What is the spirit of the Corps?

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as the Corps) is a special social organization in Xinjiang, which has been entrusted by the central authorities with the historical mission of stationing wasteland and guarding the border. Since its establishment more than 50 years ago, the Corps has not only played an important role in developing, building and stabilizing Xinjiang, consolidating Xinjiang's border defense and safeguarding the reunification of the motherland, but also gradually formed and recognized the Corps spirit with the main connotation of "loving the motherland, selfless dedication and hard work" in practice. The spirit of Bingtuan is not only the value orientation and evaluation of Bingtuan in overcoming difficulties and obstacles in the past, but also the value orientation and evaluation of Bingtuan in better fulfilling its historical mission in the future, and it is also the core value that plays a leading role in stationing wasteland and defending the frontier in new China for a long time. 1. The spirit of the Corps was nurtured and condensed in the practice of reclaiming land and guarding the border. Shortly after the founding of New China, the CPC Central Committee ordered most of the PLA stationed in Xinjiang to be collectively transferred to local jobs to form production and construction corps, and to carry out the tasks of production teams, work teams and combat teams in Xinjiang for a long time in this new frontier garrison mode. Since then, groups of demobilized soldiers, young adults in urban and rural areas and college graduates have come to Xinjiang from all directions of the motherland to join the Corps, a new army in China. This kind of obedience and choice doomed this group of people to establish life values that adapt to border defense. Corps needs the spirit of hard struggle and pioneering spirit of "when conditions permit, when conditions are not created" to station in Xinjiang and defend the frontier. In the early days of the founding of New China, in order to speed up the pace of development and construction in Xinjiang and improve the living standards of people of all ethnic groups as soon as possible, hundreds of thousands of corps workers marched and camped in the two desert marginal areas of Xinjiang in accordance with the principle of "not competing with the people for profits" and the needs of Xinjiang's national defense, and built new cities, set up factories and developed social undertakings on the Gobi Desert, laying the foundation for the new China to settle down and defend its borders. This practice of opening up wasteland and guarding the border gradually condensed into a spirit, which constantly infected and influenced the later corps builders, gained their recognition, and was consciously passed down in the process of the corps' development and growth. The Corps needs a highly responsible spirit of "standing guard for the motherland" when stationing wasteland and guarding the border in Xinjiang. Xinjiang is located in the northwest border and its strategic position is very important. Since the 1960s, tens of thousands of Corps workers have been guarding the border areas of more than 2,000 kilometers. Farming means watching, grazing means patrolling, and they gave their lives for the inviolability of national sovereignty. The belief that "the land is in my heart" and "stability is overwhelming" established in practice has naturally accumulated into a spirit and has been passed down to this day. The Corps needs the selfless dedication of "doing good things for the people of all ethnic groups" when stationing wasteland and guarding the border in Xinjiang. At the beginning of the establishment of the Corps, we conscientiously implemented the Party's ethnic and religious policies. After years of hard struggle, we sent elite soldiers to serve as commandos for many key projects in Xinjiang at that time. In the process of self-development, strive to produce demonstration and radiation effects in the local area; When a major natural disaster occurs, they always rush to the scene for disaster relief at the first time. Similarly, the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang also gave various forms of support and help to the Corps. For decades, the selfless dedication of the Corps workers to live in harmony with the local people of all ethnic groups has also been assembled into a spirit and passed down. In the final analysis, the corps workers always regard the highest interests of the country and the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation as the ultimate value orientation and evaluation of life, and the resulting sense of responsibility and mission to serve the motherland and the people plays a decisive role in the formation and inheritance of the corps spirit. Second, the inner consistency between the spirit of the Corps and the socialist core value system. The CPC Central Committee not only guides the Bingtuan frontier defense to advance triumphantly, but also provides the ideological and theoretical basis, the source of common ideals, the manifestation of national spirit genes and moral norms for the internal consistency between Bingtuan spirit and socialist core value system. The party's theory of opening up wasteland and guarding the frontier is the ideological and theoretical basis for the formation of Bingtuan spirit. In the early days of the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong placed high hopes on the order that most of the troops stationed in Xinjiang should be transferred to local collective jobs to engage in production and construction: you should "set an example, strive for a happy life for the people of the whole country and yourself, and strive for brilliant victory on the new front". In the new historical period, the CPC Central Committee requires the Corps to give better play to the "three major roles" of building the army, being the mainstay and being an iron wall, and to further handle the "three major relationships" of stationing troops and guarding the frontier, special management system and market mechanism, and corps and local authorities. The CPC Central Committee looks at the world, grasps the overall situation, clarifies the tasks of the Corps, affirms the role of the Corps, guides the direction of the Corps, leads the Corps spirit and cultivates the Corps spirit. The pursuit of building a new China is the goal and motive force for the formation of Bingtuan spirit. At that time, the builders of the Corps left their homes and went out of Yangguan in the west to devote themselves to the fiery but hard work and life; Today's builders continue to shoulder the dual tasks of combining military and civilian, opening up wasteland and defending the frontier, and are still struggling to fight the tide of market economy. In their hearts, they all gather the ideal pursuit of stability, prosperity and enriching the people. Since the reform and opening-up, the spirit of Corps sublimated from the pursuit of lofty ideals in different periods is the forerunner and source for Corps workers to establish Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal of unity. The spirit of the Chinese nation and the people's army is the cultural gene of the formation of the spirit of the Corps. "Born in Jinggangshan, grew up in Nanniwan, moved to the northwest and took root in Tianshan Mountain", which summarized the glorious history of the PLA troops stationed in Xinjiang, the predecessor of the Corps. The arduous pioneering spirit of the Corps is a further extension of the fearless and indomitable Long March spirit and the Yan 'an spirit of doing it yourself and having plenty of food and clothing in the practice of opening up wasteland and guarding the frontier in new China. The corps' selfless dedication to the people of all ethnic groups is a further manifestation of the Yimeng spirit of supporting the army and loving the people and uniting the army and the people as one family in the cause of national unity and progress in Xinjiang. The Chinese nation, the people's army and the Corps can continue to grow and develop, and all have advanced cultural genes, which have been expanded into emotional ties, spiritual pillars and value orientation. The glorious behavior of Yingmo is a demonstration of the moral standards for the formation of Bingtuan spirit. During the various historical periods of the Corps' stationing troops and guarding the frontier, groups of heroes and model figures emerged on all fronts. They love the motherland, serve the people, advocate science, work hard, unite and help each other, and strive to lead more people around them to improve their moral level and ideological realm, which constitutes the basic attitude and highest standard of behavior gain and loss and moral choice in the work and life of the Corps, and has a positive impact on the shaping of the Corps spirit. The national spirit with Marxism as the guiding ideology, Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal and patriotism as the core, the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and the socialist core value system with the socialist concept of honor and disgrace as the basic content are the spirit of the Chinese nation's forge ahead and the bond of unity and harmony. The main connotation of Bingtuan spirit is related to the essence of the socialist core value system, which has internal consistency. It is the deepening and display of the socialist core value system in new China. Third, the new historical period needs to further carry forward the spirit of the Corps and enter a new stage of the new century. The new situation and new tasks require Bingtuan to actively adapt to the socialist market economic system, focus on reform and innovation, and accelerate economic and social development. At the same time, Bingtuan is required to face profound changes in economic system, social structure, interest pattern and ideological concept, further carry forward the spirit of Bingtuan, and then better combine the interest standard of market economy with the value orientation of garrison border defense. To further carry forward the spirit of the Corps, it is necessary to cultivate a world vision and strategic thinking. It is the basic point to further carry forward the spirit of the Corps to put the stationing of wasteland and guarding the frontier in the long history of Xinjiang, in the development and changes of the international and domestic situation, and in the overall situation of Xinjiang's development and stability, and to continuously enhance the sense of political responsibility and historical mission. At present, Bingtuan needs to reform the economic system, change the mode of economic growth, and truly combine the characteristics of Bingtuan, such as high degree of organization, outstanding collectivization, relatively high quality of workers and staff, and the ability to concentrate on doing great things with the laws of market economy, so as to further stimulate economic vitality, enrich the masses of workers and staff, develop and expand Bingtuan, and ensure that the task of guarding the border and maintaining stability can be successfully completed under any circumstances. To further carry forward the spirit of the Corps, we should embody the people-oriented Scientific Outlook on Development. "Development is for the people, development depends on the people, the fruits of development are shared by the people, and people's all-round development is promoted". While accelerating economic development, the Corps should do practical things for employees every year, effectively solve social security problems and build a well-off society and a harmonious society in an all-round way. Only by constantly consolidating the correct value orientation and evaluation with staged realistic achievements can there be enough, stable and high-quality border guards, and the spirit of the Corps can be truly passed down from history. To further carry forward the spirit of the Corps, it is necessary to enhance its pragmatic and enterprising characteristics of the times. Nowadays, loving the motherland is more reflected in working hard for your happy life and the prosperity of the motherland on weekdays, and always unconditionally obeying and serving the overall situation of the country. Selfless dedication is more reflected in the use of their own advanced technology and experience to drive the local government, enrich the people and promote the progress of the fraternal nation. Practical work and pioneering spirit are more reflected in following objective laws, taking fewer detours in development, improving efficiency and effectiveness, and always insisting on doing everything with less input, more output and diligence. In this way, the spirit of the Corps will be widely and permanently recognized by the broad masses of workers, and it will play a greater role in leading the contemporary and educating future generations. Settle down wasteland and defend the border, and there will be great achievements in the future. In order to complete the historical mission of long-term reclamation and border defense in Xinjiang, the Corps spirit must be regarded as the core values, as the spiritual banner held high on the new journey, and as the iron backbone.