Chinese visit ‘red’ sites ahead of 100th Communist Party anniversary

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In a square in front of a Communist Party memorial hall at Xibaipo in northern China, row upon row of party members stood, raised their fists, and chanted the party oath in unison.

Thirteen delegates, including Mao, attended the first congress in Shanghai in 1921 to set up the party.

“I feel I’m taking on a responsibility to strive for the realization of communism,” said Mao Weijia, 17, a high school pupil from Hebei. “As a young person entering adulthood, I carry the future of our motherland.” Among the adult visitors, many, such as Zhang Zhaoyang from Hunan province, said they were in Yanan as part of a “red tourism” or party-building trip organized by their party unit or employer.“We take party-building activities very seriously. It is the leadership of the Communist Party that gives us happiness,” Zhang, 50, said.The push to study the party’s history this year is a boon to tourism in red tourist hot spots like Yanan and Xibaipo, say officials. But the trend is not new.

Nationwide, the drive to step up patriotic sentiment in part through party study has been a theme since Xi Jinping became China’s leader nearly a decade ago, said Xu Jia, a researcher at the CPC Central Committee’s Institute of Party History and Literature. “In our cadres’ education and training, we emphasize loyalty, honesty, and responsibility, but loyalty is the No.1 requirement, the priority,” Li said.

 

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