【100 Cultural Relics Say Party History (070)】
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > a section of the first heavy rail dedicated by Angang Steel to Chairman Mao in 1953 exhibited by the National Museum:</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > a section of the first seamless steel pipe dedicated by Angang Steel to Zhu De in 1953 exhibited by the National Museum:</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the 1953 FAW cornerstone displayed at the National Museum, Mao Zedong inscribed:</h1>
The debut novel of the veteran writer Wang Meng, "Long Live Youth", is a novel full of youthful passion and strength.
Through the growth experience of a group of high school students in Beijing in the years before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the work shows the emotions unique to that era. Although it seems that the writing is inevitably a little naïve than his later works, the sincere hope and enthusiastic power in it still have a powerful power to touch people's hearts. Because it truly reflects the social sentiment of that year: China in that year was so passionate and hopeful!
Wang Meng wrote this novel in 1953.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8">Why was 1953 a promising year? </h1>
This year, China ended the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and fought a draw with the world's strongest imperialism at that time, which made the people's confidence burst! The victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea enabled China's economic construction to gain a favorable international peaceful environment. This is extremely valuable for Chinese people who have been at war for a long time.
In the first year of the year, in 1952, China's national economy recovered and exceeded its quota.
At the end of 1952, the total output value of industry and agriculture was 81 billion yuan, an increase of more than 77% over 1949. The state's fiscal revenue has multiplied and its balance of payments has been balanced. The incomes of the people in urban and rural areas have increased year by year, and their living standards have generally improved. Compared with 1949, the average wage of workers nationwide has increased by 70 percent, and peasant incomes have generally increased by more than 30 percent. With huge financial support for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, this can simply be said to be a miracle.
After a period of three years of economic recovery, the proportion of output value of state-owned and private industry-commerce has undergone fundamental changes. In 1949, the public-private ratio of China's industrial PRODUCTION was 43.8% state-run and 56.2% private, and by September 1952, the state-owned sector had risen to 67.3% and the private sector had fallen to 32.7%, and the state-run economy had surpassed the private economy. This also reflects the trend towards ideal socialism.
After the agrarian reform, the cause of mutual assistance and cooperation in the rural areas has generally developed, mainly in mutual aid groups, but also in some agricultural production cooperatives with the main characteristics of land people's shares, and a very small number of collective farms.
This year, the development of all aspects of the cause is pleasant and full of hope.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" >Why was 1953 a year of passion? </h1>
In this case, in 1953, the central government began to implement the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy.
Marked by this, China began a long period of large-scale industrialization. This laid a solid foundation for the future economic take-off of New China.
Beginning in 1953, economic construction work was carried out throughout the country in a planned manner. The whole country's urban and rural areas have rapidly formed a warm atmosphere of participating in and supporting the country's industrialization construction. It was an era of passion, and the boundless vision of industrialization inspired workers, peasants, and intellectuals to work with a passion that they never had before.
The slogan of the time was: "Every second of labor for the creation of socialist society." "It vividly reflects the enthusiasm for construction inspired by the goal of industrialization.
In December 1953, the three major projects of Anshan Iron and Steel Company- large-scale rolling mill, seamless steel pipe factory and No. 7 ironmaking furnace - held a production ceremony. Large steel enterprises in Baotou and Wuhan have successively begun construction. For larger projects above the limit, on average, one start or one completion per day.
A large number of basic industrial sectors that did not exist in old China were established one by one, and a large number of industrial and mining enterprises were set up in the interior. The excessively backward appearance and irrational layout of the heavy industry in the old China have been greatly improved. Achievements in industrial production in five years.
It was against this background that in 1953, after nearly a year of deliberation, the Party Central Committee formed and put forward the Party's general line for the transitional period:
"From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the basic completion of the socialist transformation, this is a transitional period. The general line and the general task of the Party in this transitional period is to gradually realize the socialist industrialization of the country and the socialist transformation of agriculture, rival industry and capitalist industry and commerce by the state over a considerable period of time. This general line is a beacon that shines on all our work. Without it, all work is to make the mistake of leaning to the right or 'left'. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > In this atmosphere of the times, Wang Meng picked up a pen and recorded the mental journey of a generation</h1>
In 1953, at the age of 19, Wang Meng worked as a cadre in the Dongcheng District Committee of the Communist Youth League of Beijing.
Wang Meng was born in 1934, the year of the founding of New China, and he was a middle school student. He joined the underground party when he was in middle school. In the early 1950s, Wang Meng, like his peers, personally experienced the earth-shaking changes from old China to new China, witnessed the rapid rise of new China on the ruins, and witnessed the development of vientiane renewal.
At that time, young people were full of hope, vitality, and faith, believing that from this generation onwards they would live a new, selfless, and very bright and happy life, and all that needed to be cleansed was the dirt left over from the old society. Moreover, it was widely believed at the time that the situation was not necessarily more difficult than doing a few cleanings.
Wang Meng's thoughts were the same as his peers. He was keenly aware that triumphant orgasms could not be routine and forever. He considers it his duty to record this historical period and the mental history of teenagers and young people during this historical period.
So, in the autumn of 1953, he began to write and quietly wrote a year to complete the first draft. He asked his father, Wang Jindi, to help him look at Pan Zhiting, a screenwriter at the Beijing Film Studio, who praised Wang Meng for his great talent and recommended the novel to the Literature and Art Office of the China Youth Publishing House for review.
But for various reasons, the novel was not published that year. In the course of his revisions, in 1956 he published the short story "A Young Man from the Organization Department." This novel, which criticized bureaucracy, brought him a long ordeal.
This novel, which bears the body temperature of the special era of 1953, was not officially published until 1979 – another hopeful era, but people have some vicissitudes in their hearts.
In 2019, Wang Meng's novel "Long Live Youth" was selected into the "New China 70 Years and 70 Novels Collection".