Peasant Education of the Communist Party of China: A Historical Survey

Peasant education is an important initiative of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to lead peasants in the socialist revolution and the construction of new rural areas. By sorting out the historical lineage of the CPC's peasant education actions, we clarify its evolutionary process and basic logic, and summarize the lessons learned, in order to promote the in-depth development of peasant education in the new era, and to help revitalize the countryside. The study finds that peasant education under the leadership of the CPC has gone through three successive periods: the New Democratic Revolution, the Socialist Revolution and Construction, and the New Period of Socialist Modernization, and has changed from focusing on education to the revolutionary struggle to ideological-political education and basic cultural education, and then to vocational-technical education and education for cultural quality. It highlights the logical threads of strengthening political leadership, serving the theme of the times, and promoting the development of peasants, and inspires the CPC to continue to carry out in-depth education for peasants in the new era.