The Establishment And Rectification Of Beijing Cultural Center In The Early Period Of The Founding

On January the 1st, 1949, BeiPing people’s government was formally established. Back then,various undertakings were still in chaos, people from all walks of life looked forward to changes.As an governmental comprihensive cultural institution organizing mase cultural activities, cultural center and its dispatched institutions showed new vitality on the basis of the old public education center. Looking at its history, 1949 to 1956 is the first period during which time cultural center witnessed steady progress. In the recovery of national economy butween 1949 and 1952, the Beijing municipal cultural center went through rapid development. But in the early stages of development, the nature of the cultural center and stations, its principles and tasks were not clear.Series problems appeared in the way of working and personnel management. To ensure steady development, to continue to contribute to Beijing’s political stability, economic development and the improvement of people’s spirit, the first five-year plan was released in 1953 to guide national economic construction. The municipal government made reforms according to “Instructions on the Consolidation and Strengthening of the Cultural Center and Stations” issued by the ministry of culture, bringing their performance to a new level. The essay chooses the following perspectives to study and research: history of the starting period of the Beijing municipal cultural center and stations; the problems that appeared in the process of its establishment; how the Beijing municipal government rectified the cultural center and stations and the effects of the rectification.The introduction part introduces the significance of the selected topic, the current status of the research and the research methods adopted.The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part mainly reviews the history of cultural center between 1949 and 1952. This part firstly introduces the situation of mass culture and social education when China had just been founded. And then points out that the Beijing municipal cultural center was established on the basis of the original public education center. As a channel for communication between people and the government, cultural center served some culture administrative work and grew rapidly with the support from the CPC and the Chinese government.At that time, the Beijing cultural center functioned similar to the national cultural center,organizing all kinds of mess cultural activities with social education as the main form.The second chapter mainly discusses the reorganization of the Beijing municipal culturalcenter, its origin and processes. On the one hand, due to policy adjustments on state construction level, economic development became the top priority, so the policy of cultural center also changed subsequently. On the other hand, along with rapid development, problems of low quality cadres,short of hands, low performance activities and failure to establish long-term mechanisms appeared.After 1953, the Beijing municipal cultural center and stations’ consolidation mainly focused on the following aspects: clarifying guidelines and tasks; clarifying leadership; optimization of cadres and increasing funds. To reach these goals, Beijing government made many efforts: trainning cadres and strenthening the foster of activists; changing the past unhealthy practice of emphasizing quantity over quality, and supporting the culture center to build new buildings and to have more funds.The third chapter is the cultural center of Beijing creation and consolidation of a number of thinking. First of all, pointed out the historical role of cultural center. After the construction of the new cultural center, not only leading the transformation of social fashion, also help people set up the socialist values, the social main body and social relations of equality. Secondly, pointed out that cultural center in the early days after foundation of work on the cultural significance of the construction of the power today. The cultural center of the work has not been due attention, we can absorb the experience and lessons, and connecting with the time request, for the masses to provide a better cultural activities and cultural work base.