今年5月,在北京举办了空前规模的“91世界红十字日、国际护士节纪念活动”。值此之际,兹据中国第一历史档案馆所藏清代外务部档案,回顾中国红十字会成立缘起,对于我们今天做好工作,颇有现实意义。本世纪初,日俄两国交战,我国东北大好河山惨遭蹂躏,人民流离失所,“其困苦情形,诚有不堪言状者。”清出使美、秘、古、墨大臣梁诚,于光绪三十年(1904)二月初十日就“联约各国,仿设红十字会”一事,上书奏请。在这件奏稿中他详细阐明了国内外的形势,提出了有关成立红十字会的具体意见。“近因各国行阵救疾扶伤,不分畛域,其法良意美,尤推红十字会为最,该会命意略如内地善堂,以拯救灾恤难为义务,而于国政宗教不相干涉,与会之人出 In May this year, an unprecedented scale “91 World Red Cross Day and International Nurses Day Memorial” was held in Beijing. On this occasion, it is very realistic for us to do a good job today based on the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Qing Dynasty collected by the First Historical Archives of China and recalling the founding of the Chinese Red Cross Society. At the beginning of this century, when Japan and Russia engaged in war and the terrible rivers and mountains in northeast China were devastated and their people were displaced, “the people in the United States, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Year (1904) On the tenth day of February, a petition was made on the issue of ”co-contracting all nations, imitating the Red Cross Society.“ In this draft, he elaborated on the situation both at home and abroad and put forward specific opinions on the establishment of a Red Cross. ”Because of the spearheads of all countries in helping to save and treat diseases and injuring their families, the United States, especially France and the United States, especially the Red Cross Society is the most important one. Interference involved, the participants out