This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
On the eve of the National Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping awarded medals and medals to the winners of national medals and national honorary titles, and called on the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to take the heroic model as an example, forge ahead in unity, forge ahead, and gather the majestic strength to jointly participate in the grand event of strengthening the country.
"Patriotism is the deepest and most enduring emotion in the world."
Across time and space, the truth is unswerving.
During his work in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping attached great importance to cultivating the national spirit with patriotism as the core. He paid homage to the red boat, visited the old area, deployed the "position project", and made a report on the situation and policy to college students, so that patriotism could take root in the depths of the soul of every Zhejiang person, and it will continue to grow into a force to praise New China and forge ahead on a new journey.
In the early morning of October 1, a grand flag-raising ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhonghao
(1) "A great cause needs a great spirit"
On the occasion of the golden autumn of the National Day, all parts of Zhejiang are dressed in costumes, some people hang the national flag at home to "confess" to the motherland, some people walk into the martyrs' cemetery to remember the revolutionary ancestors, and some people "check in" the countryside and scenic spots to feel the weather of the new era......
Jiaxing South Lake, the crowd of tourists. From October 1 to 4, the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall alone attracted about 60,000 visitors. After participating in the flag-raising ceremony and visiting the theme exhibition of "Celebrating the Glory of the World", citizen Cheng Yang said excitedly: "I didn't expect so many Jiaxing people to be on the founding ceremony, as a son and daughter of Jiahe, I feel very proud!" ”
More than 100 years ago, a big party was born on the Yiye Red Ship, which led the cross-century voyage of the giant ship China. Carrying forward the "Red Boat Spirit" and arousing patriotic feelings is also a major event that General Secretary Xi Jinping is concerned about.
On October 22, 2002, not long after taking office in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping went to Jiaxing to pay homage to the red boat.
At that time, the Nanhu Revolution Memorial Hall was small in space and limited in its viewing effect, so the local government planned to expand or build a new museum. "Secretary Xi immediately expressed his support and told us, 'Revolutionary traditional education is very important, and its influence must be continuously expanded'. After that, he also personally circled the architectural style of the new building and participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of the new building. Zhang Dafei, then secretary of the Party branch of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall, recalled.
On the basis of several investigations and in-depth reflections, Comrade Xi Jinping personally wrote an article in which he put forward and explained for the first time the "Red Boat Spirit" - the pioneering spirit of breaking new ground and daring to be the first, the spirit of firm ideals and indomitable struggle, and the dedication spirit of building the party for the public and being loyal to the people.
He wrote that the red ship set sail in Zhejiang, which is the glory of Zhejiang and the spiritual strength to promote the development of Zhejiang.
On October 1, citizens participated in the garden tour in the Nanhu Scenic Area of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency Jin Peng
The red boat splits the waves, and the spirit gathers people's hearts.
On October 31, 2017, after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Nanhu Lake again to learn more about the patriotic education activities carried out around the red boat.
The general secretary said that only by not forgetting the original intention can we comfort history, comfort our ancestors, win the hearts of the people, win the times, and do good work and move forward.
From the "little red boat" to the "majestic giant ship", New China has gone through trials and hardships, and the sons and daughters of China have forged ahead. Remembering history and keeping in mind the original intention is the simple expression of "patriotism".
Lishui, Pingyang, Simingshan and other places in the old revolutionary base areas, Dongtou, the birthplace of the "Haixia Spirit", Dachen Island, an important birthplace of the "Reclamation Spirit", and the places where revolution, construction and reform took place, have all left the footprints of Comrade Xi Jinping.
From the history, culture, and fiery practice, he also personally refined and summed up the "Zhejiang spirit of advancing with the times" and deployed and implemented the "position project" focusing on the construction and use of patriotic education bases, so as to arouse the feelings of cadres and the masses to love the country and the party.
Looking back, it is also for a new departure. In the past 20 years, Lin Lun, who was the secretary of the Party Committee of Zhoushan Ant Island Township, has always cherished a memory-
On June 13, 2005, when the sky was blue and the sea was blue, Comrade Xi Jinping crossed the sea by boat and came to the island.
Aerial view of today's Ant Island. Photo courtesy of the Ant Island Management Committee
Ant Island, with a land area of less than 3 square kilometers, is as small as an ant in the vast East China Sea. However, Ant Island's arduous entrepreneurial spirit is well-known throughout the country. In the 50s of the last century, more than 300 women took only 16 months to build a 1,300-meter-long sea pond, increasing the production area by nearly 500 acres.
On that day, Secretary Xi visited the entrepreneurship memorial room, watched historical documentaries, and had discussions with township and village cadres and women's representatives. He encouraged us that the Ant Island spirit of 'hard work, courage to gnaw bones, and courage to strive for first-class' created by the older generation is not only not outdated, but must continue to be carried forward. One by one, the pictures clearly emerged in Lin Lun's mind.
Now, walking on the island, the sea pond is like a mirror, reflecting the story of continuous entrepreneurship - in the process of fishery transformation, shipbuilding enterprises have been introduced on the island, creating an annual industrial output value of nearly 400 million yuan; Since the beginning of the year, more than 50,000 tourists have visited the island.
A great cause gives birth to a great spirit, and a great spirit promotes a great cause. From inheriting the "Red Boat Spirit", to summarizing the "Zhejiang Spirit of Advancing with the Times", and then to promoting the regional humanistic spirit, in order to unite the feelings of the family and the country and draw the strength to forge ahead, the background color is eternal patriotism.
A blueprint is drawn to the end. In recent years, the "Regulations on the Protection and Inheritance of Red Resources in Zhejiang Province" have been promulgated and implemented, 227 patriotic education bases at the provincial level and above have spread throughout urban and rural areas, and the post-8090 and post-00 new era theory propaganda groups have entered the grassroots frontline...... The spirit of patriotism has been widely promoted and has become a common practice.
Students from Hangzhou Municipal Yuan Primary School walked into the exhibition hall of "Capital Zhejiang People" of Zhejiang Provincial Archives to "touch" history, walk into role models, listen to stories, and stimulate enthusiasm for loving the party, the country and the family. Photo by reporter Dong Xuming
(2) "Grasp the Lesson of Patriotic Education"
"For me, patriotism is very concrete, that is, to do my job well and contribute more to society." During the National Day, Zhu Jinyan, who had just been transferred to the vice president of a bank branch, was still busy researching newly registered enterprises in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, to help them do a good job in granting credit.
After graduating from Zhejiang University, she has been engaged in financial work for more than 10 years. From an ordinary employee to a middle-level manager, what often inspires her is an ideological and political class before the National Day that year.
On September 27, 2006, the small theater of Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University was full of young people.
On the stage, sat Comrade Xi Jinping.
This is the third time since 2003 and 2005 that the secretary of the provincial party committee has made a report on the situation and policy for college students.
"How's Zhejiang?" At the beginning, he threw a question first.
A pair of eyes are either curious or puzzled. Zhu Jinyan was a native of Huzhou and was in her third year of college at the time. This question made her confused, and she was also surprised that she had such a limited understanding of her hometown.
Comrade Xi Jinping said earnestly: "If you study in Zhejiang, many people will start a business and live in Zhejiang in the future, so you must have a certain understanding of the local economy, society, history, humanities and people's living conditions. Especially for a college student, it is necessary to understand and love Zhejiang, and then understand our great motherland and great nation, so as to arouse the spirit of patriotism and national self-confidence. ”
From Hu Qingyutang's "Quit Fraud" plaque, to the filial piety of the Pujiang Zheng family, to the "Wenzhou Street" in Paris, he told one wonderful story after another.
Towards the end, he sent a message to the students to inherit and carry forward the excellent historical and cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, learn the spirit of Zhejiang, understand the spirit of Zhejiang, practice the spirit of Zhejiang, and carry forward the spirit of Zhejiang.
This class has made everyone gain a lot. Over the years, Zhu Jinyan has often dealt with private enterprises in her work, and has a deeper understanding of the "Four Thousand Spirit" of Zhejiang businessmen, and has strengthened her responsibility to serve the development of the private economy.
Teenagers visit the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall in Jiaxing City. Photo by Jin Peng
Young people are the hope for the prosperity of the country, the nation, and the party's cause. To carry forward the spirit of patriotism, we must first guide young people to establish a sense of family and country and cultivate patriotic feelings.
In July 2004, in response to a question from the Study Times, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that patriotism and national spirit are qualities that minors must have.
Under his leadership, in 2004, Zhejiang promulgated the "Implementation Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving the Ideological and Moral Construction of Minors", which regarded the promotion and cultivation of the national spirit as an extremely important task and incorporated it into the entire process of primary and secondary education. In 2005, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee established a system for provincial leaders to contact universities and regularly report on the situation and policies for teachers and students of colleges and universities, which has continued to this day.
"Secretary Xi combined his own experience to teach us a life lesson, encouraging us to establish the concept of the motherland, the people, the party and socialism, and closely link personal development with the future and destiny of the country." Speaking of the moment when he listened to Comrade Xi Jinping's report on "Talking about Life with College Students" in the Provincial Great Hall of the People 19 years ago, Wu Sheng still remembers it vividly.
At that time, this sophomore majoring in clinical medicine was very hard because of his busy studies, and he often thought, "What kind of doctor do you want to be in the future?" ”
This report greatly encouraged him. When he was in college, he participated in many medical services in the countryside. After work, he took the initiative to sign up to participate in medical assistance in Lhasa and other places. At present, as the attending physician of the Department of Neurology of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University, his team has benefited hundreds of Parkinson's disease patients through advanced neuromodulation technology.
"Running ideological and political courses well is one thing that I am very concerned about."
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the ideological and political education of young people, and has asked to do a good job in the lesson of patriotism education, and to plant the seeds of love for China in the depths of every child's heart.
For more than 20 years, Zhejiang has continued to combine "speaking in the classroom" with "speaking in society", using resources such as old revolutionary base areas to continue to carry out activities such as "Red Search" and "Spring Mud Project" to guide young people to continue their spiritual bloodline. During the National Day, many teachers and students of primary and secondary schools walked to memorial halls, exhibition halls, and museums to visit the "Journey to the Avenue - '88 Strategy' Large-scale Theme Exhibition" to understand the national conditions and people's conditions, and to understand the connection between individuals and the motherland. The spirit of patriotism has become a person, and the soul is forged.
Chinese school dragon dance performance appeared on the streets of Milan, Italy Photo by Zhao Jianbin
(3) "Thinking in one place, working hard in one place"
In the past few days, on the occasion of the National Day in Zhejiang, overseas Chinese and Chinese from all over the world have also held various forms of celebrations: dragons and lions leaping in Milan's Chinatown, London's Chinatown is decorated with lights, and Yokohama's Chinatown is full of Yangge and waist drum performances......
Being on the other side of the ocean, looking at the touching "China Red", his love and self-confidence for the motherland, Liu Zhiran, the former vice chairman of the Lishui Federation of Overseas Chinese, was surging in his heart, and it also reminded him of a past event.
It was November 25, 2002, and when he returned from Naples to his hometown of Qingtian, he was told to meet an "old friend".
"Comrade Zhiran, let's meet again!"
It turns out that it is Comrade Xi Jinping! Soon after he became the secretary of the provincial party committee, he made a special trip to Qingtian, the hometown of overseas Chinese, for investigation.
Zhejiang people dare to enter the world. There are more than 2 million overseas Chinese from Zhejiang, covering more than 180 countries and regions around the world. Qingtian County has a population of less than 600,000, but there are more than 380,000 overseas Chinese.
Comrade Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the cohesion of overseas Chinese hearts, overseas Chinese strength, and overseas Chinese wisdom. He stressed on different occasions that where there is sea water, there are Zhejiang people, and where there are crowds, there are Zhejiang businessmen; this is a major advantage of Zhejiang; "I hope that the vast number of returned overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese will continue to carry forward their patriotic traditions, give play to their unique advantages, and make new contributions to promoting Zhejiang's modernization drive, accomplishing the great cause of the motherland's reunification, carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and promoting the cause of friendship between the Chinese people and the people of the world."
At the scene, Comrade Xi Jinping talked about the scene of meeting with Liu Zhiran in Italy six years ago, and carefully inquired about the development of overseas Chinese from Zhejiang in Italy.
"I didn't expect that 6 years have passed, and Secretary Xi still remembers it so clearly, it's really rare!" This meeting was deeply rooted in the memory of Liu Zhiran, which made him realize Comrade Xi Jinping's feelings of caring for and attaching importance to overseas Chinese, and also inspired the mission of repaying care and serving his hometown with practical actions.
Since then, he has actively participated in the charity of his hometown, "five water co-governance" and other work, and "used overseas Chinese as a bridge" to attract projects and talents, and also served as a member of the 8th and 9th CPPCC of Qingtian County, making suggestions and suggestions for the construction of overseas Chinese culture.
The 5th Overseas Chinese Import Commodities Expo opened in Qingtian, Zhejiang. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xiaojie
Today, walking in the streets and alleys of Qingtian, coffee shops, wine centers, and imported commodity cities in the hometown of overseas Chinese...... The abundant overseas Chinese resources have become a unique development advantage, and more than 30 projects have been signed at the 2023 Overseas Chinese Expo alone, with a turnover of more than 3.2 billion yuan in commodity procurement intentions.
No matter how long the shadow of the tree is, the roots are always rooted in the soil.
During his work in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping attached great importance to cohesion and strengthened the unity of the sons and daughters of Zhejiang at home and abroad.
At the beginning of 2005, he personally led a Zhejiang delegation composed of more than 600 people to participate in the "Hong Kong, Macao and · Zhejiang Week" activities, and visited the Hong Kong Jiangsu and Zhejiang Townsmen Association.
Zhejiang to the south, Hong Kong and Macao to the north. Over the past 19 years, the "Hong Kong, Macao, · Zhejiang Week" has continued to drive the three places to go to each other with funds, talents and emotions.
On August 1 this year, President Xi Jinping sent a letter to Hong Kong entrepreneurs whose ancestral home is Ningbo, encouraging them to contribute to China's modernization.
The letter said that you have inherited the fine tradition of your ancestors of loving the country and your hometown, actively innovated and started businesses, donated money to schools, contributed to the construction of your hometown and the development of the country, and interpreted the patriotism and love passed down from generation to generation with practical actions.
Every word, the deep meaning of the affection has aroused strong repercussions in Zhejiang and Hong Kong, making the sons and daughters of Zhejiang feel very excited, and further stimulating the enthusiasm of "working together to rejuvenate the hometown".
"Comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization is the central task of the Party and the country in the new era and new journey. The best action to celebrate the birthday of the Republic is to continuously push forward this great cause that has never been done before. ”
At present, at another important juncture of reform and development, Zhejiang is following the strategic deployment of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, leading the promotion of the "88 Strategy" with a high-standard target system, further deepening the reform in an all-round way, and promoting the Chinese-style modernization of the province.
Carry forward patriotism, strengthen the ambition of the country, all the sons and daughters of Zhejiang think in one place, work hard in one place, and integrate the spirit of patriotism into the practice of entrepreneurship, which will surely be able to overcome the difficulties of reform and solve the problems of development, and help the ship of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation to sail away.
Source: People's Daily Online
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