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This article was originally published in the Information News on November 1, 2021. The "Reference News" changed my life.
On that day 20 years ago, it was also such an autumn high. Shang Yong, president of science and technology daily, had a dignified face and hurried to the director of the news center. While knocking on his desk, he said to me: "Zhao Qizheng, director of the Information Office of the State Council, asked Science and Technology Daily to interview Zhao Haosheng, who has been in Beijing these days. You're going to do it yourself! Probably afraid that I would be lazy and assign the work to someone else, he repeated the four words "personally handle the knife." Turning around and taking a few steps, he turned back to me and asked, "Do you know Zhao Haosheng?" ”
I first heard the name from my mother. I remember that she circled the articles signed by Zhao Haosheng on the "Reference News" one by one and let me read them. At that time, I was still in elementary school, and I was looking at the world with curious eyes.
In the early 1970s, China's national door had just opened a crack due to the improvement of Sino-US relations. It was at such a special historical moment that Zhao Haosheng, a well-known Chinese-American journalist and professor at Yale University in the United States, entered the vision of New China through the "Reference News". At that time, the "Reference News" often published Zhao Haosheng's articles, such as "Overseas Chinese in the United States Watch Nixon's Visit to China", and Zhao Haosheng's conversation record with Chinese soldiers in the United States, "It is Difficult to Answer Customers returning from China". Zhao Haosheng brought a breeze of "looking at the world from China, looking at China from the world". This breeze blew to my mother, to me, and to countless Chinese people.
Zhao Haosheng
Later, I also became a journalist and worked in the United States for more than five years in the 90s. Although my residence was less than an hour's drive from Zhao's home in Connecticut, I didn't have the opportunity to meet. In November 2001, when he was ordered to interview the elderly Zhao Haosheng in Beijing, his mother had been dead for more than a year. The first thing I thought about was, if my mother was still there, what questions would she ask me to ask Elder Zhao?
In a room at the Palace Hotel, I met this kind elder as promised. Elder Zhao was very interested. Before the formal interview, we made small talk in English. I recounted the past of reading the "Reference News" as a child, and greeted Elder Zhao on behalf of my deceased mother. Unexpectedly, this made Elder Zhao open the conversation box.
"From the child falling to the ground, learning to speak with his teeth, to toddler, who has been encouraging him? It's mother! The encouragement of the mother will affect a person's whole life. When a person succeeds or fails, he can feel the encouragement and expectation of his mother. ”
Elder Zhao suddenly asked me: "At that time, I could read the "Reference News", your mother was a high official, right?" "Not a big official, just able to read the kind of "Reference News.""
I don't know which tendon my parents put on me, but I especially liked to read when I was a child. Regrettably, almost all the books of that era were educational on the class struggle. Today, there are only a few books that are really nutritious, and "Reference News" is one of them, and I have benefited from it. Now, whenever I recommend a good book to my son, but I don't get the expected response, I can't help but dig my heart and lungs to compare the past and the present, and persuade him to cherish the improvement of the reading environment brought about by China's social progress.
When I was a teenager, I often read "Reference News", which made my interest and excitement points shift, so I seemed very "different" among my peers. A teenager obsessed with the first round of U.S.-Soviet negotiations on strategic arms restrictions, the détente between the East and the West, the Oil Crisis in the Middle East, and the Vietnam War. It's all the trouble caused by "Reference News"!
Tsinghua University
Later, under the inspiration of the National Science Congress, I was admitted to the Department of Radio Electronics (now the Department of Electrical Engineering) of Tsinghua University in 1979. But there is always a humanistic feeling in my heart that is difficult to let go, especially in international politics and international relations. In Cao Yingxin, I thought of Lao Wang next door, and I made up my mind to retake Peking University.
Who says one heart can't be used together? When I was a master's student at Tsinghua University, I began to contact the doctoral supervisor of the Department of International Politics at Peking University. When I first met Xue Mouhong, a well-known expert on international issues and an adjunct professor at Peking University, he gave me a lot of encouragement, opened a book list, and let me find a way to make up lessons on my own. At the time of parting, he also confessed that he would order a "reference message". I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet: "Okay! ”
As a result, the "Reference News" arrived at my dormitory in Building 15 of Tsinghua University on time every day at noon. At that time, ordering a newspaper was not an easy task for a graduate student who was struggling to do so. It is enough to pay for the "Reference News" yourself, but also to cut newspapers and take notes. My roommate often stared at me with suspicious eyes. I told him to roll and he scolded me for being neurotic.
After eight years of hard study, I successfully obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University, and then worked in the Research Center for International Studies of the State Council for two years, and in 1989, I became a doctoral student in the Department of International Politics of Peking University. During my studies, according to the training plan, I went to the Center for Chinese and American Culture Research of Nanjing University to study for half a year and collect doctoral dissertation materials.
Peking university
The night before leaving, When Teacher Xue invited me to dinner, he still did not forget to explain that there are many English newspapers and books in the Sino-US Cultural Research Center, but the "Reference News" can play an indexing role, so we must insist on reading. He told me in Fuzhou Mandarin: "To study international issues, I will read the "Reference News" all my life." ”
Writing my doctoral dissertation, "The Vietnam War: Historical Origins and Its International Context," I peeled off several layers of skin. Thanks to the specific guidance of Professor Wang Jisi, it was finally successfully completed. My mentor's mentor, Professor Wang Tieya, a titan of Chinese jurisprudence, served as the chairman of the defense committee. The defense committee fully affirmed that my paper "fills the gap in the relevant research field in China". In 1992, I received my J.D. from Peking University. You say, is there any credit for the "Reference News"?
After working at Science and Technology Daily, I worked as a foreign correspondent, director of the news center, editorial board, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief. As a newspaper leader, I can not only read the "small reference", but also the "big reference", that is, the "reference materials". But at the end of each year, when the secretary delivers the order form to my desk, I always fill in the first column of the "Reference News". The reason for this, to be honest, is not just to obtain information, but a deep complex at work.
Because I changed my major and field of work, my mother said when I was alive that I was "out of tune." But I think, if it is too "tuned", where is the current knowledge and vision! In the first two years, I was transferred to Nankai University to engage in journalism education and served as the dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. My mother is long gone, and I can't hear her old man's nagging!
School of Journalism and Communication, Nankai University
The new college had just been established and was very busy. Just at this time, Tao Deyan, editor-in-chief of "Reference News", sent a WeChat message and asked me to write an article for the "My Story with "Reference News" column. After a short pause, I agreed. This is not only out of friendship with Brother Deyan, but also because I want to use this gratitude and reward for the "Reference News" that has accompanied me for decades.
(The author is a second-level professor of Nankai University, dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, and former editor-in-chief of Science and Technology Daily)