|Study every day | On September 3, the eighth batch of Chinese People's Volunteer Martyrs' burial ceremony in South Korea was held in Shenyang Anti-US Aid Korean Martyrs Cemetery. 109 Volunteer Martyrs who died in a foreign country after fighting in a foreign country rested on the land of the motherland.

　　Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall.

The "Learning Everyday" column of CCTV.com will review with you General Secretary Xi Jinping's great significance of the great victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the important exposition of the great spirit of Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Resist U.S. Aid Korea, defend your country

This is October 1950, when the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea crossed the Yalu River with great vigour and enthusiasm.

　　On June 25, 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out.

The US government immediately made the decision to intervene in the Korean Civil War and dispatched the Seventh Fleet to invade the Taiwan Strait, openly interfering in China's internal affairs and obstructing China's great cause of reunification.

In early October, the US military ignored the Chinese government's repeated warnings and flagrantly crossed the 38th parallel and burned the war to the border between China and North Korea, directly threatening the national security of New China.

At a critical juncture, the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government asked China to send troops to support.

The Politburo of the Central Committee held many meetings to comprehensively assess the situation at home and abroad, and made the historic decision to dispatch the Chinese People's Volunteers to North Korea to fight against the United States and aid North Korea and defend the country.

　　On October 8, 1950, Mao Zedong issued an order to form the Chinese People's Volunteers with Peng Dehuai as the commander and political commissar.

On the 19th, the volunteers crossed the Yalu River with great vigor.

During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Party Central Committee took control of the overall situation, implemented powerful war mobilization and correct war guidance, adopted the policy of fighting, while maintaining stability, and building, and launched a magnificent movement to resist US aggression and aid Korea. The people of all ethnic groups throughout the country supported this event. A great struggle concerning the future and destiny of the country and the nation.

Two years and nine months of arduous and bloody battles

This was during the Battle of Shangganling in the fall of 1952. The soldiers standing in the tunnel prepared to attack at night.

　　The Chinese People’s Volunteers cooperated closely with the North Korean soldiers and civilians. The first battle at Liangshuidong, the fierce battle at Yunshan City, the battle on the Qingchuan River, and the fierce battle at Changjin Lake. After that, they built a defense-in-depth position like a copper wall and an iron wall, carried out many offensive battles, and smashed the "strangulation battle." , Resist the "germ warfare" and the bloody battle on Ganling, creating a mighty and majestic war.

After arduous battles, the Chinese and North Korean troops defeated their opponents armed to the teeth, broke the myth of the invincibility of the US military, and forced the invincible invaders to sign the armistice agreement on July 27, 1953.

The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea declared to the world with a great victory: "The era when Western aggressors can occupy a country by setting up a few cannons on a coast in the east for hundreds of years is gone!"

"The cutest person"

This is the Wall of Heroes in the Memorial Hall to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Dandong City, Liaoning Province.

　　Volunteer soldiers face powerful and fierce combat opponents and are in a harsh and cruel battlefield environment. They throw their heads and blood, and use "less steel and more gas" to overcome "more steel and less gas."

They said that behind us is the motherland, and for the peace of the people of the motherland, we cannot take a step back!

Among them, more than 300,000 heroes and nearly 6,000 groups of heroes emerged. Yang Gensi, who resolutely picked up the explosive kit and died with the enemy, and Huang Jiguang, who used his chest to block the gunhole to clear the way for his comrades in charge, burned his body and stayed still until heroic. The sacrificed Qiu Shaoyun, there is Luo Shengjiao, who jumped into the ice and exchanged his life for the safety of North Korean teenagers... They used their lives to compose a majestic epic of earth-shattering and weeping ghosts, and they were called "the cutest people" by the people of the motherland.

The Great Spirit of Resisting U.S. Aid Korea

On September 19, 2020, in the Hall of Martyrs in the Memorial Hall to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, the veterans and young pioneers of the Volunteer Army paid tribute to the sacrificed martyrs.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the meeting to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ mission to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. He pointed out that in the magnificent war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, the heroic Chinese People’s Volunteers have always carried forward that the interests of the motherland and the people are above everything else, and they have worked hard for the dignity of the motherland and the nation. The spirit of patriotism, the spirit of revolutionary heroism that is brave and tenacious, and sacrifices one’s life and death, the spirit of revolutionary optimism that defies hardships and always maintains high morale, and the spirit of revolutionary loyalty to fulfill the mission entrusted by the motherland and the people and generously contribute everything to oneself , The internationalist spirit of striving for the cause of peace and justice for mankind has forged the great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea.

The great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aid to Korea spans time and space, and will last forever. It must be passed on forever and carried forward from generation to generation.

The Great Significance of the Great Victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

On October 23, 2020, a meeting to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ mission to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important speech at the meeting to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ mission to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and emphasized that the great victory of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea is a manifesto for the Chinese people to stand in the east of the world after they stand up. It is an important milestone for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Both China and the world have great and far-reaching significance.

　　After this war, the Chinese people smashed the aggressor Chen Bingguomen and then strangled New China in the cradle. It can be said that "one punch, so as not to get a hundred punches." The imperialists no longer dare to use force to invade New China. China's attempts, the new China has truly gained a firm foothold.

　　After this war, the Chinese people have completely wiped out the centuries-old humiliation of being slaughtered and snorted in modern times, and completely discarded the hat of "the sick man of East Asia", and the Chinese people have truly raised their eyebrows.

　　After this battle, the Chinese people defeated the invaders, shook the world, established the important position of New China in Asian and international affairs, and demonstrated the status of New China as a major power.

　　After this war, the People’s Army learned about war in the war. It became more and more courageous and stronger, gained important military experience, and realized the transformation from a single service to a combined army of various services and arms, which greatly promoted the modernization of national defense and the military. .

　　After this war, the strategic pattern of Asia and the world after the end of World War II was deeply shaped, and the just cause of the oppressed nations and peoples in the world to strive for national independence and people’s liberation was greatly encouraged, which strongly promoted world peace and mankind. Advance career.

　　(CCTV Network of China Central Radio and Television)