Abstract

During the morethan 90 years of difficult and magnificent course which the CCP have passed through，the New Democratic Revolution occupied 28 years.In the very 28 years，the Yenan period occupied about 13 years，nearly half of this period.The history of this section is rich on connotation，unique on status，and very significant.In this period，The CCP realized the significant strategic transition from the agrarian revolution to the entirely national anti- Japanese War; In this period，the CCP completed the first historical leap which the Marxism unified with the specifically reality of Chinese revolution，established the leading position of Mao Zedong Thought in party; In this period，CCP led the anti- Japanese war from the back of the enemy，insisted the policy and strategy of the national united front of anti- Japan，and gained great victory at last; In this period，the CCP led the war to Kuomintang for the first two years and welcomed the dawn of the whole victory of Chinese revolution.During the Yenan period，with severe natural environment and economic condition in North Shanxi，with the complex and dangerous political context of powerful enemy surrounding looking at us with fierce and covetous eyes，how did the political power of the border area survive，developed，strengthen，and how did the border area economy and the social become prosperous，vital? Under this kind of environment，how did CCP combat with corruption and build a clean government? And how did CCP closely combine combating corruption and building a clean government with the group's general task and the struggle to realize the general task? This is the question this article aims to discussing.

The corruption is the phenomenon which all political community produce， it is the malignant tumor associated with public authority.Therefore，opposing the corruption，strengthening the cultivation of a clean government is always the topic which does not fade throughout the political life of various countries and it becomes an important political task concerning politics civilization development and the economic society sustainable development of every country.As a party who takes the Marxism- Leninism as the rationale and represents Chinese people's fundamental interests，and its goal is to liberate the universe，realize the communism.But because its personnel originate from the realistic society also doomed to be unable to go beyond the historical limitation and the reality restraint，and it is impossible to guarantee the interior of the Party becomes absolutely an honest vacuum.Marking off all exploiting class political power or party combating corruption，regardless being in power or out of office，the combating corruption and building a clean government of CCP all serve for people and take this as their basic purpose.In 13 years of North Shanxi，the CCP，although only owned the part political power throughout regarded establishing an honest and clean government as the goal，carried out long- term，continual struggle against corruption in border area and various bases，not only overcame partial corruption，causing the CCP to maintain the political vigor throughout，winning most Chinese people's political trust，also laid solid political basis for the final victory of Chinese revolution.

Making a comprehensive survey of former related research，we find that they usually divided the combating corruption and building clean government history of the CCP into three parts: a) the central Chinese Soviet areas period，b) the anti- Japanese War period，c) the war of liberation period.This kind of division method is obviously influenced by the division method of historical period of Chinese revolution history.Firstly，this method goes against the study which regards the magnificent 13 year history of Central Committee in Yenan as a whole.The result is easy to separate the characteristic history of this section，and North Shanxi，as“the foothold”and“the starting point”of Chinese revolution，it is difficult to embody its important historical situation and the profound implication.Secondly，it is easy to cover the different goals and characteristic of combating corruption and building a clean government in several concrete historical stages during Yenan period.In addition，from the anti- Japanese War victory to the erupt civil war，this phase of historical period is often omitted by the researchers，or it is fuzzily processed.In view of this，this article will divides the history of combating corruption and building a clean government in Yenan period into three stages for research:

The first stage is from October，1935，the Central Committee of the CCP arrived at North Shanxi，to the end of 1940.The key point was to establish and insist a national united front of anti- Japan.The aim of combating corruption and building a clean government is to establish the Shanxi，Gansu and Ningxia border area as the democracy model base of anti- Japan.Moreover this stage，besides the Shanxi，Gansu and Ningxia border area，Jinchaji，Shanxi，Shandong，Hebei and Henan provinces，the Shanxi- Suiyuan area，Shandong，Huaibei，Huai Nan，the northern Jiangsu，the Hubei Henan Anhui，and South China established political power one after another.In this stage，the CCP proposed the goal of establishing an honest and clean government，started the big production campaign and the saving movement，fully exerted the model role of party member，founded the system of punishing the corruption，and severely punished the badger hat and so on.Till the end of first stage，the duty to construct the Shanxi，Gansu and Ningxia border area of anti- Japan democracy model was finished roughly.

The second stagewas from 1941 to June of 1946 before the complete eruption of civil war.The key point was to implement“ten big policies”.This time，the border area occupied a relatively peace environment，moreover the overwhelming majority democratic bases of anti- Japan were founded before 1941.From 1941 to the whole eruption period of civil war，we may say it is the period of each democratic base of anti- Japan to insist，develop，and strengthen.In order to construct the Shanxi，Gansu and Ningxia border area to the true clean and democratic government of anti- Japanese war，and cause it to become the model of various aspects，on one hand，the CCP emphasized the party's theory construction，namely attitude rectification movement; on the other hand，established each law and regulation of combating corruption and building a clean government，and took the corresponding measures and supervising mechanism.All were to cause the combating corruption and building a clean government to be the model，and make the democratic government of anti- Japan become the most honest and clean government of Chinese history.

The third stage is from July 1946 to March 1948，the Central Committee leaving North Shanxi.The key point of combating corruption and building a clean government was to seize power and consolidated political power.After the victory anti- Japanese War，the environment and the political configurations of the CCP had immense changes.Especially the full civil war's eruption caused new political configurations both domestic and foreign.The CCP and its leading revolutionary strength's status in Chinese political life appeared more prominent and important than ever before.For the new task appeared in the party and political power's construction，combating corruption and building a clean government became the important content of the party and political power construction after the whole eruption of the civil war.Regarding this important task，in order to meet the need of the war's situation，the Communist Party transformed the government apparatus，established the censorate，and strengthened the modernization of the armed forces，formulated and carried out the correct urban policy and so on，which made full preparation in thoughts，politics and organization for capturing and consolidating the national political power.

The combating corruption and building a clean government of the Yenan period，inherited the party's combating corruption and building a clean government tradition in the Soviet period，adapted the profound and widespread democracy construction's request and the new anti- Japan situation of Kuomintang-Chinese communist cooperation，according to the strategic design of the CCP and Mao Zedong“anti- Japanese War- unity- democracy，it had created many struggle policies，systems and measures against corruption from practice to theory.These practice and measures of combating corruption made huge progress in fact.It not only cultivated Yenan spirit with the connotation: rely on one's own effort to revive，the arduous struggle，realistic，the unity to advance boldly and serve the people，moreover it condensed the party heart，won the popular sentiment，created a new society，and founded a new China finally.Looking over the combating corruption and building a clean government practice of Yenan period，we may obtain these inspiring and significance conclusion: The reason that CCP overcame innumerable dangers and difficulties on the barren loess in North Shanxi，gained great victory one after another，can't be separate from the party strengthened itself and combating corruption and building a clean government unceasingly.In brief，the CCP won the popular sentiment by honest，won the political power because of the popular sentiment.

All in all，the history is not only predecessor's collective memory; moreover it is predecessor's collective wisdom.Reflect from the past，to summarize and learn from the historic experience of combating corruption and building a clean government of the revolutionary base，it is very necessary to solve the question of reality without doubt.But，when we learn from history，we must oppose the view: some people simply think if we inherit and carry forward the fine combating corruption and building a clean government tradition of the base period，we can eliminate the current corruption (it is because yesterday and today are two different times) .We must oppose the history nihilism: who use some kinds of excuse to deny certain historic experience might be used for reference，and particularly we must oppose that kind of wrong deed: who parented to inherit the historic experience，in fact who is departed from it，namely their words do not match with deeds，only formalism.Leader taking the lead，the mass line，pay great attention to the ideological education，obey the command，arduous struggle，is the most remarkable characteristic of combating corruption and building a clean government in Yenan time.These characteristics and the spirit principles it manifested，still have important significance to CCP combating corruption and building a clean government today.

Key words: Combat corruption and build a clean government; An honest and clean government; CCP; Yenan period