CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER WANG CHEN'S ARTICLE IN PEOPLE'S DAILY INVOKES YAN'AN SPIRIT TO RALLY CADRES

In his article published in the People's Daily (May 31), Politburo member Wang Chen highlighted the significance of the Yan’an Spirit, and how “Yan’an has also become a red beacon that will always inspire the Chinese Communists to march forward courageously.” He emphasised “The Yan'an period is one of the most important stages in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, a period when the Chinese revolutionary cause led by our Party moved from a low tide to a high tide and achieved a historic turnaround.” He added that it had "established the guiding position of Mao Zedong Thought in the whole party, and realized the first historical leap of the Sinicisation of Marxism". Wang Chen added that "the revolutionary spirit of Yan’an" has inspired not just the party but led to the cultivation of national power. He explained that “The main contents of Yan’an spirit include: a firm and correct political direction, an ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and the entrepreneurial spirit of self-reliance and hard work.”  After a brief reference to Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, he emphasised the importance of studying Party history as the CCP celebrates its centenary and the use of red resources to do this so that the people “inherit the red gene, and ensure that the red country will never change its colour.” Recalling that Mao had consolidated power in Yan’an with the 1939 invocation to maintain “firm and correct political direction” established "the guiding position of Mao Zedong Thought and the formation of the central leadership collective with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core, which achieved unprecedented ideological, political and organizational unity and unity of the Party”, Wang Chen said that learning from “the Yan’an spirit ... the whole party and the people of all nationalities to hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought...resolutely safeguard General Secretary Xi Jinping’s position as the core of the Party Central Committee and the core position of the whole party; resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, and consciously maintain a high degree of ideological and political consistency with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, so as to ensure that the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics always advances in the right direction.” Referring to the present international environment he said “Today, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we should learn from history, extract the magic weapon to defeat the enemy from historical experience, further stimulate the great creative spirit, great struggle spirit, great unity spirit and great dream spirit of all Chinese people, persist in reform and opening up, persist in self-reliance, grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, and build a new development pattern without fear of wind and rain.”





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