毛泽东选集/青年团的工作要照顾青年的特点

#§Talk by Comrade Mao Tsetung when he received the Presidium of the Second National Congress of the New Democratic Youth League of China.

#§The Youth League's assertion of independence from the Party is already a thing of the past.

# Today, the trouble with the Youth League is its lack of independent activities, not its assertion of independence.

#§The Youth League must co-ordinate its activities with the Party's central tasks, but in so doing it must have its own independent activities and take the characteristics of youth into consideration.

# In 1952, in a talk with comrades of the Central Committee of the Youth League, I raised two questions for it to think over: first, how the Party should lead the League's work, and second, how the League should do its work.

# Both involve consideration for the characteristics of youth.

# In various places the Party committees have expressed satisfaction with the Youth League because the latter has co-ordinated its work with the Party's central tasks.

# Now it is time to express dissatisfaction, that is, dissatisfaction with the Youth League's failure to arrange for independent activities that suit the characteristics of youth.

# The leading organs of the Party and the League should learn how to lead the League in its work and, in order to organize and educate the mass of young people, they should be good at co-ordinating its activities with the Party's central tasks and taking the characteristics of youth into consideration.

#§Under the Party's leadership, the Youth League has been active in every field of revolutionary work and has a great deal to its credit.

# Our revolutionary cause, whether in the factories, on the farms, in the army units or in the schools, cannot succeed without the young people.

# China's youth are well disciplined and they have fulfilled all the tasks assigned them by the Party.

# Now that the war is coming to an end in Korea and the agrarian reform is completed, the emphasis in our work at home is being switched over to socialist transformation and socialist construction.

# The Youth League must know how to lead the young people in making a common effort with older people to do a good job in agriculture in the countryside, in industry in the cities, in studying at school, in performing their duties in offices as well as in training in army units to turn our national defence forces into a modernized army.

#§Young people between fourteen and twenty-five need to study and work, but as youth is the age of physical growth, much is imperilled if their health is neglected.

# The young need to study much more, for they have to learn many things older people already know.

# However, they must not be overloaded with either study or work.

# And the fourteen to eighteen-year-olds in particular should not be made to work with the same intensity as grown-ups.

# Young people, being what they are, need more time for play, recreation and sports.# Otherwise they won't be happy.

# And in time they will fall in love and get married.

# In all this they are different from older people.

#First, I wish them good health; second, I wish them success in their study, and third, I wish them success in their work.

# They are supposed to have eight hours of sleep, but actually they take only six or seven and generally feel they don't have enough.

# Young people at school are prone to nervous tension and so often find it hard to go to sleep and then hard to wake up.