My clear understanding of the true strength of our country began in 1986. That year, I was admitted to a university in Beijing. In the early morning of August 31, I drove through Chang'an Street with bread, and I saw Tiananmen and People's Heroes Monument .
In the first ten years of reform and opening up, our country has made things right, all construction has just started, and many areas are in a mess. That autumn, I wandered on Chang'an Street, waiting for the bus. The car came, and the crowd rushed towards the car door. At this time, two foreign ladies next to them pointed at the crowd with smiles and raised their cameras to take pictures.
At that time, a strong sense of inferiority came to my heart. I really realize that our country is indeed very poor, and the traffic is crowded, and in the eyes of foreigners, it has become an unbearable landscape.
Now, I understand more and more the feelings of the two foreign women more than 30 years ago. . Chinese people often shoot scenes in Africa on Douyin . Isn’t it amazing for us to eat in a dirty and messy environment?
At that time, when I met any foreigner on the bus, in hotels, and on the streets, I thought they were very wealthy. In contrast, there was still a group of people in our country who were so poor that they could hardly get out of the way. There are also large areas of poor households in our rural areas. Our national strength is not strong and we endure the arrogant oppression of certain countries.
When I was a child, I shouted "Taiwan will be liberated in 1980." After going to college, I began to know that Taiwanese people are much richer than us. When he was in his third year of junior high school, a classmate from the same dormitory returned to his hometown, and his relatives in Taiwan visited the mainland. The classmate brought his girlfriend a gold ring. I thought silently, Taiwan is so rich.
20-year-old summer, one night, I was walking on the street near Zizhuyuan Park and saw a foreigner walking side by side with a Chinese lady. They might be lovers or friends, and their movements were quite intimate.
At this time, a man riding a bicycle passed by, stopped beside them, and said to the Chinese lady hatefully - it's really a fucking loss to the Chinese.
I have experienced the national development process for decades since the reform and opening up. In early 1991, I was already working. One night, I was walking in the courtyard, and I heard an elderly woman talking about it - fighting, the United States and Iraqi , aircraft, tank .
Gulf War has taught a profound lesson to the whole world, especially to China's national defense field. It took me some years to understand what Putin said - 10,000 diplomatic protests, which is not as good as strategic bomber 's flapping its wings.
I have experienced and felt the humiliation of our country in the 1990s: in the 1993 Galaxy incident, the United States intercepted our ships with a strong low; in the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, the United States' aircraft carrier was ruthlessly stopped in the Taiwan Strait ; in 1999, the United States-led NATO brutally bombed Yugoslavishly and destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. In 2001, a Sino-US aircraft collision occurred, and the martyr Wang Wei and martyr devoted himself to national defense.
For decades, the United States and its so-called allies have imposed insults and harm on our country, causing our country to be passive and lose face.
We have shouted countless slogans and held countless marches, but the weakness of our strength can only make us vent our inner anger. In many cases, patriotism is just a slogan for us to vent our inner emotions.
In 2010, I was already a middle-aged man at 42 years old. That year, China's total economic output surpassed Japan for the first time, becoming the world's second largest economy.
In 2021, China's economy withstood multiple domestic and international pressures and achieved economic growth of 8.1% in adversity, and the per capita GDP growth rate reached 8%. Very successfully ranked second largest economy in the world.
In recent years, we have seen the achievements of the motherland's development. Our aircraft carrier and warships are like dumplings, and our aerospace has reached the forefront of the world. We have the confidence to have a tough fight with the foreign warship in .
Behind all this is the improvement of our country's economic strength.A tough country cannot be underestimated, and you have the ability to face any provocation calmly. A hundred years ago, the so-called great powers that ravaged our territory had become a small country in front of our three armies.
Nowadays, I am in my 50s and I will not feel inferior when I see any foreigner, and will not feel that I am living a poor and poor life like I did when I was 18 years old. I know that my pocket is actually more bulging than most foreigners. I saw foreign teachers wandering in college, and I realized that they also made a living and earned a Chinese salary.
I see Chinese intermarriage with foreigners, and I no longer think that Chinese women are coveting foreign wealth. In recent years, foreign foreign wives have always appeared in our real lives.
I have also experienced two overseas experiences. I wandered in a foreign country, and my face was full of confidence. The country becomes stronger, the people become rich, and their strength becomes stronger. Before they know it, their backs become hard.
The current world situation is not peaceful. The United States has provoked wars everywhere around the world. The situation in Russia and Ukraine will be difficult to calm down in a short period of time. Thanks to our strong motherland for allowing us to live a peaceful and peaceful life. We don’t have to worry about not being able to keep warm in winter, and we don’t have to worry about natural gas supply cut off.
We enjoy the peace and prosperity brought to us by the motherland, and our love for the motherland will be permeated in our daily words and deeds without realizing it. There is no need to shout slogans and no need to claim to serve our motherland. If a country has a crisis, 1.4 billion Chinese people will condense into a powerful patriotic force.
Patriotism is reflected in the details of our daily lives. Let us love our jobs and work hard and complete our work with quality and quantity. Even if life is unhappy, we don’t complain or be discouraged. We are law-abiding and , be kind people, release kind love to the world, and make every corner of our society full of love and warmth. This is the most realistic and sincere patriotism.
What is patriotism? The country is the best, and the family is the small family; only by caring for the small family can we achieve success. We pay attention to hygiene and develop good hygiene habits; we do not spit anywhere, and do not litter waste; we abide by traffic rules, abide by laws and regulations; we act civilizedly, do not swear, and treat the world around us with kindness. All of this is a concrete manifestation of loving the motherland.
Let us remember that patriotism is not as tall as imagined. Doing your duty well is patriotism. From the national level, patriotism is a grand narrative of the times, but from the perspective of every citizen, patriotism should look at small things, start from details, be down-to-earth, be sincere, abide by the law, and be an excellent Chinese citizen .
