ruin the state and destroy the race
The Chinese idiom, w á nggu ó mi è zh ǒ ng in pinyin, means national extinction and genocide; it refers to the complete destruction of a country. It comes from the struggle to mobilize all forces for the victory of the Anti Japanese war.
The origin of Idioms
Mao Zedong's "struggle for the victory of the Anti Japanese war by mobilizing all forces": "at such an urgent juncture of national subjugation and extermination, if the Kuomintang still follows the above-mentioned policy and is unwilling to change it quickly, it will bring great harm to the Anti Japanese war."
Idiom usage
As predicate, attribute, object; used in politics.
ruin the state and destroy the race
sail the boat with the help of the wind - jiè fēng shǐ chuán