Abstract: Freeing individual thoughts and opposing class poverty are the established goals of Marxist parties. During the period of the New Democratic Revolution, the Communist Party of China drew on Soviet Russia's experience in running newspapers, mobilized the masses to write articles for the Party newspaper, and organized a team of workers' and peasants' correspondents. Under the guidance of the propaganda departments in the base area, the masses observed the actual progress of rural social transformation, expressed their views and offered suggestions in their manuscripts, and at the same time deepened their knowledge and understanding of the revolution. Because of the complex situation of anti-encirclement and suppression, the workers' and peasants' correspondent movement were not able to fully develop, but it encouraged the proletariat to be involved in the construction of the base area, to move gradually from“being unrestrained”to“acting-by-themselves”, and to get rid of ideological and cultural poverty. The methodology contained therein provides endogenous motivation from the people to the Chinese Communist Party for the realization of its cultural anti-poverty proposition. It also possesses significant reference for the construction and consolidation of a poverty alleviation system with Chinese characteristics.

Key words: Communist Party of China, Central Soviet Area, workers' and peasants' correspondents, free the minds, cultural anti-poverty