China News Agency, Hong Kong, June 18th: Zhang Mingmin's "Chinese Heart": Let "One Country, Two Systems" be stable and far-reaching in Hong Kong
China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
"I have sung "I Am Chinese", "Chinese Nation", "We Have a Name called China", "Descendants of the Dragon" and "My Chinese Heart"..." The first person to appear on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with a song "My Chinese Heart" is popular at home and abroad, Hong Kong singer Zhang Mingmin, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, looked back on the past and elaborated on the past.
"I'm very lucky and very happy to be able to sing "My Chinese Heart" for the first time." Wearing a white Chinese-style stand-up collar shirt and speaking fluent Mandarin, 65-year-old Zhang Mingmin recalled with a slow pace: "In 1982 , Japan tampered with the history of aggression against China in textbooks, so our young people in Hong Kong began to understand this period of history, thinking of doing something and being a witness to history." In 1983, Huang Zhan, one of the "Four Talents in Hong Kong" The lyric "My Chinese Heart" was born and sung by Zhang Mingmin.
"In 1984, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala invited me to sing "My Chinese Heart". In that year, China and Britain signed the "Sino-British Joint Declaration", and the People's Republic of China took back Hong Kong in 1997. Let's go." Zhang Mingmin said: "Actually, many Hong Kong people thought that I should not go back to the mainland to sing, but my mother said 'you have to go back and sing this song, because there is only one in China', I listened to my mother's words and went ."
Zhang Mingmin thinks he is luckier than other young people in Hong Kong, because his mother planted the seeds of family and country feelings in his heart long ago, "My mother is an overseas Chinese in Indonesia. As a Chinese overseas, it was very hard and miserable at the time. She held in her heart the feeling that the motherland was good and that she had to go back to China to rely on. She taught me to learn Mandarin and took me to listen to many Mandarin songs. The first song my mother taught me to sing was "Singing the Motherland", and I thank my mother."
As he spoke, he couldn't help humming softly: "The five-star red flag flutters in the wind..."
"It's been 25 years since Hong Kong's handover. It's not too long or too short." Zhang Mingmin, who participated in the handover ceremony of Hong Kong's handover in 1997, was quite emotional. He was proud of himself for participating in the handover ceremony as a commoner. "Listening to the sound of the PLA officers and soldiers stepping forward, and seeing the British flag lowered and the flag of our People's Republic of China raised, my tears flowed... For someone my age, this is a very profound experience. Impressive, very excited."
"I am very interested in youth work. Before 1997, I did a lot of youth work. It is a responsibility to promote youth exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong." Zhang Mingmin said.
In his long resume, Zhang Mingmin has served as a consultant to the Hong Kong Federation of Youth, the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Importers and Exporters Association, a member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's 1st to 5th Government Selection Committee, and a representative of the 12th Hong Kong National People's Congress.
Talking about the feelings of doing youth work, Zhang Mingmin said: "I think today's youth, not to distinguish between Hong Kong youth and mainland youth, we are all young people in China. Youth is China's future, we must uphold patriotism, and don't lose our country. Human face."
"My Chinese Heart does not belong to me personally, but to overseas Chinese all over the world. 'My Chinese Heart' is how to make China better and make 'one country, two systems' run steadily and far in Hong Kong, for everyone in the world to see To the face of our China." Zhang Mingmin said, paused for a while, and then repeated: "This is 'my Chinese heart'." (End)