With the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the international revolutionary movement has lost its most experienced leader and one of its greatest theoreticians. Mao Tsetung is in the front rank with Marx, Engels and Lenin.

Mao Tsetung's life was that of a practical revolutionary. From an early age, he devoted his energies to the task of liberating the Chinese people from their age-old oppression.

When still in his teens, Mao Tse-tung fought in the revolutionary armies against the Ching dynasty. A foundation member of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Mao was active in all fields of revolutionary works. He worked in the workers' movement, the peasant movement and the youth movement. Prior to the Kuomintang's betrayal of the national movement in 1927, Mao Tsetung worked in its propaganda department and trained peasant cadres. Following the defeat of the Autumn Harvest uprising, Chairman Mao led his forces up the Chingkanshan Mountains to form the first revolutionary base area in China. It was there that he first formulated his basic theory of the Chinese revolution.

During the epic Long March made under his leadership, Mao Tsetung was elected Chairman of the Political Bureau of the CCP. From that time on, he inspired the Chinese to one victory after another. Under his leadership, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people have defeated the Japanese, the Kuomintang and US imperialism and have built a new socialist China.