ABSTRACT
The principles of political work in the Red Army, enshrined in the "Resolutions of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Red Army of the Communist Party of China," were drafted personally by Mao Tse-tung at the Kutien Conference in 1929. Since the Red Army could exist and expand its influence or area of control only with the cooperation and support of the peasants, it could hardly afford to detach itself from the mass of the people. Besides fighting, the Red Army also had the great responsibility of educating, organizing and arming the masses, helping them to establish revolutionary political power and to set up Party Organizations. The officers and rank and file in the Red Army not only worked together to carry out the political tasks assigned to them by the Party but they also engaged themselves in production work in order to support themselves.
