To all central bureaus, all district Party committees, all military branches, and all
military and political committees:

Because recently the organization of high-level study groups in all locations has
been uneven in terms of strictness and laxity, uniformity has not been possible,
and it is impossible for the Central Committee to investigate and approve each one
in turn, organizational regulations for high-level study groups have been specially
laid down.¹ Upon receipt, each locality should check on everything according to
these regulations and decide what to keep and what to eliminate. Except for the
group leader, deputy group leader, and secretary, whose names and professions²
must be reported to the Central Committee, the rest can simply be reported as
numbers of people involved. As for the process of study, the group leader and
deputy group leader must take responsibility for making timely reports.

Central Secretariat

Our source for this text is Wenxian he yanjiu, 1984, pp. 16–17 of the annual volume. The
editors note that it was drafted by Mao on behalf of the Central Secretariat.
1. Refers to the “Central Committee Decision Concerning Organizational Regulations
for High-Level Study Groups,” adopted by the Central Secretariat on November 25, 1941.
2. The editors of the Chinese text suspect that this is a misprint in the original manuscript for “positions.”