Chapter 45 Importance of Enforcement Reporting

(August 22, 1948) Northeast Bureau: Wei Hao [1] telegram.Your review this time is beneficial. In this way, you can get out of the passive state and take the initiative.Without such serious self-criticism as you are doing now on this issue, it would be impossible to break free from passivity and take the initiative, and it would be impossible to overcome a certain seriously existing empiricism, Guerrillaism, indiscipline and anarchy will make it impossible to overcome this undesirable phenomenon that also exists in all departments and party committees (first of all, the army) under your leadership.Not only should you make this kind of self-criticism (you have already done it), but all Central Bureaus, sub-bureaus, military regions and front committees should make this kind of self-criticism (they have not yet done it).The shortcomings and mistakes that you have not pointed out, they and their affiliations are basically the same.We therefore decided to forward you Weihaodian and Chuobendian to them and ask them to conduct a formal review on this issue.The nature of this problem is so important that only by solving this problem can the transition from a small-scale local guerrilla war to a large-scale national regular war and from partial victory to national victory be possible.This is a central link of many links in the current period. Once the problem of this link is solved, other links can be solved smoothly.The central government has now drafted a resolution[2] on the specific provisions of the reporting system, and it will be distributed to you and all regions after comrades Rao, Deng, He, Xu, Bo, and Nie[3] come to Qi to discuss it together.The work system and reporting system documents that you have drafted, hope to send them as soon as possible.

central not raised Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Weihao, that is, August 19th. [2] Refers to the "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the System of Requesting and Reporting to the Central Committee by Bureaus, Sub-bureaus, Military Regions, Branches of Military Commissions, and Front Committees." This resolution was passed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in September 1948.The resolution clearly stipulates which decisions in various tasks belong to the central government, which ones must be consulted in advance and approved by the central government before they can be implemented, and which ones must be reported to the central government for review afterwards.

[3] Rao, refers to Rao Shushi, then secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the East China Military Region.Deng refers to Deng Xiaoping, who was then the first secretary of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and political commissar of the Central Plains Military Region.He, referring to He Long, was the commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Sui Joint Defense Military Region at the time.Xu, referring to Xu Xiangqian, who was the first deputy commander of the North China Military Region at the time.Bo, referring to Bo Yibo, was then the second secretary of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the North China Military Region.Nie refers to Nie Rongzhen, who was then the third secretary of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the commander of the North China Military Region.