Editor's note: During the Yan'an period, Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing of a series of party history document collections, promoting the whole party to study party history and deepening Marxist education. The reason why Mao Zedong personally presided over this ex

Editor's note: During the Yan'an period, Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing of a series of party history document collections, promoting the whole party to study and study party history and deepen Marxist education. The reason why Mao Zedong personally presided over this extremely important work was because of the following far-reaching considerations: to unify the thinking of the whole party and make ideological preparations for convening the Seventh National Congress of the Party; to summarize historical experience and provide material for distinguishing right from wrong; to transform the party's style and to realize the theory. and lay a solid foundation for solving China’s practical problems. The compilation of the collection of party history documents and the subsequent great study carried out by the whole party prompted the whole party to "unprecedentedly consciously unite under the banner of Mao Zedong" and laid the cognitive foundation and provided the basis for the subsequent drafting and adoption of the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" It has provided methodological guidance, promoted the establishment of the Party's correct style of work, and accelerated the further dissemination of Marxism and the pace of the Party's theoretical innovation.

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has had a tradition of compiling and publishing Marxist classics. It has compiled and published a number of collections of intra-party documents and party history materials for the whole party to study, discuss and improve their ideological understanding, so as to better promote The forward development of the cause of the party and the people is the fine tradition of the Communist Party of China started by Mao Zedong and other Chinese Communists since the Yan'an period. These collections of party history documents reflect the practical exploration process of sinicizing Marxism and condense the ideological and theoretical crystallization of sinicized Marxism. Sorting out and exploring the basic situation, far-reaching considerations and important role of a series of party historical documents collections that Mao Zedong personally led and presided over during the Yan'an period will help us gain a deeper understanding of the great process of the sinicization of Marxism.

1. The basic situation of Mao Zedong presiding over the editing of party history documents

During the Yan'an period, how did our party prepare for the comprehensive resistance to resistance? The battle points out the correct direction, how to truly promote the concretization of Marxism in China and systematically educate the whole party with scientific Marxist theory, how to uphold the correct Marxist line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the leadership of the Party Central Committee and ensure the party’s Unity and unity and building the party into "a great mass party" capable of shouldering historical responsibilities have become major issues that need to be resolved urgently. Therefore, at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Enlarged 16th Central Committee of the Party held in 1938, Mao Zedong proposed that "all Communist Party members with considerable research capabilities must study the theories of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. study me "Our nation's history" task, vigorously advocated that qualified Chinese Communist Party members should combine the study of Marxism with the study of national history, and issued a call to the entire party to study and study party history, which set off a general wave within the party. Marxist education movement. To carry out such learning and educational campaigns, teaching materials are necessary. To this end, Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing of a series of party historical documents and ideological and theoretical collections, including "Since the Sixth National Congress", "Before the Sixth National Congress", "Two Lines", "Methodology of Marxism-Leninism", "Lenin and Stalin's Theory of the Communist International" China", "Rural Survey" and so on. These collections of documents each have their own connotations, prominent focuses, and distinctive features, and can be roughly divided into three categories.

(1) Political literature category

"Since the Sixth National Congress", "Before the Sixth National Congress", "Two Lines", etc. belong to this category and were called "Party Books" by Mao Zedong.

The editing of "Since the Sixth National Congress" began in the first half of 1941 and was officially published in December of that year. It was in the name of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In fact, Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing work. He carefully reviewed and arranged each document, and also modified the titles of some documents to make them more eye-catching. Taking into account the different categories of documents, Mao Zedong divided the collected documents into eight categories: political issues, organizational issues, military issues, anti-rape issues, workers' movement, youth movement, women's movement, and propaganda and education, using a combination of topics and chronological order. Special topics; taking into account the differences in reading objects, Mao Zedong also compiled two sets of editions: a collection and an anthology.The content of the literature mainly includes two parts. One part is documents that reflect the emergence, formation, harm and correction of Wang Ming "left" dogmatism and right opportunism lines; the other part is documents that reflect a series of correct lines of our party at that time. , principles and policies, especially documents on the formulation and formation of the comprehensive anti-war line and the principles and policies of the Anti-Japanese National United Front . After the compilation of this document collection was completed, the Secretariat of the Central Committee positioned it as "the Party's secret historical document" and served as the main material for the Party's senior cadres to study and research Party history. "Before the Sixth National Congress" edited by

is the continuation of "Since the Sixth National Congress". After studying "Since the Sixth National Congress", members of the Yan'an Senior Study Group developed a strong interest in studying party history. Many comrades made requests to the central government for systematic study of party history and proposed compiling a book like "Since the Sixth National Congress". A party history information book reflecting the situation before the Sixth National Congress. Mao Zedong also believed that to fully understand the history of the Communist Party of China, "Since the Sixth National Congress" alone is not enough. It is also necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the situation before the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. For this reason, the central government decided to edit "Before the Sixth National Congress". Starting from the beginning of 1942, Tao Zhu and Hu Qiaomu assisted Mao Zedong in editing. "Before the Sixth National Congress" mainly contains articles by early party leaders Chen Duxiu, Cai Hesen, Qu Qiubai, Deng Zhongxia, Yun Daiying, Zhao Shiyan and others. It also includes the meeting documents of the second, third and fourth national congresses of the party, and the National Labor Congress. declaration of the conference, Resolutions and announcements, Comintern resolutions on the Chinese revolution and Lenin and Stalin's expositions on the Chinese revolution, etc., relatively systematically reflect the revolutionary process of the Chinese Communist Party from the founding of the Party to the Sixth National Congress of the Party. After its publication, this collection of documents became an important reference document for studying the early ideological and practical development of the Party, especially for summarizing the positive and negative historical experiences during the Great Revolution.

decided to start editing "Two Routes" in 1943, which was based on the previous two collections of documents. In the process of editing "Since the Sixth National Congress", Mao Zedong read some documents issued by the party at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee and later that were full of dogmatism and "left" tendencies. In view of the fact that the party at that time did not have a clear understanding of the "Left" erroneous line that existed in the Central Committee after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, Mao Zedong wrote a long article criticizing the erroneous guiding ideology and main policy views of Wang Ming and others based on relevant documents. That is, "Refutation of the Third "Left" Line (Criticism of the Central Committee's Line from September 1931 to January 1935)". In the process of writing this long article, Mao Zedong deeply felt the need to compile a special study material on the party's line in response to the huge losses caused by Wang Ming's wrong line to the Chinese revolution, which would reflect the correct and wrong aspects. The documents on the struggle between the two lines are synthesized and distributed to all comrades in the party, so that everyone can analyze and compare these documents based on their own personal experience, so as to clearly understand which line is correct and which line is wrong. . After the publication of this collection of documents, it became an important document for senior party cadres to study during the Yan'an Rectification Period.

(2) Classic Writers’ Discussion Category

Systematically studying the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the party’s historical experience is an important task proposed by Mao Zedong to the entire party during the Yan’an period. To this end, at the Political Bureau and Secretariat meetings of the Central Committee held in September 1941, discussions focused on how to enable all party cadres to grasp the universal truth of Marxism and the specific practice of the Chinese revolution, and how to achieve true unity in the party organization. and issues of solidarity. The task of editing relevant theoretical works by classic writers is also on the agenda. During this period, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to form an editorial committee composed of 11 people including Mao Zedong to edit the speeches of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin against subjectivism and formalism. central file". Mao Zedong also specifically proposed: "The Central Research Group should study the ideological methodology of Marxism on the one hand, and the resolutions since the Sixth National Congress on the other."To this end, he personally presided over the editing of important document collections such as "The Methodology of Marxism-Leninism" and "Lenin and Stalin's Communist International on China".

"The Methodology of Marxism-Leninism" excerpts the classic Marxist writers' views on theory and practice, There are a total of 40 articles on materialist dialectics , international experience, national characteristics, revolutionary traditions, etc. This collection of essays focuses on solving ideological and methodological issues. After its publication, it became one of the must-read documents for cadres during the Yan'an period.

"Lenin, Stalin and the Communist International on China" mainly contains the treatises and important documents of Lenin, Stalin and the Communist International on Chinese revolutionary issues. It is necessary for readers to understand the issues of the Chinese revolution, including the nature and characteristics of the Chinese revolution, the future revolutionary regime and the pre-revolutionary period. It is of great enlightening significance to clearly understand the crimes of capitalist aggression and partition of China, and to clarify issues such as the leadership of the proletariat. "Rural Survey" is a collection of materials on rural surveys that Mao Zedong wrote from the 1927 Revolution to 1934 when he left the Central Soviet Area. It is included in the document 1. 4 articles. During the editing process, he wrote a preface for the book in October 1937, and when it was officially published in Yan'an in 1941, he wrote the second preface and postscript. Mao Zedong repeatedly emphasized: "Without investigation, there is no right to speak. . "The purpose of compiling this book is to help party members and cadres find a way to understand the situation and study problems, and to encourage all party comrades to strengthen investigation and research. After the rectification movement was launched in 1942, "Rural Survey" was included in the 22 rectification documents One, issued to the whole party

. The collection of party history documents not only played a huge guiding role at that time, but also played an important role in promoting the development of the party's cause later. It also provided valuable teaching materials for the research and study of party history.

2. Mao Zedong presided over the editing of the party. Far-reaching considerations for collections of historical documents

During the Yan'an period, Mao Zedong and other party leaders spent so much time and energy on personally leading, guiding, and even presiding over and editing these collections of party history documents, not only in the Communist Party of China history and even in the world This is relatively rare in the history of political parties. The reason for this is related to the extremely complex internal and external environment and severe situation our party faces. After China's war of resistance entered the strategic stalemate stage, the Chinese Communist Party faced more serious internal and external difficulties. Adhering to the general policy of destroying China, the invading army adjusted its strategy of invading China, stopped large-scale strategic offensives on frontal battlefields, and used its main force to attack the center. The anti-Japanese forces led by the Communist Party of China stepped up the implementation of the "cage policy" for the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, and implemented the "three-light policy" of burning, killing, and robbing them. Within the Anti-Japanese National United Front, the Kuomintang Although they continued to resist Japan, their attitudes became increasingly negative and their anti-communist tendencies grew in 1941. In January, Kuomintang diehards created the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, leading to a serious crisis in the unity of the resistance war. However, within our party, some comrades have not yet unified and understood the "left" and right mistakes that have occurred in the past. A profound understanding seriously hindered the party from formulating correct struggle strategies based on an in-depth analysis of the situation of the Anti-Japanese War and the determination of victory in the Anti-Japanese War and China. In view of the far-reaching consideration of the development of the country's revolutionary cause, Mao Zedong decided to personally preside over the editing work of the party history document collection

(1) Unify the thinking of the whole party and prepare for the convening of the Seventh National Congress of the Party

Mao Zedong. Dong personally presided over the editing of these collections of party history documents, first of all, in order to unify the thinking of the entire party, unify the party's thinking to the true Marxist-Leninist line, and unify the party's thinking to the Marxist thought that is in line with China's reality before the upcoming Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Under the banner. Regarding this purpose, Hu Qiaomu said: "Editing "Since the Sixth National Congress" is to prepare for and seven ."

Preparations for the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China have been brewing for a long time and the preparation time is also very long. However, due to various complex reasons, it could not be held as originally planned. After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the Political Bureau meeting held by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on December 23, 1937 The Resolution of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Convening the Seventh National Congress was adopted, and it was decided to establish an official organization with Mao Zedong as Chairman. Although the conference has been repeatedly postponed, the work of unifying the ideological understanding of the whole party has always been a focus of Mao Zedong, because only by unifying the understanding of the whole party can we build "a great revolutionary movement." Only then can we assume the arduous task of leading the entire nation to persevere in the war of resistance and achieve final victory in the war of resistance against Japan.

During the long period of preparation for the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, representatives from various places arrived in Yan'an one after another. During this period, there were still various erroneous ideological tendencies that were inconsistent with the nature and purpose of our party. Therefore, on July 1, 1941. On September 1, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Party and adopted the "Decision on Strengthening Party Spirit", requiring "all Party members and various components of the Party to unite under the unified will, unified action and unified discipline." rise up and become an organized whole." At the same time, in order to completely solve the three bad styles of subjectivism, sectarianism and party stereotypes, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to carry out rectification throughout the party. In September of that year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting and decided Rectification was first carried out among senior cadres, and the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was postponed again. During this period, Mao Zedong clearly stated that when we were studying the issue of "the connection between theory and practice," "comrades are asked to read the documents since the Sixth National Congress. Regarding theory, for the time being, the main focus is on research on ideological methodology. It can be said that the call for in-depth study and study of party history documents is to unify thinking and achieve the effect of rectification. As the Secretariat of the Central Committee pointed out: "The nature of this kind of research is rectification The purpose of the in-depth and advanced stage is to enable cadres to raise their awareness and enhance unity and unity, and prepare for future discussions. "Ideological preparations for the resolution of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China". The Central Committee requires senior cadres of party organizations in various base areas to "organize this study very carefully." Editing these collections of party history documents will help unify the understanding within the party, unify the thinking of the whole party, and further enhance party spirit. It played an extremely important role in promoting the unity of the Party and the convening of the Seventh National Congress of the Party.

(2) Summarize historical experience and provide material for distinguishing right from wrong

A series of policies formulated after the founding of our party Principles and policies are recorded in party documents of different periods. Mao Zedong personally presided over the compilation of these collections of party history documents. On a deeper level, this was to provide an in-depth summary of the party’s experiences and lessons so that comrades within the party, especially leading cadres at all levels, could intuitively and comprehensively review them. Quickly and deeply distinguish the rights and wrongs in the party's history

To sum up experience in depth, we must dare to face the party's mistakes and setbacks and be good at absorbing lessons from them. Party History edited by Mao Zedong literature What this episode reflects is the historical period from the founding of the Communist Party of China to the early 1940s. During this period, our party not only achieved remarkable victories, but also experienced many setbacks; it also made "leftist" mistakes. There have been right-wing mistakes, especially the "left" dogmatic line represented by Wang Ming. After the Zunyi Conference, the party's line has embarked on the correct track of Marxism, but it has also caused great damage to the subjectivism and revolutionary forces that once caused serious harm to the party's cause. Dogmatism has not yet had time to be carefully cleaned up ideologically.For this reason, on May 19, 1941, Mao Zedong clearly pointed out in " Transforming Our Learning ": "This anti-scientific, anti-Marxist-Leninist, subjectivist method is the enemy of the Communist Party and the enemy of the working class. The great enemy is the great enemy of the people, the great enemy of the nation, and a manifestation of the impure party spirit. The great enemy is at hand, and we must defeat it." The literature collections such as "Since the Sixth National Congress", "Before the Sixth National Congress" and "Two Lines" more fully reflect the history of the party since its establishment. We can clearly understand what the "Left" dogmatists have done and which line is the correct line for the Chinese revolution. To compile these collections of party history documents, we must first start with reforming the thinking of party cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, and conduct a thorough summary and liquidation of Wang Ming's "left" dogmatism and various other misunderstandings. After everyone studies and analyzes these original party documents, it will be easier for us to distinguish right from wrong, and we can better summarize experiences and lessons. As Mao Zedong said: "Many comrades were disarmed as soon as the party letter came out" and "only then did everyone admit that the mistakes of the central leadership in the late ten years of the civil war were line errors." It can be seen that only by "calculating historical accounts" can the problem be clarified. If we do not understand the history of the party and the path that the party has taken in history, we will not be able to do better things now and in the future.

(3) Transform the party's style and lay a solid foundation for achieving theoretical thoroughness and solving China's practical problems

Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing of these party history document collections. On a deeper level, it is also to change the party's style and let the party Internal comrades, especially leading cadres at all levels, should develop a thorough Marxist style of work, which not only promotes the realization of theoretical thoroughness but also helps solve practical problems.

The problem of the party's style of work to be solved during the Yan'an period was reflected in all aspects, but mainly reflected in three relationship issues, namely, how to deal with the relationship between theory and practice, the relationship between the party and the masses, and the relationship between intra-party criticism and self-criticism. The solution of these problems is closely related to the victory of the revolution. Just looking at the problems existing in dealing with the relationship between theory and practice, Mao Zedong clearly saw the problem of theory being divorced from reality in the party at that time. Before the Yan'an Rectification, the erroneous style that existed prominently in the party was dogmatism. Its main characteristics were: not starting from the actual situation, but starting from individual words and phrases in books; not carefully studying based on Marxist-Leninist positions, viewpoints and methods. China's political, military, economic, and cultural past and present, but some individual words and phrases from Marxist-Leninist books were copied and applied to China as dogma. The result of this style of work is the separation between the so-called "theory" of dogmatists and reality, and the separation between their leaders and the masses. They are self-righteous, arrogant, boastful, and afraid of correct criticism and self-criticism. These styles are extremely detrimental to the party's own construction and the development and progress of the Chinese revolution, and it is imperative to change the style.

Editing the collection of party history documents was a key part of Mao Zedong's promotion of the change of style within the party. It can be seen from these collections of documents that when changing his style in theory, Mao Zedong specifically targeted those who made dogmatic errors, criticizing them for wearing the cloak of " Marxist theory" and relying on the "political power" given by the party organization. Momentum and organizational momentum", leading and guiding our party with arbitrary phrases such as "the Chinese Communist Party is more Bolshevik" and "100 percent Bolshevik" completely distorted the party's theory and distorted the party's history. In changing the style of work in practice, Mao Zedong specifically targeted those who adopted "a careless and uncomprehensive style, and even did not understand the situation at all, but they were there to guide the work." When Mao Zedong edited "Rural Survey", he especially criticized They "started talking and putting forward opinions as soon as they got off the bus, criticizing this and blaming others", believing that these "imperial ministers" who "had not undergone careful investigation" were incapable of solving China's actual problems. problematic.

Mao Zedong clearly realized that only when the party's style undergoes a fundamental change, can the party truly achieve theoretical thoroughness, truly improve the party's theoretical literacy , and truly improve its ability to solve China's practical problems. Therefore, Mao Zedong decided to edit a collection of party history documents, especially a collection of theoretical research documents, in order to change the situation in which theory within the party is divorced from reality. For example, the purpose of editing a collection of investigation and research documents is to encourage party members and cadres to learn to carry out in-depth and practical investigation and research, to "truly implement the central government's decisions on investigation and research" and "to cultivate theorists for action." As Mao Zedong profoundly pointed out: "If a political party that guides a great revolutionary movement has no revolutionary theory, no historical knowledge, and no deep understanding of the actual movement, it is impossible to achieve victory."

3. Editing and organizing party study The important role of historical document collection

During the Yan'an period, Mao Zedong personally presided over the editing of the collection of party history documents and called on the whole party, especially leading cadres, to study these collections in depth. This would promote the ideological unity and organizational unity of the whole party, and lay the cognitive foundation and methodological principles for our party to summarize historical experience. It has played a huge role in promoting the in-depth dissemination of Marxism in China, promoting the sinicization of Marxism and its theoretical innovation, and in forming and carrying forward the fine style of our party. It still has important practical enlightenment to this day.

(1) Guide the whole party to "unprecedented and conscious unity under the banner of Mao Zedong"

The first time the Chinese Communist Party achieved a high degree of ideological unity throughout the party and matured after the successful Yan'an Rectification Movement. Mao Zedong emphasized: "Mastering ideological leadership is the first step in mastering all leadership." He pointed out that the editing of party history documents such as "Since the Sixth National Congress" and the great study of the whole party made "comrades suddenly realize after reading it, what happened The role of inspiring ideas.” This undoubtedly played an important role in guiding the whole party to unify its thinking. So where can we unify our thoughts? Naturally, we must unify them into correct thoughts. By studying these collections of party history documents, comrades within the party gradually realized that Mao Zedong Thought, which closely integrates the universal truth of Marxism with the concrete reality of the Chinese revolution, is the scientific worldview and methodology for Chinese Communists to understand and solve problems. Therefore, the study and research of party history documents will help establish the guiding position of Mao Zedong Thought and Mao Zedong’s leadership position in the entire party. As the "Resolution on Certain Historical Questions" said: "The whole party has understood the correctness of Comrade Mao Zedong's line with unprecedented unity and has united under the banner of Mao Zedong with unprecedented consciousness. The Marxist-Leninist party represented by Comrade Mao Zedong Thoughts are more general "Under the correct leadership of the Central Committee headed by Comrade Mao Zedong, we will surely bring great progress and invincible power to the Party and the Chinese revolution." The Chinese revolution achieved complete victory."

(2) It laid the cognitive foundation and provided methodological guidance for the drafting and adoption of the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues"

It is our party's duty to promptly summarize the party's historical experience at major historical junctures and make resolutions on the party's historical issues. An effective measure to unify the thinking of the whole party since the Yan'an period. The "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" was reviewed, adopted and finalized only after ideological unity was achieved through studying and studying the collection of party history documents. The editing, publication and extensive study of important intra-party literature collections such as "Since the Sixth National Congress", "Before the Sixth National Congress" and "Two Lines" have laid an important documentary foundation and ideological understanding basis for our party to comprehensively and profoundly summarize historical experience, and also provided a basis for drafting The "Resolution on Certain Historical Questions" prepared important conditions. At this time, the party was united "like a harmonious family, like a solid piece of steel."On this basis, the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" puts forward a fundamental principle for our party to deal with historical issues, that is: "All analysis, criticism, and debate of our party on historical issues within the party should proceed from unity. And to achieve unity, if it violates this principle, it is incorrect. " At the same time, the "Resolution on Certain Historical Questions" also clearly stated that the Marxist worldview and methodology must be adhered to, and called on the whole party to "start from the Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism and historical materialism" and that the thinking must be "in line with objective and comprehensive actual situation” and so on. In a certain sense, without the collection of historical documents and ideological theories edited by Mao Zedong, it would be difficult to have the party's "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues" produced.

(3) Promoted the establishment of the party’s correct style of work

Since the Yan’an period, Chinese Communists have truly developed the correct Marxist style of integrating theory with practice. However, these styles were not fully established before the Yan'an Rectification Movement. Take, for example, the role of document collections in survey research. After the publication of the investigation and research materials edited by Mao Zedong and the central government's series of documents advocating investigation and research, the kind of "imperial ministers" who used to make random comments "without careful investigation" no longer have a market. The compilation of these persuasive and important collections of documents and the extensive study throughout the party made the dogmatists gradually lose their temper and become speechless. After studying these collections of party history documents, comrades within the party deeply understood what Mao Zedong said at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Twenty-four years of experience tells us that all correct tasks, policies, and work styles are consistent and correct. At that time, the local people's demands were consistent with the local people's demands, and all the tasks and policies were wrong. The policies and work style were incompatible with the demands of the local masses at that time and were out of touch with the masses. "Through in-depth study and study of these party history documents edited by Mao Zedong himself, the majority of party members and cadres have made great contributions to the transformation of our party's work style. The formation of a new style of study and writing will have a huge promoting effect. It is precisely because of this foundation that Mao Zedong made a confident judgment in his political report at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "The Communist Party of China, armed with the theoretical ideas of Marxism-Leninism, has produced a new work style among the Chinese people. , the main thing is the style of combining theory and practice, the style of being closely connected with the people and the style of self-criticism.”

(4) Accelerated the further dissemination of Marxism and the pace of theoretical innovation of the party

The collection of party history documents edited by Mao Zedong enabled all party cadres, especially senior cadres, to further understand what is true Marxism and what is false Marxism , thereby improving the consciousness of learning and applying Marxism that is consistent with China's reality. During the Yan'an period, in order to truly learn Marxist philosophy well, the Communist Party of China not only established the Compilation Department of Yan'an Marxist-Leninist College, which specialized in compiling Marxist classics, and established various study groups and research societies specializing in the study of major theoretical and practical issues, but also established It has established more than 30 cadre schools, including the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Shaanxi Public School, , Marxist-Leninist Research Institute, and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Driven by this atmosphere, many cadres and progressive intellectuals in the liberated areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas outside Yan'an also set off an upsurge in studying Marxist philosophy, promoting the further spread of Marxist philosophy widely and deeply in China. This has played a huge role in forming a team of party members and cadres who understand both Marxist theory and China's reality and can combine the two, so as to win the great victory of China's revolutionary cause. At the same time, Mao Zedong also reminded all comrades in the party that in the process of applying Marxism, they must be good at "applying theory to practice, using Marxist positions and methods to solve China's problems, and create something new." What Mao Zedong said about “creating something new” actually focused on promoting theoretical innovation in the Sinicization of Marxism.Because of this, during the Yan'an period, especially after the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party truly realized the integration of the universal truth of Marxism with the concrete reality of the Chinese revolution, and created Mao Zedong Thought. Facts have eloquently proved that "Mao Zedong Thought is the creative application and development of Marxism-Leninism in China. It is the correct theoretical principle and empirical summary of China's revolution and construction that has been proven by practice. It is the first historical Chineseization of Marxism." Sexual Leap”.

(Author: Wan Ruijia, doctoral student at School of Marxism, Wuhan University; Zou Weishao, associate research librarian of Shaoshan Mao Zedong Library; Source: "Party Documentation" Issue 3, 2022)