Research On New China News In Anti-Japanese War Mobilization

As the first newspaper of CPC Central Committee in the Yan'an period,New China News was published for nearly four and a half years during the late days of agrarian revolution and the early days of the anti-Japanese war.New China News origined from the Northern Shanxi version of RedChina News and stoped publication into Liberation Daily.It had a transitional status and role in the history of CPC newsper.New China News gave full play to the media propaganda and political weapons functions of CPC Central Committee,and carried out extensive and in-depth anti-war mobilization.It not only comprehensively publicized the party's various lines,guidelines,and policies,but also organized,encouraged,motivated,and promoted the broad masses of the people and all anti-Japanese resources into the Chinese Anti-Japanese War and left profound influence in the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and even the whole country.Under Marxism's guidance and the use of politic,history,communication,philology and statistics,the article introduced New China News's anti-war mobilization work comprehensively in military,economic,political,cultural and social aspects on the basis of its brief introduction.It also focused on analyzing the main role and distinctive features of New China News's anti-war mobilization,and earnestly summed up its historical experience and limitations.First of all,the article a brief introduction to New China News to understand the background and conditions of its anti-war mobilization.The founding of New China News has its complex time field,profound theoretical stem and unique realistic foundation.It helped to awaken the people's war awareness to smash Japanese cultural aggression,helped to lead the anti-Japanese revolutionary thoughts and speeches to break through Kuomintang's cultural autocracy.New China News learned and borrowed the thoughts of the proletarian party newspapers from Marx,Engels and Lenin.It benefited from the loose political and cultural environment provided by the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the intellectual support of the revolutionary intellectuals in the border region.The development of New China News has experienced two periods of initial creation and reform.The initial period was from the publication on January 29,1937,to the suspending on December 25,1938.New China News in the initial period generally has four editions every five days.The first edition mainly publishes the party's policy propositions and important current events in the country.The second edition focuses on introducing and analyzing the international situation.The third edition reports on political,economic,public security and cultural aspects of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.It has special editions for conferences,people and festivals.The editors of New China News was Zhong Zhonghua,Xu Bing,Wang Lun,Xiao Ying,Lei Wei,Gong Xianqian,Fang Shumin,Liu Yi and Li Guang.Many leaders published articles or speeches on it.The reform period of New China News refers to the publication of the first issue on February 7,1939,and stoping on May 15,1941.The refreshing version ofit was changed to a three-days-paper.The first edition featured the comments of the CPC policy proposition and the battle record of the anti-Japanese forces.The second edition reported the news and comments about the world anti-fascist united-front.The third and fourth editions promoted the current state of the new-democratic construction in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.The refresh edition of the newspaper includes editorials,monographs,short reviews,three-day international,three-day battles,domestic news,border news,county newsletters,county counts,newsletters,interviews,character introductions, production campaigns,reader mailboxes,etc.On May 16,1941,the Central Committee of the CPC decided to merge New China News and Today's News into Liberation Daily,marking the officialconclusion of its historical mission.In its management organization,New China News has successively accepted the leadership and management of The Central Party Newspaper Committee and the Central Publishing Department.TheCentral Party Newspaper Committee consists of the Materials Section and the Publishing Section,and manages the Central Printing Factory.The Central Publishing Department seted up four departments,including publishing,distribution,printing,and ogistics,and replaced the Central Party Newspaper Committee to succeed in the publication,printing and distribution of New China News.In its printing and distribution,Yan'an Central Printing Factory,Eight-way Army Printing Factory,Guanghua Printing Factory and Confidential Printing Factory provided a strong printing support for New China News.Its issuance was inseparable from the distribution network of Xinhua Bookstore, Guanghua Bookstore and Northwest Anti-enemy Bookstore,which is distributed by store,mail order, and book delivery to base,rear,occupied area and other places.Secondly,the paper sorted out the anti-war mobilization of New China News comprehensively in the military,economic,political,cultural and social aspects in order to present the specifical contents of its anti-war mobilization.As far as military mobilization is concerned,the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is the wrestling force between China and Japan,and its core is the game between the military forces. Although Japan's military strength far exceeds China,there are also insufficient human and material resources.In view of this,New China News cooperated actively with the party and government to carry out extensive military mobilization in the Border Region.It organizeed and trained the people to strengthen the self-defense forces.It eliminated bandits and traitors to build a consolidated rear.It steped up air defense and anti-drug education and construction to protect the national reserve force.In terms of economic mobilization,economic determines politics and culture,and economic mobilization is also a crucial part of war mobilization.The Central Committee and Border Region clearly realized that they could not achieve the final victory of the war without the sufficient economic strength.As a result,Theyspared no effort to carry out economic mobilization in the Border Region.New China News responded enthusiastically to this central task and carried out the national salvation campaign to enrich the food supply of the war of resistance,and developed the cooperative economy to oranize the people economically.As far as political mobilization is concerned,war is a continuation of politics through violent means.To win the war,first and foremost,extensive and in-depth political mobilization must be carried out.New China News actively cooperated with the party and government to carry out economic mobilization.It passed the democratic universal suffrage to ensure the realization of a complete democratic politics,strengthen anti-corruption to enforce clean politics,develop the national united front to live together,in order to awakening and mobilizing the political consciousness of the broad masses of people,and mobilizing them to join the war of resistance.As far as cultural mobilization is concerned,the War is not only a competition between military and economic power of China and Japan,but also a game of cultural soft power.Therefore,cultural mobilization is an indispensable part of war mobilization.As the party newspaper,New China News actively cooperated with the party and the government,carried out extensive and in-depth cultural mobilization in the Border Region,.It carried out learning campaigns to promote political and cultural level,developed anti-war sports to arm our hands and feet,and promoted hygiene exercise to prevent diseases,with a view to improving the spirit and physical fitness of the people in the Border Region,and coping with the arduous and enduring war of resistance.As far as social mobilization is concerned,in order to maximize the mobilization and cohesion of all available anti-Japanese war forces,New China News actively guideed workers,peasants,soldiers,students and businessmen into the anti-Japanese national salvation movement,and is also closely linked to special groups suchas children,women,anti-genus and disabled soldiers.It developed childcare work to train the reserve army against the Japanese,carried out women's liberation movements to raise their national consciousness,and pay close attention to special care to consolidate military-civilian relations,in order to further consolidating the masses of the people's anti Japanese war to the end.Furthermore,the paper focused on the analysis of the main role and distinctive features of New China News in the war mobilization.As far as the main role is concerned,New China News strives to act as a "lubricant" to integrate the national anti-Japanese forces,to articulate correct claims,correct wrong tendencies and counterattack reactionary act.It efforted to act as a "universal glue" to unite the national anti-war spirit,expose the Japanese brutal beasts,announce anti-war achievements,in order to inspire the courage of the national resistance and show the victory future.It strived to act as a "megaphone" for shaping the CPC's anti-war image,and introducing the anti-war mobilization results of the Border Region,in order to demonstrate CPC's good image and enhance its influence.It strived to serve as the"assembly" for the development of the anti-fascist alliance,condemn the sin of fascism,and pay attention to the movements of the international community with a view to promoting the early formation of the international anti-fascist united front,to get more support and assistance from the international community.As far as remarkable features are concerned,New China News has made full use of the advantages of this platform and actively carried out a series of anti-war mobilization work,forming a set of effective working methods and presenting outstanding characteristics of wide objects,multidimensional domains and flexible modes.In the anti-war mobilization,New China News has presented a wide range of objects,striving to unite and integrate all anti-fascist groups and individuals who love peace.It presented a multi-dimensional field which directly coverd military,political,economic,cultural and social aspects.It showed flexible modes,focusing on contrast and illustration.Finally,the paper seriously sum up the historical experience and time limitations of New China News in Anti-Japanese War mobilization.As far as historical experience is concerned,New China News's anti-war mobilization work has always adhered to the leadership of the CPC,always followed the principle of truthfulness of the news,consistently practiced the purpose of serving the people,always served the real needs of the times.Carrying forward the public opinion experience of New China News has important reference and practical enlightenment for exploring the road to reform of the party newspaper in the new era.As far as the time limitations of are concerned,New China News's anti-war mobilization work has certain deviations in its thinking.There are residual errors in dogmatism and opportunism,and there are words of "counter-revolutionary Trotskyism" and "everything through the national united front."In practice,some problems were exposed,such as copying the Soviet newspaper experience and adopting inappropriate themes and language,which caused the actual disconnection from the Border Region and affected the performance of the anti-war mobilization.