A Further Study On Mao Zedong's Thought Of Catching And Beyoud

The thought of catching and beyond was a kind of strategic proposition of economic development presented by Maozedong in 1950-60s. Its main content is that making the economy of our country develop at a high speed and in order for our country to catch and surpass those in developed capitalism countries in not a long period. This article studies the thought more comprehensively based on the achievements of previous researchers and states my own argument about some points of view among other intellectuals in order to understand the thought objectively.This article includes 4 parts. The first part illustrates the forming and evoling course of the thought from the aspect of history and analyzes the evolvement reasons as well as the features and the problems existed in every phase respectively. The second part states the basis of the thought from different perspectives and puts forward that the thought not only has a valid theoretic basis ,but has reasonable historical and realistic basis. The third evaluates the thought again. The author presents some ideas different from those existed among other intellectuals and makes a new analysis of historical limitation of the thought as well as drawing a new conclusion about its feature. The fourth compares the thought with the new developments of Deng and Jiang's in socialism new era in order to illustrate the thought's continuity and practical significance.