Concerning the Work Policy for the Coming Months — Telegram to Chen Yi[1]
(April 23, 1950)

Comrade Chen Yi:
Your telegram of April 21 has been received. The policy is correct. In the coming months we must indeed devote great efforts to the arduous work of adjusting public-private relations, labor-capital relations, maintaining production, and providing relief for the unemployed.

Manuscript of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Chen Yi.

Mao Zedong
April 23

[1] Chen Yi was then serving as First Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.

(April 25, 1950)

To the East China Bureau, Southwest Bureau, Northwest Bureau, North China Bureau, to be forwarded to the provincial party committees, district party committees, municipal party committees, prefectural party committees, and county party committees under their jurisdiction:

The Central-South Bureau’s telegram of April 20 summarizing the rent reduction work is hereby forwarded to you for your study. In particular, the views that “many democratic personages say that we do not keep our word, that regulations set by higher authorities can be arbitrarily changed by lower levels — this state of affairs must be rectified,” and that “since the war has ended, the issue of rural reform has drawn prominent attention, and the time for doing things behind closed doors is over. All policies that we ourselves have proposed and that have been approved with a show of hands by the various democratic parties and organizations must first of all be resolutely implemented by us.” These views are entirely correct. Comrades in all localities are earnestly requested to take note of them.

The Central Committee
April 25
Chuan

This is a directive drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.