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THE FOOLISH OLD MAN
WHO REMOVED THE MOUNTAINS

June 11, 1945

We have had a very successful congress. We have done three things.
First, we have decided on the line of our Party, which is boldly to
mobilize the masses and expand the people’s forces so that, under the
leadership of our Party, they will defeat the Japanese aggressors,
liberate the whole people and build a new-democratic China. Second,
we have adopted the new Party Constitution. Third, we have elected
the leading body of the Party — the Central Committee. Henceforth
our task is to lead the whole membership in carrying out the Party
line. Ours has been a congress of victory, a congress of unity. The
delegates have made excellent comments on the three reports. Many
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comrades have undertaken self-criticism; with unity as the objective
unity has been achieved through self-criticism. This congress is a
model of unity, of self-criticism and of inner-Party democracy.
When the congress closes, many comrades will be leaving for their
posts and the various war fronts. Comrades, wherever you go, you
should propagate the line of the congress and, through the members
of the Party, explain it to the broad masses.
Our aim in propagating the line of the congress is to build up the
confidence of the whole Party and the entire people in the certain
triumph of the revolution. We must first raise the political conscious-
ness of the vanguard so that, resolute and unafraid of sacrifice, they
will surmount every difficulty to win victory. But this is not enough;
we must also arouse the political consciousness of the entire people so
that they may willingly and gladly fight together with us for victory.
We should fire the whole people with the conviction that China belongs

This was Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s concluding speech at the Seventh National
Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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