Today is the first National Day after the Hong Kong National Security Law and the National Anthem Ordinance came into force.
To celebrate the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, many schools in Hong Kong held special flag-raising ceremonies. The school’s flag-raisers were patriotic and trained to salute the national flag with their own actions.
September 28 is the Monday before the National Day. Jiang Feifan, a sixth form student of Peiqiao Middle School, arrived at the school half an hour earlier than usual.
He hurried to the playground and assembled with six other flag-raising team members.
Jiang Feifan is the flag-raising team and the captain of the flag-raising team of Peiqiao Middle School.
He is very proud to hold the National Day flag raising ceremony at such a special time this year.
Jiang Feifan, captain of the flag-raising team of Pei Qiao Middle School: The National Security Law and some regulations that maintain national security have been implemented, stabilizing the entire social order in Hong Kong, and after the epidemic is disbanded (controlled), this is a very stable moment .
We are also doing a flag-raising ceremony at this moment, expressing a kind of attachment to our motherland and a kind of respect.
To prevent and control the epidemic, Peiqiao Middle School resumed classes in batches.
Special arrangements were also made for the flag-raising ceremony. Middle and fifth grade students watched the ceremony in the playground, Form 1 and 6 students watched in the classroom, and Form 2 and 3 and 4 students watched remotely at home.
Pui Qiao Middle School was one of the first schools in Hong Kong to raise the five-star red flag after the founding of New China in 1949.
The school has 24 classes in 6 grades, and each class has a flag-raising team.
Wu Huanjie, Principal of Peiqiao Middle School: Because today we are celebrating the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in a flag-raising ceremony, so we used our school’s flag-raising team members for the flag-raising ceremony.
Under normal circumstances, we let all students have experience. We feel that this kind of experiential education can make children feel more deeply, how to protect our national flag and how to raise our national flag. , How to be an excellent flag-raiser.
Former Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and former principal of Pei Kiu Middle School, Zeng Yucheng, said that patriotic education on such an important day as the National Day plays an important role for young people to establish a correct national consciousness and national concept.
Former Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Pui Qiao Middle School Supervisor Jasper Tsang: Every National Day is our patriotic education. National identity education is a very important holiday. Let students learn more about the latest development of the country on the National Day.
There is also "one country, two systems", which is very important to establish a correct national concept.
Jiang Feifan said that the moment he picked up the national flag, he felt like a different person.
Jiang Feifan, captain of the flag-raising team of Peiqiao Middle School: When I grabbed the national flag, my waist became straight. Because there was a sense of mission and a sense of honor, I didn’t want the national flag to be in my hands. Any mistakes.
Next year, Jiang Feifan will graduate and enter university. He will begin to pass on his accumulated experience to future successors of the flag-raising team.
Luo Yufan, a member of the flag-raising team of Peiqiao Middle School: Next year, our captain will not be able to accompany us in training, and then we need to entrust the burden to me.
For me, I think the national flag is a kind of belief, because when you may be a person who pays attention to it, you may just respect it, but if you hold it in our hands, we think it is a kind of country for us Youth's sustenance.