On Mao Zedong Socialism New Rural Areas Construction Thoughts

Mao Zedong always paid highly attention to the issues for agriculture, rural areas and farmers. At the beginning of the foundation of China, he began to explore how to build Chinese socialism for the new rural areas. He organized to draft Outline of Agriculture Development from 1956 to 1967. The assignment of building Chinese socialism for the new rural areas was mentioned for the first time in it. During the period of the construction of socialism, Mao Zedong made the systematical valuable thoughts of Chinese socialism for the new rural areas about economy, politics, culture and society and used it to guide the practice.The thesis is discussed from four aspects about Chinese socialism for the new rural areas. First, the thesis expounds the origins of the thoughts, which is including the theory origins, the cognition of the position for the rural areas during the period of democratic revolution and the exploration of building Chinese socialism for the new rural areas; second, the thesis discusses the main contents of the thoughts. Mao Zedong tried to construct Chinese socialism for the new rural areas by building the organization form of the people's communes, by using the methods of mass movements, by insisting on the policy of hard struggle and combining the relation between the cities and the rural areas from economy, politics, culture and social aspects; third, Mao Zedong and the core of the Communist Party made the wrong situations estimation in China and in the world. China lacked of the experience of construction of Chinese socialism for the new rural areas, kept using the tradition in the war time, as well as had misunderstanding of the theory of Science Socialism. These were the wrong recognition and stopped the construction of Chinese socialism for the new rural areas; last, the thesis expounds the theory contribution and the enlightenment for the practice for Chinese socialism for the new rural areas nowadays.In the process of exploring the road to Chinese socialism construction, Mao Zedong made plentiful theories of Chinese socialism for the new rural areas. The strategy thoughts and the deep comments for solving the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and the correct and penetrating views have become the important part of Mao Zedong Thoughts. The valuable experience and the wrong cognition that Mao Zedong made during building the new rural areas is the precious wealth that the first generation leading nucleus of CPC that took Mao Zedong as the representative left to us. To understand Mao Zedong's theory of Chinese socialism for the new rural areas entirely and absorb and draw its experience and lessons has the important guiding significance for Chinese socialism for the new rural areas.