Chapter 78 Treat agricultural mutual aid and cooperation as a major event

(December 15, 1951) All central bureaus, sub-bureaus, provincial, municipal and district party committees: (1) I hereby send you a draft resolution [1] on mutual assistance and cooperation in agricultural production. Please print and distribute it to the county and district committees.Please interpret this draft both inside and outside the party and organize its implementation.This must be explained and implemented in all areas where the land reform has been completed, please treat it as a major event.This draft resolution can be published in internal Party journals, but not in non-Party newspapers, because it is still a draft. (2) This draft has some revisions compared to the draft distributed to some comrades in October. Please take back the October draft and make it invalid.

central December 15, 1951 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Refers to the draft resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on December 15, 1951 on mutual assistance and cooperation in agricultural production.Mao Zedong added some words when reviewing this draft, mainly: (1) When talking about "the need to put forward patriotic slogans in the countryside, so as to combine the production of farmers with the requirements of the country", he added "one-sidedly put forward The slogan of 'make a fortune' is wrong". (2) In the part where "state-run farms should be popularized so as to give full play to their exemplary role, and provide technical assistance and guidance to mutual aid groups and cooperatives", it is added that "where farmers fully agree and have machine conditions, there are also A small number of collective farms of a socialist nature may be set up on a trial basis, for example, one or several in each province, in order to gain experience and set an example for the peasants."On February 15, 1953, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notice to make this draft resolution an official resolution.