"To the heroes and martyrs who sacrificed for the country and the people, we must always remember them and give them great honor and admiration."

This is the speech delivered by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, at the All-Army Political Work Conference in October 2014.

Heroes are the most shining coordinates of the nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping's footprints of paying tribute to heroes and remembering heroes and martyrs have spread all over the country, gazing affectionately again and again, and bowing solemnly again and again, all of which condense the General Secretary's deep remembrance and infinite remembrance of heroes and martyrs.

Today, Qingming, listen to the heroic story told by the general secretary, and remember the heroes and martyrs together.

"A hopeful nation cannot live without heroes"

"I remember when I was very young, I guess I was five or six years old, and my mother took me to buy books." "After buying it, she told me the story of serving the country and her mother-in-law. I said, how it hurts to stab the word up! My mother said it hurt, but she remembered it. The four words 'loyal to the country', I have remembered from that time to now, it is also my lifelong goal. ”

This is in 2014, when General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on literary and artistic work, he recalled the story of his mother buying him Yue Fei's little man book when he was a child.

General Secretary Xi Jinping reveres heroes and has told heroic stories affectionately on different occasions.

Regarding the story of the anti-Japanese martyrs, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned a mother. He said that a mother named Deng Yufen in Beijing's Miyun County sent her husband and five children to the front, and they all died in battle. A family on the North China Plain wrote this couplet: "All people are united to protect the independence of the country and fight for national liberation with perseverance"; The horizontal criticism is: "Fight to the end". This is the roar of the sons and daughters of China fighting to the end against the Japanese aggressors and a declaration of the victory of the Chinese nation in the war of resistance.

Telling the story of the revolutionary martyrs, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly mentioned the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain", "White Blade Fighting Hero Company", "Liu Laozhuang Company", Dong Cunrui, Qiu Shaoyun, Huang Jiguang... The general secretary said: Looking back on the past glory years, we should pay high tribute to the revolutionary martyrs, and we will always cherish and remember them.

"A promising nation cannot be without heroes, and a promising country cannot be without pioneers." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that all national heroes, including the heroes of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, are the backbone of the Chinese nation, and their deeds and spirit are powerful forces that inspire us to move forward.

General Secretary Xi Jinping said, "To all those who have sacrificed their precious lives for the country, the nation and peace, no matter how the times change, we must always remember their sacrifice and dedication." ”

"An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood

A hot earth, a soul"

Over the years, General Secretary Xi Jinping's footprints of heroic martyrs have spread all over the country.

In April 2021, at the Guangxi Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Campaign Memorial Park, General Secretary Xi Jinping presented a basket of flowers and bowed three times to the martyrs of the Red Army in the Xiangjiang Campaign.

In September 2019, at the Martyrs' Cemetery, the capital of Henan's Hubei-Yu-Anhui Soviet District, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Monument and Memorial Hall of the Revolutionary Martyrs, and in front of the monument, General Secretary Xi Jinping presented a basket of flowers and bowed three times to the revolutionary martyrs.

In April 2016, at the Red Army Square in Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping presented a basket of flowers to the Memorial Tower of the Revolutionary Martyrs. The general secretary said affectionately, every inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of blood, and every inch of hot soil is a soul.

Among General Secretary Xi Jinping's red footprints, there is an impressive scene of "staring".

In 2021, in the Memorial Hall of the Long March Xiangjiang Campaign of the Guangxi Red Army, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the oil painting "Chen Shuxiang" and stared at it for a long time.

In the picture, Chen Shuxiang is lying on a stretcher, blood flowing from his abdomen. In order to cover the main force of the Red Army to cross the river, the Red Army general who led what became known as the "Desperate Guard Division" was seriously wounded and captured, and after waking up, he strangled his intestines from the abdominal wound with his hand, and died heroically at the age of 29.

"Magnificent! Chen Shuxiang is a typical one of the sacrificial heroes. General Secretary Xi Jinping made such a deep sigh.

Why did the Chinese revolution succeed when it seemed impossible for others to succeed? Xi Jinping told the secret of success: "Revolutionary ideals are higher than heaven." It is precisely because the Red Army is a revolutionary army with ideals and convictions that it can regard death as if it were home, live towards death, forge ahead, be reborn in desperate situations, and burst out the heroic spirit of not being overwhelmed by all enemies but overwhelming all enemies. ”

Thousands of drops of Red Army blood, step by step heroic body.

The Chinese nation is a nation that admires heroes, achieves heroes, and produces heroes, and heroic feelings are also needed in peacetime.

On August 2020, 8, on the embankment of Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the relatives of comrades who unfortunately died in flood control and flood control, saying: "When the Chinese nation encounters danger, there are always such heroes who stand up, which is the embodiment of the great Chinese national spirit." ”

"Tell heroic stories

Pass on the red genes"

The best way to commemorate heroes and martyrs is to learn the spirit of heroism and absorb the strength of struggle.

In March 2014, in Lankao County, Henan Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the Comrade Jiao Yulu Memorial Hall. In front of the bronze statue of Jiao Yulu's bust, the "Ten Prohibitions on Cadres" icon, and Jiao Yulu's desk before his death, the general secretary carefully inspected the exhibits.

When visiting Jiao Yulu's office, which was restored on a one-to-one scale, the general secretary once again saw the famous rattan chair protected by a glass cover, and he stopped to gaze and silently scrutinize.

General Secretary Xi Jinping sighed: "Although everything I see and listen to is more familiar, I still want to see and listen more, because every object and every story here can resonate with my heart." ”

The spirit of Jiao Yulu, like the Jinggangshan spirit, the Yan'an spirit, the Lei Feng spirit, and other revolutionary traditions and great spirits, is the precious spiritual wealth of our party. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed, "We must always learn from him." ”

Heroic spirit condenses the strength to move forward.

"The enemy can only cut off our heads, but can never shake our faith," was the pledge left by revolutionary martyr Fang Zhimin before his death.

During an inspection tour of Fang Zhimin's hometown of Jiangxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping emotionally recounted Fang Zhimin's oath and warned everyone that "without firm ideals and beliefs, they will lose their way in the complex environment of chaotic clouds, retreat and escape under the huge pressure of Mount Tai's top, and surrender under the bombardment of sugar-coated shells."

In September 2018, during his inspection tour in Fushun, Liaoning Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping presented a basket of flowers to Lei Feng's tomb and emphasized: "We must not only learn from Lei Feng's spirit, but also learn from Lei Feng's practices, translate lofty ideals and beliefs and moral character pursuit into concrete actions, embody them in ordinary work and life, make our due contributions, and pass on Lei Feng's spirit from generation to generation." ”

In August 2022, in Jinzhou, Liaoning, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the Liaoshen Campaign Memorial Hall. The General Secretary listened carefully to the explanation, stopped from time to time to watch, and asked for specific details.

After the visit, General Secretary Xi Jinping said when meeting with representatives of veteran soldiers and comrades and relatives of revolutionary martyrs: "We must tell the story of the party, the revolution and the heroes, pass on the red gene, and ensure that the red river and mountain will be passed on from generation to generation." ”

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has continuously improved the policy of praising heroes and martyrs, and stepped up the construction and protection of memorial facilities.

In 2014, China passed legislation to determine the anniversary of the victory of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Martyrs' Memorial Day; In 2018, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs came into force; In 2022, the "Opinions on Strengthening the Work of Praising Martyrs in the New Era" was released.

Sacrifice the heroic soul of the country in the name of the country, and defend the glory of the heroic martyrs in the name of the law.

General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically made important instructions on the protection of martyrs' memorial facilities, emphasizing that it is necessary to strengthen the planning, construction, repair, management and maintenance of martyrs' cemeteries.

Remembrance is to move forward better, and remembrance is to forge ahead better. Establishing a good custom of advocating heroes and remembering martyrs in the whole society has inspired countless Chinese sons and daughters to strive for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.