ABSTRACT

China now has not yet gone beyond the agricultural economy and peasant production, and the peasants account for as much as 90 percent of the total productive output. If we wish to carry out the Director General’s Three People’s Principles, the first thing is to liberate the peasants. Since peasants in fact make up over 80 percent of the population of our country, then among the 400 million people of the country, peasants actually number over 300 million. Therefore, China’s national revolution is, to put it plainly, a peasant revolution. If we wish to consolidate the foundation of the national revolution, we must, once again, first liberate the peasants. It follows from the arguments presented above that the Chinese Guomindang should always and everywhere consider the peasant movement as its foundation. Both political and economic movements should have the peasant movement as their foundation. The party’s policies should focus first and foremost on the interests of the peasants themselves, and the actions of the government should also be designed to liberate them in accordance with their interests, for the liberation of the peasants represents the completion of the major part of the national revolution and the basis for our party to realize the Three People’s Principles.