Great Undertaking of Party Building

The concept was first put forward by Mao Zedong in his work "Introducing The Communist” published in October 1939. Mao Zedong proposed to "build a bolshevized Communist Party of China which is national in scale, has a broad mass character, and is fully consolidated ideologically, politically and organizationally.” He called the construction of such a party as a "great undertaking".

The construction of the Communist Party of China was carried out in the environment of armed struggle in the countryside, under the condition that peasants and other petty bourgeoisie elements accounted for the majority in the Party ranks, and also in the complex environment of alliance and struggle with the bourgeoisie. The realities have determined that the task of building the Communist Party of China was very arduous.

Party building task needs to be closely linked and interrelated to the Party's basic political line in a certain period of time, which is the basic principle for carrying out the "great undertaking of Party building".

To promote the great undertaking of Party building, we must first put the Party's ideological construction at the top agenda of Party building, persist in educating and arming all Party members with the scientific theory of Marxism, transform and overcome all kinds of non-proletarian ideas within the Party. Party members should join the Party not only organizationally, but also ideologically. At the same time, we should also develop and consolidate the Party organizationally, expand the mass base of the Party, consolidate the class base of the Party, and adhere to the fundamental principle of democratic centralism: "the individual is subordinate to the organization, the minority is subordinate to the majority, sub-organization is subordinate to the superior, and the whole Party is subordinate to the Central Committee". We also need to build the Party in terms of its style of work. At the Seventh National Congress of the CPC in 1945, Mao Zedong summed up the fine traditions formed by the CPC in the course of the Chinese revolution as three excellent styles of work: integrating theory with practice, forging close links with the masses, practicing criticism and self-criticism, and emphasized that this is an obvious mark remarkable sign that the CPC is different from any other political party.

The collective leadership of the Central Committee of the CPC with Mao Zedong as its core, under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and in connection with the political line of the Party, successfully carried out the great undertaking of Party building and built a strong political party of the working class.