Walk into the Shanghai street phone booth for the 100-year red years "call"

Using 500 telephone booths to set up a party history exhibition all over Shanghai, walking on the street is like walking into the history of the party's 100 years of founding. On the eve of "July 1st", this vivid exhibition using the city as an "exhibition hall" and a telephone booth as a "booth" was held on Huaihai Road, Nanjing Road, Ruijin 2nd Road, Yan'an West Road... Quietly unfolding in the ordinary lanes of Shanghai.

On June 24, a new telephone booth with a unique shape was erected on Huaihai Middle Road near Chengdu South Road, adjacent to the site of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China. The telephone booth, known as the "Red Flag Pavilion", is decorated with the image of bright red flags and flames, and in addition to the telephone in the pavilion, an electronic screen with a camera is also added. Many young people walked into the pavilion, scanned the two-dimensional code on the screen, and "called" (referring to "refueling" for the party's century-old style, and the young smiling faces were made into exclusive postcards by this special telephone booth. Reporters also stepped forward, scanning codes, taking pictures, printing... Honored to be the 0339th "caller" person.

Not far from the "Red Flag Pavilion", the reporter encountered a red telephone booth, the poster on it printed with words such as "The Socialist Youth League Has Just Established Young Talents, With a Heart for Home and Country" and other words, with several young people wearing clothes with a sense of the times, looking out of the painting ... From the early organization of the party to the great meeting of the Communist Party of China, from the eternal radio waves to the 5G life in Shanghai, from the warlords occupying the concession to the impressive achievements of 24 million people and 3.9 trillion GDP, in this special centennial party history exhibition, 500 such red telephone booths stand quietly, telling the story of our party's century-old style through time in the bustling streets of Shanghai.

The booths began to be installed in June, with a strong focus on the location of the red historical sites in Shanghai. Like choosing a public talk booth near the old site of the new Yuyangli to be transformed into a "red flag pavilion", it is to take into account the special significance of the environment. The staff of China Telecom Shanghai Company (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Telecom") told reporters: "Before we chose the site, designed the appearance and decoration of the telephone booth, and recorded the red story, we consulted a large number of historical materials according to Tu Suoji, and also invited party history experts to provide guidance, so that the content displayed in the public telephone booth echoed with the red resources adjacent to it, so as to attract more citizens, especially young people, to learn party history." ”

This special exhibition with the telephone booth as the carrier not only has "color", but also "sound". In addition to using the traditional telephone booth as the display carrier, Shanghai Telecom also specially set up an exclusive number "20210701" for the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, which was dialed by a telephone booth, landline telephone or mobile phone in Shanghai (dial 021 at the beginning of non-local users), and one hundred red historical stories such as the story of the revolutionary martyr Li Bai recorded by professional broadcasters, the story of the first national congress of the Communist Party of China, and the story of the establishment of the first secret radio station of our party.

Shanghai is a city with red genes. It not only ignited the original spark of the Communist Party of China a hundred years ago, but also continuously confirmed the party's original intention and mission in the past hundred years - to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Shanghai is also the origin of red communication. In this land stained red by the blood of heroes, the eternal electric waves reverberate for a hundred years. With the efforts of countless red messengers, the seeds of revolution spread throughout the country.

As the leading communication operator in Shanghai, Shanghai Telecom insists on inheriting the red gene, carrying forward the glorious tradition, and always growing together with the city of Shanghai. With the advancement of science and technology and the improvement of people's living standards, public telephones are no longer a tool for daily communication, but they still play an active role in the process of protecting the safety of cities. According to statistics, there are currently about 4,000 unattended public telephone booths in Shanghai, and in the past three years, more than 110 alarm calls have been made more than 270,000 times, 120 emergency calls have been more than 29,000 times, and 119 fire alarm calls have been made more than 17,000 times. These telephone booths, which are scattered throughout the streets and alleys of the city, have witnessed the development of Shanghai, and have also become the city's propaganda columns and guardians; it is the common memory of the city and the embodiment of Shanghai culture.

The reporter came to Shanghai Fukangli and walked into a relatively special telephone booth - the "radio wave pavilion" of the secret radio station. This telephone booth, themed "The Eternal Radio Wave", restores the Style of Shikumen, the birthplace of the first secret radio station of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In addition to hanging a telephone on the wall, there are also telegrams of different years pasted. Put on the headphones and press the electric button, you can feel the scene of the revolutionary predecessors working at that time.

Mr. Zhang, a Shanghai resident, put down his headphones and carefully read the telegrams displayed on the wall according to the year, before pushing open the glass door and preparing to leave. The reporter asked him, which of these Shanghai-related telegrams impressed you the most? He chose a less conspicuous picture at the bottom left. The reporter bent down to look at it, and it turned out that this was a telegram that had been more than 70 years old -- Su Caiqing, the operator who received the last telegram sent by Li Bai, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, to the Party Central Committee, sent back a clear-code telegram to the martyr: "Elder Li Bai, the dawn you are looking forward to has arrived!" ”

(Reporters Meng Xindi and Cao Jijun)

Source: Guangming Daily