(December 13, 1938)

(Special report by our correspondent:) The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held an evening meeting on the 13th for cadres
doing inspection work in the Party, government, army, and mass organizations in Yan'an.
Comrade Mao Zedong attended and led [the meeting], and delivered a report on behalf of
the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He called upon
every organ to overcome all the present difficulties, add new forces, and halt the enemy
assault under the circumstances of the new stage of the War of Resistance, so as to prepare
to carry out our counteroffensive. He asked all agencies working in the rear to delve deeply
into the work of inspection with a fighting spirit, in order to take on the work tasks of each
agency. He also pointed out five aspects of our work of inspection:

1. Each agency should stand at its own post, shouldering its own tasks. Work
spirit should be given more urgency.
2. Study harder, studying Marxism-Leninism, the revolutionary movement, and
the history of China, from the cadres at the various levels of the Central Committee studying relatively advanced theories to the staff members of all organs learning to read and write.
3. Actively promote the production movement. Everyone in every administrative organ, every army unit, and every association must participate in the production movement in order to overcome the present difficulties.
4. Strengthen and consolidate united front work.
5. Make life within the whole Party healthier.

Next, he explained that the purposes of our inspection work are:

(1) To sum up past work, expand on the achievements of past work, and correct
shortcomings. (2) To determine future tasks.

He called on all agencies to begin the inspection from the bottom up on the 15th of this
month and to finish it on January 15, and conduct a general inspection before January 25.

This document first appeared in *Xin Zhonghua bao*, December 29, 1938. Our source text is
*Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan*, Vol. 9, pp. 371-72, which reproduces this version.

Finally, Comrade Mao Zedong presented concrete methods for the inspection. It is reported
that, over the past few days, all administrative organs, associations, and army units have
been applying themselves to carrying this out, responding to Comrade Mao Zedong's call!