Chapter 102 My heart follows the boats welcoming overseas Chinese

The ships welcoming the returned overseas Chinese from Indonesia, loaded with the love of the people of the motherland, sailed out from the ports of the motherland.My boiling and excited mood is too complicated to describe. From 1,500 years ago, the industrious and brave people of the motherland were persecuted by the tyrannical government, and in order to make a living, they reluctantly left their homes, traveled across the ocean, and drifted to remote Indonesia.In the past hundred years, Western colonialists, in order to step up their exploitation of Asian colonies, have plundered and abducted a large number of Chinese working people from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and sent them to mines and farms in Indonesia to do hard labor for them.The working people of China did not come to their overseas settlements with the backing of warships and the cover of doing business and preaching, like the overseas Chinese in colonial countries.They also do not have the arrogance and arrogance of riding on the heads of the local people like the European expats in the place of residence.They are overseas orphans who have suffered so much!They only rely on their hands that love to work, in a difficult and difficult environment, and rely on small profits to solve their own life problems.Because of this, they wholeheartedly regard the place of residence as their second hometown. They worked together with the local people, shed blood and sweat together in the struggle for national independence of the local people, and established a close friendship.While cherishing and preserving the traditional culture of the motherland, they also respect and learn from the local culture.They are a bridge of solidarity and friendship between China and Indonesia (Indonesia), they are good friends of the Indonesian people, and should receive friendly care from the Indonesian authorities.

In order to divert the goal of the Indonesian people's national democratic revolutionary struggle, the imperial colonialists are afraid of the unity of the Asian people. They try their best to instigate and destroy the friendly relations between Asian countries, and instigate Indonesia to have influential forces. The anti-China and anti-China activities of the people's hearts arbitrarily and unreasonably expelled small overseas Chinese businessmen who are beneficial to Indonesia's urban-rural exchanges, forcing them to be displaced without food or clothing. But their motherland, the People's Republic of China, is no longer the old and incompetent old China of more than ten years ago. The 650 million Chinese people who have stood up are carrying out unprecedented struggles on their own land of more than 9 million square kilometers. For the great socialist construction, we need more laboring hands.Today's Chinese overseas Chinese are no longer "difficult to leave if they have a family, and difficult to vote if they have a country". The brand-new homeland that has been reorganized is waiting for you, and the energetic brothers and sisters are welcoming you with open arms.You are no longer the hard-working overseas orphans of ten years ago, but a member of a big family with 650 million people who love and care.

However, what makes me most angry is that the persecuted and expelled Chinese nationals cannot return to the embrace of the motherland smoothly. Influential forces in Indonesia not only failed to assist the overseas Chinese in their reasonable desire to return to China when they were persecuted, but also took various measures to make things difficult and bullying.Not long ago, relevant Indonesian authorities promulgated decrees aimed at preventing overseas Chinese from returning home, such as restricting the items they can carry, compulsory payment of unreasonable taxes for five years, and intimidation.This kind of friend-for-enemy attitude that deprives them of their livelihood, embezzles their property, and prevents them from returning home is beyond comprehension!

The Asian people who have been bullied and squeezed by the old and new colonialists will recognize who is our friend and who is our enemy today when anti-imperialist colonialism is on the rise all over the world.No one can destroy the long-standing traditional friendly relations among the peoples of Asian countries, especially the profound friendship forged in the joint struggle for national independence in recent decades.There is an old saying in China that goes, "Kindly beat each other, scold neighbors constantly".It is impossible for a small group of reactionaries who work for imperialism and colonialism to destroy the friendship between the Chinese and Indonesian peoples. They are just lifting a rock to shoot themselves in the foot.What will happen to an Asian who beats Asians for imperialism and colonialism? Do I need to quote more examples of this kind?

My heart follows the boat that rides the wind and waves, and flies to the overseas Chinese who are about to return home. I seem to see men, women, old and young standing closely together on the coast and looking up.Dear compatriots, this ship is getting closer to you day by day. The 650 million relatives in the motherland are caring for your smooth return road day and night.When you finally walk up the escalator and hold on to the iron bars, you have already arrived in the motherland.Let all the equipment on board give you the warmth you have never experienced before, and let the brothers and sisters on board tell you the good news about the progress of the motherland... In front of you is the vast land of the motherland, the sky where you can breathe deeply and freely , and the people of the motherland who are waiting with joy to build our own socialist edifice with you!

Beijing, February 10, 1960