Study On Mao Zedong Thought Of People’s Livelihood During The Yan’an Period

The people’s livelihood is an important problem that related to the prosperity of the country and stability of the society. Chinese Communist Party always pays much attention to people’s livelihood since it founded. Under the guidance of Marxism theory, Mao Zedong did a lot of construction to improve people’s livelihood and he enriches Marx’s theory of people’s livelihood according to the experience in practice during the Yan’an period. His thoughts still has a very important guiding significance for the socialistic construction of people’s livelihood until now.Mao Zedong’s people’s livelihood thought can be formed and developed during Yan’an period, in addition to his unique personal character, the specific social background and abundant theory sources also influence him. The family environment, mother’s kind character and his personal experience in adolescent period promoted the germination of Mao Zedong’s people’s thought. The backward social status of feudal society and the invasion of foreign invaders make Mao Zedong realize the importance of united people. And in theory, Mao Zedong absorbs the essence of Marx and Engels’s people’s livelihood thought, Chinese traditional culture and Sun Zhongshan’s livelihood theory and Mao Zedong enriches and develops people’s livelihood thought according to Chinese actual situation.The content of Mao Zedong’s livelihood thought is very rich and this article explains it mainly from two aspects:theory and practice. In theory, the purpose of Mao Zedong’s livelihood thought is to serve the people wholeheartedly; the premise is to do a lot of research; the basics is economic development; the main body is the masses; the principle is balance the public and private interests. In practice, Mao Zedong put forward the following proposals:developing economy vigorously to establish the material base; formulating land policy to solve the land problem; implementing democratic politics to guarantee people’s rights; Developing education to improve people’s personal quality; paying attention to medical treatment to guarantee people’s health. During Yan’an period, the special historical background makes Mao Zedong’s thought showing obvious feature. The combination of livelihood problem and the revolution’s power problem is the first feature. Combining theory with practice is the second feature and the last one is combining inheritance with innovation.Mao Zedong’s people’s livelihood thought has very important theoretical and historical significance. It also has a lot of realistic enlightenment. In theory, Mao Zedong’s people’s livelihood thought enriches Marx’s thought of people’s livelihood and it laid the foundation for Chinese Socialist theory of people’s livelihood. In the historical significance, Mao Zedong’s people’s livelihood thought makes people’s living condition effectively improved. The improvement of people’s living condition laid a broad mass base for the victory of the new democratic revolution. Until today, we can still get inspiration from Mao Zedong’s people’s livelihood thought. When solving livelihood problems, we must adhere to the people-oriented value orientation; adhere to view people’s livelihood from two aspects of economy and politics; Doing extensive and in-depth investigation when formulating policy; Keeping courage and determination to overcome difficulties when encounter difficulties. Only in this way, we can go further on the road of the socialist people’s livelihood construction and we can realize the goal of socialist harmonious society construction.