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Why did We Choose Marxism? Why did the CPC Take Up the Mission?
Why The Red Star Shines Over China? In July 1920, a group of Chinese students who had been sent to study and work in France gathered at Montargis College. At the meeting, Cai Hesen said, We should imitate the Russian October Revolution to launch fierce revolution, organize the Communist Party, and implement the dictatorship of the proletariat. In August of the same year, Cai Hesen proposed in a letter to Mao Zedong to formally establish a Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong wrote back, saying: You are highly perceptive, and not a word do I disagree with in this letter. The name Communist Party of China was also first mentioned in the letter.