The advanced China people who sought truth from the West before the birth of the Communist Party of China (CPC) were:
All of them, Kang Youwei, Yan Fu and Sun Yat-sen, needless to say, all of them are definitely. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement led by Hong Xiuquan was the largest peasant uprising in the history of China, which dealt a heavy blow to the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, accelerated the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and had a great impact on the reform of modern China. Sun Yat-sen said that Hong Xiuquan was the first person to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Mao Zedong praised Hong Xiuquan as a representative of those who sought the truth from the West before the birth of China's * * * production party, and one of the first advanced China people to seek the truth from the West.