Statement On The Thought About Propaganda Work Of Mao Zedong In Yan’an Period

Yan’an Period was a brilliant chapter in the history of Chinese revolution. China’ssuccess of new democratic revolution and socialist revolution will grope a very longtime without this chapter. The period began in October19,1935, ended March23,1948, a total of13years, spanned three periods, the agrarian revolutionary war, Anti-JapaneseWar and premetaphase stage of the Liberation war.It was the turning point of Chinesehistory, also was the period of Mao Zedong Thought reaching mature. The thoughts ofMao zedong’s propaganda work is organic component of Mao Zedong Thought. It wasgradually developed by MAO and the whole party using propaganda weapon guideChinese revolution, and becoming mature in Yan’an period.The theory of scientific socialism and the thoughts of party newspaperfoundation of Marx, Engels and Lenin as well as the early bourgeois newspapers andSun Yat-sen’s party members were the important theoretical source of Mao zedong’sthoughts of the propaganda work, which aslo benefited from the Chinese CommunistParty propaganda work practice from the founding of the Party to the agrarianrevolutionary war and focused on four aspects,including status and role, the primaryway, principle and strategy. In particular, the important thoughts to carry out theparty’s propaganda work around the party’s central work, to adhere to the principle ofcombining spiritual encouragement and material encouragement, to pay attentions tothe ways and arts of propaganda work, to attach importance to the qualityimprovements of publicity workers and strengthen the propaganda team constructionwere advocated by Comrade Mao Zedong, which can provide a powerful inspirationfor the strengthen of the party’s ruling ability construction。...