On the shore of Bohai Bay, there is a breeze. On the north bank of the Dai River, the grass and trees are verdant.
Beidaihe, once known as the "summer capital", is not only a holy place for recuperation, but also a source of "the great man of the country". The history of the Republic is often sketched here, but it is also full of brilliance.
The story of Beidaihe, which the author focuses on today, started with a red invitation letter.
On August 3, 2024, entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, visited experts on summer vacation in Beidaihe, and extended sincere greetings to experts and talents on all fronts and fields across the country on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.
In the name of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, inviting representatives of experts and talents to Beidaihe for summer vacation is an important institutional arrangement for the work of the party and the state in the field of talents.
From July 18 to 31, 1987, the CPC Central Committee invited 14 middle-aged scientific and technological workers to Beidaihe for vacation with their families, which was the first of its kind in the system. Since 1998, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have invited 23 batches of more than 1,300 experts to participate in summer vacation activities.
According to public reports, during his tenure as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice president of the state, General Secretary Xi Jinping met with outstanding experts and front-line talents on vacation in Beidaihe in the summer of 2010 and 2012.
Governing the country and the state, talent is urgent. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary has made a series of important instructions on talent work, focusing on listening to the opinions and suggestions of experts and scholars, replying to experts and representatives of scientific and technological workers, and encouraging experts and talents to innovate and create and scale new heights. In September and November 2021, Xi Jinping attended the Central Talent Work Conference and the Central Military Commission Talent Work Conference.
As of July 30, 2024, the 20th Politburo of the CPC Central Committee has conducted a total of 16 collective study sessions. In the press release disclosed by the central media, Xi Jinping mentioned the keyword "talent" a total of 37 times in his speech on collective learning. Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, strengthening basic research, building a strong country in education, strengthening the construction of a foreign-related legal system, solidly promoting high-quality development, promoting high-quality and full employment, and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization are all inseparable from writing a good article on "talents".
Keyword search for major central documents often reflects the party Central Committee's intention to govern the country. Not long ago, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization", which mentioned 53 times of science and technology, 51 times of innovation, 37 times of education, 30 times of talent, 11 times of scientific research, 5 times of tackling key problems, and 3 times of experts. It is also dedicated to "deepening the reform of the system and mechanism of talent development".
The majority of experts and talents have ushered in the best period of entrepreneurship.
Representatives of experts and talents gather in Beidaihe every year for vacation, and there is a theme. According to public reports, the theme for 2023 is "Committed to high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and devote ourselves to the great practice of Chinese-style modernization". The theme of 2024 is "Patriotic Struggle", and the experts are mainly from the fields of natural sciences, engineering technology, philosophy and social sciences, culture and art.
The theme reflects the orientation, and the field reflects the center of gravity. In the group photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the outside world was able to understand which expert talent representatives received the sacred red invitation.
On August 3, entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, visited experts on summer vacation in Beidaihe, and extended sincere greetings to experts and talents on all fronts and fields across the country on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ye
Sitting on the right hand side of Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, is Xue Qikun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and president of the Southern University of Science and Technology. He is a well-known physicist, who has long been engaged in the preparation, characterization and physical properties of ultra-thin film materials, and led the team to discover the quantum anomalous Hall effect for the first time when he worked at Tsinghua University, which was evaluated by Yang Zhenning as a Nobel Prize-level research achievement. During the two sessions of the National People's Congress last year, as a deputy to the National People's Congress in Shenzhen, Xue Qikun walked on the "representative channel" to tell the new "spring story" of Shenzhen. On June 24 this year, Xue Qikun won the 2023 National Highest Science and Technology Award.
Sitting on Cai Qi's left hand side is Professor Yao Chizhi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University. As a computer scientist, Yao is the only Chinese to have won the Turing Award, the highest international award in the field of computing. Yao has been engaged in computer science and quantum information science research for a long time, and has taught at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, California, Berkeley, Princeton and other United States top universities. In September 2004, Yao resigned from Princeton University for tenure and officially joined the Center for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University as a full-time professor at Tsinghua University, filling the gap in computer-related disciplines in China.
Sitting on the left hand side of Li Ganjie, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, is Wang Xi, a member of the Shandong Artists Association and a famous painter. Mr. sculpture, calligraphy, poetry are excellent, landscape figure painting is a must.
Sitting on the right hand of State Councilor Chen Yiqin is Jin Meilin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor at Huazhong Agricultural University. Professor Jin's main research interests are the etiology, epidemiology, pathogenic mechanisms, novel vaccines and diagnostics of zoonoses of animal origin and emerging important animal diseases.
Sitting to the left of Jiang Xinzhi, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), is Li Peilin, director of the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who was a member of the Standing Committee of the 13 th National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Social Construction Committee. Li Peilin has long been engaged in the study of social science issues such as rural urbanization, urban villages, migrant workers, and social classes, and has recently published an academic article entitled "Theoretical and Empirical Research on Strengthening the Culture and Civilization of the Mainland."
In addition, there are also academician Yang Desen, an expert in underwater acoustics, academician Li Huajun, an expert in coastal and ocean engineering, academician He Kebin, an expert in environmental engineering, academician Liu Yichun, an expert in semiconductor materials, Wang Xiaoying, a famous theater director, Zhang Yuyan, dean of the School of International Politics and Economics of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and so on.
More of the experts in the group photo may not be seen in public reports. Among them, there are not only vigorous young talents, but also pioneers in various fields in the year of fighting, and there are many discipline leaders in the world. They may gather heroes at a project demonstration meeting of a certain important weapon of the country, and they will also look at each other and smile at the work conference of various fields of the central government.
Those who have no ambition in the dark have no clear vision; Those who have nothing to worry about have nothing to do, no great achievements. Holding the red invitation, they are the glory of the republic.
On the shore of Bohai Bay, by the Beidaihe River, the holiday of the representatives of experts and talents is beautiful and short, but it is also very informative. The latest spirit from the central government was conveyed, and the specific situation from various fields was reported. The trendsetters of the new era have forged new revolutionary friendships and fought ceaselessly for the motherland and the people, which is the solemn oath they have made in the midst of great changes unseen in a century.
When the hearty gathering came to an end with the farewell in the long pavilion, the representatives of experts and talents who were about to return to their respective jobs were ready to continue to move forward.
While the beaches are bustling with tourists enjoying the summer beauty, who says that a new page has not been quietly turned in the history of the Republic?