To celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Haining Library of Jiaxing launched “Red Story Painting” online through “Reading Promotion of Haining Library” WeChat WeChat official account in January, 2021. With classic comic books as the carrier, it strung together the magnificent century-old history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and “told the story of the Communist Party of China (CPC)” online for party member cadres and the masses, creating a rich atmosphere to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Party.
Based on the “the Communist Party of China (CPC) Party History” published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Party History Research Institute, Haining Library sorted out all the published contents of comic books before and after the founding of New China, selected 1,000 red classic comic books, and created a collection of classic stories in ten chapters: “National crisis, the founding of the Party, the Great Revolution, the agrarian revolution, War of Resistance against Japan, the War of Liberation, the birth of new China, socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up, and the struggle for a new era”.
Through the well-known comic stories such as Cai Ruohong’s Where Do You Suffer? Guan Shanyue’s Mountains Are Long and Waters Far? Liu Jiyou’s Chicken Hair Letter and Hua Sanchuan’s White-haired Girl, old party member and old comrades reminisce about their unrepentant struggle youth in reading, and young party member and young readers approach those meritorious figures and revolutionary events in red revolutionary picture books and enter the century-old party building process.