Chapter 58 Educate heroes and role models

(December 24, 1944) Comrade Zihua[1]: Regarding Li Yong's defeat[2], your handling is correct.It is worth noting that Li Yong's pride is mainly due to our failure to educate him so that he should not be proud.Phenomena like Li Yong's have also occurred in the Shensi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and will continue to occur in various places. The main responsibility for this lies not with them themselves, but with those who lead them.Afterwards, all elected heroes and models must be educated diligently and refrain from arrogance, so that they can be cultivated to become permanent role models.If there is only praise but no education, it will be inevitable to lose the election with pride. Please pay attention to this point.

Mao Zedong Hai Jing Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Note [1] Zihua, namely Cheng Zihua, was the acting secretary of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the acting political commissar of the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. [2] Refers to the fact that Li Yong, a first-class hero in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, lost the election due to pride in the election of the representatives of the anti-Japanese base areas to attend the Hero Model Conference held in the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.