CCTV news(Focus interview): When youth is prosperous, the country is prosperous, and when young people are strong, the country is strong. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward his hope to the young people across the country during his inspection and research at Renmin University of China recently: Determined to rejuvenate the nation, live up to the youth, live up to the times, live up to the people, run hard on the track of youth, and strive to be the best among contemporary youth. score! Starting today, “Focus Interview” will launch the series “Strivers Are Youthful”, reviewing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest entrustment to the young people, and focusing on those strugglers who are showing their youth. What kind of people should our youth become, how should we let go of our youthful dreams and take on the responsibility of youth in the new era? Let’s find the answer from the following stories together.
This is a video recorded by Beijing Bayi School on the eve of May 4th. The May 4th Commendation Meeting originally planned to be held at the end of April was changed to be held online in May due to the impact of the epidemic, mainly to commend outstanding students and members of the Communist Youth League in the school. From 1988 to the present, this will be the 34th meeting of the Bayi School. Four awards.
At the commendation meeting in recent years, the teachers and students of Bayi School will review the sincere entrustment to the young people when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the school in 2016.
On September 9, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Beijing Bayi School for inspection. In a discussion with teachers and students, he emphasized that students should consciously strengthen moral development and let the seeds of socialist core values from childhood. To take root and sprout in the heart, we must work hard in diligent study, cultivation of virtue, discernment, and sincerity, and work hard to obtain true knowledge. The general secretary’s entrustment has had a profound impact on the teachers and students of Bayi School.
His name is Zhu Xun, and he is now a senior in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University. In 2016, when General Secretary Xi visited Bayi School, he was still a second-year high school student in this school, and he was also a student of Bayi School’s design and development of popular science. One of the satellite team members.
Zhu Xun, a student at Tsinghua University, said:“The general secretary told us that when he was in middle school in Bayi, he and his classmates made a ore radio, because science and technology were not so developed before, and it was more difficult to make a radio. He said that we are now living in a new era, I can enjoy the relatively favorable conditions of the rapid development of national science and technology, explore my own interests, develop my scientific spirit and scientific literacy, which impressed me deeply.”
In Bayi School, learning that China’s first science popularization satellite for middle school students designed and developed by the students is about to be launched, General Secretary Xi Jinping affirmed the practice of stimulating students’ imagination and creativity through science popularization activities.
Zhu Xun said: “The general secretary encouraged us to write to him if this satellite is actually launched in the future. At that time, we wrote a letter to him, the content of the letter was that we kept your words in mind at that time, Then continue to explore, and will launch a satellite by the end of the year.”
Soon, the students of the small satellite team received a reply from General Secretary Xi: I hope you will maintain your thirst for knowledge, maintain your interest in exploration, cultivate a scientific spirit, study hard, practice hard, and drive more young people to talk about science and love. Science, learn science, use science.
Zhu Xun said: “I was still a sophomore in high school at the time, and I didn’t think about what major to study in college or what job I would do in the future, but after the general secretary encouraged me at that time, I wondered if I would have the opportunity to develop my interests and strengths in the future, such as scientific exploration, or some basic scientific research.”
Scientific exploration is inseparable from diligent study. Zhu Xun kept in mind the entrustment that General Secretary Xi Jinping left at Bayi School six years ago. From the middle school entrance examination to Tsinghua University to the cultivation of daily interests, Zhu Xun insisted on diligent study and exploration.
Through diligent study, young people not only increase their knowledge and talents, but also broaden their pattern and vision, laying the foundation for establishing socialist core values. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the development of young people’s values, and has repeatedly used the “first button” to describe the importance of guiding young people to establish socialist core values and helping them take the first step in life.
Yu Wenli, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Marxism at Peking University, said:“The general secretary mentioned that values are the first button. The implication is that young people are required to establish a good life choice, the direction of life development, and to establish morality, so that they can identify the basic standards of behavior and do things, and be able to shape into a moral People, people of noble character.”
However, if a person becomes a talent, he needs to have both ability and political integrity. The school is a place to cultivate people with virtue and cultivate talents. It shoulders the task and mission of Bacon’s soul.
Zhou Qi is an ideological and political teacher at Southwest University and a member of the Central Youth Lecturer Group of the Communist Youth League. How to help young students buckle the first button in life and establish correct life values is her important work.
On March 18, 2019, Zhou Qi participated in the symposium for teachers of the school’s ideological and political theory course hosted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that the ideological and political theory course is the key course to implement the fundamental task of Lide and cultivating people.
To build virtue and cultivate people, you need to lead by example. In class, Zhou Qi combined the power of role models to discuss the spiritual pedigree, ideals and beliefs of the Chinese Communists with her classmates.
The pioneer of the times has become a role model for the younger generation. Combined with the spirit conveyed by the example, the young students have also thought about their own lives.
As a key course for cultivating people by virtue, ideological and political courses are particularly important for guiding young people to buckle the first button in life, but whether the button is properly buttoned, and whether the road of life can be aligned in the right direction – this requires firm determination Ideal and belief to pilot. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to determination, and has repeatedly mentioned that determination is the premise of everything. He also emphasized that, for Chinese youth in the new era, loving the motherland is the foundation of life and the foundation of talent. The majority of young people should closely link their ideals with the future of the motherland and their lives with the destiny of the nation, take root in the people, and contribute to the country.
More than 80 years ago, in the face of domestic and foreign aggression and a poor and weak country, Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University, at the opening ceremony in September 1935, asked, “Are you Chinese? Do you love China? Do you want China? Are you alright?” This deafening “three patriotic questions” ignited the patriotic fighting spirit of teachers and students, and in the turbulent old China, planted new hope for Nankai’s self-improvement and survival. In new China, “three questions about patriotism” has been given a new meaning, which makes young students think about how to closely link their personal future with that of the motherland. In 2019, General Secretary Xi visited Nankai University for investigation and research, and once again mentioned the “three patriotic questions”.
Cheng Quhan, a doctoral student at Nankai University, although three years have passed, Cheng Quhan still remembers the scene of General Secretary Xi’s visit to the school for investigation and investigation.
On January 17, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Nankai University for investigation and research. When viewing precious historical materials full of patriotism in the school history museum, he said: Patriotism is the national heart and soul of the Chinese nation, and it cultivates socialist builders and successors. , First of all, we must cultivate students’ patriotism.
In 2018, 24-year-old Cheng Quhan signed up for the postgraduate teaching group of the China Youth Volunteer Poverty Alleviation Relay Program, and went to the Central Primary School in Dazi District, Lhasa City, Tibet to teach for one year. Looking back on that time, Cheng Quhan thought more about General Secretary Xi Jinping’s entrustment of “three questions about patriotism”.
Cheng Quhan, a doctoral student at the School of Life Sciences of Nankai University, said:“Teaching in Tibet is actually a specific answer to the ‘three questions about patriotism’ mentioned by the General Secretary at Nankai University, and we contribute our limited strength to some specific things that can be done for the development of local education. I think In fact, what we are doing is helping these western regions and these underdeveloped regions to achieve better development for them.”
Young people will have different life goals and different career choices. General Secretary Xi Jinping said to the young people: Only by integrating the small self into the big self can we have the same mind as the sea and the lofty heights of the mountain. Such an entrustment also had a profound impact on Cheng Quhan.
Cheng Quhan has been studying in the School of Life Sciences since he was admitted to Nankai University. The general secretary’s entrustment of “integrating the small self into the big self” gave him a clearer and firmer choice.
Cheng Quhan said: “The research we have done should serve the real needs of the country and society. Cardiovascular disease is currently the disease with the highest fatality rate in the world, with as many as 330 million people in our country, so it is a huge social disease. Therefore, after I came back from teaching, I chose to continue to take cardiovascular biomaterials as my own study and research direction.”
Buckle the first button in your life and strengthen your ideals and beliefs, just like there is light in the dark night, and the direction is clear in the confusion. When personal ideals and beliefs are integrated into the torrent of the future of the country and the destiny of the nation, a more dazzling light will burst out. This light will not only illuminate oneself, but also illuminate the farther distance. It inspires people to forge ahead and gives people strength.
Now, we should be able to come up with the following answer: the buttons of life should be fastened from the very beginning. The majority of young people must establish socialist core values, study diligently, be virtuous, and set great aspirations. In this way, you will become a great talent and take on great responsibilities. Today, the Chinese youth in the new era are in the best period for the development of the Chinese nation. They are not only facing the rare opportunity of making great achievements in their lives, but also facing the mission of the era of “the heaven will hand down great responsibilities to the people”. Youth shines through hard work, and life is sublimated through struggle. Based on the new era and new journey, and unswervingly listening to the party’s words and walking with the party, Chinese youth will surely achieve a brilliant life and grow into a newcomer of the era worthy of the important task of national rejuvenation.