Chapter 49 Against two egalitarianism

(March 13, 1961) Comrades Liu, Zhou, Chen, Deng, and Peng[1], and comrades at the Beijing Conference[2]: Comrade Tao Zhu [3] was sent to you today to report to you and to make some suggestions for the comrades who came to the meeting in the third northern district for reference.The problem of egalitarianism between production teams within a brigade and the problem of egalitarianism among people within a production team (formerly small teams) are two extremely serious problems. I hope to discuss them at the Beijing Conference so that all After the person returned, he himself and instructed the first secretaries at all levels to investigate carefully and earnestly.If you don't do your own investigations, you won't understand it, you won't be able to solve these two major problems (the same goes for other major problems), and you won't be able to truly mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses.I also hope that Comrades Xiaoping and Peng Zhen will spare some time (for example, about ten days) after the meeting to go to Miyun, Shunyi, Huairou, etc. ) Investigate and study, so that you know what you are doing, so that you can do guidance work.I see that you still don’t understand the above two issues of egalitarianism, don’t you? Am I wrong? Most of the first secretaries of provinces, prefectures, counties, and communes are also like this. .The reason is that they are busy with routine work and do not conduct typical investigations in person. They are satisfied with listening to reports at the prefectural and county levels at meetings, are satisfied with reading prefectural and county written reports, or are satisfied with quick surveys.Comrades in the Central Committee generally make the same mistakes.I hope that comrades will correct this from now on.Of course, my own faults must be resolutely corrected.Why are you so busy? It is too rare to have a meeting for three days, at least five to seven days.Why are the three southern districts [4] not busy, and open for seven days, while the northern three districts are so busy? Therefore, I sent Comrade Tao Zhu to visit your place.Go today, come back tomorrow.Comrade Liao Luyan[5] was also sent back to Beijing a few days later to conduct investigations in the north.Comrades should also study my article "On Investigation Work"[6]. The questions raised there are systematic and personal investigations, not old-fashioned investigations, so I suggest comrades to study it.Objections can be raised, but not ignored.

Mao Zedong At 8 a.m. on March 13, 1961, Guangzhou Published according to the documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Liu, referring to Liu Shaoqi.Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.Chen, referring to Chen Yun, who was then Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Deng refers to Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), a native of Guang'an, Sichuan, who was then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.Peng, referring to Peng Zhen (1902-1997), a native of Quwo, Shanxi, who was then a secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

[2] Refers to the meeting held in Beijing by Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, etc. from March 10 to 13, 1961. The leaders of the North China Bureau, the Northeast Bureau, and the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the leaders of the party committees of the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to which these three regions belong participated. The work conference, called the North Three District Conference. [3] Tao Zhu (1908-1969), born in Qiyang, Hunan.At that time, he was the first secretary of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the first secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.

[4] Refers to the three regions of Central South, Southwest and East China.At that time, Mao Zedong was in Guangzhou to convene a work conference attended by the heads of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China in these three regions and the heads of the party committees of the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. This meeting was called the meeting of the three southern districts. [5] Liao Luyan (1913-1972), a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu.At that time, he served as Deputy Minister of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Agriculture.

[6] "About investigation work", see note [2] on page 240 of this volume.