Chapter 54 Land reform must be carried out in stages

(February 7, 1951) Central South Bureau, South China Branch, and report to East China Bureau and Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Southwest Bureau, and Northwest Bureau: On January 26, the Central South Bureau transferred to Du Runsheng [1] Comrade Du Runsheng received the telegram on January 19. We agree with the method proposed by Du Runsheng, that is, first of all, mobilize the masses in all counties to reduce rent, return mortgages, and fight hegemony And the struggle to suppress counter-revolutionaries, rectify the grassroots organizations, this is a stage, and then transfer to the stage of dividing the land.This is absolutely necessary and the quickest.The correct order of land reform should have been like this.In many places in eastern and central southern China, those who have done the best land reform work have gone through such an order.The same is true of the land reform experience in North China, Northeast China and Shandong in the past.When we say that the land reform work in Guangdong should be accelerated, we are not asking comrades in Guangdong to violate this order. The masses have not yet risen up, and the grassroots organizations are not reliable, so they must carry out the work of allocating land bluntly and immaturely. Rather, we must speed up the mobilization of the masses. , to rectify the grassroots organizations, and then divide the fields.In the past year or so, Guangdong has not paid close attention to the most basic link of mobilizing the masses and rectifying the grassroots, so it feels difficult to divide the land now, but it is not too late to do so now, and it should be done in this way .

central february 7 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Du Runsheng, born in 1913, was born in Taigu, Shanxi.At that time, he was the secretary-general of the Central South Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the deputy director of the Central South Land Reform Commission.