Reference News Network reported on November 4 (text/Luo Anrong)
I learned about Reference News in the mid-1970s. At that time, I had just entered the first grade of junior high school, and my father, a barefoot doctor in the production brigade, brought back several newspapers, including "Reference News". One night, after my father read it, I flipped through it and was attracted by some articles. At that time, I thought that it was no wonder that my father was talking about the international situation when he was chatting with the neighbors, and it turned out that he had obtained information from this small newspaper. However, my father's words, "We should look at the contents of some articles excerpted from the Reference News" with a critical eye, did not understand the meaning until I joined the army and arrived in the army.
Later, whenever he read the "Reference News" brought back by my father, I went to read it carefully, and from this newspaper, I learned about important news from all over the world, as well as the analysis and comments of media and relevant experts and scholars from all over the world on major events, hot issues, important figures, etc., especially the reports of foreign news agencies and news organizations on China's socialist construction and development. Sometimes I will understand and digest these articles and "publish" them to my classmates, while expressing my own views and opinions. What particularly benefited me was that after the restoration of the college entrance examination system in our country, which had been interrupted for ten years by the impact of the "Cultural Revolution," I read from the "Reference News" articles in the world's major media that fully affirmed this major decision and measure of our country, and I was sincerely happy. In the spring of 1978, the education counseling group of Chenyuan Commune in Danyang County, Hubei Province, where I worked (the name of the administrative division and related units in that year), organized a unified examination for the second grade of junior high school Language, of which the propositional composition was "The Spring of Education". In this essay, I quoted some views of influential media such as "Agence France-Presse", "Kyodo News", "Associated Press" published in the "Reference News" on the restoration of the college entrance examination system in our country, which was fully recognized by the grading teachers, and the total score of 120 points on the examination paper, I scored 106 points, of which 40 points of the composition scored full marks, so I also achieved the first place in the language unified examination among the 5 junior high schools in the commune and nearly 300 junior high school students, and the school also organized more than 20 student representatives from all grades to this end. Led by the principal himself, he beat the gong and drum to send good news to our family, and the parents' faces blossomed with joy.
In October 1984, I enlisted as a glorious soldier in the People's Liberation Army. The company has a "Reference Message" every year, which I must read almost every day. Of course, I understood from the instructor's teachings the implications of my father's phrase "look with a critical eye." Later, I was broken, and after several efforts, I became a company political instructor, and the relevant content published in the "Reference News" often appeared in the courseware of my lectures to the soldiers. In 1997, a short article I wrote was published in the "Readers and Editors" column of the "Reference News" on September 10 (with photos of this article), which was mainly to thank the Reference News for its continuous publication of "The Road to the Development of Two Populous Countries" from August 19 to 21, 1997, comparing the human development of China and India, and concluding that socialist China under the leadership of the Communist Party and multi-party capitalist India are currently in a leading position in the race to success. This provided me with a very rich and very objective material, and sent me a timely rain to teach the soldiers a lesson on current affairs and politics.
Time flies. Fifteen years ago, in 2006, I took off my military uniform for 22 years and transferred to local government departments, where I was responsible for the organization and personnel of the unit, the party building of the organs, and the propaganda and education work. Although the work environment has changed, "Reference News" has always been inseparable from me. Especially with the continuous development of network communication technology, newspapers can be seen on mobile phones, so even if I travel from time to time, I will click on the electronic version of "Reference News" from my mobile phone to read carefully.
"Reference News" grew up with me, and "Reference News" accompanied my progress. Now that I am approaching retirement age, it is certain that my indissoluble relationship with Reference News will always be with me for the rest of my life. (The author is a first-class researcher of Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment of Sichuan Province)
Source: Reference News Network