Chapter 16 Nine guidelines on examining cadres and eight policies behind enemy lines

(July 30, 1943) Comrade Dehuai[1]: (1) Zhou and Lin [2] return to Yan, and the Seventh National Congress is preparing for a meeting. Please, Luo, Bo, Nie, and Lu [3] come to Yan to attend the meeting, and hope to make arrangements.The Taihang, Taiyue, and Beiyue districts must re-elect a number of representatives, and the central government has notified otherwise. (2) The rectification movement in the enemy's rear has made progress, which can be seen in the two articles [4] of the Northern Bureau on the experience of the rectification movement and ideology on July 9 (submitted to the broadcast).Please supervise and urge the completion of the rectification in the enemy's rear area this year, so that a comprehensive review of cadres will start next spring and be completed next year.

(3) The guidelines for reviewing cadres are: 1. The chief is responsible; Seventh, fight for those who stumble; eighth, train cadres; ninth, educate the masses.This policy of seeking truth from facts must be completely distinguished from the subjectivist policy that damaged the Party during the civil war.Its details are explained otherwise. (4) Chiang and Hu's [5] plan to attack the border area was discovered by me in time. Seeing that I was prepared, I was forced to temporarily suspend it. There is hope for a year of peace, but our military defense preparations will never let up. (5) It is hoped that the Yan'an People's Congress will be telegraphed, the Jiefang Daily editorial[6], and Chen Boda and Fan Wenlan's comments on "China's Destiny" and other articles[7] will be printed and widely distributed, so as to provide a broad and in-depth planned class education, Thoroughly expose the deceitful influence of the Kuomintang, and don't underestimate the importance of this matter.The Kuomintang ideology exists quite seriously in our Party.

(6) The six policies mentioned in the previous telegram should be combined with struggle against the enemy (against "mopping up" and "cannibalism") in the enemy's rear, and class education should be added to form eight policies, the order of which is: 1. Struggle against the enemy; 2. Rectify the three styles; 3. Streamline the administration with better troops; 4. Unify leadership; 5. Support the government and love the people; 6. Develop production; 7. Examine cadres; ). (7) The common and constant tasks among the masses are war, production and education. (8) Class education refers to the education of unity and struggle in the united front, not isolated class education separated from the united front, and the name "class education" is not mentioned externally.

This telegram was also sent to the comrades in charge of the central bureaus, central sub-bureaus, and several district party committees. Mao Zedong thirty in the afternoon Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 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. [2] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.Lin refers to Lin Biao, who served as the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japan. In September 1942, he left for Chongqing as a negotiator of the Communist Party of China.On July 16, 1943, Zhou Enlai, Lin Biao and his party returned to Yan'an.

[3] Luo, referring to Luo Ronghuan, who was then political commissar and acting division commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, commander and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region.Bo, referring to Bo Yibo, born in 1908 in Dingxiang, Shanxi Province, was the Deputy Secretary of the Taihang Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Nie, referring to Nie Rongzhen, who was then secretary of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.Lu, referring to Lu Zhengcao, born in 1905 in Haicheng, Liaoning, was the commander of the third column of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the Jizhong Military Region at that time.

[4] Refers to the two articles "Introduction to the Experience of Rectification" by the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and "About Ideological Issues" by the Study Committee of the Organs Directly under the Eighteenth Group Army Headquarters, which were published in August 2 and 4, 1943 respectively. Liberation Daily. [5] Jiang refers to Chiang Kai-shek.Hu, refers to Hu Zongnan, who was then the commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army in the 1st Theater of the Kuomintang Army. [6] For telegrams and editorials, see note [9] on page 50 of this volume.

[7] Chen Boda, then deputy director of the Central Political Research Office.The article "Comment on "China's Destiny"" written by him was published in the "Liberation Daily" on July 21, 1943.Fan Wenlan, who was working in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, wrote an article commenting on "The Destiny of China" entitled "Who Revolutionized?"Who's life? ", published in the "Liberation Daily" on August 1, 1943.