Research On The Chinese Communist Party’s Ethnic Polity During The Long March Of The Red Army

The Long March was a special march during the Chinese Revolution in the first half of the 20th century and an important strategic shift during the New-Democratic Revolution.It preserved the vitality of the development of the Chinese revolution,and sounded the charge to resist foreign invasion and oppression.Although it is impossible for us today to go back to the time and place where the Long March took place,if we have the opportunity to go on the Long March again,we can still experien ce some of its characteristics-and one of them is "walking mostly in ethnic areas".It is precisely because of the existence of this characteristic that the Communist Party of China has promoted and accelerated the deep understanding of the actual conditions of the various ethnic groups in China,opened the process of exploring the Sinicization of Marxist ethnic theory,confirmed the characteristics of pluralism and unity of the Chinese nation and left behind experiences that are worth summarizing.Based on this,this paper will take the logical line of enhancing understanding,building consensus,and promoting unity as the structural direction of the thesis,draw on some knowledge in ethnology and political science,and fully explain the formation background,change rationale,and rationale of the Chinese Communist Party’s ethnic policy during the Long March period,historical results.Then this paper will explain its present revelation in three aspects,including its overall positioning,value realization and innovative development.Among them,when explaining the background of the formation of ethnic policies,the basic point of this article is that ethnic policies cannot be water without a source,and it must have an objective basis for existence.As long as the basic characteristics of the pluralism and integration of the Chinese nation remain unchanged,the ethnic policy will be inevitable;as long as the situation at home and abroad changes and develops,the ethnic policy will be adjusted accordingly;as long as there are more specific goals and missions on this basis according to the requirements,the ethnic policy will have detailed practical references.These three factors have become the driving force for the refinement and continuous shaping of the Chinese Communist Party’s national policy during the Long March.In short,the above-mentioned factors determine what kind of "shape" the ethnic policy should show,that is,what kind of ethnic policy is required by the time and space environment at that time.Then the exploration of the process for the changes in ethnic policy during the Long March period,it actually showed how the Chinese Communist Party adjusted the ethnic policy to make its continuous improvement consistent with the tasks of the times under the influence of the aforementioned time and space environment.Based on the related documents and contents of ethnic policy issued during the Long March,this article summarizes the continuous development and change of ethnic policy in theory and practice.The study believes that the beginning of the strategic shift promoted the continuation of the ethnic theory before this,and at the same time made the previous ethnic policy come in handy,and many "breakthrough" developments have occurred in this process.After Maogong joined forces,the party and the army received a period of rest and reorganization,summarized and adjusted the ethnic policy in the early stage,and closely integrated it with the development of the Chinese revolution,and had relatively sufficient time to implement the ethnic policy.After the Red Army went north,the "August 1st Declaration" spread to Yan’an.The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China studied specific changes in the situation and convened the Wayaobu Conference.At the same time,the ethnic policy was adjusted to a new level that was combined with the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front.This is a milestone in the development of ethnic policies,guiding ethnic policies to change and improve in a direction that is more in line with domestic and foreign situations and the specific conditions of ethnic minorities.It has also become an important node in the supply of policies in the field of the united front.The successive and sublimated ethnic policy development context not only interprets the changes in its quality and goals,but also lays the foundation for the formation of specific content that is related to each other but has different functions.Since the beginning of the Long March,there have been frequent false propaganda by hostile forces on the party and the army,and the party and the army had not fully carried out ethnic work in the ethnic areas before the Long March.Therefore,ethnic minority people did not know the real situation very well.In order to dispel the misgivings of ethnic minority compatriots,the Red Army publicized and implemented the party’s policies on training ethnic minority cadres,uniting ethnic minority upper-class members,and carrying out ethnic minority mass work,which established channels for political connections.At the same time,the Red Army strictly implemented the party’s policies of respecting ethnic minority customs,religious beliefs,languages,and developing ethnic minority culture and education,which enabled ethnic minority compatriots to experience ethnic equality firsthand and enhanced unity with the masses of all ethnic groups.After seeing the difficulties in the lives of ethnic minority compatriots,the party put forward corresponding content for the problems in the fields of land confiscation and distribution,industrial and commercial development,taxation,etc..although some still need to be investigated based on the characteristics of different regions,but still do not affect the understanding and support of relevant policies by ethnic minorities.In order to protect the rights of compatriots of all ethnic groups to be the masters of the country,institutionalized organizational methods were explored,and regional ethnic autonomy sprouted.There is no doubt that the change in the quality and objectives of the ethnic policy,the enrichment of the basic content,and the disciplined implementation of the Red Army have not only solved some specific problems,but also brought about gains from different perspectives.Observed from the perspective of the development of the times,it is manifested in the three aspects,which are preserving the viable force of revolutionary development,strengthening the revolutionary ranks,and promoting the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front.Observed from the Chinese Communist Party as the national policy-making dimension,it has a deep and specific understanding of the basic conditions of ethnic minorities,improved its ability to deal with corresponding problems,and established the rudiment of ethnic policies to be institutionalized and standardized.From the perspective of minorities as the audience of ethnic policy,their recognition of the Party and their firm belief in the development of democracy,equality,and mutual support are the specific manifestations of ethnic policy in both the present and future based on that history.Revisiting the Chinese Communist Party’s ethnic policy during the Long March and understanding that period of history,it is not difficult to extract a lot of regular content.Whether it is to grasp the overall positioning of the ethnic policy,or to take investigation and research,policy propaganda,and leading cadres to lead by example as the basic conditions for the realization of the value of ethnic policies,or to adhere to the sinicization of Marxist ethnic theory,to realize the organic unity of common goals and specific practices,to ensure that the content of ethnic policies forms an interconnected whole as the implementation of ethnic policy innovation and development of experience to inherit,which are all useful practices to enhance the unity of compatriots of all ethnic groups,enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation,and promote the development of the times through ethnic policies.What needs to be further explained is that in order to carry out this research more three-dimensionally and comprehensively,I will also integrate documentary stories with supporting evidence,ballads and poems,slogans and slogans engraved on the bridge head of Banbi bridge through the method of embedded analysis of typical cases.In the text,I will try to make up for the deficiency of memorial and descriptive research in the current results.I will also use the time period analysis method based on content changes to comprehensively show the advanced process of ethnic policy,and avoid simply focusing on a certain area.or a certain specific policy as the starting point of the research.I will couple with the use of methods such as inductive comparison and sentence context analysis,strive to clarify why the Chinese Communist Party needs ethnic policies during the Long March period and what ethnic policies it needs.Further thinking,in the process of continuous theoretical improvement,practical breakthrough and viewpoint accumulation,what kind of content and function of ethnic policies finally appear.According to the above logic line,in the process of studying the national policy of the Communist Party of China during the Long March period,this paper not only further demonstrates the relationship between the changes of the historical and cultural factors and the foreign environment with the shaping of the ethnic policy in this period,explains the mutual relationship and functional direction between the basic contents,and analyzes in detail the actual experience of the main forces in the ethnic policy practice,analyzes the stages that each main force has actually experienced in the practice of ethnic policy and the original contents of each stage.In the process of excavating materials,this paper sorts out the specific time of each main force passing through the ethnic minority areas,the corresponding areas and the main ethnic minorities they come into contact with,in order to further improve the study of ethnic policy during the Long March period,and provide some clues for the follow-up research on the origin of a specific policy or the red gene and social change in ethnic minority areas.Through the above process,we can understand the significance of Long March which is mentioned in Mao Zedong’s "On Strategies Against Japanese Imperialism",understand all peoples share the same destiny and contribute to the development of the Chinese revolution,and feel them stand by and help each other.It is not only of great practical significance for us today to deeply understand China’s multi-ethnic national conditions,and to consolidate and develop equality,unity,mutual assistance and harmonious socialist ethnic relations,but also stimulates the value and role of ethnic policies,so that it can serve as a reference for the new Long March to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through continuous improvement.