"I also came wearing a red scarf. Because I went to school early, the first batch of Young Pioneers did not develop me, and cried my nose. Later, he became the standard-bearer of the Young Pioneers, and his blood boiled. ”

At this year's National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping recalled his boyhood when he had a cordial exchange with Zhang Dadong, the principal of Xin'an Primary School.

"I remember joining the team with a pounding heart and excitement. I wonder if you feel this way? On the eve of the June 2014st International Children's Day in <>, General Secretary Xi Jinping also talked about the scene when he joined the team when he attended the joining ceremony of the Young Pioneers of the National Primary School in Haidian District, Beijing.

"Why is that? Because it's an honor. The general secretary said, "I see hope in your faces, the hope of the motherland and the nation." Just as the vow says, always be ready to take over in the future. ”

Contemporary Chinese children are not only experienced and witnesses of the realization of the first centenary goal, but also the new force for realizing the second centenary goal and building a modern and powerful socialist country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly walked among children and sent them letters back, caring for the children's health and growth.

Standing at the strategic height of the succession of the red rivers and mountains and the passing on of the torch of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the general secretary guided the vast number of children and teenagers to establish lofty ideals and prepare to contribute to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

"All-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor, every word"

On March 2022, 3, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Huangcun Town, Daxing District, Beijing to participate in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity.

On March 2022, 3, at the tree planting site in Daxing District, Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping worked with children to help seedlings cultivate soil, carry buckets of water, and talk with them.

"I remember during the Chinese New Year, my father wrapped a red envelope for my daughter, and when I opened it, it was a toothpick. It turned out that this was the leftover toothpicks that the old man usually collected at home, and he said to his granddaughter, "These are precious woods, I helped you save them." The next year, I wrapped another red envelope, and when I opened it, I saw that it was a paper towel, and it was also an unused paper towel. ”

"These look corny, but they're actually very advanced. Don't be small and start small. ”

Everyone's life is made up of small things, and only by cultivating small virtues can we become great virtues. During local inspections and investigations, General Secretary Xi Jinping often makes special trips to schools to care about children's education and life, and encourages everyone to start from an early age and accumulate over time.

On September 2021, 9, General Secretary Xi Jinping had cordial exchanges with teachers and students during his inspection tour of Yulin Suide Experimental Middle School in Shaanxi Province.

On September 2021, 9, during an inspection tour of Suide Experimental Middle School in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into classrooms and playgrounds to watch the students' calligraphy practice and physical exercise, and communicate cordially with everyone. He encouraged the students: "Truly all-round talents, step by step, can eventually become useful people to society and pillars of the country." "The all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor, and the words are all obtained after years of summarizing and groping."

The times are constantly evolving, and when the children grow up, their lives will undergo great changes, and science and technology will also make great progress, requiring them to develop comprehensively and adapt and create a new life with new ideas, new knowledge and new skills. Only in this way can a nation continue to live and human society can continue to progress.

"Be a child with 'four confidences'"

At this year's National People's Congress and National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping talked about the historical legend of the "Xin'an Tour Group" during the Anti-Japanese War period, emphasizing that we must be good at absorbing excellent things from 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture, and at the same time not abandon the achievements of Western civilization, and truly cultivate young people into children with "four self-confidence".

During the Anti-Japanese War, a "Xin'an Tour Group" originally composed of 14 elementary school students used literature and art as weapons to arouse the people to resist Japan and save their lives, covering most of China. In 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the Young Pioneers of Xin'an Primary School, the alma mater of the "Xin'an Tour Group", hoping that everyone would "strengthen their determination to listen to and follow the party from an early age, study hard, establish ideals, improve their character and increase their skills."

Young people are the future of the Party and the country. For the sake of the Chinese nation today and tomorrow, General Secretary Xi Jinping hopes that young people will strengthen the "four self-confidences" and aspire to be newcomers of the era who listen to the party, follow the party, have ideals, dare to take responsibility, can endure hardships, and are willing to struggle.

A letter written to Xi Jinping by a primary school student at the Elite School Affiliated to Macau Hao Kong Secondary School.

In 2019, a letter from a child from the Elite School affiliated to Macau Hao Kong Middle School, General Secretary Xi Jinping read it several times. "It is very touching to write, and I can feel your patriotic feelings."

After replying to the children, on December 2019, 12, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the school to visit the children as scheduled. He said earnestly: "Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization that has not been interrupted. Five thousand years of history is the source of confidence in our culture. "Only by understanding the humiliating history of the Chinese nation after the Opium War can we better understand the strong desire of the Chinese people for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation now."

Inherit red genes, strengthen thought leadership, establish correct values... With meticulous care, General Secretary Xi Jinping guides children to choose the right path and take a good step in the journey of life.

"'Two hundred years' depends on your relay struggle"

"Chinese Dream" "Being Kind to People"... On May 2014, 5, in the Moyun Hall of Minzu Primary School in Haidian District, Beijing, students from the calligraphy club were writing ancient aphorisms. General Secretary Xi Jinping appreciated them one by one.

The calligraphy teacher asked General Secretary Xi Jinping to put the last stroke on the "Chinese Dream". The general secretary told the children: "The Chinese dream depends on you to realize it. In the first 'hundred years', today's ten-year-old children are sixteen or seventeen; by the second 'hundred years', today's children are forty or fifty years old, just in time. 'Two hundred years' depends on your relay struggle, or you should make this one." ”

This sum pinned on the general secretary's hopes and blessings for the future of the country.

Lofty aspirations and beautiful ideals can only be translated into reality through action. On Dachen Island, located in the southeast sea of Taizhou Bay in central Zhejiang, a granite masonry reclamation monument stands quietly. In 1956, 467 young people from Zhejiang Province went to Dachen Island to participate in the construction of reclamation. After more than four years of hard work, the desert island, which was once unwilling to stop by birds, has come to life.

Zhang Jingyi, a student in Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, shared General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter with her grandparents.

On the eve of the June 2016st International Children's Day in 12, <> primary school students from Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City, descendants of the old reclamation team members of Dachen Island, wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping, reporting on the development and changes of Dachen Island, expressing their determination to inherit the spirit of Dachen Island reclamation and to be a good boy who loves learning, labor and the motherland.

General Secretary Xi Jinping quickly wrote back to the children: "I hope you will learn from your grandparents, love the party, the motherland, and the people, strive to grow into a new generation of builders with knowledge, morality and achievements, and be ready to contribute to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." ”

On the desk of Zhang Jingyi, who wrote a letter to the general secretary, there has always been a crystal engraving engraved with the spirit of Dachen Island reclamation "hard work, hard work, selfless dedication, pioneering and innovative". As the descendants of the old reclamation team members of Dachen Island, they have always maintained the mental state of "reclamation" and "pioneering" and continued to struggle.

"Childhood is the most precious period in a person's life, during this period, pay attention to establishing correct life goals, cultivate good thinking, good conduct, good habits, be a good child of the motherland today, be a builder of the motherland tomorrow, a good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you."

With the care and encouragement of General Secretary Xi Jinping, children in the new era have aspirations, dreams, and are always ready to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! (CCTV News Client)

Executive producer丨Geng Zhimin

Producer丨Xinglai

Editor-in-chief丨Ning Lili

Written by Liu Xinyan

Vision丨Jiang Yuhang

Responsible editor: Liu Xinyan