The Party Committee of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Carries Out Patriotic Education Activities——Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Long March and Sticking to Ideals and Beliefs

In order to carry out the "Regulations to Educate and Manage the Members of the Communist Party of China ", enrich the form and contents of the" three sessions and one lesson "*, inherit the fine traditions of the Party and carry forward the revolutionary spirit, the Party Committee of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering together with the Party Branch of Teaching Staff on Organic Chemistry, the Party Branch of Teaching Staff on and the Party Branch of Analytic Chemistry and the Party Branch of Undergraduate Chemistry Experiment Teaching Center visited the Bangluo Meeting Memorial Hall in Bangluo Town, Tongwei County, and carried out patriotic education activities of "carrying forward the spirit of the Long March and sticking to ideals and beliefs" on May 25.

*The three sessions includes regular meetings of branch party members, branch party committees, and party groups; the "one lesson” refers to classes of party-related knowledge.

Photo taken in front of the Bangluo Meeting Memorial Hall.

The Bangluo Meeting was the second important turning point for the Long March of the Red Army and China’s Revolution after the Zunyi Meeting. On the evening of September 27, 1935, Mao Zedong presided over a meeting of the standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in the former head office of Pangluo Primary School, known to history as the Bangluo Meeting. In accordance with the action plan proposed by Mao Zedong to go to the north of Shaanxi in Hadapu Town, it was formally decided and announced that the Long March should be brought to an end in North Shaanxi, converging the Red 25 and 26 Army, and the North Shaanxi Revolutionary base should be consolidated and developed, leading China’s revolution on the basis of analyzing the situation both at home and abroad and further studying the problem of where to gather the army.

Lay flowers and belts for the revolutionary martyrs

In Bangluo Meeting Memorial Hall, comrades laid flowers and belts for the revolutionary martyrs in person solemnly. They were brought to the night of September, 1935, through the vivid and detailed explanation of the lecturer: our Party organization thwarted the enemy’s round-up and mopping-up operations over and over with unremitting struggles despite the great crisis. On the walls hanged papers reading “abolish all exorbitant taxes,” “increase workers’ wages”, “the Red Army is an army in the interest of workers and farmers” and so on, which recorded the mottled traces of the years, demonstrating the spirit of the Chinese people being brave and indomitable in struggle and daring to sacrifice.

During the interpretation, the comrades sometimes meditated and sometimes looked up at the historical materials and pieces of objects left behind by the revolutionary martyrs, such as a pair of straw shoes, a sickle, a horseshoe and so on, which gradually presented the traces of the history.

The lecturer of the Memorial Hall gave a vivid explanation

There is a huge and lush walnut tree planted in 1935 standing upright in the wind in the granary near the hall, behind which is a wall full of traces of bullets, telling the stories of the martyrs in silence.

Through this activity, the comrades deeply realized that their happy life today was obtained through the heroic sacrifice of revolutionary martyrs. They all expressed that they will inherit the revolutionary spirit, cherish the hard-won happy life, actively participate in the school double first-class construction, give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of party members, and strive for the education cause of the motherland.