Speech at a symposium to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade ***
Hunan Provincial Party Secretary Shen Xiaoming.
Today, with great reverence, we participated in the symposium to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade ***, to express the deep nostalgia of more than 70 million Hunan people for Comrade ***, and to express the firm determination to continue to push forward the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era under the strong leadership of Comrade *** as the core.
Hunan is the hometown of Comrade ***, and it is the starting point for him to study and grow up and lead the Chinese revolution. He successively studied at the Dongshan School in Xiangxiang and the First Normal School in Hunan, organized the establishment of the Xinmin Society, founded the Xiangjiang Review, led the May Fourth Movement in Hunan, launched the struggle to expel the warlord Zhang Jingyao, founded one of the eight early organizations of our Party in Changsha, and established a firm belief in Marxism. In 1921, he attended the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, participated in the founding of the Communist Party of China, and after returning to Changsha, he founded Hunan Self-Study University and led the promotion of the workers' movement in Hunan District. Party organizations were established in Hengyang, Shaoshan and other places to promote the vigorous development of the workers' and peasants' movement. In 1927, he went deep into Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Hengshan, Liling, Changsha and other places to investigate, and wrote the famous "Hunan Agricultural Action Investigation Report". He initiated and led the Great Rural Revolution in Hunan, gradually clarifying a series of basic issues of the Chinese revolution, such as "the peasant question is the central issue of the national revolution" and "political power comes out of the barrel of a gun," and actively explored the correct revolutionary road. In 1927, he organized and launched the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan and Jiangxi, and after the defeat, he led the rebel troops to Jinggangshan, established the first rural revolutionary base area of our party, and opened up a new road of Chinese revolution in which the countryside surrounded the cities and seized power by force. In 1928, he fought against local tyrants in southern Hunan and divided the land, established the district and township workers' and peasants' political power, and announced and explained the "three major disciplines and six points of attention" of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army in Guidong. In 1930, he led the Red First Army to join forces with the Red Third Army in Liuyang, and then created three consecutive victories against "encirclement and suppression" in the ** base area. In 1934, in the face of the defeat of the Xiangjiang Battle and the life-and-death crisis of the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang army, the key proposition of abandoning the plan to go north and transferring troops to the west into Guizhou was put forward at the channel meeting. ** Comrades' revolutionary practice and theoretical achievements in Hunan and the border areas have made pioneering contributions to opening up a new road for the Chinese revolution, realizing national independence and people's liberation, and promoting the first historic leap in the Sinicization of Marxism.
**Comrades are full of affection for Hunan, and always care about Sangzi and miss their hometown. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he returned to Hunan 39 times to inspect, investigate, and guide the work, specially reviewed the work in Hunan 43 times, met with leading cadres at all levels in Hunan 38 times, wrote more than 280 letters to the villagers in Hunan, and left behind many touching deeds and good stories. He took the lead in insisting on seeking truth from facts. Every time I go back to Hunan, I come to Hunan with questions to investigate and provide support for scientific decision-making. In 1961, in order to investigate the revision of the "60 Articles on Agriculture", he returned to Hunan three times to investigate, and after full investigation and demonstration, he advocated amending the draft, disbanding the public canteen, and abolishing the supply system. He took the lead in practicing the mass line. On the way back to Changsha from Shaoshan in 1959, he got off the bus two or three times to talk with the masses and learn about food rations and other issues, which reflected the profound feelings of the people. He took the lead in insisting on building the party for the public. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, when he heard that his hometown was going to build a house and a road to his home, he immediately wrote to the Central South Bureau and Hunan Province to stop it. When relatives and friends in his hometown asked him to introduce his work, he insisted on "not introducing, not recommending, not talking, and not writing", and never sought personal gain or was not special. From October 1974 to February 1975, when he was recuperating and resting in Hunan, he still did not forget to care about the development of his hometown and gave important instructions for the resumption of Xiangtan University. **Comrade's footprints in Hunan are a vivid epitome of his concern for the people and his commitment to the party and the country, and it has inspired generations of Huxiang sons and daughters to continue to struggle and move forward bravely.
Inheritance is the best commemoration, and development is the best inheritance. When the general secretary inspected Hunan in 2011, he told us to "build a better hometown", so that the vast number of cadres and masses in Hunan felt warm and inspired. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the whole province of Hunan has been closely united around the first comrade as the core. Guided by the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, inheriting the red gene, continuing the red blood, and determined to unite and struggle, promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of Hunan's economic development, the continuous progress of democracy and the rule of law, the vigorous and prosperous cultural industry, the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, the harmony and stability of social governance, the background of people's livelihood is thicker, the ecological environment continues to improve, green development is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and new achievements have been made in party building, making historic achievements for the cause of the party and the country. The historic changes have made due contributions, and the general secretary has repaid the care and love of the general secretary for Hunan with practical actions, and comforted the older generation of revolutionaries with practical actions for their incomparable affection for their hometown.
In the next step, we will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of this symposium, especially the spirit of the important speech of the general secretary, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two maintenances", and strive to turn the "three highs and four new" blueprint described by the general secretary for Hunan into reality, build a better hometown, and live up to the expectations and care of the party leaders for Hunan.
* People** Author: Shen Xiaoming.
Edited by Mo Fan.
Process Editor: Weili Liu.