The founder of the people’s Republic of China
Overview
Chinese Name: 毛泽东
English Name: Mao Zedong
Other Names: Mao Runzi毛润之, Mao Zhuxi毛主席
Born: December 26, 1893
Died: September 9, 1976
Achievements:
Establishing the basic socialist system in China
Leading the establishment of the people’s Republic of China
The main founder of Mao Zedong Thought（Maoism毛泽东思想）
Main Works：
Selected works of Mao Zedong毛泽东选集
Mao Zedong Poems毛泽东诗词
Brief Biography of Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong is the leader of the Chinese people, a proletarian revolutionist, strategist and theorist, the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people’s Liberation Army and the people’s Republic of China, and the core of the first generation of central collective leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Mao Zedong was born in a peasant family in Shaoshan, Hunan Province on December 26, 1893. After the outbreak of the revolution of 1911, he served as a soldier in the new army of the uprising for half a year.
From 1914 to 1918, he studied in Hunan First Normal School. On the eve of graduation, he organized revolutionary groups such as Cai Hesen and Xinmin society.
In November 1920, the Communist Organization was founded in Hunan.
In July 1921, he attended the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in Shanghai and later served as secretary of the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, leading the workers’ movements in Changsha, Anyuan and other places.
In June 1923, he attended the third National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected as the executive member of the Central Committee to participate in the central leadership work.
In November 1926, he was appointed secretary of the Peasant Movement Committee of the CPC Central Committee.
On November 7, 1931, the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China was established in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, and was elected chairman of the Central Executive Committee on November 27.
In January 1933, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In October 1934, he participated in the long march of the first red front army.
In March 1943, he was elected chairman of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
From April to June 1945, he presided over the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at which Mao Zedong thought was determined as the guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China. He served as chairman of the CPC Central Committee from the first plenary session of the Seventh Central Committee to his death on September 9, 1976.
In August 1945, he went to Chongqing to negotiate with Chiang Kai Shek, which showed the desire of the Communist Party of China to strive for domestic peace.
After Chiang Kai Shek launched an all-out civil war in the summer of 1946, Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai led the Chinese people’s Liberation Army to carry out active defense, concentrate superior forces and annihilate the enemy.
On October 1, 1949, the people’s Republic of China was established, and he was elected chairman of the Central People’s government.
In October 1950, forced by the situation that the US army invaded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and threatened Northeast China, the CPC Central Committee headed by him decided to carry out the war to Resist US Aggression and Aid North Korea.
In May 1958, the “great leap forward” and the rural people’s commune movement were launched.
In May 1966, due to his extreme estimation of the domestic class struggle situation, he launched the “Cultural Revolution” movement.
On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 83.
Historical contribution of Mao Zedong
- 1、 Mao Zedong led the Chinese people through a long-term revolutionary struggle, finally won national independence and people’s liberation, and founded New China.
- 2、 Mao Zedong led the Chinese people on the road of socialist construction.
- 3、 It has created a new era in which the people are the masters of the country and began the arduous and tortuous exploration of realizing socialist democracy.
- 4、 laid the ruling position of the Communist Party of China and made unremitting exploration to maintain the advanced nature and ruling position of the Marx political party.
- 5、 It has established new China’s status as a great power in the world and made unremitting efforts to create independent peace diplomacy.
Evaluation of Mao Zedong
Although Mao Zedong made serious mistakes in his later years, in his life, his achievements in the Chinese revolution far outweighed his mistakes. His achievements came first and his mistakes came second. He was still respected and loved by the Chinese people. Five years after his death, the Communist Party of China made a comprehensive evaluation of all his revolutionary activities and revolutionary ideas in the form of resolutions of the Central Committee. As the development of Marxism in China, Mao Zedong thought is still the guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China.