Abstract: The Party’s newspaper is one of the most important bridges connecting the Communist? Party of China (CPC) with the masses. The correspondent network is also the bridge connecting the Party’s newspaper with the masses, so that it becomes indirectly the bridge connecting the Party with the masses. Under the revolutionary situation, the construction of a correspondent network can meet the internal need of developing the Party’s journalism, achieving the Party’s social mobilization, and consolidating the Party’s mass base. In 1926, the Party’s propaganda resolution put forward the construction task of a correspondent team from workers and peasants. Since then, along with the development of the Party’s newspapers, the construction of the correspondent network has gradually become institutionalized and standardized with significant achievements: on the one hand, it can provide sources of contributions for the newspapers, feed-back the situations, help to issue newspapers, set up newspaper reading groups, and so on; on the other hand, it can contribute the transition from“a newspaper by the reporters”to“a newspaper by the masses”, strengthen the intimate connection between the Party and the masses, and enrich the Party’s theories of journalism and communication.

Key words: Party newspapers; audience; the correspondent network; relation between the Party and the masses