The Party Branch is Organized on a Company Basis

An important system to guarantee the implementation of the principle of the absolute leadership of the CPC over the army at the grass-roots level.

In September 1927, Mao Zedong led the remaining troops of the Autumn Harvest Uprising to Jinggang Mountain and reorganized the troops in Sanwan Village, Yongxin, Jiangxi Province, where he first proposed the principle of "building branches on companies": Setting up Party branches in companies, gathering Party members among outstanding soldiers, setting up Party groups squads and platoons, and setting up Party committees above the company level with Party representatives and Party committee secretaries. This established a tight and complete Party organization system in the army, and provided a reliable organizational guarantee for the Party's comprehensive construction and mastery of the troops.

Later, Mao Zedong and others, in leading the struggle in the revolutionary base area in Jinggang Mountain, deeply appreciated that "the Red Army fought hard and did not break up, and the 'branch built on the company' was an important reason."

In December 1929, the resolution of Gutian Conference drafted by Mao Zedong affirmed that "building branches on the companies" was an important principle of the Red Army's party organization. In 1930, the " Draft Interim Regulations on the Political Work of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army” promulgated by the CPC Central Committee stipulated for the first time the nature and tasks of the Party Branches in the army companies. In October 1942, the CPC Central Committee approved the “Regulations on the Work of Company Branches and General Branches of the Party in the Army” promulgated by the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which stipulated that: “Branches are the basic units of the Party in the army and are the bastions of the company, and each company with seven or more members must organize a branch.”

After the founding of New China, the "Regulations on the Work of the Company Branches of the Communist Party of China", which were promulgated after several revisions of the political work regulations, clearly stipulate the organization, nature and tasks of company branches, the leadership system of the branch committee, the duties of branch members, and the system of organizational life.

After the founding of the army, the CPC insisted on applying the principle of "building branches in a company", laying a solid foundation for the absolute leadership of the Party over the army.

During the long period of revolution, construction and reform, the reason why the People's Army listened to the Party's command, fought bravely, defeated all enemies and hardships, and went from victory to victory was that the branch was built on the company.