(The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China · Voice) How to tell the story of the party to "Generation Z"?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, October 21st, question: How to tell the story of the party to "Generation Z"?

　　China News Agency reporter Kan Feng

　　"The cows are still grazing on the hillside, but the cattle herders don't know where they are..."

　　In an interview with a reporter from China News Agency, Chen Yan, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and deputy curator of the Hunan Provincial Party History Museum, sang a children's song.

"Seven or eighty years ago, we sang the red nursery rhymes for several generations. Now, how can we tell the story of the party's history and the story of heroes to the next generation?"

Data map: The large-scale party flag sculpture "Flag" in the square on the west side of the Chinese Communist Party History Exhibition Hall.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

　　"Youth" is one of the key words in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After a century of history, the Communist Party of China proposed that the whole party should focus on youth work as a strategic work, and demanded "arming the youth with the party's scientific theories and using the party's The mission of the original intention inspires young people to be confidants of young friends, enthusiasts of youth work, and guides of young people."

　　How to tell the story of the Communist Party of China to the youth and to the "Generation Z" who grew up in the Internet age has become a concern of many representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

　　On September 16 this year, more than 7,500 freshmen from Hunan Normal University listened to a red story meeting on the playground. The narrator was Chen Yan. We were surprised and moved."

　　Zhu Jinfeng, also from Hunan, the representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the principal of Changde No. 4 Middle School and the secretary of the Party branch, also felt the same way.

　　"We can intuitively feel on campus that children's understanding of the Communist Party of China is no longer limited to history or political textbooks. Many children have begun to take the initiative to look up party history materials and borrow related books." Zhu Jinfeng told a reporter from China News Agency Say.

　　In recent years, high-level meetings such as the National Ideological and Political Work Conference in Colleges and Universities and the Symposium for Teachers of Ideological and Political Theory Courses in Schools have been held one after another, and the construction of ideological and political courses has been raised to a new height.

Data map: The staff of the Memorial Hall of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China watched the live broadcast with the public.

Photo by Meng Yuhan

　　On the first "Party Representative Channel" of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Yang Yu, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and director of the Publicity and Education Department of the Memorial Hall of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, used a set of numbers to show the changes around him: In the past five years, young people who came to the Memorial Hall of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China to visit The proportion of the audience is increasing year by year. In 2021, the audience under the age of 35 will increase by 23.6% year-on-year.

　　Zhu Jinfeng said that over the years, the country has developed rapidly in various fields, and the younger generation, who have already looked at the world, can intuitively feel the stability and prosperity brought by the "rule of China" in the complex and changing world environment.

This self-confidence has given them a deeper understanding of the country, the Communist Party of China, and the Chinese road.

　　However, in the face of the ideological and political education of the younger generation, especially the education of party history, problems such as outdated narrative methods, insufficient affinity, and weak pertinence have also become prominent.

　　"Teachers find it difficult to teach, and students find it difficult to learn." Chen Yan said that it is necessary to innovate ideological and political education with the media channels commonly used by young people, accustomed narrative methods, and friendly forms of communication. issues that must be overcome.

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mentioned that we should carry forward the spiritual pedigree of the Chinese Communists with the great spirit of founding the party as the source, make good use of red resources, carry out in-depth publicity and education on socialist core values, deepen education on patriotism, collectivism and socialism, and focus on cultivating responsibility A newcomer in the era of national rejuvenation.

　　Zhu Jinfeng's middle school now has a weekly lecture on the spiritual genealogy of the Chinese Communists.

"Combining inside and outside classes, connecting history and reality with story lines, developing big historical depths in small incision stories, and showing big truths in small details."

　　This year is the 23rd year that Chen Yan has been engaged in the preaching of party history. Over the past 20 years, Chen Yan has received more than 10 million audiences.

　　Chen Yan said that in the Internet age, young people have multiple channels for receiving information, and we need to be vigilant. Some people do not believe in official history and believe in unofficial history, and some people vulgarize and entertain the party history, and so on.

　　"We must take the initiative to speak up, speak with confidence, clear the source, and occupy the position." Chen Yan said.

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