How can an ordinary serviceman write over 10 documentary treatises about Chairman Mao Zedong and is dubbed as "specialized writer on revolution writings"? Chen Guibin, the one who wrote such works as "Mao Zedong's Biography" "Mao Zedong, a Great Man Who Can Grasp the Historical Trend" "Mao Zedong and Zhou En'lai", said candidly: "this is because my heartfelt respect and yearning for Chairman Mao".

　　In 1966, Chen began to collect documents related with Mao Zedong on purpose, he classified these documents according to time series and plots.

　　In order to write the glorious life of the great man, Chen went to nearly all the places where Mao was born, grew up, fought, worked and lived. In Shaoshan, Hunan Province, the late leader Mao Zedong's birthplace, Chen Guibin saw a typical peasant's house. He was moved about how a son of peasant "devised strategies within a command tent and ensure victory on the battle front a thousand li away", so to speak, with great courage and resource. On the Jinggang Mountain, Chen imagined how Mao marched toward the enemy's weak-defended Jinggang Mountain after the failure of the Autumn Harvest Uprising with great courage and insight and wisdom. In Zunyi, Guizhou Province, Chen pondered how Mao saved the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army from danger and adversity with great daring and resolution….With dozens of years of painstaking work, Chen published "Mao Zedong, a Great Man Who Can Grasp the Historical Trend" in 1992, the 99th anniversary of the birthday of the great man.

　　I'm not Mao's relatives, nor did I have the experience of working with Mao. "It's the sincere love that drives me to know more about him. It turned out that the more I knew about him, the more I decided to make it my mission to write about him and to sing the praises of him and that has become a part of my life".

　　This year is the 110 anniversary of the birthday of Mao, Chen published another 5 works such as "Zunyi, the Turning Point" and "The Anti-Japanese War Leader", totaling over 2 million words.

　　By Lin Jingqiu and Cai Baoxin

　　(December 26, PLA Daily)