Research On The May Seventh Cadre School Of General Office Of The Communist Party Of China

The May Seventh Cadre School of General Office of the Communist Party of China,whose purpose was for the cadres to learn and work in Jinxian county of Jiangxi province in January1969,was founded by The Central Office.At the early stage of the “The Cultural Revolution”,the vast majority of cadres of The Central Office were convicted and condemned,so that the work of the The Central Office was into chaos.Then The Central Office set up some study classes of Maoism,such as “the study class of The Central Office ”,in order to centralize the management of cadres who were considered to be problematic.However,the study classes could not make them go on towards The May Seventh Path.Mao Zedong read an article entitled "The Liu River May Seventh Cadre School pointed out a New Road for the Revolutionization of Organs " in october1969,he realized that The May Seventh Cadre School could not carry out "May Seven Directive",and it also was not a good place to transform and train cadres.Then,he made the instruction: "Vast numbers of cadres should be sent to do manual labor".After the instruction was issued,May Seventh Cadre Schools had been set up across the country,The May SeventhCadre School of General Office was one of them.More than 1,500 people of the original General Office cadres,military representatives and workers were sent to The May Seventh Cadre School of General Office in January 1969.It was not until January 1979 that the school was officially withdrawn.Its ten years of history could be divided into three stages:The first stage was before "The september thirteen incident",this period was the school's start and fame stage,One year later,the school got compliment from the CPC Central Committee and the society,then it became the typical The May Seventh Cadre School.The second stage was from "The september thirteen incident" to the smash "gang of four",This period was the adjustment and consolidation stage of the school,the school's education method ? educational content ?educational object and distribution policy were adjusted.The third stage was after smashing " gang of four",this period was the school's shakeing and ruining stage,Since "gang of four" was smashed,cadres of the school produced aversion and resistance for The May Seventh Path and the school's policies.Cadres constantly fought with schoolleaders,this situation continued until the school officially revoked in January,1979.In the course of the establishment and growth of the school,the school adhereed to the principle of "relearning" in the decentralization of labor,under the guidance of Mao Zedong's "May 7 Directive" and "Vast numbers of cadres should be sent to do manual labor".In other words,since the founding of the school,its purpose was to transform students' view of the world.The school also take political learning,political movement and production of labor as the main educational content,supplemented by exercise of jumping the queue.In terms of political learning and political movement,the majority of students in the school not only needed to accept the political and ideological line of education,but also had to participate in the political movement of criticizing "Liu Xiu" ? "criticizing LinBiao and rectifing the atmosphere" ? "criticizing LinBiao and criticizing Confucius" ? criticizing "gang of four" and so on.In terms of productive labor,the majority of students not only needed to participate in various agricultural activities,but also had to participate in various industrial activities.In the ten years of its founding,the school had made great influences on the other The May Seventh Cadre School by virtue of its excellent achievements,the attention of the CPC CentralCommittee and the media.In addition,the school also brought far-reaching impact to the majority of students.On the one hand:it caused physical and mental pains to its cadres,and hurted the feelings of cadre's and their relatives,and it fueled cadre's "left" wrong thinking.On the other hand:it honed the cadre's character,exercised the body,increased the close ralationship between the cadres and masses.It was noteworthy that negative effects outweighed positive impacts.