The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of your life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. ............ The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you. Mao Zedong.
Mao made this remark during a talk with Chinese exchange students and researchers in Moscow, 17 November 1957. It was included in the Little Red Book, at the start of chapter 30 "Youth".