I am a Beidahuang Person
In the northern borderlands, on the dark fertile soils of Beidahuang, the ashes of the Party’s good daughter Chen Yuejiu were scattered. This is an inspiring magnificent poem.
Loving Beidahuang infinitely, even in her final moments of life, the educated youth Chen Yuejiu, who repeatedly thought “I am a Beidahuang person,” used her brief heroic life to ruthlessly criticize Deng Xiaoping’s reactionary revisionist line, the biggest unrepentant capitalist-roaders within the Party, and added strength to the vast number of educated youth fighting on the front line of anti-revisionist and anti-espionage struggles, inspiring them to march forward along Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line.
On April 6, 1975, spring was in full bloom on Yanwo Island in Beidahuang. The 21st Regiment, 4th Battalion, First Company, under the Red Xinglong Management Bureau of Heilongjiang State Farms, was excitedly discussing a telegram sent to the Changzheng Hospital in Shanghai. The telegram read:
“Comrade Chen Yuejiu, approved by the branch meeting on April 2, and by the higher-level Party committee on April 5, you have honorably joined the Chinese Communist Party.”
Before this telegram was sent, suddenly the company received a telegram from Shanghai:
“Comrade Chen Yuejiu passed away at 6:40 a.m. on April 3…”
The news pierced the hearts of all cadres, poor and lower-middle peasants, and educated youth like a knife. An educated youth snatched the telegram and said: “No, it can’t be! Yuejiu shouldn’t die, she won’t die…”
An old peasant breeder with tears in his eyes said: “Yuejiu, you… how can you die! We poor and lower-middle peasants feel heartache…”
Chen Yuejiu was a Ningbo educated youth who responded to Chairman Mao’s great call of “Young people going to the countryside” in 1969. Over six years, she studied Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought diligently, humbly accepted re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants, and fought with a fighting spirit, loving the motherland’s borderlands like a blazing fire. Until her death, she requested the Party organization to send her ashes back and scatter them in “Beidahuang.” This 24-year-old girl, nurtured by Mao Zedong Thought during the Cultural Revolution, persisted in rural revolutionary work, completely broke with old traditional ideas. Her deeds are excellent lessons for studying the theory of proletarian dictatorship, and she is a good role model for the broad masses of educated youth.
Loving the borderlands like a blazing fire
In May 1969, Chen Yuejiu and her comrades responded to the great leader Chairman Mao’s call and came to the beautiful and fertile Yanwo Island in Heilongjiang Province. The land here is vast and fertile, and tractors roar in the fields. She thought about participating in borderland construction on this vast land, feeling an indescribable joy.
Chen Yuejiu was assigned to the livestock team to raise pigs. Some worried because she just came from the city and might not handle the work. She replied: “Zhang Side, who happily burns coal for the people and finally sacrifices his precious life, can’t I feed pigs in the borderlands?” She and everyone else went to load manure, mimicking poor and lower-middle peasants, grabbing shovels and working tirelessly, sweating profusely. When a large manure block rolled off the truck, she put down her shovel and used her hands to carry the manure to the truck. Seeing her act, the peasants praised: “Yuejiu, this girl just came from the city, so unafraid of dirt, she’s promising!”
Once, Chen Yuejiu and old peasant breeder Li Ruiquan went to fetch pig feed. She walked quickly ahead, accidentally spilling some pig feed. She didn’t care, but when she put down her shoulder pole, she saw Old Li squatting there carefully scooping the spilled feed into a bucket with his hands. Suddenly, her face felt hot with shame, realizing her thoughts were far from the peasants’. She summarized her re-education experience: “Combining with workers and peasants, we must not be satisfied with doing what they do; we must meet them in thought. This is what I should strive for in the future.”
Since then, Chen Yuejiu consciously learned from the excellent qualities of poor and lower-middle peasants, worked hard to transform her worldview, and on the first anniversary of coming to the borderlands, she proudly joined the Communist Youth League.
A year of fighting life made Chen Yuejiu deeply love the borderlands and the poor and lower-middle peasants here. Old breeder Uncle Wen lived alone in a small hut in the stable. Yuejiu often helped him tidy up the house, patch the roof, wash clothes, and mend quilts. Liu Guiying’s husband went to the mountains in winter to chop wood, and Yuejiu braved the wind and snow, insisting on fetching water for her family for four months. People said: “Yuejiu loves the borderlands like a blazing fire.”
Chen Yuejiu was a league branch committee member and a member of the Fourth Battalion’s Youth League Committee. During the Critic Lin campaign, she led the criticism of Lin Biao’s false theory of “indirect forced labor.” A small number of class enemies on the society incited youth to return to the city. Chen Yuejiu was the first in the company to post a big-character poster criticizing this trend. She said: “Young people going to the mountains and countryside is the golden path guided by Chairman Mao. Anyone who tries to stop it is absolutely impossible. Our Communist Youth League members love the borderlands and should lead the broad youth to strive to uphold the victory of rural work.”
Her dormmate, Shanghai educated youth Cao Liping and Wang Manjun, only 17 when they came to the borderlands. Chen Yuejiu warmly cared for them, helped fetch water, chop firewood, make kang beds, and often washed their clothes and made quilts. Since Xiao Cao and Xiao Wang spoke poor Mandarin and sometimes others couldn’t understand them, affecting their studies, Chen Yuejiu taught them to speak Mandarin sentence by sentence and translated during meetings. With her help, Xiao Cao and Xiao Wang made great progress.
Knowledge youth Zhang Yongliang sometimes felt fluctuating emotions at work. The company assigned him to brew wine, and he worked enthusiastically. Later, he was transferred to feed pigs, which he thought was dirty and useless. Once, a bucket of pig feed was spilled by pigs, splashing all over him. He was so angry he threw down the shoulder pole and jumped out of the pigpen. Chen Yuejiu patiently talked to him, studied “Serving the People” with him, and told him the touching deeds of old breeders who had raised pigs for revolution for more than ten years. She encouraged him: “Revolutionary work involves thousands of tasks, each for the people. As young educated youth fresh from school, we must temper ourselves in tough work.” Zhang Yongliang understood pig-raising and picked up the shoulder pole again.
One early autumn rainy night, Zhang Yongliang was on night duty in the birthing room. Due to playing around during the day and not resting well, he fell asleep by the stove. Chen Yuejiu passed by and silently stayed to watch the piglets. When Zhang Yongliang woke up, it was already dawn. He hurried to check the piglets, found a litter of lively piglets, and saw the place was spotless. When he saw Chen Yuejiu in her dirty clothes standing in the birthing room, he understood everything and felt ashamed. Chen Yuejiu kindly and seriously educated him. Zhang Yongliang then began to work diligently in pig-raising, always checking the pigsty at night. She also brought him books on scientific pig-raising. Zhang Yongliang learned from practice while studying the books and found that pig-raising was full of knowledge, and he loved this work even more.
“A Girl Who Doesn’t Listen to Evil”
Chen Yuejiu often said: “Struggle requires Marxism, studying Marxism for better struggle.” “Coming from the city to Beidahuang is just the beginning of integrating with workers and peasants. To become a socialist-minded, cultured new-type peasant, I must seriously study revolutionary theory and diligently transform my worldview.” On the first page of her border diary, she listed the words of revolutionary mentor Lenin: “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement,” as her motto. Usually, she always carried books and newspapers in her pocket, and during rest time, she sat down to study. She arranged a study plan for herself, persisted daily, and studied tirelessly. Over six years, she connected with the practical revolutionary movements in rural areas, read the “Selected Works of Mao Zedong” volumes one to four, and Marxist-Leninist works such as “The Communist Manifesto,” “Critique of the Gotha Program,” “The State and Revolution,” “Dialectics of Nature,” and wrote over a hundred thousand words of diaries and reading notes.
Revolutionary theory brought great spiritual strength to Chen Yuejiu. She deeply understood the significance of the path of combining with workers and peasants for educated youth, and relentlessly fought against traces of the old society. When criticizing Lin Biao’s false theory of “indirect forced labor,” she pointed out that Lin Biao was trying to use the old traditional ideas in people’s minds to kill the new socialist phenomena and seize the successors of the proletariat. We must arm our minds with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, clear out old ideas, and with a lifetime of farming and action, overturn the verdict on labor and the laboring people through the victory of rural work.
In June 1970, the Party branch decided to appoint Chen Yuejiu as a veterinary health worker. The poor and lower-middle peasants believed the Party branch had “vision” and chose a peasant they trusted. But some ridiculed her, saying they had never heard of a girl becoming a veterinarian. Some doubted whether a girl could handle hundreds of pigs, dozens of horses, and a large herd of cattle.
Chen Yuejiu thought: these remarks, essentially, are contempt for women, rooted in the feudal ideology of male superiority and female inferiority in Confucianism, which is a harmful influence in some people’s minds. To build a socialist new countryside, we must dare to break old traditional ideas. She told her comrades: “Chairman Mao teaches us: ‘The times are different; men and women are equal. What men can do, women can do too.’” If borderland construction requires her to be a veterinary health worker, she must take on this responsibility and not let old ideas suppress her!
Chen Yuejiu did not betray the trust of the poor and lower-middle peasants. Her first time giving an injection to a sick horse, she was kicked down by the horse due to lack of experience, but she endured the pain and gave the second shot. She learned to castrate pigs, and someone said it was a “disgusting job,” advising her: “You’re a girl, don’t learn this, it’s not good-looking!” Chen Yuejiu resolutely criticized old ideas, took a scalpel, and seriously asked the veterinarian. After diligent study, she could castrate a pig in two minutes, doing it skillfully. When some livestock or poultry died from illness, she carefully dissected them, learning pathology from books. For rectal examinations of sick horses, she had to insert her whole arm into the horse’s anus. Some young men were often afraid, but she rolled up her sleeves and boldly practiced under the guidance of the old veterinarian. When people talk about these things, they say she is a “girl who doesn’t listen to evil.”
Over the years, Chen Yuejiu relied on this revolutionary spirit, boldly practiced, studied hard, mastered over thirty diseases of pigs, horses, cattle, and some poultry, and learned to use acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, becoming an outstanding veterinary health worker in the entire group.
One winter night, the sky was so dark that you couldn’t see your hand. Chen Yuejiu just returned from the political night school to her dormitory. She heard that the big black horse was seriously ill, and she turned to run toward the stable. After careful examination, she diagnosed the horse with “constipation.” She first used her hand to remove the impaction from the horse’s rectum, then administered laxatives. That night, she decided to go for a walk with the horse and check again at the veterinary station. The on-duty feeder Liu Jingfang stopped her and said: “That’s not right! The road to the camp is more than four miles, it’s dark and there are wolves outside. After I finish feeding the animals, we can go together.” “I’m not afraid. I want to walk the horse early, and the big black horse will recover faster,” Chen Yuejiu said, then led the horse out and disappeared into the dark night.
Chen Yuejiu was a veterinary health worker and also a breeder. She often reminded herself: “Don’t pick up the syringe and forget about pig-whip.” Every day, besides treating livestock and poultry, she either carried a shoulder pole to fetch feed or picked up a shovel to clean pigsties. Feeding livestock required over 300 buckets of water daily. She often stood on the well platform, holding the pulley and swinging more than sixty buckets at once. Throughout the year, she had as much manure on her as the livestock she cared for. The poor and lower-middle peasants affectionately called her “barefoot veterinarian.”
Some people still hold hierarchical ideas and don’t understand her actions, saying she is “not doing proper work.” Chen Yuejiu wrote a short commentary on the blackboard titled “Thoughts on the Words ‘Barefoot’,” passionately praising the new socialist phenomenon of barefoot veterinarians, criticizing the outdated view that looks down on physical labor, and expressing her determination to narrow the division caused by labor specialization through her practical actions.
In early spring 1974, after the winter piglet grouping, there were 36 small scabby pigs left. Chen Yuejiu voluntarily took on the task of raising this group of scabby pigs. She isolated the piglets, treated them, and carefully fed them. To avoid delaying disease prevention and treatment for other livestock, she often got up early and stayed up late, working tirelessly. She found that the small scabby pigs refused to eat the common feed in the big pot, so she cooked special feed for them, adding sugar beets, salt, and stone powder. Some piglets still had poor appetite, so she humbly asked experienced old breeders for advice, adding some fragrant soybean cake to the feed. The piglets finally started to eat eagerly. After two months, each piglet grew plump and round.
Chen Yuejiu fought against old ideas without showing mercy. Once, a veterinarian in the company used his authority to sell a good pig as a scabby pig to a familiar person and profited from it. She immediately, with the youth of the Youth League, wrote a big-character poster exposing and criticizing this misconduct. Someone advised her: “You’re colleagues, and this is not good for future work.” She said: “Criticizing capitalist tendencies means we can’t show mercy.” With everyone’s help, the veterinarian recognized his mistake and examined himself.
In July 1973, the notice of college admissions arrived at the company. The poor and lower-middle peasants unanimously recommended Chen Yuejiu to go to college. She filled in the application form with the name of a provincial state farm university that was run by the farm itself. Later, because the veterinary department at that school had limited quotas, she was assigned to a veterinary college that was part of the provincial distribution system. At this moment, she resolutely withdrew her application and told the peasants: “The countryside is also a university. I want to study in this university!” Someone lamented that she was foolish, that studying more would increase her wages after graduation and help her become a formal cadre. Chen Yuejiu firmly said: “I study to improve my ability to serve the people and better build the borderlands, not to earn more money or change my status. If you say I’m foolish, I am happy to be such a fool for a lifetime.”
“Everyone Needs a Little Spirit”
Yanwo Island, more than ten years ago, was a thorny, uninhabited place. In 1958, a group of demobilized soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army responded to the Party’s call and came here, clearing the thorns and turning the ancient wasteland into thousands of acres of fertile land. Some veteran pioneers even sacrificed their precious lives here. The company’s Party branch often conducted traditional education for the youth, and Chen Yuejiu often visited the martyrs’ graves to learn the fighting spirit of revolutionary predecessors in developing the borderlands. She wrote in her diary: “Today’s Yanwo Island is soaked in the blood of martyrs. We walk the path unfinished by heroes, create the achievements they didn’t complete, and march forward on the journey of building the borderlands, stepping on their bloodstains!”
In spring 1974, the struggle against Lin Biao and Confucius pushed the agricultural movement of learning from Dazhai to a new climax on Yanwo Island. The company’s officers and soldiers loudly proposed: “Focus on the line, promote great efforts, and strive for double excellence in grain and beans according to the ‘Outline’.” At this moment, Chen Yuejiu developed stomach pain. But the fiery situation of the company made her excited, and she did not care about her illness, insisting on working.
One day, the officers and soldiers decided to fill a water pond of more than twenty acres in the field to create conditions for high and stable yields. Chen Yuejiu, with a young man, carried a large basket of soil, running all the way, sweating profusely. The wooden bar, about a finger thick, broke, and she replaced it and continued working. No one knew that at this moment, the disease was secretly attacking her!
In summer, Chen Yuejiu’s stomach pain increased and worsened. She set higher standards for herself. On July 24, 1974, she solemnly submitted her application to join the Party, determined to become a proletarian vanguard and dedicate everything to the magnificent cause of communism!
When the leaders and comrades discovered her illness and urged her to go to the regiment hospital for examination, she was worried about work. The 80-mile journey, she went in the morning and returned in the afternoon. Everyone cared for her, often taking her tools. The company leaders arranged for the kitchen to prepare delicious hospital meals for her and advised her to rest and treat herself. But how could Chen Yuejiu be idle? She told the leaders and comrades: “The older generation of pioneers sacrificed their lives to reclaim this land. What is a little illness? Everyone needs a little spirit!”
The autumn harvest began. Soybeans swayed, and corn was golden. Chen Yuejiu looked at the bumper harvest scene with joy. On October 3, just before dawn, she got up, dressed, and picked up a sickle to go to work. Her dormmates knew she had stomach pain all night and blocked her at the door: “You can’t go to work. Rest at home!” Chen Yuejiu said urgently: “I can’t not go. The joy of labor can ease the pain!”
In the soybean field, she bent over and harvested far. She worked faster and faster, quickly leading the entire row. Suddenly, a severe stomach pain struck her, making her unbearable. The comrades behind saw her squatting there, pressing her abdomen with the sickle handle. Seeing everyone around her, she stood up painfully and said: “Don’t worry about me, the harvest is urgent. You go ahead and harvest!” The comrades took her sickle and refused to let her continue.
A few days later, the company began harvesting corn. Chen Yuejiu appeared among the workers again. They advised her to go back, but she said: “Only through struggle can there be willpower. Illness is cowardly and afraid of hard work. I must tough it out.” After working for a while, they found her stomach pain recurred. She was lying on the fallen corn stalks, sweating down her forehead. They hurriedly helped her up and sent her back. But after a while, the stubborn Chen Yuejiu reappeared in the sugar beet field, knocking mud off the beets!
One day in late October, Chen Yuejiu was forced to rest at home by leaders and comrades. She couldn’t lie still in bed and went to the livestock farm to help prepare materials for her family. The others couldn’t persuade her, so she helped hold a bag. Just after filling a bag, she insisted on carrying a sack herself. She carried the sack over thirty meters from the feed room to the fermentation room, walking steadily. During this period, because of stomach pain, she could only drink half a bowl of porridge a day. She carried a sack of feed as if climbing a mountain. Where did her strength come from? Later, when they sorted out her belongings, they found that she was…The diary contains a sentence: “Study Hu Yetao, for the consolidation of the proletarian dictatorship, and go all out to do it!” It was the heroic revolutionary spirit that gave her the perseverance to overcome illness, and the great goal of consolidating the proletarian dictatorship that gave her endless strength! Chen Yuejiu finished carrying a bag of feed and eagerly grabbed another. However, after walking a few steps, her body suddenly swayed, and the sack slipped from her back. Everyone rushed forward to support her, tears in their eyes calling her name…
The company party branch and the regimental leaders stationed at the unit paid great attention to Chen Yuejiu’s condition. Seeing that she had been undergoing long-term treatment without success, and still insisted on working despite her illness, they ordered her to stop all work immediately and return to her hometown for rest and further examination and treatment at a major hospital. This stubborn girl had never even hummed a tune in pain, but at this moment, in the face of the order to stop working, she could not hold back her tears.
On October 31st, Chen Yuejiu reluctantly left the unit. Before leaving, she tightly held her comrades’ hands and said, “I will be back soon, I must come back!”
“I am a North Daa Hwang person”
Chen Yuejiu returned from the border to Jiangnan and engaged in a life-and-death struggle with her illness. During those more than five months, her actions demonstrated a new look of a generation of revolutionary young intellectuals.
In early January last year, Chen Yuejiu transferred from Ningbo to Shanghai. In the outpatient clinic of the hospital, the doctor carefully conducted a comprehensive examination of her, and finally wrote on the admission notice: “Late stage sigmoid colon cancer, extensive metastasis.”
Cancer did not scare the revolutionary soldier full of confidence in the cause of communism. In the hospital, Chen Yuejiu was not discouraged or sad. Once, a patient asked her what illness she had, and she frankly replied, “Colon cancer!” The person was shocked, but she smiled and said, “Cancer is not scary; I still want to go back to North Daa Hwang!”
The doctor performed her first major surgery, removing three tumors about the size of fists. When the doctor learned she was a soldier from North Daa Hwang who had just left her agricultural labor post, they all admired her greatly, saying, “I’ve never seen such a strong girl!”
News of Chen Yuejiu’s serious illness spread to the frontier, and the party branch immediately sent Communist Party members and the Youth League branch deputy secretary Wu Fengying to visit her in Shanghai. Later, her comrades were also sent to care for her. The Party Committee of the 21st Regiment sent a responsible officer to Shanghai to express deep condolences to Chen Yuejiu and her family. The care from the party organization made Chen Yuejiu very emotional and also made her cherish even more the motherland’s frontier that nurtured her.
Six days after her surgery, Wu Fengying came from North Daa Hwang to the hospital. Seeing her comrade arrive, Chen Yuejiu forgot her abdominal wound, leaned up and called out repeatedly, “Xiao Wu! Xiao Wu!” She held Wu Fengying’s hands tightly as if seeing a long-lost relative, and asked, “Xiao Wu, I’ve been waiting for you! Tell me, how is the education in the unit? Did the early snow affect the harvest much? Is the pig-breeding team’s fall litter survival rate high?” These questions made Wu Fengying’s eyes moist, and she couldn’t say a word of comfort. When Chen Yuejiu heard that the unit had exceeded the grain and bean targets and that pig breeding was also on schedule, she was very happy. But after a while, she anxiously said to Wu Fengying, “Harvesting grain in snow is so hard, and I left the unit at that time…”
Her wound was stitched up, and she immediately got out of bed to exercise, telling Wu Fengying, “I want to recover as soon as possible so we can return to North Daa Hwang earlier.”
Chen Yuejiu still had poor appetite and couldn’t eat much, but she insisted on forcing herself to eat.
On February 16, 1975, she spent two days writing a passionate letter to the party branch of the unit: “Unit leaders, comrades, I have good news to tell you. The soldier Chen Yuejiu, who is far from the unit, has successfully passed the first hurdle in the face of cancer… During this period, although physically suffering, I miss the life in the unit…”
The disease is merciless. When Chen Yuejiu was able to walk freely and eat a bowl of rice at each meal, the remaining cancer cells in her body spread again, and ascites appeared. To save her life, the doctor decided to perform a second surgery. When consulting her, she asked, “If I have surgery, can I still go back to North Daa Hwang?” Everyone was stunned. This girl was so ill and still wanted to return to North Daa Hwang—her unwavering commitment to the countryside was truly admirable!
The surgery and medication failed to stop the spread of cancer cells, and Chen Yuejiu’s young life was in danger. But her fiery love for the frontier and her comrades remained as passionate as ever! She told the visiting comrades, “Take me back, I want to see the unit, see the comrades.”
Once again, a batch of her comrades came to visit her. She said affectionately, “We’ve been classmates for eleven years, and the six years in North Daa Hwang are the most meaningful. We were supposed to go through everything together, but now I can’t. You must go on and fight to the end!” Knowing she couldn’t go on, she secretly pulled out the infusion needle and told the doctor, “Don’t waste it, save these medicines.” She put herself aside but still missed her comrades fighting on the front lines of the anti-revision struggle. She requested to distribute her accumulated political and professional books from six years of frontier life to comrades in need, as her final token of affection for her fellow rural fighters.
Seeing her mother very upset, she comforted her, “People will die eventually. Although I am still young, I have no regrets except that I only walked the path of combining work and farming for six years, far from Chairman Mao’s expectations.”
One afternoon, Zhang Yongliang, who was visiting from Shanghai, came to the hospital. By then, Chen Yuejiu had not taken water for several days and was kept alive only by medication. When she heard Zhang Yongliang had arrived, she struggled to open her eyes and weakly called out, “Zhang Yongliang! Zhang Yongliang!” Zhang Yongliang endured his grief and gently sat by her bed. She longed to talk to him again, but she had no strength to speak. After a moment of silence, she took a deep breath and, with difficulty, said to Zhang Yongliang, “You… go back to the team! Return… and work hard… to the end of the road of combining work and farming.” Zhang Yongliang couldn’t hold back his tears. The last sparks of her life ignited a huge torch, burning fiercely, illuminating the vast land of the motherland’s frontier, inspiring countless young intellectuals!
On April 2nd, Chen Yuejiu’s condition rapidly worsened, and her breathing became labored. In her final moments, she made her only request to the Party, telling her comrade Cao Liping, who was guarding her day and night, “Tell the Party… send my ashes back… I am a North Daa Hwang person!”
In the afternoon, around 2 o’clock, Chen Yuejiu, who had regained consciousness from coma, gazed affectionately at Chairman Mao’s portrait on the wall and left her final words, the most powerful voice of the era: “Long live Chairman Mao! Long live the Communist Party!”
At 6:40 a.m. on April 3rd, our Party’s good daughter, the “North Daa Hwang person” nurtured by Mao Zedong Thought—revolutionary young intellectual Chen Yuejiu—her passionate heart stopped beating at only twenty-four years old!
After Chen Yuejiu’s death, comrades in the unit mourned as if they had lost a family member. During those days, many could not sleep all night, tears in their eyes calling her name; many clenched their fists and vowed to follow the path of combining work and farming for life. Chen Yuejiu’s noble thoughts and precious spirit inspired people to think, to fight, and to keep fighting! The Youth League Committee and the Youth League branch respectively decided to learn from Chen Yuejiu. According to her last wish, the Youth League Committee sent someone to transport her ashes back to North Daa Hwang. On June 1st, a grand memorial and mourning meeting was held on Yanwo Island. Afterwards, people respectfully buried her ashes next to the revolutionary martyrs’ tomb on the island.
Currently, the young intellectuals, cadres, and workers of the 21st Regiment are filled with fighting spirit, studying Mao Zedong’s important instructions carefully, deeply criticizing Deng Xiaoping’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line, and determined to carry the great struggle against the rightist counter-revolution to the end. They regard Chen Yuejiu’s deeds as a vivid lesson in studying the theory of the proletarian dictatorship, and they pledge to learn revolutionary theory like her, resolutely break with old traditional ideas, carry forward the revolutionary spirit of wartime, love the frontier, root in the frontier, and strive for the great victory of persisting in the rural areas, continuing the revolution under the proletarian dictatorship!