Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China explained

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"Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" is a Chinese Communist Party song, which originated in 1943 in response to the phrase, "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China".^[1]

Background

During World War II when China was fighting the Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek published a book titled on 10 March 1943, with a slogan that "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published an editorial entitled "Without the Communist Party there would be no China" in the Jiefang Daily on 25 August 1943 to criticize the book, concluding that "If today's China had no Communist Party of China, there would be no new China." In October 1943,, a 19-year-old member of the Communist Party of China, created the lyrics for "Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China", based on this.

In 1950, shortly after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong changed the title to "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China," by adding the word "new."

The song is included in the 1965 musical The East is Red.

A memorial dedicated to the song in Fangshan District, Beijing, which covers an area of, was opened to the public on 26 June 2006.^[2]

In June 2021, a 587-meter-long musical road playing the song was built on China National Highway 108 near Xiayunling, where the song was written.^[3] ^[4]

Lyrics

Simplified Chinese Lyrics

没有共产党就没有新中国

共产党辛劳为民族

共产党他一心救中国

他指给了人民解放的道路

他领导中国走向光明

他坚持了抗战八年多

他改善了人民生活

他建设了敌后根据地

他实行了民主好处多

没有共产党就没有新中国

Traditional Chinese Lyrics

沒有共產黨就沒有新中國

共產黨辛勞為民族

共產黨他一心救中國

他指給了人民解放的道路

他領導中國走向光明

他堅持了抗戰八年多

他改善了人民生活

他建設了敵後根據地

他實行了民主好處多

沒有共產黨就沒有新中國

Transliteration

Méiyǒu Gòngchǎndǎng jiù méiyǒu xīn Zhōngguó.

Gòngchǎndǎng xīnláo wèi mínzú.

Gòngchǎndǎng tā yīxīn jiù Zhōngguó.

Tā zhǐgěi le rénmín jiěfàng de dàolù.

Tā lǐngdǎo Zhōngguó zǒuxiàng guāngmíng.

Tā jiānchí le kàngzhàn bā nián duō.

Tā gǎishàn le rénmín shēnghuó.

Tā jiànshè le díhòu gēnjùdì.

Tā shíxíng le mínzhǔ hǎochù duō.

Méiyǒu Gòngchǎndǎng jiù méiyǒu xīn Zhōngguó.

English Translation

Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China

The Communist Party has toiled for the nation

The Communist Party of one mind saved China

It pointed to the road of liberation for the people

It has led China towards the light

It supported the War of Resistance for more than eight years

it improved the people’s lives

it built bases behind enemy lines

it practised democracy and brought many benefits