Wang Huo, a 97-year-old veteran party member: This is a prosperous world, as I wish

□ Xiao Shanshan, an all-media reporter of Sichuan Daily

At 8 a.m. on July 1, Wang Huo, a 97-year-old writer and veteran party member, stood in front of the television early in the morning to watch the live broadcast of the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

Life is like fire, with the pen as a gun - this is the glory years of Elder Wang. As a journalist, out of the ideal of "speaking out for the people" and "advocating and shouting for fairness and justice", he wrote a large number of anti-Japanese news reports. He was one of the first journalists to report on the Nanjing Trial and the Nanjing Massacre, when he took the lead in interviewing and reporting on Li Xiuying, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre who was stabbed 37 times by the Japanese army for resisting the invasion.

When Introducing Himself, Elder Wang once said: "After the founding of New China, when I wanted to publish a book, I began to use the pen name 'Wang Huo'. Because Gorky once said, 'Burn the old world with fire and build a new world', I think this 'fire' word is both simple and red, and it can also burn the old world. ”

When General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: "The Communist Party of China and the Chinese people solemnly declare to the world with heroic and tenacious struggle that the Chinese people are not only good at destroying an old world, but also good at building a new world, only socialism can save China, and only socialism can develop China!" Hearing this, Elder Wang was very excited, and he repeated: "New world, new world!" Elder Wang sighed that the old world had been burned down, and this prosperous world was as he wished.