Youth Build Dreams Through Struggle-Our May Fourth

Today,

Our festival.

The stormy years have passed; youth has arrived,

A thousand sails cross the river as snow and tears blur the view.

A hundred years,

Rushed by,

Leaving a deep, heavy mark

Beneath the vastness of history!

Back then,

The whole nation was in turmoil,

Everything was in chaos.

Back then,

All things awaited renewal,

Corpses lay strewn everywhere.

Back then,

The land was torn by upheaval,

Husbands and wives were parted, families torn apart.

Back then,

The nation was shattered and homes destroyed,

The flames of war raged everywhere.

We,

What have we been through?

That day, in that year,

Three hundred thousand souls cried out in anguish,

Rows upon rows of nameless graves,

Household after household, pale with grief.

Nanjing in those days

Had only two colors, black and white;

All that remained was vivid red!

Amid the chaos,

We founded the Youth League;

Amid the turmoil,

We founded the Party;

As all things awaited renewal,

We founded our nation.

In the name of youth,

We rebuilt the soul of China,

Rebuilt our blood-red land!

With the passion of our youth,

Amid war and turmoil, we raised civilization anew,

And wrote a brilliant chapter for our new China!

For a hundred years,

Generation after generation strove onward,

Tower after tower rose from the ground.

For a hundred years,

Whether on a grand scale or a small one,

Whether along great rivers or mighty streams,

Whether in coastal waters or across the open ocean,

Whether in basic industries or national defense,

Even in environmental protection and health,

We can say,

We did it.

We lived up to the hopes of our forebears,

Rebuilding China for a new era.

We made China soar once more,

We let the world see once more

That today,

Our people no longer go hungry or suffer from the cold,

Our nation no longer endures hardship and poverty,

Our country no longer suffers bullying,

The elderly are cared for, and the young are educated.

With our youth, we have struck up a brilliant symphony for our era!

We cannot say

That we are satisfied.

Though we have

Achieved the first centenary goal,

And built a moderately prosperous society in all respects,

The Communists are still on the road!

At this moment,

We stride toward the second centenary goal,

Pressing ever onward!

We who live through the pandemic

Are more united than ever.

Under the leadership of our Party,

We fight the epidemic with all our strength!

Amid a transformation of the world unseen in a century,

We work diligently,

Keep exploring,

And, with the sense of responsibility befitting a great nation,

Carve a monument to our era!

Generation after generation of Chinese youth,

United in heart and strength!

We uphold the truth,

And never give up.

One Chinese son after another,

With the youth within us,

We will not fail our era,

Nor let our youth go to waste.

In our own names,

We solemnly declare:

With the youth of our generation, we will not fail the prosperous China of our time!

The China of the future,

The nation of the future,

We, the youth of the future,

Will strive onward, generation after generation,

And write a brilliant chapter of our own!

A Word from the Author