Items about Which All Central Bureaus,
Local Bureaus, and Front Committees Should
Report to the Central Committee
(June 25, 1948)
To all central bureaus, local bureaus, and front committees:
From now on, you must report to the Central Committee beforehand or afterwards on all the following items. For all items that have already been examined
and approved by the Central Committee and that are already being carried out,
apart from those for which reports have already been submitted, you must prepare
a supplementary report on instructions, resolutions, regulations, or orders.
	 1.	 Policies on tax collection, including agricultural tax (that is, tax paid in
grain), industrial tax, and commercial tax.
	 2.	 Wage policies, including wages in publicly operated enterprises, privately
operated enterprises (including cooperatives), and rural areas.
	 3.	 The annual financial budget.
	 4.	 For each district, the number of individuals and the proportion of the population not involved in production.
	 5.	 The annual plan for mobilizing new troops.
	 6.	 The quantity and composition of newly added regiments, brigades (divisions), and columns.
	 7.	 The annual scope of policies for cadre allocations for land reform work in
each district.
	 8.	 The production, investment, and lending plans for each district, including
industry, transportation, mining, aviation, agriculture, and commerce.
	 9.	 Monetary policy and plans for issuing currency.
	10.	 Diplomatic policies, the handling of diplomatic affairs, and the handling of
religious cases involving foreigners.
	11.	 Policies on cultural education and plans for cultural and educational enterprises in each district.
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong wenji, Vol. 5, pp. 107–8, where it is reproduced
from Mao’s handwritten manuscript.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719436-129

	12.	 The allocation of personnel from our Party, other parties, and those who are
unaffiliated in the composition of high-level people’s representative conferences and government institutions.
	13.	 Policies on the cooperation between our Party, the democratic parties, and
the unaffiliated personnel.
	14.	 Judicial policies in each district—that is, how to deal with each type of
criminal.
	15.	 Plans and educational principles for Party and military schools.
	16.	 The allocation of secretaries, deputy secretaries, and members of district or
provincial Party committees.
	17.	 Allocation of primary personnel at the level of brigade (or division) or above.
	18.	 Plans and policies for Party rectification (including the “three examinations
and the three improvements”).1
The Central Committee.
1.  The “three examinations and three improvements” involved examining class background, ideology, and work style in civilian departments, and class background, performance, and will to fight in the army, while the three improvements were applied to
organization, ideology, and work style.