各位同志:祁建华同志是中国人民解放军西南军区某部的文化教员,他在教部队干部和战士学习文化的过程中创造了「速成识字法」。这种创造,对于扫除文盲、发展工农兵群众文化教育的贡献很大,是文化教育工作上极有价值的极应重视的创造之一。中央人民政府政务院文化教育委员会决定给祁建华同志奖状、以奖励祁建华同志为人民文化教育事业所立下的功绩。我国过去长期处在帝国主义、封建势力的残酷压迫下,工农群众很少受教育的机会,以致成为一个文化落后、文盲众多的国家。解放以后,人民做了新中国的主人,经济生活一天比一天改善,群众学习文化的要求跟着迫切起来,许多工人、农民、战士对于学习文化,确已达到如饥如渴的程度。同时,我们国家的建设,经过恢复准备阶段以后,全面的建设事业即将开始,在进行现代化的国防建设、经济建设当中,如 Ladies and gentlemen, Comrade Qi Jianhua is a cultural teacher in a department of the southwestern military region of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. He created a “quick literacy method” while teaching military cadres and soldiers to learn the culture. This kind of creation has made great contributions to the elimination of illiteracy and the development of mass culture education among the workers, peasants and soldiers. It is one of the most valuable and most valuable creations in cultural and educational work. The Culture and Education Commission of the Central People’s Government and the State Council decided to award Comrade Qi Jianhua a merit in honor of the achievements made by Comrade Qi Jianhua for the cause of people’s cultural and educational undertakings. In the past, our country, under the brutal oppression of imperialism and feudalism, has made the workers and peasants little chance of education and has become a country with a lot of cultural and economic illiteracy. After the liberation, the people became the masters of the new China and their economic life improved day by day. The demands of the masses for learning the culture followed up urgently. Many workers, peasants and fighters have indeed reached a thirst for learning culture. At the same time, the construction of our country, after the period of recovery and preparation, is about to begin with a comprehensive construction project. In carrying out the modernization of national defense and economic construction,