Chapter 56 Letter to Deng Xiaoping[1]

(June 22, 1961) Comrade Xiaoping: This document [2] is very good and should be wholesaled to all bureaus of the Central Committee and party committees of all provinces, cities, and districts to report accordingly and resolutely implement it.If one-third of the 240,000 people in the central government has already been reduced, that is, 80,000 people, and tens of thousands more can be reduced, I would like to reduce another 40,000 people. , accounting for half of the total of 240,000 people, it is certain that work efficiency will be greatly improved.All provinces, municipalities, districts, prefectures, counties, and all localities follow this plan and resolutely reduce it. This will greatly reduce bureaucracy and improve work efficiency throughout the country.Now that the urban population is to be reduced by more than 20 million, there are already regulations for the three-level personnel in the people's communes. If they are resolutely and properly implemented, the serious problem of one person being superfluous can be solved.Please do as above.

Mao Zedong June 22, 1961 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Deng Xiaoping, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council. [2] Refers to the "Report on the Streamlining of Central Organs" submitted to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China by Xi Zhongxun, Vice Premier and Secretary-General of the State Council on June 19, 1961.