Heroic hymns will be passed on forever - relive those classics in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

Shenyang, 4 Nov (Xinhua) -- Title: Heroic Praises Will Forever Circulate -- Relive Those Classics of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

Xinhua News Agency reporters Huang Yan, Yu Li and Yu Yitong

How was the first report on the volunteer army's entry into the Korean War sent out? What is the story behind the manuscript of the "Battle Song of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army" treasured by the Memorial Hall of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea? Why did the first reporter to report on the martyr Yang Gensi touch the bowl with him on the eve of the battle at Chosin Lake?

71 years ago, in order to publicize and report on the great just war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the Xinhua News Agency successively sent more than 50 reporters and editors to the DPRK, went deep into the forefront of the battle, and wrote a large number of influential reports. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of Xinhua News Agency, let us relive the heroic hymns composed on the battlefield filled with gun smoke.

Chairman Mao personally revised the first article on the news that the volunteer army had entered the Korean War

On November 7, 1950, Xinhua News Agency broadcast a telegram entitled "The DPRK People's Army Has Won An Important Victory in Northwest Korea with the Assistance of Chinese Volunteer Troops." This was the first time that China publicly disclosed the participation of volunteers in the war after the volunteers entered the KOREAN war.

Wan Jinghua, director of the Journalism History Research Office of the Xinhua News Agency Research Institute, has long been engaged in the study of the social history of the Xinhua News Agency, including the study of the reports on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. She said: At the beginning of the volunteer army's entry into the DPRK and entering the war, out of strategic considerations, the central authorities decided not to publicly release any information to the outside world.

After the end of the first campaign, Mao Zedong decided to publish the news of the volunteer army's entry into the Korean war by publishing the war report, and personally revised it. The manuscript was sent out on November 7, with more than 900 words, and the electric head was "Xinhua News Agency, a place in northern Korea."

This day happens to be the 19th birthday of Xinhua News Agency.

Xinhua News Agency's report on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was carried out under the care and specific guidance of the party Central Committee, Chairman Mao, and the heads of the Volunteer Army. Chairman Mao not only gave specific reporting instructions to the Xinhua News Agency on many occasions, but also personally reviewed, revised, and wrote many important news, thus establishing the guiding ideology for reporting on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Xinhua News Agency reporters found from the poster that "majestic, angry, across the Yalu River"

"Majestic, angry, across the Yalu River..." Whenever you hear this exciting melody, you can always bring people back to the battlefield full of gun smoke.

In the Memorial Hall for The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, a prominent part of an exhibition hall hangs a picture printed with a brief score of the "Battle Song of the Chinese Volunteer Army." Zhang Xiaoying, deputy director of the Memorial Hall of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and an expert on the study of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, introduced that the composer Zhou Weizhi donated the manuscript to the memorial hall in 1993 and is now a national first-class cultural relic. The memorial also houses certificates and medals donated by the lyricist Ma Fuyu.

"The Battle Song of the Chinese People's Volunteers" quickly sang the Korean battlefield and the motherland in the north and south of the great river, and became the most representative and symbolic song in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Its birth has a wonderful relationship with Xinhua News Agency.

In mid-October 1950, Xinhua sent reporter Chen Bojian to cross the Yalu River with volunteer troops and enter the Korean battlefield. He was also the first Xinhua reporter to accompany the volunteers to the DPRK to interview.

Before entering the DPRK, the troops carried out pre-war mobilization. When Chen Bojian went to an artillery unit, he saw that the poster was plastered with various letters of determination, and one of the poems caught his attention. Chen Bojian immediately copied the poem in his notebook and slightly revised it, changing "crossing the Yalu River" to "crossing the Yalu River" and changing "good sons and daughters of China" to "good sons and daughters of China."

After entering the Korean battlefield, Chen Bojian quoted the poem in a field newsletter, which was prominently placed under the headline after Xinhua news agencies broadcast it on November 25, 1950, and the people's daily newspaper published the next day under the title "Remembering the Conversations of Several Soldiers of the Chinese Volunteer Army Unit." The musician Zhou Weizhi was very touched after reading it, and immediately composed a song for this poem, which was later named "The Battle Song of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army".

Since the report did not mention the author of the poem, nor did it sign the name of the reporter, the song was first published with the lyricist "Volunteer Soldier". After Chen Bojian provided clues, the original author of the poem, Ma Fuyu, was finally found.

Yang Gensi, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun... Behind these flashy names

After the release of the movie "Changjin Lake", in front of the tomb of the martyr Yang Gensi in the Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang, an improved J-15 model of the fourth-generation fighter and several photos of the J-20 fighter, with the words on the back read, "We have advanced fighters, a powerful air force!" appeared! ”

"Yang Gensi, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, and many others have been written into primary and secondary school textbooks, and many combat heroes have been buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang. Wang Chunjie, a staff member of the Martyrs' Cemetery for The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang, said.

The hero's name is a household name, and the hero's deeds are deeply moving. However, few people know that it was the War Correspondent of Xinhua News Agency who first reported their deeds.

On December 24, 1950, Xinhua News Agency broadcast a newsletter sent by our reporter from North Korea, "The Immortal Yang Gensi Hero Platoon," reporting on the heroic deeds of Yang Gensi, commander of the third company of a certain unit of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, who died with the enemy while holding an explosive package. Yang Gensi's heroic deeds soon spread.

Wan Jinghua said: The first person to report Yang Gensi's heroic sacrifice on the Korean battlefield was Xinhua News Agency reporter Hua Min. Before Yang Gensi entered the Korean War, Hua Min interviewed him. On the eve of the Battle of Chosin Lake, old friends reunite, and they meet each other with rice bowls instead of wine glasses, and meet again. After Yang Gensi's death, Hua Min wrote this famous newsletter with tears in his eyes.

On February 4, 1952, the Xinhua News Agency broadcast a newsletter sent by our correspondent Dai Huang from the Korean front, reporting on the heroic deeds of Luo Shengjiao, a reconnaissance team of a certain unit of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, who sacrificed his life to rescue a Korean teenager who fell into the water, which aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad. In addition, reports such as "Matrosov-style Hero Huang Jiguang" written by reporters Shi Feng and Wang Yuzhangcai, and "The Great Warrior Qiu Shaoyun" written by correspondent Zheng Dafancai have also touched hundreds of millions of readers.

In the glorious history of Xinhua News Agency over the past 90 years, countless Xinhua people have braved the smoke and flames of war when the party and the country need it, recorded history with the pen in their hands, praised heroes and martyrs, praised peace, and written down their loyalty to the motherland and the people with their lives.