In
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...
's original formulation of the
military strategy
Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired Strategic goal (military), strategic goals. Derived from the Greek language, Greek word ''strategos'', the term strategy, when first used during the 18th ...
of
people's war, a revolutionary base area (), or simply base area, is a local stronghold that the revolutionary force conducting the
people's war should attempt to establish, starting from a remote area with mountainous or forested terrain in which its enemy is weak.
Military
This kind of base helps the revolutionary conducting force to exploit the few advantages that a small
revolutionary movement has—broad-based popular support, especially in a localized area, can be one of them—against a
state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
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power with a large and well-equipped army. To overcome a lack of supplies, revolutionaries in a base area may storm isolated outposts or other vulnerable supply caches controlled by the forces of an opponent.
Cultural policies
In 1940, the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the Central committee, highest organ when the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, national congress is not ...
issued its ''Instruction on Developing Cultural Movements'', instructing that in "every large base area, a complete printing factory should be established. Existing printing factories should strive for improvement and expansion. The construction of a printing factory should be regarded as more important than building an army of ten thousand or even more. It's crucial to organize the distribution of newspapers, periodicals, and books, have specialized transport organizations and protective troops, and consider transporting cultural sustenance as important as transporting clothes and ammunition."
See also
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Jiangxi Soviet
The Jiangxi Soviet, sometimes referred to as the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet, was a soviet area that existed between 1931 and 1934, governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was the largest component of the Chinese Soviet Republic and hom ...
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Red corridor
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On Protracted War''
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Ho Chi Minh trail
The Ho Chi Minh Trail (), also called Annamite Range Trail () was a Military logistics, logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Kingdom of Laos, Laos and Cambodia (1953–1970), ...
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Yan'an Soviet
The Yan'an Soviet was a soviet governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 1930s and 1940s. In October 1936 it became the final destination of the Long March, and served as the CCP's main base until after the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
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Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region
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Communist-controlled China (1927–1949)
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had sphere of influence zones within Republic of China (1912–1949), Republican era China from 1927 to 1949 during the Chinese Civil War, collectively called revolutionary base areas. They were also known a ...
References
External links
Mao Zedong: The Establishment of Base AreasCommunist Party of Peru: Line of construction of the three instruments of the revolutionKishanji: To establish a liberated areaMuseum of Revolutionary Base, Henan province* .
Guerrilla warfare
Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party
Maoism
Maoist terminology
Military strategy
Revolution terminology
Politics of the Second Sino-Japanese War
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