Chapter 38 Preface to "Xingguo Survey"

(January 26, 1931) In September 1930, the first front army of the Red Army returned to Jiangxi from Changsha. In early October, it opened Ji’an and entered the Yuanshui River Basin. Xingguo sent many farmers to serve as the Red Army. The district is the survey of Yongfeng District.Fu Jiting, Li Changying, Wen Fengzhang, Chen Zhenshan, Zhong Dewu, Huang Dachun, Chen Beiping, and Lei Hanxiang were invited to hold an investigation meeting.The time for the investigation was the end of October 1930, and the meeting was held at Luofang, Xinyu County. The investigation meeting was held for a week.Yongfeng District is located at the junction of Xingguo, Ganxian and Wan'an counties, and is divided into four townships. Jiulingyuan District is the first township, Dongjiang District is the second township, Sankeng District is the third township, and Jiangtuan District is the third township. It is the fourth township, and Yongfengwei, the second township, is the political and economic center of the district.Population distribution: 3,000 in the first township, 800 in the second township, 3,000 in the third township, and 2,000 in the fourth township, totaling 8,800.This area is located at the intersection of Xing, Jiangxi, and Wan. If you understand this area, the two counties of Gan and Wan are not far apart, and the situation of the land struggle in southern Jiangxi is not that far apart.Actual policy decisions must be made according to the specific situation. What you imagine sitting in the house and what you see written in a rough and sloppy written report are by no means the specific situation.It is dangerous to base policy decisions on “assumed” or unrealistic reports.Many mistakes were made in the red areas in the past because the Party's guidance did not match the actual situation.Therefore, detailed scientific investigation is very necessary.Generally speaking, this investigation is still not very in-depth, but it is more in-depth than my previous investigations.First, I did a survey of eight households, which I had never done before. In fact, without this kind of survey, there would be no basic concept of rural areas.Second, I investigated the performance of various classes in the land struggle, which I did but did not complete in the Xunwu survey.The shortcoming of this survey is that it did not investigate the situation of children and women, the transaction status and price comparison, the agricultural production status after land distribution, and the cultural status.These were originally to be investigated, because the enemy attacked Luofang, and the Red Army decided to lure the enemy into a deeper approach, so our investigation had to be concluded.The following materials were obtained in this way: I proposed the outline of the investigation, asked questions and discussed them one by one, and all the conclusions were proposed by me and obtained the consent of eight of their comrades, and then written down. Some of them did not draw conclusions. Only their responses are recounted.Our investigations are lively and interesting. We conduct them twice or even three times a day, sometimes late at night, and they don't feel tired.These comrades should be deeply grateful.Several of them are members of the Communist Party, but most are not.

On January 26, 1931, in Xiaobuwei, Ningdu, I compiled the postscript. According to the "Mao Zedong Rural Investigation Collected Works" published by People's Publishing House in 1982.