China News Service, Beijing, June 27th. Title: Why did the Chinese Communist Party award the "July 1st Medal" for the first time in a century?

　　China News Agency reporter Liang Xiaohui

　　On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the "July 1st Medal" award ceremony will be held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the 29th.

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission will award the "July 1st Medal" and deliver an important speech.

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　　This will be the first "July 1st Medal" awarded in the name of the CPC Central Committee.

In the 100-year history of the Communist Party of China, why was this "highest honor" medal in the party awarded for the first time?

　　In July 2017, on the occasion of the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee approved the "July 1st Medal" Awarding Measures and officially established the "July 1st Medal" as the party's highest honor.

According to reports, the medal is generally awarded every five or ten years after the founding of the Communist Party of China.

　　2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and it is also the first "every five, every tenth" year after the medal was established. Therefore, the "July 1st Medal" was awarded for the first time.

　　Why did the CCP award this medal?

According to the awarding method, the "July 1st Medal" is awarded to party members who have made outstanding contributions to the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the great new project of party building.

The CCP intends to adopt a standardized and authoritative system of honors and honors to give full play to the spiritual guidance and exemplary role of the party and the country in honors and honors.

　　In fact, in its hundred years of history, the CCP has always focused on the way of awarding meritorious honors, leading people to think of others, advocating heroes, and pioneers.

　　According to textual research, the history of the CCP’s awarding of meritorious services can be traced back to the Agrarian Revolution.

　　As early as 1931, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic established the Red Flag Medal, the first military medal of the Chinese Communist Party, at the First National Congress.

At that time, eight leaders of the Red Army, including Mao Zedong, won the highest honor in the Soviet area.

　　In the revolutionary years that followed, the CCP successively issued a series of distinctive medals of various merits to reward collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in battle.

The more famous ones such as the "Resolute and Tenacious" medal awarded to the survivors of the Langya Mountain Five Warriors, the "Liberation of North China Medal", the "Liberation of Northeast Medal", and the "Liberation of Southwest Victory Medal", etc. The morale of the whole army has been continuously motivated.

　　In the same period, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm for the construction of the red zone, the CCP has been conducting selection and recognition of various models.

"Model of Spring Plowing", "Model of Soviet Work", "Model of Red Expansion", "Spinning Expert"... These typical elections in the Central Soviet Area and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region not only effectively mobilized the masses to devote themselves to construction, but also enhanced the outside world's understanding of the CCP .

For example, Zhou Enlai once participated in the competition and won the honorary title of "Spinning Expert", which became a good talk for a while.

　　In the early days of the founding of New China, the CCP’s practice of awarding meritorious honors continued.

On the one hand, the CCP has established and commended a large number of models of resistance to US aggression and aid to Korea and workers and peasants, such as Qiu Shaoyun, Huang Jiguang, Shi Chuanxiang, and Li Shunda. On the other hand, the CCP has begun to standardize the reward system.

During this period, the national meritorious service system was written into law for the first time.

　　After the reform and opening up, the party and state meritorious award system was further improved.

The CCP pays more attention to the use of various channels to diversify the propaganda of typical figures.

In addition to mainstream newspaper reports and face-to-face presentations, popular TV programs such as "Moving Chinese Characters" and other phenomenal TV programs have also succeeded in making each and every advanced character the "imprint of the times" in the hearts of generations.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China has carried out a series of innovative arrangements in the party and state meritorious commendation system, and successfully designed and completed the construction of the "1+1+3" system.

That is, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formulated a guiding document, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress formulated a law, and the relevant parties formulated three regulations for commendation of merits within the party, the state, and the military.

　　Accordingly, a meritorious commendation system based on "five chapters and one book" was established-"Republic Medal", "July 1st Medal", "August 1st Medal", "Friendship Medal", National Honorary Title, National Meritorious Service book.

With the award of the "July 1st Medal" this time, China's current five highest honors will all be awarded when the Communist Party of China is founded 100 years ago.

　　Yuan Longping, Zhong Nanshan, Sun Jiadong, Tu Youyou...the recipients of these highest honors have become national heroes and models of the times in people's hearts.

　　"Advocating heroes will produce heroes, and fighting to be heroes will produce heroes in large numbers." As Xi Jinping said: To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, more models of the times are needed.

　　Through a century of awarding honors, the CCP is inspiring itself and the China she leads to continue to move forward.

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