People's Daily: Live up to the youth of Shaohua

"I am still the teenager I used to be, there is no slightest change, time is just a test, and the faith planted in my heart has not diminished in the slightest..." A few days ago, on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala of the CCTV network, the members of the art team of the Shanghai Alumni Association of Tsinghua University, with an average age of 74, sang the song "Teenager", and countless audiences were touched by their vitality and passion.

Why are people moved? Not only because the white-haired grandparents sang a song familiar to young people, but also because these former "teenagers" still have a valuable spirit of youth. When they were teenagers, they had a regretless and extraordinary youth, and then spent the years in the struggle; now, they can be full of spirit, "after a thousand sails, they are still teenagers."

These "teenagers" who dedicated their youth to the motherland are no longer young, but the spirit of dedication and struggle still has the mark of youth. This state of mind and spirit is more worthy of cherishing and learning from today's young people.

The spirit of youth is a firm pursuit of ideals and beliefs. "Where the motherland needs me, I will go, and I must do a good job of what I need to do." On stage, 78-year-old Wu Yuming said so. In 1968, after graduating from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Tsinghua University, he obeyed the assignment and chose to go to the most difficult and most needed place in the motherland. Integrating the pursuit of personal ideals into the cause of the party and the state is a common choice of the members of the art troupe when they are young. Today's young people are still not afraid of wind and rain, bravely shoulder heavy burdens, and let the youth bloom in the places where the party and the people need it most. On the battlefield of poverty alleviation, on the stage of innovation and entrepreneurship, and in the day and night research to solve scientific research problems, the light of ideals continues to shine.

The spirit of youth is the unremitting struggle on the road of chasing dreams. To turn lofty ambitions into reality, we must not only obtain real knowledge and practice real skills, but also have the spirit of perseverance and unremitting struggle. Not being afraid of difficulties, having the courage to open up, working tenaciously and never being discouraged are the embodiment of the spirit of struggle of young people. This spirit still shines in today's young people. In the recent evaluation of the "most beautiful college students" in 2020, Tsinghua University students are racing against the clock and using scientific research results to protect people's life safety in the prevention and control of the epidemic; Wen Jian, a student of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, took the initiative to apply to Tibet to guard the frontier and protect the national flag for the motherland; Liu Zhizhuo, a student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his classmates went deep into the frontline of sand control, and insisted on it for 5 years...

When the spirit of youth inherited and the current youth reflect each other, it means the continuation of youth, and it also means that the "youth me" of different eras and different individuals is composed of "the country of youth and the nation of youth".

Each generation of young people has their own opportunities and opportunities, and they must write their lives and create history under the conditions of their own times. Taking over the baton of history, contemporary young people should live up to the trust of the times, live up to the youth shaohua, move towards a new journey, dedicate their wisdom and strength to the realization of the second centenary goal and the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and use youth to write a brilliant chapter worthy of the times and history.

Source: People's Daily