Xie Juezai was a highly respected social activist and he had many writings on how to deal with disasters, which formed his profound disaster-relieving thought. Xie Juezai concerned very much about the famine causes except natural factors, and he was clear that the disaster relief in the liberated areas and that in the national governmental areas are essentially different. Based on this, he pointed out that the people is the main body of disaster relief which is a long struggle and should be combined with the production process, and the release of relief funds should be taken as a key issue in the relief work. From Xie Juezai’s disaster-relieving thought, we can not only feel the essential differences between the new and old society in coping with disasters, but also can discover its contemporary value which cannot be neglected.