Chapter 71 Gradually develop agricultural production mutual aid and cooperation organizations

(October 17, 1951) All central bureaus, all central sub-bureaus, provincial and municipal party committees and local committees: Comrade Gao Gang's report on the production cooperation and mutual aid movement in the Northeast countryside[1] is hereby sent to you for your reference, and it may be published in party journals.The Central Committee believes that the policy proposed by Comrade Gao Gang in this report is correct.Party committees in all regions that have completed the task of land reform should study this issue and lead the peasant masses to gradually form and develop various agricultural production mutual aid and cooperative organizations based on private property. individual farmers.Every province should establish a state-run factory for the production of new farm implements so that farmers can buy and use them.Provinces, prefectures and counties must establish at least one public farm for demonstration purposes.The Central Committee has already drawn up a directive (draft) on the development of mutual aid and cooperation in agricultural production, which will be sent to you shortly.

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China October 17, 1951 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Refers to the report to Mao Zedong by Gao Gang, secretary of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on October 14, 1951, about the production cooperation and mutual aid movement in the Northeast countryside.The report pointed out that the rural production cooperation and mutual aid movement should be actively supported and developed according to the voluntary and needs of the masses, and gradually lead from low-level to higher-level forms.The key here is the actual effect of the leadership of the cooperative mutual aid group, that is, whether it has improved agricultural productivity, harvested more grain, and increased farmers' income.Various forms of cooperative and mutual aid groups should make relatively good achievements to actively mobilize and attract individual farmers to voluntarily join various types of cooperative and mutual aid groups, but the emphasis must be on voluntariness, and there should be no coercion or discrimination against individual farmers.It is also necessary to help single-handed households solve their difficulties in production and life.The people's government should give preferential treatment to mutual aid groups in all aspects, especially in terms of agricultural tools, technical guidance, and supply and marketing.