Discussion On The Movement Of Zhao Zhankui

The Zhao Zhankui movement is a labor movement initiated by the General Labor Union of Border Areas of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia ,under the leadership and support of the Central Committee of the CCP and Mao Zedong, with the goal of cultivating the general working masses' new work manner, enhancing their enthusiasm for the production, developing the economy in the border and overcoming the difficulties in the Anti-Japanese War, which started in September, 1942, and ended in February, 1947. This article, according to the depth, breadth as well as the contents and changes of the forms of the Zhao Zhankui movement, divides the movement into four stages, the preliminary development stage, the universally promoted stage, the thoroughly development stage and the conclusion stage. Under the guidance and promotion of the Central Committee of the CCP labor movement committee and the border area General Labor Union, the Zhao Zhankui movement was soon carried out in the factories in the border area. Two to three hundred new model workers emerged during the movement, who followed Zhao Zhankui in their attitude toward working and production. Meanwhile, the movement had developed and strengthened gradually by learning from the experience in the past. The contents of the movement were primarily setting up new work manner and raising the efficiency of production, then became to attach importance to both cultivating worker's working quality and improving working technology. The form of the movement were also developed from setting up Zhao Zhankui, the new worker as a flag to selecting the labor hero and the model character widely in each profession and each factory to set up models for workers to learn. In one word, the contents of the movement were richer and the forms were diversified and wide-spread among common people. With the influence of the Zhao Zhankui movement, other base areas against Japan also implemented the new worker movement.The Zhao Zhankui movement is one of great achievement in the history of labor movement of our party as well as a successful ideological and political work, which played a very important role in the industry construction development in the border area and the establishment of new working attitude and cultivation of new worker's quality. Besides, the spirits of arduous struggle, unselfishness, steadfast work and wiliness to sacrifice displayed by the model workers with the representative of ZhaoZhankui and the experience of implementing ideological and political work through setting up examples in the movement will offer great enlightenment and instruction on the ideological and political work in the new era of the socialist market economy.