Sun Yat-sen’s great-grandson Wang Zuyao: Willing to be his disciple and comrade

China News Service, Beijing, November 12. Title: Sun Yat-sen’s great-grandson Wang Zuyao: Willing to be his disciple and comrade

China News Service reporter Xu Wenxin

"For more than a hundred years, we have continued to commemorate and cherish Mr. Sun Yat-sen, not only because he was a great pioneer of China's democratic revolution, but also because of his grand vision of 'revitalizing China'. This vision is not an empty slogan, but a modernization blueprint covering all-round development of the country's economy, politics, and society, and has always been in sync with China's development." Wang Zuyao, Sun Yat-sen's great-grandson and vice chairman of the Sun Yat-sen Peace Education Foundation, said in a recent online interview with reporters from China News Service.

Wang Zuyao, 58, said that over the years, his understanding and understanding of Sun Yat-sen's thoughts have been constantly updated.

Wang Zuyao said that Sun Yat-sen handled massive amounts of revolutionary funds throughout his life, but never accumulated wealth or purchased private property for himself. After his death, his family sorted out his belongings and all they had with him were books, clothes and manuscripts, without any savings. He once entrusted the real estate under his name to Soong Ching Ling, making it clear that all proceeds from the mortgage of the real estate would be used for national construction. On his deathbed, he left a message of "peace, struggle, and save China." He faced his personal life and death calmly, but he felt regretful because the blueprint for the founding of the country he had spent his entire life sketching had not yet been realized when he died.

With the help of his elder brother Sun Mei, young Sun Yat-sen went to Honolulu, Hawaii with his mother. He has seen the hardship of overseas Chinese workers and admires the tenacity and enterprising spirit of overseas Chinese. He has also seen the contrast between the civilized and prosperous modern society and the isolated, poor and weak hometown at that time. The strong spiritual impact planted the seeds of revolution and national salvation in Sun Yat-sen's heart. This experience made Sun Yat-sen realize the power of overseas Chinese, and later proposed that "overseas Chinese are the mother of revolution." Overseas Chinese have since participated in and fully supported the modern revolutionary cause.

Later, Sun Yat-sen went to Hong Kong to study medicine. He originally thought that studying medical skills could cure the world's physical ailments, but he had an insight into the shortcomings of the era of poverty and weakness in modern China. He knew that only innovation and strength could save the country from danger, so he resolutely gave up medicine and used revolution to save his country.

Wang Zuyao said that Sun Yat-sen traveled around the world many times and was a pioneer with a broad vision among his contemporaries. He believes that finding the right path, clear direction and hard work will lead to steady and long-term progress. He put forward the concept of "catch up from behind" in China's development and left behind the conclusion that "the world trend is vast. If you follow it, you will prosper, and if you go against it, you will perish." He not only has insight into China's future development, but also is familiar with the direction of the world pattern.

More than a hundred years have passed, and Sun Yat-sen's ideological concepts, governance concepts and development vision have been continuously confirmed. In the "National Founding Strategy", he described the layout of China's modernization construction, planning to build railways, develop water conservancy, and build ports, including the Three Gorges Project and three world-class ports. These dreams that were once regarded as unrealistic have now become a reality in China, and have been refined and implemented in accordance with national conditions. "The road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the comprehensive realization of Sun Yat-sen's thought and the transcendence of the times." Wang Zuyao said.

In 1994, Wang Zuyao went to Qinzhou, Guangxi to witness the start of the construction of Qinzhou Port. He cried on the spot when he saw the century-old ambition become a reality. "This is the second largest port in the south proposed by my grandfather in the "Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic of China." What he wanted throughout his life was the complete reunification of China, social peace and stability, and national prosperity and rejuvenation."

Today, Qinzhou Port, as an important fulcrum of the Pinglu Canal, plays a new role in the regional open pattern. This concern that spans generations has always remained in Wang Zuyao's heart. "If I have the opportunity, I would like to tell my grandfather that I am his disciple and his comrade, and I am deeply proud of it," he said.