Chapter 111 Cities and counties with a population of more than 30,000 should convene people's representatives from all walks of life

(August 26, 1949) East China Bureau, and report to all bureaus and front committees: Unrespected [1] telegram. (1) In the past, you did not issue instructions on the important issue of convening a meeting of people's representatives from all walks of life in the city.Now you have held a meeting of representatives from all walks of life in Shanghai, which has received good results, and issued instructions to your subordinates on August 24, so you have regained the initiative on this issue.The central government looked at it and was very happy.In addition to forwarding your telegrams to all bureaus and fields, now please strictly urge all cities with a population of more than 30,000 to hold a meeting of people's representatives from all walks of life in September, and all the meetings will be published in newspapers and broadcast on radio stations. broadcast publicly.It is not allowed to have something that cannot be published, and it is not allowed to publish it publicly or do oral broadcasting.In this way, Party organizations in cities with a population of more than 30,000 will be closely integrated with representatives of the people from all walks of life. Through them, they will unite people from all walks of life, overcome difficulties, resume and develop production, and overcome the fact that many people in the leading organs of the Party only believe in a few people. The Party Cadres Conference does not believe in the bureaucratic style of the People's Representatives Conference.In the future, all cities with more than 30,000 people will hold a meeting of people's representatives from all walks of life at least once a month. One day or two days at most will be enough for each time, and one or two issues will be enough for each discussion and decision.

(2) Each county shall hold a meeting of people's representatives from all walks of life in the county, and the method shall be handled according to the telegram [2] recently sent by the Central Committee to the Central China Bureau and reported to all bureaus.All provincial party committees, district party committees, and prefectural committees are required to be responsible for the leadership, and change the bad style of not holding people's representatives from all walks of life for a long time.This county-wide people's meeting from all walks of life will be held regardless of whether it is a new district or an old district.The new area can be held two or three weeks after the occupation, and there is no need to wait for the rural peasant association to be established before holding it.An important purpose of holding this meeting is to mobilize the peasant masses through this meeting.

(3) The Northeast Bureau, North China Bureau, Shandong Branch, Northwest Bureau, Central China Bureau, and South China Bureau should all comply with the above two items.The front committees of all fields pay attention to research and assistance. central August 26 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Weijing, that is, August 24th. [2] Refers to the instructions drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on August 25, 1949, that all counties should hold county people's representatives from all walks of life.The instructions require that the counties in the new and old liberated areas hold at least one meeting of people's representatives from all walks of life every month or every two months. Representatives from farmers' associations, trade unions, student unions, cultural and educational circles, business circles, and the party, government, and military will be selected to attend to discuss the work of the county.There are more than 200 representatives from large counties, more than 100 representatives from middle counties, and dozens of representatives from small counties. Each session is completed in two to three days.