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The Comment Department of People's Daily: Build Youth with Struggle Spirit

——How to train socialist builders and successors ⑤

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04:30, September 21, 2018 | Source: People's Daily
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With such a moderate momentum and passion, the struggle will become a ladder to realize dreams and a bridge to the future

   

"This is a struggle legend of red youth" "This is what young people should look like"... Not long ago, the popular TV series "Those Years, We Are Young" told the story of several college students in the research and development of "Two Bombs and One Star", who devoted their lives to national defense construction without hesitation, and received rave reviews. It is the word "struggle" that transcends time and space, transcends individuals, and resonates in youth of different times.

At the National Education Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "we should work hard to cultivate the spirit of struggle, educate and guide students to establish lofty aspirations, experience the spirit of taking responsibility and unremitting struggle, have the spirit of courage to struggle, an optimistic attitude towards life, and strive to be strong, promising and self-improvement.", Injecting the spirit of struggle into the growth, firming their steps and strengthening their spirit is an important part of educating morality and cultivating people, and it is also an essential part of cultivating socialist builders and successors.

If you have a distance in your heart, you can go all the way. In the growth process of young people, ambition is the fundamental driving force for progress. "To establish lofty aspirations and be a striver." Whether it is a college student studying hard at a desk, a young village official rooted in the grassroots, or an industrial worker on the assembly line, turning the life ambition into a driving force for struggle, you can hear the voice of jointing in growth, see the rainbow after rain, and receive your own wonderful life. Have a small dream, but also have a big ambition. At the historical juncture of the "two centenary goals", and at a time when China is increasingly approaching the center of the world stage, we should integrate the dream of life into the current of the times, let the vigorous youth resonate with the feelings of family and country, and find a stage for making achievements in the journey of rejuvenation. With bright prospects, heroic journey and no struggle, why talk about youth and dreams?

Never seek change, never seek refuge. The most important thing to train more strivers for the new era is to stimulate the sense of responsibility of the young generation, temper their strong will and cultivate their spirit of hardship. Wei Huixiao, a doctoral student of Sun Yat sen University, joined the military and became the first female vice captain of our navy, writing a youth without regret in the vast sea; Song Biao, a student of Changzhou Technician College, practiced hard day after day in the workshop under the high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, and won the highest prize in the World Skills Competition... Countless young people like this have achieved brilliant lives through hard work. "hardship" and "hard work" are essential keywords. "In youth, if you choose to bear hardships, you will choose to gain, and if you choose to contribute, you will choose to be noble." As long as you have a moderate momentum and a passion for dreams, struggle will become a ladder to realize your dreams and a bridge to the future.

Objectively speaking, most of today's teenagers grow up in an environment where they don't have to worry about food and clothing. To cultivate their sense of responsibility, strong will, and hard-working spirit, educators need to spend more time than in the past. In reality, some people do not believe in struggle and think that "struggle is better than background"; Some people are negative and decadent, and are easy to give up when encountering setbacks; There are still some people who have no long-term goals and muddle along... Although these are a few phenomena, they also need attention. Only muddy roads can leave footprints, and only steep mountains can have unlimited scenery. We should guide young people to overcome the "difficulty" in life, challenge the "impossibility" in work, and make life brilliant and youth shining with struggle.

It should be said that no generation's youth is easy. It is understandable that the pressure of life, anxiety of work and desire for success make contemporary youth also have "growing pains". Young people should better understand the struggle and shoulder the responsibility of the times. No matter when they are struggling, they should not lose the spirit of struggle. Young people should better practice their struggle, seek knowledge by doing, promote action by knowing, and truly achieve the unity of knowledge and action. Only in this way can we better fight, struggle, contribute, create a better life, and realize our great dreams.

In 1939, Mao Zedong said at the Yan'an Celebration of Model Youth Conference: "What is a model youth? It means that there should be a permanent struggle... To what extent? To five, ten, forty, fifty, or even sixty, seventy years, in a word, we should strive to death. Without death, we have not reached the goal of permanent struggle." On the road to rejuvenation, generation after generation of young people are growing, and the times are also progressing in this process. The Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will surely become a reality in the relay struggle of generations of young people.


People's Daily (September 21, 2018, 13th edition)

(Editor in charge: Yue Hongbin, Huang Ceyu)

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