We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy. Let the domestic and foreign reactionaries tremble before us! Let them say we are no good at this and no good at that. By our own indomitable efforts we the Chinese people will unswervingly reach our goal.
The heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution shall live for ever in our memory! Other documents on Mao Zedong:. Track China's rise to the world's second largest economy and its economic ties to the U. Please join the USC U. Please join us for this virtual event presented by the USC U. Skip to main content. Toggle navigation. September 21, For other documents on Mao Zedong, click here. Hail the victory of the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution!
Hail the founding of the People's Republic of China! Mao Zedong. Documents - Contemporary China. Documents - Pre China. Featured Articles. His aim was to reshape society by purging it of bourgeois elements and traditional ways of thinking. But by the summer of the country had become engulfed in fighting, as Red Guard factions competed for power. To quell the forces that he had unleashed, Mao sent 30, workers to Qinghua University in Beijing, armed only with their talisman, the Little Red Book.
The students attacked them with spears and sulphuric acid, killing five and injuring more than , before finally surrendering. Mao thanked the workers with a gift of approximately 40 mangoes, which he had been given the previous day by Pakistan's foreign minister. So the workers stayed up all night looking at them, smelling them, caressing them, wondering what this magical fruit was," says art historian Freda Murck, who has chronicled this story in detail.
It was very exciting to be given this kind of recognition. This power shift - from the zealous students to the workers and peasants - offered respite from the anarchy. BBC History. Zhang Kui, a worker who occupied Qinghua, says that the arrival of one of Mao's mangoes at his workplace prompted intense debate. We discussed what to do with it: whether to split it among us and eat it, or preserve it. We finally decided to preserve it," he says. We made it a specimen.
That was the first decision. The second decision was to make wax mangoes - wax mangoes each with a glass cover. After we made the wax replicas, we gave one to each of the Revolutionary Workers. Some observers see the resolution as Mr Xi's latest attempt to turn back decades of decentralisation by Chinese leaders that began under Deng and continued through other leaders like Jiang Zemin - a sign that China might be moving back to a so-called cult of personality.
The four-day closed door session gathered more than full and alternate members of the party's 19th Central Committee - the country's top leadership. It was the last major meeting of party leaders ahead of the national congress next year, where Xi is expected to seek a historic third term as president. In , China scrapped the two-term limit on the presidency, effectively allowing him to remain in power for life.
But the document is also a tool to help him retain this power," he said. However, it is unclear whether they had the inclination to do so even if presented with similar opportunities," said Dr Chong. The degree to which it becomes more formally institutionalised is what many are watching out for at the moment. Both Deng and Mao, who passed previous resolutions, used it as a way to break with the past.
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