Close contact with the masses is the embodiment of our party's purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and it is also the embodiment of the basic principle of historical materialism that the masses are historical creators. Adhere to close ties with the masses, oppose dogmatism, empiricism, commandism, tailism, sectarianism, bureaucracy and arrogance, and never be divorced from the masses; Adhere to close ties with the masses, * * * people must love the masses, be good at listening to their voices and become one with them; Adhere to close ties with the masses, * * * people must be good at inspiring and improving the consciousness of the masses, helping the masses to organize and carry out all necessary struggles for environmental permission. Adhering to close ties with the masses requires that all people's words and deeds must take the best interests of the overwhelming majority of the people and their support as the highest standards.
In the long-term revolutionary struggle, China adhered to the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly and established flesh-and-blood ties and fish-water relations with the broad masses of the people. Summing up this experience, Mao Zedong put forward the work style of keeping close contact with the masses in the 1942 Yan 'an rectification movement.