Chapter 6 Key Points of the Speech at the Political Bureau Meeting of the Central Committee

(March 16, 1943) A current situation Japan has recently transferred troops from Manchuria[1] to take the offensive against China.The Kuomintang radio station has recently contacted Yan'an, which is an indication of the improvement in the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.The Kuomintang estimated last winter that Japan would definitely attack the Soviet Union, but after February this year it believed that Japan would not attack the Soviet Union.Due to Japan's new offensive, the Kuomintang thought of domestic aid because foreign aid was not available.Negotiations are still ongoing, and it is said that the negotiations should be based on He and Bai Haodian[2].If Japan continues to attack, the Kuomintang government may move the capital to Chengdu, but will not surrender.In Japan's new offensive, the number of voters[3] has increased, and Japan has decided to support Wang and defeat Chiang[4], and now it has unified the puppet regimes in North China and Central China.

Will Germany be overthrown this year or next year? The first is the first possibility, and the second possibility (not being able to be overthrown this year, not opening up a second front[5], etc.) must also be estimated.It is not entirely clear which of these two possibilities it is. General estimate: Japan is the policy of supporting Wang and fighting Chiang.Under the Japanese attack, the Kuomintang did not receive foreign aid, so it requested domestic aid.The relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party may improve.There is a possibility that China's War of Resistance will last for seven or eight years.We still have to stick to it for two to two and a half years.

The whole world situation and the development of history are not good for the Kuomintang, but are good for us, but only genuine Marxism-Leninism can defeat the Kuomintang. Two working principles The work policy of the central government is research and guidance, to achieve the purpose of preserving the backbone and preparing for the future. research problem: (1) International Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, and Japan are the six major countries, mainly studying the three major items of politics, military affairs, and economy of the six major countries. Last year, the study of Japan was the most successful, and there were no other results. This year, there will be results.

(2) Domestic The areas ruled by the Kuomintang mainly focus on studying its politics, military affairs, economy, and culture. In the base area, study politics, military affairs, economy, culture and education.Politics is mainly political power, military is military construction and militia construction, and economy is public economy and private economy. Last year's research results were the best in the Academia Sinica and the Politics Research Office. (3) History The study of Chinese history in the past hundred years: politics (Fan Wenlan [6]), military (General Staff, General Political Department), economy (Chen Boda [7]), culture (Ai Siqi [8] as a history of philosophy, Zhou Yang [9] ] for the history of literature).

The study of the history of the Communist Party of China has begun: the issue of the line in the past 22 years; a discussion with comrades from the Politburo; there should be a definite harvest within one year. (4) Keep and educate cadres.Education includes business education and theoretical and ideological education. The latter education will continue to work hard this year. The cadres of the organs directly under the central government should carry out theoretical and ideological education, and read forty books by Marx, Engel, Lenin and Sze.The main types of education for cadres are rectification education and ideological education, and the education for senior cadres is the main among all kinds of cadres.

Guiding question: Means - newspapers, telegrams, party broadcasts, oral reports. Newspapers are a very important way.Central comrades must be good at using newspapers and spend half of their time on newspapers. The "Liberation Daily" has made progress since its revision in April last year. It has learned the working method of coming from the masses and going to the masses. The sources of newspaper materials are endless.The soul (essence) of Marxism is to analyze specific problems concretely. Party affairs broadcasting is a way of educating cadres within the party. There were achievements in work last year, and even greater achievements will be made this year, and they will be broadcast throughout the country through newspapers and party broadcasts.

This year we will prepare for the Seventh Congress[10]. One more item should be added to the policy: our leaders should connect with the masses.Now the working principles of the finance and economics committees, the women's committees, the vocational committees, and the cultural committees are all changing.Examination of cadres should also be combined with the leadership and the masses.The method is to sum up experience from the lower levels, and then provide guidance, that is, come from the masses, go to the masses, or gather together and persevere.The only source, the only way out is the masses.

Last year, I had very little contact with comrades working in many departments. This year, I have to have more contact, and more contact can give me knowledge. Three tasks The tasks of the central organs are work, production and education; the front is war, production and education; the rear is production and education.This policy should be explained to all comrades.It is said openly that we will overcome difficulties and welcome the light, but among our party's senior cadres, we should explain that we should preserve the backbone and accumulate strength.Now North China is sending a large number of cadres to study in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.Preserving the backbone should not only preserve the local cadres, but also the backbone of the army.To be thinner now is to be more streamlined and streamlined.In order to preserve the backbone, we must resolutely implement a streamlining policy and oppose the enemy's "cannibalization" policy.This is the task of war, and this is the first task.

The second is cadre education and national education.Cadre education is the first. In the past, cadres made progress very slowly, but soldiers made great progress. There was even a woodcarver among the grooms in Longdong.In the past, cadres had no time, funds and textbooks for study.The central government’s decision on cadre education[11] must be effectively implemented. The third is the task of production. Use these methods to achieve a preserved backbone and prepare for the future. Published based on the transcript of the speech kept by the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

note [1] Manchuria here refers to Northeast China. [2] Hao telegram refers to Chiang Kai-shek’s letter to Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighteenth Army, and the New Fourth Army, sent on October 19, 1940 in the name of He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, the chief and deputy chiefs of staff of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang government. A telegram from Army Commander Ye Ting.The telegram slandered the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army who persisted in the war of resistance behind enemy lines, and ordered the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army south of the Yellow River to withdraw to the north of the Yellow River within a month according to the "Central Prompt" of the Kuomintang on July 16 of the same year.

[3] Wang, referring to Wang Jingwei (1883-1944), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang.At that time, he was the chairman of the Nanjing Puppet "National Government" supported by Japanese imperialism. [4] Jiang refers to Chiang Kai-shek. [5] For the second front, see note [3] on page 7 of this volume. [6] Fan Wenlan (1893-1969), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang.At that time, he was the vice president of the Academia Sinica and the director of the History Research Office. [7] Chen Boda (1904-1989), a native of Huian, Fujian.At that time, he was the deputy director of the Central Political Research Office and Mao Zedong's study secretary. [8] Ai Siqi (1910-1966), a native of Tengchong, Yunnan.At that time, he was the director of the Supplement Department of Liberation Daily. [9] Zhou Yang (1908-1989), born in Yiyang, Hunan.At that time, he was the director of the Cultural Work Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the dean of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters. [10] The Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was postponed to Yan'an from April 23 to June 11, 1945. [11] Refers to the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Education of In-service Cadres" dated February 28, 1942.