On the afternoon of January 16, the 2024 Chinese New Year Military Retirement and Symphony Chorus Concert was held grandly at the Young Theater. Xue Kan, Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, Qu Xinping, member of the Party Leadership Group and first-level inspector of the Shanghai Veterans Affairs Bureau, Ding Zhenwen, Bao Erji, and Yan Yupeng, members of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Directors of the Bureau, Li Meng, Member of the Standing Committee of the Yangpu District Committee and Political Commissar of the Ministry of Human Resources and Arms, Deputy District Chang Yuyang and others attended the group visit and watched the performance.
Light and shadow interweave to compose a melody, and sound and music resonate at the same frequency in a triumphant song. The 2024 Chinese New Year Military Retirement Group Worship and Symphonic Music Choral Concert is guided by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Veterans Affairs, hosted by the Yangpu District Bureau of Veterans Affairs, and hosted by the Yangpu Military Retirement Center. The municipal and district Veterans Affairs Bureau, military retirement agencies and relevant departments Responsible comrades attended the event. Yan Yupeng, on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Veterans Affairs, extended the warmest and most sincere New Year greetings and best wishes to retired military cadres in the city.
The entire performance consists of three chapters: "Classic Red Songs", "Orchestral Hymns" and "Long March Suite". The performance kicked off with a majestic and impassioned chorus "Military Song of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", and a familiar classic red song echoed in the theater. Conducted by Zhang Chengjie, the permanent conductor of the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, the orchestral music performed by 85 performers was magnificent and soul-stirring. With the strong support of the District Committee and District Government, the Yangpu District Veterans Affairs Bureau took the lead in organizing 108 retired military cadres from Shanghai covering more than ten districts in the city (66 retired military cadres in Yangpu District) with an average age of nearly 70 years old as the "Long March" Members of the "Song" chorus, with infinite love, paid tribute to the people's army in the form of singing military songs.
General Tong Shiping, former deputy director of the General Political Department and secretary of the Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the Military Commission, and more than 10 veteran leaders and generals who have made important contributions to the development of the military's modernization and dual support work also attended the New Year's military retiring meeting and spoke with great interest More than 800 retired military comrades gathered together to watch the wonderful performance of the chorus.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March. This symphony choral concert is a themed party lesson for studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party. It is a cultural event that reviews the history of the revolution and forges ahead. The feast runs through the main ideological line of promoting cultural independence, self-confidence and self-improvement, and sings the triumphal song of the times of inheriting good traditions, pursuing new dreams and marching into modernization.
Yangpu District is a large garrison area. It is also a central urban area where retired soldiers, preferential treatment recipients, and retired military cadres live relatively concentrated. It serves and manages more than 3,000 retired military cadres, and the total number of retired military cadres transferred to local areas accounts for nearly one-third of the city. Over the years, Yangpu has continued to promote standardization, socialization, and family ties, and continuously improved the construction of military retired cadre propaganda teams, medical teams, and art troupes. The "Art Troupe" actively participated in nearly 20 large-scale cultural performances in the city and district; the "Medical Team" insisted on going deep into the community and carried out nearly 30 free clinic tours; the "Military Retirement Promotion Team" visited schools, communities, enterprises, and The party and government agencies have given thousands of special lectures, with hundreds of thousands of listeners. The Military Retirement Center has established the "Zhongxin Talk·Veterans Follow the Party Studio", the "Growth Assistance Plan" education base, and the "Inheriting the Red Gene" propaganda The base provides conditions and guarantees for retired military cadres to preach and play their role in political theory.
This event provides a platform for retired military cadres to give full play to their own advantages and show their strong and strong spirit, and to inspire, gather, promote and release the huge positive energy contained in retired military cadres. In the next step, we will further implement relevant national requirements, implement the political life benefits of retired military cadres, enhance the sense of gain and happiness of retired military cadres, and strive to create a new situation in the management of military retired services in the new era.
Source: Shanghai Yangpu
