Xi Yandao｜Xi Jinping used three months’ salary to do this

China News Service, June 1st: "When I saw the letter, I recalled the scene of laying the foundation for your school 20 years ago."

As the 2024 "June 1" International Children's Day is approaching, General Secretary Xi Jinping responded to a letter to the students of Zhijiang Primary School in Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province.

Zhijiang Primary School was formerly a primary school in a mountainous area in Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. The mountains are high and the roads are steep, and the school buildings are old. 20 years ago, the school was relocated with the assistance of its counterparts in Zhejiang Province. Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, laid the foundation for the school in May of that year. Since then, the school's operating conditions have improved significantly.

The learning and growth environment for children and young people is something that Xi Jinping cares about most.

More than 40 years ago, Xi Jinping took office in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. Shortly after taking office, he conducted a census of dilapidated buildings in schools in the county. In March 1984, during a field survey in Beijia Village, Xi Jinping found that Beijia Village had good economic conditions, but the primary school was in dilapidated condition: the school gate collapsed, and teachers and students came in and out through a large hole in the wall; the classroom windows were broken , the door is broken, and the tiles on the roof are almost falling off; there are not enough stools, and some children can only sit on the ground...

"Why is it like this? How can you stand looking at such a dilapidated school?" Xi Jinping asked after seeing this situation.

The village cadres who came after hearing the news hurriedly explained: "The village has never paid attention to the improvement of the school and does not pay enough attention. When the time comes..."

"When?" Xi Jinping interrupted the village cadres and asked them to hold a meeting that night to implement rectifications.

"Based on the conditions in your village, the primary school should not be like this. You are fully capable of improving the school." Xi Jinping got angry at the village cadres, "If you don't take action within a month, you will be removed from your post! "

Before leaving, Xi Jinping was still sighing: "You guys, I'm sorry for your children." He left a message to the village cadres, "The best house in the village must be the school" and asked all towns, towns and villages to this way.

Xi Jinping has always been thinking about the children's school buildings. Before leaving Zhengding to take office in Fujian in May 1985, he made a special trip to Beijiacun Primary School to inquire about the progress of the school building renovation project. Before leaving, he took out a wad of money and handed it to the principal. "I will leave Zhengding tomorrow. I will leave this money to buy books for the children."

A full 200 yuan was equivalent to three months' salary of a county-level cadre at that time.

"It is our greatest wish that our children grow better." General Secretary Xi Jinping has always cared about the growth and success of children and emphasized the need to work hard to create better conditions for their learning and growth.

During local inspections, Xi Jinping repeatedly mentioned the issue of "small glasses", "Nowadays, children are generally wearing glasses, which is my hidden worry."

During the school inspection, he particularly emphasized the importance of physical exercise. "Now that living conditions are better, children don't want to eat fat, but they want to grow strong and practice well."

During the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, he criticized the "score-only theory" and said, "Scores are temporary gains and should be viewed from the perspective of lifelong growth goals. If a healthy and mature personality is not formed in the end, it is unqualified." ".

Whenever he walks among the children, "big friend" Xi Jinping never forgets to talk to the children and express his care and expectations for them.

"You are all saplings now. The cultivation of moral character requires rich nutrients and fertile soil in order to thrive."

"The more you learn, the more you learn. The more knowledge, the better. You should learn knowledge like a sponge absorbing water."

In this reply to the students of Zhijiang Primary School, Xi Jinping pointed out that children are the future of the motherland. To build our hometown well and build our country into a modern and powerful socialist country, we need your generation to work hard. I hope that the students will set up lofty aspirations, cherish the good times, insist on the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor, strive to be good young people in the new era who love the party, patriotism, self-reliance and self-reliance, and strive to grow into pillars worthy of the great responsibility of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation. material.

｜Produced by the "Xi Yan Dao" studio of China News Network