September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao Zedong died. That night, the Politburo held an emergency meeting to determine the body to protect the President, so that all walks of life to offer condolences and pay their last respects, an initial period of 15 days. Mao Zedong's call for cremation during his lifetime, is the first one in the Politburo after the death of a statement signed by the leaders of cremated remains. Therefore, the initial decision to protect the body only to all walks of life within 15 days of mourning activities ...

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The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international war. From 1954 to 1959, Mao was the Chairman of the PRC. During this period, Mao was called Chairman Mao or the Great Leader Chairman Mao . The Communist Party assumed control of all media in the country and used it to promote the image of Mao and the Party. The Nationalists under General Chiang Kai-Shek were vilified as were countries such as the United States of America and Japan. The Chinese people were exhorted to devote themselves to build and strengthen their country. In his speech declaring the foundation of the PRC, Mao announced: "The Chinese people have stood up!"

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The extent of Mao's knowledge as to the severity of the situation has been disputed. According to some, most notably Dr. Li Zhisui, Mao was not aware of anything more than a mild food and general supply shortage until late 1959.

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Mao is regarded as a national hero of China. In 2008, China opened the Mao Zedong Square to visitors in his hometown of central Hunan Province to mark the 115th anniversary of his birth.

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Mao, the founder of the People's Republic of China, was born in1893 and died in 1976. 
 
The portrait, 91 centimeters high and 68.5 centimeters wide, was painted in the 1950s by portraitist Zhang Zhenshi. Posters of the work were made and circulated throughout the country...

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In the first stage, what Mao adopted to reform the rural economy is to immerse himself into rural areas, mobilize the broad masses, and destroy relations of feudal production in rural areas. In order to gain success in the first stage, Mao found a foothold in the most poverty-stricken mountain villages, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the poor peasants and helping them cast off the yoke of feudalism, which was later popularized throughout the whole country, and eventually, the feudal land ownership, which lasted for centuries, was thoroughly wiped out and was taken the place by the new democratic rural production relationship, which took the peasantry as a subject. Hence there emerged rural production relations of a new democracy instead. Meanwhile, Mao got a generous support from the peasants, which helped him win the final victory of the protracted revolutionary war and seize the political power. With the establishment of the political and economic system of the new democracy, the peasants were granted with new "sunshine" and "rain and dew", and a wide horizon presented in front of them. 

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Closing speech delivered by Comrade Mao Tse-tung at the VII National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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