Rebirth from the ashes, a new type of People’s Army is finalized here-a visit to the Gutian Conference

  ■Liberation Army Daily reporter Li Jiahao correspondent Tian Dong Wang Honghao

  Adjacent to Caimeiling to the east, Jiangjun Mountain to the west, Diaozhong Rock to the south, and Meihua Mountain to the north...Gutian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, surrounded by mountains, was originally just an ordinary town in western Fujian, but because of a meeting, It has become a historical coordinate of great significance in the development of our army.

In the early spring, the reporter walked into Gutian and once again listened to the historical echoes that have been passed down to this day.

  The site of the Gutian Conference was originally the local Liao's Ancestral Hall in Gutian.

Stepping into it, the monogram of "The Ninth Congress of the Fourth Chinese Communist Party Red Army" hung above the main hall is particularly eye-catching.

  "In April 1928, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Chen Yi joined forces in Jinggangshan, and they were co-organized as the Fourth Army of the Workers’ and Peasants Revolutionary Army, and then reorganized as the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, and moved from Jinggangshan to the west of Fujian to open up a new base.” Staff Liao Fengzhen told reporters that although the Gutian Conference was only a congress within the Red Fourth Army, it was permanently recorded in the annals of history because it established the principles of ideological party building and political army building.

  A photo exhibited in the memorial hall reproduced the historical background before the Gutian Conference—At that time, the soldiers of the Fourth Red Army had a wide range of clothes, some were peasant blouses, Mr. accountant’s robes, some were landlord’s jackets, blacksmith’s waistcoats... …

  However, what is more confusing than clothing is thought.

The gloom of the failure of the Great Revolution, the dark clouds of the fall of Jinggang Mountain, the pessimism of "how long can the red flag be fought", the old army's accumulated habits within the Fourth Red Army...The confusion and confusion in the minds of officers and soldiers endangered the future and destiny of this army.

  What's more serious is that the Fourth Red Army suffered heavy losses in the battle to march into Minzhong and switch to Shanghang in 1929.

This army, which has been formed for more than a year, faces an extremely difficult situation in the face of heavy encirclement by the enemy.

  "Widows and widows are the most desolate, there is no food and no food and no one to support..." Among the many historical archives in the memorial hall, a poem that was inscribed on the walls of farmers in Nanyang, Shanghang, caught the attention of reporters.

Lan Songying, deputy director of the Longyan Municipal Party History and Local History Research Office, introduced that this was done by a Taiping Army soldier. It described the tragic situation of the Taiping Army after it entered Fujian due to insufficient supplies.

  "For thousands of years, how many teams of peasants have risen up, but finally dissipated in the long river of history? How can the Red Army avoid repeating the same mistakes? Can the Communists change the world?" Lan Songying told reporters that it is about the Red Army. At the critical moment of the future and destiny of the Chinese revolution, Chen Yi rushed to Shanghai to report to the Party Central Committee on the situation of the Fourth Red Army.

  "After discussion, a special committee composed of Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, and Chen Yi formed the "Letter of Instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Front Committee of the Fourth Red Army", which is the famous "September Letter"." Lan Songying said in the letter. Fully affirmed the party’s leadership system over the army and clearly pointed out that the Red Army is under the command of the front committee and all the party’s power is concentrated in the front committee’s guiding organs. “This is an absolutely unshakable principle.”

  In accordance with the spirit of the "September Letter" from the Central Committee, the Front Committee of the Fourth Red Army decided to convene the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Red Army.

  In order to make preparations for the meeting, Mao Zedong went to great lengths and forgot to sleep and eat.

During the day, he held a workers’ investigation meeting, a peasant investigation meeting, a soldier investigation meeting, as well as a joint meeting of party representatives of various detachments and columns, to discuss with officers, soldiers, and the masses various wrong ideas and bad tendencies in the Fourth Red Army, and analyze their causes. In the evening, he held a candle night book in the room, drafting the "Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Red Army of the Communist Party of China."

  On December 28, 1929, there was a heavy snowfall in Gutian.

In the venue of Liao's Ancestral Hall, the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Communist Party, the Gutian Conference, was officially held.

  At the meeting, Mao Zedong made a political report, Zhu De made a military report, and Chen Yi conveyed the "September Letter" from the Central Committee.

After heated discussions among the delegates, the conference unanimously passed the "Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Red Army of the Communist Party of China" drafted by Mao Zedong on behalf of the former committee, that is, the "Gutian Conference Resolution."

  "The Gutian Conference summed up the experience and lessons in army building since the establishment of the Fourth Red Army, established the basic principles of people’s army building, stipulated the nature, purpose, and tasks of the Red Army, and reiterated the party’s principle of absolute leadership over the Red Army. As an excuse to weaken the party’s leadership over the Red Army, the party must become a strong leadership and unity core in the army.” Lan Songying told reporters that the Gutian Conference explored the glorious path of ideological and political building of the army, and the new People’s Army was finalized on this basis and embarked on it. The historical journey of development and growth.

  "History can often be seen more clearly after time has passed. Looking back, the political work that laid the foundation of the Gutian Conference has played a decisive role in the survival and development of our army." To this day, Zeng Hanhui, the curator of the Gutian Conference Memorial Hall, is still clear. I remember the scene when President Xi visited the site of the Gutian Conference.

  On October 31, 2014, President Xi came to Gutian to attend the all-army political work conference held here.

During the period, he led the conference representatives to visit the site of the Gutian Conference, revisit the glorious history and fine traditions of our party and our army, and accept ideological enlightenment and spiritual baptism.

  "On the 85th anniversary of the Gutian Conference, Chairman Xi personally made decisions and led the convening of the Gutian Military Political Work Conference, focusing on studying and resolving the major problems of the party’s ideological and political construction of the army, making arrangements for the political construction of the army in the new era, and establishing The party’s general strategy for political building in the march of strengthening the country and the army has pushed our party’s thinking on building the army and governing the army to a new era.” said Li Fulong, an instructor from a brigade of the Longyan Detachment of the Armed Police Force who came to visit, said the Gutian All-Army Political Work Conference After the convening, the People's Army reinvigorated the political program, reshaped the organizational form, reorganized the struggle pattern, restructured the construction layout, and re-established the image of the work style.

  Starting from the reorganization of Gutian’s clothing, the People’s Army under the leadership of the party in the past 7 years has been innovating, surviving the wind and rain, creating new and strong, and forging ahead all the way...

  Gutian asked, asked Gutian.

Gutian, surrounded by mountains, has witnessed two important junctures of the People's Army, two revolutions, two phoenix nirvana, and two rebirths.

Looking back at Gutian, the historical significance of this small town in western Fujian is just like the eight shining characters under Caimeiling——

  The Gutian Conference will shine forever!