Heroic army victorious march
——Written on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army of Chinese
■ Xie Xinping
Centennial event. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Hong
Today, the People's Army celebrates its 95th birthday.
95 years, at the snap of a finger. In the year of the birth of the people's army, the first quartz clock was born in the world, and the footsteps of human warfare became more urgent and chaotic in the precise resonance of the evolution of timekeeping tools; It was also the year that the "uncertainty principle" came out of the lab and tiny particles at the atomic scale began to change the world.
Today, "uncertainty" remains a dark cloud above the world. The Cold War mentality is rife, hegemonism is still rampant, the smoke of war is rising and falling, the terrorism reef is dense, and the struggle between mankind and the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still sticking...
China wants peace, China wants development, China wants stability, and China wants rejuvenation, but some hostile forces deliberately make trouble, shackle them, vilify and suppress them, smear blackmail, and threaten and intimidate...
The world's major changes unprecedented in a century have accelerated their evolution. The world of "uncertainty" is full of "uncertain" eyes. On the online interactive platform, a netizen's question has received widespread attention: "If there is a war, can the Platon Army, which has not fought for more than 30 years, still win?" ”
Such a gaze is not unfamiliar. Over the past 95 years, "dare not dare", "can we do it", "can we do it" - all kinds of questions from ourselves, our opponents, and the world have accompanied the people's army from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong.
In the face of these eyes, the heroic people's army used its indomitable victory journey to turn how many impossibilities into possibilities, how many no-nos into deeds, and how many question marks into exclamation points.
The heroic people's army proclaims a "definite answer" to this "uncertain" world with a majestic and loud military song: We are an invincible force!
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This year marks the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The smoke from the Lugou Bridge has long since dissipated, but the bullet marks on the Walls of Wanping are still clearly visible.
In the memorial hall of the Chinese Min Anti-Japanese War, two anti-war songs that later became national anthem and military songs, "March of the Volunteer Army" and "March of the Eighth Route Army", pulled people back to that period of fire.
"Get up! Get up! Get up! "Forward! Forward! Forward! "The dream of a nation's great power and the dream of a strong army are condensed in these two songs.
"With our feet on the land of the motherland and the hope of the nation on our backs, we are an invincible force..." When this sentence was born, it was more of a nation and an army to resist foreign insults; Today, the dream of a strong army is becoming a reality, and we have more confidence to say this oath.
At the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping stood on the tower of Tiananmen Square and stressed: "The people's army has established immortal merits for the party and the people, is a strong pillar for defending the red country and maintaining national dignity, and is also a powerful force for safeguarding regional and world peace." ”
Steel torrent. Photo by Yin Gang
How many stories and how many memories are written from Tiananmen Square. "China entered the 20th century with the humiliation of its capital being captured by the enemy." The blood and fire calculus of the "military force equation" and the "national fortune equation" record the indomitable struggle of the Chinese nation and also engrave deep historical pain.
August 1, the day marked with the glory and dreams of the people's army, also recorded the fiasco and pity of another army in China's modern history.
On August 1, 1894, China and Japan declared war, and the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing. In post-war negotiations, Japan was on its toes. In the eyes of the aggressor: the two countries have equal strength, and diplomacy is strength; The disparity in strength between the two countries is diplomacy.
China, which is poor and weak, has sunk into the changes of the last hundred years, and it has also confirmed such a truth with the "pain of the heart":
A strong country must have a strong army - what the Chinese nation has called for is a strong army, what countless ancestors are longing for is a strong army, and what the country needs to leap from big to strong is also a strong army.
Only when the army is strong can it be national security - the people's army has grown from scratch, and what has "existed" is the invincible will force; From small to large, what becomes "big" is the invincible will power; From weak to strong, what is more "strong" is also the invincible will power.
In today's world, the situation is turbulent and the order is being reshaped, and it is experiencing a major change that has not been seen in a hundred years, and the "law of the jungle" of international competition has not changed.
"Target China: Washington's "Dragon Slaying" Strategy," a best-selling book written by American scholar William Endor, outlines the scene of geopolitical struggle in the world and exposes the various schemes of the US ruling clique to isolate China internationally and economically, create crises, and severely damage China's development.
"The Coming War with China," a documentary made by Westerners, was circulated on the Internet: "The foreign military bases distributed around China are densely packed, like ropes, firmly wrapped around China's neck..."
Looking at the law of historical rise and fall, a country often faces the greatest risk pressure in two periods, one is when it is poor and weak, and the other is when it is developing and rejuvenating. In these two periods, the strength and weakness of the country's armed forces were important weights affecting the national fortunes.
When the strength is inferior to that of man, the strength of an army is declared by not being afraid of a war; When the situation is evenly matched, the strength of an army is demonstrated by the control of the situation; When strength is crushed, the strength of an army is demonstrated by the pre-battle.
The character of our army is written in his resume -
When a million male divisions crossed the river, in the face of the blatant provocation of the British warship "Purple Quartz", I resolutely attacked! When New China was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, in the face of the "United Nations Army" armed to the teeth, I resolutely sent troops! At a time when socialist economic construction is unfolding on a large scale, in the face of rampant aggressors who misjudge the situation, I have resolutely intervened! At the beginning of the reform and opening up, in the face of the aggressive acts that violate our borders, I thundered back!
In 2019, the 70th anniversary of the National Day military parade. The party flag, the national flag, and the military flag guide the mighty iron current and solemnly declare to the world that the Chinese People's Liberation Army is an army that "does not believe in evil and is not afraid of ghosts, and it is also an army that "dares to touch the hard and dare to show the sword." We have not yielded in the past, and we will not be soft today.
Stride forward. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ren Long
In 2022, at the 19th Shangri-La Dialogue, the voice of the Chinese army resounded around the world: "No one should underestimate the determination, will and strong ability of the Chinese army. ”
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In the history of human warfare, this is an army that has been repeatedly despised by its opponents and repeatedly misjudged by its opponents.
The Japanese army invading China did not take this army in their eyes, the Kuomintang army did not put this army in their eyes, and the US military did not put this army in their eyes... However, after the battle, the invincible army issued a sigh of "this army is invincible".
Our army once went around picking up other people's weapons, "no guns, no cannons, the enemy made for us"; Our army once regarded the enemy as a "transport captain" and "won the wheels of the car with both feet"; Our army used to be short of food and clothing, "a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow"...
We will never kneel when we stand up, let alone be intimidated by a few words of intimidation or a few warships!
An invincible legend, written in the eyes of the world's esteem.
The American scholar Bevin Alexander, a military historian by military background, wrote in North Korea – Our First Defeat: "The most frustrating thing is that the Red Chinese, with its meagre weapons and ridiculously primitive supply system, has contained the United States, the world's number one power with a large number of modern technology, advanced industry, and sophisticated weapons." ”
British Marshal Montgomery, a famous World War II general who participated in commanding the Normandy landings, after visiting China, saw the strength of an army in its bones: "I want to warn my colleagues not to fight with the Chinese army on the ground, this will become a taboo for military experts!" ”
The invincibility of the promise is engraved in the monument forged by the blood and life of the ancestors.
"The seventh interspersed company should be 157 people, and the actual number is 1 person!" This scene in the movie "Chosin Lake No. Shuimun Bridge" made many people cry. In military history, the people's army has too many "seventh interspersed companies."
In the winter of 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River. Photo by Li Min
In the display window of the National Museum, a shovel of dirt from the Shangganling position is placed. Among them, the ratio of soil and shrapnel is almost 1:1. In 43 days, the US army poured more than 1.9 million shells on this position, and the position was finally still in the hands of the volunteers! Since then, Shangganling has become the "sad ridge" of the US military.
How many times there have been extremely arduous battles, our army has never surrendered to the last person, vowed to coexist with the position, and vowed to let the enemy pay the blood debt! The enemy sighed: The Chinese army is not easy to mess with, nor can it be provoked!
The invincible will makes the enemy afraid and makes us blood hot.
There are a total of 16 "bullet holes" in the bodies of the 10 marshals of the People's Army, 37 "bullet holes" in the bodies of 10 major generals, and the gun wounds on the bodies of more than 1,600 founding generals have accumulated, which is enough to write an unprecedented record.
"Every time I think about the golden soup of the motherland, I remember the hero Iron Armor Cold." One by one, loyal souls who stand as banners, hunting burn with indomitable fighting spirit, silently telling what is an invincible force——
This power is the bloody boldness of "one is not afraid of suffering, the other is not afraid of death"; This power is the iron will to "fight to the last moment even if there is only one last man left"; This power is even more heroic in "overcoming all enemies and never being subjugated by them"...
In his 2022 New Year message, President Xi said: This year, there are many unforgettable Chinese voices, Chinese moments, and Chinese stories. The youth vow of "please rest assured that the party, the strong country has me", the affectionate confession of "clear love, only for China"...
"Clear love, only for China", which touched China's 8 words, is the battle slogan left by the soldier Chen Xiangrong before his death. Today, a Kunlun stone quietly accompanies the martyr who will always be 19 years old.
The country is picturesque, look at my strong army and heroes! Karakoram witnessed this group of brave warriors who were not afraid of sacrifice, and the majestic snowy mountains witnessed this heroic and fearless team: Qi Fabao, regimental commander of the post-70s regiment, Chen Hongjun, commander of the post-80s battalion, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran, and Chen Xiangrong, a post-00s soldier... Born in different eras, they constitute the invincible "annual ring of strength" of the people's army in the new era.
The oath is sonorous. Photo by Zhou Kaiwei
This is history that is happening, and this is an exciting future.
In the early morning, young soldiers walked through the cloister of the barracks, looking at the same young eyes on the wall—
When 21-year-old Huang Jiguang stood up to face the bullets spewed by the machine gun, when 19-year-old Dong Cunruiqing held up a smoky explosive pack... Those fiery postures, in the impact of guns and bullets, the baptism of blood and fire, were carved and refined into invincible strength and greatness.
In September 2018, the heroic models hung up by the whole army ushered in the figures of two heroes: Lin Junde, an outstanding scientist dedicated to the cause of national defense science and technology, and Zhang Chao, a "strong army pioneer who pursues dreams and seas and skies".
The heroic model hanging portrait is actually a hero group portrait. Today, when soldiers come to the hero company, it is the desire of every soldier; Today, the "Party Member Commando" is always the vanguard of the battle; Today, at every critical juncture of life and death, "the only child takes a step back", no one retreats, "communists take a step forward", everyone moves forward...
What is an invincible force? The answer is written in a pair of young eyes.
Yesterday, we "less steel and more gas"; Today, we are "steel more gasy than bone harder".
This is the unique "algorithm" for solving the "mystery of the East" of the people's army, and it is also the unique "mental method" for this army to move from victory to victory.
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In Zunyi, Guizhou, a river called the Xiang River runs through the city, dividing this small city in northern Qianbei in two. The site of the Zunyi Conference is located by the river.
In northern Guangxi, 700 kilometers from Zunyi City, there is also a river called the Xiang River. From November 27 to December 1, 1934, the bloody battle on the Xiangjiang River lasted for five days and five nights, and only more than 30,000 people were left in the 86,000 Central Red Army. The ship of the Chinese revolution is in danger of capsizing.
At the Zunyi Conference held a month and a half later, Mao Zedong entered the decision-making level of the Party Central Committee. This was a crucial turning point in the history of our Party, and it was also the first time that the Chinese Communists had independently and autonomously resolved the major problems of the Chinese revolution. Since then, the fate of the Party and the Red Army has been firmly in our own hands.
A ship that chops waves requires a helmsman who looks into the distance. It seems to be a historical coincidence: it was 14 years from the founding of the Communist Party of China to the Zunyi Conference, and it was also 14 years from the Zunyi Conference to the birth of New China.
"This meeting established Comrade Mao Zedong's leading position in the Red Army and the Party Central Committee, began to establish the leading position of the correct Marxist line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the Party Central Committee, and began to form the first generation of the Party's central leading collective with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core.
Zunyi Conference (oil painting). Peng Bin painted
Today, looking back at the Zunyi Conference, there is a truth that reveals the future -- upholding the party's absolute leadership over the army is the unchanging military soul tempered by our army in the struggle between blood and fire; Maintaining the core and absolute loyalty is the foundation of our army's indomitable victory.
The Party has injected an invincible soul into our army. This soul is a firm faith, a firm belief. This is the superiority of the people's army that distinguishes it from any army in ancient and modern China and abroad, and it is also the lifeblood of our invincibility.
Luo Xiao, Jinggang, winding and rugged... Again and again, he wiped the blood on his body, buried the bodies of his comrades-in-arms, and stood up to fight and went forward.
Xiangjiang, Yangtze River, turbulent and twisting... In one great turning point after another, we have always acted and fought under the party's absolute leadership, always listened to the party's words and followed the party, and the people's army has become more and more courageous and stronger the war.
"The courage to struggle and dare to win is an invincible and powerful spiritual force of the Communist Party of China." On the occasion of the centenary of the Communist Party of China, "dare to struggle, dare to win" has become one of the high-frequency words in President Xi's important speech.
The party flag leads the military flag, and the people's army is "born in the struggle, developed in the struggle, and strengthened in the struggle"; The military flag follows the party flag, and the people's army "is not afraid of strong enemies, not afraid of risks, dares to struggle, and dares to win."
Flags lead. Photo by Liu Jun
"Ten thousand mountains majestically look at the main peak." Today, the Chinese giant ship is sailing in unprecedented "open waters". In the face of the test of struggle in the new era and the stormy meeting of great changes, we must transform the "two establishments" into the political consciousness of "two safeguards", be absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, absolutely reliable, resolutely obey President Xi's command, be responsible to President Xi, and reassure President Xi.
No matter what kind of terrifying waves we encounter, as long as the core of the party is at the helm and as long as the people's army is firmly in the hands of the party, our army will always be invincible, and the giant ship "China" will be able to ride the wind and waves to sail steadily and far.
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More than 70 years ago, Western public opinion remembered two "bombshells" dropped by the volunteer army on the battlefield: a song "I am a soldier" and an article "Who is the most lovely person".
These two "bombshells" answer the "root proposition" of an army: Who am I? For whom?
On the "Red Army Bridge" in Changting, Fujian Province, in Zhongfu Village, there is a tick line: the length of a long gun and a bayonet.
"Man is higher than a gun to be a Red Army." This tick line was the lowest threshold for conscription in the Red Army that year. When this tick line was drawn, nearly 600 people joined the Red Army in Zhongfu Village alone. In order to reach this line, some people stuffed paper into straw shoes, some people tiptoed up, and some people got up in the middle of the night, secretly lowered it, and tried to stand in the ranks of the Red Army...
In 1936, Edgar Snow embarked on a westward journey with a long list of question marks to discover why the Red Army was so tenacious. Mao Zedong sat in a cave and told Snow a firm answer: "The Red Army is the army of the people, and the people support the Red Army meticulously; There is no way to destroy the Red Army unless the people who love and love the Red Army are first eliminated..."
I send my loved ones across the river. Photo by Zou Jiandong
The people will always be the definitive word of our army. Rooted in the earth, the people's army and the common people's blood blend and draw on a steady stream of strength.
The earth is silent, always nourishing the meandering root system——
Liu Bocheng, who lost his right eye in the Battle of Fengdu, sighed: "As long as you fight for the vital interests of the masses of the people, and the war takes away one eye, the masses will give you thousands of eyes; Take away one of your hands, and the crowd will give you back ten million hands! ”
Wang Yuanjian, a veteran and creator of the film and literary script of "Shining Red Star", used emotional brushstrokes to record his personal experience during the War of Resistance: at that time, the 15-year-old stayed at the home of villager Zhang Daniang, who left the only two remaining nests for him, but secretly fed the chewed peanut shells to his daughter who was less than two years old. Wang Yuanjian shouted "Mother", threw himself into her arms, and cried. Zhang Da Niang stroked his head and said, "Don't cry... As long as the revolution can succeed, I don't know how many children can be saved! ”
Trees work hard to grow, hoping to shade a wider coolness -
More than a thousand years ago, on that cold night when the cold moon was lonely, Du Fu's "Stone Trench Official" conveyed the weeping and sorrowful cries of the villagers when they were bullied by officers and soldiers. More than a thousand years later, the Red Army also passed by a place called a stone trench, and the local people sang such a song: "The stone trench is not a soldier in any year, and the people who have passed the army are restless." Only when the Red Army passed, it was very quiet when it came and went..."
Edgar Snow meets "a grinning red boy" who has "talked a lot about love, war, and its possible outcomes."
"What are we going to do when this war is over..." "I was already dead by then, and most of us would all die in this war." The red boy smiled and looked at Snow calmly.
How can a soldier die calmly? How can an army be made invincible?
Through the cross-section of history, we can clearly see that with the will of the people, the will of the people, and the gathering of the people's strength, the people's army will be invincible and invincible to the world.
Along the trajectory of time, the trunk of the people's army draws the 95th ring of the year. The roots that snake from the years have always grasped the soil under their feet and guarded this land and the people living on this land.
On the frontline of the fight against the epidemic, the white-clad soldiers said that "the people's liberation army of Chinese will not retreat", touching hundreds of millions of people; On the front line of flood resistance, the people's children and soldiers built one "camouflage levee" with their flesh and blood; The frontline of earthquake resistance, one by one rushing to the scene of the disaster, fixed as the "most beautiful retrograde" in people's eyes...
Rush to the front line of the fight against the epidemic. Photo by Wang Chuanshun
Wherever there is the call of the masses of the people, there will be the charge of the people's children and soldiers. Protecting the people has long become the instinct of the people's army carved into its bones.
"In order to build the motherland", how many strong brigades, take off their beloved military uniforms to pioneer the four directions; "Do not compete with the masses for profits", how many camps, after moving away, rise high-rise buildings; "For the sake of comprehensive well-off", how many figures, thrown into the battlefield of poverty alleviation...
"Love our people and love our army", no army in the world is as linked to the people's flesh and blood as the people's army, and life and death are interdependent.
"The military and the people are united as one, try to see who can be the enemy in the world!" The greatest force is to work together. This is the source of strength for the people's army to march from victory to victory, and it is also the original essence that the people's army will always uphold.
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On June 17, 2022, the Fujian ship was launched with the hull number "18".
This is the first catapult aircraft carrier independently designed and built by the mainland. After 10 years of strengthening the army, the People's Navy has stepped into the era of "three musketeers" of aircraft carriers.
The scene of the naming ceremony of the Launching of the Fujian Ship. Photo by Li Gang
I still remember that when the aircraft carrier Liaoning was listed, the Western media sneered: "It will take many years for the Chinese navy to have a reliable aircraft carrier navigation capability on the asian seas..."
Who would have thought that in less than 2 months, the People's Navy, which had never driven an aircraft carrier, had completed the "earth-shattering fall" of carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier!
The speed created by the people's army that amazes the world, why not just this one?!
In just 7 months, the first generation of pilots of new China, who had never touched an airplane, rushed to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and "broke the wrist" with the US Air Force, which claimed to be the world's first. U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Vandenberg exclaimed: Communist China became one of the world's major air powerhouses almost overnight.
In just 5 months, the Air Force ground guidance unit, which has never been in contact with missiles, shot down the US-Chiang Kai-shek high-altitude reconnaissance plane in one fell swoop, setting a precedent in the history of war for shooting down enemy aircraft with air-to-air missiles...
On the world stage, strength is the "ticket" to earn respect. Behind the invincibility of the people's army is the super ability to learn.
In June 1937, in the ravine of northern Shaanxi, Harrison Foreman, who later wrote the "Red China Report", took up his camera to record a shocking scene: on the earth wall of the cave, the military education wall chart used by the Red Army, the protagonist was the US Navy aircraft carrier "Saratoga" in the future Yangwei Pacific Theater!
Not only aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines, multi-turret tanks... From the equipment pattern to the introduction of structural principles, a small wall chart almost covers the essence of the world's military technology in the first 30 years of the 20th century.
It was an army's enthusiasm for learning—at this point, they had just completed a painstaking strategic shift, and most of them had only a worn-out rifle in their hands.
This is the learning vision of an army - "millet plus rifle" is their historical image, but they have never been in this image of self-sufficiency. With longing eyes, they looked out over the sea and the world from the crosshairs of their worn-out rifles, and set themselves lofty goals.
This is the learning ability of an army - from scratch, how many branches of the army "broke the shell" in the fire of war, and "bright wings" in learning. The people's army learns while fighting, learns while reforming, and becomes stronger and stronger as it changes...
Victory after victory has played out our self-confidence and dignity, and also played out our sobriety and distress.
In 1952, the war was in a state of stalemate, and the acting commander of the Volunteer Army, Chen Geng, was urgently recalled to China. At the Zhongnanhai Juxiang Book House, Mao Zedong waved a big hand: "We are determined to solve the problem of backward technology and equipment, and the purpose of transferring you back is to create a higher military engineering college..."
In 1954, our army selected pilots from among the soldiers who returned from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. On the list, Zhang Taofang's name is impressively listed. He, in 32 days, killed 214 enemy people with 436 rounds of ammunition, setting a record for the highest number of enemy kills by the volunteer army. Today's netizens named him "Shangganling Sniper God".
In October 1952, the officers and men of the Volunteer Army held the Shangganling position. (File photo, PLA Pictorial)
At the sound of an order, the best generals and the best soldiers took the lead in the storm line of transformation.
Studying war in war -- our army regards learning as more important than anything else, the strength of the people's army comes from learning and innovation, and the victory of the people's army comes from learning and innovation.
Chasing the trend in the trend - learning is thinking about change, learning through is changing. In order to win, our army has never been soft on the enemy and has been more "ruthless" toward itself. Transformation and reshaping time and time again, the people's army has achieved leaps and bounds.
Today, the equipment of our army has far exceeded the wall chart in the caves of that year; Today, the silent competition and invisible competition faced by the transformation of our army are no less intense than the battlefields of that year.
The wind and thunder of the times are stirring, calling for the people's army to learn deeply, transform and reshape. The people's army has never accelerated its run toward modernization as it does today; Never before have I repacked and set off again like I do today.
Zweig said, "History is the real poet and playwright." In the extraordinary 10-year-long shot of the strong army, the scene is frozen like this:
This is a far-sighted picture - President Xi Jinping led the people's army to accurately identify changes, respond scientifically, and take the initiative to seek changes in the century-old changes, which has won the strategic initiative for the leapfrog development of the past 10 years. Time and again to judge the situation, orient the rudder, take charge of the overall situation again and again, strategize, cast into Xi Jinping Thought on strengthening the army, set up the goal of "obeying the party's command, being able to win battles, and have a good work style", and drew up a strong army layout of "political army building, reforming and strengthening the army, strengthening the army with science and technology, strengthening the army with talents, and managing the army according to law".
This is the boldness of remodeling and reengineering -- the great emancipation of the mind, the great discussion of standards, the great innovation of theory, and the great breakthrough of reform. From the announcement of disarmament of 300,000 to the promotion of deepening the "three major battles" of national defense and army reform, President Xi Jinping led the transformation and reshaping of the people's army to run out of "acceleration", breaking how much nostalgia, how much dependence, how much stubbornness, how much inertia, and striding forward to keep up with the pace of the times and move towards world-class.
This is the confidence to win a thousand miles – President Xi jinping leads us to look back at history as never before, "to see clearly why we have been able to succeed in the past"; Looking to the future like never before, "figuring out how we can continue to succeed in the future" Plot layout 2027, forward-looking operation strategy 2035, far-reaching economic strategy 2050... The road map, timetable, and mission statement are more explicit, and the process of moving towards a world-class army presses the "fast-forward button".
In the extraordinary 10 years, a strong country and a strong army, such as the high gorge, have accumulated huge energy. As the future unfolds, the torrent rushes, and the unprecedented potential energy is being transformed into unprecedented kinetic energy.
National rejuvenation is irreversible, and the pace of strengthening the army is unstoppable.
Today, the goal of the first centenary struggle has been successfully realized, giving the people's army stronger strength and greater self-confidence. The second centenary goal has begun, and what we are now in is a time when the boat to the middle of the river is more urgent, and the road to the middle of the mountain is steeper, and it is a time when it is more and more difficult to go forward, more and more dangerous, and if you do not advance, you must retreat, and you must enter.
At this time, we must "hold firm in the perseverance of not relaxing in the green mountains" and "with the soberness of those who walk a hundred miles and half ninety years", more actively recognize changes and seek changes, know responsibilities and responsibilities, move forward courageously, and live up to the people's trust.
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Spanning more than 40 latitudes from north to south and sailing nearly 30,000 nautical miles, this is the 2021 year of Hu Jiahao, a post-00 sailor.
Nanchang native Hu Jiahao, born on the Ganjiang River, grew up in Hero City, and is now the chief gunner of the third generation of Nanchang ships. In the open seas and oceans, Hu Jiahao and his comrades-in-arms left behind a shining trail of youth.
In 1953, Mao Zedong boarded the first generation of Nanchang ships with a displacement of only more than 1,000 tons, and waved an inscription: "We must build a strong navy." "In 2019, the domestically produced 10,000-ton large destroyer and the third-generation Nanchang ship were inspected by President Xi.
If the story of the people's army is compared to a book of legends, then this book of legends undoubtedly has a "youth cover".
Our army has been racing through the torrent of history. The torrent of history also witnesses and freezes the appearance of each "youth me"——
That is the appearance of "crossing the natural dangers by force and making meritorious achievements" on the Dadu River, that is the appearance of "crossing the Yangtze River and liberating all of China" on the Dadu River, and that is the appearance of "crossing the Yalu River with great vigor and vigor"...
At that time, standing at the head of Nanchang City, what kind of distance did the revolutionary ancestors look into? They believe they can be strong and victorious. But would they have imagined that this army would be strong enough to "look like it is today"?
Ports of Aden, Portsmouth, Pearl Harbor, the charts of the People's Army are constantly being updated; Kabul International Airport, Batajnica Airport, Nuku'alofa International Airport, the routes of the People's Army are constantly extending; The Frunze Military Academy in Russia, the Royal Military Academy in Sunhurst in the United Kingdom, the French Defense Academy of the Three Services, and the classrooms of the new generation of Chinese officers are also expanding...
Yemen evacuated. Infographic
This is an unprecedented picture - "the motherland sends warships to pick up relatives and return home!" "Civil war broke out in Yemen, and China sent naval warships to quickly withdraw more than 600 Chinese citizens. People lamented: "The strength of the motherland does not lie in how many countries Chinese citizens are exempt from visas, but in the fact that they can take you home in times of danger." ”
It was an unprecedented gesture – "Go you!" The command gesture of the aircraft carrier aircraft take-off assistant quickly became popular on the Internet, and netizens imitated it, affectionately calling it "aircraft carrier style". These brand-new battle positions and brand-new gestures have witnessed the growth and leap of the people's army's combat effectiveness.
"Aircraft Carrier Style". Photo by Zhang Lei
This is an unprecedented rhythm - new submarines, new fighters, new missiles... New-type combat forces are constantly growing, logistics construction has been accelerated and transformed, weapons and equipment for the main battle have been upgraded at an accelerated pace, and blueprints for strengthening the armed forces have been realized one after another.
This is an unprecedented voice - "I am the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, you have entered the Control Area of the Chinese Air Force, please leave immediately!" "This is China's territorial waters!" Please stay away now! "In China's air defense identification zone, in the territorial waters of Chinese islands and reefs, solemn bilingual shouts have repeatedly resounded between the sea and the sky.
"China can already look at the world head-on." In a word, behind the brush screen of "looking at the world" is a historical lament of "today's China, no longer yesterday's China", and a concentrated portrayal of the rise of the Chinese spirit in the new era.
"What kind of future will you hear about on Chinese ships?" The U.S. Foreign Policy website asked this question in an article published on November 7, 2017.
Michael Fabby, the author of the article, also wrote "Full Speed Back: America and China in the Pacific Power Conflict." In 2017, after visiting the Haikou ship, Michael Fabi concluded: "The young officers on the Haikou ship are very confident, and they are very sure of the fate of the motherland." ”
What the people's army looks like today is the dream of many revolutionary ancestors. Today, the courage with which we look at the world comes precisely from the courage of our revolutionary ancestors to struggle.
Invincible, connected to an army of yesterday, today and tomorrow —
We have the confidence and ability to defeat all enemies who come to us! We have the confidence and ability to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests! We have the confidence and ability to write a new chapter in the strong military industry!
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On August 1, 1949, on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Xinhua News Agency published an editorial. Mao Zedong personally reviewed the editorial and changed its title to "We Can Overcome Difficulties."
The editorial read: "The young people of that time are now middle-aged, and the middle-aged people of that time are now old. But the revolution was finally victorious. ”
On August 1, 1952, the most majestic monument in the history of New China, the Monument to the People's Heroes, was officially started. This majestic monument has not engraved the name of a single martyr.
Nanchang Uprising (oil painting). Xinhua News Agency
Over the years, the staff of the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall in Nanchang has been looking for those who "fired the first shots". Today, the list of participants in the Nanchang Uprising has been expanded to 1120 people. The newly added name is: Zhou Zhizhong, born in 1894; Zhang Yiming, born in 1900; Zhong Liangrong, born in 1904; He Bayi, born in 1908...
95 years of endeavor continued. The post-90s and post-00s in the new era continue to converge into an invincible force of the people's army. They reported to the motherland from the battlefield: "The strong army has me, and the motherland is assured!" ”
Steel Oath. Photo by Zhang Jiangang
95 years of ups and downs. How many names, left on the side of the marching road; How many names, remaining in the trench positions; How many names, not even time to leave... Those famous, nameless, great, ordinary names, melted into historical monuments, strong military road signs, turning "uncertain questions" into "definite answers"——
Moving forward, the great Communist Party of China is invincible!
Forward, the great Chinese people are invincible!
Forward, the heroic Chinese people's liberation army is invincible!
Source: China Military Network - People's Liberation Army Daily