The premiere of the film Mao Zedong in Caixi will be released nationwide on May 8.


1905 movie network news A few days ago, the film held the national premiere ceremony of Mao Zedong in Caixi Town, Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province. Party and government leaders from Fujian Province, Longyan City and Shanghang County, film director, screenwriter Lin Guoliang, starring, and experts and scholars from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Literature Research Office, China Academy of Art, Bayi Film Studio, China Film Association and other units gathered in Caixi to participate in the grand event. The film was shown to the audience for the first time at the premiere ceremony, which attracted the unanimous praise of hundreds of audiences.

In 2021, it coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and this film will be released nationwide on May 8th.The film "Mao Zedong in Caixi" provides a vivid teaching material for studying and educating the history of the Party and studying and implementing the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee.

Panoramic restoration of major revolutionary historical events Li Min served as the general counsel of the film

The film "Mao Zedong in Caixi" is the first film that comprehensively restores the major revolutionary historical event "Investigation in Caixi Township, Mao Zedong". Eighty-eight years ago, in 1933, China’s revolutionary cause was at a critical juncture. Comrade Mao Zedong came to Caixi Township for the third time, that is, Caixi Town, Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province today, to conduct an in-depth social investigation and write down the book Investigation of Caixi Township, which is of great significance and far-reaching influence on China’s revolution.

Mao Zedong is in Caixi, with Mao Zedong’s daughter, Comrade Li Min, as the general consultant. At the premiere ceremony, the host read out "Comrade Li Min’s power of attorney on agreeing to shoot the film feature film Mao Zedong in Caixi".

Ren Xiong Huayuan, former owner of the first editorial department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Literature Research Office, Zhang Baiqing, researcher of China Academy of Art and former president of China Film Critics Association, Li Tianyin, former director of the production department of Bayi Film Studio, Xu Berlin, former secretary general of China Film Association, and other experts and scholars; Relatives of the founding general Liu Zhong and the founding general Wang Zhi in the "Eighth Division of the Ninth Army" in Caixi; Jiang Dade, First Inspector of Propaganda Department of Fujian Provincial Committee, Director of Provincial Cultural Reform Office, Huang Huichang, Director of Cultural Industry Division of Propaganda Department of Fujian Provincial Committee, Zheng Yulin, Vice Chairman of Longyan CPPCC and Chairman of Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, Huang Keshui, Fourth Investigator of Propaganda Department of Longyan Municipal Committee, Luo Jian, Deputy Secretary of Shanghang County Committee, Liang Basheng, Director of Shanghang County People’s Congress, Huang Gaozhuang, Deputy Secretary and Deputy County Magistrate of Shanghang County Committee, Wang Yaohua, Deputy County Magistrate of Shanghang County, Hu Jinxiang, etc. And leaders from the film distributor Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd., producers Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghang County Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. attended the premiere ceremony.

At the premiere ceremony, Jiang Dade, first-class inspector of the Propaganda Department of Fujian Provincial Committee and director of the Provincial Cultural Reform Office, Zheng Yulin, vice chairman of Longyan CPPCC and chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, and Luo Jian, deputy secretary of Shanghang County Committee and county magistrate, spoke on stage, highly praising the profound historical and educational significance of the film in the centenary of the founding of the Party, and wishing the film a complete success.

The guests at the scene praised the film after watching the movie. They said that the film "Mao Zedong in Caixi" comprehensively and meticulously restored the major revolutionary historical event "Investigation in Caixi Township, Mao Zedong", which can make people deeply understand and understand the connotation of "Investigation Spirit in Caixi Township".

Caixi filmed the whole process on the spot to restore the revolutionary style in western Fujian.

The film "Mao Zedong in Caixi" was directed by Wei Lian, a famous director of Bayi Film Studio, written by Lin Guoliang, honorary chairman of Longyan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and starring Henry Hui Wang, an actor of the National Theatre and a national first-class drama actor.

Wei Lian has directed famous films such as Battle of the Armageddon, Battle of Peiping and Tianjin, Great Turning Point and Great March, and won many national film awards such as Golden Rooster Award for Best Director in China, Outstanding Director Award in China Film Watch Award, Outstanding Feature Film Award in China Film Watch Award and Best Feature Film Award in Hundred Flowers Award.

At the premiere ceremony, director Wei Lian talked about his feelings about Caixi, saying that he was coming to Caixi for the fifth time, thanking the gifts of history and life, and being able to shoot a realistic work like Mao Zedong in Caixi. At the same time, I would also like to thank the people of Caixi for their dedication and sacrifice in the revolutionary war years, so that Mao Zedong in Caixi naturally has a warm-blooded epic feeling.

Screenwriter Lin Guoliang has successively won the national "May 1st Labor Medal", national outstanding literary and art workers, Fujian model worker, Longyan outstanding Communist party member and other honors. Lin Guoliang has a deep attachment and love for the red culture in western Fujian and Caixi, and once choked up on the stage. He said that the red culture of Caixi is a kind of culture with individuality. Comrade Mao Zedong once commented that the spirit of daring to fight and fight in Caixi Soviet Area is "the straw sandals are no different, and the more they fight, the more they look like"; He also said that the red culture of Caixi has been passed down among Caixi people.

Henry Hui Wang had created the image of "Mao Zedong" in many films before, which was recognized by experts and audiences. In the movie Mao Zedong in Caixi, Henry Hui Wang’s performance made the audience feel the glorious image and lofty spirit of the revolutionary leader at a close distance recently. Henry Hui Wang said at the premiere ceremony that at the suggestion of director Wei Lian, he used Hunan dialect to speak dialogue, which made Mao Zedong in Caixi become the first film to use Hunan dialect to interpret the image of a leader in recent years.

Henry Hui Wang also recited the words of Comrade Mao Zedong when he wrote the name of the glorious pavilion in Caixi famous revolutionary site in Hunan dialect. The phrase "carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory" pushed the premiere ceremony to a climax.

Investigating the spiritual transmission power, the bloody scene is shocking. 

After the national premiere ceremony of the film "Mao Zedong in Caixi", the film was screened for the first time after its production, which won enthusiastic response from hundreds of audiences.Some viewers said that during the whole process of watching movies, they were shocked by the bloody scenes in the film, and were even more encouraged by the great spirit of revolutionary leaders who were not afraid of hardships and conducted in-depth investigations. In the film, Mao Zedong said, "If you want a revolution, you have to be strong", which is "the words that make you feel the power most".

Some viewers also said that the film’s display of the indomitable and fearless revolutionary feelings of Caixi people can be described as vivid and profound, and the spirit of daring and fighting in Caixi red culture embodied in the film is worth promoting, and said that these spirits will be passed down hard.

In the film, Mao Zedong went deep into Caixi to investigate, lived in the home of local people in Caixi, worked in the fields with the people, researched and wrote among the people, and ate and worked with them. These pictures truly restore the process and glorious deeds of Mao Zedong’s investigation in Caixi Township, and let the audience deeply feel the charisma and affinity of revolutionary leaders.

The film "Mao Zedong in Caixi" is jointly produced by Bayi Film Studio and Fujian Shanghang Caixi Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and will be officially released on May 8.