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“once every single citizen in the country is mobilized, the vast anti-enemy ocean is created,
making ups for weapon shortage are created, therefore preconditions for overcoming each
difficulties are created.”
Well-organized mobilization was done in China’s Resistance War. The CPC formulated
the Ten-point Program for the Anti Japanese War and Saving the Nation, in which the party
mobilize and inspire the people by clarifying political aims of the war and means to achieve
them.
Organization is another must let aside mobilization. In anti-Japan war, standing beside
army are people of different classes, ethnic minority groups, and people living in Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Macao, as well as the overseas Chinese. Mean while, all physically fitted
and young men and women in the base area were recruited into the part-time Anti-Japanese
Self Defense Forces. Chinese ethnic minorities were also organized. The Chinese people,
once being called “a sheet of loose sand”, came together following the belief “all for the war,
independence is everything”. They were mobilized and organized to fight against the invad-
ers. “This is truly people’s war, and only with this people’s war, can we defeat the enemy of
our nation.” 2
The victory of the Chinese Resistance War against Japanese Aggression is a victory of the
unity of the Chinese people. Mao Zedong says, in his final conclusion, that “The people, and
the people alone, are the fundamental driving force for the advance of world history.”

2 Selected Works of Mao Zedong, vol.3, People’s Publishing House, 1991, p.1041.