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Xu Caihou visits veteran voluntary film projection team

  

PLA Daily 2004-11-10

  Xu Caihou, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited the eight members of the Jinzhou Veteran Voluntary Film Projection Team in a unit stationed in Jinzhou yesterday and had an informal discussion with them. Xu praised them for doing work of no reputation but sharing worries of the Party and bringing fun to people with the simple sentiment of a veteran and the lofty spirit of an ordinary Party member, and acclaimed them as the real models of studying and implementing the important thought of “Three Represents” and good examples for the officers and men in active service and the demobilized ones as well.

  The film projection team consists of eight demobilized soldiers. Since it was established in October 1996, they have traveled more than 60,000 kilometers and covered most of the remote mountainous areas of Jinzhou and west Liaoning Province, and have voluntarily played more than 450 showings of film with audiences of 780,000 person/times. While showing films, they have also been publicizing the policies of the Party, scientific and technological knowledge and information about how to get rich, which helped more than 680 poverty-stricken farmer families shake off poverty and become well-off. In this July, the PLA Daily and other national media reported their deeds, which aroused strong echoes inside and outside the army.

  After the discussion, Xu presented cultural articles to the projection team. Qian Guoliang and Jiang Futang, commander and political commissar of the Shenyang Military Area Command accompanied Xu during his visit.

  By Jiang Yukun and Wu Xi

  (Nov.10, PLA Daily)