Chapter 75 Increase production and save money, oppose corruption, waste and bureaucracy[1]

(December 1951) one 1952 was the last year of our three-year preparatory work.From 1953 onwards, we will enter into large-scale economic construction and plan to complete China's industrialization in 20 years.Of course, the completion of industrialization is not limited to heavy industry and defense industry, all necessary light industries should be established.In order to complete the industrialization of the country, it is necessary to develop agriculture and gradually complete the socialization of agriculture.But first of all, what is important and can drive forward the development of light industry and agriculture is the construction of heavy industry and defense industry.In order to build heavy industry and national defense industry, a lot of money must be spent, and the source of the money is to increase production and save money. This should be clearly understood by all comrades in the party.Therefore, the Central Committee held an enlarged Politburo meeting in October 1951 to decide on this policy; and from the same month to November 1, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference passed this policy.All departments of the Central Committee and the Military Commission, all party groups of the Central People's Government and people's organizations, all central bureaus, all central sub-bureaus, all provincial, municipal, district and prefectural committees, all military region party committees at the same level, all government party groups at the same level, and all The party group of the people's organizations at the same level leads the whole party, the whole army and the people of the whole country to launch a patriotic movement to increase production and save money, making this movement a real movement of all people, and to fight for the realization of the above-mentioned plan.It must be recognized that this policy is not negative, but has great positive significance.It is a policy to ensure the victory of the Korean War and to ensure the continued stability of domestic prices. It is a policy to accumulate funds, gain experience, and accelerate national economic construction. It is also a policy to clean up party discipline, improve work efficiency, and transfer social atmosphere. In short, It is a policy that will lead to the rapid progress of our country's overall political, military, economic, and cultural aspects and lay the foundation for future great construction.

two Since we occupied the city for two to three years, serious cases of corruption have continued to occur, which proves that the Second Plenary Session of the Party Central Committee in the spring of 1949 [2] seriously pointed out the inevitability of the bourgeoisie's erosion of the Party and the need to prevent and overcome it. It is absolutely correct to recognize the necessity of this great danger, and now is an urgent time for the whole party to mobilize for the practical implementation of this resolution.If we fail to effectively implement this resolution, we will make a big mistake.Now we must issue a warning to the whole party: All party members who are engaged in state work, party affairs, and people's organization work are serious crimes if they use their powers to commit corruption and waste.The Central People's Government will soon promulgate regulations on punishing corruption and waste. Leading organs at all levels must emulate the implementation of the regulations on punishing counter-revolutionaries, mobilize all staff and relevant masses to study with great fanfare, call for confessions and reports, and the main responsible Comrades personally supervise and inspect.All acts of corruption must be exposed and dealt with in varying degrees according to the seriousness of the circumstances, ranging from warnings, transfers, dismissals, expulsion from the party, various prison sentences, and even executions.Typical corruption offenders must mobilize the masses for a public trial and be punished according to law.

Although there are some differences in nature between waste and corruption, the loss of waste is greater than that of corruption, and the result is often close to embezzlement, theft, defrauding state property or accepting bribes from others.Therefore, severe punishment of waste must be carried out simultaneously with severe punishment of corruption.The scope of waste is extremely wide, there are many items, and it is a common and serious phenomenon. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on fighting and formulate punishment methods. The development and deepening of the anti-corruption and anti-waste struggles will inevitably come into contact with various degrees of bureaucratic and liberal work styles that exist in all aspects.This style of work is the root cause of the existence and development of corruption and waste.The Central Committee requires the leading organs of the Party at all levels to carry out a struggle against bureaucracy during the work of streamlining the army and streamlining administration, launching a nationwide patriotic campaign to increase production and save money, and fighting against corruption and waste.Those who have serious corruption or waste in their affiliated agencies, troops, groups, schools or enterprises, but are not aware of it beforehand, and do not punish severely afterwards, are called serious bureaucrats.Such serious bureaucrats, even though they did not personally participate in corruption or waste, should be punished as dereliction of duty and will never be condoned.

In order to eliminate corruption, waste, and bureaucracy effectively and thoroughly, it is necessary to reward those exemplary units and people who are not corrupt, wasteful, and bureaucratic. Draw a sharp line between bureaucrats and bureaucrats. three This decision has been handed down to the party's prefectural committee and the army's military party committee.When provincial or prefectural committees convene meetings of county party members, municipal party committees in large cities convene district party members, and provincial military or military party committees convene military sub-district and regiment-level personnel, this decision should be sent to them for reading, preferably It is to organize group readings and explain to them the questions raised by them.Other cadres who are equivalent to the level of the county party committee, the Communist Youth League party committee and the big city district committee should have the opportunity to read (using the method of collective reading), but they must not be read by unreliable elements, they must not be published in any publications, and they must not be lost. .In order to fully implement the basic policy and various measures of this decision, it is necessary to explain it to the cadres in detail, so that they can clearly understand the overall situation and the importance of the task.

Printed from originals kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are the three paragraphs rewritten and added by Mao Zedong when reviewing the draft of "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Implementing Streamlined Troops and Simplified Administration, Increasing Production and Savings, Opposing Corruption, Opposing Waste, and Opposing Bureaucracy". [2] The Second Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee refers to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh CPC Central Committee held in Xibaipo Village, Pingshan County, Hebei Province from March 5 to 13, 1949.