China Youth Daily:

Revolutionary resources serve as vivid teaching materials for all Party officials and members to stand firm in their ideals and convictions and strengthen the Party spirit. What has the MVA done to make good use of revolutionary cultural resources, pass down revolutionary traditions, and sustain revolutionary heritage? Thank you.

Ma Feixiong:

Thanks to the reporter for their question. It is one of the important functions of the Department of Commendation and Commemoration of the MVA to make good use of revolutionary cultural resources, pass down revolutionary traditions, and sustain revolutionary heritage. We will have Mr. Li Jingxian from the Department of Commendation and Commemoration answer this question.

Li Jingxian:

Thanks to the reporter for their question. The MVA has resolutely implemented the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the use of revolutionary cultural resources and commendation and commemoration of martyrs. We have guarded memorial facilities for martyrs, held the ground for education on the history of revolution, vigorously publicized and promoted the deeds and spirit of the heroes and martyrs, passed down revolutionary traditions and sustained revolutionary heritage, gathered mental strength, and nurtured the root and soul of the nation, and taken concrete steps to promote innovative development in the commendation and commemoration of martyrs.

First, the policy and regulation system has been further improved. We have promoted the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, the General office of the State Council, and the General office of the Central Military Commission to issue overall work plans on planning, construction, renovation, management, and maintenance of memorial facilities for martyrs and the opinions on strengthening commendation and commemoration of martyrs in the new era. Our work has incorporated the protection of heroes and martyrs into the support system of Party and state awards and honors. We have rolled out measures for protecting overseas memorial facilities for martyrs and revised the measures for protection and management of memorial facilities for martyrs. We have cooperated with relevant departments to establish a joint mechanism for protecting heroes and martyrs and have issued a series of guidelines on protecting, managing, and utilizing memorial facilities for martyrs. 

Second, remarkable progress has been made in the quality improvement and renovation of memorial facilities for martyrs. We have actively collected and verified information for the use of memorial facilities for martyrs, realizing dynamic information management of 760,000 martyrs' tombs nationwide. We have joined with the National Development and Reform Commission to roll out a project to provide adequate social service facilities during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with a focus on supporting the upgrading and renovation of national- and provincial-level memorial facilities for martyrs. We have worked with relevant departments to launch renovation projects on memorial facilities for martyrs at the county level and below, renovating 220,000 memorial facilities for martyrs nationwide and combining standardized renovation with effective management and protection. We have signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the National Cultural Heritage Administration, strengthening the preservation and utilization of revolutionary cultural resources. 

Third, education on the history of the revolution has fully played its role. We have organized publicity and education events, such as the ones themed "Heroes and Martyrs in the Centenary of the CPC" and "Red September." We have issued the third batch of national-level directories of memorial facilities and historical sites for memorizing the war against the Japanese aggression and martyrs and groups of heroes famous for fighting the war against the Japanese aggression. We have held solemn repatriation and burial ceremonies for the remains of CPV martyrs from the ROK and the burial ceremony of remains of the Red Army martyrs in the Battle of the Xiangjiang. Together with relevant military and local civilian institutions, we have held exhibitions commemorating the 70th anniversary of the CPV entering the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. Moreover, we have compiled the deeds of famous Chinese heroes and martyrs and promoted such materials to be displayed at the Museum of the CPC. We have, working with relevant departments, directed all local governments to make good use of memorial facilities for martyrs in the Party history learning and education and created several excellent works, including one titled "I Live in Your Memory." We have continued to launch themed events to commemorate heroes and martyrs online, and organized groups of Chinese youth cadres and other delegations to visit the DPRK for tomb-sweeping and exchanges. We have directed local governments to hold solemn public commemorative events for martyrs and award ceremonies for certificates of martyr on China's Martyrs' Day. We have actively collected and conserved relics of martyrs, their family letters, and historical materials and strengthened efforts to train research fellows and narrators in memorial facilities for heroes and martyrs. Thank you.