The Gutian Meeting

In late December 1929, the Ninth Party Congress of the Fourth Army of Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was held in Gutian, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. This was known as the Gutian Meeting.

At the meeting, Mao Zedong delivered a political report, Zhu De delivered a military report, and Chen Yi conveyed the message of the September letter from the Central Committee. The congress summarized the Party's experience accumulated in its attempts to correct various errors since the Red Army was established. It unified thinking inside the army and advocated that the Party and the army must be built on proletarian ideas.

The congress adopted a resolution drafted under Mao's direction, which identified various non-proletarian ideas circulating in the Party organization in the Fourth Red Army, their sources, and the methods of correcting them. The resolution emphasized the importance of reinforcing ideological education in the Party. It observed that "the Chinese Red Army is an armed body for carrying out the political tasks of the revolution," and that the Party's absolute leadership over the army determined the army's nature, which was a fundamental principle. The document made it clear that in addition to fighting to destroy the enemy's military strength, the Red Army should take on such important tasks as organizing public communications, organizing the people, arming them, helping them establish revolutionary political power and setting up Party organizations. The resolution also defined the correct relationships between officers and soldiers and between soldiers and civilians, and detailed the correct policies toward the enemy.

The congress decided to abolish the Fourth Red Army's Military Committee, and elected 11 formal members to the Front Committee, including Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Lin Biao (1907-1971) and Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), with Mao as secretary.

The Gutian Meeting was of special importance in the CPC's history. Gutian was a secluded hamlet in the mountains, but the meeting held there had far-reaching influence. It was not a high-level meeting convened by the CPC Central Committee, but a small one to solve specific problems, and its influence was Party-wide. It heralded the CPC's effort to explore a path of ideological education and building an army with political principles, and from the Gutian meeting on, the new people's army began to develop and expand.

古田會(huì)議

1929年12月下旬，中國(guó)工農(nóng)紅軍第四軍第九次黨的代表大會(huì)在福建省上杭縣古田鎮(zhèn)召開(kāi)，史稱古田會(huì)議。會(huì)上，毛澤東作政治報(bào)告，朱德作軍事報(bào)告，陳毅傳達(dá)了中央九月指示信的精神。會(huì)議認(rèn)真總結(jié)了紅軍創(chuàng)建以來(lái)中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨在同各種錯(cuò)誤思想、錯(cuò)誤傾向作斗爭(zhēng)的過(guò)程中積累起來(lái)的豐富經(jīng)驗(yàn)，統(tǒng)一了思想認(rèn)識(shí)，提出了要用無(wú)產(chǎn)階級(jí)思想進(jìn)行軍隊(duì)和黨的建設(shè)。

這次會(huì)議通過(guò)了毛澤東主持起草的《中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨紅軍第四軍第九次代表大會(huì)決議案》（簡(jiǎn)稱《古田會(huì)議決議》）。決議指出了紅四軍黨內(nèi)各種非無(wú)產(chǎn)階級(jí)思想的表現(xiàn)、來(lái)源及糾正方法；著重強(qiáng)調(diào)加強(qiáng)黨的思想建設(shè)的重要性，同時(shí)強(qiáng)調(diào)加強(qiáng)黨的組織建設(shè)；闡明紅軍是一個(gè)“執(zhí)行革命的政治任務(wù)的武裝集團(tuán)”，黨對(duì)軍隊(duì)的絕對(duì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)決定著軍隊(duì)的性質(zhì)和面貌，這是紅軍建設(shè)的根本原則；規(guī)定紅軍除了要進(jìn)行打仗消滅敵人的軍事活動(dòng)之外，還要擔(dān)負(fù)起宣傳群眾、組織群眾、武裝群眾、幫助群眾建立革命政權(quán)以至于建立共產(chǎn)黨的組織等項(xiàng)重大任務(wù)。決議還闡明了必須在軍內(nèi)外建立起正確的官兵、兵民關(guān)系，闡明了對(duì)待敵軍應(yīng)該采取的正確政策。會(huì)議決定取消紅四軍軍委，選舉毛澤東、朱德、陳毅、林彪、譚震林等11人為紅四軍前敵委員會(huì)正式委員，毛澤東任書(shū)記。

在中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨的百年歷史上，古田會(huì)議具有罕見(jiàn)的奇特性。古田當(dāng)時(shí)是一個(gè)偏僻的閩西小山鄉(xiāng)，在此召開(kāi)的一個(gè)會(huì)議卻影響廣泛；古田會(huì)議并非中共中央召開(kāi)的高規(guī)格會(huì)議，只是為解決具體問(wèn)題而召開(kāi)的小規(guī)模會(huì)議，但其影響卻是全黨性的；古田會(huì)議探索出思想建黨、政治建軍的光輝道路，新型人民軍隊(duì)由此走上了發(fā)展壯大的歷史征程。