Yantai in April ushered in the 75th birthday of the People's Navy.
For the second time in the 13 years since the Yantai was listed, it returned to the named place to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy with the people of its hometown.
Because with the same name, a battleship and a city are spiritually blended. In the warm interactions, the atmosphere of the army loving the people and the people supporting the army has become stronger and stronger, injecting new connotation and surging new impetus into the high-quality development of Yantai's double-support work in the new era.
Over the past 75 years, under the strong leadership of the party, the People's Navy has been born in the flames of war, grown in the course of development, and has grown from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, all the way through the waves, crisscrossing thousands of miles of sea borders, bravely entering the open seas and oceans, making great strides to catch up with the development trend of the times, and has made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.
The warship is connected with the city, the navy and Yantai resonate at the same frequency, and the officers and soldiers work hand in hand with the people. As an old revolutionary base area, Yantai is located in the outpost of coastal defense, guarding the gateway of Beijing and Tianjin, through the inheritance and development of the military and the people of successive dynasties, the fine tradition of supporting the army and giving preferential treatment to the family, supporting the government and loving the people, has been deeply integrated into the blood of Yantai and has become the character of the city.
On this special day, we send out our most sincere wishes: Happy Birthday to the People's Navy!
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The indissoluble love affair between the Navy and Yantai
On the morning of April 23, at the wharf of Yantai Port, the sea breeze was blowing and the crowds were weaving.
Like the Yantai ship dressed in festive costumes, the communication flags are hoisted from the bow to the stern, which is a unique ceremony for the navy to full flag. The officers and men on board the ship assembled, and the spectators from all over the country on the pier looked up and waited for the solemn moment.
"538 ship, the grand flag-raising ceremony starts now!"
At 8 o'clock, the national anthem sounded, and the grand flag-raising ceremony of the Yantai ship to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy officially began. The music was sonorous and impassioned, and the military and civilians sang the national anthem together, watching the five-star red flag rise one after another.
"In the past 75 years, the People's Navy has grown from scratch and from weak to strong, composing a glorious course that can be sung and cried. I am extremely excited and proud to be able to participate in the national flag-raising ceremony of the Yantai warship on the spot, and it is also a profound patriotic education for myself, wishing our navy a happy 75th birthday and wishing our motherland more prosperity. Citizen Mu Hongqing was deeply emotional.
Subsequently, the citizens boarded the Yantai ship one after another to appreciate the style of the warship. Entering the cabin and boarding the deck, they can not only have close contact with the warships with explosive combat effectiveness, but also observe or experience naval activities such as knot demonstrations, flag flash mobs, and navigation equipment displays.
"My brother served on the Yantai ship, and today I watched our five-star red flag rise from the ship with him, and I was extremely proud in my heart. I also boarded the ship to see my brother's daily living environment with my own eyes, learned about his work and daily life, and really felt the difficulties and hardships of the People's Navy, and paid tribute to them. Yin Zijian, who came from Weihai, said.
134 teachers and students from the Zhifu District Military and Civilian Primary School also stepped on the warship, "I want to study hard, and when I grow up, I want to be a naval soldier and serve the motherland." Song Sitong, a student in the third class of the fourth grade, said. This also gave the second-grade students who visited the same ideal goal: "I got a postcard from my uncle in the navy, and I want to collect it and become a navy in the future." Lin Chunxi, a student in the second class of the second grade of Yangzheng Primary School, said.
Chinese red, navy blue, Yantai is filled with a festive atmosphere, groups of citizens boarded the Yantai ship to visit, through close contact with the ship, face-to-face communication with officers and soldiers, feel the people's navy to the sea map of the majestic power.
Yu Boren, 85 years old this year, served in the North Sea Fleet more than 60 years ago. "In 1959, I served as a soldier in Weihai and served as the leader of the radar squad. I am a naval soldier and have been a soldier for seven years, and this is a glorious memory of my life!" said Yu Boren, an old man, "I am particularly happy to see a warship with a neat appearance and modern equipment today." Navy Day is here, and here, I salute the People's Navy!"
At night, the lights are on, the coastal square, the fisherman'......s wharf, the cultural square, the pearl of the Yellow Sea and other landmark buildings are full of light, light and shadow change, with the theme of "forging ahead with a trillion yuan of new journey, building a dream of a strong country and a strong army", the city light show with the theme of "striving for a trillion yuan of new journey, building a strong country and a strong army" bright lights up the city, paying tribute to the heroic people's navy.
Yantai, a city famous for its sea, has a deep relationship with the People's Navy.
Jingou Village, Zhifu District, in spring, overlooking the blue sea in the east and the majestic mountains in the south, is the former site of the Yantai Naval Academy. Yantai Naval Academy is a modern naval school founded by the Qing government, which occupies an important position in the history of modern naval education in China because it has cultivated many well-known naval figures and patriotic generals.
The wind and clouds disappear into history, and the times rumble forward. At the foot of Yantai Dongshan Mountain, not far from the former site of the Yantai Naval Academy, the loud slogans and neat ranks of the Naval Aviation University are the best scenery for the students of the People's Navy to inherit the glorious traditions of the martyrs.
Bearing in mind –
The red gene is timeless
Why does a warship meet a city so much attention? Yantai has been rated as a national model city of double support nine times, what is the core?
These two questions need to be answered from history, and they need to be solved from the red gene of the city.
Walking into Wangmen Village, Chengguo Town, Laizhou City, there is an ordinary farmhouse courtyard, and there is an ordinary well in the courtyard, which is dark from the well. But more than 80 years ago, there were vertical and horizontal tunnels under this well, which was connected to a medical area for treating the wounded, and these underground hospitals at the feet of the enemy opened up the passage between life and death.
It is a special field hospital, and its wards are hidden underground in more than 30 villages. Under the meticulous care of medical personnel and the selfless protection of the people, the Xihai Underground Hospital has healed nearly 2,000 wounded and sick people to return to the anti-Japanese battlefield in more than two years of existence, which has become a great innovation in the history of the magnificent Anti-Japanese War in Jiaodong, and embodies the innovative spirit of the military and people in Jiaodong according to local conditions, the tenacious and unyielding will to fight and the deep affection of unity and unity.
The "Monument to the Departure Point of the Eighth Route Army's Advance to the Northeast and Crossing the Sea" in Penglai District, facing the sea and standing majestically, tells the magnificent epic of the military and the people working together to cross the sea and go north to win the Northeast.
In August 1945, the Anti-Japanese War was won, and the Eighth Route Army was ordered to advance into the northeast. The party and government in Yantai mobilized the masses to raise food and supplies for ships. From the end of August to the end of December. In a state of secrecy, tens of thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army crossed the sea to the north, and the military and civilians of Yantai made a historic contribution to accomplishing the major strategic task of transporting troops by sea.
These must not be forgotten -
Under the leadership of the party, the military and civilians in Jiaodong created the most stable area of the anti-Japanese base area, and the battle of the Thunder Temple fired the first shot of the Jiaodong War of Resistance, and the mine warfare created a legend in the history of the people's war. The Jiaodonghai Underground Hospital is a miracle of battlefield medicine. The ten warriors of Ma Shishan all died heroically in order to cover the masses to break through, and were selected into the list of the five major heroes of the Anti-Japanese War of the Ministry of Civil Affairs together with the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain".
These must not be forgotten -
The military and people in Jiaodong under the leadership of the party forged a strong backing for the Chinese People's Liberation War, and successfully completed the strategic plan of the party Central Committee to cross the sea to the north and transport troops to the northeast. Not afraid of the persecution of foreign enemies, he prevented the US troops from landing in Yantai. Secretly transported gold to Yan'an, and Jiaodong handed over 430,000 taels of gold. Tang Heen, the former hero of the East China Branch, traveled more than 4,000 kilometers, and the small bamboo poles he carried with him were engraved with the names of the 88 villages and towns he walked through.
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During the revolutionary war, 500,000 sons and daughters of Jiaodong joined the army to serve the country, and 2.8 million people enthusiastically supported the front, and a large number of models such as Tang Heen and Sun Chunxiu emerged to support the army. Yantai has 39,600 registered martyrs, making it the city with the largest number of martyrs in the province, and there are 7 of the 16 districts and counties in the province with more than 3,000 martyrs.
The glorious, singing and crying history of revolution and supporting the army has witnessed the deep affection of the military and the people of Yantai who are heart-to-heart, dependent on each other, and help each other in life and death.
Inheritance –
Mountains and seas go hand in hand, and the military and civilians are concentric
The changes of the times cannot change the heart of supporting the army and loving the people; the changes of time cannot hide the deep affection of fish and water.
In Yantai, a vibrant red hot land, stories of "the army loves the people, the people support the army, and the army and the people unite as a family" emerge one after another.
Kongtong Island is located on the shore of the Yellow Bay in the north of the Jiaodong Peninsula, about 9.5 kilometers away from the coastline, with an area of only 0.84 square kilometers, and the garrison began in the 50s of the 20th century.
In order to solve the travel problems of officers and soldiers stationed on the island and their military families, Kongtong Island Village in Zhifu District spontaneously printed a "special ticket for the Kongtong Island Garrison," so that officers and men stationed on the island can board the passenger ship on Kongtong Island free of charge at any time of their lives, regardless of the age of the island, and the tradition of supporting the army has continued for more than 60 years.
From the first generation of 15-horsepower hand-cranked sailing boat with about 20 people to the current 600-horsepower sixth-generation military ship with 120 people, 60 years have passed, the helmsman has changed one after another, and the officers and soldiers stationed on the island have also changed batch after batch, but the friendship of the people on the island has not changed: an old ticket can board the passenger ship on Kongtong Island for free at any time.
"You see, on Yangma Island, we live and train here with green mountains and the sea at our backs, and we are in a very happy mood, and we are grateful to the Yantai Municipal Party Committee and Government for giving us the most beautiful sea-view building as a barracks, and such a good bay for us as a military port!" said an officer and soldier of a certain unit stationed in Yanyan happily.
From door-to-door, window-to-window, and drying clothes on a rope, to giving priority to the best resources to the troops, and giving priority to the construction of barracks in the most beautiful bays. Yantai closely follows the needs of the army's reform, development and construction, and has rebuilt 12 pro-army buildings on the golden coastline stretching from Muping Yangma Island in the east to Sanshan Island in Laizhou in the west.
A "double list" of work for the military and the local government to meet each other's needs and do practical things for each other, focusing on the center and strengthening the guarantee, accurately and efficiently solving the problems left over from history, turning the list of problems into a satisfactory list, serving the soldiers to warm the hearts of the army, and helping the officers and soldiers to serve wholeheartedly with heart and affection. Yantai has comprehensively carried out six major activities to support the army, including "warmth, policy, practical matters, culture, science and technology, and finance", innovatively implemented the "double list" of practical things for the military and the civilian government, and solved more than 2,700 problems of urgency, hardship and longing for the troops.
"The troops have needs, and the localities have responded. We insist on collecting and handling the double list of matters of the army at the first time, and if it is difficult and involves a wide range of matters, we will report and study them as soon as possible, and the progress of the matters will be fed back to the troops as soon as possible, so as to ensure that everything is settled and everything has an echo. Tao Keling, director of the Yantai Veterans Affairs Bureau, said.
Yantai innovatively practices the concept of "four good and four priorities" to support the army, and carefully builds the double-support brand of "mountains and seas walk together, the army and the people are concentric", and make every effort to relieve the worries of the soldiers, serve the troops, and add color to the party flag.
Keep the loveliest person in your heart, move the truth, and do practical things. Taking socialized army support as an example, Yantai focuses on improving the service quality of military support stores, and takes the lead in the country to issue and implement the local standards of "Service Specifications for Military Support Stores" and "Classification and Evaluation of Military Support Stores", clarifying 7 categories and 5 orders of magnitude evaluation indicators, establishing a dynamic evaluation and access and exit mechanism, and realizing the institutionalization and precision of social army support. At present, the city has built more than 2,000 high-standard pro-military stores, built 20 pro-military streets, pro-military business districts, and double-support complexes, and implemented free city buses and state-owned scenic spots for veterans across the country, and simultaneously launched 553 socialized preferential treatment projects in 10 categories, providing diversified preferential services for military personnel and military families in catering and accommodation, education and training, employment services, medical care, supermarket shopping, etc., so that the deep affection and warmth of the society flow in the hearts of military families and retired soldiers.
Love my hometown, love my ship, love my people, love our army. The city and the warship will forge ahead towards a common goal: to be strong in the sea and to pursue the deep blue.
YMG all-media reporter Mu Su Qin Fei