"I will never betray the party," they called out, facing statues of the People's Republic of China founder Mao Zedong and other revolutionary leaders before moving on, to be quickly replaced by another group.
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. 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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