Xinhua News Agency Qiongya Branch was established in March during the Liberation War, 1949, and its social address is located in Maozhan Township, Baisha County (now Qiongzhong County), Wuzhishan Revolutionary Base, where Qiongya District Committee, Qiongya Provisional People's Government and Qiongya Column Command are located.
1949, Qiongya column of China People's Liberation Army liberated a large area of Wuzhishan and established Wuzhishan revolutionary base area including five counties. On this basis, after studying, the Party Committee of Qiongya District decided to report to the Party Central Committee to set up a Xinhua News Agency branch in Wuzhishan revolutionary base area, so as to help convey the information of Qiongya revolutionary struggle to the liberated areas throughout the country and also help Xinhua News Agency to report on Qiongya. 1February, 949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Qiongya District Committee decided to set up Xinhua News Agency Qiongya Branch.
After a short period of preparation and reporting to the Central Committee, the Qiongya Branch of Xinhua News Agency was established in March, 1949. The director of the branch is Li Yingmin, the propaganda minister of Qiongya District Committee, and Chen Kegong, the deputy director of the propaganda department of the district Committee, assists the branch. Editors include Feng Ziping, Pan Gan and Lin Chunguang. Fu Jiting is the director of the radio station, equipped with a radio transceiver and a hand-cranked generator, and the operator is Chao Huang.
Qiongya Branch began to send a manuscript to Xinhua Head Office on May 1949, and contacted about 1 hour every day. The manuscripts are mainly provided by the leading organs of the party, government and army and mass organizations in Qiongya, and some are provided by the new democracy. The important manuscripts are examined and approved by the leaders of the Party Committee in Qiongya District.
During the one-year period from the establishment of Qiongya Branch to the liberation of Hainan Island, the news articles sent to the head office are generally divided into the following categories: First, the report on the results of the war. There are many such manuscripts. For example, in March 1949, Qiongya Column mobilized seven regiments to launch a spring offensive in the western part of the island, wiped out more than 3,000 people and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition. The branch sent a report on the results of the spring attack to the head office; The second is the analysis report of the war situation. This kind of manuscript is sent at least once a month, such as "Jiang Jun defeated Hainan"; The third is a report on strengthening the construction of political power and the party and the masses in the base areas. If the Qiongya Provisional People's Government is formed, with Feng Baiju as the chairman and He Jun as the vice chairman, the Hainan District Preparatory Committee of the New Democratic Youth League will be established to carry out the work of establishing the Youth League. Fourth, reports on mutual production cooperation in Wuzhishan Li nationality area, such as "investigation on mu system". Fifth, reports on the development of education and culture in the base areas. For example, Qiongya Public School was reopened, and cadres were trained quickly. Some towns and villages in Wuzhishan base area set up primary schools. The sixth is the British model report. Such as "guerrilla heroine Liu Qiuju died of illness"; Seventh, the report that Qiongya Liberated Area celebrated the founding of New China. On June 65438+1 October1day, in l949, more than 1,000 party, government, soldiers and civilians held a grand rally to celebrate the birth of China people in Maozhan area1day. The first five-star red flag was raised in Wuzhishan area, and the branch sent a special manuscript to the head office.
During this period, Xinhua Head Office gave a lot of specific guidance and support to the work of Qiongya Branch, from the intention of propaganda and reporting to the management technology of radio stations.
1950 In May, Hainan was liberated, Qiongya Branch was moved to Haikou and renamed as Xinhua News Agency Hainan Branch, and Chen Kegong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Hainan District Committee, served as the branch director. Hainan Branch was later changed to Xinhua News Agency's Hainan Press Corps, led by Xinhua News Agency's Guangdong Branch. Feng Ziping, Wang Liang, Chen Xiaojiang, Huang Cheng, Joo Won? and Chen Jian were successively transferred to the branch and the press corps. 1952 the Hainan press corps was revoked and Feng Ziping was appointed as the reporter of Xinhua News Agency in Hainan.
During the period of 1950 ~ 1957, Xinhua News Agency Hainan Branch and its resident reporters closely contacted the reality of Hainan's democratic reform, socialist transformation and construction, and collected and wrote many news reports and "internal reference" manuscripts. For example, on July 1 day, l952, Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Region (later changed to Autonomous Prefecture) was established in Baoyou Town, Ledong County, and representatives of all ethnic groups extended greetings to Chairman Mao. New Hainan Daily carried out criticism and reporting against bureaucracy and achieved good results. Haikou has completed the socialist transformation of industry and commerce; Hainan develops agricultural reclamation and plants rubber; Hainan fishermen set sail for Xisha to develop fisheries; Indonesian anti-Chinese, China sent ships to pick up overseas Chinese and settled them in Hainan Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm, all of which sent special articles to the head office and were adopted by many newspapers.
1957, Guangdong opposed localism. Xinhua News Agency's correspondent in Hainan was dismissed because of improper handling of the "internal reference" for writing "On Inner-Party Unity in Hainan" (after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the issue of anti-localism was completely rehabilitated).
2. Xinhua News Agency Hainan Military Region Branch
Xinhua News Agency Hainan Military Region Branch (hereinafter referred to as Branch) is a branch of Xinhua News Agency in Hainan Military Region. L965 was established on July 25th, and cancelled in March 1979. It lasted for l4 years, and the social address was in the Political Department of Hainan Military Region, Haixiu Avenue, Haikou.
(a) the background and evolution of the branch.
The branch was established under the increasingly tense international situation. At that time, the United States constantly created tensions in Southeast Asia and the coast of China. In disregard of international conventions, it often sends military aircraft and warships to violate China's airspace and territorial waters, intercept our merchant ships on the high seas and attack our fishing boats and fishermen. Our government issued 375 serious warnings to the robbery of the American government. However, US President Johnson did not stop there. He even officially declared that "the US military should directly participate in the Vietnam War". At the same time, the Soviet Union also stepped up its troop increase in the border areas of China.
In view of the above situation, the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao made instructions to strengthen combat readiness. 1April 30, 965, Xinhua News Agency wrote a request for instructions on establishing Xinhua branches in several military regions and troops. The report suggested that "first of all, we should make emergency preparations and immediately set up front-line military branches to ensure that local military branches can send news to the head office under any circumstances and ensure that Xinhua News Agency's broadcasting to the whole country and the world will continue". On May 25th, the Central Committee forwarded the report to relevant departments for "handling according to regulations". Subsequently, Xinhua News Agency reached a specific agreement with the PLA General Staff and the General Political Department on the establishment of Xinhua News Agency Branch. The General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army and the General Political Department jointly issued a document on July 7 to make specific arrangements for Xinhua News Agency to set up a branch. Xinhua News Agency Hainan Military Region Branch was established in mid-July and put into operation on July 25, becoming the fastest and most well-equipped unit in Xinhua News Agency's new branch.
After the establishment of the branch, it accepted the dual leadership of the headquarters and the military region, and officially established 20 people, all of whom were active servicemen. The president is Shi, Minister of Propaganda Department of Hainan Military Region, and the vice president is appointed by Xinhua News Agency. Journalists are Xu Shijie and Xing Zenggan, photographers are He Zhongchang and fax producers are Jia Hengjie. Later, Xing Fuqiao, Wang, Jiang Haoji, Zhou Shouxiang and Cao were successively transferred as journalists, wu zhen as a photojournalist, Lu as a fax producer, Xie Yajian as a radio station director, Liang and Yang Yongquan as translators, and other handyman and drivers.
197 1, l972, the military region appointed Xu Shijie and Tang Youquan as vice presidents of the branch. 1972, vice president Feng Li was transferred back to the head office.
During the "Cultural Revolution", some branch reporters were temporarily transferred back to the head office to cover the "Cultural Revolution", some journalists participated in the local "left-leaning support", and some journalists were sent to farms for "re-education". 1976 After the downfall of the Gang of Four, foreign journalists returned to their branches one after another. 1979 In March, Xinhua Head Office established the General Branch of China People's Liberation Army, and branches were established in major military regions, and the branches of Hainan Military Region were subsequently revoked. Some journalists were transferred back to the head office to rearrange their jobs, and some journalists were transferred to local jobs.
(2) Publicity of operating results
Hainan, located at the south gate of the motherland, is a treasure island with rich tropical resources, and its military, political and economic status is very important. After the establishment of the branch, "the military newspaper and the local newspaper shoulder the burden". According to the situation at that time, the sub-bureau gave priority to the report of "unexpected events" in the army. Once there is an emergency, go all out to report it immediately, usually according to the principle of paying equal attention to military news and local news. The draft of "internal reference" mainly reflects the experience and existing problems in local work for the reference of the central and relevant leading departments. All the manuscripts collected and written by branch reporters are sent back to the head office for processing, and the specific business is contacted with the military news editorial department of the head office.
"Emergency" mainly refers to foreign-related events such as air and sea battles. The reporting of these emergencies is directly related to the country's diplomatic struggle, which requires strict policy, timeliness and accuracy. Journalists must grasp the overall situation of diplomatic struggle, correctly and profoundly understand the propaganda intention of the head office, grasp the on-site materials in time and accurately, and send the news to the head office as quickly as possible. For example, in the air battles from 1965 to 1967, our army shot down the American unmanned high-altitude reconnaissance plane, shot down the American F- 104 jet fighter and captured the American pilot Smith alive. On the same day, the branches sent the news of words and photos back to the head office in time, which effectively cooperated with the diplomatic struggle; At the beginning of l974, Xisha fought back in self-defense. On the first day of the battle, reporters Xing Zenggan and Fu Zhongchang went to the Xisha battlefield with the front-line headquarters, which lasted for more than four months and took a lot of battlefield news. In the 1978 Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack, reporters He, Wang, Zhou Shouxiang, Fu Zhongchang and Cao Tusheng went to Guangxi and Xisha to cover and report respectively, with outstanding performance. He and Zhou Shouxiang won the third class.
In the local report, 1975, the head office sent a reporter Xing Zenggan to Tunchang to investigate and study the agricultural schools in the county. In less than a year, he wrote an investigation report (internal reference draft) and published more than 10 articles, which were well received by the head office.
The reporters of the branch agency have successively collected and written many influential reports at home and abroad, such as The Battle of Xisha, Catching the Snitch in the Coconut Grove, How about Tao Xingzhi, Today's Hometown of Red women soldiers, People's Liberation Army Medical Team Active in Wuzhishan Area, People's Military Doctor Ma Yi, March 8th Women's Team and Hard Work. The manuscripts of "Internal Reference" include: on-the-spot report of Hainan's war preparation work, the collision between the Greek Rode ship and the American submarine, the joint development of Hainan's hot farming resources by the field and society, and the typhoon 19 that hit Hainan hard. Photo reports include coastal defense guards, South China Sea militia, herbal medicine collection in the mountains, and friendly military-civilian competitions. In the "Xisha Film Festival" held in Beijing, the reporter of the branch photographed more than 30 works.
In order to meet the needs of military reporting, since its establishment, the branch has paid close attention to team building in accordance with the principle of "learning war in war", requiring all editors to participate in the political theory study and military training of the army as ordinary soldiers, firmly establish the unremitting thinking, and cultivate a style of strict discipline and resolute action. In order to do a good job in military reporting, the branch has also formulated a system to ensure the timeliness of news. Telecom personnel carry out subject training and field training in strict accordance with the regulations, and the vehicles are always in good condition. The leaders of the branch set an example and suffered hardships first, which made the branch form a United fighting collective, thus ensuring the smooth completion of many emergency reporting tasks.
Three. Xinhua News Agency Hainan Branch
(a) the press corps before the establishment of the branch
1979 In March, after the cancellation of the Hainan Military Region Branch of Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua Head Office set up a press corps in Hainan, 198 1, and its office address was in the compound of Hainan District Committee.
Before the establishment of the press corps, 1980, Xinhua News Agency Guangdong Branch sent reporters to Qiong for an interview, and wrote an "internal reference" for the central government on Hainan's agricultural production and construction policies, the relationship between farmers and cooperatives, and the management system, which attracted the attention of the State Council leaders and held a forum on Hainan Island attended by leaders of Guangdong, Hainan and relevant departments of the central government, and it was held on 1980 on July 24. In order to adapt to the new situation of Hainan's development and construction, Xinhua Head Office set up a Hainan reporter group of Xinhua News Agency at the request of Hainan District Committee. Headed by Chen Ren, the reporters transferred to Hainan reporter group successively included Zhao Changchun, Huang Yanglve, Zhou, Fu Qixun and Chen Jiang. The press corps can send the manuscript directly to the head office or send it back to the Guangdong branch. 1987 After the central government decided to build Hainan into a province in September, Xinhua News Agency set up a preparatory group for Hainan Branch, and the press corps was cancelled.
(2) The establishment and business performance of the branches
After a period of preparation, Hainan Branch of Xinhua News Agency was formally established on June 22nd, 1988 after the establishment of Hainan Province. It is the permanent office of Xinhua News Agency in Hainan Province and the 30th local branch of Xinhua News Agency in China.
The reporting policy of Xinhua News Agency Hainan Branch is to comprehensively and accurately publicize and implement the Party's basic line of "centering on economic construction, adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles, and persisting in reform and opening up", closely focus on economic construction, closely link with the organizational reality of reform, opening up, development and construction in Hainan Special Economic Zone, and truly and comprehensively reflect the new achievements, changes, new experiences and new measures of Hainan's reform and opening up, and enthusiastically praise the advanced figures who are brave in pioneering and enterprising.
Hainan Branch undertakes the task of Xinhua News Agency to report Hainan news at home and abroad. The main means of publicity are text news and photo news. In addition to providing press releases to domestic newspapers, radio stations and television stations through the head office, domestic reports also provide close-ups of words and pictures to newspapers and periodicals; In addition to broadcasting press releases to foreign countries in six languages, the head office also provides special articles and features in the form of words and pictures to overseas news organizations.
From the establishment of Hainan Branch to the end of l99 1, * * * issued nearly 2,000 articles in various languages and more than 500 news pictures, most of which were adopted by news organizations at home and abroad, with the adoption rate reaching over 80%.
Hainan Branch not only wrote and broadcast a lot of news reflecting the new achievements and experiences of Hainan Special Economic Zone in reform and opening up, but also realistically reflected the new situations and new problems encountered in the construction of large special zones, waving flags and shouting for Hainan's reform and opening up. The most influential ones are: Variations before Take-off, On this Hot Land, Yangpu Storm, Hainan Facing the Challenge of Contradictions between Development and Environmental Protection, etc. Some "internal reference" manuscripts such as Investigation on the Development of Hainan Special Economic Zone, Investigation on Social Security in Hainan, Investigation on the Reform of Small Government and Big Social System in Hainan, Investigation on the Superiority of Breeding Resources in Hot Areas of Hainan, Investigation on the Ecological Environment of Xisha Islands and Investigation on Yangpu Development were also collected and written. These special investigation reports provide valuable reference materials for the decision-making of the central and relevant departments, and many manuscripts have been instructed by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and provincial leaders, which have played a positive role in promoting practical work.
According to the requirements of the Head Office, Hainan Branch actively explores news reform in practice to reflect the new changes in the construction of Hainan Special Economic Zone with short news on the spot. He has successively collected and written a number of distinctive visual news such as Haikou Old Year, Haikou Traffic, Haikou Street Watching Advertisements, Haikou Lantern Festival Turning into Flowers, and Haikou Flower Tide, which have been welcomed by newspapers and readers.
Hainan Branch maintains 24-hour uninterrupted communication with the head office and other branches through microwave special lines, and the computer networking between the branches and the head office has been realized, and the means of transmitting and publishing news has been greatly improved. The main business entities of the branch are: Hainan Xinhua News Culture Development Company and Hainan Information Society.
(3) List of organizations and leading members
Xinhua News Agency Hainan Branch has a president, vice presidents, editing room, office, manager's office, information department and 9 journalists.