Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Dedication, self-confidence, self-improvement: Chinese youth in the new era are high-spirited
Xinhua News Agency reporter
The sky was slightly bright, and the cold was not gone, so the "post-90s" Tuo Jilong and more than 10 young volunteers carried rice, flour, oil and other condolences to the car and set off from Yinchuan, Ningxia to Guyuan.
From early morning to night, in one day, they crossed more than 1,000 kilometers with stars and moons. In his view, participating in volunteer service is a "way to let more people feel the warmth of society".
In mid-April, the Ningxia Shimmer Volunteer Service Corps, where Tu Jilong belonged, visited 12 families of children in distress in Yuanzhou District and Jingyuan County, Guyuan City, Ningxia.
"When I was a child, I didn't understand the words "volunteer" and "public welfare", but I felt very warm. The 29-year-old has more than 10 years of volunteer service experience.
By the end of 2023, the Shimmer Volunteer Service Corps has recruited more than 89,000 volunteers, more than 95% of whom are young people. They have held more than 16,000 volunteer service activities and more than 1 million hours of volunteer service.
On April 26, 2024, Liu Yan (first from right), a volunteer from Henan Museum, gave a lecture to university volunteers. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Jianan
In China, the spirit of volunteerism of dedication, fraternity, mutual assistance and progress has become a vivid embodiment of the people's faith, the country's strength, and the nation's hope.
"Young people are an important force in China's modernization. By sending warmth to others and contributing to society, the volunteer team mainly composed of young people embodies the vitality and responsibility of love, promotes the development of economy and society at the same time, and shows a high-spirited and vigorous outlook. Ding Yuanzhu, a professor at the National School of Administration, said.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 105th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. Soon after the May Fourth Movement, the "Juvenile China Society" initiated by Li Dazhao, Wang Guangqi and others was officially established in Beijing on July 1, 1919, with the hope of creating a "vigorous and vigorous China like a teenager."
More than 100 years later, the new Chinese youth in the new era and new journey have shown a new style of dedication, responsibility, self-confidence and self-improvement.
According to the white paper "Chinese Youth in the New Era", by the end of 2021, there were more than 90 million registered volunteers between the ages of 14 and 35 in the national volunteer service information system.
"Volunteering to serve the society is itself a way for Chinese youth to assume social responsibility. Professor Han Qiang, dean of the School of Marxism at Beijing University of Foreign Chinese, said that this sense of social responsibility is the main consciousness of caring about the society and having the courage to take responsibility.
On March 17, 2024, on Dongzhou Island, Yanfeng District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, volunteers from the School of Civil Engineering of the University of South China test the water quality of the Xiangjiang River. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Cao Zhengping)
Scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, green development, social services, and border defense...... In the new era and new journey, Chinese young people have been the vanguard and new force in various fields and aspects, showing a self-confident, self-reliant, vigorous and promising spirit.
"Uncle, the water has risen recently, you should pay attention to safety when walking by the river. On the banks of the Maijia River in Baiyun District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, Jiang Zenan, a 27-year-old young man, walked along a nearly three-kilometer river, checking water quality and picking up garbage along the way. When he met people walking on the road, he did not forget to remind two sentences, and handed over the river chief system and other promotional materials in his hand.
In 2021, Jiang Zenan became a volunteer for the protection of rivers and lakes in the "Qingqing River" and a folk river chief in Gui'an, Guiyang, and the Maijia River is his responsibility river. For the past three years, he has not only patrolled the river himself at least once a month, but also led volunteers to the Maijia River to patrol the river and carry out environmental protection promotion.
"Through the volunteer river patrol in the past few years, it can be clearly seen that the overall ecological environment of the Maijia River has gradually improved. In the past, the problems such as sewage overflowing into the river were solved in a timely manner after we reported with the staff of the local 'River Chief's Office'. Jiang Zenan said, "Based on their own posts, integrate personal ideals and beliefs into the development of the country, and let youth bloom where the motherland needs it most." ”
"Creating more opportunities for Chinese youth to contact the front line and the frontier, allowing Chinese youth to undertake more important missions, has contributed to the two-way rush of national glory and youth ideals. Xue Zelin, secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and associate researcher of the Institute of Politics and Public Administration, said.
On the afternoon of April 25, 2024, the departure ceremony of the astronauts of the Shenzhou-18 manned mission was held at the Wentian Pavilion Dream Garden Square of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Three "post-80s" astronauts Ye Guangfu (right), Li Cong (middle), and Li Guangsu at the departure ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang
Yin Haifan, a professor of the "post-80s" generation, has been tackling key problems for many years, leading the team to overcome the world's problems in the core technology of 5G communication, so that 5G signals can be faster and stronger in the mobile environment.
Zhan Chunpei, a "post-90s" girl, patrolled the East China Sea, crossed the South China Sea, and crossed the equator, resolutely defending national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and standing up as the "hard backbone" of a major country in fighting against danger and enforcing the law with a bright sword.
The Shenzhou 18 ship and arrow assembly took off, and the three "post-80s" astronauts rushed to space, and the dreams of Chinese young people have sailed on the journey of chasing dreams and stars and seas.
"Social practice is a broad stage for young people's growth. In promoting reform and development, promoting innovation and creativity, gathering the strength of young people, bravely climbing the peak of the times, and overcoming major tests, the contemporary youth have fully embodied the high-spirited style worthy of the great task of national rejuvenation. Han Qiang believes that the dedication and responsibility of Chinese youth have continuously inspired generations of Chinese to forge ahead for national rejuvenation.
On April 30, 2024, volunteers led children to read in Daping Tongxin Community, Dayou Town, Cengong County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Xu Xue)
In Zhalantun City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sun Donghai, a "post-80s" generation, founded the "Dawn Future" parent-child education growth camp project two years ago. Parents and children are invited to participate in the program to enhance parent-child relationships through parent-child activities, knowledge sharing, and psychological counseling. At present, the "Dawn Future" project has held more than 20 themed activities, with 428 participants.
"The children we have helped are becoming more and more confident, positive and positive. Sun Donghai said that the concept of the project is to influence families, promote the community, and promote the whole society to participate more actively in social practice and volunteer service by educating children.
What impressed Sun Donghai particularly was that in the kite flying activity they held in the suspension bridge park in Zhalantun City last year, a child wrote "I am a strong country" on the kite.
"Compared with a hundred years ago, China today has a new era dream. In the dream of the new era, young people can still be seen charging forward from time to time. Xue Zelin said that "a strong country has me" has always been the strongest voice of the times belonging to Chinese youth. (Reporter Huang Yang, He Xiaotong, Liu Hai, Luo Fei, Zhao Zehui, Liu Lantao)