Chapter 3 Please sum up the experience of the rectification study

(February 10, 1943) Comrades Enlai, Dehuai, Xiaoping, Rongzhen, Lin Feng, Zhu Rui, Ronghuan, Soseki[1]: In order to sum up last year's rectification study and to determine this year's study plan, please give us a brief telegram of your study experience last year, especially the following items: (1) Do most comrades have a correct understanding of the rectification study, and do they have any biases or misunderstandings? (2) Which cadres have achieved the greatest results? Have you reversed the importance of the rectification targets, and only rectified the lower levels and not the senior ones?

(3) Are the study plans formulated according to the specific environment and various cadres, and is there a problem of disregarding the war environment and the level of cadres? (4) Learning method, whether it can make the rectification study closely related to the actual work, whether the learning is consistent with the application, and whether there is a dogmatic learning attitude? (5) Do the responsible comrades at all levels set an example and take charge of leading the study in person, have they given up their responsibilities and handed over the study leadership to the secretary or others for management?

It is hoped that the above problems will be answered soon. Mao Zedong Published on February 10 based on transcripts kept by the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Dehuai, also known as Peng Dehuai, was acting secretary of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Xiaoping, also known as Deng Xiaoping, was born in 1904 in Guang'an, Sichuan. At that time, he was Secretary of the Taihang Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.Rongzhen, that is, Nie Rongzhen (1899-1992), was born in Jiangjin, Sichuan.Lin Feng (1906-1977), a native of Wangkui, Heilongjiang, was the acting secretary of the Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the Jinsui Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.Zhu Rui (1905-1948), a native of Suqian, Jiangsu, was the Secretary of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Ronghuan, that is, Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), a native of Hengshan, Hunan, was a political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Shushi, that is, Rao Shushi (1903-1975), was born in Linchuan, Jiangxi Province. At that time, he was the acting secretary of the Central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the acting political commissar of the New Fourth Army.