Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, People's Concept Of Comparative Study

The people are the foundation of our Party and country. How to understand and play the role of them in the development of the society is the key to whether the Chinese revolution and socialist construction can succeed. It is proved that only with the support of the people can our cause be prosperous and without their support our cause will suffer setbacks and failures. It is proved that without the people without the Party, without the people without the country. This is the basic conclusion drawn by our Party from the past 80 years and also the understanding of the nature between the Party and the people.Focusing on this question in different historical period, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping have formed their general knowledge and basic concept about the people's connotation, function, benefit and the way of realization, formed their concept about people which are different and related to each other. From the origin of their concept of people, the paper explores the basic content of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping's concept of people, and thinks that they have the common theoretical and realistic foundation, both highlight the people' importance, stress the people' benefits. On the basis of elaborating their similarities, the paper analyzes their concept of "the people" and "socialism goal", the manner of motivating the people' enthusiasm, the difference of the choice in realizing the people' benefits, and elaborates on their different theoretical manner.The purpose of studying Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping's concept of the people is not only in exploring the deep ideological content, but in its deep theoretical and realistic significance. Their deep thought offers theoretical basis for us to understand our Party's line, principles and policies. The paper tries to combine comrade Jiang Zemin's important thought of "three represents", the spirit of Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the content of "the proposal of CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 11th five-year program of national economic and social development "to explore our Party's new connotation and demand of the concept of the people. Then the paper analyzes our Party's concept of the people from the following four points: the important thought of "three represents", the implementation of advancement with the times, the requirement of governing...