"Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" or "No Communist Party, No New China" is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) song, which originated in 1943 in response to the phrase, "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China".
During World War II when China was fighting the Japanese invasion, Chiang Kai-shek published a book titled in 1943 containing the statement, "Without the Kuomintang there would be no China." The Chinese Communist Party 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." Poet Cao Huoxing wrote a song on this theme titled "Without the Communist Party, There Would be No China."
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 film 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. The site, No Communist Party, No New China Memorial Hall, was designated in 2019 as a national patriotic education demonstration site.
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.
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