Introduction to Mao Zedong: Great Crowd Sculpture - Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), courtesy name Runzhi, the first Chairman of the People's Republic of China, a great Marxist and proletarian revolutionary , strategist and theorist, the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China, and is respectfully known as "Chairman Mao". He led the Chinese people to emerge from suffering and resisted the invaders tenaciously. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the modern world. Time magazine also named him one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th century.