What is the significance, history of the Gutian Conference?

Significance, history:

1. The Gutian Conference solved the fundamental principle of the construction of the Party and the army, and was an important milestone in the history of China's construction.

2. The Gutian Conference Resolution has become a programmatic document for building the Party and the army, and the site of the Gutian Conference has been hailed as the seat of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)'s "soul of the army", attracting countless people to come and visit and admire it.

3, the "Gutian Conference resolution" is China **** production party independently leading the armed struggle since the rich experience of the summary, to the sublimation of theory. It was faithfully based on Marxist military doctrine, and discarded the fetters of dogmatism prevailing in the international arena at that time, and based on the concrete practice of the Chinese revolutionary struggle, creatively and systematically solved the fundamental problem of how to build an army with peasants as its main constituent into a new people's army of the proletariat.

4. For the Chinese ****production party, whose members have a majority peasant component, this is also a fundamental problem of party building. The birth of the Resolution demonstrated the collective military wisdom of the first generation of core members of the Party's leadership (mainly Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De), which was being gradually formed in the course of the struggle, and marked the formation and establishment of Mao Zedong's idea of building an army. Associated with the war of resistance against Japan, especially in the war of liberation Mao, Zhou, Zhu in the Commander-in-Chief of the highly skillful, mastery of the whole situation of the art of command and tacit understanding, is by no means accidental.

5, the Red Army "nine" adopted the "Gutian Conference resolution" has become a programmatic document to build the party and the army, 70 years to guide the Chinese revolution from victory to victory.

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In April 1928, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army (WPRA) led by Mao Zedong and the Xiangnan Uprising forces led by Zhu De and Chen Yi met victoriously at Jinggang Mountain and merged into the Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army (WPRA), which was reorganized into the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (CWPRA) or Red Army for short in May, with Zhu De as the commander of the WPRA, Mao Zedong as the representative of the Party and Chen Yi as the head of the Political Department.

In November, the Front Enemy Committee of the Red Fourth Army was established, with Mao Zedong as secretary. Subsequently, the Red Army, under the leadership of Zhu De, Mao Zedong and Chen Yi, broke the enemy's repeated sieges of the revolutionary base in Jinggangshan, and from January 1929, marched to Gannan and western Fujian, creating the revolutionary bases in Gannan and western Fujian, and laying the foundation for the later Central Revolutionary Base.

With the development of the situation and the expansion of the revolutionary forces, a large number of peasants and other comrades of petty-bourgeois origin were added to the Red Army and its party organizations. Coupled with the dangerous environment, frequent battles, and hard life, the troops did not receive timely education and training. As a result, non-proletarian ideas such as extreme democratization, emphasis on the military over politics, lack of attention to the establishment of consolidated bases, and the ideas of roving banditry and warlordism grew seriously within the Red Army. Mao Zedong, who was the secretary of the Party's front committee of the Red Army, tried to correct these wrong ideological tendencies.

However, due to the historical conditions at that time, there were differences of understanding and arguments within the Red Army Party, especially within the leadership, on the principles of creating base areas and practicing democratic centralization in the Red Army. As a result, Mao Zedong's correct ideas were not accepted by the majority of comrades in the leadership of the Red Army.

In late August 1929, Chen Yi arrived in Shanghai and reported the work of the Red Army to the Party Central Committee; on the 29th, the Politburo of the Central Committee held a special meeting to listen to Chen Yi's detailed report on the whole situation of the Red Army, and decided to set up a special committee composed of Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, and Chen Yi to study and discuss the problems of the Red Army in depth. After 1 month of discussion, the "Letter of Instruction from the Central Government of China*** to the Front Committee of the Red Army" drafted by Chen Yi and finalized by Zhou Enlai was formed, which is the famous September Letter.

The September letter recognized the achievements and experience of the Red Army since its establishment, and asked the front committee of the Red Army and all cadres and soldiers to maintain the leadership of Zhu De and Mao Zedong, and explicitly pointed out that Mao Zedong "should remain the secretary of the front committee".

After a heated discussion, the conference unanimously adopted eight resolutions of more than 30,000 words drafted by Mao Zedong on behalf of the front committee, known as the resolutions of the Gutian Conference. The first and most central part of these was "On Correcting Misguided Ideas within the Party," which was later compiled into the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.

The conference elected Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Li Renyu, Huang Yishun, Luo Ronghuan, Lin Biao, Wu Zhonghao, Tan Zhenlin, Song Yuhe and Tian Guixiang as 11 members of the former committee, and Yang Yuebin, Xiong Shouqi, and Li Changshou as three alternate members. Mao Zedong was re-elected secretary.

The Ninth Congress of the Party of the Red Army of the Fourth Red Army, known as the Gutian Conference, which was held in Gutian Township, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, in December 1929, was a glorious milestone in the history of the construction of the People's Army. The resolution of the Gutian Conference established the founding principles of the Red Army, laid a solid foundation for the fine tradition of our army's political work, and was also a programmatic document for our party's founding.

At the moment of celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the army, it is important to re-learn and understand the spirit of the Gutian Conference, and to study and implement President Hu's important exposition on the People's Liberation Army's fine tradition of "obeying the Party's command, serving the people, and fighting with bravery and good tactics", in order for the army to maintain the nature, character and style of the People's Army, and to fulfill the historic mission of the new stage of the new century, and to actively promote the development of the Chinese characteristics. The new century and new stage of the effective fulfillment of the historical mission, and actively promote the military transformation with Chinese characteristics, has an important practical significance.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Gutian Conference