After reviewing your report, I would like to offer the following comments on the issues you have raised:

In the old revolutionary base areas where land has already been equally distributed and the economic foundation of landlords and rich peasants has been eliminated—though not yet entirely so—and where only minor adjustments are still needed, further equal distribution of land should be avoided. Instead, a rational system of land redistribution—taking from some and giving to others—should be adopted to address the insufficient land holdings of certain farmers. To carry out another round of equal land distribution in such areas would be a mistake. In these regions, it is advisable to establish poor-peasant groups within the broader peasant organizations to safeguard the interests of poor and hired laborers. Furthermore, in peasant committees, peasant representative assemblies, and local governments, poor and hired laborers together with the new middle peasants should constitute two-thirds of the membership, thereby ensuring their leadership role in the countryside, while allowing the old middle peasants to hold the remaining one-third. This approach is highly appropriate. However, in areas where poor and hired laborers are in the minority and both new and old middle peasants form the majority, organizing poor-peasant leagues and insisting that they direct all activities would violate the policy line established at the National Land Conference; it constitutes an extremely adventurous and commandist practice. If any work teams or task forces in your region are still engaging in such practices, they should be immediately halted, recalled for retraining, and then redeployed to resume their work based on the specific local conditions. Please pay close attention to this matter.

Secondly, in addition to the old and new base areas, there also exist semi-old areas situated between the two. In these semi-old areas, the land question has not been resolved as thoroughly as in the old areas, but it is nonetheless in a better state than in the new areas, where the problem remains either entirely unresolved or only marginally addressed. The working guidelines for these semi-old areas should differ both from those applicable to the old areas and from those applicable to the new areas. I urge you to conduct a thorough study of this issue and to inform me of your findings in writing.