The Red Footprint丨The Red Luminous Salary Passed on

  Zhaojin is a land of heroes.

In the early 1930s, the older generation of revolutionaries such as Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, and Xi Zhongxun bravely carried out revolutionary activities here, formed the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, established the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee and Shaan-Gansu Border Revolutionary Committee, and established The Shaanxi-Gansu border revolutionary base centered on Zhaojin.

△Shanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base Zhaojin Memorial Hall

(Photo courtesy of the Memorial Hall of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee)

  In 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection of Zhaojin that it is necessary to strengthen the study of the history of the revolutionary base area, summarize historical experience, and better carry forward the revolutionary spirit and fine work style.

△On the afternoon of February 14, 2015, Xi Jinping came to Zhaojin Town, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, presented a flower basket to the Heroes Monument of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base and visited the memorial hall.

Afterwards, I went to the village committee of Zhaojin Village to inspect the local development situation, communicate with the villagers, and extend Chinese New Year blessings to the villagers.

  In 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the students of Zhaojin Beiliang Red Army Primary School, encouraging them to pass on the red gene from generation to generation with practical actions.

The people of Zhaojin kept in mind the general secretary's entrustment, inherited the red gene, and realized the great changes of vicissitudes.

  The bugle was blaring, the unique class bell rang, and the sound of books echoed across the campus. In the Beiliang Red Army Primary School in Zhaojin Town, Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, a new day began with the red education class.

  The Beiliang Red Army Primary School, founded in 1955, was originally located near the site of the Revolution-the former site of the Chenjiapo Conference.

In June 2000, Comrade Xi Zhongxun's wife, Qi Xin, came to Zhaojin.

  Seeing the shabby classrooms and outdated facilities of Beiliang Hongjun Primary School, she mobilized her family to donate 150,000 yuan to relocate and rebuild Beiliang Hongjun Primary School.

  △Left: Beiliang Primary School before 2000. Right: Zhaojin Beiliang Hongjun Primary School now

  Since then, with the support of the government and all walks of life, the school's running conditions have been continuously improved. Dormitories and comprehensive buildings have been erected, and professional classrooms and electronic whiteboard hardware have been equipped.

△Left: According to the inside of the dormitory of Jinbeiliang Hongjun Primary School. Right: According to the recipe of Jinbeiliang Hongjun Primary School

  Sixth grader Wang Tianjiao told reporters: "The changes in hometown and school are very big. Let us take a hot bath and drink sweet and pure drinking water. With such a big plastic playground, all students can play in the playground."

△Beiliang Hongjun Primary School students have inter-class exercises on the playground

  In May 2018, Wang Tianjiao, who was in the third grade at the time, wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping on behalf of the students, reporting on his experience of learning revolutionary history and the development and changes of the school.

Soon, the children received a letter from the general secretary: "I hope you will cherish your time, study hard, and be useful to the country, the people, and the society in the future." This makes the children extremely excited and happy. Uplifting.

  Wang Tianjiao also expressed her dream: "I want to be a teacher, teach the knowledge I have learned to my classmates, and help them get out of the mountains. We need to learn more about the revolutionary history and the red story here, and pass it on to the rest of the world. Many people."

△Four sixth grade students from Beiliang Hongjun Primary School, Wang Tianjiao is the first from the right

  Beiliang Hongjun Primary School has rapidly expanded from a teaching site with dozens of students to a rural boarding school with more than 160 students, and the quality of teaching has also improved by leaps and bounds.

The principal’s closure of the post introduced: “Now the school has formed an atmosphere of overtaking. There are 36 schools in the district. In our district’s quality inspection last year, our school was the twelfth and third place in the district.”

△The students of Beiliang Hongjun Primary School are in the classroom

  The old appearance of Beiliang Hongjun Primary School has been changed to a new one, which is the epitome of Zhaojin's acceleration on the road of transformation.

  Shengyuan Community is the resettlement point of Zhaojin Town. In the production workshop of the community factory, Zhang Qian is processing clothing for scenic spots in front of the workbench.

For her current life, she is very pleased: "In the past, my husband worked odd jobs to support the family, and now I can earn an extra income, and it is convenient to pick up and drop off my children."

△Zhaojin Town Shengyuan Community Community Factory

  According to Wei Zhenzhe, deputy general manager of Jincun Group, the community factory model developed by the group solves the problem of local employment of villagers and realizes "going upstairs to go home and going downstairs to work".

Wei Zhenzhe said: "We have established a Shaanxi Zhaojinlingshang Clothing Co., Ltd. Since 19 years, we have made nearly 30,000 sets of clothes. The cumulative number of recruits and training has reached 150, most of them The salary is about 3,000 yuan."

  Zhaojincun Group has also developed red town property management, ecological agricultural product research and development, tourism project operation and other projects to actively develop the collective economy and promote the upgrading of local industries.

  On February 14, 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Zhaojin Village, he hoped that the cadres of the village party branch and the village committee would unite and run the affairs of the villagers well.

Today, the red hot land of Red Zhaojin has undergone earth-shaking changes. Highways have been completed, resettlement communities have been built in the town, and infrastructure such as convenience stores and gymnasiums are readily available.

The once remote and backward town has developed into a well-known red tourist town, and the folks really have a good life.

  Bai Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhaojin Town, said: "In 2015, the per capita income was 8,848 yuan. By 2020, our per capita income is now 15,235 yuan. It turns out that this place is relatively poor and backward. The young men are leaving, and girls will not marry in. Now in the past two years, 16 college students have come back from outside, Zhao Jin is so good, come back here to work, it is a red place, a sense of honor and gain."

  Producer丨Gao Yan

  Reviewer丨Zhao Xuehua and Hou Yan

  Reporter丨Fu Bofan