Ke Qingshi And Contemporary Chinese Politics

Ke Qingshi had governed Shanghai and East China more than ten years before the"Cultural Revolution",was one of the most appreciated local leaders of Mao Zedong since the founding of the PRC.After 1949,Ke Qingshi successively served as the vice mayor,mayor,secretary of municipal party committee of Nanjing City,at the beginning of 1953,he served as the first Secretary of Jiangsu provincial party committee,in October,1954,he was transferred to the first Secretary of Shanghai municipal Party committee,the Secretary of Shanghai bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.Since 1956,Ke Qingshi’s political career began to be very influential,attracted a lot of attention in the Stormrising political arena:he actively supported Mao Zedong’s criticism on" Opposition to the alleged rash advance ",severely criticized the so-called "rightist conservative ideas".In 1957 he carried out Mao Zedong’ s"draw snake out of its hole" Anti-Rightist policy in Shanghai,and became the chief commander of the Anti-Rightist movement.In December of the same year he was praised by Mao Zedong because of the publication of the report“ride the wind and waves,to accelerate the construction of the new socialist Shanghai".In the Chengdu meeting in 1958,Ke Qingshi made a surprising point:"To believe Chairman Mao like to believe the faith,to follow Chairman Mao like sheep ",gave energetic support to establish the personality cult of Mao Zedong.He supported Mao Zedong with all his power to launch the "great leap forward" movement,in the summer of 1958 he released the "Large satellite" of a 8 million tons output of steel in Ease China,which played a decisive impact to the demand of Mao Zedong that the national output of steel should reach to " 1070" ten thousand tons.In the movement to establish people’ s communes,he initiated the "eating without money" slogan in the public canteen;In the Lu Shan meeting in 1959,he defended the "great leap forward" on one hand,on the other hand,severely criticized Peng Dehuai’s "Right opportunism";in the seven-thousand people congress,he was unsatisfied with Liu Shaoji’ s summary report about the great leap forward movement,and hoped to continue this movement.In 1963,in order to respond to Mao Zedong’ s "class struggle" appeal which was re-advocated in the 10th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the CPC,he put forward "to describe thirteen years with all power" slogan,and quickly set off a modern drama movement in East China,which laid the wide atmosphere of public opinion and the mass foundation for the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution".After that,he cooperated with Jiang Qing to create a test base of the cultural revolution in Shanghai,and took up Zhang chunqiao,Yao Wenyuan et al.,basically formed the future political structure of the Shanghai "Cultural Revolution".In his support and operation,Shanghai became the important cradleland of the outbreak of "Cultural Revolution".Ke Qingshi’ s action was deeply appreciated by Mao Zedong,his status continually rose also.In 1956 the "CPC’ s eighth session" he was elected member of the central committee.In 1958 in the second Plenary Session of CPC’ s eighth session,he was co-opted as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.After 1960 he began to hold the governmental office of the first Secretary of the East China bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party which was reestablished,the first political commissar of the Nanjing military area of Chinese PLA,and at the same time continued to serve as the first Secretary of Shanghai municipal Party committee,mayor,became "the first person" in east China.At the beginning of 1965,he was promoted to Vice Premier of the state council.The Academic research about Ke Qingshi has the typical significance.He was one of the leaders of the local party and government,his political posturing has certain universality,just was more prominent and intense.With the development of Mao Zedong’ s "permanent revolution" theory,governing thought of CPC thought was more and more impatiently transited from New Democracy to socialism,from socialism to communism.The overwhelming majority of the leading cadres of the CPC Central Committee and the local actively or passively followed the guiding ideology of Mao Zedong.With the restriction of the inner-party situation,Ke Qingshi on the one hand conjectured Mao Zedong’ s mind-set,repeatedly expressed the ingratiating extreme "left" speech,and offered suggestions;on the other hand,thoroughly actualized Mao Zedong’ s left" political policy,rushed in the forefront of all political movement.But,undeniable,The body of Ke Qingshi was full of contradiction between the "left" thoughts and the spirit principle of Communist Party member.As a representative who actively supported Mao Zedong extremely "left" line in the local,the reason Ke Qingshi could be so successful in his official career between the 1956 and 1965 years,meant that his practical action fully complied with Mao Zedong’s political ideas,was the realization of the political thought of Mao Zedong in the local.In the Communist Party of China of 1950,60s of the last century,the political ecology was already not normal,the whole society walked more and more far in the "left" way.