Military education at Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University

“Study hard, be united and tense, be serious and lively is our style; work actively, struggle hard, and sacrifice heroically are our traditions.” At that time, all the students of the Anti-Japanese University sang the song "Anti-Anti-Japanese University" "School Song" entered the campus of Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Today, the spirit of resisting the University still inspires and motivates people all the time.

For decades, the teaching tradition of the Anti-Japanese University has remained the tradition of our country’s military education and remains a valuable asset of military education. Ao Haibo, director of the library of the Xi'an Political College of the People's Liberation Army, said that in the 10 years since the Anti-Japanese University was run, it has adhered to the educational policy of "firmly correct political direction, hard and simple work style, and flexible strategies and tactics", and has adopted "unity, intensity, seriousness" as its educational policy. ", lively" as the school spirit, implements the teaching principles of "less but better", "integration of theory with practice" and "combination of education with production and labor", creates various forms of teaching methods, and cultivates a large number of literary and literary talents for our party and our army. An outstanding commander capable of martial arts, he made immortal contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation. This group of cadres took root and sprouted everywhere like seeds. In August 1937, when the Red Army was reorganized, there were only 46,000 people. By August 1945, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army had grown to 1.2 million people, and the militia had grown to more than 2.6 million people. Without the large number of cadres trained by the Anti-Japanese University, there would be no subsequent development of revolutionary forces.

Kangda University is indeed a unique military academy in the world. Su Yalin, the person in charge of the Yan'an Anti-Japanese University Memorial Hall, said that "learning while producing, learning while fighting" is the most obvious feature of the Anti-Japanese University. A picture in the Yan'an Anti-Japanese University Memorial Hall is an interpretation of this feature: In the picture, a group of marching Anti-Japanese University students are carrying their luggage. In order not to affect their studies, there is a small blackboard behind each student's luggage. There are words written on it. The cadets were marching and studying at the same time. They not only completed their military tasks, but also learned cultural knowledge.

“The Anti-Japanese University has left a valuable legacy for my country’s military education,” said Liang Xingliang, a professor at the Marxist-Leninist Theory Teaching and Research Department of Northwest University. absolute leadership. The key to why Kangda University can successfully cultivate a large number of talents with both ability and political integrity for the Chinese revolution is the combination of theory and practice, teaching and war situation, and party and army building. The flexible and diverse ways of running schools have also accumulated experience in running schools in New China. Today, the excellent style of work formed by the Communist Party of China and the People's Army was formed under the influence of a large number of cadres of the Anti-Japanese University; the experience of the Communist Party of China in running the party and the army also came from the Anti-Japanese University.