Source: People's Daily News
Study red history, question the original intention, strengthen ideals and beliefs; tell the red story well, continue to inherit, and forge ahead into the new era with one heart; create red works, and build the spiritual coordinates of veterans with cultural people.
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Report under the banner of the party: Veteran red heart always to the party
——The Ministry of Veterans Affairs organized a series of activities to record the "veterans always follow the party"
Looking back at history, from the period of the Red Army to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, from the War of Liberation to the period of socialist construction after the founding of New China, and from the reform and opening up to the new era, our party has always attached importance to the work of veterans' affairs. As early as the revolutionary war years, a number of groups of soldiers went to work in the localities and made contributions to the victory of the Chinese revolution. After the founding of New China, a large number of retired servicemen went to work in local areas, making important contributions to strengthening the building of political power and restoring and developing the national economy. In the new historical period, the vast number of retired servicemen have taken into account the overall situation and made selfless dedication, becoming the tide of reform and opening up, and achieving impressive results. Today, tens of millions of retired soldiers bear in mind their mission and responsibility, and use actions in different posts to practice the oath of zhengzheng with a red heart to the party.
In order to further carry forward the party's fine tradition of attaching importance to the work of retired soldiers and caring for retired soldiers, and to guide the vast number of retired servicemen to firmly listen to the party and follow the party, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs organized a series of celebration activities for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The activities include the theme of "sending the party's care to the hearts of veterans", the special interview of "the development process of the party's retired soldiers's work", the collection of works "inheriting the red gene and continuing to write the glory of the military service", the knowledge contest of "the party flag flying in the heart", the micro-video collection and broadcast of "once the military travel, writing loyalty all your life" and the theme speech contest of "Let the veterans become respected by the whole society".

The official website of the "Veterans Always Follow the Party" campaign was officially launched
Since the beginning of the year, various activities have been carried out online and offline, veterans' affairs departments at all levels and relevant units have been promoted in tandem, and the vast number of veterans, veterans workers, and the public have actively participated, and the highlights and climaxes of the activities have been repeated. A few days ago, the keynote speech competition, the collection of works, and the selection of micro-videos have been successfully concluded, the special interview program will be broadcast soon, the theme condolences will continue to be carried out in depth, and the knowledge contest will be carried out in a hot way, with nearly 10 million participants.
"Veterans always follow the party" has become an activity brand of the veterans' affairs system to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the party, and the activities excavate the stories of veterans, show exemplary style, lead the style of the times, and achieve outstanding results. One by one, veterans who participated in the war entered the campus, into the community, into the enterprise, to explain the history of the party for the party members and the masses, and the advanced deeds of the retired soldiers to devote themselves to rural revitalization, ecological civilization construction, and grass-roots governance were widely praised and warmly received, encouraging the vast number of retired soldiers and retired military workers to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, not forgetting the original intention, keeping the mission in mind, always maintaining their true colors, and forging ahead in a pioneering spirit.
belief
Learn the history of red and ask the original intention
Strengthen ideals and convictions
Red history illuminates the direction of faith.
The journey is thousands of miles, and the original heart is like a rock. Faith is the soul, the flag, the direction.
Anhui, Fujian, and Shandong have done a solid job in recording the special interview program "Veterans Always Follow the Party and The Development Course of the Party's Work and Development of Retired Soldiers," highlighting the inheritance and promotion, highlighting the main theme line, highlighting the continuous struggle, looking back at history in the activities, summing up experience, looking forward to the future, using the party's course of struggle and great achievements to inspire fighting spirit and clarify the direction, using the party's glorious traditions and fine work style to strengthen faith and gather strength, and using the party's practice and historical experience to enlighten wisdom and strengthen character.
The "Party Flag Flying in the Heart" knowledge contest aims to promote learning through competition, learn history, deepen the study and education of party history in the veterans' affairs system, and promote the comprehensive popularization and deep popularity of party history and laws, regulations, and policies on the work of veterans.
Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, produced the "Party Flag Flying in the Heart" knowledge contest propaganda leaflets and exhibition boards, into the community, into the military enterprises, into the veterans to carry out propaganda and launch.
Since its launch in early March, various localities have organized knowledge competitions in innovative planning, and the vast number of veterans have actively participated. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Veterans' Affairs held the ceremony of awarding the "50 Years of Glory in the Party" commemorative medal and the Party History Knowledge Contest to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party to promote the study and understanding of the Party's innovative theories. The Shanghai Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Military Recruitment Office selected some outstanding retired college students and soldiers from colleges and universities to form a propaganda group and went to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Maritime University and other colleges and universities to give lectures. The Department of Veterans Affairs of Shandong Province organized cadres and workers of veterans departments to take the lead in participating, posting propaganda posters in public places such as grass-roots comprehensive service halls, double-support store enterprises, and banks, and launching publicity through new media such as websites and public accounts. The Department of Veterans' Affairs of the Tibet Autonomous Region relies on the veterans' service centers (stations) located around veterans in various localities to extensively organize online quiz activities to effectively improve the effectiveness of the activities. In addition, Sichuan Bank, Jiangsu Changsheng Group, Huarisheng Group and other companies will organically combine the competition activities with the training of retired soldiers and employees, and the competition topic has become a compulsory material for the study and education of enterprise party history, and the coverage and influence of the activities have been continuously expanded.
The knowledge contest is a systematic study and affectionate review of the history of the Party. From the course of the party's century-old struggle, the contestants deeply understood the spiritual strength of the COMMUNIST PARTY of China to bravely shoulder the heavy historical responsibility, not forget the mission of the original heart, and strive for national rejuvenation, national prosperity and strength, and people's happiness.
Inheritance
Tell the red story well and continue the inheritance
Forge ahead into a new era with one heart
Red story, condensing the power of faith.
An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, a hot soil and a soul. Countless revolutionary martyrs forged New China with their blood and lives. Make good use of red resources, tell well the history of the party, revolutionary stories, stories of base areas, and the stories of heroes and martyrs, pass on the red gene from generation to generation, and ensure that the red country and mountains will never change color.
Qiao Shunxiang, a demobilized military cadre in Gongyi City, Henan Province, went to the local primary school to carry out red story preaching
"Once the military travels, write loyalty all your life" micro-video collection and broadcast is an innovative measure to tell the red story. The micro-video works reproduce the beautiful style of veterans in different regions, different identities and different occupations. Among them are heroic predecessors who have experienced the baptism of war, soldiers and secretaries on the road to rural revitalization, scientific and technological workers who bravely climb the peak, and outstanding entrepreneurs who have worked hard to start a business... Yesterday in the barracks they were a fresh force preparing for war, and today in the new battlefield where there is no smoke of gunfire, they bravely stand at the head of the tide and forge ahead on a new journey.
The Department of Veterans Affairs of Hainan Province organized a theme party day activity in conjunction with the micro-video collection activity
In the process of micro-video filming, Guangdong walked into the mountains, conducted in-depth interviews, and completed the shooting of "The Yao Family in the Mountains". Liaoning took the micro-video collection and broadcast activities as an opportunity to actively carry out the activity of "rushing to build a hero's score", deeply excavated and used the valuable political wealth of old cadres and old party members, and compiled and printed the stories they had experienced into a book, leaving valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.
During the filming process, the staff found that an old photo, a military water bottle, a field letter, a medal medal... These simple old objects of the veterans are actually the testimony of the years when the revolutionary predecessors struggled for the party and the country and the people. The stories shared by these heroic veterans, although they are personal "personal memories", together they become a "heroic history" that connects history and reality.
After the micro-video about the heroic deeds of Sun Jingkun, a recipient of the "July 1st Medal", a "model of the times", and a 97-year-old veteran soldier of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was broadcast in local media, many people watched it with tears in their eyes. A middle school student wrote in his after-effects: This star and that star are not as good as the "hero star" around us, and I want to learn from the old predecessors!
In the keynote speech contest of "Let veterans become people respected by the whole society", all localities used the competition as the carrier to expand the innovative publicity and education model, excavated a number of red stories, had a far-reaching impact on the whole society, aroused widespread concern and participation, and thickened the emotional strength of "let the veterans become people respected by the whole society", so that the spirit of veterans became a regional culture and the brand of the times.
Various localities have conscientiously organized preliminary rounds for speech contests
Around us, there are many such veterans, who do not fade when they retire, and their hearts are always toward the party. Whether they are in the barracks or returning to society, they have not changed their original intentions, their true colors are the same, and they have always practiced the duties and missions of a veteran.
Zhai Wanchen, a contestant from Beijing, gave a speech entitled "Faith". Time flew by, and fifty years passed under the bright red party flag, and as a veteran of literature and art, he played the role of many communists on the military stage. In the roles he plays, every performance he performs purifies the soul and tempers the faith. He said: Faith is the confidence and courage of the soldiers of the Red Army to firmly believe in the victory of the revolution when the enemy is strong and we are weak and the enemy is surrounded by many enemies, and it is the resoluteness and determination of the revolutionary martyrs who are willing to throw their heads and sprinkle their blood when they face the enemy and hold up their butcher knives high.
"Let veterans become respected by the whole society" keynote speech competition final scene
Henan player Chen Hao, who has been fighting in the public security fire brigade for 10 years, has participated in urgent, difficult, dangerous and heavy tasks such as emergency rescue and disaster relief for many times, and he has narrated the thrilling life and death tests of him and his comrades-in-arms in the fire and water again and again, and interpreted the faith pursuit of contemporary young people in a military uniform.
Wang Lei, a Shandong player, told the story of a retired soldier with the title of "Remembering the Spirit of the Red Boat" and Inheriting the True Colors of Soldiers. The veteran joined the army at the age of 14, fought hundreds of battles, was wounded ten times, underwent 47 surgeries and was in a coma for 93 days. After miraculously surviving, the hero returned to his hometown, saw more than 100 families scattered on 6 barren mountains, and resolutely took on the heavy responsibility of the secretary of the village branch. For 25 years, he dragged a 17-kilogram prosthesis and led the villagers to turn the poor mountain village into an advanced village and embarked on the road to prosperity. The affectionate narration caused many of the audience to shed tears of reverence. Looking back on the century-old glory of our party, the vast number of retired servicemen need to transform their loyalty to the party, their oath to the people, and their attachment to military uniforms into a powerful force for building socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Dai Yi, a player from Enshi, Hubei Province, is a retired soldier who uses "Business Card" as the title to tell the entrepreneurial road and mental journey of retiring from the army for 5 years. From the army to the locality, from the side vegetable worker to the deputy general manager, the post has changed, the feelings have not changed, the identity has changed, and the spirit will always stay. Those who have dreams go far, those who are inspirational can accomplish things, and those who have intentions can be refined. He said that he hopes to drive more veterans to work and start a business together through his own story, and shine in different positions in all walks of life.
Born into a military family, Guangdong's Wu Di was a military school instructor who later transferred to a local area to become an excellent journalist. She said affectionately that military sentiment is a red gene injected into the blood, no matter in any position, will be the standard and discipline of the military to demand themselves, because the background of the soldier in the heart. Standing on the stage of the speech contest, she is both a speaker and a propaganda organizer, she said, different stages are also party propagandists, this is the direction of the veterans' beliefs, the highland of faith!
Around us, there are many such veteran workers, who serve veterans with sincerity and sincerity, and build bridges through the hearts of veterans.
Chen Qian, a retired military worker in Hebei Province, is a young mother who took her 9-month-old nursing baby to participate in this speech contest and wrote her love for the work of veterans' affairs with her actions. She said that from the preliminary round, the rematch to the national finals, she has gained a lot, and has grown a lot, and heard a lot of touching stories of veterans, which will inspire her to care for veterans more carefully and diligently, serve veterans well, and tell the stories of veterans.
These veterans and veteran workers, although of different ages, identities and occupations, share the same noble pursuits. Together, their stories are a magnificent picture of our party attaching importance to the work of retired soldiers and caring for them. Although veterans have bid farewell to the military, their youth is different because they are connected to the military; veterans are particularly wonderful because they are accompanied by veterans.
culture
Create red works to cultural people
Construct veteran spirit coordinates
Red works, showing faith and persistence.
In the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, red is the main color, a symbol of life, a symbol of beauty and a spiritual totem! This year's red is the most beautiful color.
The collection of works "Inheriting the Red Gene and Continuing to Write the Glory of military service" provides a red display stage for the vast number of veterans. Since March, the contestants have been enthusiastic and enthusiastic. Among them are both meritorious veterans who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, as well as talented rookies who have just retired from the military; there are both local works that have returned to their hometowns to start a business, as well as excellent works that have been passed down online thousands of miles away. From the "battlefield" of gun smoke to the frontline of the fight against the epidemic, from the countryside to the scientific research "Silicon Valley", from the entrepreneurial pacesetter to the volunteer pioneer... Each work shows the red heart, interprets the loyalty to the party, with temperature, records the veteran's red heart to the party, reflecting the sincere feelings of the retired soldiers who love the party, the country and the people.
Tianjin Heping District actively organized veterans to participate in the collection of works
Jiangsu has mobilized veterans and people from all walks of life in the province to actively participate in the collection of poems, articles, photography, paintings, calligraphy and other forms of works, organized, selected and recommended works from the bottom up, layer by layer, and also organized the activity of "100 calligraphers and painters entering the barracks", created works of art for officers and men of the army, and carried out photography and exhibition activities such as "The Yangtze River in a Hundred Years of Change" and "100 Red Memory Photos". Yin Shihua, a retired soldier in Lianyungang, took out a photographic work that has been treasured for nearly ten years and reflected the work scene of Wang Jicai, the hero who guarded the island, and said emotionally: "Wang Jicai has been guarding the island for 32 years, doing a good job in his life, and one person has touched China. Li Wumin, an 88-year-old descendant of the revolutionary martyrs in Suzhou and a retired military cadre, actively participated in the collection of works, and specially went to the martyrs' cemetery to recite his creations and poems left by his father with deep affection under the monument, and through dialogue with his father across time and space, he pinned his memory on the revolutionary ancestors.
Guangdong Province held an exhibition of calligraphy and painting photographic works
Four retired military cadres with an average age of 80 in Changsha, Hunan Province, drove more than 3,500 kilometers at their own expense, and successively walked into the Danjiangkou Reservoir, the water source of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Taocha of the First Canal of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Hongqi Canal in Linzhou, the Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army in Wuxiang Taihang Mountain, and the Dazhai in Xiyang, and other places to collect wind and photograph many exquisite photographic works. Fang Dingyou, an 85-year-old retired military cadre, went to Jinggangshan to feel the original intention of the revolutionary martyrs, focusing on the red footprints with the lens and recalling the spark.
Many localities have also carried out various forms of activities to further expand the social impact of the collection of works. Jiangxi has specially formulated a publicity plan, adopting methods such as setting up posters and opening up special columns for activities in the public column, and at the same time displaying excellent works on the WeChat public account of the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai and other places have effectively promoted the comprehensive development of collection activities in the province's veterans' affairs system by visiting red memorial sites, telling red stories, learning from heroes, organizing exhibitions of works, literary and artistic performances and other colorful activities.
In the process of collecting works, many veterans also attach unforgettable stories on the recommendation form of entries to express their sincere feelings in their hearts. Feeling the power of faith through red works shows the persistent belief that veterans will always follow the party. A retired soldier who participated in the collection of articles said that he felt the taste of faith, loyalty and dedication in his true feelings, and his political belief in "listening to the party and following the party" in his heart was more firm.
Taste the charm of the party from the red works and taste the temperature of the original heart. Through the collection of works, the power of red culture is interpreted, highlighting the veteran's belief and persistence in always following the party. Let veterans become people respected by the whole society, and the spirit of veterans become the red cultural coordinates of the new era.