The Research Of The Purity Construction Of The Chinese Communist Party During The Yan’an Period

Yan’an period is the key time to the Chinese Communist Party of going mature. In this period, the CCP got out of the mess and developed rapidly. In such a particular time of modern China, facing the severe situation of revolution, the CCP forced to expand its organization urgently, the party membership increased from more than40thousand in early days of Anti-Japanese war to1.2million during the Seventh National Congress of the CCP. At the same time, there were many drawbacks which were contradicted with the normal procedure of joining the party, such as press-ganging and collective joining. As the result of these phenomena, the CCP’s organization purity was badly destroyed, and its battle effectiveness was restricted, moreover, the party members’ initiative decreased.The CCP treated the organization purity as the vital affairs. It took measures to keep the organization purity from two sides:in theory, the party member should have a firm belief of Marxism, setting up proper motives for joining the party, discipline oneself in accordance with the standards of party cadres. In practice, the CCP opened various schools to strengthen the education of party cadres, deepen their awareness to the party. Meanwhile, in order to give full scope of its fighting capacity, the CCP standardizing the procedure of joining the party by censor the party cadres, register the party members and strengthen the construction of party branch,. At last, the CCP carried out the rectification movement to purify the organization.The purity construction of the CCP organization during Yan’an period provided strong backing to the party’s revolutionary cause. Since then, the party’s revolution had a pure contingent of cadres, which made sure the achievement of the party’s mission. On the other hand, the ideology of CCP’s construction of Mao Zedong went mature, and the Maoism developed into the guiding ideology of the party. Depend on the Maoism, the CCP played a crucial role in the Anti-Japanese War, and uphold the independence of Chinese nation, then gain rich political experience and talent about the full holding power for itself. The important inspiration of CCP’s purity construction of Yan’an period is that strengthen institutional construction, paying high attention to the quality of party members, and preventing the purity organization turned into the mass movement.