Xi urges greater efforts to nurture capable young people for socialist cause

President Xi Jinping congratulated the popular children's radio program The Small Horn on Friday on the 70th anniversary of its launch, calling for greater efforts to nurture a new generation of capable young people for the socialist cause.

In a congratulatory letter, Xi said that over the past 70 years, the program has remained committed to telling good stories to children and has accompanied generations of children as they grew up.

Looking ahead, Xi expressed hope that the program's staff and professionals in children's culture would fulfill the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, keep pace with the times and continue cultivating the field of children's culture.

He called on them to create more outstanding works that promote truth, goodness and beauty and are beloved by children, thereby making greater contributions to nurturing a new generation of well-rounded socialist builders and successors.

A symposium marking the anniversary was held in Beijing on Friday. Li Shulei, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the event, where he read Xi's letter and delivered a speech.