1. In rural areas and war environments, build the party with the vast majority of its members from farmers into the vanguard of the working class and maintain the party’s advanced nature. In rural areas and war environments, the vast majority of party members are from farmers, and a large number of non-proletarian ideas have invaded the party, posing severe challenges to the party in maintaining its nature as a vanguard of the working class. However, the nature of the party is mainly determined by its theory and program. The party's theory and program are Marxist and represent the correct direction of China's social development. The party attaches great importance to ideologically building the party and insists on educating and arming itself with Marxist theory. Party members are not only required to join the party organizationally, but also to join the party ideologically first, guiding them to strive for the realization of the party's program and tasks, thus maintaining the party's vanguard nature of the working class.
2. Focus on building the party ideologically and maintain the party’s nature as the vanguard of the working class.
First, putting ideological construction in the first place in party building is an important content and distinctive feature of Mao Zedong’s Marxist party-building theory. To this end, it is necessary to carry out Marxist-Leninist ideological education and overcome various non-proletarian ideas that exist within the party. This is an important guarantee for the Chinese Communist Party to maintain the nature of the vanguard of the working class and continuously improve its combat effectiveness.
Second, strengthening the party’s ideological and political work is the guarantee for us to do everything well.
Give full play to the power of ideological and political work and inspire the masses to strive for the realization of their fundamental interests. Ideological and political work is the lifeline of economic work and must be greatly strengthened and must not be weakened.
3. Adhere to the party’s principle of democratic centralism, which is the fundamental organizational principle of the Communist Party of China. Democratic centralism is a combination of centralism based on democracy and democracy under centralized guidance. The basic requirements of democratic centralism are: individuals obey the organization, the minority obeys the majority, subordinates obey superiors, and the entire party obeys the central government.
4. Maintain and carry forward the party’s fine traditions and style.
First, one of the party’s fine traditions is to closely link party building with the party’s political line. The correct political line can consolidate and develop the party, while the wrong political line can cause the party to suffer huge losses. The party must temper its ranks in the struggle to formulate and adhere to the correct political line and oppose "left" and right erroneous tendencies.
Second, pay attention to the construction of the party’s style of work. Mao Zedong summarized the three fine styles of the Communist Party of China in "On Coalition Government": the combination of theory and practice, the close connection with the people, and the style of self-criticism. These three major styles are the main symbols that distinguish the Communist Party of China from other political parties. They also reflect the correct attitude of the Communist Party of China towards Marxist theory, the people, and themselves and the comrades around them. These three aspects are interrelated, mutually reinforcing and inseparable. Only by adhering to the three fine styles of work and overcoming all kinds of unhealthy tendencies can the party be built well.
Third, correct handling of intra-party contradictions and intra-party struggles and rectification are a good form of Marxist education. The main contents of the Yan'an Rectification Movement that began in 1942 were: to oppose subjectivism to rectify the academic style, to oppose sectarianism to rectify the party style, to oppose the party's stereotyped writing to rectify the writing style, and to oppose subjectivism as the central task. This was a great ideological emancipation movement that broke the shackles of dogmatism within the party represented by Wang Ming. The policy of the rectification movement is to "learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones, treat illnesses and save people." Through unity-criticism-unity, we can achieve the goal of clarifying our thoughts and uniting comrades. Through rectification, the majority of party members and cadres have further grasped the direction of integrating Marxism-Leninism with the specific practice of the Chinese revolution, strengthened the ideological unity and organizational unity of the entire party, and laid an ideological foundation for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. At the same time, it also created a good form of universal Marxist education within the party, an effective form of resolving conflicts within the party, a new development of ideological party-building principles, and a new contribution to the Marxist-Leninist party-building theory.