Throughout the history of world development, the important creations of many thinkers, scientists, and writers were produced in the prime of their youth, when their thinking was the most agile. Marx was 30 years old and Engels was 28 years old when the Communist Manifesto was published. Newton and Leibniz were 22 and 28 years old when they discovered calculus. Darwin was 22 years old when he began his voyage around the world and later wrote his famous On the Origin of Species. Edison was 30 years old when he invented the phonograph and 32 years old when he invented the electric light. Marie Curie was 31 years old when she discovered the radioactivity of radium, thorium, and polonium, for which she won the Nobel Prize. Einstein was 26 years old when he proposed the special theory of relativity and 37 years old when he proposed the general theory of relativity. Lee Tsung-dao and Yang Zhen-ning proposed the law of non-conservation of the universe in weak interactions, which were 30 and 34 years old, respectively. Jia Yi of the Western Han Dynasty was 32 years old when he died. Wang Bo wrote the famous "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" and was only 27 years old when he died.

——"Speech at the Collective Conversation with the Members of the New Leading Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League" (June 20, 2013)

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"If we choose the occupation in which we can best work for the welfare of mankind, then the burden cannot weigh us down, for it is a dedication to the common good; Then we will not feel pitiful, limited, selfish pleasures, our happiness will belong to millions, our cause will live on silently but eternally, and noble people will shed tears in the face of our ashes. ”

The article, titled "Considerations for Youth in Choosing a Career", was written by 17-year-old Marx. At that time, Marx was graduating from high school and was faced with the question of whether to go on to higher education or employment. My classmates want to be poets, scientists, or philosophers, or they want to become priests or priests, or they want to live the luxurious life of capitalists. Marx did not proceed from self-interest, as they did, and took personal happiness as the criterion for choosing a career, but he raised the choice of career to the understanding of society and the attitude towards life. So, there is this amazing work and this amazing statement.

Newton, Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie all made major discoveries and inventions at a young age. Youth is the best age for a person to carry out thinking and creative activities, the mind is quick, energetic, the accumulation and mastery of knowledge and experience is relatively fast, and the ideological baggage is less, dare to think, dare to do, dare to act. Youth is often a time of new discoveries, new creations, and new knowledge. It's almost a universal rule.

There is no shortage of young and promising talents in Chinese history. Jia Yi of the Western Han Dynasty was rarely famous, and Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty recruited Jia Yi and entrusted him with the post of doctor, when he was only 21 years old, the youngest of the doctors hired. Jia Yi later served as the prince of Liang Huai, and wrote the "Public Security Policy", which made a sparse statement on political affairs on issues such as the invasion of the border by the Xiongnu, the sparse system, and the division of princes and kings during the period of Emperor Wen. Mao Zedong praised the "Public Security Policy" as the best political theory of the Western Han Dynasty. According to the "Old Tang Book", Wang Bo, a literati of the Tang Dynasty, was able to write articles at the age of 6 and wrote fluently, and was praised as a "prodigy". Although he unfortunately drowned and died of palpitations at the age of 27, Wang Bo left behind famous sentences such as "confidants in the sea, if the end of the world is next to each other", "Luoxia and lonely birds fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky". Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Bin Wang, are known as the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty".

Xi Jinping is extremely concerned about the growth and success of young people, and when he talked with the members of the new leadership group of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, he issued an entrustment to them to take the lead in studying hard, taking the lead in hard work, taking the lead in strict self-discipline, and taking the lead in contacting young people. He cited the experiences of Marx, Newton, Wang Bo, and others who made great achievements in their youth precisely to encourage the new leading body of the CYL Central Committee and even the vast number of young people throughout the country to strengthen their determination to struggle and achieve extraordinary causes.

Xi Jinping is willing to deal with young people, and often encourages young people to maintain the spirit of struggle and dedication. He successively sent letters to all the students of the 2009 undergraduate league branch of the School of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University, the "Benyu Volunteer Service Team" of Huazhong Agricultural University, and the representatives of the group of graduates of the western branch of Baoding University in Hebei, encouraging them to integrate their life ideals into the cause of the country and the nation, and strive to become useful talents and pillars of the construction of the motherland. At a symposium with teachers and students of Peking University, he also used the example of buttoning clothes to warn young people to do a good job in cultivating values, and "the buttons of life must be buttoned well from the very beginning." The younger generation will certainly have a lot to do, and it will certainly do a lot. In Xi Jinping's view, "this is the historical law of 'the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves', and it is also the responsibility of youth that 'one generation is stronger than the next'."