heroic spirit, and to encourage party members and cadres at all levels and the broad masses of the people in the city to make patriotic contributions, work hard, and strive to be strivers in the new era. The circular emphasizes that to study Comrade Zhang Chao is to learn from his political character of being loyal to the party and committed to serving the country; to learn from his enterprising spirit of being diligent and dedicated and persistent in climbing; to learn from his lofty realm of being willing to dedicate himself and having the courage to take responsibility; to learn from his true qualities of being a brave and fearless soldier who is brave enough to forge ahead; and to learn from his moral sentiments of revering virtue and benevolence and loving life.
In December 2018, the author interviewed Zhang Chao's grandfather (right) and little aunt (left) in Zhang Chao's hometown.
After the circular was issued, many units and party members and cadres reported that there were too few materials available for studying Zhang Chao, and that they only relied on news reports from the news media and lacked specific advanced deeds to learn. Liu Zihua, deputy secretary and vice chairman of the party group of the Yueyang Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, listened in his ears and remembered them in his heart. He thought that as the leader of the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and a member of the Chinese Writers Association, he had the responsibility and obligation to write Zhang Chao and set up a biography for Zhang Chaoshu. From November of that year, he began to interview and create. In May 2019, with the approval of the relevant departments of the Naval Political Work Department, he went deep into a carrier-based aircraft base for interviews, interviewed many leaders and comrades-in-arms before Zhang Chao's death face-to-face, and obtained many precious first-hand information. He also interviewed Zhang Chao's teachers, classmates, neighbors and relatives nearly 100 times, and zhang Chao's father, Zhang Shenghua, more than 30 times.
In early September 2019, Liu Zihua sent the first draft to a carrier-based aircraft base of Zhang Chao's unit before his death for review. After nearly two months of review, on October 30, he received a revised draft of the carrier-based aircraft base. On the manuscript, there are suggestions for the revision of three kinds of handwriting: blue ink pen, ballpoint pen, and pencil, which shows that the officers and men of the base read and examined very carefully and carefully. After Liu Zihua finalized the draft according to the revision opinions, it was sent to hunan education publishing house for editing and publication. The publishing house attaches great importance to it, and in the spirit of being responsible for history and admiring heroes, it has set up a special editorial team. It took 8 months for the troops to review the draft three times, and 7 months for the third review by hunan education publishing house. From interview creation to publication, it took 3 years before and after, which can be described as a book in 3 years.
On September 30, Hunan Education Publishing House held a book donation ceremony at Zhang Chao's alma mater
September 30 is the eighth Revolutionary Martyrs' Day in China. On the morning of the same day, a long-form reportage donation ceremony based on "People's Hero" Zhang Chao was held at the Yueyang No. 7 Middle School, the alma mater of martyr Zhang Chao, and zhang Hongping, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal CPC Committee, Colonel Huang Liangwu, director of the Political Work Office of the Yueyang Military Sub-district, Xu Wei, deputy general manager of the Hunan Education Publishing House, Liu Zihua, the author of the book, and Zhang Shenghua, the father of martyr Zhang Chao, attended the ceremony.
Zhang Shenghua said: "Although Zhang Chao sacrificed, his spirit is still there. I hope that the students will study hard, set up lofty ideals from an early age, work hard to learn cultural knowledge with tenacious perseverance, and become the pillars of the motherland as soon as possible. (Jiang Lai)