Chapter 17 7. Report to the Central Committee

On September 30, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association wrote the "Report on Comrade Ding Ling's anti-Party clique activities and opinions on how to deal with them", which was reported to the Central Propaganda Department and transferred to the Central Committee. The report of the Party Group of the Chinese Writers Association pointed out that the anti-Party activities of the Ding and Chen anti-Party cliques are mainly manifested in four aspects: 1. Rejecting the Party’s leadership and supervision, and defying the Party’s principles, policies and instructions.2. Violating the Party's principles and engaging in emotional wooing in order to expand the power of small anti-Party cliques.3. Playing double-faced tactics, sowing dissension, and undermining the unity of the party.4. Create a cult of personality and spread bourgeois individualism.

The report also stated: "At the meeting, it was also revealed that some other party member writers, due to their serious individualism or dissatisfaction with the party, at certain times also joined forces with Ding Ling's anti-party group; The small undercurrents of the party almost all led to Ding Ling, where they converged into a huge anti-party current. No. 16, Dover Lane (Ding Ling's residence) became a special organization beyond the Party organization of the Writers Association. The command organ, a special force, has attracted some elements with impure party spirit and dissatisfaction with the party to run under it.

The "Report" finally put forward an opinion on Ding Ling's handling, saying: "Comrade Ding Ling is instructed to make a profound written review to the party, and consider the issue of her punishment based on her understanding of the mistakes she made and the degree of review. A piece of history in Nanjing to examine and draw conclusions." At the end of October, Ding Ling wrote a written review, acknowledging her relationship with Chen Qixia as an anti-Party alliance.Later, in a letter to the Party Committee of the Central Propaganda Department on August 16, 1956, she said that the reason for admitting the "anti-Party alliance" was based on two considerations: Endlessly pestering and procrastinating, "I feel that given the situation at the time and my own energy, it is difficult to pester for a long time. I really don't know what to say to gain their trust. It is better to admit it. I can get away and finish the job, so I can start working early"; another, The main reason was "I was afraid of being expelled from the party and losing my political life. Under the circumstances at that time, there was only a thin line between insisting on the truth and insisting on mistakes. I felt that if I persisted, I might be expelled from the party."