Dear children, whenever I think of you, I see those young trees full of vitality. You are like a young sapling, rooted in fertile land and growing in the warm sunshine. You are observing with a pair of surprised eyes: how fresh, interesting and brilliant the world is! However, I want to remind you that storms, pests and diseases and environmental pollution will all damage the growth of small trees. Those crooked little trees should be corrected and pruned. Similarly, some bad ideas, bad customs and old habits in society will pollute and hurt you. So you need to study hard, receive education, improve your discrimination and strengthen your resistance. You should learn to be in this complicated and changeable world. What is beauty and what is ugliness; What is right and what is wrong. In this way, you will grow into a big tree like a small sapling, gather into a forest, and become a useful material needed by the motherland.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), people of all ethnic groups in China are carrying out socialist modernization, which requires decades and generations of efforts. You are the successors of the revolutionary cause initiated by the older generation. In another decade or two, you will become the main force in building a socialist modern power. You should always be ready to shoulder this glorious task.
I think you should be prepared mentally and spiritually. The four modernizations need not only material strength but also spiritual strength. What is spiritual power? It is to love the socialist motherland and inherit the glorious revolutionary tradition; You should have the lofty ideal of materialism, noble ideology and morality, the spirit of helping others and polite behavior. The activities you are now carrying out, such as "learning from Lei Feng, creating a new style", "five stresses" and "four beauties", reflect the minimum requirements in this regard. I hope you will start from now on and start from yourselves.
We should study cultural and scientific knowledge hard. Socialist modernization requires us to have a high degree of cultural and scientific knowledge and wisdom. You should master the cultural and scientific knowledge of ancient and modern China and foreign countries through study, and prepare to create higher cultural and scientific knowledge.
Exercise. We should develop hygiene habits from an early age and pay special attention to protecting our eyes. People should exercise from an early age, strengthen their physique and get plenty of energy. We should cultivate a lively and cheerful personality from an early age. Hard work awaits you. Without a healthy body, abundant energy can't afford this task.
You should also have a healthy cultural and artistic accomplishment. You should have the ability to appreciate literature and art. Beautiful music, art and literature play an important role in cultivating your temperament, resisting unhealthy and harmful things and cultivating beautiful and noble sentiments.
We are vigorously greening the motherland, and we are also educating more than 300 million children. I imagine that lush land and bright red scarves will decorate the motherland more beautifully and prosperously. May you grow up with the saplings, stand the test of any storms, pests and diseases, grow into pillars, grow into strong successors to the cause of socialist modernization, and make great contributions to creating higher material civilization and spiritual civilization.