Central Committee’s Annotations and Reply Telegram to the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee’s Report on Rural Policy Issues (November 2, 1949) To the Central China Bureau, the South China Sub-Bureau, the Southwest Bureau, the Northwest Bureau, and Comrade Dehuai [1]: We hereby forward to you the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee’s views dated October 27 concerning several policy-related issues [2]. These issues are common to all provinces and deserve careful consideration.
Please transmit them to the provincial, regional, municipal, and prefectural party committees under your jurisdiction, together with any materials you have gathered from your own struggles against local tyrants and for rent reduction, for thorough study.
We request that you report your conclusions back to the Central Committee.
Issued by the Central Committee on November 2, based on Mao Zedong’s manuscript.
To Comrade Rao Shushi [3] via the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee: Recently, several policy-related issues in the countryside, as well as earlier reports, have been forwarded through the East China Bureau for your review.
All of these have been circulated to various localities for study and implementation as appropriate.

I believe that the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee’s reports are well-written and highly useful.
Mao Zedong, November 2, published from the manuscript.
Notes [1] Dehuai refers to Peng Dehuai, who at the time served as First Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. [2] This refers to an October 27, 1949, telegram from the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee to the East China Bureau, with copies sent to Mao Zedong and other local party committees, outlining eight policy-related questions arising from the struggle against local tyrants and for rent reduction.
These eight questions are: (1) the issue of reducing cattle rents; (2) increasing wages for hired laborers; (3) whether large and small rents should be reduced simultaneously; (4) how to handle the businesses and industries owned by vicious landlords; (5) how to deal with major vicious landlords who surrendered to the government under the pressure of a powerful peasant movement; (6) the disposition of grain stored in communal granaries, public granaries, temple granaries, and ancestral hall granaries; (7) the management of forests confiscated during the anti-tyrant campaign, including public forests; and (8) whether all public fields and lands should be subject to rent reduction. [3] Rao Shushi was then First Secretary of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. £± 4