Xi Jinping's Cultural Love丨Zhengding Ancient and Modern

"Zhengding is my second hometown. It has a long history, splendid culture, and hardworking people. I love my hometown." This is the preface written by Comrade Xi Jinping for "Zhengding Ancient and Modern".

From March 1982 to May 1985, Comrade Xi Jinping served as the deputy secretary and secretary of the Zhengding County Committee of Hebei Province. I have been working for more than three years and have traveled all over the county.

More than 40 years ago, Comrade Xi Jinping, who had just entered politics, explored a new path of win-win protection and development with reform ideas and innovative spirit, and handed over the answer sheet of Zhengding ancient city. During Zhengding's administration, he personally promoted the rescue and protection of cultural relics. Organize a survey of cultural relics, restore ancient temples and monuments, improve the protection system, delineate the scope of protection of ancient buildings, ancient trees, and ancient cultural relics, and establish clear protection signs... It is these far-sighted decisions that allow the protection and development of ancient cities to be carried out simultaneously. It has been rooted in the hearts of every Zhengding person for decades.

"Historical and cultural heritage not only vividly narrates the past, but also profoundly affects the present and the future; it not only belongs to us, but also belongs to future generations." Today, the ancient streets, ancient alleys, ancient temples and pagodas, and the ancient charm of the ancient city are all in sight. Every brick and tile is full of culture, and every city wall and street has stories.

Zhengding has become a "city with memory".

Comrade Xi Jinping once said affectionately: "Zhengding is where I started my career in politics."

Thirty years later, the young secretary who never forgot about Zhengding became the general secretary of the world's largest political party. In the ten years of the new era, my country's cultural construction has been raised to a new historical height. Protecting the city's historical and cultural relics is a must-answer question for local rulers by General Secretary Xi Jinping. In his heart, these cultural relics carrying history are very important. "If we don't keep it well, we are sinners, and we will be ashamed of future generations."

Time flies, and the original intention is like a rock.

From protecting a county, cherishing a city, to planning a country.

In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again clearly stated that "increase the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage, and strengthen the protection and inheritance of historical culture in urban and rural construction."