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resistance against Japanese aggression.

Following the July 7th Incident in 1937, the Party implemented the right
policy on the Chinese united front against Japanese aggression, and adhered
to the line of all-out resistance. It devised and executed the strategic
guidelines for a protracted war as well as a whole set of strategies and tactics

for a people’s war, opened up vast battlefronts behind enemy lines, and
developed bases for the resistance. The Party led the Eighth Route Army, the
New Fourth Army, the Northeast United Resistance Army, and other forces
of the people’s armed resistance in brave fighting, and they were the pillar of

the entire nation’s resistance until the Chinese people finally prevailed. This
marked the first time in modern history that the Chinese people had won a
complete victory against foreign aggressors in the war of national liberation,
and was an important part of the global war against fascism.

During the War of Liberation, as the KMT reactionaries flagrantly
launched an all-out civil war, the Party led soldiers and civilians in gradually

shifting from active defense to strategic offensive. It secured victories in the
Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai, and Beiping-Tianjin campaigns as well as the
Crossing-the-Yangtze Campaign, advanced triumphantly into the
central-south, northwest, and southwest, and wiped out eight million KMT
troops, thus overthrowing the reactionary KMT government and the three

mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism. With the
support of the people, the Party-led people’s army demonstrated heroic
mettle and unyielding resolve as they fought to the last against these fierce

enemies, making a historic contribution to the victory of the new-democratic
revolution.
In the course of the revolutionary struggle, Chinese communists, with

Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative, adapted the basic tenets
of Marxism-Leninism to China’s specific realities and developed a theoretical
synthesis of China’s unique experience which came from painstaking trials
and great sacrifices. They blazed the right revolutionary path of encircling

cities from the countryside and seizing state power with military force. They
established Mao Zedong Thought, which charted the correct course for
securing victory in the new-democratic revolution.

In the course of the revolutionary struggle, the Party carried forward its
great founding spirit comprised of the following principles: upholding truth
and ideals, staying true to its original aspiration and founding mission,

fighting bravely without fear of sacrifice, and remaining loyal to the Party and
faithful to the people. The Party initiated and advanced the great project of
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