Gutian Conference established the principle of ideological party building and political army building.

192912 On February 28th and 29th, the Fourth Army of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants held the 9th Party Congress in Gutian Village, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. The meeting elected a new China Red Fourth Army Front Enemy Committee, and Mao Zedong was elected as the secretary.

The meeting established the basic principle of building the people's army and the principle of the Party's absolute leadership over the army, emphasized the importance of strengthening political and ideological work, built the Party into the vanguard of the proletariat, and built the army into a new type of people's army led by the proletariat, and discussed the principles of the Party's ideological construction and the Party's organizational construction. It emphasizes the use of proletarian ideas to overcome all kinds of non-proletarian ideas, clearly points out the importance of "democratic life under centralized guidance" and emphasizes the role of party branches.

Gutian conference is an extremely important milestone in the history of our party and army construction.