Preacher's Comment: Magnificent Sunrise: The Way to Success of the Centennial Party

Where did the Chinese Communist Party come from? She came from a miserable China, she came from the Red House of Peking University, and was born on the "red boat" in jiaxing South Lake, she was the child of the May Fourth spirit. What is the May Fourth Spirit? The May Fourth era was the era of the beginning of chaos, and all kinds of doctrines competed on the same stage and were mixed, and it was difficult to say who was the protagonist. However, the theme or original intention of May Fourth is clear, that is, "do not be a slave", and its main meaning is threefold: First, in the relationship between countries, do not be a slave. That is, to pursue the independence of the country and the nation. The second is not to be a slave in the relationship between people. Pursue interpersonal relationships of equality and mutual assistance, do not be a slave to others, and do not allow others to be slaves to themselves. The third is not to be a slave in the relationship between the mind and the body. Not to be a slave to one's own desires, the human mind can dominate itself. What a spirit of erection!

However, the reality of that year was harsh, and "people eat people" was everywhere. In 1928, a 22-year-old American young man, Snow traveled to China, and he traveled all the way to write, publishing his travel insights in newspapers and earning some money. In order to promote tourism, Sun Ke, an important member of the Kuomintang, found him and reached an agreement with Snow, sun Ke arranged for Snow to travel for free at public expense, and wherever the Chinese railway line went, Snow could go, the only condition was that Snow submitted a travelogue to Sun Ke for the purpose of promoting tourism. In this way, Snow traveled to all over China, large and small, and witnessed the real China of that year. In 1928, Zhangjiakou went to the boundary of Baotou, where famine was raging, and more than 5 million people were starved to death. Snow discovers that Zhangjiakou is a distribution center for human trafficking, and he sees two trains of half-naked little girls who are to be sold to brothels or workshops. In Kunming, Yunnan, he found that the local scenery is beautiful, but the people are humble. People's lives are like grass and mustard, the streets of Kunming are flooded with opium, and even the women of street stalls feed their two- and three-year-old children with opium-stained sugar cane. In the twelve years that followed, Snow witnessed numerous famines and the tragedy of unbridled human exploitation.

In 1945, the young American Li Dunbai came to China, his identity was an American soldier, but when he came to China, the War of Resistance was over, he had no battle to fight, and his main job was to take care of the aftermath of the American soldiers who broke into trouble. After the battle, the US soldiers ran into many disasters in China, and incidents such as rape, beating, and drunken collisions occurred one after another. Once, a U.S. Air Force soldier got drunk and drove a car to scare a little girl for fun, only to crash the nine-year-old girl named "Li Muxian" to death. Li Dunbai and the others went to the aftermath and met the little girl's father, a rickshaw puller with a "wooden look", like Lu Xun's numb "middle-aged leaping earth". Under U.S. compensation regulations, a little girl lost only $26, even less than a horse. Unable to do anything about it, Rittenberg guiltily handed $26 to the little girl's father, who took the money with a calm face, as if it were all taken for granted and that the poor should be bullied. His silence and numbness stung Li Dunbai. In the evening, the father went to Rittenberg's office and gave him a $6 thank you fee. Li Dunbai asked: Did you send money to the chief of armor and the chief of security? He said yes quietly. This incident gave Lee Dun-bai a profound stimulus, and he later joined the Communist Party of China, that is, to overthrow this "man-eating" system and rescue these poor and insensitive people.

In December 1920, Mao Zedong, who was the head of the "Xinmin Society" in Hunan, corresponded with Cai Hesen, a member of the society who went to France to study, to discuss the purpose of the society, and after in-depth thinking, they carefully agreed on the purpose of the society, that is, to "transform China and the world.". This is a group of "potentially tangible" young people who have set this aim, not to make a splash, and they sincerely hope that through their efforts, they can transform this China and the world. The point is, they really did!

Why the Chinese Communist Party has been able to lead China to success, I think its successful experience can be reflected in five aspects:

The first is the purpose of the Communist Party of China. "Serving the people wholeheartedly" is the foundation of the founding of the party. At the same time, this purpose is placed on the hearts of ordinary people and is in line with Chinese culture. The purpose is the soul, the purpose is the direction, and it penetrates into all aspects of the party's body. During the Jinggangshan period, Mao Zedong made an attempt to build a new type of people's army, and he first established several rules: one was to obey the party's command, the second was to equalize officers and soldiers, and the third was to give preferential treatment to prisoners. As far as the preferential treatment of prisoners is concerned, it is not easy, not only is it not allowed to beat and scold prisoners, but it is also necessary to eat and drink well, heal wounds, leave welcomes, and do not leave money for travel expenses. Why give preferential treatment to prisoners? In addition to dismantling the enemy army, it is more important to lay down the rules of equality between people for the army, and to talk about benevolence and equality for the prisoners, not to mention the comrades in their own ranks, and all the people in the revolutionary contingent must care for each other, love each other, and help each other. When Zhou Enlai established the Central Special Branch, he resolutely discarded the old secret service means, and resolutely did not use such means as bribery, assassination, and beauty planning, but used lofty ideals and beliefs to unite people's hearts.

The second is to answer the core answer sheet well. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution are a pair of contradictory unity. From the party's point of view, the great cause of the Chinese revolution is the touchstone and whetstone of the party's purpose of "pure and impure, true or untrue." The people's hearts must be tempered in things, and the combat effectiveness of party organizations must also be tempered in the process of doing things. General Secretary Xi Jinping said that the times are the people who publish the papers, we are the answerers, and the people are the people who read the papers. What volume are we answering? In the years of revolutionary war, this volume was to win revolutionary victory and establish a new China. Since the founding of New China, our core answer sheet has been two words - governance. What is governance, I think, includes three elements: one is security, stability and order; the second is economic vitality and life improvement; and the third is fairness and justice. No matter what doctrine, no matter what system, the basic things that the masses of the people need are the same, and if you can achieve effective governance, it proves that your system is good. If even the basic security and stability needs of the people are not met, it will not be useful to say that the sky is broken. The development of society is spiraling upwards, and the rising ladder is a matter of the times. About every ten years, the issues of the times will change, and when we grasp the issues of the times, we will slowly drive the whole society up.

The third is to set the program in full swing and grasp leadership. During the revolutionary war years, the Communist Party of China made no secret of its words that we must grasp the leadership. In the years of the Revolutionary War, leadership was embodied in the barrel of a gun, a barrel of a pen, and an ideology. Ideology must have appeal, specifically Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. After the founding of New China, in addition to the above three, our leadership also has a money bag and a constitution and laws. The money bag is capital, Marx said, capital is "social power", in addition to political power, capital this "social power" pervades this society, the ruling party does not grasp this power, this power will come to influence the ruling party. Because the party holds these powers, it can stabilize the direction of the country. With leadership and the support of the people of the whole country, we are not afraid of any difficulties and obstacles.

Fourth, we must be strong ourselves. Through measures such as party building, democratic centralism, and the rule of law, power is put in a cage to maintain the purity of the party. At the same time, the party must also have the ability to govern. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have strictly administered the party, and measures such as anti-corruption, anti-gang crime, and rectification of the political and legal contingent have been made progress step by step, and strict management of the party is always on the road. We have played a "first move" in the fight against corruption and fought the active battle of governing the country and international competition. The whole society has gradually achieved a clean and healthy atmosphere and won the enthusiastic support of the masses of the people.

Fifth, the spiritual temperament, upward, good, open, inclusive. The party pursues justice, has a bright heart, and embraces new technologies and embraces the world. The Chinese Communists with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the main representative have embarked on the great reform and opening up; and the Chinese Communists with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the main representative have firmly embraced the Internet in the face of the surging tide of the Internet, and only then have we now seen a good trend of an average annual growth rate of 20 percent in the total digital economy and a proportion of more than one-third of GDP. The Chinese Communists, represented mainly by Comrade Hu Jintao, looked to the future and began to cultivate new energy technologies and industries. Now that new energy vehicles are close to maturity, the tide of industrialization is about to emerge, and the photovoltaic industry is gradually taking shape. The wind rises at the end of Qingping, and the waves form between the waves. At present, the new technological revolution has begun to emerge, and the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core is following the trend and is actively cultivating new technologies and new industries for the future. That's how we are, and the struggle from generation to generation is a relay race, not a boxing race; generation after generation is not just a relay run, but an acceleration run.

A hundred years is only a prologue, and the future must be expected. By 2035, China will basically achieve socialist modernization; by the middle of this century, China will build itself into a socialist modern power, and these goals will certainly be achieved. The founding of the Communist Party of China is a brilliant sunrise for the cause of human progress. We have not only succeeded, but we have succeeded with dignity, and the light of our justice is shining on the world!

Author: Qin Guowei, School of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences