This instruction mainly explains the importance of rent reduction this year, production next year, and the support the government and cherish the people movement next spring.
Other policies have been repeatedly instructed, and will not be repeated now.
However, it should be known that among the various policies implemented by our Party in various base areas, there are ten that are most essential at present.


These ten policies are: First, struggle against the enemy; Second, streamlining troops and simplifying administration; Third, unified leadership; Fourth, support the government and cherish the people; Fifth, develop production; Sixth, rectify the three styles; Seventh, examine cadres; Eighth, current affairs education; Ninth, the "Three-thirds system" [2]; Tenth, rent reduction and interest reduction.


These ten major policies are interconnected and inseparable.
This autumn and winter, all Central Bureaus, Central Sub-bureaus, District Party Committees, and Prefectural Party Committees must make a summary of the ten major policies for this year (there is no need to hold very large and long meetings, just review the ten major policies one by one).


At the same time, it is necessary to universally publicize the idea of linking the ten major policies to the Party, so that the entire Party, especially the cadres, recognizes that only by implementing these interconnected ten major policies completely rather than incompletely (such as saying that a certain place does not need to implement the support the government and cherish the people movement and Wu Manyou [3] production methods, etc.), and seriously rather than carelessly, can we achieve the goal of overcoming difficulties and welcoming the light.


However, as long as all comrades in the Party earnestly implement the ten major policies, we will definitely be able to create many favorable conditions and achieve the goal of overcoming difficulties and welcoming the light.


We have every confidence in overcoming difficulties, our future is infinitely bright, and we must defeat Japanese imperialism and establish a free and equal New China! Printed according to the original kept in the Central Archives.


Notes [1] This is the fourth part of the "Instruction of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Rent Reduction, Production, Support the Government and Cherish the People, and Propaganda of the Ten Major Policies" drafted by Mao Zedong.
The first three parts of this instruction have been included in Volume III of the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong," entitled "Carry out the Rent Reduction, Production, and Support the Government and Cherish the People Movement in the Base Areas."
[2] "Three-thirds system," see note [8] on page 25 of this volume.
[3] Wu Manyou, a native of Hengshan, Shaanxi, fled famine to Yan'an to farm. In 1942, he worked hard to reclaim land for production in the Great Production Movement and became a labor hero in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.