The journey is long, only struggle (Wanghailou·Journey·Struggle)

"The journey is long, and there is only struggle. Through struggle, we have overcome all obstacles and traversed thousands of rivers and mountains. We must continue to struggle and move forward courageously to create even more brilliant glory!" President Xi Jinping spoke loudly and loudly of "struggle" in his New Year's message. If

is to find keywords for the new era we live in, "struggle" must be one of them.

2021 is the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. The century-long journey has been magnificent. At the beginning of the century, the heart has become stronger and stronger. The spirit of struggle has inspired the Chinese Communists to create one miracle after another.

Once the Communist Party of China was founded, it took the realization of communism as the party's highest ideal and ultimate goal. After 28 years of arduous and heroic struggle, the Chinese Communist Party led the people to overthrow the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism. With blood, sweat and tears, they wrote an epic of struggle and glory, and ended the dark history of people’s lack of livelihood. Let the Chinese truly stand up.

At the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the land of China was devastated and awaiting prosperity. There was no shortage of forces in the world to isolate, blockade, interfere, and provoke the new China. The Communist Party of China led the people of the whole country out of poverty and whiteness. It took only 30 years to "make progress that the old China did not achieve in hundreds or thousands of years." It depends on nothing but constant struggle.

On December 18, 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party was held, starting the great journey of reform, opening up and socialist modernization. The Chinese people have shown unprecedented enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity, demonstrating the powerful force of swallowing mountains and rivers. Because of its struggle, China has become the second largest economy in the world and has achieved world-renowned development achievements. The new era of

is even more struggling. In previous New Year's greetings, President Xi Jinping firmly emphasized the great spirit of struggle of the Chinese nation. He said, "Achievements are made by the people of all ethnic groups across the country by rolling up their sleeves, and by the sweat of the new era fighters." "Happiness is all about striving." He emphasized, “There will be no pie in the sky. Only by working hard can our dreams come true.” “Our blueprint is magnificent, and our struggle will be arduous.”

2020 is an extraordinary year. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people have achieved major strategic results in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, overcome severe floods, and achieved positive economic growth; the "13th Five-Year Plan" was successfully concluded and the "14th Five-Year Plan" was comprehensively drawn; The building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects has made great historical achievements, and the decisive battle against poverty has achieved decisive victory... There is no other but struggle!

From 1921 to 2021, from a political party with more than 50 members when it was founded to a large party with more than 90 million members today, the Chinese Communist Party, which has gone through a century of history, relied on the spirit of arduous struggle and bloodshed when the mountains and rivers were broken. Fighting hard, working hard to be strong in a poor period, advancing with the times in social development, overcoming one after another seemingly insurmountable difficulties, creating one after another human miracle that shines through the annals of history, ushering the Chinese nation from standing up, A great leap from getting rich to getting stronger.

Looking back a hundred years, the footprints of struggle are full of origins. Looking to the future, the footprints of struggle will write a new journey. Standing at the historical intersection of the "two centuries", to achieve all goals, struggle is the only way. We must rely on struggle to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, rely on struggle to pursue higher-quality development, rely on struggle to give people more sense of gain, happiness, and security, and rely on struggle to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Dreams, dreams come true.

In the first century, the wind and rain are going through the wind and rain. Only struggle, not afraid of wind and rain or difficulties!

(The author is the newspaper commentator Yin Jie)

"People's Daily Overseas Edition" (01 05 January 2021)