Catching up with the exam is always on the way - Xibaipo Spiritual Review

Source: Guangming Daily

【Spiritual Genealogy of Chinese Communists】

The golden wind is refreshing, the fruit is full of branches, and the Xibai slope in October is as clear as a wash, and the sky is far away.

The Xibaipo Memorial Hall and the former site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, are full of visitors. In the square, in front of the statues of the five secretaries, people either stopped to stare or lined up for a group photo. The flowers-filled "Xibaipo New China Comes from Here" are several big characters, which are particularly dazzling and dazzling. Inside the memorial hall, pages of yellowed documents, photos of frozen history, and revolutionary cultural relics full of red memories lead people through time and space to trace the footprints of history.

In May 1948, Comrade Mao Zedong led the Central Front Committee and the headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to Xibaipo, located in the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains, to meet with the Central Working Committee. In this so-called "last rural command post" for the liberation of all of China, the Party Central Committee held a September meeting to direct the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, convened the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, and began to draw up a grand blueprint for New China.

Here, in their great practice, the Chinese Communists have nurtured the spirit of Xibaipo. In July 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping revisited Xibaipo, looking back on the past and feeling a lot of emotions: "I have come many times, and every time I come with a reverential heart and a lot of thoughts. "Every time we come, we can receive a vivid education in the nature and purpose of the party, which further strengthens our sense of public servanthood and feelings for the people."

Standing at the historical intersection of the "two hundred years," the Chinese Communists inherit and carry forward the spirit of Xibaipo and stride forward on the road of catching up with the examination in the new era.

Carry the great struggle through to the end

The former site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo has a humble adobe house with several tables and benches strung together.

From September 8 to 13, 1948, the Central Committee of the Party convened an enlarged meeting of the Politburo here, the September Conference. "The strategic task is for the army to advance, produce an inch longer, strengthen discipline, and transition from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare." Comrade Mao Zedong judged the hour and sized up the situation and made a major judgment.

Prior to this, from the summer of 1947, the People's Liberation Army turned to a strategic offensive. In the Central Plains, Liu Deng's army forcibly crossed the Yellow River and advanced into the Dabie Mountains; the East China Field Army advanced into Yuwansu; the Northeast Field Army controlled 97% of the land and 86% of the population in the northeast; and the two major liberated areas of Jin-Cha-Ji and Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu were connected. The balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves has changed in our favor, and the dawn of victory has shone on the land of China.

At that time, although the Kuomintang's rule was on the verge of collapse, the total strength and equipment of its army were still superior to those of the People's Liberation Army.

Dare to seize the opportunity to fight an "unprecedented war of annihilation"? From September 1948 to January 1949, the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin were fought one after another, and the People's Liberation Army set a record of annihilating nearly one division of the Kuomintang in an average day.

During the three major battles, the Party Central Committee sent a total of 408 telegrams from Xibaipo. The reporter touched the telegram engraved on the wall of the Xibaipo Memorial Hall, as if he were in the sound of this telegram. More than 70 years ago, it was the sound of the telegram "dripping and clicking" that transmitted the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee to the major battlefields in the north and south of the great river in a timely manner.

The victory in the three major battles laid the foundation for the victory of the People's Liberation War throughout the country.

On December 30, 1948, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote a New Year's message for Xinhua News Agency in Xibaipo entitled "Carrying the Revolution through to the End," solemnly declaring that "the Great People's Liberation War will be carried through to the end."

Without abandoning the revolution halfway and overthrowing the kuomintang's reactionary rule throughout the country, the Determination of the Chinese Communists to carry out a thorough revolution and resolute struggle, and the courage to struggle and to win, shake the mountains and rivers.

"Dare to struggle and dare to win is an invincible and powerful spiritual force of the Communist Party of China." To realize the great dream, we must work tenaciously and unremittingly. At the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping used history to reflect reality and look at the future.

The magnificent century-old history of the Party is not only a history of unremitting struggle, but also a history of great struggle and spiritual generation.

The courage to struggle and dare to win ignited the fire of the plains on Jinggang Mountain and achieved an earth-shattering reversal of Zunyi City. Dare to struggle and dare to win, manifested in the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the oil fields on the ancient wasteland, the space base in the depths of the Gobi, and the new city rising on the shores of the South China Sea, and sublimated in the flood war, anti-SARS, anti-new crown, anti-poverty, crisis reduction, and response bureau.

The closer we get to the goal of national rejuvenation, the less smooth it will be, the more risky and challenging it will be, and even the more terrifying the waves. "To learn from history and create the future, we must carry out a great struggle with many new historical characteristics." General Secretary Xi Jinping's words were loud and clear. By carrying forward the spirit of Xibaipo, carrying forward the spirit of struggle, and enhancing the ability to struggle, there will be no risks that cannot be dealt with, and there will be no challenges that cannot be overcome.

Maximize the strength of common struggle

"Unity is strength, this strength is iron, this strength is steel..." In 1943, during the most difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the song "Unity is Strength" was sung in Xibaipo.

Five years later, with the dream of establishing a new China, the CENTRAL Committee of the Communist Party of China and the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army came here. Xibaipo is the command center of the liberation of the whole country, and it is also a "dream factory" for cohesion and blueprint drawing. It is here that the democratic system of the Republic begins, and a series of actions of democratic solidarity take place here.

The Outline of China's Land Law was born here. "Abolish the land system of feudal and semi-feudal exploitation, and implement the land system in which the tiller has his own land." This thoroughly anti-feudal agrarian revolutionary program guided the broad masses of peasants into the revolutionary torrent, and the liberated areas quickly formed a wave of land reform.

The "May Day slogan" resounds through the air here. "All democratic parties, all people's organizations, and all social elites quickly convened a political consultative conference to discuss and realize the convening of a people's congress and the establishment of a democratic coalition government!" Leaders of various democratic parties and well-known non-party democrats have sent telegrams to respond to the political views of the Communist Party of China.

Immortal classics are written here. "Establish a nationwide republic under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat with the alliance of workers and peasants as the mainstay." People rush to read such brilliant works as "Carrying the Revolution to the End" and "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship," and the new picture of the new country and new society is fascinating.

Historical contrasts are always meaningful. At the same time, the Nanjing dictatorship staged a farce of pretending to be the will of the people and pretending to be democracy. The decline of factional strife and rebellion is evident.

Uniting all the forces that can be united, mobilizing all the factors that can be mobilized, and the fiery practice of Xibaipo laid the foundation for new China. Democracy and unity have become the banners that the Communist Party of China has always held high.

In September 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference defined regional ethnic autonomy as a basic national policy. Over the past 70 years, all ethnic groups have worked together in unity and common prosperity and development for a long time, and the awareness of the Chinese national community has been continuously enhanced.

In September 1954, more than 1,200 delegates from all over the country gathered in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, to attend the first session of the National People's Congress. Comrade Mao Zedong said: "Our chairman and premier are all produced by the National People's Congress, and we must obey the National People's Congress and must not jump out of the palm of the Buddha's hand. ”

In March 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping discussed the new political party system when visiting members of the Democratic League, zhi gong party, non-party figures, and the federation of returned overseas Chinese attending the first session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. By fully carrying forward democracy and not forgetting the original intention of the establishment of multi-party cooperation, the vitality of the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China has become more and more prominent.

On July 1, 2021, at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping looked back at the road of struggle and the road of endeavor, and profoundly pointed out: "Taking history as a mirror and creating the future, we must strengthen the great unity of the sons and daughters of China... The patriotic united front is an important magic weapon for the CPC to unite all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ”

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has inherited and carried forward the spirit of Xibaipo, enhanced unity in the process of carrying forward democracy, and consolidated democracy on the basis of consolidating unity.

Democratic election, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, democratic supervision, all links are interlinked and interconnected, and the value concept of people's democracy in the whole process is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people;

Earnest talks, hearings, online deliberations, remote consultations, "small court chambers", one after another vivid grass-roots democratic practice, seeking the greatest common divisor and drawing the largest concentric circles;

Private enterprise forums, entrepreneurs' forums, and non-party personalities' forums have strengthened the unity and guidance of representatives in new classes, new organizations, and new groups, and the forces that serve the realization of the Chinese dream have continued to grow and develop.

"Whoever can resist the crowd can wear the stone of unity." Inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of Xibaipo, the new era and new stage, democratic unity has become the norm, society is full of vitality, and a vivid situation of more than 1.4 billion people working together and working in unity is taking shape.

Constantly write excellent answer sheets on the way to the exam

Inheriting and carrying forward the fine traditions and consistently strengthening self-construction is a true portrayal of the Chinese communists in the Xibaipo period.

In September 1948, the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the System for The Central Bureaus, Sub-Bureaus, Military Regions, Branches of the Central Military Commission and Former Committees to Request Instructions and Reports from the Central Committee was discussed and adopted. The system of requesting instructions and reporting has continued since then, and has effectively promoted the party's work style and discipline building.

Also in September 1948, also in Xibaipo, the CPC Central Committee made a decision on improving the party committee system, proposing that the party committee system is an important system for ensuring collective leadership and preventing individuals from doing things, and it is necessary to establish and improve the party committee meeting system. This important decision has had a profound impact on strengthening the building of the party's system.

A strong party, forged in self-revolution. The Chinese Communists, who have always had a sense of distress, have found a sharp weapon in Xibaipo to jump out of the historical cycle rate of chaos and rise and fall.

In March 1949, the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held.

"We must ensure that comrades continue to maintain a modest, cautious, non-arrogant, and impatient style, and that comrades continue to maintain a style of arduous struggle." At the meeting, Comrade Mao Zedong issued a great appeal to the whole party and put forward earnest admonitions.

Shortly after the meeting, on March 23, 1949, the Party Central Committee departed from Xibaipo for Beijing. Comrade Mao Zedong said, "Today is the day to enter Beijing to catch the examination, and vowed to "never let Li Zicheng be done."

At that time, the Chinese revolution was about to achieve national victory, the Communist Party of China was about to come to power in an all-round way, and a brand-new society was about to burst out.

The exchange of stars shifts a few degrees in autumn. In July 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Xibaipo. Regarding the "two musts", he has a profound understanding.

"It contains profound reference to the law governing chaos in our country's history of several thousand years, a profound summary of our party's arduous and extremely arduous course of struggle, a profound worry about the victorious political party's eternal advanced nature and purity, and the realization of long-term peace and stability in the people's power that is about to be born, and a profound understanding of our party's fundamental purpose of adhering to serving the people wholeheartedly."

The "two musts" are like alarm bells, always alerting and inspiring the Chinese Communists to seek truth from facts on the road to the examination, to serve the people wholeheartedly, and to always maintain the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses of the people.

In the early days of the founding of New China, our party set up the central committee and the party's discipline inspection committees at all levels, and severely punished Liu Qingshan, Zhang Zishan, and a number of other corrupt elements.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our Party put forward the major thesis that "the issue of the party style of the ruling party is a question concerning the life and death of the party." In 1992, the Constitution of the Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time wrote "strict management of the party" into the general program.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has incorporated the comprehensive and strict management of the party into the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, broken through the implementation of the spirit of the eight provisions of the central government, united the party and the people with excellent style, managed the party with strict discipline, punished corruption with a zero-tolerance attitude, consolidated the unity and unity of the party, and made the party stronger and more powerful in revolutionary forging.

We should have the courage to carry out self-revolution, constantly strengthen our self-construction, and always maintain lofty revolutionary ideals and vigorous revolutionary fighting spirit. Generation after generation of Communists have kept firmly in mind the "two musts" and have united and led the people on the road of catching up with the examinations to continuously create one great achievement after another in the annals of history.

Happiness does not fall from the sky, and dreams do not happen overnight. From decay and withering to prosperity, from the blue wisp of the road to the rejuvenation, after the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, China's economic and social development has made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.

The struggle is not exhausted, and the rush to take the exam is still continuing. "Over the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has handed over an excellent answer sheet to the people and to history. Now, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people to embark on a new road to achieve the second centenary goal. General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly emphasized at the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

In the historical process of comprehensively building a socialist modern power and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must always keep a sober mind, keep firmly in mind the "two musts," inherit and carry forward the spirit of Xibaipo, and continue to write more excellent answer sheets that can withstand the test of history and the people.

(Reporters Wang Haokui, Wang Jin, Chen Yuanqiu)