The word communism was brought into the acquaintance of Chinese citizens by a person named Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was from a poor family background but he was an intellectual personality. He had dreams of gaining higher reputation and help establish peace in China. He left his home and became a member of Nationalist army during 1911 when the insurgency started in China. During that period he was introduced to Marxism and he becomes highly prejudiced by it.

During 1900 Boxing Revolution started in China, with the objective of riding off foreigners from Chinese territory and annihilating all missionaries and Christian converts. Chinese citizens suffered from starvation, extreme poverty and grief resulting in the loss of many lives. This gave a platform for a person like Mao Zedong to start a revolution and follow the footsteps of Karl Marx. During 1916 Chinese citizens had already experienced a beating from the hands of landlords. It was a period when warlords fought with each other for dictatorship. It was a dark period in the history of China. Hence more and more Chinese people started to join the revolutionary groups or became a member of any political parties with a view to re-establish peace in China. Around 1918 China saw several movements which strongly encouraged a path into communism. The writings were on the wall for the establishment of a nation ruled by Communism.

The state of chaos and anguish started and citizens of China started to mentally accept the concept of communism. Within no time almost 90% of Chinese people were in support of communism. It was during that particular period when Zedong founded a society to study and scrutinize the concept of Marxism and in the year 1921 the members of the society formed Chinese Communist Party. After successfully defeating the nationalist, Mao Zedong led the communist party. Mao Zedong became a popular stature and the Chinese citizens gave him ample support for the betterment of China. 

Hence Chinese citizens greeted communism in their country with a hope of establishment of equality among all citizens and to overcome the dictatorship of Landlords. Since Mao Zedong was himself from a poor family background, Chinese citizens show in him the qualities required in a ruler. Mao Zedong was a person with great intellectual capabilities and was brave in his actions. He defeated Nationalist and was responsible for the downfall of Landlord ship. He gave China a great deal of hope which no one had done prior to him.