"This morning, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has entered the city, and Nanjing, an ancient city ruled by the Kuomintang government for 22 years, has been reborn and liberated!" The radio waves recorded the moment of historical change, and 75 years later, I still feel excited.

Visit the "The Day of Victory" exhibition and participate in the "Revisiting the Road to Victory" event...... In the past few days, people have gathered at the Memorial Hall of the Victory of Crossing the Yangtze River to relive the victory that was crucial to the liberation of the whole country. On the square stands 6 groups of 49 red five-star sculptures, with a height of 49.423 meters, representing April 23, 1949.

Time is the friend of truth. Standing in 2024 and looking back on the way we came, through the long lens of history, frame by frame of victory, witnessing the right path in the world:

The road is fateful. "If you win the people, you will win the country, and if you lose the people, you will lose the country." Seventy-five years ago today, an old regime collapsed to the ground, marking the end of the cycle of a century of salvation and survival, and the beginning of a grand scene that turned the world upside down and won the past.

Years of faith have been tempered. The country is the people, and the people are the country. Nanjing, the capital of the Ten Dynasties, the rise and fall of countless political forces has enlightened future generations: the people's hearts and minds determine their survival, and only by always maintaining the pure heart of the people can we move from history to the future.

Dedication will lead to far-reaching results. Inheriting the ancient and sprouting the new, Jinling is renewed. Nanjing is keeping in mind the glorious mission of "going ahead and being a demonstration", implementing the major tasks of "four going ahead" and "four new" entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and writing a new chapter of victory in the past.

An avenue

Get out of the reincarnation of a hundred years of salvation and survival

On August 29, 1842, a group of Qing Dynasty officials boarded the British warship "Kang Huali" anchored in the Nanjing River, and signed the first unequal treaty in modern Chinese history, the Sino-British "Treaty of Nanjing", under the watchful eyes of British soldiers with loaded guns.

On April 21, 1949, it was still this river. After a fierce artillery battle, the British warship "Purple Quartz", which broke into the defense area of the People's Liberation Army, fled in a hurry. Two days later, a million heroes crossed the river, and the red flag was planted in the "Presidential Palace...... The era of imperialism relying on the strength of ships and guns and the rampant treaty system completely collapsed.

Thirteen bridges and tunnels lead to the north and south, and the Yangtze River moat becomes a thoroughfare. Today, Nanjing is the only city in Jiangsu with a cross-river layout, with busy boats and boats on the river, green riverbanks, and cultural attractions and natural landscapes dotted like stars.

"Mourn the moments of my life, envy the infinity of the Yangtze River". From the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the capital of the Ten Dynasties, it has been reduced to a semi-colony that can be slaughtered by others, and has been reborn as a beautiful home where man and nature coexist in harmony...... A city has experienced all the trees in the abandoned pond, condensing the rise and fall of a country.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River and on the banks of the Qinhuai River. The 1865 Creative Industry Park was founded by Li Hongzhang, the then governor of Liangjiang, and created a precedent for the development of China's modern industry and weapons industry. As the core force of the Westernization Movement, the successive governors of Liangjiang made Nanjing a pioneer in the introduction of new industries, the implementation of new education, and the construction of a new type of city. In the past 100 years, from the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, to the Jinling Arsenal during the Republic of China, the 60th Factory that moved back to Nanjing after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and then to the East China Ordnance General Factory and Nanjing Chenguang Machinery Factory after the founding of New China...... It has witnessed the shattering of the dream of "mastering the long skills of the master to control the country", and also gave birth to the fire of the rise of the national military industry.

A hundred years of port, read thousands of sails. The newly built retro main building, the one-way 10-minute ferry, some people are chasing the wind, feeling the pulse and temperature of life, some people are collecting the wind, and using the camera to freeze the small luck of life, Zhongshan Wharf, which was built in 1925, is the finishing touch of today's slow life in Nanjing. However, the clock was turned back more than 100 years ago, when merchant ships and warships of the great powers shuttled wantonly on the Xiaguan River; during the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese invasion of China, tens of thousands of compatriots crowded the wharf but could not wait for the ships to escape; until the end of the spring of 1949, the vanguard of the 35th Army of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army took the "first ship to cross the river" and "Jingdian" to land first in the area of Zhongshan Wharf...... After a thousand sails, the world has changed.

A Yangtze River road, half of the history of Jinling. "The trend of the world is mighty, and if you go with it, you will prosper, and if you go against it, you will die. After Mr. Sun Yat-sen discovered that the bourgeoisie's road to national salvation was not feasible, he once expressed such feelings. After his death, No. 292 Changjiang Road changed its title in just 20 years, from the Provisional Presidential Palace, the Nanjing National Government, and the puppet government of Wang Jingwei...... Today's people walk along the Six Dynasties Museum, Jiangning Weaving Museum, Nanjing "Presidential Palace" Scenic Area, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Library, 1800 meters of Yangtze River Road spanning 1800 years, and the political forces that once appeared in turn have long been submerged in the long river of history.

There will always be several nodes in life to identify the stage and quality of life, and the same is true for a city.

Only by placing the 75-year course of Nanjing's liberation in the historical coordinates, looking back at the road we have traveled, comparing the roads of others, and looking at the road ahead, can we clearly see where we have started, where we have arrived, and where we are going.

Nanjing's Ma'anshan Road, like much of the historic city's roads, is covered by tall plane trees, and was once the home of Hu Fuming, a professor of philosophy at Nanjing University. In May 1978, his article "Practice is the Only Criterion for Testing Truth" was published in Guangming Daily, which triggered a nationwide "great debate on the criterion of truth", opened the prelude to the emancipation of the mind, and gave birth to the new great revolution of reform and opening up.

"Practice makes sense, never go out of style. Zhang Sheng, dean of the School of History of Nanjing University, said that as a milestone city in China's modern history, Nanjing has experienced a failed attempt from "opening its eyes to the world" to a constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary system, a presidential system, etc., and it is the Communist Party of China that led hundreds of millions of people to fight bloodily and ended the city's repeated defeats and defeats in modern history.

This is a historical fact and a conclusion of history.

A truth

The people are the state of the country, the state of the solid Bangning

"The tiger is better than the past, and the world is turned upside down and generous. The poems with a broad mind allow people today to still feel the devastating victory as if they were there, and the dusty historical materials reveal the trajectory and logic of liberation.

22 years is more than 24 hours - the former is the time when the Kuomintang is entrenched in Nanjing, and the latter is the time when the PLA occupies Nanjing and smoothly takes over Nanjing.

110,000 to 2,000 – this is the comparison of the number of Kuomintang and Communist Party members in the city.

Recently, a new book "Fighting in the Heart of the Enemy - Nanjing Household Registration Archives during the Liberation War (1)" was officially published. Party history workers found 842 underground CCP members from 1.54 million household registration cards in Nanjing on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and restored the details of the "secret war" in 11 systems.

"The Kuomintang seems to be in power and outnumbered, but it sits on the head of the people. Although the Communist Party has only more than 2,000 people, they are workers, students, teachers, journalists, police officers, shop assistants, clerks, and so on. Xu Chun, director of the Party History Office of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, said.

The people's will is the same as the people's will, the victory is the goal, the national disaster is the leader, the people's heart is the weapon, the people's will can be accomplished, and the people's will in the construction period is the strength.

In 1922, the Puzhen Party Group, the first local Communist Party organization in Nanjing, was born in the Puzhen Machinery Factory in Pukou, Jiangbei. At the turn of the winter and spring of 1949, under the leadership of the Communist Party, the workers stopped the Kuomintang's conspiracy to relocate and destroy the factory, escaped the fate of being exploited and oppressed, and quickly resumed production at the turn of spring and summer, becoming the owners of the factory.

In the two years after the founding of New China, the Puzhen Rolling Stock Factory repaired a total of 287 steam locomotives, 291 passenger cars, and 608 freight cars, which strongly supported the liberation of the whole country and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; since 1958, the factory has been built at the same time, and China's first railway passenger car -- YZ21 type hard seat car has driven out from here; in the 21st century, China's first subway train exported to India, China's first self-developed intercity electric unit was exported to Georgia, and more and more "Puzhen-made" trains have gone global.

Among the more than 400 municipal-level cultural preservation units in Nanjing, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is the "youngest". The bridge, which was completed and opened to traffic in 1968, is known as the "Zhengqi Bridge", not only because it was the first double-decker railway and road bridge designed and built by China itself, but also because it witnessed the eventful years of self-reliance and hard work.

Today, there are as many as 13 bridges and tunnels connecting both sides of the Yangtze River. On the afternoon of April 3, with the last section of the steel box girder in place, the main bridge of the Longtan Yangtze River Bridge was successfully closed, and it only takes 5 minutes to drive from Nanjing Longtan to Yangzhou Yizheng in the future.

In the Urban Planning Hall on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, the past, present and future of a city are laid out in front of you:

From the capital of the national government with dilapidated city appearance, soaring prices, withered people's livelihood, and a waste waiting to be rebuilt, to a modern international city today, from economic system reform to comprehensive deepening reform, from internal revitalization to opening up to the outside world, from crossing the bottom line of food and clothing to a high-level all-round well-off, and moving towards common prosperity, with about 0.07% of the country's land and 0.6% of the population, it has created 1.4% of the country's total economic output and 2% of tax revenue; in 2023, Nanjing's GDP will exceed 1.7 trillion yuan; and it has been rated for 14 consecutive times" China's happiest city", and the level of basic public services has ranked first in the province for six consecutive years......

Macro numerical changes, connected with micro people's livelihood gains, contain the temperature of development and the precision of governance, and highlight the value orientation of people first.

Emphasizing the priority of employment, the implementation rate of college graduates has reached 94%, and 231,000 new jobs have been created in urban areas; to make up for the shortcomings of people's livelihood, the urban and rural subsistence allowance standard has been raised to 1,050 yuan per month, and 24,000 sets (rooms) of affordable rental housing have been raised; to ensure that the elderly have access to care and medical treatment for the sick, to achieve full coverage of comprehensive elderly care service centers in urban streets, and to build the country's first "three doctors" linkage supervision platform - Nanjing "Medical Insurance High-speed Railway", which has benefited 48,000 people with long-term care insurance; It has been approved as a pilot city for the construction of a national child-friendly city and a national demonstration city for infant and child care services, and the coverage rate of provincial and municipal high-quality kindergartens has risen to 92.1%......

Through "online + offline", new pain points and golden ideas are widely solicited, candidate projects are selected, and submitted to the conference for deliberation and voting by delegates...... In 2024, 40 practical projects for people's livelihood in ten categories will be released, and each of them has gone through the process of asking the people what they need, asking the people, and asking the people about their effectiveness.

"There is something to sit down and talk about, and the villagers discuss the affairs of the villagers. "The 65 villager groups in Jinshan Village, Liuhe District, have set up village group councils, whose members are recommended and elected by the villagers, and undertake the work of negotiating village-level affairs and mediating contradictions and disputes; Huashan Village, Gaochun District, has created a moral lecture hall by using the ancestral hall "Family Training Hall" to organically combine the inheritance of family customs with the core values of socialism; Xianlin Street has divided 10 communities into 90 comprehensive grids and 195 exclusive grids, and all 2,668 street-based units have been included in them, creating a model of "strong party building, excellent service, cohesion, and conflict resolution" Featuring the "Maple Bridge Experience" City Edition...... From the countryside to the city, the masses have become the widest participants, the biggest beneficiaries and the ultimate judges of social governance.

The rise and fall of a country depends on the system, and the well-being of the people is governed by it. Who am I, for whom, and on whom do I rely? In the course of 75 years of reform and construction, Nanjing has answered the question with actions and achievements.

"On the new journey, coming from the people, relying on the people, and serving the people will still be the source of strength to overcome obstacles. Han Liming, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, said that we will keep in mind that the people's yearning for a better life is our goal, and strive to protect and improve people's livelihood and promote the modernization of social governance.

A city

The tiger is better than the past

Close to the noisy Gold and Silver Street, Du Lingjie's laboratory is extremely quiet. The only light was a few dotted machine lights, the loudest of which came from a 6-meter-tall cylindrical instrument...... This is the "black room" he built after returning to Nanjing University in 2019 - the Quantum Spectroscopy Transport Laboratory for Extreme Conditions, and in April this year, he first observed the "projection" of gravitons in condensed matter.

Not far away is Southeast University, and there is a red check-in spot on campus: Mei'an. A hundred years ago, the Mei'an under the shadow of the Six Dynasties was the center of the spread of Marxism in Jiangsu, where the "Second National Congress of the Communist Youth League" was held and the Youth China Society was active, leaving a strong mark in the history of the Youth League and the Youth Movement.

Jiang Zuo is talented, Sven is here. Nanjing has more than 50 colleges and universities, including 13 "double first-class" universities, more than 90 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, and 35,200 people with university education per 100,000 permanent residents, all of which rank among the top in the country. Among the latest scientific research cities in the world announced by the British journal Nature, Nanjing jumped to the sixth place, second only to Beijing and Shanghai in China.

Giving to many people is a great cause. Talent used to be a vital force in the period of Nanjing's liberation and construction, and now it is a rich internal force for future development.

Anchoring science and technology is independent and self-reliant, and is determined to innovate and seek breakthroughs. Among the more than 1,000 employees of the Purple Mountain Laboratory, there are more than 60 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, national talent engineering experts, and provincial and ministerial-level high-end talents, which have set a number of "global firsts" in the field of network communication and security......

Focus on strengthening the chain to supplement the chain and extend the chain, and cultivate new quality productivity. The old industries are new, and the four pillar industries of steel, petrochemical, automobile, and electronics are accelerating the in-depth transformation; the new industries are becoming stronger, and the two national advanced manufacturing clusters aim at higher goals, planning to achieve business income of 850 billion yuan in the software and information service industry and 420 billion yuan in the new power (smart grid) industry in 2024;

Innovation climbs high, and openness is gaining momentum. Walking into the Longtan Container Terminal of Nanjing Port, containers filled with new energy vehicles and lithium batteries are neatly stacked in the special yard, waiting for export. Shippers from all over the world choose the optimal intermodal transportation mode of "road, rail and water" here to enjoy the benefits of three-dimensional openness.

As a "gateway port" for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and a "hub port" supporting Nanjing's high-quality development, Nanjing Port will have a cargo throughput of nearly 300 million tons, a container throughput of more than 3 million TEUs, and 13 near-ocean routes in 2023, among which multimodal transport ranks first among inland ports in China.

Activate the whole domain and aggregate the whole world. Located in the Nanjing Area of the China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Jiangbei New Area, "bonded + classified supervision" has increased the efficiency of material customs clearance by 60%, and "bonded + full-chain digital supervision" has reduced the customs clearance time of goods by 84.59%, and enterprises can be set up in half a day, talents can be accepted for settlement and vacancies, and project construction will start as soon as land is acquired...... Nearly 200 institutional innovations have been formed here, of which 63 have been promoted nationwide.

As the only city in Jiangsu Province that superimposes the double opportunity of "free trade zone + service industry expansion and opening pilot", Nanjing's foreign trade import and export has reached 500 billion yuan and 600 billion yuan in the past three years, the actual use of foreign capital has achieved double-digit growth for three consecutive years, and the scale of foreign contracted projects has ranked first in the province for 11 consecutive years.

The tiger is on the dragon plate, and the mountains and rivers depend on each other. In 1921, the China Cement Factory was located in Nanjing and the quarry was located in Tangshan, Jiangning, and the new light of industrial civilization lit up the ancient "Stone Town" for the first time. Nowadays, the cement factory has been transformed into a beautiful garden, the abandoned mine pit has reproduced the magnificent scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, and a "Nanjing Shi" with a height of dozens of meters in the Garden Expo Park attracts people's attention.

When the bell rings, the three clock faces at different times imply the past, present and future, just like the city, which has come from history and based on the present, and opened a new future in the process of moving towards Chinese-style modernization and creating a new form of Chinese civilization:

——In the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, we should continue the symbiosis concept of the coexistence of all things and the unity of nature and man. In the Muyan Riverside Scenic Area, 9 quarries have been shut down, 2.6 million square meters of vegetation have been restored, and the mine pit has been turned into a leisure resort; the former devastated Niushou Mountain, the ecological restoration point "stone" has become gold, and the number of tourists per day on holidays exceeds 50,000 people...... The transformation of the black mark into a green landmark reflects the change of a city's concept from blindly seeking industrial civilization to protecting and feeding back ecological civilization.

-- In the practice of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, we will spread the ideal of "the road is for the common good". More than 600 years ago, Nanjing, as the starting point of Zheng He's "Seven Voyages to the West", ran through the maritime "Silk Road" of close economic and cultural exchanges; last year's World Rivers Day, a "Protect the Mother River - Global Sound Rafting Program" was launched by Nanjing to the world, and more than 100 literary and natural voices have been received, including the Rhine, Danube, Ganges, Nile, Mississippi, Amazonas, Yangtze and Yellow ...... More than 30 well-known cities around the world come because of water and waves.

-- Draw strength from the "best textbooks" and strive to create a new culture that belongs to this era. Nanjing has a rich red family background, with more than 160 red cultural resource points such as Yuhuatai, Meiyuan New Village, and Red Li Lane. A few days ago, the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall announced the first batch of 1,468 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs online, and hundreds of thousands of netizens interacted with each other to comfort their ancestors. "They will not be forgotten by history, they will not be forgotten by the country, and they will not be forgotten by us. A student from Jincheng College of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics said.

Only those who are good at finding the way from history can gain the wisdom to move towards the future. Chen Zhichang, mayor of Nanjing, said, "Remembering suffering, but not indulging in suffering, this is the spiritual code of Nanjing's history that has endured disasters but has been constantly striving for self-improvement, and has suffered setbacks and has been constantly reborn." ”

75 years, for a person, it may be a lifetime, for a city, it is just a moment, for a country, it is in its prime.

Today, Nanjing is showing the world its grand atmosphere of both cultural heritage and the trend of the times with the magnanimity of embracing all rivers and rivers. (Reporter Liu Kang, Jiang Fang, Shen Rufa)