BEIJING: For the Chinese Communist Party, celebrating its centenary on Thursday is not just about glorifying its past. It is also about its future and the future cementing of its leader, Chinese President Xi Jinping. On the eve of the 1st anniversary of July, Xi and his party called on their members and the nation to remember the early days of fighting in the mountains of the intercity city of Yan’an, where Mao Zedong established himself as a leader, party in the 1930s.
Excavated at the top of the earth, the primitive houses that Mao and his followers lived in are now tourist spots for party and school teachers, encouraging the group to spread. Centers feel its skyrocketing distance to be more easily involved with China today. Yet as it celebrates its centenary, the Communist Party chooses to use the past to secure its future, and Shi’a, who looked like Mao, to reign for life.
“By linking the party to all the achievements of the last century and any of its failures, Xi is trying to uphold his vision, his right to lead the party and the party’s right to rule the country,” she said. , Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This week’s celebration focuses on two distinct eras, early struggles and recent achievements, spanning nearly three decades under Mao under the 1950s and 1970s, when most destructive social and economic policies fell behind. Millions are dead and the country is poor.
To that end, a spectacular open-air gala Shi, taking part in Beijing on Monday night, revived the long march of the 1930s, a retreat to Ian that has become a party tradition, with giant fat and wheat with bushels before men sing with women. . However, it also focused on the present, with Special Forces representatives climbing the mountain and medical personnel fighting COVID-19 in defensive gear. Joseph Feusmith, a professor of Chinese politics at Boston University, said the party has long called for its history to justify its right to rule.
