"We all come from all corners of the country and come together for a common revolutionary goal." This sentence comes from Chairman Mao's speech "Serving the People" 1944 at Comrade Zhang Side's memorial service on September 8th.

At that time, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was in a very difficult stage, and there were many difficulties to overcome. In view of this situation, President Mao Zedong talked about the principle of serving the people and called on everyone to learn from Comrade Zhang Side's spirit of serving the people completely, unite and defeat the Japanese aggressors.

Zhang Side is a soldier of the Central Guard Corps. 1933 take part in the revolution and work hard; 1September 5, 944, he was burning charcoal in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, and the charcoal kiln collapsed. He struggled to push his teammates out of the kiln and was buried and sacrificed.

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"Serving the people" is a new moral thought to meet the requirements of the times. This sentence was originally a speech for Zhang Side at the memorial service of the Central Guard Corps.

In On the Coalition Government, he once again stressed: "The only purpose of this army is to stand closely with the people of China and serve the people of China wholeheartedly." Judging from the requirements put forward by Mao Zedong at that time, it should be said that this is a requirement for the revolutionary army, the New Fourth Army, the Eighth Route Army and revolutionary workers, and it is a very high standard.

"Serving the people" or "serving the people wholeheartedly" embodies the fundamental requirement of socialist morality, the objective requirement of socialist economic foundation, the requirement of establishing and developing socialist market economy, the spiritual motivation of fulfilling professional duties and the highest standard for measuring the right or wrong of professional behavior.

Later, it became a highly summarized language of China's party building purpose; After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it was also regarded as the motto and slogan of action by party and government organs at all levels and their staff in China.

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