Young and old join celebrations for the Party’s centenary
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CELEBRATIONS for the Communist Party’s centenary have heated up across Jing’an with a variety of activities being held. Let’s have a look.
Special floral landscapes
The district is spruced with floral landscapes and “100” decorations. Nanjing Road W., Shanghai Railway Station and other bustling areas have been decked up with more than 450,000 flowers.
Red and yellow, the colors of the national flag, are mainly featured, and thus flowers in these two colors such as scarlet sage, cutleaf coneflower and Egyptian starcluster are largely planted.
Special Party class
“Eventful Times,” an original “red” drama by Jing’an’s cultural relics and historical materials authority, has made its debut in the Shibei High Technology Park, giving local workers special Party class.
The five-act play tells revolutionary stories taking place in five “red” sites — former site of the National Labor Union Secretariat, former Shanghai home of Mao Zedong on Maoming Road, former site of the Party’s Songpu Special Committee’s Office, memorial of the Party’s Central Bureau after the third national congress and former residence of Liu Changsheng.
In one act, Mao’s wife Yang Kaihui read a letter that never reached Mao, which moved the audience to tears for their sacrifice to the nation.
The play only lasts for about one hour, and requires few set designs. It will be later staged in neighborhoods and office buildings.
‘Red’ song singing and ‘red’ film dubbing
Nearly 200 people from schools, companies and government departments in Beizhan Subdistrict sang “red” songs as to pay tribute to the Party’s birthday. Meanwhile, a dubbing competition inviting local office workers to dub classic patriotic films was launched.
Besides, an exhibition featuring 100 posters of patriotic films will last to August 15 on the fourth floor of the Haiwen Building at 383 Tianmu Road M.
Admission is free.
Party members awarded
Jing’an Committee of the Party has held an awarding ceremony to award 200 outstanding Party members, 100 outstanding Party officials and 100 outstanding grassroots Party organizations.
Yu Yong, Party chief of the district, said Jing’an witnessed the Party’s development in early times, and he called on Party members to be pioneers and pacesetters in the new era.
Paying tribute to urban renewal
Pengpu Xincun Subdistrict has awarded commemorative medals to 32 Party members who have been bearing five decades of Party membership. It has also joined hands with Shanghai Normal University to stage a play telling the efforts to give old neighborhoods a new lease of life.
Pengpu Xincun is a renowned workers’ community in the city. Built more than half a century ago, it initially housed model workers who made great contributions to the country’s national industries.
However, over the years, this model community began to deteriorate because of an increasing population and a lack of maintenance. An overhaul started in March 2005.
Some buildings were renovated and toilets and kitchens were installed in every home with added floors to ensure enough living space for every family. Buildings which were too rundown were demolished and new modern high-rises were built in there place.
Over the past 16 years, it has renovated dozens of buildings and benefited thousands of families.
Pop-up performance
Residents and workers from the Meiliyuan neighborhood of Jing’ansi Subdistrict has presented pop-up performance, including dancing and flute playing, on a green land on the bustling Nanjing Road W. Also, there was a pop-up exhibition by local resident Pan Yixun, who have been a Party member for over 50 years. He has spent more than one year preparing 100 painting and calligraphy works to celebrate the Party’s birthday.
Hit dance drama returns
Shanghai Dance Theater’s signature work “The Eternal Wave” has returned to Shanghai and it will present 100 performances this year at the Shanghai Majestic Theater.
The dance drama is based on the true story of revolutionary martyr Li Bai and his wife Lan Fen, who risked their lives for 12 years to secretly pass information to forces led by the Party.
Li established a secret radio station in Shanghai during the war against Japanese invaders. After the war, he became a spy embedded in the ranks of the enemy Kuomintang. While sending intelligence on the Kuomintang’s Yangtze River defense line in 1948, he was arrested and later executed in Shanghai.
Since the dance drama made debut in December 2018, it has been extremely popular with audiences. As soon as tickets went out, people scrambled for tickets. And some of them were so blown away by the work to join the Party.
‘Red’ marriage
In Jing’an, many couples went to register marriage on the day of the Party’s centenary, and they received blessings from model couple Ye Hongzuo and Luo Guofen. This year marks the 50-year anniversary of their marriage, and both of them have been Party members for over 50 years.
Expressing love for the country
Students and teachers in Jing’an have used seal, calligraphy and other traditional art to express their love for the nation.
And their works have been displayed at the Jing’an Youngster Activity Center at 15 Jiaozhou Road.
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