Chapter 136 Agricultural Cooperatives Should Develop and Reorganize in a Planned Way

(November 1, 1955) Shanghai Bureau, provincial and municipal party committees, and autonomous region party committees: I am sending you the reports of the Jiangsu and Shandong Provincial Party Committees on how to complete the rectification work after developing a large number of co-operatives so that they can be consolidated so as to facilitate the large-scale development of agricultural production next spring.In the two reports, especially in the report of Shandong, there are many new opinions, which deserve attention from all over the world.These two provinces (as well as Yunnan, Guizhou and several other provinces), due to the preparatory work (Shandong short preparation time is a disadvantage), so they complete their one-year development plan in the first two months of autumn (September and October).They plan to complete the work of rectifying the cooperatives in the next five months (from November this year to March next year) in combination with the unfinished work of grain three-point regulation and unified purchase and marketing. This is mainly to establish and improve the management organs of the cooperatives. , establish and improve the labor organization, do a good job in production planning, do a good job in mutually beneficial arrangements for production tools and production funds, formulate social regulations, do a good job in winter plowing and winter planting (in the south) and manure accumulation, so as to benefit the next spring production.On the issue of this season arrangement, the central government believes that it is very beneficial to do so.All provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country can do this, and can advance the establishment and consolidation of cooperatives by one season, that is, complete the preparatory work for establishment in summer, complete the establishment of cooperatives in autumn, and complete the establishment of cooperatives in winter and spring.As long as the preparations for the summer are adequate and proper, the establishment of the society in the autumn does not require a lot of time, and it can be completed in two months.The rest of the autumn and the entire winter and spring can be used for communal work and other work.Please study this matter and make good arrangements for your work in 1956.After a large number of cooperatives have developed, district and township cadres feel that there are many problems and heavy burdens that are difficult to solve. This situation exists.In fact, this is not difficult to solve.The method is to seize one or two cooperatives with the most problems in each township, go deep into them, study them, find solutions, and guide all cooperatives in that township to follow suit quickly.In one district, it only needs to establish several cooperatives, and the cooperatives in all townships in the whole district can be guided to follow suit quickly.Here, it is very useful to establish the organization of cooperative networks of townships, districts and counties.Please emphasize this point to the county, district and township cadres.As for the large-scale development of a group of cooperatives according to the plan, it is absolutely necessary to announce the suspension of development in time and transfer the movement to the stage of consolidation.According to the above-mentioned season planning, only one season of the year is the time for development, and the rest of the seasons are the time for rectification and preparation for development.The remaining seasons can also have some sporadic and individual developments, but the main development time is only one season, and only two months in a season are needed, so that the "left" errors caused by unrestricted can basically be avoided .Because of such planned development and consolidation, the overall progress of co-operatives is good. In some counties, districts and townships, due to various reasons, the development of co-operatives is less, so it does not matter. In the next few years Just keep up step by step, and don't be afraid of being criticized as right opportunism.From now on, the demands from all over the country are mainly about the quality of cooperatives, not the quantity.Because the problem of quantity has attracted the attention of the whole party, but the problem of quality has not yet attracted the attention of the whole party.

central Published on November 1, 1955 based on Mao Zedong's manuscript.