"Serving the People" is Mao Zedong's speech at the memorial service for Zhang Side held by the Central Guard Corps. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, colleagues of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army under the leadership of the Producers' Party of China kept winning the struggle against the enemy, and various liberated areas launched large-scale production movements. Zhang Side, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, burned charcoal in Ansai County, northern Shaanxi, and died on September 5, 1944 because the charcoal kiln collapsed. On September 8th, the Central directly under the authority held a memorial service in memory of Comrade Zhang Side, who made a famous speech "Serving the People" at the memorial service.

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.

Mao Zedong said in his speech: "Our * * production party and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the * * * production party are revolutionary ranks. Our team is entirely for the liberation of the people and works for the interests of the people. "

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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 generalized language of China's party-building purpose. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was also used as the motto and slogan of action by the party and government organs at all levels of the Chinese Production Party and their staff.