BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- As the International Children's Day on June 1 approached, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a reply letter to student docents at the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the CPC and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which are both the memorials of the birthplaces of the CPC. In the letter, Xi expressed encouragement to the docents, who are members of the Chinese Young Pioneers (CYP), and extended festive greetings to them and to children nationwide.
In his reply, Xi said that he was pleased to learn that the students had fostered a deep affection for the Party, the country and socialism, and had grown and learned a lot through recounting the Party's history, revolutionary stories and heroic deeds at the site of the First National Congress of the CPC in Shanghai and beside the Red Boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the CPC and the Party's cause calls for unremitting efforts across generations, Xi emphasized. He encouraged the children to hold high the banner of the CYP and follow the Party, carry forward revolutionary traditions, enrich their knowledge and capabilities, build strong characters, grow into children devoted to the Party and the people, and carry the baton of history forward on the new journey.
In 2021, a nationwide initiative was launched to encourage CYP members across the country to study the Party's history and share these stories as docents at revolutionary memorial venues. Recently, representatives of the CYP docents from the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the CPC in Shanghai and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall in Jiaxing wrote a letter to Xi. In the letter, they reported what they had learned and how they had grown through their work as student docents, and expressed their determination to become outstanding young people of the new era. ■
