At the unique Nanjing Tax Museum, there is a "Graduation Certificate" issued by Nanjing No. 2 Girls' High School (now Nanjing Xuanwu Senior High School) in the early days of Nanjing's liberation with a revenue stamp, which witnessed the great changes in the liberation of Nanjing and the development and change of new China's taxation under the leadership of the Communist Party.
On June 15th, at the Nanjing Taxation Museum and the school that issued the graduation certificate that year, the "Youth 'Four Histories' Education and Tax Popularization Education Base" was jointly built for Nanjing Xuanwu Senior High School, and everyone witnessed this graduation certificate that was 72 years late, which was collected by the owner's grandson Hou Shou instead, and this story spanning more than half a century was completed.
"Thanks to the leaders and teachers of the Nanjing Taxation Museum for digging up and sorting out the historical materials of Grandma's life, and hearing about Grandma's deeds of not forgetting her original heart and fulfilling her mission, as her grandson is really excited and proud." At the scene of the event, Hou Shouwei said excitedly. He said that a generation has a generation's mission, and a generation has a generation's responsibility. In this life, because of my grandmother's graduation certificate with a tax stamp, I am destined to be related to taxes, and I will inherit and carry forward the good traditions and good family style left by my ancestors, publicize the good policies of taxation for the country and the people, relay the good voice of the development of tax services, and become a veritable tax obligation propagandist.
The reporter learned that in 2019, that is, the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the "Graduation Certificate" issued in the year of the liberation of Nanjing attracted special attention from the museum. At that time, the Nanjing Tax Museum was looking for He Yanan, the owner of this graduation certificate, on multiple platforms and multiple channels. After two years, at the special historical node of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, the owner of this graduation certificate was finally found.
The reporter learned that He Yanan has passed away, and her husband Hou Chaojiong told reporters that she personally experienced the liberation of Nanjing, and in the lives of the two, she often recalled the grand situation at that time. After the liberation of Nanjing, because his father transferred his family to Beijing, he missed the graduation certificate. Under the historical inspiration of the party leading the people to build a new China, He Yanan became the first batch of student party members of mining universities trained by the party after the founding of New China; during the period of socialist revolution construction, He Yanan, Hou Chaojiong, and his wife graduated and stayed in school to engage in teaching and scientific research, regardless of their two young children, they both squatted in the mine to conduct research projects and engage in national mining scientific research and technology research; after the reform and opening up, He Yanan gave up the high salary of the mine, silently dedicated himself to the cause of college education, became a professor and doctoral supervisor of the China University of Mining and Technology, and enjoyed the subsidies of the State Council. Her doctoral students include academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and national mining technology leaders, who are full of peach and plum garden and fruitful.
This "Graduation Certificate" with the stamped revenue stamp is very precious, it not only witnessed the great changes in the liberation of Nanjing, but also witnessed the history of new Chinese taxation, and at the same time, the birth of new Chinese currency also left an imprint on these small stamp tax stamps. The reporter saw that the "Graduation Certificate" was pasted with four blue "Republic of China Revenue Stamps", and each stamped revenue stamp was stamped with three lines of seals "Nanjing Municipal Taxation Bureau changed to People's Coupon Wu Yuan". Originally, at that time, Nanjing had been liberated and New China had not yet been established, and on May 7, 1949, Chinese the members of the Nanjing Military Control Commission of the People's Liberation Army issued a proclamation on the establishment of the Nanjing Municipal Taxation Bureau, using the revenue stamps left over from the National Government Taxation Bureau, and stamping the seal with the words "Nanjing Municipal Taxation Bureau changed to ×××" to show the difference. On the graduation certificate, there are four blue "Republic of China revenue stamps" with a face value of 50 yuan, indicating that the inflation in the late Republic of China was serious. After the founding of New China, stamp duty was abolished for personnel certificates such as graduation certificates involving people's livelihood, and the tax was given to benefit the people and serve the people.
Xie Hansheng, head of the Nanjing Taxation Museum, said that this "Graduation Certificate", which witnessed the great changes in the liberation of Nanjing and the history of the development of new China's taxation, is a precious cultural relic of our museum, and the story of the tax month she experienced has entered our newly created "Red Tax History Lecture Hall", through entering the campus and entering the community, so that more people can read China's tax history from this certificate, so that more people can understand taxation, care about taxation, and help the development of taxation.
Source 丨 Publicity Center of Jiangsu Provincial Taxation Bureau
Reporter 丨Sun Jun
Correspondent 丨 Chenglei