Central Telegram to the South China Bureau et al. Regarding the Convening of People’s Representative Conferences of All Circles (November 27, 1949)  To the South China Bureau, with copy to the Central China Bureau, Comrade Lin Biao [1], the Jiangxi Provincial Committee, the Hunan Provincial Committee, and the East China and Northwest Bureaus:

We have received your telegram of November 25.

(1) We approve the proposed allocation of seats and the agenda for the First People’s Representative Conference of All Circles of Guangzhou City.

(2) You must pay close attention to the convening of people’s representative conferences of all circles in cities and counties throughout Guangdong Province; such conferences should be held in every city and every county. You must regard these city- and county-level conferences as an extremely important instrument for uniting people from all sectors, mobilizing the masses to carry out bandit suppression and anti-feudal struggle, eliminating secret agents, reducing rents and interest rates, collecting taxes and grain requisitions, restoring and developing production, and reviving and expanding culture and education—up to and including the completion of land reform. They are to be convened uniformly once every three months.

(3) With respect to the people’s representative conferences of all circles at the city and county levels in Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Henan—prior to the holding of county-level conferences of all circles, a county-level conference of peasant representatives must be convened, from which peasant delegates to the county-level conference of all circles will be elected—the Central China Bureau and the provincial committees of the four provinces must give full attention to providing guidance, ensuring timely convening, and summarizing and exchanging experience.

(4) In the first half of 1950 (in spring or summer), the five provinces of Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangdong must each hold their first provincial conference of peasant representatives and their first provincial conference of all circles.

(5) The above-mentioned items (2), (3), and (4) should be carefully observed and implemented by the East China and Northwest Bureaus.

Issued by the Central Authorities on November 27, based on Mao Zedong’s manuscript.

Notes  [1] Lin Biao was then First Secretary of the CPC Central Committee’s Central China Bureau.