Chapter 109 Management issues on important native products and non-staple food

(October 16, 1953) Comrades Chen Yun and Xiaoping[1]: As for important native products and non-staple foods, it is necessary to gradually seize them and turn them over to the state and cooperatives for management.This is a great asset, which can not only solve its own problems, but also help brother countries.Please invite Ye Jizhuang, Zeng Shan, Yao Yilin, Cheng Zihua[2] and other comrades to have a discussion on this matter, and make a purchase and sales plan for the two months of this year and next year.For example, grease (vegetable oil and animal oil), oil crops (soybean, peanut, sesame, rapeseed, tea seed, cottonseed, etc.), commercial pigs, commercial slaughtered cattle, sheep, eggs, and vegetables in large and medium-sized cities (cooperation on the production of vegetable farmers I have told Chen Boda and Liao Luyan[3] to discuss it at the mutual aid and cooperation meeting at the end of this month), and gradually enter the state-run and cooperative camps. Now we need to make plans and start doing it.Like the 50 million commercial pigs, Guohe and He only made 6% of them, that is, 3 million (of which 1.9 million were exported). Twelve, that is, six million heads.If there is a market for foreign trade and domestic trade, it can be increased.Vegetables in large and medium-sized cities must be managed. Production co-operation and supply and marketing co-operation (the latter plus state control) should be carried out simultaneously. In the past, we did not manage this aspect at all.Grease and oilseeds are more valuable than ordinary grain, and most of them are still in private hands. This winter and next year, they must be managed jointly by the state and the government.Of course, it cannot be all or most of it in the current few years, but we can manage one third or half of it.

We should do our best to help Germany. I think we can agree to a business of 320 million rubles, but just declare to them: (1) We will not be able to do it in the first half of next year, and we will use all our efforts to meet their requirements in the second half of the year; (2) Germany Give us more of the daily necessities we need (what they have, or what they can produce), and less of the machines that we cannot use temporarily (we must also prepare for a part of the political backlog, or even debts).They suffer much more than us, and we cannot ignore them.Please reconsider this matter with your foreign trade comrades.

Mao Zedong At twenty-four o'clock on October 16, 1953 North Korea is a gift, and Germany is a barter trade, which is different because Germany has not fought a war.But Germany, like North Korea, is at the forefront of the struggle against the enemy.In the democratic camp, only these two countries are divided into two, while Poland, Czechia, Hungary and other countries are all united. Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Chen Yun, then Vice Premier of the State Council and Director of the Financial and Economic Committee.Xiaoping, also known as Deng Xiaoping, was Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council and Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Committee.

[2] Ye Jizhuang (1893-1967), a native of Xinxing, Guangdong, was the Minister of Foreign Trade of the Central People's Government at that time.Zeng Shan (1899-1972), born in Luling (now Ji'an), Jiangxi Province, was the Minister of Commerce of the Central People's Government at that time.Yao Yilin (1917-1994), a native of Guichi, Anhui, was the Deputy Minister of Commerce of the Central People's Government at that time.Cheng Zihua (1905-1991), born in Xie County, Shanxi Province (now Yuncheng), was a member of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Government Administration Council and director of the Central Cooperative Business Administration Bureau.

[3] Chen Boda (1904-1989), a native of Huian, Fujian, was the deputy director of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Liao Luyan was the deputy director of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the time.