After hikers revealed earlier that the highest mountain in Hong Kong, Tai Mo Shan Radar Station, had been painted with large simplified red letters “Listen to the Party and Follow the Party” by the PLA, which led to a flurry of online debate, only about a week later, the station has been added to the latest instructions from Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in recent years – “Be able to fight and win battles. “. Some people made a special trip up the mountain to watch this spectacle and take photos for souvenirs.
The incident was first reported in early January on a Facebook group called “Friends of Hong Kong Hill” after a netizen uploaded a photo showing a building at the radar station painted with the simplified red words “”Listen to the Party and follow the Party”. The post then drew heated debate from hiking enthusiasts, with one netizen writing, “After the highest point of Tai Mo Shan was occupied by the PLA, it is no longer the highest point in Hong Kong that Hong Kong people can go to. Do not go. Now there are also greatly simplified characters, do not want to work hard on to see these filthy things. “
Tai Mo Shan is the tallest mountain in Hong Kong, 958 meters high, with a full view of the whole territory. Its highest point is also named for the hiking-loving former Governor MacLehose, who passed through the MacLehose Trail.
Subsequently, the Hong Kong media position news and Apple Daily followed up on the incident. The Hong Kong Security Bureau replied to Standpoint News that the radar station “is not a military site, but a SAR government land used for setting up communication devices of different agencies, including for defense purposes. The Security Bureau also did not respond to the question of whether the slogan was placed by the People’s Liberation Army and why the slogan appeared. The Security Bureau also cited Article 14 of the Basic Law, that the Central Government is responsible for the management of the defense of the HKSAR, according to the “Garrison Law” Article 10, the Hong Kong Government should support the garrison to perform defense duties.
A military expert told Apple Daily that the Chinese Communist Party emphasizes that the Party does everything, and political slogans are everywhere, especially in the Party headquarters and government agencies, but after the handover, in view of the different culture in Hong Kong, this red Party culture has been restrained in Hong Kong, the PLA barracks in Hong Kong rarely hang similar slogans in a conspicuous place, usually only in the dining hall and the lobby, to avoid attracting attention, but in recent years the political atmosphere has changed, Beijing’s attempts to integrate Hong Kong into the mainland, the department in Hong Kong is more emboldened to blatantly promote the Party culture, it is believed that similar situations will become more common in the future.
After a week of silence, another report on Saturday, January 16, revealed that the radar station had made a new work in spite of the negative opinions of some netizens. In addition to the original “Listen to the Party and follow the Party” in simplified Chinese, the phrase “Able to fight and win battles” was added in simplified red. The six characters were mentioned by Xi Jinping at a military training meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission late last year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has referred to the directive “to be able to fight and win battles” in the past, including last December when he attended a meeting of the CPC Central Military Commission on military training, saying that military training is the regular central work of the troops, the basic way to improve combat effectiveness and the most direct preparation for military struggle, and is of great importance in ensuring that the troops are able to fight and win battles, as well as improving the overall construction standards of the troops.
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