The author of Serving the People is Mao Zedong; Written on October 8, 1994; This speech is addressed to Zhang Side.
The creative background of "Serving the People":
"Serving the People" is a new moral thought that meets the requirements of the times. This sentence was originally Mao Zedong's speech at the Central Guard Corps memorial meeting for Zhang Side. Zhang Side was a soldier of the Central Guard Corps. Participated in the revolution in 1933 and worked hard; On September 5, 1944, burning charcoal in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, the charcoal kiln collapsed, and he was buried and sacrificed because he struggled to push his teammates out of the kiln.
Mao Zedong said in his speech: "Our * * * production party and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the * * * production party are revolutionary teams. Our team is completely for the liberation of the people and works for the interests of the people. "
In the article On Coalition Government, he once again stressed: "It is the only purpose of this army to stand closely with the people of China and serve the people of China wholeheartedly." Judging from the requirements put forward by Mao Zedong at that time, it should be said that this is a requirement for the revolutionary army, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, the revolutionary workers and a high standard.
"serving the people" or "serving the people wholeheartedly" embodies the fundamental requirements of socialist morality, the objective needs of the socialist economic foundation, the requirements of establishing and developing the socialist market economy, the spiritual motivation of performing professional duties and the highest standard for measuring the right and wrong of professional behavior.
Later, it became a highly summarized language of the party-building purpose of China * * *; After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was also used as a motto and action slogan by the party and government organs at all levels of the China Production Party and their staff.
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About the author:
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893-September 9, 1976), whose name was Runzhi (the original work was Yong Zhi, later changed to Runzhi), took his pen name Zi Ren. Hunan Xiangtan people. The leader of the people of China, a great Marxist, a proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist, the main founders and leaders of the China Production Party, the China People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China, poets and calligraphers.
from p>1949 to 1976, Mao Zedong was the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China. His contribution to Marxism–Leninism's development, military theory and theoretical contribution to the * * * production party is called Mao Zedong Thought. Because almost all of Mao Zedong's main positions were called chairman, he was also honored as "Chairman Mao".
Mao Zedong is regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, and Time magazine also named him as one of the 1 most influential people in the 2th century.
Brief introduction of Zhang Side:
Zhang Side (April 19, 1915—September 5, 1944), a native of Yilong, Sichuan Province, was a * * * fighter of capitalism and a model of serving the people wholeheartedly.
Zhang Side was born in a poor peasant family in Yilong County, Sichuan Province. In December 1933, he joined the Red Army and soon joined the Youth League. In October 1937, he joined the China * * * Production Party. He used to be the squad leader of the Central Guard Corps and the guardian of Mao Zedong. In a battle against the siege of the Sixth Route Army, he was wounded in his right leg twice and still endured severe pain. He rushed into the enemy line and seized two enemy machine guns.
On the way to the Long March, he passed through the inaccessible snow-capped mountains and grasslands twice and went through many hardships. On September 5, 1944, when he led the soldiers to carry out the task of burning charcoal in Ansai County, northern Shaanxi, the cave that was about to be dug suddenly collapsed. He struggled to push his comrades out of the cave, but he was buried in the cave. He was only 29 years old when he died.
In memory of Zhang Side, the central authorities and the Central Guard Corps held a memorial meeting for Zhang Side on the playground at the ditch of Xiazaoyuan, Fenghuang Mountain in Yan 'an. Mao Zedong attended the memorial service, personally wrote a eulogy of "Pay tribute to Comrade Zhang Side who died for the people's interests", and delivered a speech "Serving the People", which highly praised Zhang Side's ideological realm and revolutionary spirit of serving the people completely and thoroughly.
Zhang Side's image has become synonymous with serving the people and a milestone.
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