ABSTRACT
Building on the experience of the 1942 rectification campaign, and reinforcing the change in material conditions brought about by liberation, the movement began to create the mental conditions in which the individual cadre or intellectual could become free to serve the people. On 1 October 1949 China's new red flag with its five gold stars flew from Tien An Men. Russia's industrial construction would serve as a constant point of reference for China's but as the foundation of industrialisation was, according to Mao Tse-tung, a developed agriculture; the land reform would have to be completed throughout the country. Mao also uses the images of building to show that China's stage of socialist construction was only one stage of a much longer struggle that had to be undertaken before reaching freedom, which to Mao meant a true dictatorship of the proletariat. Active local peasants work together with personnel from the outside to explain the government's policy to the people.
