Chapter 95 High-Level Leading Organs Should Strengthen Text and Telegram Instructions to Subordinates

(April 30, 1949) The East China Bureau, the general front committee, and Su Zhang, Liu Zhangli [1], and all bureaus and committees: (1) Yanyou [2] Electric Note.Handled very well. (2) The Nanjing Telegraph Bureau, without the approval of the Central Committee, arbitrarily stopped foreign journalists from sending news telegrams and who handled the telegrams. (3) We believe that Nanjing and Shanghai should not stop foreign journalists from sending news telegrams for the time being, and that Nanjing should be reopened to allow foreign journalists to send news without censorship.Wait for a period of time for them to post, depending on the situation, and then the central government will decide to stop all foreign journalists from generating electricity, or allow good reporters to generate electricity and stop bad reporters from generating electricity.

(4) Instructions on policies and working methods, as far as your senior leading organs are concerned, mainly rely on writing telegrams and issuing circulars, rather than relying on cadre meetings or oral speech.A person in charge can write a telegram in half an hour, and an order in an hour, and in one, two, three, or four days, it can be communicated through the radio to every army, division, regiment, province, city, and county. Words are the basis, there is a scope to keep, and it is quick, and it makes the subordinates follow.Chairman Mao has proposed this method to Comrade Jao Shu-shih[3] many times.On your side, however, you still rely on verbal instructions instead of written instructions on certain policies and the methods of implementing them.Verbal instructions are also wanted, useful, and essential.But one has no text to rely on; the second is not very clear in scope; the third is that a few people who attended the meeting heard it, but most people who did not attend the meeting did not hear it. resolution of the cadre meeting).There have been a lot of troubles in this foreign policy within a few days, because you have not given any instructions to the lower levels on this issue in the past.There are instructions on some issues, but if the leading comrades of all armies, divisions, regiments, provinces, cities, and counties are not widely seen at the same time, or if an issue is not emphasized, prominent, or clear in the instructions, If the scope is uncertain, the localities still don't understand, or don't quite understand.Now, in view of the disturbances in Nanjing, if you do not take the method of sending telegrams and issuing orders, and immediately inform all armies, divisions, regiments, provinces, cities, and counties, then you will be in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. , in Zhenjiang, Wuxi, Wuhu, and other places, there will be repeated disturbances.The main responsibility for this kind of trouble is not at the lower levels, but at the leadership level. The warnings and handling in advance were inappropriate, or they were not warned and dealt with.In the past, you did not send telegrams or circulars regarding the urban and industrial policies of Shandong and northern Jiangsu for a long time, so that the subordinates were at a loss as to what to do, and they went their own ways, and suffered losses. This is also a lesson.

Central Military Commission Mao Thirty Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Su Zhang, referring to Su Yu and Zhang Zhen, who were respectively the deputy commander, second deputy political commissar and chief of staff of the Third Field Army at that time.Liu Zhangli refers to Liu Bocheng, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da, who were the commander, deputy political commissar and director of the political department and chief of staff of the Second Field Army at that time. [2] Yanyou, that is, unitary time on the twenty-ninth day.

[3] Rao Shushi, then Secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Political Commissar of the East China Military Region.