Chapter 80 Opinions on Experimental Collective Farms

(December 17, 1951) Comrade Wang Zhen[1] also told Comrades Zhongxun and Zongxun[2] that all central bureaus and major military regions: (1) Wang Zhen's report on December 14 [3] was received, and I think this report is correct.Except for the last one, it can be submitted to the expansion meeting of the sub-bureau and the production representative meeting of the military region. (2) In your plan, use the experience of the collective labor of the army to try out the plan of running collective farms for ten peasants. This plan is very good.In the upcoming draft resolution on the development of mutual aid and cooperation in agriculture, the Central Committee has included the trial establishment of one or several collective farms in each province.Of course, there are only a small number of such collective farms at present, that is, only one or a few collective farms can be established in each province.Because Xinjiang is giving farmers part of the land reclaimed by the army, part of the water conservancy and houses repaired by the army, if they can be given machine assistance, the farmers may be happy to do it.Feel free to report your experiences in this area. (3) In all military commands and localities, all state-owned farms and individual collective farms that already use machines for plowing and harvesting (for example, the peasant collective farms in Langfang, Tianjin County, Hebei), or state-owned farms or collective farms that plan to do so, are expected to This is regarded as a major event, and we will work hard to summarize our experience and report to the central government at any time. (4) Distribute Wang Zhen's report to the major military regions and the Central Bureau for reference.

Mao Zedong December 17 Printed from manuscript -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Wang Zhen, then Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Acting Commander and Acting Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. [2] Zhongxun, that is, Xi Zhongxun, was the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the Northwest Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army at that time.Zongxun, that is, Zhang Zongxun (1908-1998), a native of Weinan, Shaanxi, was the first deputy commander of the Northwest Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army at that time.

[3] Refers to Wang Zhen’s report to Mao Zedong, Xi Zhongxun, and Zhang Zongxun on December 14, 1951, about the content of the production meeting of the Xinjiang Military Region and the production plan for the next year.According to the report, the military region is preparing to carry out land reform in the winter of 1952. The small canals built by the scattered production units in the past two years and the tens of thousands of acres of land cultivated and houses built will be given up, and party members and cadres of the army will be sent to help The local peasants organized ten collective farms (each with 10,000 to 15,000 mu of land), and took advantage of the collective labor experience of the army to seriously try to run peasant collective farms.In addition to taking on the task of guarding, the army concentrated on reclamation and operation of large farms.