On the eve of "National Day", the "Glory - Record of Retired Cadres of the Retired Cadres" organized and compiled by the Organization Department of the Kulan County Party Committee and the County Party Committee's Veteran Cadres Bureau will be published soon. The book contains 82

This newspaper reported that on the eve of "National Day", the "Glory - Record of Retired Cadres of the Living Cadres" organized and compiled by the Organization Department of the Lilan County Party Committee of Xinzhou City and the Veteran Cadres Bureau of the County Party Committee will be published soon. The book contains 826 thousand words, including 289 articles and more than 500 precious activity photos, conference photos, work photos and ID photos. It shows the style of nearly 400 retired cadres in , Gulan County, and presents a generous gift for the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Listen to the voices and promote

During the 2021 Spring Festival visit and condolences, many veteran cadres put forward the idea of ​​compiling remembrance articles for retired cadres. Soon, the idea received a keen response from the County Party Committee Organization Department and the County Party Committee’s Veteran Cadre Bureau: On April 28, the first solicitation meeting for the compilation work was held at the Senior Citizen University. Wang Zhirong, deputy director of the Organization Department of Xinzhou Municipal Party Committee and former director of the Bureau of Old Cadres, listened to a brief introduction to the work by Comrade Zhang Aiping, former executive vice president of the Party School of the County Party Committee and one of the initiators of the compilation work, and said with praise: "Frozen the revolutionary memory and inherit the red gene, the idea is very good, and it is of great significance!" Jia Jianning, member of the Standing Committee of the Kelan County Party Committee and Minister of Organization, also pointed out: "Rescue red resources is timely and urgent."

carefully organized. After the extensive mobilization of the compilation work of

compiled, the county party committee's veteran cadres bureau quickly formulated a work plan, established a leading group, clarified the responsibilities of each working group and entered personnel conditions, time steps, work tasks, etc., and established 16 liaison groups based on the original work unit of the retired cadres and their residence. At the same time, according to the needs of the preparation work, four groups, including the archive review and sorting group, the article material collection group, the editor review group, and the printing and distribution, were established to form a working mechanism with division of labor and cooperation, laying a solid organizational foundation for the preparation work. As an old leader, Yang Rongwang, a descendant of retired cadres and former director of Xinzhou Water Resources Bureau, Di Jianhua, former secretary of the Xinzhou Development Zone Working Committee, and Ren Chuan, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Kelan County, etc., made good suggestions on this activity and enthusiastically participated. Speaking of the reasons for participation, the old leaders said that in the early 1980s, there were more than 200 retired cadres in Kelan County, and later it increased to nearly 400. Now there are only 17 people alive. We have no choice but to sort out, protect and inherit the red resources of retired cadres.

Strengthen guidance and consolidate the foundation

On November 24, 2021, the editorial committee office of the "Rongguang-Record of Retired Cadres in Kelan County" held a mobilization and volunteer training meeting for the preparation work. Minister Jia Jianning attended the meeting and gave work guidance. He emphasized that "the compilation work at an important historical moment of learning and education of the Party history and learning and implementing the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee has great historical significance and practical significance." He also put forward higher requirements for the scope of inclusion, article editing, cultural and sports. The heads of each working organization of the editorial board conducted on-site training on file review, liaison collection, editing review and other work. After the meeting, some working groups established WeChat groups for children of retired cadres, some established editing studios, and some editors took the initiative to undertake writing tasks, laying a solid foundation for vigorously promoting work. The families of retired cadres who work outside the county, such as Jia Xiaoguang, Liu Lili, Wang Aiping, Ren Jianhua, etc., actively signed up to join the volunteers and took the initiative to undertake the liaison tasks of retired cadres and children in Taiyuan and Xinzhou. Retired cadres such as Su Anze, Zhang Naicheng, Xu Jianming, and Gao Cui'e who have been engaged in the service management of retired cadres in the county, have been actively responsible for the liaison, archiving and contacting of archives. In just one month, 389 retired cadres were confirmed, laying a solid foundation for the compilation work. During this period, Minister Jia Jianning went to the office many times to solve the difficulties and problems in compilation, which greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of compilation workers.

enthusiastic guidance. Closely cooperate with

. In order to facilitate communication with the children of retired cadres, the compilation office has established a WeChat group for volunteer work exchange, publishing contact and receiving information in a timely manner every day, and organizing and convening progress reports of each working group every 10 days to collect volunteers’ difficulties and opinions and suggestions in their work. Research and improve the problems found in the compilation work on-site.The volunteers fully utilized their subjective initiative and actively organized the descendants of retired cadres to review the information retained by their ancestors, visit their colleagues, hold family meetings, remember their ancestors' past, and write memorial articles with true feelings, so that the collection work will progress smoothly. While collecting and organizing articles, licenses and other materials, the article editing and review work was simultaneously launched. During the editing of

, we always adhere to the working principle of "seeking truth and being pragmatic, scientific and rigorous". Major historical events must be verified with the events recorded in 山江本 ; work experience must be based on personnel archive records; all articles must be reviewed and repeatedly proofread. During the process of writing, the office visited the retired cadres many times to ask for advice. They are 92 years old on average. They not only leave precious memories for future generations with true feelings, memories or writing, but also collectively wrote a message to the younger generation - "Our Hope", encouraging the younger generation to never forget their roots for generations, so that our red country will be passed on forever. During this period, the WeChat public platform of "Kilan County Old Cadres Home" fully utilized its publicity advantages and created a good atmosphere for the smooth development of the compilation work.

Great love is boundless. In the compilation work of

, it has received the enthusiastic care and strong support from the county party committee, county government and relevant departments. Among the 77 volunteers who participated in the compilation work, 38 children of retired cadres, accounting for 49.4%; 49 retirees, accounting for 63.6%. Among them are 77-year-old retired cadres Party branch secretary Zhao Derong and Hou Wenxiao; there are the youngest college students in public welfare posts. Their conscientious, rigorous and meticulous style is admirable, and their careful and responsible attitude is amazing! All personnel worked together and worked together to create a situation where multiple parties actively participated and made progress together. With deep respect for retired cadres, the volunteers carried out the spirit of hard work and selfless dedication of revolutionary predecessors throughout the process and successfully completed the compilation task.

"Using copper as a mirror, you can correct your clothes and hats; using ancient as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall; using people as a mirror, you can understand gains and losses." This book shows the firm belief in communism of the old revolutionaries, the strong spirit of patriotism, the revolutionary style of hard work and the noble morality of serving the people wholeheartedly. It provides us with an important role in learning, publicizing, researching and inheriting the history of the Party and the history of social development in the society, and giving play to the important role of party history in providing advice and education for people; it also provides a living textbook for our county's party history education, revolutionary traditional education and patriotism education. Further inspire the great enthusiasm of the broad masses of party members, cadres and the masses, especially the young generation to love the party, the country, the people and socialism, and strive to write a new chapter in the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era! (Tian Lixin Ma Wei)

(Photo taken by the editorial board and editorial department members)