General Order Concerning
Specifications About Subsidies
for Fuel and Food,
for Recuperation, and
for Compensation
for Wounded and Sick Armymen

(Issued from the Field Army Headquarters
on December 5, 1935)

in market prices. This general order is now issued to every army unit either at the
front or in the rear, and to every military organ, and is to be made known to their
subordinate units and carried out.
Be it so ordered.

Northwest Revolutionary Military
Commission

Chairman Mao Zedong
Vice-Chairmen Zhou Enlai
Peng Dehuai

In order that the wounded and sick armymen can be swiftly cured and recover
their strength, subsidies for fuel and food, for recuperation, and for compensation
are specified as follows in accordance with the relatively poor material conditions in the area of our operations:
1. A daily subsidy of five fen for fuel and food is granted to each lightly or
heavily wounded or sick armyman during the time of his medical treatment.
2. Four yuan are granted to every heavily wounded armyman and two yuan
to every lightly wounded armyman as a subsidy for recuperation.
3. One yuan is granted to any sick armyman as hospitalization fee when he
cannot return to his unit for recovery but has to be placed in a hospital for
treatment.
4. Those disabled by their wounds are classified as completely disabled and
semidisabled, and granted subsidies for compensation accordingly. It is required
that a report should be submitted by the commander at the relevant level and
then examined and approved by the Committee for Compensations before a
yearly subsidy of twenty-five yuan is granted to the completely disabled, and
fifteen to the semidisabled.
5. Those who fall sick or break down from constant overwork in the Red
Army should be granted a recuperation subsidy in accordance with each different
case, with a minimum of fifty fen and a maximum of three yuan every month,
until the time of their recovery. They should also undergo the process of examination and approval by the Committee for Compensations.
The above stipulations are subject to change when there is a major variation

--- Notes

Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 4, pp. 253-54, where it is
reproduced from a volume published in China in July 1977. Because Peng Dehuai had not
yet been rehabilitated at that time, his name is missing at the end of the order; we have
corrected this omission on the basis of Nianpu, Vol. 1, p. 495.