The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis it is yours. You young people are full of vitality and are in your prime, just like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. Hope rests on you.

This sentence was said by Chairman Mao on November 17, 1957, when he met with Chinese students studying in the Soviet Union at Moscow University. At that time, Chairman Mao also taught the students: "Young people should have two things, one is full of vitality, and the other is modesty and prudent." In his speech, Chairman Mao discussed the world, quoted from many sources, and put forward "the world is afraid of being serious." word, the Communist Party is the most serious."

Extended information:

On November 17, 1957, in order to satisfy the desire of more students to see the leader's style and listen to the leader's teachings, Chairman Mao specially came to the students from the auditorium Club, he said to the hundreds of international students who had already gathered there waiting: "First, young people must be brave and humble; second, I wish you good health, good study, and good work; third, be close to your Soviet friends. Unite."

Chairman Mao also visited the dormitories of classmates, asked about the study and living conditions of international students, and encouraged everyone to "study hard, build the motherland, and strengthen friendship with Soviet teachers and students." The nearly one-and-a-half-hour reception and speech made everyone immersed in incomparable excitement and happiness. Slogans of "50 years of fighting for the Party" and "50 years of working for the motherland" resounded throughout the auditorium.

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