【Study and Education of Party History in Bujiang Town, Tongbai County】The flame of revolution will always exist

A land of heroes, a red legend.

　　Every holiday, the Zhaojin Memorial Hall in the Revolutionary Base Area of Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian is full of tourists, and people relive the epic poems here and draw on the strength of faith. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian revolutionary base area centered on Zhaojin has written a glorious page in the history of the Chinese revolution. It is necessary to strengthen the study of the history of the revolutionary base areas, sum up historical experience, and better carry forward the revolutionary spirit and fine work style.

　　Zhaojin is located in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, located in the adjacent area of Shaanxi and Gansu, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with ravines and dangerous terrain.

　　After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, the Chinese Communists began to arm their resistance to the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang and created a revolutionary base area. In the early 1930s, Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, Xi Zhongxun and other revolutionaries of the older generation bravely carried out revolutionary activities here, and created the first mountainous revolutionary base area in the northwest region centered on Zhaojin, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian Revolutionary Base Area. In the process of creating and developing the base areas, the spirit of Zhaojin, which has distinct characteristics of the times and embodies the original mission of the communists, has been nurtured and formed -- the heroic spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and stubbornly fighting, the courage to innovate independently and in a pioneering spirit, and the work style of proceeding from reality and maintaining close ties with the masses.

　　The spirit of Zhaojin is an important spiritual support and spiritual motive force for the successful creation of the revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi and Gansu and the development and growth of the revolutionary forces in the northwest, and is the quintessence of the lofty ideals pursued by the Chinese communists and the solid work style.

　　On May 30, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the students of Zhaojin Beiliang Red Army Primary School, encouraging them to learn more about the historical knowledge of China's revolution, construction and reform, learn more from heroic and exemplary figures, love the party, love the motherland, love the people, and pass on the red gene from generation to generation with practical actions.

　　In this heroic land, the old revolutionary sites tell the story of rock-solid faith and belief, and the red cultural relics show the enduring spirit of illuminating gold.

　　The heroism of not being afraid of sacrifice and fighting tenaciously

　　"Chen Jiapo, not ordinary, the bright lantern square is in front of you, the bright lights are bright, the bright lights are red, the bright lights shine forward, and the Chen Jiapo meeting is a bright light, indicating the new journey of the revolution..." Under the ancient tree in front of the exhibition hall of the old site of the Chen Jiapo Conference in Zhaojin Town, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, the narrator Du Tianxiang, dressed in a Red Army uniform and playing a small allegro, is vividly telling tourists the revolutionary story that happened in Zhaojin.

　　After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, in the face of the white terror practised by the Kuomintang authorities, the Communists in the northwest, represented by Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, Xi Zhongxun, and others, under the guidance of the spirit of the "Eighty-Seventh Conference," began to form the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Allied Army and the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Army of the Red Army, created the first main Red Army in the northwest region, the Red Twenty-sixth Army, and carried out guerrilla struggle, established a revolutionary regime, carried out agrarian revolution, and created the party's first mountainous revolutionary base area in the northwest and even the north. The Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian revolutionary base area, centered on Zhaojin, has opened up a new situation in the revolutionary struggle in Shaanxi and Gansu.

　　In this arduous course, the founders of the base areas faced the difficult situation of the Kuomintang army's several heavy "encirclement and suppression" and faced with repeated setbacks in the struggle situation, but they still followed the footsteps and bravely forged ahead. As Liu Zhidan said: "Can there be a time when the dry revolution will not fail?" Fail and do it again! It is precisely with the strong belief of not being afraid of defeat and not fearing a strong enemy that the Chinese Communists have united and led the masses of the people in the base areas to fight back. In the first battle to defend Xuejiazhai, the guerrillas relied on dangers to defend, bravely resisted, bravely killed the enemy in the rain, and used self-made braided grenades and land mines in the base areas to repel the enemy's attacks again and again, and won valuable victories.

　　When faced with a choice between faith and life, the revolutionary martyrs did not hesitate in the slightest. In order to expand the revolutionary armed forces, Wang Taiji, the leader of the Yaoxian uprising and commander of the Red Forty-second Division, took the initiative to request to go to the Border of Henan and Shaanxi to do military transportation work, and was arrested and imprisoned while passing through Chunhua, Shaanxi. In the second Xuejiazhai defense war, female Red Army guerrilla fighters were forced to the cliff by the enemy when the village fell, preferring to die and jump off the cliff.

　　"To join the party is to fight to the end for one's faith." As a person, to fight to the end is to struggle to death. Liu Zhidan firmly said that since joining the Communist Party of China, he has dedicated everything to the party, no matter what the situation, he has never doubted his choice and has never wavered in his faith.

　　The victory of the Chinese revolution was bought with the blood and lives of countless revolutionary martyrs, who were firm in their faith, fearless in sacrifice, and stubborn in their struggle, and made tremendous sacrifices and contributions to the cause of the party and the people.

　　This enthusiasm and mission of serving the country have been passed down from generation to generation in the changing times. In the frontline of the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the front line of flood prevention and flood relief, and the outpost of guarding the frontier, the post-90s, post-95s and even post-00s have taken the initiative to shoulder their responsibilities, bravely shoulder heavy burdens, and charge ahead.

　　"Clear love, only for China." This is the battle slogan written by the martyr Chen Xiangrong, who died heroically while guarding the border in June 2020, and the hero was only 18 years old when he died. He guarded the territorial integrity of the motherland with his life, and interpreted the heroic spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and tenacious struggle with heroic feats.

　　Independent, pioneering and enterprising courage of innovation

　　In August 1933, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Border Special Committee held a joint meeting of the party, government and army, or Chen Jiapo Conference, in Zhaojin, which was held at a critical juncture when the revolutionary struggle in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Gansu province suffered successive serious setbacks, lost contact with higher-level organizations, and faced the survival of the base areas.

　　Xi Zhongxun, Qin Wushan, and other leaders of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Party and the Red Army persisted in proceeding from reality, independently explored and formulated strategic principles suited to reality, consolidated and expanded the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian revolutionary base area centered on Zhaojin, and unified the revolutionary armed forces of the Fourth Regiment of the Red Twenty-sixth Army, the Northwest People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and the Yaoxian Guerrillas who had gathered in the base areas, thus bringing about a new major turning point in the revolutionary situation in Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian, which was at a low ebb, and making important contributions to restoring and rebuilding the Red Twenty-sixth Army and upholding and developing the Revolutionary Base Area in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu. It marked the beginning of the maturity of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Border Party and the Red Army.

　　The Chen Jiapo Conference saved the Shaanxi-Gansu-Border Revolutionary Base Area, the NorthwestErn Red Army, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian Revolution, and has an important historical position in the history of the development of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Border Party and the Red Army, and is known as the "Zunyi Conference" in the history of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Border Revolution.

　　In the Zhaojin Memorial Hall in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Revolutionary Base Area, a group of children gathered in front of the display case, curiously looking at several black cast iron knots that resembled small melons, and the top of the "small melon" was also cast with a small ring tied with hemp rope braids.

　　"This is a braided grenade developed by the Xuejiazhai Repair Institute of the Red Army during the Jinsu District period, and the throwing method is equivalent to today's chain ball. Raise the braided grenade high above your head and make a few turns, throw it vigorously, and explode when it hits the ground. It exerted great power in the anti-'encirclement and suppression' struggle in the Zhaojinsu District and the defense of Xuejiazhai. According to the narrator of the Zhaojin Memorial Hall in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Revolutionary Base Area, the braided grenade was a weapon exclusively developed by the workers of the repair institute in that year, which embodied the spirit of independent research and active innovation under difficult conditions.

　　This spirit of independent research and courage to make innovations is also embodied in the development and construction of the revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi and Gansu. The Chinese Communists actively created governance plans that suited local characteristics, established party organizations and mass organizations, and cultivated a number of revolutionary backbones.

　　In the face of the Kuomintang's economic blockade, in the spring and summer of 1933, the Revolutionary Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region established a trade fair in Tingzigou under Xuejiazhai Mountain, where the Red Army guerrillas and the logistics departments of the organs adhered to the principles of "public buying and selling publicly" and "letting the masses buy first" and protected small and medium-sized merchants from the White Area. Slowly, around Zhaojin, whether it is the White District or the Soviet District, the masses and traders come here to trade, the goods are prosperous, and the market atmosphere is strong. The Tingzigou Trade Fair not only facilitated the surrounding masses, but more importantly broke the enemy's economic blockade of the Soviet area, enlivened the economy of the Soviet region, raised grain and other necessities for the Red Army, solved the problem of supplying the troops to the greatest extent, and accumulated valuable experience for the party to lead the construction of the revolutionary base areas in southern Liang and northern Shaanxi.

　　The original intention remains unchanged, and the gold changes dramatically. Entering the new era, in this red land, leaning down and taking steps, the enterprising spirit of truth and truth-seeking makes Zhaojin look new. In the process of poverty alleviation, in view of the backward ideological conditions of some poor households such as "habitual poverty", "striving to be poor", "helpless poverty", "waiting to rely on the need", the local government launched the "Eight Star Inspirational" poverty alleviation and support activities to enhance the initiative of the masses to get rid of poverty. Since the implementation of the "Eight Star Inspirational" poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation activities, a number of advanced models have emerged, which has comprehensively stimulated the endogenous motivation of the poor masses.

　　Zhaojin also launched the "party branch + leading enterprise + collective cooperative + poor households" model, building a mechanism for linking the interests of the poor masses, not only cultivating a number of characteristic advantageous industries, broadening the channels for the masses to increase income, but also realizing nearby employment, so that the work of "easy to find, a lot of money, and close to home" has become a reality.

　　Independence and self-reliance are the basic foothold of China's revolution and construction, and are the principles that the CPC and the Chinese people have always adhered to. In a difficult and difficult environment, the Chinese Communists proceeded from reality, independently explored a plan to save the people, and won the victory of the revolution step by step. In the new era, communists have not changed their original intentions, continued to uphold the enterprising spirit of earnestly seeking benefits for the masses of the people, and promoted the continuous development of various undertakings from success to new successes.

　　The work style of proceeding from reality and maintaining close ties with the masses

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the ceremony of awarding the "July 1st Medal" that to practice the purpose is to be full of affection for the people, have the people in their hearts, work for the people, think of what the masses think, be anxious about the needs of the masses, solve the difficulties of the masses, keep close ties with the masses, firmly rely on the masses, and wholeheartedly benefit the people, and interpret the lofty feelings of communists "I will live up to the people without me and live up to the people" with the practical actions of benefiting the people.

　　The history and present of Zhaojin are closely related to the party's cause and closely linked to the masses of the people.

　　In the past, the people of Zhaojin were exploited and oppressed, and their lives were miserable and difficult. It wasn't until the Advent of the Chinese Communist Party that that all that changed. In the brutal revolutionary struggle, the Chinese Communists have always insisted on doing everything for the people and relying on the people in everything, and have always insisted on maintaining close ties with the masses, which has won the sincere support and support of the masses of the people and has become a brilliant example of practicing the party's mass line.

　　In the process of creating the base areas, Liu Zhidan once said that as long as the policy is right and closely relies on the masses, difficulties can be overcome. Xi Zhongxun conducted investigations and studies from village to village, visited and mobilized the masses one by one, and successively organized peasant associations, poor peasant regiments, Red Guards, and guerrillas to lay a solid foundation for the creation and development of base areas.

　　After the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas of the Red Army arrived in Zhaojin, they confiscated and distributed the grain hoarded by the big landlords, and the masses gratefully praised the "life-saving grain" and the Red Army as the "life-saving benefactor." Subsequently, in the vigorous agrarian revolutionary movement in the base areas, the Red Army, in light of local realities, organized and mobilized the masses to confiscate landlords' land for distribution to poor peasants, abolished all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the reactionary government, and at the same time actively promoted the economic policy of developing production, implemented new policies such as smoking bans, prohibitions on gambling, and letting go of feet, and established a new social trend.

　　The Communist Party of China always and everywhere safeguards and represents the interests of the broad masses of the people, and has also won the sincere love of the masses of the people. A Shaanxi-Gansu folk song that has been sung to this day sings like this: "The sheep's belly hand towel is three ways blue, and my brother is with us Liu Zhidan." Old Liu stood on the mountain and shouted, and thousands of us responded in unison. "When Xi Zhongxun was leading the work of the Soviet government in the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region, the masses came to him when they had difficulties, and whoever came, Xi Zhongxun immediately met him. The government of the Border Region once issued a decree saying that all party, government, and military cadres who embezzled more than ten yuan would be shot. The implementation of a series of disciplines and regulations has ensured that there are no violations of the interests of the people and that the government is clean and honest, and is deeply supported by the people in the base areas.

　　According to Yuan Wuzhen, an expert on party history in Shaanxi Province, the friendship between the military and the people in the base areas is deep, and the unity between the army and the people is like a rock, and even if difficulties and dangers arise in the revolutionary cause, they can always tide over the difficulties with the support of the masses. The enemy has mobilized a large number of troops several times in a vain attempt to wipe out the Shaanxi-Gansu-Border base area in one fell swoop. At that time, the Zhaojin guerrillas lacked guns and ammunition, and although the enemy launched a frenzied attack on Weibei and Zhaojin, with the full cover and support of the masses, the grass-roots party organizations were not destroyed, and the guerrillas did not suffer serious losses. In the winter, guerrilla movements in the areas of Chunhua and Yaoxian developed greatly. Although the revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian have gone through ups and downs, they have been able to continue to develop and grow, and they are inseparable from the Chinese Communists' dedication to serving the people and their constant close ties with the masses.

　　"During the Period of the Jinsu District, the revolutionary ancestors always took root in the masses, relied on the masses, beat up local tycoons, shared 'life-saving food,' carried out the agrarian revolution, and abolished harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so that they won the sincere love of the masses, and enabled all work in the base areas to be deeply rooted in the people's fertile soil, take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruitful results." Chen Jianhong, an expert on party history at the Party School of the Tongchuan Municipal CPC Committee, said.

　　Looking back at the road ahead, the party and the people have always been linked by blood, life and death, and this is also the source of our party's strength and the basis of victory.

　　Although the smoke is far away, the years are thick. Time has flown by, and today's old revolutionary area has become a pearl embedded in the mountains and rivers, illuminating the golden and red walls and white tiles. In recent years, Zhaojin has insisted on developing and utilizing red resources, promoting urbanization, and vigorously developing community factories, red tourism, characteristic planting and breeding and other industries to get rich, and the employment channels for the masses have been continuously broadened, and the people have achieved peace and contentment. Through the construction of the Zhaojin Memorial Hall, Memorial Square, Monument and Zhaojin Cadre Education Base in the Revolutionary Base Area of Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian, a beautiful town showing red memory and inheriting cultural veins has been created, attracting countless tourists to Zhaojin to pursue revolutionary relics and receive red education, forming a development model that is both practical and unique.

　　Through the magnificent historical process of the emergence and development of the Zhaojin spirit, we have profoundly realized that the masses of the people are the creators of history, and we can also feel the lofty sentiments of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries who are hard-working and simple and have a heart for the people. In the new era, to inherit and carry forward the spirit of Zhaojin, we must firmly adhere to the work style of proceeding from reality and maintaining close ties with the masses. Chen Jianhong said.

　　"As an important part of the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists, the Zhaojin spirit has been deeply integrated into the blood and soul of the Chinese nation, and has become a powerful spiritual driving force that encourages and inspires the Chinese people to constantly overcome difficulties, forge ahead, and move from victory to victory." Fan Weibin, secretary of the Tongchuan Municipal CPC Committee, said, "The centenary is just the right time. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, we must draw wisdom and strength from the party's glorious and glorious history, continue the red blood, inherit the red gene, inherit the glorious revolutionary tradition, carry forward the spirit of Zhaojin, continue to struggle, be willing to dedicate, and gather great strength for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ”