Chapter 83 Rural Work Policy of Southern Provinces

(November 6, 1946) Fang Lin[1] also told Zhou Dong, Liu, Wu[2]: Under the current situation of full-scale civil war, the rural work in the southern provinces should adopt two different approaches: A. Wherever it is possible to establish an open guerrilla base, an open guerrilla base should be established immediately.The original base areas, such as Hainan Island, such as South Road, Middle Road, Xijiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang[3], Southern Fujian, and Western Fujian, should encourage the original open or semi-open armed forces to continue to struggle closely by relying on the masses, and should not adopt a passive demobilization policy , increase the ambition of the enemy, and destroy one's own prestige.Now that a large number of regular Kuomintang troops have been transferred from the southern provinces, and conscription is widely implemented, this is a good opportunity for our party to launch guerrilla warfare.Under this policy, you have[4] the policy of mass demobilization in southwestern Fujian is inappropriate and should be reconsidered.You sent people to Hainan Island to convey the demobilization policy, which has caused great dissatisfaction there.The central government has called them to fight resolutely, with the goal of occupying all of Hainan Island, and in the future they will develop to the south.

B. In areas where the conditions are not yet ripe, the policy of hiding and waiting is adopted to wait for the conditions to be ripe.Of course, such areas currently account for the majority, but their goal is still to actively prepare for the various conditions for launching open guerrilla warfare and establishing guerrilla base areas, rather than adopting a long-term covert policy regardless of whether the conditions are ripe or not. The above two guidelines are applicable to all villages in the southern provinces, and item A or item B shall be adopted according to specific circumstances.Wang Zhou, Dong, and Liu in the southeastern provinces arranged directly.Southwest provinces look forward to the layout of Wu and Sichuan provincial committees.

central Xu fish Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Fang, refers to Fang Fang (1904-1971), a native of Puning, Guangdong, who was then Secretary of the South China Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Lin refers to Lin Ping, that is, Yin Linping, who was then deputy secretary of the South China Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. [2] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.Dong refers to Dong Biwu (1886-1975), a native of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei, who was Secretary of the Nanjing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Liu, refers to Liu Xiao (1908-1988), a native of Chenxi, Hunan, who was Secretary of the Shanghai Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Wu, refers to Wu Yuzhang (1878-1966), a native of Rongxian County, Sichuan, who was Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.

[3] Refers to the five anti-Japanese guerrilla bases established by the CCP in South China.The South Road base is in Qinzhou and Lianjiang; the Middle Road, also known as the Middle District Base, is in Xinxing, Enping, Yangchun, and Yangjiang; the Xijiang Base is in Guangning and Sihui; the Beijiang Base is in Yingde, Wengyuan, Xinfeng, and Foshan. The border areas of Gang and other counties and the Wendong area of ​​Qingyuan County; the center of the Dongjiang base area is the Luofu Mountains on the border of Zengcheng and Boluo counties and parts of Dongguan, Huiyang and other counties.

[4] Youyou, that is, October 25th.